SBI Clerk - Awards and Honours, Books and Authors, Important Days Question Bank with Options

1. The National Film Awards are presented annually by which Ministry of India?

A) Ministry of Culture

B) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

C) Ministry of Home Affairs

D) Ministry of Education

2. Which Indian author won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2021 for English for his novel 'The Nutmeg's Curse: Born to be Free'?

A) Amitav Ghosh

B) Vikram Seth

C) Ruskin Bond

D) William Dalrymple

3. World Literacy Day is celebrated on:

A) September 5

B) September 8

C) October 5

D) October 8

4. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science to:

A) Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

B) Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann

C) Benjamin List and David MacMillan

D) K. Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal and Carolyn R. Bertozzi

5. Who is the author of the book 'An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth'?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Mahatma Gandhi

C) Sardar Patel

D) Subhas Chandra Bose

6. The Padma Awards are announced annually on the eve of:

A) Independence Day

B) Republic Day

C) Gandhi Jayanti

D) Children's Day

7. International Day of Non-Violence is observed on the birthday of which famous personality?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Nelson Mandela

C) Martin Luther King Jr.

D) Abraham Lincoln

8. Who wrote the novel 'Poonachi: Or the Story of a Little Goat'?

A) Arundhati Roy

B) Kiran Desai

C) Aravind Adiga

D) Perumal Murugan

9. Which Indian personality received the Bharat Ratna in 2019?

A) Pranab Mukherjee

B) Bhupen Hazarika

C) Nanaji Deshmukh

D) All of the above

10. World Photography Day is celebrated on:

A) August 10

B) August 19

C) September 10

D) September 19

11. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 was awarded to Svante Pääbo for:

A) His discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution

B) His discoveries concerning the structure of the ribosome

C) His discoveries concerning the regulation of immune system checkpoints

D) His discoveries concerning messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines

12. Who is the author of the book 'The Discovery of India'?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

C) Jawaharlal Nehru

D) Subhas Chandra Bose

13. The Sahitya Akademi Award is given for literary works in how many Indian languages?

A) 12

B) 18

C) 22

D) 24

14. World Blood Donor Day is observed on:

A) June 10

B) June 14

C) July 10

D) July 14

15. Which Indian author won the International Booker Prize in 2022 for the novel 'Tomb of Sand'?

A) Arundhati Roy

B) Salman Rushdie

C) Geetanjali Shree

D) Vikram Seth

16. The Dronacharya Award is given to:

A) Outstanding sports performance

B) Excellence in sports coaching

C) Lifetime achievement in sports

D) Sports journalism

17. Who wrote the famous book 'Arthashastra'?

A) Panini

B) Kautilya (Chanakya)

C) Vatsyayana

D) Aryabhata

18. World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated on:

A) March 10

B) March 15

C) April 1

D) April 15

19. The Ramon Magsaysay Award, often called the 'Asian Nobel Prize', is given for outstanding contributions in several fields. Which Indian personality received it in 2018 for Emergent Leadership?

A) Kailash Satyarthi

B) Siddhartha Mukherjee

C) Ravish Kumar

D) Arunachalam Muruganantham

20. Who is the author of the novel 'The White Tiger'?

A) Jhumpa Lahiri

B) Aravind Adiga

C) Kiran Desai

D) Rohinton Mistry

21. Which day is observed as World Tourism Day?

A) September 27

B) October 1

C) November 14

D) December 5

22. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded annually for achievements in what field?

A) Film and Television

B) Music and Drama

C) Journalism, Literature, and Musical Composition

D) Science and Technology

23. The book 'Gitanjali' which won the Nobel Prize in Literature was written by:

A) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

B) Rabindranath Tagore

C) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

D) Jibanananda Das

24. Which Indian classical dancer received the Padma Vibhushan in 2022?

A) Sonal Mansingh

B) Gopi Krishna

C) Birju Maharaj

D) Mallika Sarabhai

25. International Day of Yoga is celebrated on:

A) June 20

B) June 21

C) July 20

D) July 21

26. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 was awarded to Annie Ernaux for:

A) Her exploration of personal memory and collective amnesia

B) Her profound insights into the human condition

C) Her powerful exploration of courage, compassion and conviction

D) Her innovative use of language and form

27. Who is the author of the novel 'A Suitable Boy'?

A) Salman Rushdie

B) Arundhati Roy

C) Vikram Seth

D) Amitav Ghosh

28. The Kalinga Prize for popularization of science is awarded by which organization?

A) UNESCO

B) WHO

C) UNICEF

D) ISRO

29. World Health Day is observed on:

A) April 7

B) May 1

C) June 1

D) July 1

30. The book 'Train to Pakistan' was written by:

A) Mulk Raj Anand

B) Khushwant Singh

C) R.K. Narayan

D) Anita Desai

31. Which Indian scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930?

A) Dr. C.V. Raman

B) Dr. Homi J. Bhabha

C) Dr. Vikram Sarabhai

D) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

32. The Arjuna Award is given by the Government of India to recognize excellence in which field?

A) Sports

B) Literature

C) Social Service

D) Science

33. Who wrote the famous play 'Abhijnanasakuntalam'?

A) Banabhatta

B) Vishakhadatta

C) Kalidasa

D) Bhavabhuti

34. The United Nations Day is celebrated on:

A) January 1

B) June 21

C) October 24

D) December 1

35. Which Indian author won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2022 for his novel 'Ret Samadhi'?

A) Gyan Chaturvedi

B) Anuradha Roy

C) Pankaj Bisht

D) Anurag Pathak

36. The Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian award in India. Which of the following is NOT a Padma award?

A) Padma Shri

B) Padma Bhushan

C) Kirti Chakra

D) Padma Vibhushan

37. World Population Day is observed on:

A) July 11

B) September 5

C) November 19

D) March 21

38. Who is the author of the novel 'Midnight's Children'?

A) Khaled Hosseini

B) Salman Rushdie

C) Vikram Chandra

D) Amitav Ghosh

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

A) Literature

B) Music

C) Cinema

D) Dance

40. Which Indian film won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2023?

A) RRR

B) The Elephant Whisperers

C) Sardar Udham

D) Gangubai Kathiawadi

41. The Booker Prize is an annual literary award given for the best novel written in which language?

A) French

B) English

C) Spanish

D) German

42. Who wrote the epic poem 'Mahabharata'?

A) Valmiki

B) Tulsidas

C) Vyasa

D) Kalidasa

43. International Women's Day is observed every year on:

A) March 8

B) August 15

C) January 26

D) November 11

44. The book 'My Experiments with Truth' is the autobiography of which Indian leader?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Lal Bahadur Shastri

C) Subhas Chandra Bose

D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

45. Which of the following is NOT a recipient of the Jnanpith Award?

A) Mahadevi Varma

B) Gopinath Mohanty

C) Rabindranath Tagore

D) V. S. Naipaul

46. The Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian award of which country?

A) Bangladesh

B) Sri Lanka

C) India

D) Nepal

47. Who is the author of the famous novel 'The God of Small Things'?

A) Salman Rushdie

B) Arundhati Roy

C) Vikram Seth

D) Jhumpa Lahiri

48. World Environment Day is celebrated annually on which date?

A) April 22

B) June 5

C) December 10

D) October 24

49. The book 'Wings of Fire' is an autobiography of which prominent Indian leader?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

C) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

D) Indira Gandhi

50. Which Indian personality was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his work on the rights of children?

A) Amartya Sen

B) Kailash Satyarthi

C) Mother Teresa

D) R. K. Narayan

Awards and Honours, Books and Authors, Important Days - Question Bank