Category - General Knowledge
Part - Awards
Question No. - 25
Time - 25 Minuts
1. Who was first recipient of the Padma Shri?
a) Vijay Sharma
b) Ajay Gupta
c) Pratap Singh
d) Balbir Singh Sr
Ans- d) Balbir Singh Sr., a hockey player, who received the award in 1957.
2. Who was first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra?
a) Jaidev Singh
b) Vijay Agrawal
c) Major Somnath Sharma
d) Ajay Gupta
Ans- c) Major Somnath Sharma, He was posthumously awarded the medal for his exceptional bravery and sacrifice during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48.
3. Who was first recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra?
a) Ajay Kushwaha
b) Brigadier Rajinder Singh
c) Rajesh Pramanik
d) Monindar Singh
Ans- b) Brigadier Rajinder Singh, who was awarded the medal posthumously on December 30, 1949.
4. Who was first recipient of the Ashoka Chakra?
a) Jaidev Singh
b) Major Somnath Sharma
c) Havildar Bachittar Singh
d) Ajay Kushwaha
Ans- c) Havildar Bachittar Singh, who was posthumously awarded the highest peacetime military decoration in 1952 for his conspicuous bravery during Operation Polo in 1948.
4. Who was the was first musician to be awarded the Padma Bhushan?
a) Nitesh Singh
b) Prakash Verma
c) M.S. Subbulakshmi
d) A.R. Rahman
Ans- c) M.S. Subbulakshmi, in 1954.
5. When Shaurya Chakra was established?
a) 1951
b) 1952
c) 1953
d) 1954
Ans- b) 1952, The Shaurya Chakra was established in 1952 as the "Ashoka Chakra Class-III" and was renamed Shaurya Chakra in 1967.
6. When Arjuna Award was established?
a) 1959
b) 1960
c) 1961
d) 1952
Ans- c) 1961.
7. Who was the first Cricketer to be awarded the Arjun Award?
a) Kapil Dev
b) Salim Durrani
c) D.B. Deodhar
d) Gundappa Vishwanath
Ans- b) Salim Durrani, year 1961.
8. Who was the first Cricketer to be awarded the Padma Shri?
a) Ravichandran Ashwin
b) Salim Durrani
c) Vijay Hazare
d) Polly Umrigar
Ans- c) Vijay Hazare, year 1960.
9. Who was the first Cricketer to be awarded the Padma Bhushan?
a) Shikhar Dhawan
b) Ajay Jadeja
c) C. K. Nayudu
d) Nayan Mongia
Ans- c) C. K. Nayudu , year 1956.
10. Who was the first Actress to be awarded the Padma Shri?
a) Asha Parekh
b) Vaijanti Mala
c) Aishwarya Rai
d) Nargis Dutt
Ans- d) Nargis Dutt, in 1958.
11. Who was the first recipient of the Jnanpith Award?
a) Vijay Kamraj
b) G. Sankara Kurup
c) Kapil Dev
d) Divya Bharti
Ans- b) G. Sankara Kurup, in 1965.
12. Who was the first recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding?
a) Tim Martin
b) U Thant
c) Hashim Ali
d) William Hank
Ans- b) U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, who received the award in 1965.
13. Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award?
a) R. K. Narayan
b) Munshi Premchand
c) Makhanlal Chaturvedi
d) Ramdhri Singh Dinkar
Ans- c) Makhanlal Chaturvedi, in 1955.
14. Who was the first recipient of the Vyas Samman?
a) Ajay Verma
b) Ram Vilas Sharma
c) Makhanlal Chaturvedi
d) Satish Chandra Shrama
Ans- b) Ram Vilas Sharma, in 1991.
15. Who was the first recipient of The International Gandhi Peace?
a) Dr. A. T. Ariyaratane
b) Girdhar Verma
c) Madhav Sinha
d) Ajay Pramanik
Ans- a) Dr. A. T. Ariyaratane, in 1995.
16. Who was the first recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards?
a) Udham Singh
b) Kishor Kumar
c) Mushtaq Hussain Khan
d) Sadik Khan
Ans- c) Mushtaq Hussain Khan, in 1992.
17. Who was the first recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
a) Devika Rani
b) Asha Parekh
c) Nandita Das
d) Hema Malini
Ans- a) Devika Rani, in 1969.
18. Who is the most recent Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient?
a) Rahul Dev
b) Amitabh Bachchan
c) Amol Palekar
d) Mithun Chakraborty
Ans- d) Mithun Chakraborty, for the year 2022.
19. Who was the first Actor to get Filmfare Awards?
a) Dev Ananad
b) Dilip Kumar
c) Raj Kapoor
d) Baljit Sahni
Ans- b) Dilip Kumar, in 1954 for Daag.
20. Who was the first Actress to get Filmfare Awards?
a) Vaijanti Mala
b) Meena Kumari
c) Hema Malini
d) Yogita Bali
Ans- b) Meena Kumari, in 1955 for Baiju Bawra.
21. Who was the first Actress to get National Film Awards?
a) Jaya Prada
b) Meena Kumari
c) Hema Malini
d) Nargis Dutt
Ans- d) Nargis Dutt, for Raat Aur Din.
22. Who was the first Actor to get National Film Awards?
a) Dev Anand
b) Uttam Kumar
c) Kishore Kumar
d) Raj Kapoor
Ans- b) Uttam Kumar.
23. Who was the first Indian to get Nobel Prize?
a) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
b) C.V. Raman
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) Amartya Sen
Ans- c) Rabindranath Tagore, in 1913.
24. Who was the first boxer to receive the Arjuna Award?
a) Ajay Kumar
b) Vikas Verma
c) Rajendra Singh
d) L. Buddy D'Souza
Ans- d) L. Buddy D'Souza, in 1961.
25. Who was the first female to receive the Arjuna Award?
a) karnam malleswari
b) N. Lumsden
c) Preeti Singh
d) anju bobby george
Ans- b) N. Lumsden, in 1961.