In which year was the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, instituted?
Correct answer C. 1954
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Which scientist was among the first three recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954?
Correct answer D. C. V. Raman
Which scientist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in two different sciences?
Correct answer B. Marie Curie
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Who is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes, in Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962)?
Correct answer A. Linus Pauling
Who received the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 together with Frederic Passy?
Correct answer B. Henry Dunant
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the structure and evolution of what?
Correct answer A. Stars
Har Gobind Khorana shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on what?
Correct answer D. Interpreting the genetic code
Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for which novel?
Correct answer B. The God of Small Things
Which Salman Rushdie novel won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was later named the Booker of Bookers?
Correct answer A. Midnight's Children
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The Fields Medal, often described as the highest honour in its discipline, is awarded in which field?
Correct answer C. Mathematics
Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?
Correct answer D. Jane Austen
Don Quixote, often called the first modern novel, was written by whom?
Correct answer B. Miguel de Cervantes
Who wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost?
Correct answer A. John Milton
The novel Crime and Punishment was written by which Russian author?
Correct answer A. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who is the author of Oliver Twist?
Correct answer B. Charles Dickens
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Les Miserables, the story of Jean Valjean, was written by whom?
Correct answer A. Victor Hugo
The Divine Comedy, with its journey through Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, was written by whom?
Correct answer C. Dante Alighieri
Who wrote the allegorical novella Animal Farm?
Correct answer D. George Orwell
Gulliver’s Travels was written by which satirist?
Correct answer C. Jonathan Swift
Who wrote Robinson Crusoe, the story of a castaway on a remote island?
Correct answer C. Daniel Defoe