Awards/Honours (Uttar Pradesh)– Old Year Questions and Answers
1. Match List I with the List II and select the correct answer from the code given below:
| List–I | List–II |
| (Persons) | (Honour) |
| A. Pt. Ravi Shankar | 1. Bharat Ratna |
| B. Veer Abdul Hameed | 2. Param Veer Chakra |
| C. Dr. Hazari Prasad Dwivedi | 3. Padma Vibhushan |
| D. Pt. Kishan Maharaj | 4. Padma Bhushan |
Code :
| A | B | C | D | |
| (a) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| (b) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| (c) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| (d) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
[U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2014]
2. Which of the following players from U.P. has won both the Arjun Award and the Laxman Award?
(a) Mohammad Kaif
(b) R.P. Singh
(c) Suresh Raina
(d) Ranbir Singh
[U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2004, 2008]
3. Recently in Uttar Pradesh who was honoured with the highest sports award ‘Lakshman’?
(a) Gyanendra Pandey
(b) Upendra Dwivedi
(c) Sanjay Chaturvedi
(d) Kamal Nath
U.P. Lower Sub. (Spl.) (Pre) 2004
4. Which of the following states started E-ration Card Service in the first time?
(a) Gujarat
(b) Maharashtra
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Delhi
[U.P.R.O./A.R.O. (Pre) 2021]
5. The Uttar Pradesh government launched ‘Sangeet Ratna Puraskar’ in the memory of –
(a) Ustad Rashid Ahmed
(b) Ustad Nisar Hussain Khan
(c) Ustad Bismillah Khan
(d) Pandit Ravishankar
[U.P.P.C.S. (Pre) 2007]
6. The ‘Yash Bharti Award’ for the year 2005 has been given to which sportsman of U.P.?
(a) Devesh Chauhan
(b) Mohammad Kaif
(c) Rudra Pratap Singh
(d) Suresh Raina
[U.P.P.C.S. (Spl.) (Mains) 2004]
7. Narsingh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh has won the Gold Medal in recent Commonwealth Games for–
(a) Boxing
(b) Shooting
(c) Weightlifting
(d) Wrestling
[U.P.P.C.S. (Mains) 2010]
8. In March 2008, Kanshiram Khel Ratna Award was conferred to –
(a) Piyush Chawla
(b) Praveen Kumar
(c) R.P. Singh
(d) Tanmay Shrivastava
[U.P. Lower Sub. (Pre) 2004]