Awards & Honours Questions with Solutions
This topic covers national and international awards: Bharat Ratna and the Padma awards, gallantry awards, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Jnanpith and Sahitya Akademi awards, sports awards, Nobel Prizes, the Ramon Magsaysay Award and other global honours, along with the fields they recognise and notable winners. Static questions ask about the field each award is given for, the year it started, and the first winners. For example, the Jnanpith Award is for literature and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award is for cinema. Questions on recent winners change every year, so revise those from the latest announcements and treat older winner lists as background only. Practise the awards and honours questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.
- Q1.
The lyricist Gulzar (Sampooran Singh Kalra) won an Oscar and a Grammy for which song?
A. Dil Se ReB. Kajra ReC. Jai HoD. Chaiyya ChaiyyaeasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q2.
Who was the first musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna?
A. Ustad Bismillah KhanB. Lata MangeshkarC. M.S. SubbulakshmiD. Pandit Ravi ShankareasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q3.
The Kalidas Samman is awarded annually by the government of which state?
A. Uttar PradeshB. Madhya PradeshC. RajasthanD. MaharashtraeasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q4.
Who was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
A. Devika RaniB. Raj KapoorC. Prithviraj KapoorD. Satyajit RayeasyAsked in SSCView solution › - Q5.
Which actor won his first National Film Award for Best Actor at the 71st National Film Awards (2025) for his performance in the Hindi feature film Jawan?
A. Shah Rukh KhanB. Vikrant MasseyC. MohanlalD. Rani MukerjieasyAsked in MAH LLB 3 Year CET 2026View solution › - Q6.
Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2025?
A. Laszlo KrasznahorkaiB. Imre KerteszC. Rudyard KiplingD. Abdulrazak GurnaheasyAsked in MAH LLB 3 Year CET 1 April Shift 2 2026View solution ›