1. Wolf Prize is given by:
(a) USA
(b) Israel
(c) Japan
(d) Britain
2. Wolf Prize was given for the first time in:
(a) 1978
(b) 1988
(c) 1990
(d) 1970
3. Wolf Prize is awarded in six fields: Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and .....
(a) Peace
(b) Arts
(c) Economics
(d) Literature
4. Wolf Prize in Arts rotates annually between architecture, music, painting and .....
(a) Sculpture
(b) Cinema
(c) Drama
(d) Acting
5. Until the establishment of the ......, the Wolf Prize was probably the closest equivalent of a “Nobel Prize in Mathematics”, since the more prestigious Fields Medal was only awarded every 4 years to mathematicians under 40.
(a) BAFTA Award
(b) Jerusalem Prize
(c) Lasker Award
(d) Abel Prize
6. Wolf Foundation was founded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf who was born in:
(a) Cuba
(b) Spain
(c) Germany
(d) France
7. The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to .......
(a) Medical science
(b) Mathematics
(c) Literature
(d) Cinema
8. What is known as ‘America’s Nobel’?
(a) Oscar Award
(b) Grammy Award
(c) Lasker Award
(d) Jerusalem Prize
9. The Award given in International Congress of the International Mathematical Union:
(a) Lasker Award
(b) Fields Medal
(c) Wolf Prize
(d) Abel Prize
10. Founded at the behest of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields, Fields medal was first awarded in:
(a) 1916
(b) 1926
(c) 1946
(d) 1936
11. Fields Medal has been regularly awarded since :
(a) 1950
(b) 1955
(c) 1960
(d) 1965
12. Which is known as the ‘Mathematician’s Nobel’?
(a) Oscar
(b) BAFTA Award
(c) Pulitzer Prize
(d) Abel Prize
13. Abel Prize was awarded for the first time in:
(a) 2000
(b) 2001
(c) 2002
(d) 2003
14. In which year Arundhathy Roy got Booker Prize?
(a) 1996 (b) 1997
(c) 1998 (d) 1999
15. The book of Arundhathy Roy got Booker Prize:
(a) The Road ahead
(b) The God of Small things
(c) The Greater Common Good
(d) In a Free State
16. Who got Booker of Booker (1983) and Best of Booker Award (2008) for the book
‘Midnight’s Children’?
(a) Salman Rushdie
(b) P.H.Newby
(c) V.S.Naipaul
(d) Ben Okri
17. Aravind Adiga's debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Booker Prize in:
(a) 2005
(b) 2008
(c) 2006
(d) 2007
18. Booker Prizes were started in:
(a) 1960
(b) 1962
(c) 1964
(d) 1968
19. Booker Prizes are given to authors in ...... language:
(a) German
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Russian
20. The first to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) P.H.Newby
(d) V.S.Naipaul
21. The first to get two booker prizes:
(a) Salman Rushdie
(b) Peter Carey
(c) Ben Okri
(d) JM Coetzee
22. Who got Booker Prize and Nobel Literature Prize?
(a) VS Naipaul
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) JM Coetzee
(d) (a) and (c)
23. The first person of Indian orgin to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy
(b) Kiran Desai
(c) V.S.Naipaul
(d) Ben Okri
24. The first Indian to get Booker Prize:
(a) Kiran Desai
(b) Arundathy Roy
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) None of these
25. The second Indian to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy
(b) Kiran Desai
(c) Jhumpa Lahiri
(d) None of these
Answers
1 (b) 2(a) 3 (b) 4 (a)
5(d) 6(c) 7(a) 8(c)
9(b) 10(d) 11(a) 12(d)
13(d) 14(b) 15(b) 16(a)
17(b) 18(d) 19(b) 20(c)
21(b) 22(d) 23(c) 24(b)
25(b)
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