Important questions related to Awards and Honors
Important questions related to Awards and Honors

Important questions related to Awards and Honors

  1. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Nobel Prize? Answer: Mother Teresa
  3. Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna Award? Answer: C. Rajagopalachari
  4. Which Indian President received the Bharat Ratna while in office? Answer: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
  5. Which Indian Prime Minister received the Bharat Ratna after his death? Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri
  6. Who is the first Indian cricketer to receive the Bharat Ratna Award? Answer: Sachin Tendulkar
  7. Who is the first Indian woman to receive the Bharat Ratna Award? Answer: Indira Gandhi
  8. Who is the first Indian actor to receive the Padma Shri Award? Answer: Prithviraj Kapoor
  9. Who is the first Indian actor to receive the Padma Bhushan Award? Answer: Dev Anand
  10. Who is the first Indian actor to receive the Padma Vibhushan Award? Answer: Dilip Kumar
  11. Who is the first Indian actress to receive the Padma Shri Award? Answer: Nargis Dutt
  12. Who is the first Indian actress to receive the Padma Bhushan Award? Answer: Madhubala
  13. Who is the first Indian actress to receive the Padma Vibhushan Award? Answer: Sharmila Tagore
  14. Who was the first Indian to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award? Answer: Vinoba Bhave
  15. Who was the first Indian to receive the Jnanpith Award? Answer: G. Sankara Kurup
  16. Who is the first Indian to receive the Pulitzer Prize? Answer: Gobind Behari Lal
  17. Who is the first Indian to receive the Booker Prize? Answer: Salman Rushdie
  18. Who is the first Indian to receive the Man Booker Prize? Answer: Arundhati Roy
  19. Who is the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership? Answer: Acharya Vinoba Bhave
  20. Who is the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay Award for Literature? Answer: R.K. Narayan
  21. Who is the first Indian to receive the Magsaysay Award for Public Service? Answer: Kaka Kalelkar
  22. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Magsaysay Award? Answer: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
  23. Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics? Answer: C.V. Raman
  24. Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry? Answer: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  25. Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine? Answer: Har Gobind Khorana
  26. Who is the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics? Answer: Amartya Sen
  27. Who is the first Indian to receive the Abel Prize? Answer: Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan
  28. Who is the first Indian to receive the Fields Medal? Answer: Manjul Bhargava
  29. Who is the first Indian to receive the Turing Award? Answer: Raj Reddy
  30. Who is the first Indian to receive the Padma Vibhushan in Sports? Answer: Vishwanathan Anand
  31. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize? Answer: Mother Teresa
  32. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics? Answer: C.V. Raman
  33. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature? Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
  34. Who was the first Indian to receive the Bharat Ratna? Answer: C. Rajagopalachari, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and C.V. Raman (all awarded in 1954)
  35. Who was the first person to receive the Padma Vibhushan? Answer: Satyendra Nath Bose (1954)
  36. Who was the first person to receive the Padma Bhushan? Answer: K.K. Venugopal (1954)
  37. Who was the first person to receive the Padma Shri? Answer: K.C. Mahindra (1954)
  38. Who was awarded the Abel Prize in 2021? Answer: László Lovász
  39. Who was awarded the Turing Award in 2020? Answer: Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman
  40. Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology? Answer: Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice

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