2022 – Svante Pääbo
2021 – David Julius
2021 – Ardem Patapoutian
2020 – Harvey J. Alter
2020 – Michael Houghton
2020 – Charles M. Rice
2019 – William Kaelin Jr.
2019 – Peter J. Ratcliffe
2019 – Gregg L. Semenza
2018 – James P. Allison
2018 – Tasuku Honjo
‘Bharat Ratna’, the highest civilian award of India, was instituted in the year 1954.
Any person without distinction of race, occupation, position or sex is eligible for these awards.
It is awarded for exceptional service towards advancement of Art, Literature and Science, and in recognition of public service of the highest order.
| Year | Recipient | State / Country |
| 2024 | Charan Singh | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2024 | Karpoori Thakur | Bihar |
| 2024 | L. K. Advani | Delhi |
| 2024 | M. S. Swaminathan | Tamil Nadu |
| 2024 | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Telangana |
1. When was Thomas Stearns Eliot born?
a) 9 March 1881
b) 21 April 1896
c) 26 September1888
d) 30 November 1885
2. Where was Thomas Stearns Eliot born?
a) Reno
b) St. Louis
c) Halifax
d) Boston
3. Where did Thomas Stearns Eliot study Sanskrit?
a) Calcutta
b) Bangalore
c) Trivandrum
d) Harvard
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an annual award given by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. The award is named after Dadasaheb Phalke (Dhundiraj Govind Phalke). He is known as the father of Indian cinema. The award was instituted in the annual National Awards in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dadasaheb Phalke, to honour his invaluable contribution to Indian cinema.
2022 – Annie Ernaux
2021 – Abdulrazak Gurnah
2020 – Louise Glück
2019 – Peter Handke
2018 – Olga Tokarczuk
2017 – Kazuo Ishiguro
2016 – Bob Dylan
1) Who of the Padma Vibhushan Awardees 2010 had won Nobel Prize?
a) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
b) Zohra Segal
c) Ebrahim Alkazi
d) Yaga Venugopal Reddy
2) Who of the Padma Bhushan Awardees 2010 had CBI chargesheets against him for defrauding State Bank of India and under arrest for some time?
a) Bernard Madoff
b) Sant Singh Chatwal
c) Ramalinga Raju
d) David Leeson
3) Who won the bronze medal in Beijing Olympics 2008 and was awarded Padma Shri in 2010?
a) Saina Nehwal
b) Leander Paes
c) Karnam Malleshwari
d) Vijender Singh
1. Which novel won John Steinbeck Pulitzer Prize in 1940?
a) East of Eden
b) The Winter of Our Discontent
c) Of Mice and Men
d) The Grapes of Wrath
2. When was John Steinbeck born?
a) 27 February 1902
b) 24 June 1898
c) 12 July 1900
d) 18 October 1904
3. Where was John Steinbeck born?
a) Peking
b) Salinas
c) Canton
d) Tokyo
1) Who won Nobel Prize 2021 for Medicine?
a) Ardem Patapoutian, David Julius
b) Joseph Eble
c) Benjamin Solomon Carson
d) Devi Shetty
2) For what was Nobel Prize 2021 for Medicine given?
a) Work on uncertainty of brain death
b) Performance of many neuro surgeries
c) Discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch
d) Performance of many heart surgeries
3) Who won Nobel Prize 2021 for Physics?
a) Lisa Randall
b) Giorgio Parisi, Klaus Hasselmann, Sukuro Manabe
c) Carlo Rovelli
d) Edward Witten