Awards and Honours 2024 Current Affairs MCQs

This Article will recount some of the high value awards and recognition received during 2024. Infact, one must be abreast of such details while getting ready for competitive exams like JKSSB, UPSC, SSC, Banking, Railways and other state exams. All these are relevant points toward success in General Knowledge and Current Affairs sections. These MCQs will keep you abreast of the latest achievements therefore, there is a great possibility that you may score well in your examinations. This set of awards and honors collection will prove to be a good preparation and making you reliable for the most commonly asked questions, irrespective of whether it is JKSSB or any other examination.

Here are the Some Important 2024 Current Affair MCQs

Q. How Many People Awarded With The “Bharat Ratna Award 2024”?
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
Ans : A

1. KARPOORI THAKUR : 11th Chief Minister of Bihar
2. L. K. ADVANI : 7
   th Deputy Prime Minister of India

• Co- Founder of → BJP

1. MS SWAMINATHAN :Father of the Green Revolution
2. P. V. NARASIMHA RAO : 9
   th PM Of India
3. CHAUDHARY CHARAN SINGH → 5
   th PM Of India

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• BHARAT RATNA : IND’s Highest Civilian Award
• Est : 1954
• First awarded : C. Rajagopalachari & Sarvepalli
  Radhakrishnan & C. V. Raman

Q. Who has been awarded with ‘Vigyan Ratna Puraskar 2024’ ?
A. S Somnath
B. Govindarajan Padmanabhan
C. K Sivan
D. None
Ans : B
Presented by : President of India – Draupadi
Murmu on 23 Aug (National Space Day)

• Total Award Given : 33

Vigyan Team Award : Team Chandrayaan-3

Vigyan Ratna Puraskar : Govindarajan
Padmanabhan

Vigyan Shri : 13 Scientists

Vigyan Yuva : 18 Young Scientist

Q. Which city received World Craft City Certificate ?
A. Srinagar
B. Agra
C. Chennai
D. Tirupati
Ans : A
SRINAGAR : Capital Of Jammu Kashmir

• Became → 4
  th World Craft City Of India
• Awarded By : World Crafts Council

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Other Cities

1. Jaipur – Rajasthan
2. Mamallapuram → Tamil Nadu
3. Mysore → Karnataka

Q. Who Received Prestigious 12th Vishwa Hindi Samman?
A. Dr. Usha
Thakur
B. Sarad Singh
C. Aruna Kumari
D. None
Ans : A

Q. Who Has Honored with Prestigious Pen Pinter Prize 2024?
A. Ravish Kumar
B. Chetan Bhagat
C. Arundhati Roy
D. Ruskin Bond
Ans : C
Pen Pinter Prize

• Est : 2009 By – English PEN

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2024 Winner : Arundhati Roy – Indian
Author

Q. Which State Won Best Agriculture State Award for 2024?
A. Odisha
B. Maharashtra
C. Gujarat
D. Haryana
Ans : B
Announced by : 15th Agriculture
Leadership Awards Committee

• Headed by : P Sathasivam

Q. Who has been Awarded Prestigious Olympic Order by IOC?
A. Abhinav Bindra
B. PV Sindhu
C. Neeraj Chopra
D. None
Ans : A
Abhinav Bindra (Shooter) : India’s First
Individual Olympic Gold Medallist

• Awarded by : International Olympic
  Committee (IOC

Q. Which Institution won ‘risk manager of the year award 2024’ ?
A. RBI
B. UNCTAD
C. SEBI
D. None
Ans : A
Given by : London’s Central
Banking publication

Q. Who has been Named Land Hero by UN Agency recently ?
A. Siddhesh
Sakore
B. Aravind Kumar
C. Naveen Sinha
D. None
Ans : A
SIDDHESH SAKORE : Farmer From
Maharashtra

Q. Who Has Won ‘International Booker Prize 2024 ?
A. Geetanjali Shree
B. David Diop
C. Georgi Gospodinov
D. Jenny Erpenbeck
Ans : D
International Booker Prize 2024

• Won : Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)
• For His Novel → Kairos
• Translated Into English By → Michael
  Hofmann

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• 2023 → Georgi Gospodinov (For Time
  Shelter)

