Latest Awards General Knowledge(GK) Questions and answers

1 .

Who has won SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2022?

A)

Terence Tao

B)

Ian Stewart

C)

Yunqing Tang

D)

Peter Sarnak

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Yunqing Tang

The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2022 will be awarded to Yunqing Tang, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

The award was instituted by Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research (SASTRA) and is presented annually to individuals aged 32 or below, who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics.

2 .

What is the name of the leading academician who has won the top UAE Award for Alternative Medicine?

A)

Wazahat Husain

B)

K.S. Gill

C)

A.K.M Ghouse

D)

Venu Govindaraju

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Wazahat Husain

Prof Wazahat Husain, a leading academic from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has won an international award for Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Husain, a retired chairman of the Department of Botany at the AMU, received the Second Sheikh Zayed International Award on Monday(10th Oct 2022) in an event organised by the Zayed Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation.

The Foundation is a UAE-based non-governmental, non-profit organisation that invests in developing human capital to improve the quality of life, according to the Foundation’s website.

The award aims to give recognition to eminent academics and scientists of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM ) globally, and TCAM physicians from the UAE, for enhancing TCAM knowledge and practices, and contributing to improving the quality of life for humanity, it said.

A plant taxonomy expert, Husain has been conferred Lifetime Achievement Awards twice, once jointly by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the AYUSH ministry and then by the Wildlife Institute of India and Department of Wildlife Sciences, AMU.

Prof. Husain said he was honoured to be representing AMU and India at the pinnacle of his academic career..

Source : The Print

3 .

Nobel Prize 2022 in Economics has been awarded to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig for?

A)

Contributions to Labour Economics

B)

Research on banks and financial crises

C)

Experimental approach to alleviating global poverty

D)

Improvements to auction theory and inventions to new auction formats

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Research on banks and financial crises

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022 to

Ben S. Bernanke

The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA

Douglas W. Diamond

University of Chicago, IL, USA

Philip H. Dybvig

Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA

“for research on banks and financial crises”

They have been honored for significantly improving the understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises. An important finding in their research is why avoiding bank collapses is vital..

Source : Nobelprize

4 .

Who participated in the Kiwi Indian Hall of Fame Awards 2022?

A)

Nitin Gadkari

B)

S Jaishankar

C)

Rajnath Singh

D)

Nirmala Sitharaman

Correct Answer : Option (B) - S Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Thursday(6th Oct 2022) participated in the Kiwi Indian Hall of Fame Awards 2022. Kiwi Indian Hall of Fame Awards 2022 is organized to award and celebrate the finest Kiwi-Indian achievers and trailblazers.

* Jaishankar was given a traditional Maori welcome to the Kiwi Indian Hall of Fame Awards.

* The Kiwi Indian Hall of Fame Awards was held in Auckland, New Zealand.

* He praised the contribution of his fellow members, Lata Mangeshkar, Home Minister Amit Shah, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, Executive Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Group Shobana Kamineni, CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank Uday Kotak, author Sudha Murty, Chairman & CEO India Inc. Group Prof Manoj Ladwa, Bharat Barai, Anupam P Kher, and Author-Director Amish Tripathi.

* Jaishankar also praised the respect both countries display for each other’s culture and tradition.

* He also met New Zealand’s Leader of Opposition Christopher Luxon.

Source : ANI

5 .

Who has won the 2022 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award?

A)

Ursula von der Leyen

B)

Gerhard SchrÃ¶der

C)

Annalena Baerbock

D)

Angela Merkel

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Angela Merkel

NHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced 4th Oct 2022 that Dr. Angela Merkel, the former Federal Chancellor of Germany, will receive the 2022 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award.

Each year, the award – named after the Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen – is given to an individual, group or organization who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, internally displaced or stateless people.

Under then Federal Chancellor Merkel’s leadership, Germany welcomed more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016 – at the height of the conflict in Syria and amid deadly violence in other places.

At that time, the then Chancellor said : “It was a situation which put our European values to the test as seldom before. It was no more and no less than a humanitarian imperative.” She called on her fellow Germans to reject divisive nationalism and urged them instead to be “self-assured and free, compassionate and open-minded”.

Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, praised former Federal Chancellor Merkel’s determination to protect asylum-seekers and to stand up for human rights, humanitarian principles and international law. “By helping more than a million refugees to survive and rebuild, Angela Merkel displayed great moral and political courage,” Grandi said.

“It was true leadership, appealing to our common humanity, standing firm against those who preached fear and discrimination. She showed what can be achieved when politicians take the right course of action and work to find solutions to the world’s challenges rather than simply shift responsibility to others.”

The selection committee said it was recognizing former Federal Chancellor Merkel’s “leadership, courage and compassion in ensuring the protection of hundreds of thousands of desperate people” as well as her efforts to find “viable long-term solutions” for those seeking safety..

Source : UNHCR

6 .

Who has won Nobel Prize 2022 in Literature?

A)

Yasmina Reza

B)

Leila Slimani

C)

Annie Ernaux

D)

Michel Houellebecq

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022

Born: 1 September 1940, Lillebonne, France

Residence at the time of the award: France

Prize motivation : “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”

Language : French.

