barat ratna

1Who was the last recipient of Bharat Ratna?

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi

Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar

Ustad Bismillah Khan

Prof. Amartya SenAns:Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi2Bharat Ratna was instituted in the year?

1956

1965

1954

1959Ans:19543The total number of people who are awarded Bharat Ratna till now?

44

42

45

41Ans:414Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi belong to which gharana?

kirana gharana

Khyal gharanas

Dhrupad gharana

Thumri gharanaAns:kirana gharana5Who are the first recipients of Bharat Ratna?

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

C. V. Raman

C. Rajagopalachari

All the aboveAns:All the above6The holders of the Bharat Ratna rank in the Indian order of precedence?

6th

8th

7th

5th

Ans:7th7Who was the Physicist who received Bharat Ratna in 1954?

C. V. Raman

Bhagwan Das

Govind Ballabh Pant

C. RajagopalachariAns:C. V. Raman8Who was the Hindustani classical shehnai player who received Bharat Ratna in the year 2001?



Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar

Gopinath BordoloiAns:Ustad Bismillah Khan9Who was the Civil engineer and Diwan of Mysore who received Bharat Ratna?

Gopinath Bordoloi

Bhagwan Das

Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya

Bidhan Chandra RoyAns:Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya

10How many women have won Bharat Ratna?

7

6

8

5Ans:5

11Who was the Last Governor-General who received Bharat Ratna?


Govind Ballabh Pant

C. V. Raman

C. RajagopalachariAns:C. Rajagopalachari

12The recommendations for Bharat Ratna are to be made by?

Prime Minister of India to the President of India

President of India to the Prime Minister of India

Council of ministers to the President of India

Council of ministers to the Prime Minister of IndiaAns:Prime Minister of India to the President of India

13Who is the youngest person to receive the Bharat Ratna (posthumously at the age of 47)?

Jawaharlal Nehru

Rajiv Gandhi

B.R.Ambedkar

Bidhan Chandra RoyAns:Rajiv Gandhi

14Who is the youngest person alive at the time of receiving the Bharat Ratna award (at the age of 54)?

B.R.Ambedkar

M.S.Subbalakshmi

Indira Gandhi

Mother TeresaAns:Indira Gandhi

15Who is the eldest person alive at the time of receiving the Bharat Ratna award (age 99)?

Gulzarilal Nanda

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Govind Ballabh Pant

Zakir HussainAns:Gulzarilal Nanda

16Who is the eldest person overall (posthumously at the age of 116) to receive Bharat Ratna?

Jawaharlal Nehru

Vallabhbhai Patel

Govind Ballabh Pant

C. RajagopalachariAns:Vallabhbhai Patel

17Who was the Trade unionist who received Bharat Ratna?

Bidhan Chandra Roy

V. V. Giri

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Govind Ballabh PantAns:V. V. Giri

18Who was the First non-citizen to receive the Bharat Ratna award?

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Nelson Mandela

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Amartya SenAns:Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

19Who was the Sitar player who received the Bharat Ratna award?

Zakir Hussain



Ravi ShankarAns:Ravi Shankar

20Who was the Minister of Agriculture who received the award in1998?

Chidambaram Subramaniam

V. V. Giri

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Vallabhbhai PatelAns:Chidambaram Subramaniam

21Who was the First Indian Economist who received the award in 1999?

Vallabhbhai Patel

Amartya Sen

Jayaprakash Narayan

Chidambaram SubramaniamAns:Amartya Sen

22Who was the Bengali filmmaker who received the award?

Ravi Shankar

V. V. Giri

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Satyajit RayAns:Satyajit Ray

23Who was the First woman to receive the award in 1971?

M.S.Subbalakshmi

Mother Teresa

Indira Gandhi

Aruna Asaf aliAns:Indira Gandhi

24First naturalized citizen ever to receive this award?

Nelson Mandela


Amartya Sen

Mother TeresaAns:Mother Teresa

25Who was the first Prime Minister to receive the award?

Vallabhbhai Patel

Jawaharlal Nehru

V. V. Giri

Jayaprakash NarayanAns:Jawaharlal Nehru

26Who was an Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Home Minister who received this award?

Govind Ballabh Pant

Bidhan Chandra Roy


Jayaprakash NarayanAns:Govind Ballabh Pant

27Who was the first President to receive the award?

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Rajendra Prasad

Jawaharlal Nehru

Indira GandhiAns:Rajendra Prasad

28Who was the Independence activist, author who received the award in 1955?

Aruna Asaf ali

Jayaprakash Narayan

Bhagwan Das

V. V. GiriAns:Bhagwan Das

29Who was the third President to receive the award?



Satyajit Ray

Zakir HussainAns:Zakir Hussain

30Who was the Indologist and Sanskrit scholar who received the award?

Pandurang Vaman Kane

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Ravi Shankar

Satyajit RayAns:Pandurang Vaman Kane

31Who was the Independence activist, educator to receive the award?


Amartya Sen

Purushottam Das Tandon

V. V. GiriAns:Purushottam Das Tandon

32Who was the Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal who received the award?

Vallabhbhai Patel

Jawaharlal Nehru

Bhagwan Das

Bidhan Chandra RoyAns:Bidhan Chandra Roy

33Who was the Educator, social reformer to receive the award in 1958?

