Expected Questions – Awards and Days – April 16 – 30, 2015



Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Expected Questions from Awards and Honors and Important Days between April 16 to April 30.


Awards
& Honors


1. Name the Indian
journalist who was selected in 2015 Yale World Fellows.
– Rahul Pandita (Other is Zeena Johar)
2. Which actor won Outstanding
Contribution to Cinema honour at the fifth annual The Asian Awards?
– Shah Rukh Khan
3. Who won the Outstanding
Contribution to Sport honor at the fifth annual The Asian Awards?
– Kumar Sangakkara
4. Who won the Business
Leaders of the Year at the fifth annual The Asian Awards?
– Hinduja Brothers
5. Which film won the
best film award in Stockholm International Film Festival in Sweden?
– Mary Kom
6. Name the
scientists won Hevesy Medal Award 2015.
– Susanta Lahiri and Kattesh V Katti
7. Name the Indian
origin CEO honored with the White House Champions of Change.
– Satya Nadella of Microsoft
8. Which Indian CEO
was recently honored with the University Advisory Professor at The East China
Normal University (ECNU)?
– Vishal Sikka (Infosys)
9. Which Bollywood actor
won the Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2015?
– Anil Kapoor
10. Name the Indian
origin diplomat who was awarded ‘Outstanding Service Award’ for his services to
the city–state by the National
University of Singapore (NUS).
– Gopinath Pillai
11. Who was awarded
Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015?
– Shah Rukh Khan
12. Shah Rukh Khan
was honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Award 2015 for which film?
– Happy New Year
13. Name the Indian
origin soldier who was awarded President’s Medal in Israel.
– Adiel Yosef
14. Which newspaper
won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in Journalism 2015?
– The New York Times
15. The New York
Times won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in Journalism 2015 for
_______.
– Courageous front–line reporting and vivid human stories on
Ebola in Africa
16. Pulitzer Prize is
given in which field?
– Journalism
17. Pakistan’s top
civilian award Nishan–e–Pakistan was recently conferred to _______.
– Chinese President Xi Jinping
18. Name the Indian
author shortlisted for George Orwell Prize for political writing 2015.
– Rana Dasgupta
19. Indian author
Rana Dasgupta was shortlisted for George Orwell Prize for political writing
2015 for which book?
– Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
20. Which department
won the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration?
– Income Tax Department
21. Which film won
the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Washington DC International
Film festival?
– Margarita, With A Straw
22. Margarita, with a
Straw is directed by _______________.
– Shonali Bose
23. Who won the Whitley
Awards 2015?
– Dr. Ananda Kumar and Dr. Pramod Patil
24. Whitley Awards is
also known as _________.
– Green Oscars
25. Who won the
Whitley Gold Award 2015?
– Dino Martins
26. Who won the 2015
Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia region?
– Siddahrtha Gigoo
27. Siddhartha
Gigoo  won the 2015 Commonwealth Short
Story Prize for Asia region for which story?
– Umbrella Man
28. Who was awarded
the ‘Shaurya Chakra’ gallantry medal?
– ITBP Officer Manjeet Singh
29. Name the Indian
origin scientist who won MIT USD 250,000 Heinz Award.
– Sangita Bhatia
Days



1. World Hemophilia
Day is celebrated on _________.
– 17th April

2. World Heritage Day
is celebrated on ___________.
– 18th April

3. World Malaria Day
is observed on ___________.
– 25th April
4. World Book and
Copyright Day is celebrated on ___________.
– 23rd April

5. National
Panchayati Raj Day is observed on _________.
– 24th April

6. Civil Services Day
is celebrated on __________.
– 21st April

7. International
Mother Earth Day is celebrated on _______.
– 22nd April

8. June 21st,
2015 will be celebrated as ___________.
– International Day of Yoga

9. World Dance Day is
celebrated on ________.
– 29th April

10. International
Jazz Day is celebrated on _______.
– April 30th


11. Which city was
the Global Host City of International Jazz Day?
– Paris, France

12. World Day for
Safety and Health at Work is celebrated on ___________.

– 28th April

Also Read: The Awards & Honors and Days between 1 to 15 April, 2015

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