General Knowledge on International Awards ~ Part 1 ~ Magasaysay Award is given every year for outstanding performance in various fields. Which institution governs the same? Ans: Rockfeller Foundation Jakob Von Vexkull was the founder of which award? Ans: Right Livelihood Award Pulitzer Prize is awarded for excellence in which field? Ans: Journalism and Arts Booker Prize is given for what? Ans: Fiction writing Who was awarded the nobel peace prize for the year 2009? Ans: Barack Obama Who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine 2010? Ans: Robert Edwards Who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine 2011? Ans: Bruce A Beutler Who received the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2010? Ans: Liu Xiaobo The Magsaysay Award is given for proficiency in which field? Ans: Literature Which award is annually conferred for outstanding contribution to public service, community leadership, journalism, literature, creative arts and international understanding. Ans: Magsaysay Which Indian conductor was recently honoured with Japan’s Praemium Imperiale, one of art’s richest awards, for his lifetime work with orchestras around the world? Ans: Zubin Mehta Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, belongs to which country? Ans: Myanmar When was the first Nobel Prize awarded? Ans: 1901 Pulitzer Prize is given in which field? Ans: Literature Who was the oldest person so far to have been awarded Nobel Prize and what was his age at that time? Ans: Prof. Francis Peyton Rous, 87 years India’s “Kulandei Francis” won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2012. In which category, he won the award? Ans: Community Leadership The Ambassador of Conscience Award of Amnesty International is given in which of the fields? Ans: Human Rights Two US Citizen have been jointly awarded with the Nobel Prize 2012 in chemistry. One is Robert Lefkowitz, who is the other one? Ans: Brian Kobilka British researcher John Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize 2012 in Medicine for their work related to? Ans: Stem cells Which organization won the Nobel Peace Prize 2012? Ans: European Union
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