1. Who won the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2024?
a) Alok Shukla
b) Jenny Erpenbeck
c) Hayao Miyazaki ✅
d) Radhika Sen
2. Who won the International Booker Prize 2024 for the book ‘Kairos’?
a) Ruskin Bond
b) Jenny Erpenbeck ✅
c) Prabha Verma
d) Kristina Pijakova
3. Which institution received the Nelson Mandela Award 2024?
a) AIIMS Delhi
b) National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) ✅
c) WHO
d) Tata Trust
4. Who won the Dilip Bose Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 by AITA?
a) Leander Paes
b) Nar Singh, Rohini Lokhande ✅
c) Sania Mirza
d) Mahesh Bhupathi
5. Who received the UN’s WSIS 2024 ‘Champion’ Award?
a) ISRO
b) C-Dot ✅
c) DRDO
d) BARC
6. Who was honored with the Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award 2023?
a) Smriti Irani
b) Radhika Sen ✅
c) Anasuya Sengupta
d) KS Rajanna
7. Which Indian memorial won the UNESCO Prix Versailles Award 2024?
a) India Gate
b) Smritivan Earthquake Memorial Museum (Gujarat) ✅
c) Red Fort
d) Statue of Unity
8. Which state won first prize for ‘Highest Wind Energy Installed Capacity’ on Global Wind Day 2024?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Gujarat ✅
