MCQs on Awards & Honours Dec 2025

Explanation: The Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

Explanation: South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first South Korean writer to win this prestigious award.

Explanation: British author Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel ‘Orbital’, a compact story about six astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Explanation: Victoria Kjær Theilvig from Denmark won the 73rd Miss Universe pageant, becoming the first Danish woman to win the title.

Explanation: Legendary actor Mithun Chakraborty was honored with the 54th Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.

Explanation: Renowned Urdu poet Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya were jointly awarded the 58th Jnanpith Award.

Explanation: German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the 2024 International Booker Prize for ‘Kairos’.

Explanation: The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded the 2024 Abel Prize to Michel Talagrand for his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory.

Explanation: Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto received the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his community-focused architectural designs.

Explanation: The Malayalam film ‘Aattam’, directed by Anand Ekarshi, won the Best Feature Film award at the 70th National Film Awards.

Explanation: Rishab Shetty won the Best Actor award for his phenomenal performance in the Kannada blockbuster ‘Kantara’.

Explanation: Nithya Menen (for Thiruchitrambalam) and Manasi Parekh (for Kutch Express) jointly won the Best Actress award.

Explanation: Manchester City and Spain midfielder Rodri won the 2024 Ballon d’Or, recognized for his crucial role in winning the Premier League and Euro 2024.

Explanation: Barcelona and Spain midfielder Aitana Bonmatí won her second consecutive Ballon d’Or Féminin.

Explanation: The star badminton doubles pair, Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, were honored with India’s highest sporting award.

Explanation: Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler were awarded the 2024 World Food Prize for their extraordinary work in preserving global crop diversity through seed banks.

Explanation: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ won 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.

Explanation: Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Explanation: Emma Stone won her second Best Actress Oscar for her role as Bella Baxter in ‘Poor Things’.

Explanation: Christopher Nolan won his first-ever Best Director Oscar for ‘Oppenheimer’.

Explanation: Vir Das won the International Emmy for Best Comedy Series for his Netflix special ‘Vir Das: Landing’, sharing the award with ‘Derry Girls’.

Explanation: Ektaa R. Kapoor became the first Indian woman filmmaker to be honored with the International Emmy Directorate Award.

Explanation: Taylor Swift won Album of the Year for ‘Midnights’, becoming the first artist in Grammy history to win the award four times.

Explanation: Billie Eilish won Song of the Year for ‘What Was I Made For?’ from the Barbie movie soundtrack.

Explanation: The band ‘Shakti’, featuring Ustad Zakir Hussain, Shankar Mahadevan, John McLaughlin, V. Selvaganesh, and Ganesh Rajagopalan, won the Grammy for ‘This Moment’.

Explanation: Tennis legend Novak Djokovic won the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award for a record-equaling fifth time.

Explanation: Spanish footballer Aitana Bonmatí won the award after leading Spain to World Cup glory and Barcelona to the Champions League.

Explanation: Australian captain Pat Cummins won the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after leading his team to WTC and World Cup victories.

Explanation: South African scholar Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela won the 2024 Templeton Prize for her profound work on healing and forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa.

Explanation: Jayne Anne Phillips won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel ‘Night Watch’, set in a West Virginia asylum after the Civil War.

Explanation: Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the World Press Photo of the Year 2024 for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her niece.

Explanation: Captain Anshuman Singh, a medical officer, was posthumously awarded the Kirti Chakra for his exceptional bravery during a fire incident in Siachen.

Explanation: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan was honored with the Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award in 2024 for his path-breaking contributions to the nation.

Explanation: Senior Congress leader and author Shashi Tharoor was conferred with the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by the French government.

Explanation: Prof. B.R. Kamboj, Vice Chancellor of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, was awarded the M.S. Swaminathan Award.

Explanation: Neelum Saran Gour won the Sahitya Akademi Award for English for her novel ‘Requiem in Raga Janki’.

Explanation: Acclaimed Hindi writer Sanjeev won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel ‘Mujhe Pehchano’.

Explanation: Odisha secured the first prize in the Best State category at the 5th National Water Awards for its exemplary water conservation efforts.

Explanation: Malayalam poet and author Prabha Varma was awarded the Saraswati Samman for his novel in verse, ‘Roudramukhi’.

Explanation: Veteran Hindi writer Pushpa Bharati was selected for the 33rd Vyas Samman for her touching memoir ‘Yaadein, Yaadein aur Yaadein’.

Explanation: The 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was awarded to mathematician Alexander Pelayo for his outstanding contributions to mathematics.

Explanation: Uday Bhatia and Manasi Gupta from India received the prestigious Diana Legacy Award from Prince William for their social action and humanitarian work.

Explanation: Gita Press, Gorakhpur, one of the world’s largest publishers of Hindu religious texts, was awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize for its outstanding contribution to social transformation.

Explanation: Classical pianist Daniel Barenboim and peace activist Ali Abu Awwad were jointly awarded for their efforts in promoting peace in the Middle East.

Explanation: Krystyna Pyszková of Poland was crowned the 71st Miss World at a grand event held at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai.

Explanation: Lionel Messi narrowly beat Erling Haaland to win The Best FIFA Men’s Player award, largely for his achievements with PSG and Inter Miami.

Explanation: Avi Wigderson won the A.M. Turing Award for his foundational contributions to the theory of computation, including randomized algorithms.

Explanation: American director Sean Baker won the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for his comedy-drama ‘Anora’.

Explanation: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ dominated the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), winning seven awards including Best Film.

Explanation: Dr. Purnima Devi Barman was awarded the UN’s highest environmental honor, Champions of the Earth, for her grassroots conservation of the Greater Adjutant Stork (Hargila).