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Who was the last recipient of Bharat Ratna?

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi
Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Prof. Amartya Sen
Ans:Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj J oshi
2
Bharat Ratna was instituted in the year?
1956
1965
1954
1959
Ans:1954
3
The total number of people who are awarded Bharat Ratna till now?
44
42
45
41
Ans:41
4
Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi belong to which gharana?
kirana gharana
Khyal gharanas
Dhrupad gharana
Thumri gharana
Ans:kirana gharana
5
Who are the first recipients of Bharat Ratna?
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
C. V. Raman
C. Rajagopalachari
All the above
Ans:All the above
6
The holders of the Bharat Ratna rank in the Indian order of precedence?
6th
8th
7th
5th
Ans:7th
7
Who was the Physicist who received Bharat Ratna in 1954?
C. V. Raman
Bhagwan Das
Govind Ballabh Pant
C. Rajagopalachari
Ans:C. V. Raman
8
Who was the Hindustani classical shehnai player who received Bharat Ratna in the year 2001?
Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Kumari Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar
Gopinath Bordoloi
Ans:Ustad Bismillah Khan
9
Who was the Civil engineer and Diwan of Mysore who received Bharat Ratna?
Gopinath Bordoloi
Bhagwan Das
Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Ans:Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya
10
How many women have won Bharat Ratna?
7
6
8
5
Ans:5
11
Who was the Last Governor-General who received Bharat Ratna?
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Govind Ballabh Pant
C. V. Raman
C. Rajagopalachari
Ans:C. Rajagopalachari
12
The 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 India
Ans:Prime Minister of I ndia to the President of I ndia
13
Who is the youngest person to receive the Bharat Ratna (posthumously at the age of 47)?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Rajiv Gandhi
B.R.Ambedkar
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Ans:Rajiv Gandhi
14
Who 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 Teresa
Ans:I ndira Gandhi
15
Who 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 Hussain
Ans:Gulzarilal Nanda
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Who is the eldest person overall (posthumously at the age of 116) to receive Bharat Ratna?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Vallabhbhai Patel
Govind Ballabh Pant
C. Rajagopalachari
Ans:Vallabhbhai Patel
17
Who was the Trade unionist who received Bharat Ratna?
Bidhan Chandra Roy
V. V. Giri
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Govind Ballabh Pant
Ans:V. V. Giri
18
Who was the First non-citizen to receive the Bharat Ratna award?
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Nelson Mandela
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Amartya Sen
Ans:Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
19
Who was the Sitar player who received the Bharat Ratna award?
Zakir Hussain
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi
Ravi Shankar
Ans:Ravi Shankar
20
Who was the Minister of Agriculture who received the award in1998?
Chidambaram Subramaniam
V. V. Giri
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Vallabhbhai Patel
Ans:Chidambaram Subramaniam
21
Who was the First Indian Economist who received the award in 1999?
Vallabhbhai Patel
Amartya Sen
Jayaprakash Narayan
Chidambaram Subramaniam
Ans:Amartya Sen
22
Who was the Bengali filmmaker who received the award?
Ravi Shankar
V. V. Giri
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Satyajit Ray
Ans:Satyajit Ray
23
Who was the First woman to receive the award in 1971?
M.S.Subbalakshmi
Mother Teresa
Indira Gandhi
Aruna Asaf ali
Ans:I ndira Gandhi
24
First naturalized citizen ever to receive this award?
Nelson Mandela
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Amartya Sen
Mother Teresa
Ans:Mother Teresa
25
Who was the first Prime Minister to receive the award?
Vallabhbhai Patel
Jawaharlal Nehru
V. V. Giri
Jayaprakash Narayan
Ans:J awaharlal Nehru
26
Who was an Independence activist, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Home Minister who received this
award?
Govind Ballabh Pant
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Chidambaram Subramaniam
Jayaprakash Narayan
Ans:Govind Ballabh Pant
27
Who was the first President to receive the award?
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Rajendra Prasad
Jawaharlal Nehru
Indira Gandhi
Ans:Rajendra Prasad
28
Who was the Independence activist, author who received the award in 1955?
Aruna Asaf ali
Jayaprakash Narayan
Bhagwan Das
V. V. Giri
Ans:Bhagwan Das
29
Who was the third President to receive the award?
Chidambaram Subramaniam
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Satyajit Ray
Zakir Hussain
Ans:Zakir Hussain
30
Who was the Indologist and Sanskrit scholar who received the award?