c) Rajasthan
d) Maharashtra
9. Who won the Goldman Environmental Prize 2024?
a) Siddalinga Pattanashetty
b) Alok Shukla ✅
c) Ratan Tata
d) Gaurav Pandey
10. Who received the Lata Mangeshkar Dinanath Award 2024?
a) Randeep Hooda, Amitabh Bachchan ✅
b) Shabana Azmi, Alia Bhatt
c) Rajkummar Rao
d) Anupam Kher
11. Who received the KISS Humanitarian Award 2021?
a) Ratan Tata ✅
b) KS Rajanna
c) Ruskin Bond
d) Dr. Srinivas R Kulkarni
12. Who received the Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award 2024?
a) Amitabh Bachchan
b) Vinod Ganatra ✅
c) Jenny Erpenbeck
d) Hayao Miyazaki
13. Who became the first Indian to win Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival 2024?
a) Deepika Padukone
b) Anasuya Sengupta ✅
c) Priyanka Chopra
d) Sanya Malhotra
14. Who won the Pulitzer Prize 2024 for Public Service?
a) The New York Times
b) ProPublica Sanstha ✅
c) BBC
d) Reuters
15. Who was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship 2021?
a) Ruskin Bond ✅
b) Gaurav Pandey
c) Prabha Verma
d) Ratan Tata
16. Who received the ‘Freedom of the City of London Award 2024’?
a) Amitabh Bachchan
b) Shabana Azmi ✅
c) Vinod Ganatra
d) KS Rajanna
17. Who won the Best Actress Award at New York Indian Film Festival 2024 for the film ‘Mrs.’?
a) Sanya Malhotra ✅
b) Anasuya Sengupta
c) Rani Mukerji
d) Bhumi Pednekar
18. Who received the Kalinga Award 2024 for Energy, CSR, and Sustainability?
a) NTPC
b) Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (Odisha) ✅
c) Tata Steel
d) Reliance
19. Who received the Gudleppa Hallikeri Award 2024?
a) Alok Shukla
b) Siddalinga Pattanashetty ✅
c) Gaurav Pandey
d) Prabha Verma
20. Who received the Whitley Gold Award 2024?
a) Purnima Devi Burman ✅
b) Radhika Sen
c) Hayao Miyazaki
d) Shabana Azmi
21. Who became the first foreign head of state to receive Bhutan’s highest civilian honour ‘The Order of Druk Gyalpo’?
a) Joe Biden
b) Narendra Modi ✅
c) Emmanuel Macron
d) Vladimir Putin
22. Who won the 71st Miss World 2024 title?
a) Anasuya Sengupta
b) Sanya Malhotra
c) Kristina Pijakova (Czech Republic) ✅
d) Smriti Mandhana
23. Who received the Shaw Prize 2024 in Astronomy?
a) Jenny Erpenbeck
b) Srinivas R Kulkarni ✅
c) Sarah Seager
d) David Charbonneau
24. Which airport won Silver Prize in ‘Green Airports Recognition (GAR) 2024’?
a) Delhi IGI Airport
b) Kempegowda International Airport (Bengaluru) ✅
c) Mumbai Airport
d) Hyderabad Airport
25. Who received the Kavli Prize 2024 in Astrophysics?
a) Sarah Seager, David Charbonneau ✅
b) Srinivas R Kulkarni
c) Hayao Miyazaki
d) Alok Shukla
26. Who won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2024 for the poetry collection ‘Smritiyon Ke Beech Ghiri Hai Prithvi’?
