Awards and Honours Quiz

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-born American biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. Har Gobind Khorana made important contributions to this field by building different RNA chains with the help of enzymes.

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

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.

The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry. The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone. The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually.

Pulitzer Prize is awarded by Columbia University, New York City, for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher and is administered by Columbia University.

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.

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

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).

Golden Globe Award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) in recognition of outstanding achievement in motion pictures and television during the previous year.

Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (formerly known as Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award) is the highest sporting honour of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The Awardees receive a cash prize of ₹25 lakhs (increased from ₹7.5 lakhs in 2020) and a certificate.