DAILY GK QUIZ: 20 - 25 JAN 2022
[Q]
Which Ministry recently inaugurated ‘Digital Government Mission’ to speed up
citizen Services Delivery through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning:
(a) Ministry of Science and Technology
(b) Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare
(c) Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology
(d) Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs
[ANS] c
[Q]
Which country received a USD 500 million Line of Credit from the Indiana
Government to purchase petroleum products:
(a) Mauritius
(b) Maldives
(c) Indonesia
(d) Srilanka
[ANS] d
[Q]
Identify the organisation that recently launched a mobile app called ‘Sarthi’
to provide education to investors.
(a) NABARD
(b) SEBI
(c) IDBI Bank
(d) SIDBI
[ANS] b
[Q]
Who recently won the Mrs World 2022 held in Las Vegas,Nevada, US:
(a) Navdeep Kaur
(b) Shaylyn Ford
(c) Kate Schneider
(d) Jaclyn Stapp
[ANS] b
[Q]
__________ became the youngest ever President of the European Union (EU)
Parliament by succeeding David Sassoli:
(a) Josep Borrell
(b) Roberta Metsola
(c) Antonio Tajani
(d) Martin Schulz
[ANS] b
[Q]
Who among the following is the winner of Genesis Prize 2022?
(a) Albert Bourla
(b) Rabbi Lord
(c) Steven Spielberg
(d) Natan Sharansky
(e) Steven Johnson
[ANS] a
[Q]
Which player has been named as the captain of the ICC Men’s T20I team of the
year for 2021?
(a) Mohammad Rizwan
(b) Aiden Markram
(c) Babar Azam
(d) Jos Buttler
(e) David Miller
[ANS] c
[Q]
Which word has been chosen as the Oxford University Press Children’s Word of
the Year 2021?
(a) Sanitizer
(b) Coronavirus
(c) Isolation
(d) Anxiety
[ANS] d
[Q]
Saturnino de la Fuente GarcÃa, the world’s oldest person has died recently at
the age of 112 years and 341 days. He was from which country?
(a) Italy
(b) Spain
(c) Switzerland
(d) Finland
[ANS] b
[Q]
The first BRICS Sherpas meeting of 2022 was held virtually on January 18-19
2022 under the chairship of which country?
(a) Brazil
(b) Russia
(c) India
(d) China
[ANS] d
[Q]
Who among the following has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing
Director of Air India?
(a) Alok Mishra
(b) Vartika Shukla
(c) Vikram Dev Dutt
(d) Atul Bhatt
[ANS] c
[Q]
Who became the first Indian to complete NASA’s International Air and Space
Program (IASP) at the Kennedy Space Centre in Alabama, USA?
(a) Meyya Meyyappan
(b) Anita Sengupta
(c) Jahnavi Dangeti
(d) Ashwin Vasavada
[ANS] c
[Q]
Which company recently got selected by the Indian Armed Force for Supplying the
single-shop anti-armour weapon-AT4:
(a) Pindad
(b) Famo
(c) CASA
(d) Saab
[ANS] d
[Q]
Indian Navy aircraft P-81 recently participated in the ASW Exercise Sea
Dragon-22 in which country:
(a) Osaka,Japan
(b) Guam, USA
(c) Medan, Indonesia
(d) Kazan,Russia
[ANS] b
[Q]
Who recently won the Prime Minister Election of Barbados for the 2nd
consecutive term:
(a) Freundel Stuart
(b) Keith Rowley
(c) Angela Merkel
(d) Mia Amor Mottley
[ANS] d
[Q]
Who has been conferred with the International Association of Working Women
Award?
(a) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
(b) Lara Dutta
(c) Sushmita Sen
(d) Madhuri Dixit
[ANS] c
[Q]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a 216-foot statue of
Ramanujacharya in a sitting position in Hyderabad. The statue
will be called as the _______.
(a) Statue of Equality
(b) Statue of Unity
(c) Statue of Quality
(d) Statue of Peace
[ANS] a
[Q]
Which of the following states/UTs has declared Jerri hamlet as its first ‘Milk
Village’?
(a) Jammu and Kashmir
(b) Ladakh
(c) Haryana
(d) Punjab
[ANS] a
[Q]
Recently, which of the following nation has decided to move its capital to
Nusantara?
(a) Srilanka
(b) Thailand
(c) Myanmar
(d) Indonesia
[ANS] d
[Q]
Which organisation recently released the ‘Global Cyber security Outlook 2022’
report that revealed that Advances in Digitalization led to Increased Cyber
security incidents:
(a) World Economic Forum
(b) World Bank
(c) International Monetary Fund
(d) Asian Development Bank
[ANS] a
[Q]
________ published a study on Artificial Intelligene (AI) , which ranked India
at __________ position in terms of spending an investments on AI:
(a) International Crisis Group, 6th
(b) Casto Institute, 4th
(c) Brookings Institution, 6th
(d) Casto Institute, 7th
[ANS] c
[Q]
Which Organisation recently approved a loan of USA 125 million to the West
Bengal Government to support social protection service:
(a) UNICEF
(b) UNDP
(c) World Bank
(d) IMF
[ANS] c
[Q]
Who was recently honoured with the Netaji Award for 2022 by Netaji Research
Bureau:
(a) Yoshihiko Noda
(b) Shinzo Abe
(c) Yoshiro Mori
(d) Naoto Kan
[ANS] b
[Q]
Who was recently appointed as the chairperson of the prevention of Money
Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) Adjudicating Authority:
(a) Vinodanand Jha
(b) Ajay Gupta
(c) Athish Matur
(d) Abhisekh Kumar
[ANS] a
[Q]
Ministerial Conference (AMC) on Tiger Conservation:
(a) South Korea
(b) Malaysia
(c) Bangladesh
(d) Vietnam
[ANS] b
[Q]
Who recently got appointed by UNDP India as its 1st ever ‘Youth Climate
Champion’
(a) Prajakta Koli
(b) Bhuvan Bam
(c) Ajey Nagar
(d) Mithila Palkar
[ANS] a
[Q]
Name India’s 1st AI based 3D virtual platform that was launched by Spices Board
of India for facilitating Spices exports:
(a) Spice Xchange India
(b) SpiceBoard
(c) Comxchange India
(d) Export Xchange
[ANS] a
[Q]
What is the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit permitted by the Indian
Government in the ‘Print Media’ Sector:
(a) 49%
(b) 74%
(c) 51%
(d) 26%
[ANS] d
