1. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was awarded Bharat Ratna in 2008

1 Lata Mangeshkar 2001
2 Ustad Bismillah Khan 2001
3 Pandit Ravi Shankar 1999
4 Amartya Sen 1999
5 Gopinath Bordoloi 1999
6 M. S. Subbulakshmi 1998
7 Chidambaram Subramaniam 1998
8 Jayaprakash Narayan 1998
9 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 1997
10 Gulzarilal Nanda 1997
11 Aruna Asaf Ali 1997
12 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad 1992
13 J. R. D. Tata 1992
14 Satyajit Ray 1992
15 Rajiv Gandhi 1991
16 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 1991
17 Morarji Desai 1991
18 B. R. Ambedkar 1990
19 Nelson Mandela 1990
20 M. G. Ramachandran 1988
21 Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1987
22 Acharya Vinoba Bhave 1983
23 Mother Teresa 1980
24 K. Kamaraj 1976
25 V. V. Giri 1975
26 Indira Gandhi 1971
27 Lal Bahadur Shastri 1966
28 Dr. Zakir Hussain 1963
29 Pandurang Vaman Kane 1963
30 Dr. Rajendra Prasad 1962
31 Dr. B. C. Roy 1961
32 Purushottam Das Tandon 1961
33 Dhondo Keshav Karve 1958
34 Govind Ballabh Pant 1957
35 Bhagwan Das 1955
36 Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya 1955
37 Jawaharlal Nehru 1955
38 Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 1954
39 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 1954
40 Sir C. V. Raman

Padma Shri Award Winners 2009

1. Shri Thilakan - Art - Kerala

2. Shri A. Vivekh - Art - Tamil Nadu

3 Smt. Aishwarya [Images] RaiBachchanArt Maharashtra

4. Shri Akshay Kumar Art Maharashtra

5. Dr. (Ms.) Ameena AhmedAhuja Art Delhi

6. Smt. Aruna Sairam Art Tamil Nadu

7. Smt. Devayani Chaymotty Art Foreigner

8. Ms. Geeta Kapur Art Delhi

9. Shri Govind RamNirmalkar Art Chhattisgarh

10. Shri Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma Art Manipur

11. Shri Hashmat Ullah Khan Art Jammu & Kashmir

12. Smt. Helan Khan Art Maharashtra

13. Smt. Hemi Bawa Art Delhi

14. Pandit HridaynathMangeshkar Art Maharashtra

15. Shri Iravatham Mahadevan Art Tamil Nadu

16. Shri K.P. Udayabhanu Art Kerala

17. Dr. KannegantiBrahmanandam Art Andhra Pradesh

18. Prof. Kiran Seth Art Delhi

19. Shri Kumar SanuBhattacharjee Art Maharashtra

20. Prof. Dr. (Smt.) LeelaOmchery Art Delhi

21. Shri Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar Art Kerala

22. Shri Niranjan Goswami Art West Bengal

23. Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa Art Punjab

24. Ms. Penaz Masani Art Maharashtra

25. Shri Prakash N. Dubey Art Maharashtra

26. Dr. Pratapaditya Pal Art NRI/ PIO

27. Shri Ram Kishore Chhipa Art Rajasthan

28. Smt. Saoli Mitra Art West Bengal

29. Late Shri SkendrowellSyiemlieh (Posthumous) Art Meghalaya

30. Dr. SubrahmanyamKrishnaswamy Art Tamil Nadu

31. Shri Suresh Dutta Art West Bengal

32. Late Shri Tafazzul Ali(Posthumous) Art Assam

33. Shri Udit Narayan Art Maharashtra

34. Shri Vadakka ManalathGovindan alias Kalamandalam Gopi Art Kerala

35. Shri S.B. Ghosh Dastidar Civil Service Haryana

36. Shri Ameen Sayani Commentary & Broadcasting Maharashtra

37. Shri Abhay Chhajlani Journalism Madhya Pradesh [Images]
38. Dr. A. Sankara Reddy Literature & Education Delhi

39. Shri Alok Mehta Literature & Education Delhi

40. Dr. BannanjeGovindacharya Literature & Education Karnataka

41. Dr. Birendranath Datta Literature & Education Assam

42. Prof. Geshe NgawangSamten Literature & Education Foreigner

43. Prof. Jalees Ahmed KhanTareen Literature & Education Puducherry

44. Shri Jayanta Mahapatra Literature & Education Orissa

45. Dr. John Ralston Marr Literature & Education Foreigner

46. Shri Lalthangfala Sailo Literature & Education Mizoram

47. Shri Laxman Bapu Mane Literature & Education Maharashtra

48. Dr. Mathoor Krishnamurty Literature & Education Karnataka

49. Shri Norden Tshering Literature & Education Sikkim

50. Dr. PanchapakesaJayaraman Literature & Education NRI/ PIO

51. Prof. Ram ShankarTripathi Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh

52. Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir ChanderSobti Literature & Education Chandigarh

