Following are the set of 25 multiple choice questions from the topic of International Awards like Wolf Prize, Abel, Prize, Nobel Prize, Lasker Award, Booker Prize etc. Questions from this topic has appeared in many competitive exams in General Awareness Category. The purpose of this section is just to support the candidates who prepare for Kerala PSC and other competitive exams. You can always refer this website from your mobile phone on the go or from your home PC.
International Awards, Prizes
Wolf Prize | Abel Prize | Nobel Prize | Lasker Award | Booker Prize
(A multiple choice questions and answer for Kerala PSC, UPSC, SSC, Banking, IBPS, Railway and other competitive exams)
1. Wolf Prize is given by:
(a) USA
(b) Israel
(c) Japan
(d) Britain

2. Wolf Prize was given for the first time in:
(a) 1978
(b) 1988
(c) 1990
(d) 1970

3. Wolf Prize is awarded in six fields: Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and .....
(a) Peace
(b) Arts
(c) Economics
(d) Literature

4. Wolf Prize in Arts rotates annually between architecture, music, painting and .....
(a) Sculpture
(b) Cinema
(c) Drama
(d) Acting

5. Until the establishment of the ......, the Wolf Prize was probably the closest equivalent of a “Nobel Prize in Mathematics”, since the more prestigious Fields Medal was only awarded every 4 years to mathematicians under 40.
(a) BAFTA Award
(b) Jerusalem Prize
(c) Lasker Award
(d) Abel Prize

6. Wolf Foundation was founded by Dr.Ricardo Wolf who was born in:
(a) Cuba
(b) Spain
(c) Germany
(d) France

7. The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to .......
(a) Medical science
(b) Mathematics
(c) Literature
(d) Cinema

8. What is known as ‘America’s Nobel’?
(a) Oscar Award
(b) Grammy Award
(c) Lasker Award
(d) Jerusalem Prize

9. The Award given in International Congress of the International Mathematical Union:
(a) Lasker Award
(b) Fields Medal
(c) Wolf Prize
(d) Abel Prize

10. Founded at the behest of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields, Fields medal was first awarded in:
(a) 1916
(b) 1926
(c) 1946
(d) 1936

11. Fields Medal has been regularly awarded since :
(a) 1950
(b) 1955
(c) 1960
(d) 1965

12. Which is known as the ‘Mathematician’s Nobel’?
(a) Oscar
(b) BAFTA Award
(c) Pulitzer Prize
(d) Abel Prize

13. Abel Prize was awarded for the first time in:
(a) 2000
(b) 2001
(c) 2002
(d) 2003

14. In which year Arundhathy Roy got Booker Prize?
(a) 1996
(b) 1997
(c) 1998
(d) 1999

15. The book of Arundhathy Roy got Booker Prize:
(a) The Road ahead
(b) The God of Small things
(c) The Greater Common Good
(d) In a Free State

16. Who got Booker of Booker (1983) and Best of Booker Award (2008) for the book ‘Midnight’s Children’?
(a) Salman Rushdie
(b) P.H.Newby
(c) V.S.Naipaul
(d) Ben Okri

17. Aravind Adiga's debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Booker Prize in:
(a) 2005
(b) 2008
(c) 2006
(d) 2007

18. Booker Prizes were started in:
(a) 1960
(b) 1962
(c) 1964
(d) 1968

19. Booker Prizes are given to authors in ......language:
(a) German
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Russian

20. The first to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) P.H.Newby
(d) V.S.Naipaul

21. The first to get two booker prizes:
(a) Salman Rushdie
(b) Peter Carey
(c) Ben Okri
(d) JM Coetzee

22. Who got Booker Prize and Nobel Literature Prize?
(a) VS Naipaul
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) JM Coetzee
(d) (a) and (c)

23. The first person of Indian orgin to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy
(b) Kiran Desai
(c) V.S.Naipaul
(d) Ben Okri

24. The first Indian to get Booker Prize:
(a) Kiran Desai
(b) Arundathy Roy
(c) Salman Rushdie
(d) None of these

25. The second Indian to get Booker Prize:
(a) Arundathy Roy
(b) Kiran Desai
(c) Jhumpa Lahiri
(d) None of these