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Aruna Asaf ali


Rajendra PrasadAns:Dhondo Keshav Karve

34Who was the second Prime Minister and independence activist, to receive the award Posthumous?

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Bidhan Chandra Roy

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Bhagwan DasAns:Lal Bahadur Shastri

35Who was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State to receive the award Posthumous?

Ravi Shankar

K. Kamaraj

Govind Ballabh Pant

Aruna Asaf ali

Ans:K. Kamaraj36Who was the film actor and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu to receive the award Posthumous?

M. G. Ramachandran

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Amartya Sen

Rajendra PrasadAns:M. G. Ramachandran

37Who was the social reformer, independence activist to receive the award Posthumous in 1983?

Satyajit Ray

Zakir Hussain

Vinoba Bhave

Vallabhbhai PatelAns:Vinoba Bhave

38Who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, politician, economist, and scholar to receive the award the Posthumous?

Gulzarilal Nanda

B.R.Ambedkar

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Jayaprakash NarayanAns:B.R.Ambedkar

39Who was the second President who was given the award?


Govind Ballabh Pant

Bhagwan Das

Khan Abdul Ghaffar KhanAns:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

40Who was the Second non-citizen and first non-Indian recipient, Leader of the Anti-Apartheid movement who was given the award?

Amartya Sen

Nelson Mandela


Mother TeresaAns:Nelson Mandela

41Who was the Sixth Prime Minister to receive the award Posthumous in 1991?

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Gulzarilal Nanda

Rajiv Gandhi

Vinoba BhaveAns:Rajiv Gandhi

42Who was the first Home Minister to receive the award?

Vallabhbhai Patel

B.R.Ambedkar

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Jayaprakash NarayanAns:Vallabhbhai Patel

43Who was the Playback singer to receive the award in 2001?

Sonu nigam

Balasubramanyam

Lata Mangeshkar

Chitra Ans:Lata Mangeshkar

44Who was the Chief Minister of Assam to receive the award Posthumous?

Gopinath Bordoloi

Bhagwan Das

Vallabhbhai Patel

B.R.AmbedkarAns:Gopinath Bordoloi

45Who was the independence activist and politician to receive the award Posthumous?

Jayaprakash Narayan

Govind Ballabh Pant


Lal Bahadur ShastriAns:Jayaprakash Narayan

46Who was the Carnatic classical singer to receive the award in 1998?

Lata Mangeshkar

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Sonu Nigam

BalasubramanyamAns:M. S. Subbulakshmi

47Who was the Fourth Prime Minister to receive the award?

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Gulzarilal Nanda

Rajiv Gandhi

Morarji DesaiAns:Morarji Desai

48Who was the first Minister of Education to receive the award Posthumous?


Govind Ballabh Pant

Bhagwan Das

Abul Kalam AzadAns:Abul Kalam Azad

49Who was the Industrialist and philanthropist to receive this award?

Vinoba Bhave

Amartya Sen

J. R. D. Tata

Vallabhbhai PatelAns:J. R. D. Tata

50Who was the female independence activist to receive the award Posthumous in 1997?

Lata Mangeshkar

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Aruna Asaf Ali

Indira GandhiAns:Aruna Asaf Ali

51Who was the interim Prime Minister to receive this award?

Gulzarilal Nanda

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Gopinath Bordoloi

Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanAns:Gulzarilal Nanda

52Who was the Aeronautical Engineer and 11th President of India to receive this award?

Gulzarilal Nanda

Abul Kalam Azad

Govind Ballabh Pant

A. P. J. Abdul KalamAns:A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

53The provision to award posthumously was added in which year?

January 1966 statute

March 1967 statute

November 1986 statute

August 1989 statuteAns:January 1966 statute

54How many posthumous awards?

15

18

12

16Ans:12

55The award to whom in 1992, was later withdrawn due to a legal technicality, the only case of an award being withdrawn?

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Indira Gandhi

Lal Bahadur Shastri

J. R. D. TataAns:Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

56The award was briefly suspended from?

13 July 1977 to 26 January 1980.

15 Feb. 1987 to 6 May 1989

24 March 1991 to 18 august 1994

03 September 1994 to 15 December 1995Ans:13 July 1977 to 26 January 1980.

57The actual award is designed in the shape of a ------- leaf?

Bamboo

Peepul

Banyan

CoconutAns:Peepul

58The medal carries with the words "Bharat Ratna", inscribed in -------script?

Sanskrit

Tulu

Devanagari

Malayalam

Ans:Devanagari59 In 2011, the Government of India modified the eligibility criteria to allow --------to receive the award and

opened the award for performance of highest order in any field of human Endeavour from the earlier criteria for the highest degrees of national service

Industrialist

Social service activists

Freedom fighters

SportspersonsAns:Sportspersons

60The emblem, the sun and the rim are of -------. The inscriptions are in burnished ----------?

Platinum,bronze

Silver, copper

Gold, silver

Platinum, goldAns:Platinum,bronze

61When the award was offered to freedom fighter and India's first Minister of Education, he promptly declined it saying that it should not be given to those who have been on the selection committee. Later he was awarded posthumously in 1992.

Abul Kalam Azad

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Gopinath Bordoloi

Vinoba BhaveAns:Abul Kalam Azad

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