Awards and Honours Quiz

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

James Michael Lyngdoh was the 12th Chief Election Commissioner of India (14 June 2001 to 7 Feb 2004). He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2003.

The Kalinga Prize was established in 1951 by UNESCO with a generous grant from Late Shri Biju Patnaik, Founder President of the Kalinga Foundation Trust. The Prize is presented annually by UNESCO to a person or persons, who make outstanding contributions to the interpretation of science and technology to the general public. The First Kalinga Prize was awarded in 1952.

In 2006, Sri Arvind Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his involvement in the grassroots level movement 'Parivartan' using the right to information (RTI) legislation in a campaign against government corruption.

Except for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes are presented in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The Peace Prize is presented by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway.

The Mahavir Chakra is the second-highest military award in India in India, after the Paramvir Chakra. General Arunkumar Shridhar Vaidya was a General Officer in the Indian Army. He served as the 13th Chief of the Army Staff from 1983 to 1986 He was awarded Mahavir Chakra twice (1965 and 1971).

The Dronacharya Award, officially known as Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, is the sports coaching honour of India. The Awardees receive a cash prize of ₹15 lakhs (increased from ₹5 lakhs in 2020) in addition to the bronze statue of Dronacharya and a certificate.

The Norman Borlaug Award recognises exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under the age of 40. The Arjuna Award is given for Outstanding Performance in Sports. The Dronacharya Award is a sports coaching honour. Dhyan Chand Award is a lifetime achievement sporting honour.

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.

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).