Question

Match the following husband and wife teams with the awards they have received for exemplary work.

Husband-Wife Team	Award
1. Bill and Melinda Gates	i. Right to Livelihood Award
2. Sankaralingam and Krishnammal	ii. UN Population Award
3. Prakash and Mandakini Amte	iii. Kyoto Prize
4. Peter and Rosemary Grant	iv. Magsaysay Award

• A. 1-ii, 2-i, 3-iii, 4-iv
• B. 1-ii, 2-i, 3-iv, 4-iii
• C. 1-iv, 2-iii, 3-ii, 4-i
• D. 1-ii, 2-iv, 3-iii, 4-i

Hint:

The Amtes worked in Hemalkasa and won the Magsaysay Award, the Grants studied Darwin's finches and won the Kyoto Prize.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

The correct matching is Bill and Melinda Gates with the UN Population Award, Sankaralingam and Krishnammal Jagannathan with the Right to Livelihood Award, Prakash and Mandakini Amte with the Magsaysay Award, and Peter and Rosemary Grant with the Kyoto Prize. Bill and Melinda Gates run the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has funded major global health and population welfare programmes, work recognised through the UN Population Award. Sankaralingam Jagannathan and Krishnammal Jagannathan, veteran Gandhian social workers, received the Right to Livelihood Award, often called the alternative Nobel Prize, for their land rights work with landless labourers in Tamil Nadu. Prakash Amte and Mandakini Amte, who carried forward Baba Amte's work among the Madia Gond tribal community at Hemalkasa in Maharashtra, were jointly awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2008 for community leadership. Peter and Rosemary Grant are evolutionary biologists whose decades long study of Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands earned them the Kyoto Prize in 2009 for basic sciences.

The other options mismatch these pairs, for instance swapping the Amtes with the Kyoto Prize or the Grants with the Magsaysay Award, which do not correspond to the actual honours each couple received.