Q. Which Institute Has Been Honoured with Prestigious Nelson Mandela
Award 2024 for Health Promotion?
A. AIIMS Delhi
B. ISC Benguluru
C. NIMHANS
D. None
Ans : C
National Institute of Mental Health
and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS)

• Located @ → Bengaluru

Q. Who won Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize 2024?
A. Alok Shukla
B. Sanjay Kumar
C. Amit Singh
D. None
Ans : A
Goldman Environmental Prize → Known As
» Green Nobel Awards

• Prize : $ 2 Lakhs

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• Alok Shukla : Environmental activist
• His Campaign Saved → 4.45 lakh acres
  of biodiversity-rich forest In Chhattisgarh

Q. Who Has Been Awarded With The ‘Shaw Prize 2024’ In Astronomy?
A. Duncan Lorimer
B. Shrinivas R.
Kulkarni
C. Matthew Bailes
D. None
Ans : B
SHAW PRIZE

• Given @ Fields → Astronomy,
  Medicine And Life Sciences
• Prize → $1.2 Million
• 2024 : Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (USA
  – IND Origin)

Q. Which Indian Film won the prestigious Grand Prix award at 77th Cannes
Film Festival?
A. Dunki
B. Salaar
C. All We Imagine as
Light
D. None
Ans : C
Directed by : Payal Kapadia → 1st
Indian To Win This Award

Q. Who Won the ‘Green Oscar’ Whitley Gold Award 2024?
A. Ankita Sharma
B. Purnima Devi
Barman
C. Abhishek Singh
D. None
Ans : B
Purnima Devi Barman : From
Assam

Q. Recently, who was honored with the ‘International Culture Award 2024’?
A. Ankita Gupta
B. Meena Charanda
C. Arpita Singh
D. None
Ans : B

Q. Who Won Laureus Sportsman Of The Year Award 2024 ?
A. Novak Djokovic
B. Lionel Messi
C. Mbappé
D. Virat Kohli
Ans : A
2024 Laureus World Sports Award
Winners

1. Sportsman Of The Year Award → Novak
   Djokovic (Tennis)
2. Sportswoman Of The Year : Aitana Bonmatí
   (Football)
3. Breakthrough Of The Year Award : Jude
   Bellingham (football )

Q. Who has been Honoured with the Prestigious Lata Deenanath
Mangeshkar Award?
A. Amitabh Bachchan
B. Ranveer Singh
C. Kumar Sanu
D. None
Ans : A

Q. Who has been named as 2024 Young Global Leader’?
A. Ankita Sharma
B. Adwaita Nayar
C. Aruna Kumari
D. None
Ans : B
Named by : World Economic Forum

• Adwaita Nayar : Co-founder of
  Nykaa

Q. Who has received Prestigious Romain Rolland Book Prize 2024?
A. Geetanjali Shri
B. Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee
C. Ruskin Bond
D. None Of These
Ans : B
For his translation of → Jean-Daniel’s
Book → “Le Divan de Staline” → Into
Bengali

• Bengali Title → Staliner Divan

Q. Who Won the title of Miss World 2024?
A. Yasmina Zaytoun
B. Karolina Bielawska
C. Krystyna Pyszkova
D. None Of These
Ans : C
Miss World 2024 Event

• Hosted By : Mumbai (IND)
  Winners
• Title Won : Krystyna Pyszkova
  {Czech Republic}
  Runner-Up: Yasmina Zaytoun of Lebanon

Q. Who has Been Honoured With “Saraswati Samman, 2023”
A. Ramdarash Mishra
B. Ranan Prasad
C. Prabha Varma
D. Deepak Mishra
Ans : C
33rd Saraswati Samman 2023 : Literary
Awards
Given By : KK Birla Foundation
Winners

• 2023 Winner :Prabha Varma
  (Malyalam Poet) → For ‘Roudra
  Sathwikam’

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• First Winner : Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Q. Who has been awarded with the “Abel Prize 2024”
A. Dennis P. Sullivan
B. Michel Talagrand
C. Luis Caffarelli
D. Philip David
Ans : B
Abel Prize 2024 (Mathematics
Award)

• Winner : Michel Talagrand
• Given By : The Norwegian Academy of
  Science and Letters

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