First Indian Awards and Honours

11. Who was the first Indian to receive the Jnanpith Award?
a) Sumitranandan Pant
b) G. Sankara Kurup
c) Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
d) Ashapurna Devi

12. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Jnanpith Award?
a) Mahadevi Verma
b) Amrita Pritam
c) Ashapurna Devi
d) Qurratulain Hyder

13. Who was the first Indian to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
a) Prithviraj Kapoor
b) Devika Rani
c) V. Shantaram
d) B. N. Sircar

14. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
a) Devika Rani
b) Nargis Dutt
c) Leela Naidu
d) Asha Bhosle

15. Who was the first Indian to receive the Padma Bhushan?
a) Satyajit Ray
b) C. V. Raman
c) M. S. Subbulakshmi
d) Homi Bhabha