Awards and Honours Quiz

The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in the field of cinema. It is presented annually at the National Film Awards ceremony by the Directorate of Film Festivals, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. V. Shantaram was awarded in 1986, Raj Kapoor was awarded in 1988 and Lata Mangeshkar was awarded in 1989 by Dadasaheb Phalke Award. Mukesh Bhatt is not a recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

The Chameli Devi Jain Award is an Indian journalism award named after Chameli Devi Jain, an Indian independence activist who became the first Jain woman to go to prison during India's independence struggle. The award is given by the Media Foundation.

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded and also the first Asian to be awarded in 1913. There are 12 Indian (five Indian citizens and eight of Indian ancestry or residency) Nobel prize winners so far:
Citizens of India: 1. Rabindranath Tagore (1913, Literature); 2. C.V. Raman (1930, Physics); 3. Mother Teresa (1979, Peace); 4. Amartya Sen (1998, Economics); 5. Kailash Satyarthi (2014, Peace).
Indian origin: 1. Har Gobind Khorana (1968, Medicine); 2. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983, Physics); 3. Venki Ramakrishnan (2009, Chemistry); 4. Abhijit Banerjee (2019, Economics).
Residents of Foreign Origin in India: 1. Ronald Ross (1902, Medicine); 2. Rudyard Kipling (1907, Literature); 3. 14th Dalai Lama (1989, Peace).

The Nobel Prize 2003 in Chemistry rewards Peter Agre for the discovery of water channels and Roderick MacKinnon for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels. Their studies have demonstrated how ions and water are transported through cell membranes.

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 along with his two co-researchers Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”

Madame Curie (Marie Curie) won the Nobel Prize in Science in two different disciplines. She received the Physics Prize in 1903 for her work on radioactivity and the Chemistry Prize in 1911 for the isolation of pure radium.

The Moortidevi Award is an Indian literary award annually presented by the Bharatiya Jnanapeeth Trust, a literary and research organisation.

Jamini Roy was an Indian painter. He was honoured with the State award of Padma Bhushan in 1954. He was one of the most famous pupils of Abanindranath Tagore, whose artistic originality and contribution to the emergence of art in India remains unquestionable.

Arun Shourie is India's eminent journalist, author and politician. He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982.

Kalinga Prize is an international award given by UNESCO to reward exceptional contributions made by individuals in communicating science to society and promoting the popularization of science. It was created in 1952, following a donation from Biju Patnaik, Founder President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust in India.