Alphabet Game - AWARDS

[Bonnie Ballentine]

T = Teacher of the Year Award

[Sharla]

U = United Nations Public Service Awards

[Bonnie Ballentine]

V = Vanderbilt Cup

 

auto racing

[Ann Seeber]

W = W Awards (renamed from Women in Architecture) They have a nice logo

 

 

[Michele]

X = XAwards

 

Yes, I had to google for X:

 

"Out of context, the X in XAwards feels like it could stand for pretty much anything; ‘extreme’, or even ‘x-rated’, but what it really stands for is ‘experience’. These pan-European awards seek to identify exemplary digital experiences at start-ups and reward them with financial prizes."

[Sharla]

Y = Yearbook Awards

[Sharla]

Z = ZSL Awards  (given by the Zoological Society of London)

[Dorothy Donn]

B = BREAKTHROUGH PRIZES IN LIFE SCIENCES, FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS renowned as the “Oscars of Science”, recognizes the world’s top scientists working in the fundamental sciences – the disciplines that ask the biggest questions and find the deepest explanations.

 

[Bonnie Ballentine]

A = Academy of Country Music Awards

[MoniqueN.]

B = Buma award ( A Dutch award for music and its' industry :)

[Michele]

C = CMT Country Music Awards

[libera]

D = Deutscher Bücherpreis, a german litterature prize, yearly awarded

[trish williams]

E = Eurovision - song contest

 

 

[libera]

F = Femina, another litterature prize, this time a french one, created 1904 for a magazine called formerly "La vie heureuse" (happy life), the name of the prize originally in France. The jury is a female one (journalists, novelists, historians, painters and so on...). The magazine still exists and the name now is Femina.

 

Over the decades further "groups", I don't know how to name this exactly, of this prize were created, even one awarded by high school students.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

G = Golden Goose Award

 

"The Golden Goose Award is a United States award established in 2012 that officially recognizes scientists whose federally funded basic research has led to innovations or inventions which have a significant impact on humanity or society."

[James Durrant]

H = House Points earned at School

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Good one, James!

 

I = International Bluegrass Music Awards

[libera]

J = JO   Jeux olympiques, Olympic Games in french :-)