Source : Nobelprize

7 .

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldel, and K.Barry Sharpless have jointly won Nobel Prize 2022 in which category?

A)

Chemistry

B)

Physics

C)

Medicine

D)

Literature

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Chemistry

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 to

* Carolyn R. Bertozzi :Stanford University, CA, USA

* Morten Meldal : University of Copenhagen, Denmark

* K. Barry Sharpless : Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA

Chemists have long been driven by the desire to build increasingly complicated molecules. In pharmaceutical research, this has often involved artificially recreating natural molecules with medicinal properties. This has led to many admirable molecular constructions, but these are generally time consuming and very expensive to produce.

“This year’s Prize in Chemistry deals with not overcomplicating matters, instead working with what is easy and simple. Functional molecules can be built even by taking a straightforward route,” says Johan Åqvist, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry.

Barry Sharpless – who is now being awarded his second Nobel Prize in Chemistry – started the ball rolling. Around the year 2000, he coined the concept of click chemistry, which is a form of simple and reliable chemistry, where reactions occur quickly and unwanted by-products are avoided.

Shortly afterwards, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless – independently of each other – presented what is now the crown jewel of click chemistry: the copper catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition. This is an elegant and efficient chemical reaction that is now in widespread use. Among many other uses, it is utilised in the development of pharmaceuticals, for mapping DNA and creating materials that are more fit for purpose.

Carolyn Bertozzi took click chemistry to a new level. To map important but elusive biomolecules on the surface of cells – glycans – she developed click reactions that work inside living organisms. Her bioorthogonal reactions take place without disrupting the normal chemistry of the cell..

Source : Nobelprize

8 .

Who won the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) prestigious Nansen award 2022?

A)

Angela Merkel

B)

Annalena Baerbock

C)

Irene Kasner

D)

Ursula von der Leyen

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Angela Merkel

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel won the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) prestigious Nansen award for her “leadership, courage and compassion” in ensuring the protection of hundreds of thousands of desperate people at the height of the Syria crisis.

Dr. Angela Merkel is the 2022 Nansen Award global laureate for her political courage, compassion and decisive action as Federal Chancellor of Germany to protect people forced to flee.

The year 2022 marked a century (100 years) since Fridtjof Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. It is also 100 years since the creation of the Nansen passport, an identity document for refugees that enabled its holders to move across borders in search of work.

* The Nansen Award 2022 regional winner for Africa was given to The Mbera Fire Brigade, an all-volunteer firefighting group in Mauritania led by Ahmedou Ag Albohary.

* The award for the Americas went to Vicenta González, a women’s rights advocate and activist whose cacao cooperative in Costa Rica empowers local and asylum-seeking women.

* Meikswe Myanmar, a humanitarian organization that assists communities in need, including internally displaced people was announced as the regional winner for Asia and the Pacific and the regional winner for the Middle East and North Africa was given to Dr.

* Nagham Hasan, a gynaecologist from Iraq who helps fellow Yazidi women who were forced into slavery by ISIS to recover from their trauma.

About UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award :

* It is the annual award established in 1954, named after the Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen.

* Fridtjof Nansen was the first High Commissioner for Refugees. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to repatriate prisoners of war and to protect millions of refugees of the Romanov, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires.

* The award is given to an individual, group or organization who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to protect refugees, internally displaced or stateless people..

Source : Unhcr

9 .

How many people have been awarded the Nobel Prize 2022 in Physics for their work in quantum physics?

A)

2 Scientists

B)

3 Scientists

C)

4 Scientists

D)

5 Scientists

Correct Answer : Option (B) - 3 Scientists

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday(4th Oct 2022) announced the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The top science award was given to Alain Aspect (France), John F. Clauser (USA) and Anton Zeilinger (Austria) for their work in quantum physics.

Reason : For Experimented with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneered quantum information science.

While John Clauser developed John Bell’s ideas and took measurements that supported quantum mechanics by clearly violating a Bell inequality, Alain Aspect of the Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France developed the setup, using it in a way that closed an important loophole in Clauser's experiments.

Meanwhile, Anton Zeilinger, using refined tools and a long series of experiments, started to use entangled quantum states. The research group demonstrated a phenomenon called quantum teleportation, which makes it possible to move a quantum state from one particle to one at a distance..

Source : India Today

10 .

Which state has come first in Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2022 award under the large states category?

A)

Haryana

B)

Gujarat

C)

Tamil Nadu

D)

Telangana

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Telangana

Telangana won the first prize under the large states category under the Swachh Survekshan Grameen (SSG) 2022 which looks into the sanitation status of rural areas. Haryana was in the second position while Tamil Nadu was third. The awards were presented by President Droupadi Murmu.

The Swachh Survekshan Gramin-2022 award ranks states and districts on the basis of their performance attained on key quantitative and qualitative Swachh Bharat Mission - Gramin (SBM-G) parameters and engagement of the rural community in the improvement of their sanitation status.

Among smaller states and Union territories, Andaman and Nicobar secured the first position followed by Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and Sikkim..

Source : Economic Times