53. Dr. Ravindra NathSrivastava Literature & Education Bihar

54. Shri Shamsur RahmanFaruqi Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh

55. Smt. Shashi Deshpande Literature & Education Karnataka

56. Shri Sunny Varkey Literature & Education NRI/ PIO

57. Shri Suresh GunduAmonkar Literature & Education Goa [Images]
58. Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee Literature & Education Delhi

59. Dr. A.K. Gupta Medicine Maharashtra

60. Dr. Alampur SaibabaGoud Medicine Andhra Pradesh

61. Dr. Arvind Lal Medicine Delhi

62. Dr. Ashok K. Vaid Medicine Delhi

63. Dr. Ashok Kumar Grover Medicine Delhi

64. Dr. Balswarup Choubey Medicine Maharashtra

65. Dr. D. S. Rana Medicine Himachal Pradesh [Images]
66. Dr. GovindanVijayaraghavan Medicine Kerala

67. Dr. Kalyan Banerjee Medicine Delhi

68. Shri P.R. Krishna Kumar Medicine Tamil Nadu

69. Dr. R. Sivaraaman Medicine Tamil Nadu

70. Dr. Shaik KhaderNoordeen Medicine Tamil Nadu

71. Prof. (Dr.) ThanikachalamSadagopan Medicine Tamil Nadu

72. Dr. Yash Gulati Medicine Delhi

73. Shri K. Asungba Sangtam Public Affairs Nagaland

74. Dr. (Ms.) ShyamlhaPappu Public Affairs Delhi

75. Prof. Syed Iqbal Hasnain Research on Himalayan Glaciers Delhi

76. Shri Goriparthi Narasimha Raju Yadav Science & Engineering Andhra Pradesh

77. Prof. Pramod Tandon Science & Engineering Meghalaya

78. Shri Bansilal Rathi Social Work Madhya Pradesh

79. Begum Bilkees I. Latif Social Work Andhra Pradesh

80. Shri Cheril Krishna Menon Social Work NRI/ PIO

81. Rev. Fr. Joseph H. Pereira Social Work Maharashtra

82. Shri K. Viswanathan Social Work Kerala

83. Ms Keepu TsheringLepcha Social Work Sikkim

84. Prof. Shyam SunderMaheshwari Social Work Rajasthan

85. Shri Sunil Kanti Roy Social Work West Bengal

86. Shri Balbir Singh Khullar Sports Punjab

87. Shri Harbhajan Singh [Images]Sports Punjab

88. Shri Mahendra SinghDhoni Sports Jharkhand

89. Shri Pankaj Advani [Images]Sports Karnataka

90. Shri Surinder Mehta Technology Solutions Delhi

91. Shri ArunmugamSakthivel Trade & Industry Tamil Nadu

92. Dr. Bavaguthu RaghuramShetty Trade & Industry NRI/ PIO

93. Shri R.K. Krishna Kumar Trade & Industry Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan Award Winners 2009

Padma Bhushan Award Winners 2009

1.Shri G. Sivarama KrishnaMurthy alias Krishna - Art - Andhra Pradesh

2.Prof. Ramanlal C. Mehta - Art - Gujarat

3.Smt. Shamshad Begum - Art - Maharashtra

4.Shri V.P. Dhananjayan & Smt. Shanta Dhananjayan (Duo) - Art - Tamil Nadu

5.Dr. Vaidyanathan Ganapathi Sthapati - Art - Tamil Nadu

6. Shri S.K. Misra - Civil Service - Haryana

7.Shri Shekhar Gupta - Journalism - Delhi

8.Prof. Alappat SreedharaMenon - Literature & Education - Kerala
9.Shri C.K. Prahlad - Literature & Education - NRI/ PIO

10.Shri D. Jayakanthan - Literature & Education -Tamil Nadu

11.Dr. (Smt.) Isher JudgeAhluwalia - Literature & Education - Delhi

12.Shri Kunwar Narain - Literature & Education - Delhi

13.Prof. Minoru Hara - Literature & Education - Foreigner

14.Shri Ramachandra Guha - Literature & Education - Karnataka

15.Dr. Brijendra Kumar Rao - Medicine - Delhi

16.Vaidya Devendra Triguna - Medicine - Delhi

17.Dr. Khalid Hameed - Medicine - NRI/ PIO

18.Lt.Gen. (Retd.) SatishNambiar - National Security Affairs - Delhi

19.Dr. (Smt.) Inderjit KaurBarthakur - Public Affairs - Meghalaya

20.Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh - Public Affairs - Delhi

