RRB NTPC Static GK Part 9 - Awards, Honors and Temples

Topic: Awards, Honors and Temples

Q1: Who was given the first Param Vir Chakra?

• (A) Captain Vikram Batra
• (B) Major Somnath Sharma
• (C) Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal
• (D) Major Shaitan Singh

Answer: Option B - Major Somnath Sharma

Q2: Who was given the first Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award?

• (A) Sachin Tendulkar
• (B) Geet Sethi
• (C) Viswanathan Anand
• (D) Leander Paes

Answer: Option C - Viswanathan Anand

Q3: Who was given the first National Film Award?

• (A) Devika Rani
• (B) Nargis Dutt
• (C) Meena Kumari
• (D) Madhubala

Answer: Option A - Devika Rani

Q4: Who received the first Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Award?

• (A) Mother Teresa
• (B) U Thant
• (C) Nelson Mandela
• (D) Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer: Option B - U Thant

Q5: Who was given the first Booker Prize (from India)?

• (A) Salman Rushdie
• (B) Kiran Desai
• (C) Arundhati Roy
• (D) Aravind Adiga

Answer: Option C - Arundhati Roy

Q6: The first Jnanpith Award was given to a writer of which language?

• (A) Hindi
• (B) Bengali
• (C) Malayalam
• (D) Kannada

Answer: Option C - Malayalam

Q7: Who was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award?

• (A) Vinoba Bhave
• (B) Baba Amte
• (C) Jayaprakash Narayan
• (D) Kiran Bedi

Answer: Option A - Vinoba Bhave

Q8: Who was given the first Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize?

• (A) Nelson Mandela
• (B) Julius Nyerere
• (C) Desmond Tutu
• (D) John Hume

Answer: Option B - Julius Nyerere

Q9: Who received the first Times of India Film Award?

• (A) Aamir Khan
• (B) Salman Khan
• (C) Shahrukh Khan
• (D) Hrithik Roshan

Answer: Option C - Shahrukh Khan

Q10: Who was honored with the Lata Mangeshkar Award 2023?

• (A) Asha Bhosle
• (B) Suresh Wadkar
• (C) Sonu Nigam
• (D) Shreya Ghoshal

Answer: Option B - Suresh Wadkar