Skip to content Home Questions Play Progress Daily Challenge Questions › Awards and Honours Questions QUESTION In which year was the Khel Ratna award renamed after Major Dhyan Chand? Open question → QUESTION Which listed award’s scheme, amended on 12 February 2015, specifies a citation and trophy with no cash award? Open question → QUESTION Which writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 but declined to accept it, though it remained officially credited to him? Open question → QUESTION Who became the first writer in the English language to receive the Jnanpith Award? Open question → QUESTION Anita Desai’s novel Clear Light of Day was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in which year? Open question → QUESTION Which eminent author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for English for the historical novel 'Requiem in Raga Janki'? Open question → QUESTION Who achieved the distinction of winning the 2020 International Booker Prize for the acclaimed work The Discomfort of Evening? Open question → QUESTION Which author wrote We Need New Names, the debut novel shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013? Open question → QUESTION Which Norwegian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2023 for his innovative plays and prose? Open question → QUESTION Which Nigerian writer received the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2007 for the novel Half of a Yellow Sun? Open question → QUESTION The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to which American songwriter and performer, sparking widespread debate? Open question → QUESTION In which year did Aishwarya Rai win the Miss World title while representing India? Open question → QUESTION Among the following Nobel Prize-winning authors, who did not receive the Pulitzer Prize? Open question → QUESTION The Arjuna Award is presented for outstanding achievements in which area? Open question → QUESTION Who received the Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2022? Open question → QUESTION In which discipline was Har Gobind Khorana awarded the Nobel Prize in 1968? Open question → QUESTION Who received the first National Film Award for Best Actor in 1968, when individual acting awards were introduced for films of 1967? Open question → QUESTION Which of the following authors did NOT receive the Nobel Prize in Literature? Open question → QUESTION In which year did Toni Morrison become the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? Open question → QUESTION The "Golden Boot" is awarded in which sport? Open question → QUESTION Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam received the Bharat Ratna in recognition of his outstanding contribution to science, technology, and national defence. Identify the year in… Open question → QUESTION In which year did Arundhati Roy receive the Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things? Open question → QUESTION Who received the Pulitzer Prize for their first work Interpreter of Maladies published in 1999? Open question → QUESTION ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’’ won which award? Open question → Home Questions Play Progress 