Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer using the code…
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Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List – I (Bharat Ratna Recipient) | List – II (Conferred Year) |
A. Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 1. 2019 |
B. Nana Ji Deshmukh | 2. 2015 |
C. Lal Krishna Advani | 3. 2024 |
D. Sachin Tendulkar | 4. 2014 |
Code : | A | B | C | D |
- A.
3 4 1 2
- B.
4 1 2 3
- C.
2 1 3 4
- D.
1 2 3 4
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Correct answer: C
The Bharat Ratna is India's highest civilian award, and the President's Secretariat / Press Information Bureau record the official year in which each recipient was actually conferred the honour. In a 'match the conferred year' question, it is this officially recorded year that must be recalled - not the year an award was first publicly announced - since one name in this list (Vajpayee) is sometimes remembered by an announcement date that fell in a different calendar year from the formal conferment.
The officially recorded conferment years for the four recipients in this list are:
Atal Bihari Vajpayee - 2015
Nana Ji Deshmukh - 2019 (posthumous, along with Pranab Mukherjee and Bhupen Hazarika)
Lal Krishna Advani - 2024
Sachin Tendulkar - 2014
This gives the code A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4.
Arranging these four conferments chronologically - 2014 (Tendulkar), 2015 (Vajpayee), 2019 (Deshmukh), 2024 (Advani) - matches well-documented history: Tendulkar remains one of the youngest-ever Bharat Ratna recipients (honoured in 2014), while Advani's is the most recent conferment among these four (announced in 2024). This ordering is internally consistent and independently confirms the code A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4.
Checking the other three sequences against this record:
The sequence A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2 does not match the record at any of its four pairings: none of its year assignments correspond to the individually documented conferment year for that recipient.
The sequence A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3 gets only the Nana Ji Deshmukh pairing (B-1, 2019) right; the remaining three assignments do not correspond to the documented years for Vajpayee, Advani, and Tendulkar.
The sequence A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 gets the Advani (C-3, 2024) and Tendulkar (D-4, 2014) pairings right, but interchanges Vajpayee's and Nana Ji Deshmukh's years - assigning 2019 to Vajpayee and 2015 to Deshmukh instead of the other way around.
Hence the code A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4 is correct.