General knowledge miscellaneous


  1. Who was the recipient of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2014 ?









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    Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor was, in March 2015, honoured with Dada Saheb Phalke award 2014, India’s highest honour in cinema. He is the 46th winner of the honour. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan; he is also a proud recipient of three National Film Awards. Note : 2016 Dadasaheb phalke award recipient is filmmaker Kasinathuni Viswanath who will be honoured at the 64th National Film Awards ceremony.

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    Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor was, in March 2015, honoured with Dada Saheb Phalke award 2014, India’s highest honour in cinema. He is the 46th winner of the honour. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan; he is also a proud recipient of three National Film Awards. Note : 2016 Dadasaheb phalke award recipient is filmmaker Kasinathuni Viswanath who will be honoured at the 64th National Film Awards ceremony.


  1. Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 has been awarded to









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    The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi (India) and Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.
    Note : The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos ”for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”.

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    The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi (India) and Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.
    Note : The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded to Juan Manuel Santos ”for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”.



  1. man Booker Prize for 2014 is awarded to :









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    Australian author Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North.’ The book tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a wartime love affair with his uncle’s wife. Post war, he finds his growing celebrity as a war hero at odds with his sense of his own failings and guilt. Note : The Sellout by Paul Beatty is named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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    Australian author Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North.’ The book tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a wartime love affair with his uncle’s wife. Post war, he finds his growing celebrity as a war hero at odds with his sense of his own failings and guilt. Note : The Sellout by Paul Beatty is named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.


  1. India’s first Nobel Prize was given for :









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    Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded Nobel Prize in 1913. He won the award in literature. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian citizen to be awarded Nobel Prize in 1913. He won the award in literature. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.



  1. In which year did Dada Saheb Phalke produce the first feature film ?









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    Dada Saheb Phalke produce Raja Harishchandra in 1913, now known as India’s first full-length feature. It was his debut film. He was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema. He made 95 movies and 26 short films in his career spanning 19 years, till 1937.

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    Dada Saheb Phalke produce Raja Harishchandra in 1913, now known as India’s first full-length feature. It was his debut film. He was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema. He made 95 movies and 26 short films in his career spanning 19 years, till 1937.