a) Prabha Verma
b) Gaurav Pandey ✅
c) Ruskin Bond
d) Siddalinga Pattanashetty
27. Who received the PSU Samarpan Puraskar 2024?
a) KS Rajanna
b) Hemant Khatri ✅
c) Alok Shukla
d) Shabana Azmi
28. Which Indian PSU won the ‘ATD Best Prize 2024’ for global talent development ranking 3rd?
a) BHEL
b) ONGC
c) NTPC ✅
d) IOCL
29. Who received the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) Leadership Prize 2024?
a) ISRO
b) IN-SPACe ✅
c) DRDO
d) NTPC
30. Who received Hockey India’s ‘Asunta Lakra Award 2024’?
a) Deep Grace Ekka
b) Vandana Katariya
c) Salima Tete
d) Deepika Soreng ✅
31. Who won the ‘Global Energy Transition Impact Award 2024’?
a) Kaushik Raj Shekhar
b) Dr. Sultan Al Jaber ✅
c) Roshni Nadar Malhotra
d) S Somnath
32. Who was awarded the ‘South Asian Person of the Year 2024’?
a) Avantika Vandanapu ✅
b) Anasuya Sengupta
c) Meryl Streep
d) Arundhati Roy
33. Who won the Abel Prize 2024?
a) Maryam Mirzakhani
b) Manjul Bhargava
c) Michel Tallagrand ✅
d) Srinivas Kulkarni
34. Who received the ‘Palme d’Or Award’ at Cannes 2024?
a) Steven Spielberg
b) George Lucas ✅
c) Quentin Tarantino
d) Meryl Streep
35. Who received the ‘World Literature Award 2024’ by WOW?
a) Mamta Sagar ✅
b) Gulzar
c) Ruskin Bond
d) Shivashankari
36. Jain religious leader Lokesh Muni received the President’s Gold Volunteer Services Award in which country?
a) India
b) UK
c) Australia
d) America ✅
37. Singer Rezwana Chowdhury Banya, awarded Padma Shri, belongs to which country?
a) India
b) Sri Lanka
c) Bangladesh ✅
d) Nepal
38. Who received the ‘Sangeet Kalanidhi Award 2024’?
a) Zakir Hussain
b) Shankar Mahadevan
c) T M Krishna ✅
d) Pandit Rajendra Ganganai
39. Who received the ‘K.P.P. Nambiar Award 2024’?
a) Dr. K Radhakrishnan
b) S Somnath ✅
c) P S Goel
d) K Kasturirangan
40. Who were the winners of the 58th Jnanpith Award 2024?
a) Ruskin Bond & Mamta Sagar
b) Gulzar & Jagadguru Rambhadracharya ✅
c) Arundhati Roy & Shivashankari
d) Gaurav Pandey & Prabha Verma
41. Who won the Best Actor Award at Dada Saheb Phalke International Film Festival 2024?
a) Salman Khan
b) Ranbir Kapoor
c) Shahrukh Khan ✅
d) Pankaj Tripathi
42. Who received the ‘Romain Rolland Book Award 2024’?
a) Mamta Sagar
b) Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee ✅
c) Gulzar
d) Ruskin Bond
43. Who received the ‘Laxminarayan International Award 2024’?
a) Pyarelal Sharma ✅
b) AR Rahman
c) T M Krishna
d) Amit Trivedi
44. Who received the ‘Water Warrior Award 2024’ for Wastewater Management?
a) Delhi Jal Board
b) Mumbai Municipal Corporation
c) Noida Authority ✅
d) Ahmedabad Smart City
45. Who won First Prize in 5th National Youth Parliament Festival 2024?
a) Yatin Bhaskar Duggal ✅
b) Rahul Khandelwal
c) Ananya Sharma
d) Kriti Rajput
46. Which country won the ‘Measles and Rubella Champion Award 2024’?
a) Nepal
b) USA
c) India ✅
d) Bangladesh
47. Who received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Locarno Film Festival 2024?
a) Rajkumar Hirani
b) Shah Rukh Khan (King Khan) ✅
c) Kamal Haasan
d) Mani Ratnam
48. Who received the ‘Pandit Lachhu Maharaj Award 2024’?
a) Birju Maharaj
b) Zakir Hussain
c) Pandit Rajendra Ganganai ✅
d) T M Krishna
49. Who received the Special ‘Palme d’Or’ Award at the Cannes 2024 Opening Ceremony?
a) George Lucas
b) Meryl Streep ✅
c) Steven Spielberg
d) Jane Campion
50. Which country honored India’s Diplomatic Missions at the ‘5th Foreign Ministers Excellence Awards Ceremony’?
a) USA
b) Australia
c) UAE ✅
d) UK
51. Who won the CSR Champion Award 2024 for Sustainability Efforts?
a) NTPC
b) PFC (Power Finance Corporation) ✅
c) BHEL
