Awards – GK Questions

The Pulitzer Prize, established in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer, recognizes outstanding achievements in journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

In August 2021, the Government of India renamed the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award to Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award to honor the legendary hockey player Major Dhyan Chand.

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903) for radioactivity research and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911) for discovering radium and polonium. She remains the only person with Nobels in two distinct scientific fields.

The Dronacharya Award, instituted in 1985, honors outstanding coaches in sports and games who have successfully trained sportspersons or teams at the international level.

The Jnanpith Award was instituted in 1961 by the Bharatiya Jnanpith and first awarded in 1965 to G. Sankara Kurup for his Malayalam poetry collection 'Odakkuzhal'.

Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her debut novel 'The God of Small Things', becoming the first Indian citizen to win this prestigious literary award.

Major Somnath Sharma was posthumously awarded the first Param Vir Chakra for his bravery during the Indo-Pak War of 1947 in Badgam, Jammu and Kashmir.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was first awarded in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen. It is not one of the original Nobel Prizes established in 1895.

The Arjuna Award, instituted in 1961 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, recognizes outstanding achievement in national sports and is one of India's most prestigious sports honors.

Mother India (1957), directed by Mehboob Khan, was the first Indian film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (now Best International Feature Film) in 1958.

Padma Awards (Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri) are announced annually on January 25, the eve of Republic Day (January 26), and conferred by the President of India.

Bharat Ratna can be awarded posthumously. The provision was added in 1955, and notable posthumous recipients include Lal Bahadur Shastri (1966) and Subhas Chandra Bose (1992, later withdrawn).

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems 'Gitanjali', becoming the first Indian and first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize.