CURRENT AFFAIRS SET-26 (FRAMED FROM TIMES OF INDIA & WIKIPEDIA)

FRAMED FROM DR HEMANT JAISINGH (DIRECTOR OF UPSC ONLINE ACADEMY)

Q.1 Who won the Dronacharya Award in 2024 in regular category for Hockey ?

A) Shri Sandeep Sangwan

B) Shri Randheer Singh Gentle

C) Shri Harmik Singh

D) Shri Harendra Singh

Ans. A

Q.2 Who was honoured with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the West Bengal Film Journalists Association ?

A) Debaloy Bhattacharya

B) Aparna Sen

C) Sharmila Tagore

D) Rituparno Ghosh

Ans. B

Q.3 Who has bagged with the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for disaster preparedness in 2025 ?

A) National Disaster Management Authority

B) Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

C) Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

D) National Disaster Management Agency

Ans. C

Q.4 President of _______was awarded the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award 2025 for her exceptional contributions to public affairs & Strengthening India’s global prestige.

A) Kenya

B) Trinidad & Tobago

C) Guyana

D) Jamaica

Ans. B

President of  Trinidad & Tobago ( Christine Carla Kangaloo) was awarded the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award 2025 for her exceptional contributions to public affairs & Strengthening India’s global prestige.

Q.5 Which Film bagged the best picture award in 2025 BAFTA Awards ?

A) Conclave & Anora

B) Conclave & Brutalist

C) Artist

D) Brutalist

Ans. B

Q.6 Who won the Memory League World Championship 2025 ?

A) Neelesh Sharma

B) Rohan Gupta

C) Vishvaa Rajkumar

D) Akash Mehta

Ans. C

Q.7 Who has won the Album of the year award at the Grammy Award 2025 for Cowboy Carter ?

A) Sabrina Carpenter

B) Chappell Roan

C) Beyonce

D) Kendrick Lamar

Ans. C

Q.8 Who has won the Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album for Triveni ?

A) Radhika Vekaria

B) Chandrika Tandon

C) Anoushka Shankar

D) Ricky Kej

Ans. B

Q.9 Who was awarded the Honorary Knighthood Knight Commander of the most excellent order of the British Empire ?

A) Sunil Bharti Mittal

B) Nandan Nilekani

C) Mukesh Ambani

D) Ratan Tata

Ans. A

Q.10 Who has been named as the Women of the Year by TIME Magazine ?

A) Medha Patkar

B) Sunita Narain

C) Vandana Shiva

D) Purnima Devi Barman

Ans. D

Q.11 Who has been honoured with the Padma Shri for his exceptional contributions to Sanskrit & Telugu literature ?

A) Dr. Brahmasri Madugula Nagaphani Sarma

B) MD Srinivas

C) Madugula Nagaphani Sarma

D) Nagendra Nath Roy

Ans. A

Q.12 Who has won the Sahitya Academy Award 2024 for book “Ik Hor Ashwathama” in Dogri literature ?

A) Chaman Arora

B) Veena Gupta

C) Sushma Rani

D) Jitendra Udhampuri

Ans. A

Q.13 Who has been awarded with the Abel Prize 2025 ?

A) John Von Neumann

B) Hendrik Haugan

C) Masaki Kashiwara

D) Niels Henrik Abel

Ans. C

Q.14 Who has been honoured with the Best Actor awards at the OTTplay Awards 2025 ?

A) Manoj Vajpayee & Anupam Kher

B) Jaideep Ahlawat & Raghav Juyal

C) Manoj Vajpayee & Raghav Juyal

D) Rajkumar Rao & Jaideep Ahlawat

Ans. A

Q.15 Who has been selected for the Prestigious Jnanpith Award 2025 ?

A) Vinod Kumar Shukla

B) Gulzar

C) Surendra Verma

D) Harivansh Rai Bacchan

Ans. A