21.Dr. Bhakta B. Rath - Science & Engineering - NRI/ PIO

22.Shri Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri - Science & Engineering - Tamil Nadu

23.Dr. Gurdip SinghRandhawa - Science & Engineering - Delhi

24.Shri Sam Pitroda - Science & Engineering - Delhi

25.Prof. (Dr.) Sarvagya SinghKatiyar - Science & Engineering - Uttar Pradesh

26.Prof. Thomas Kailath - Science & Engineering - NRI/ PIO

27.Dr. Naganath Nayakawadi - Social Work - Maharashtra

28.Dr. (Smt.) SarojiniVaradappan - Social Work - Tamil Nadu

29.Shri Abhinav Bindra - Sports - Punjab

30.Shri Anil Manibhai Naik - Trade & Industry - Maharashtra

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners 2009

Padma Vibhushan Award Winners 2009
No. Name Discipline State / Domicile
1. Dr. Chandrika PrasadSrivastava -Civil Service -Maharashtra
2. Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna -Environment Conservation -Uttarakhand
3. Prof. D.P.Chattopadhyaya -Literature & Education- West Bengal
4. Prof. Jasbir Singh Bajaj -Medicine -Punjab
5. Dr. Purshotam Lal -Medicine -Uttar Pradesh
6. Shri Govind Narain -Public Affairs -Uttar Pradesh
7. Dr. Anil Kakodkar -Science & Engineering -Maharashtra
8. Shri G. Madhavan Nair -Science & Engineering -Karnataka
9. Sister Nirmala -Social Work -West Bengal
10. Dr. A.S. Ganguly -Trade & Industry -Maharashtra