d) ONGC
52. Who won the ‘2024 World Press Photo of the Year’ Award?
a) Danish Siddiqui
b) Mohammed Salem ✅
c) Kevin Carter
d) Lynsey Addario
53. Which PSU was declared ‘Outstanding PSU of the Year 2024’?
a) BHEL
b) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) ✅
c) NTPC
d) ONGC
54. Who received the ‘Aryabhatta Award 2024’ by ASI?
a) Dr. K Sivan
b) Pavuluri Subba Rao ✅
c) S Somnath
d) G Madhavan Nair
55. Who received the ‘Global Energy Award 2024’?
a) Kaushik Raj Shekhar ✅
b) Dr. Sultan Al Jaber
c) Pawan Goenka
d) Pankaj Chatterjee
56. Who received the ‘Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2024’?
a) Arundhati Roy
b) Surinder S. Jodhka ✅
c) Shivashankari
d) Mamta Sagar
57. Which airport received ‘Best Airport Staff in India and South Asia’ from Skytrax 2024?
a) Mumbai
b) Delhi IGI
c) GMR Hyderabad International Airport ✅
d) Bengaluru
58. How many people were awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2024?
a) 03
b) 07
c) 04
d) 05 ✅
59. Who received the prestigious PEN Pinter Award 2024?
a) Gulzar
b) Arundhati Roy ✅
c) Ruskin Bond
d) Shivashankari
60. Who received the 18th V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award 2024?
a) Subbaiah Nallamuthu ✅
b) Satyajit Ray
c) Rajkumar Hirani
d) K. Vishwanath
61. Who received the Excellence Award for Pioneering Work in Homeopathy 2024?
a) Dr. Arpit Chopra ✅
b) Dr. Batra
c) Dr. Shalini
d) Dr. Ramesh Verma
62. Who received the Dr. C. Narayan Reddy National Literature Award 2024?
a) Mamta Sagar
b) Shivashankari ✅
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Ruskin Bond
63. Who received France’s highest civilian honor “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2024?
a) Ratan Tata
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Roshni Nadar Malhotra ✅
d) Gulzar
64. Who received the 2024 ‘John L Jack Swigert Jr Prize’ for Space Exploration?
a) NASA
b) DRDO
c) SpaceX
d) ISRO ✅
65. Who won the ‘German Democracy Prize 2024’?
a) Angela Merkel
b) Olaf Scholz
c) Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya ✅
d) Vladimir Putin
66. Who received the ‘15th CIDC Vishwakarma Award 2024’ for Best Construction Projects?
a) L&T
b) ONGC
c) GAIL ✅
d) BHEL
67. Who won the ‘Best Scientific Poster Award 2024’?
a) AIIMS Delhi
b) Dr. Agarwal Eye Hospital, Tamil Nadu ✅
c) Fortis Healthcare
d) Medanta
68. Who won the ‘Best Male Player’ by Hockey India for 2024?
a) PR Sreejesh
b) Manpreet Singh
c) Hardik Singh ✅
d) Harmanpreet Singh
69. Who received the ‘SKOCH ESG Award 2024’ in Renewable Energy Financing?
a) PFC
b) NTPC
c) REC Limited ✅
d) BHEL
70. ‘Gina Justus’ from which state was nominated for the Cambridge Education Prize 2024?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Kerala ✅
c) Assam
d) Maharashtra
71. Who won the ‘Laureus World Sportsman of the Year 2024’?
a) Lionel Messi
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Novak Djokovic ✅
d) Virat Kohli
72. Who won Best Actor at the 96th Academy Awards (Oscars 2024)?
a) Paul Giamatti
b) Bradley Cooper
c) Cillian Murphy ✅
d) Leonardo DiCaprio
73. Who won Best Actress at the 77th BAFTA Awards 2024?
a) Lily Gladstone
b) Carey Mulligan
c) Margot Robbie
d) Emma Stone ✅
74. Who won the prestigious Maharashtra Gaurav Award 2024?
a) Ratan Tata
b) Dr. Uma Rele ✅
c) Ujjwal Nikam
d) Nana Patekar
75. Who received the Chameli Devi Jain Award 2024?
a) Rana Ayyub
b) Greeshma Kuthar, Ritika Chopra ✅
c) Arfa Khanum Sherwani
d) Priya Ramani
76. How many people were awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2024?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 6
