SSC CGL - Awards, Books and Authors, Important Days Online Test (MCQ Quiz)

1. Which award is considered the highest civilian honor in India?

A) Padma Vibhushan B) Padma Bhushan C) Bharat Ratna D) Padma Shri

2. The Booker Prize is awarded annually to outstanding works of fiction written in which language?

A) French B) English C) Spanish D) German

3. Who wrote the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?

A) Charlotte Brontë B) Mary Shelley C) Jane Austen D) Emily Brontë

4. World Environment Day is celebrated on which date?

A) April 22 B) June 5 C) October 4 D) December 10

5. The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for outstanding discoveries in which field?

A) Chemistry B) Medicine C) Literature D) Physics

6. Which Indian author received the Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel 'The God of Small Things'?

A) Jhumpa Lahiri B) Arundhati Roy C) Kiran Desai D) Anita Desai

7. International Women's Day is observed on which date each year?

A) March 8 B) August 15 C) January 1 D) November 11

8. The Pulitzer Prize is primarily awarded for achievements in which area?

A) Science and Technology B) Journalism, Literature, and Music C) Sports and Athletics D) Business and Economics

9. Who is the author of the epic poem 'Ramcharitmanas'?

A) Kabir Das B) Tulsidas C) Surdas D) Mirabai

10. World Health Day is celebrated annually on:

A) April 7 B) May 1 C) September 21 D) December 1

11. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest honor in which field?

A) Literature B) Music C) Cinema D) Sports

12. Which book is famously attributed to Mahatma Gandhi?

A) 'Discovery of India' B) 'Wings of Fire' C) 'My Experiments with Truth' D) 'The Argumentative Indian'

13. World Population Day is observed on:

A) July 11 B) August 12 C) September 15 D) October 20

14. The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented for excellence in which industry?

A) Television B) Film C) Theater D) Music

15. Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?

A) Charles Dickens B) William Shakespeare C) Leo Tolstoy D) George Orwell

16. International Yoga Day is celebrated on which date?

A) June 21 B) July 21 C) August 21 D) September 21

17. The Ramanujan Award for young mathematicians is named after which renowned Indian mathematician?

A) Srinivasa Ramanujan B) C. R. Rao C) D. R. Kaprekar D) H. S. M. Coxeter

18. Which book is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy?

A) 'The Two Towers' B) 'The Return of the King' C) 'The Fellowship of the Ring' D) 'The Hobbit'

19. Human Rights Day is observed on:

A) December 1 B) December 10 C) January 15 D) February 28

20. The Grammy Awards are primarily associated with achievements in which field?

A) Film B) Television C) Music D) Literature

21. Who is the author of the science fiction novel 'Dune'?

A) Isaac Asimov B) Arthur C. Clarke C) Frank Herbert D) Philip K. Dick

22. World Tuberculosis Day is observed on:

A) March 24 B) April 24 C) May 24 D) June 24

23. The Arjuna Award is given by the Indian government to recognize excellence in which sector?

A) Sports B) Arts C) Literature D) Science

24. Which author wrote 'War and Peace'?

A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) Anton Chekhov C) Ivan Turgenev D) Leo Tolstoy

25. World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on:

A) June 14 B) July 14 C) August 14 D) September 14

26. The Turner Prize is a prominent award for contemporary art, given annually in which country?

A) United States B) France C) United Kingdom D) Germany

27. Who wrote the novel '1984'?

A) Aldous Huxley B) George Orwell C) Ray Bradbury D) J.B. Priestley

28. International Day of Peace is observed on:

A) September 15 B) September 21 C) October 1 D) October 10

29. The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, now known as Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, is India's highest sporting honor. It is named after:

A) Rajiv Gandhi B) Major Dhyan Chand C) Sachin Tendulkar D) Milkha Singh

30. Which book is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

A) 'Gitanjali' B) 'Kabuliwala' C) 'Chokher Bali' D) 'Sesher Kobita'

31. World Wildlife Day is observed on:

A) February 28 B) March 1 C) March 3 D) April 22

32. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is considered the Nobel Prize for which profession?

A) Engineering B) Urban Planning C) Architecture D) Interior Design

33. Who wrote the novel 'The Alchemist'?

A) Gabriel García Márquez B) Paulo Coelho C) Jorge Luis Borges D) Isabel Allende

34. National Science Day in India is celebrated on:

A) February 28 B) March 28 C) April 28 D) May 28

35. The Man Booker International Prize is awarded for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland, and is open to authors from any country. It is awarded for:

A) Non-fiction B) Poetry C) Fiction D) Autobiography

36. Who wrote the satirical novel 'Gulliver's Travels'?

A) Daniel Defoe B) Jonathan Swift C) Henry Fielding D) Laurence Sterne

37. World Tourism Day is observed on:

A) September 25 B) September 27 C) October 1 D) October 5

38. The Vayalar Award is a literary award given in which Indian state?

A) Tamil Nadu B) Karnataka C) Kerala D) Andhra Pradesh

39. Who is the author of the detective novel 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?

A) Agatha Christie B) Arthur Conan Doyle C) Edgar Allan Poe D) Dorothy L. Sayers

40. World Teachers' Day is celebrated on:

A) October 1 B) October 5 C) November 1 D) November 5

41. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded for distinguished fiction by an American author, published during the preceding year. Which of these is NOT a past winner?

A) Harper Lee B) Toni Morrison C) Ernest Hemingway D) Gabriel García Márquez

42. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer B) William Wordsworth C) John Milton D) Alexander Pope

43. World Food Day is observed on:

A) October 10 B) October 16 C) November 10 D) November 16

44. The Jnanpith Award is the highest literary award in India, given for outstanding contribution to literature in which languages?

A) Only Hindi and English B) Only Sanskrit and Pali C) Any of the 22 scheduled languages of India D) Only major Indian languages like Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil

45. Who wrote the novel 'Moby Dick'?

A) Nathaniel Hawthorne B) Herman Melville C) Edgar Allan Poe D) Walt Whitman

46. International Day of Non-Violence is observed on the birthday of:

A) Mahatma Gandhi B) Nelson Mandela C) Martin Luther King Jr. D) Abraham Lincoln

47. The Dada Saheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement in cinema was first awarded in which year?

A) 1954 B) 1960 C) 1969 D) 1975

48. Who wrote the novel 'The Great Gatsby'?

A) Ernest Hemingway B) William Faulkner C) F. Scott Fitzgerald D) John Steinbeck

49. World AIDS Day is observed on:

A) November 15 B) November 25 C) December 1 D) December 5

50. The Sahitya Akademi Award is given for outstanding contribution in Indian literature in which languages?

A) Only Hindi and Sanskrit B) Only English and Indian languages C) 24 languages, including English and Rajasthani D) All Indian languages recognized by the constitution

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