Multiple Choice Quiz

Basic General Knowledge ? Multiple Choice Quiz

1. How many languages and dialects are spoken by people all over the world?
A. 6,000
B. 9,000
C. 4,000
D. 1,000
2. Approximately, how many people speak Chinese language?
A. 1 billion
B. 1 million
C. 1 lakh
D. 1 thousand
3. The language with the richest vocabulary is:
A. Hindi
B. French
C. English
D. German
4. English Language have more than ?? words:
A. 4,50,000
B. 45,000
C. 4,500
D. 450
5. The oldest Indian language is:
A. Telugu
B. Hindu
C. Tamil
D. Punjabi
6. Which book has been printed in the maximum number of languages and these scripts?
A. The Bible
B. Hiraka Sutra
C. The Super Book
D. None of these
7. The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts is:
A. The Ramayana
B. The Mahabharata
C. The bible
D. Guru Granth Sahib
8. The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868 is:
A. The Bible
B. The Hirake Sutra
C. The Ramayana
D. The Mahabharata
9. The largest book, the super book, is ?? and weight is ??
A. 270 cm, 300 cm, 252 kg.
B. 100 cm, 110 cm, 100 kg.
C. 200 cm, 100 cm, 60 kg.
D. None of these
10. Les Hommes de bonne volonté is the:
A. Longest novel ever published
B. Shortest novel every published
C. The oldest novel
D. None of these
11. The author of the play/book ?Ratnawali? is:
A. Tulsidas
B. Kalidas
C. Harsha Vardhan
D. Prem Chand
12. Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan Gupt?
A. Saket
B. Satyartha Prakash
C. Shakuntala
D. Savitri
13. The book ?Satyartha Prakash? was written by:
A. Swami Dayanand
B. Swami Vivekanand
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Kalidas
14. The play/book ?Shakuntala? was written by:
A. Maithili Sharan gupt
B. Swami Dayanand
C. Kalidas
D. Tulsidas
15. Which of the following is the author of ?Song of India, The?:
A. Firdausi
B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Lala Lajpat Rai
D. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
16. The author of the book ?Time machine? is:
A. Lewis Carroll
B. Robert Louis Stevenson
C. Charles Lamb
D. H.G. Wells
17. Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas:
A. Vinay Patrika
B. Ramcharitmanas
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. Yashodhara
18. The book ?Vish Vriksha? was written by:
A. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
B. Annie Basant
C. Tulsidas
D. Kalidas
19. The book ?We Indians? was written by:
A. H.G. Wells
B. Khushwant Singh
C. James Jeans
D. Thomas Moore
20. Which of he following is he author of play/book ?Yashodhara?:
A. Maithili Sharan Gupt
B. Khushwant Singh
C. Bankimchandra Chatterjee
D. Sarojini Naidu
21. Dhyan Chand was:
A. A great hockey player
B. Captained he Indian hockey team which won a gold medal in 1936 Berlin Olympics
C. Scored 101 goals at the Olympic games and 300 goals in the international matches.
D. All the statements are correct
22. Who developed the small pox vaccination?
A. Eduard Jenner
B. Alexander Fleming
C. Albert Einstein
D. None of these
23. Euclid was:
A. Greek mathematician
B. Contributor to the use of deductive principles of logic as the basis of geometry
C. Propounded the geometrical theosems
D. All the statements are correct
24. Fa-hien was:
A. The first Buddhist pilgrim of China to visit India during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya
B. The discover of Puerto Rico and Jamaica
C. The first Buddhist pilgrim of India to visit China
D. None of these
25. Firdausi was:
A. A person poet
B. Well known for his epic ?Sharnama?
C. Both are correct
D. None of these
26. Who is also known as the ?Lady with the Lamp??
A. Florence Nightingale
B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Rani Laxmibai
D. Bachendri Pal
27. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit was:
A. A German Physicist
B. Developed the mercury thermometer in 1714
C. Devised temperature scale
D. All are correct
28. Galileo was an Italian astronomer who:
A. Developed the telescope
B. Discovered 4 satellites of Jupiter
C. Discovered that the movement of the pendulum produces a regular time measurement.
D. All are correct
29. Who is known as the father of English poetry?
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. John Milton
C. John Keats
D. None of these
30. The American General who led the revolt against the British & declared American independence was:
A. George Washington
B. Bill Clinton
C. George Bush
D. None of these
31. Marco Polo
A. Discovered Greenland
B. Traveled three China, India and other parts of Asia
C. Traveled round the cape of Good Hope
D. Discovered Canada
32. Who landed on the mainland of South America for the First time?
A. Discovered Greenland
B. Landed on the mainland of south America
C. Discovered the sea route from Europe to India.
D. None of these
33. Who was first to sail sound the strait, reached the Philippines and named the Pacific Ocean?
A. Ferdinand Magelion
B. Jacques Carter
C. William Janszoom
D. Vasco da Gama
34. Who discovered Australia?
A. Eric the Red
B. Leif Ericsson
C. William Janszoom
D. None of these
35. Who located the magnetic pole?
A. Sir James Clark
B. Rear Admiral
C. Sir John Ross
D. All the above
36. Who was first to reach the South Pole?
A. Rear Admiral
B. Capt. Amundsen
C. Capt. R. E. Scett
D. Sir Edmund Hillary
37. Who was the first to cross the Antarctic?
A. Sir Vivian Fuchs & sir Edmund Hillary
B. Maj. Yuri Gagarin and Maj. Gherman Titor
C. Capt. R. E. Scott
D. All of these
38. Who were the first to journey into space?
A. Maj. Yori Gagarin and maj. Gherman Titor from Russia
B. Comm. Grissom and Col john Glenn from America
C. Both are correct
D. None of these
39. Who was the first man to ?Walk? in space?
A. Col. Leonor from Russia
B. Major White from America
C. Both of these
D. None of these
40. Who were the first to circle the moon?
A. Frank boreman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell
B. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
C. Charles Conrad and Alan Bean
D. None of these
41. ?Arena? is the special name for playground of:
A. Cricket
B. Lawn Tennis
C. Wrestling
D. Skating
42. The national sport of Canada is:
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A. Tennis and cricket
B. Lacrosse
C. Judo
D. Rugby and Football
43. Badminton is the national sport at:
A. Malaysia
B. Scotland
C. China
D. Former soviet Union
44. Where is the Vallabhbhai Patel stadium located?
A. Kolkata
B. Mumbai
C. Chennai
D. Delhi
45. Where is the sports stadium, Green Park, located?
A. Kanpur
B. Jamshedpur
C. Cuttack
D. Patiala
46. For which of the following disciplines in Nobel Prize awarded?
A. Physics and chemistry
B. Physiology or Medicine
C. Literature, Peace and Economics
D. All the above
47. On which date is Nobel Prize awarded?
A. December 10
B. January 10
C. April 10
D. July 10
48. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, awarded the Noble Prize in:
A. Physics
B. Economics
C. Chemistry
D. (a) and (c)
49. The committee of the Norwegian Parliament awards the prize for:
A. Economics
B. Peace
C. Medicine
D. Literature
50. Dr. Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes individually for:
A. Chemistry in 1954, peace prize in 1962
B. Peace prize in 1954, Chemistry in 1962
C. Physics in 154, Medicine in 1962
D. Medicine in 1954, Physics in 1962
Answers
1. b 2. a 3. c 4. a 5. c 6. a 7. c 8. b 9. a 10. a 11. c 12. a 13. a 14. c 15. b
16. d 17. c 18. a 19. b 20. a 21. d 22. a 23. d 24. a 25. c 26. a 27. d 28. d 29. a 30. a
31. b 32. b 33. a 34. c 35. d 36. b 37. a 38. c 39. c 40. a 41. c 42. b 43. a 44. b 45. a
46. d 47. a 48. d 49. b 50. a