| 1 | Magasaysay Award is given every year for outstanding performance in various fields. Which institution governs the same? |
| A) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| B) Ford Foundation |
| C) Rockfeller Foundation |
| D) UNO |
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| 2 | Jakob Von Vexkull was the founder of |
| A) Booker Prize |
| B) Pulitzer Prize |
| C) Right Livelihood Award |
| D) Templeton Prize |
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| 3 | Pulitzer Prize is awarded for excellence in |
| A) Journalism and Arts |
| B) Social Work |
| C) Science |
| D) Environmental Protection |
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| 4 | Booker Prize is given for _______________. |
| A) Scientific invention |
| B) Fiction writing |
| C) Contribution to environmental protection |
| D) Excellence in the field of media |
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| 5 | Who was awarded the nobel peace prize for the year 2009? |
| A) Paul Krugman |
| B) Herta Muller |
| C) Charles K. Kao |
| D) Barack Obama |
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| 6 | Who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine 2010? |
| A) Richard Heck |
| B) Ei-ichi Negishi |
| C) Akira Suzuki |
| D) Robert Edwards |
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| 7 | Who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine 2011? |
| A) Bruce A Beutler |
| B) Saul Perlmutter |
| C) Thomas Sargent |
| D) Dan Shechtman |
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| 8 | Who received the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2010? |
| A) Martti Ahtisaari |
| B) Barack Obama |
| C) Liu Xiaobo |
| D) Al Gore |
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| 9 | The Magsaysay Award is given for proficiency in which of the following? |
| A) Literature |
| B) Mountaineering |
| C) Science |
| D) Social Science |
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| 10 | __________ award is annually conferred for outstanding contribution to public service, community leadership, journalism, literature, creative arts and international understanding. |
| A) Right Livelihood |
| B) Pulitzer |
| C) The Golden Peacock |
| D) Magsaysay |
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| 11 | Which Indian conductor was recently honoured with Japan’s Praemium Imperiale, one of art’s richest awards, for his lifetime work with orchestras around the world? |
| A) Prateek Chaudhury |
| B) L. Subramaniam |
| C) Zubin Mehta |
| D) Abraham Mazumder |
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| 12 | Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, belongs to which one of the following countries? |
| A) China |
| B) Myanmar |
| C) South Korea |
| D) Japan |
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| 13 | When was the first Nobel Prize awarded? |
| A) 1890 |
| B) 1896 |
| C) 1901 |
| D) 1969 |
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| 14 | Pulitzer Prize is given in which field? |
| A) Painting |
| B) Literature |
| C) Technology |
| D) Medical |
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| 15 | Who was the oldest person so far to have been awarded Nobel Prize and what was his age at that time? |
| A) Prof. William Lawrence Bragg, 88 years |
| B) Prof. Francis Peyton Rous, 87 years |
| C) Prof. Frederic Sanger, 90 years |
| D) Sir John Bardeen, 89 years |
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| 16 | India’s “Kulandei Francis” won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2012. In which category, he won the award? |
| A) Emerging leadership |
| B) Government Service |
| C) Community Leadership |
| D) Peace and International Understanding |
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| 17 | The Ambassador of Conscience Award of Amnesty International is given in which of the fields? |
| A) Science |
| B) Economics |
| C) Human Rights |
| D) Politics |
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| 18 | Two US Citizen have been jointly awarded with the Nobel Prize 2012 in chemistry. One is Robert Lefkowitz, who is the other one? |
| A) John Gurdon |
| B) Brian Kobilka |
| C) Shinya Yamanaka |
| D) None of These |
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| 19 | British researcher John Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize 2012 in Medicine for their work related to? |
| A) Cancel Cells |
| B) Nervous System |
| C) Stem cells |
| D) None of These |
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| 20 | Which organization won the Nobel Peace Prize 2012? |
| A) NATO |
| B) European Union |
| C) UN |
| D) OPEC |