Pandurang Vaman Kane
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Ravi Shankar
Satyajit Ray
Ans:Pandurang Vaman Kane
31
Who was the Independence activist, educator to receive the award?
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Amartya Sen
Purushottam Das Tandon
V. V. Giri
Ans:Purushottam Das Tandon
32
Who was the Physician, Chief Minister of West Bengal who received the award?
Vallabhbhai Patel
Jawaharlal Nehru
Bhagwan Das
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Ans:Bidhan Chandra Roy
33
Who was the Educator, social reformer to receive the award in 1958?
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Aruna Asaf ali
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Rajendra Prasad
Ans:Dhondo Keshav Karve
34
Who was the second Prime Minister and independence activist, to receive the award Posthumous?
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Bhagwan Das
Ans:Lal Bahadur Shastri
35
Who 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. Kamaraj
36
Who was the film actor and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu to receive the award Posthumous?
M. G. Ramachandran
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Amartya Sen
Rajendra Prasad
Ans:M. G. Ramachandran
37
Who was the social reformer, independence activist to receive the award Posthumous in 1983?
Satyajit Ray
Zakir Hussain
Vinoba Bhave
Vallabhbhai Patel
Ans:Vinoba Bhave
38
Who 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 Narayan
Ans:B.R.Ambedkar
39
Who was the second President who was given the award?
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Govind Ballabh Pant
Bhagwan Das
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Ans:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Who 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
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Mother Teresa
Ans:Nelson Mandela
41
Who was the Sixth Prime Minister to receive the award Posthumous in 1991?
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Gulzarilal Nanda
Rajiv Gandhi
Vinoba Bhave
Ans:Rajiv Gandhi
42
Who was the first Home Minister to receive the award?
Vallabhbhai Patel
B.R.Ambedkar
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Jayaprakash Narayan
Ans:Vallabhbhai Patel
43
Who was the Playback singer to receive the award in 2001?
Sonu nigam
Balasubramanyam
Lata Mangeshkar
Chitra
Ans:Lata Mangeshkar
44
Who was the Chief Minister of Assam to receive the award Posthumous?
Gopinath Bordoloi
Bhagwan Das
Vallabhbhai Patel
B.R.Ambedkar
Ans:Gopinath Bordoloi
45
Who was the independence activist and politician to receive the award Posthumous?
Jayaprakash Narayan
Govind Ballabh Pant
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Ans:J ayaprakash Narayan
46
Who was the Carnatic classical singer to receive the award in 1998?
Lata Mangeshkar
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Sonu Nigam
Balasubramanyam
Ans:M. S. Subbulakshmi
47
Who was the Fourth Prime Minister to receive the award?
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Gulzarilal Nanda
Rajiv Gandhi
Morarji Desai
Ans:Morarji Desai
48
Who was the first Minister of Education to receive the award Posthumous?
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Govind Ballabh Pant
Bhagwan Das
Abul Kalam Azad
Ans:Abul Kalam Azad
49
Who was the Industrialist and philanthropist to receive this award?
Vinoba Bhave
Amartya Sen
J. R. D. Tata
Vallabhbhai Patel
Ans:J . R. D. Tata
50
Who was the female independence activist to receive the award Posthumous in 1997?
Lata Mangeshkar
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Aruna Asaf Ali
Indira Gandhi
Ans:Aruna Asaf Ali
51
Who was the interim Prime Minister to receive this award?
Gulzarilal Nanda
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Gopinath Bordoloi
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Ans:Gulzarilal Nanda
52
Who 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 Kalam
Ans:A. P. J . Abdul Kalam
53
The provision to award posthumously was added in which year?
January 1966 statute
March 1967 statute
November 1986 statute
August 1989 statute
Ans:J anuary 1966 statute
54
How many posthumous awards?
15
18
12
16
Ans:12
55
The 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. Tata
Ans:Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
56
The 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 1995
Ans:13 J uly 1977 to 26 J anuary 1980.
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The actual award is designed in the shape of a ------- leaf?
Bamboo
Peepul
Banyan
Coconut
Ans:Peepul
58
The medal carries with the words "Bharat Ratna", inscribed in -------script?
Sanskrit
Tulu
Devanagari
Malayalam
Ans:Devanagari
59
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
Sportspersons
Ans:Sportspersons
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The emblem, the sun and the rim are of -------. The inscriptions are in burnished ----------?
Platinum,bronze
Silver, copper
Gold, silver
Platinum, gold
Ans:Platinum,bronze
61
When 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 Bhave
Ans:Abul Kalam Azad