d) 5 ✅
77. Who received the ‘Assam Vaibhav Samman 2023’?
a) Himanta Biswa Sarma
b) Ranjan Gogoi ✅
c) Ratan Tata
d) Sanjay Kishan
78. Which ministry’s tableau won Best Tableau at the 75th Republic Day Parade?
a) Ministry of Tribal Affairs
b) Ministry of Culture ✅
c) Ministry of Defense
d) Ministry of Health
79. Which country’s Changi Airport was awarded World’s Best Airport for 2023?
a) UAE
b) Japan
c) Singapore ✅
d) South Korea
80. Who won the V Venkaiah Archive Award 2024?
a) V. Shanta
b) V. Vedachalam ✅
c) V. Ramaswamy
d) V. Srinivasan
81. Which department won the GEEF Global Watertech Award 2024?
a) Jal Shakti Abhiyan
b) Tamil Nadu Water Board
c) Central Water Commission (CWC) ✅
d) Delhi Jal Board
82. Who received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024?
a) Shah Rukh Khan
b) Jitendra Singh ✅
c) Amitabh Bachchan
d) Narendra Modi
83. Who received the Rajbhasha Gaurav Samman 2023–24?
a) HAL
b) Public Sector Undertakings in Visakhapatnam ✅
c) BARC
d) ISRO
84. Who received special gold coins from the Grevin Museum, Paris in 2024?
a) Salman Khan
b) Ranbir Kapoor
c) Shah Rukh Khan ✅
d) Aamir Khan
85. Who received the Olympic Order 2024 by IOC?
a) Neeraj Chopra
b) Abhinav Bindra ✅
c) PV Sindhu
d) Saina Nehwal
86. Who won Best Technology Award 2024 in horticultural science?
a) Indian Agricultural Research Institute
b) Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR) ✅
c) ICAR
d) TNAU
87. Who were named AIFF’s Best Male and Female Football Players 2024?
a) Sunil Chhetri & Aditi Chauhan
b) Jeje Lalpekhlua & Dalima Chhibber
c) Lallianzuala Chhangte & Indumathi Kathiresan ✅
d) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu & Manisha Kalyan
88. Who received the Gandhi Mandela Award 2020?
a) Kailash Satyarthi
b) Rigoberta Menchu Tum ✅
c) Desmond Tutu
d) Malala Yousafzai
89. Who won Best Child and Women Development Initiative of 2024?
a) Azim Premji Foundation
b) Sri Kurumba Educational and Charitable Trust ✅
c) Smile Foundation
d) Pratham
90. Who won the 2024 Gulbenkian Award?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Kerala
c) Andhra Pradesh ✅
d) West Bengal
91. Who won the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee Award?
a) Harini Logan
b) Zaila Avant-garde
c) Bruhat Soma ✅
d) Akash Vukoti
92. Who won the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Award 2024?
a) Bhavi Mehta ✅
b) Priya Kuriyan
c) Rashmi Thakur
d) Anuja Chauhan
93. Who won the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2024?
a) Narayana Murthy
b) Vellayan Subbaiah ✅
c) Nikhil Kamath
d) Falguni Nayar
94. Who won the Sustainability Champion Editors Choice Award 2024?
a) NTPC
b) Power Grid
c) REC Limited ✅
d) ONGC
95. Who received the ‘UNESCO / Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Award 2024’?
a) Aarti
b) Shah Rukh Khan
c) Sanjana Thakur
d) Palestinian Journalists ✅
96. Who won the ‘Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award 2024’?
a) Amal Clooney
b) Aarti ✅
c) Savita Kaswal
d) Krishna Prakash
97. Who won the Spice Award 2024 instituted by ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research?
a) Purnima Devi Burman
b) Sopna Kallingal ✅
c) Dr. Uma Rele
d) T M Krishna
98. Who won the gold medal in International Sand Sculpture Championship 2024?
a) Sudarshan Patnaik ✅
b) Subodh Kerkar
c) Sonu Sood
d) Deepak Mishra
99. Who received the Prestigious Hans von Hentig Prize 2024?
a) K. Chokalingam ✅
b) Aarti
c) Subbaiah Nallamuthu
d) Abhinav Bindra
100. Which state won the Best State title in Horticulture at Agriculture Leadership Awards 2024?
a) Sikkim
b) Nagaland ✅
c) Kerala
d) Haryana
101. Who was awarded the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2022 posthumously in 2024?
a) Premlata Agarwal
b) Arunima Sinha
c) Savita Kaswal (Uttarakhand) ✅
d) Bachendri Pal
102. Who received the Locarno Film Festival Career Award 2024?
a) Amitabh Bachchan
b) Rani Mukerji
c) Shah Rukh Khan ✅
d) Kamal Haasan
103. Who received the 12th Vishwa Hindi Samman?
a) Arundhati Roy
b) Dr. Usha Thakur ✅
c) Krishna Prakash
d) Gaurav Pandey
104. Who won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024?
a) Greeshma Kuthar
b) Bhavi Mehta
c) Sanjana Thakur ✅
d) Aarti
105. Who received the Best Director and Actor award at the UK Asian Film Festival 2024 for ‘Lord Curzon Ki Haveli’?
a) Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rajkumar Rao
b) Arjun Mathur, Anshuman Jha ✅
c) Vicky Kaushal, Anurag Kashyap
d) Karan Johar, Aditya Roy Kapur
106. Who received the Hindi Sahitya Bharti Award 2024?
a) Usha Thakur
b) Krishna Prakash ✅
c) Shivashankari
d) Gulzar
