DAILY GK QUIZ: 8 FEB 2021

 DAILY GK QUIZ: 8 FEB 2021

[Q] Where was India’s 1st thunderstorm research testbed planned to be established by India Meteorological Department (IMD)?

(a) Dr. Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha

(b) Digha, West Bengal

(c) Balasore, Odisha

(d) Sagar Island

(e) Kolkata, West Bengal

[ANS] c

 

[Q] What is the focal theme of 45th International Kolkata Book Fair, planned to be held in July 2021?

(a) Climate Change

(b) North East India

(c) Gandhi: The Writers’ Writer

(d) Books for Readers with Special Needs

(e) Bangladesh

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Where did Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) found the presence of 1600 tons of lithium?

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Jharkhand

(c) Chhattisgarh

(d) Karnataka

(e) Andhra Pradesh

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Who was recently inducted into the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB)?

(a) S N Subrahmanyan

(b) Sridhar Vembu

(c) Arun K Singh

(d) Anshuman Tripathy

(e) K Radhakrishnan

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Who received the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity in February 2021?

(a) Roman pontiff

(b) António Guterres

(c) Latifa ibn Ziaten

(d) Both 1 & 2

(e) Both 2 & 3

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Who authored the book ‘Parliamentary Messenger in Rajasthan’?

(a) K.N. Bhandari

(b) M. Venkaiah Naidu

(c) Dr Abhishek Singhvi

(d) Chinmay Tumbe

(e) Suman Dubey

[ANS] a

 

[Q] When is UN’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation observed annually?

(a) 7th February

(b) 8th February

(c) 4th February

(d) 3rd February

(e) 6th February

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Which state became the 1st in India to launch “e-Cabinet” app making the cabinet proceedings paperless?

(a) Kerala

(b) Himachal Pradesh

(c) Gujarat

(d) Maharashtra

(e) Assam

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Name the first-ever female who has been appointed as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

(a) Chukwuka Okonjo

(b) Ikemba Iweala

(c) Amina J. Mohammed

(d) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

(e) Pascal Lamy

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Which company has been chosen by NASA for its SPHEREx Mission to perform an all-sky survey?

(a) Blue Origin

(b) SpaceX

(c) Boeing

(d) United Launch Alliance

(e) United States Space Force

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Which country is set to build world’s largest wind power plant?

(a) Singapore

(b) UAE

(c) Germany

(d) South Korea

(e) Sudan

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Who has been sworn in as the Special Envoy of United Nations on Climate Ambition and Solutions?

(a) Susan Brown

(b) Michael Bloomberg

(c) Tom Steyer

(d) Antonio Guterres

(e) Roberto Azevedo

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Who has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Cloud India Business?

(a) Srishti Baweja

(b) Rohandeep Singh

(c) Tarun Dua

(d) Varun Pratap Rajda

(e) Bikram Singh Bedi

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Name the first player in history of cricket, who score a double century in his 100th Test match.

(a) Kane Williamson

(b) Steve Smith

(c) Rohit Sharma

(d) Virat Kohli

(e) Joe Root

[ANS] e

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DAILY GK QUIZ: 7 FEB 2021

DAILY GK QUIZ: 7 FEB 2021

[Q] Which district registered the highest cancer rate among females in India, as per ‘Profile of Cancer and Related Health Indicators in the NorthEast Region of India-2021’ report?

(a) Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

(b) Papumpare, Arunachal Pradesh

(c) Lunglei, Mizoram

(d) Darrang, Assam

(e) Mokokchung, Nagaland

[ANS] b

 

[Q]  PM Modi released a postal stamp to mark the beginning of the centenary celebrations of ____________.

(a) Non-cooperation Movement

(b) Salt March

(c) Royal Indian Navy mutiny

(d) Bengali Renaissance

(e) Chauri Chaura Incident

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) gave approval for the Lakhwar Electricity Project. Across which river the Project is constructed?

(a) Beas

(b) Sutlej

(c) Yamuna

(d) Ganges

(e) Alakananda

[ANS] c

 

[Q] Which company  signed an MoU with the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) as a part of PM SVANidhi Scheme?

(a) Deliveroo

(b) Amazon

(c) Swiggy

(d) Zomato

(e) Foodpanda

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Who was   appointed as the Chairman of National Safety Council (NSC)?

(a) Vivek Pawar

(b) Satish Reddy

(c) Vinayak Deshpande

(d) SN Subrahmanyan

(e) R. Shankar Raman

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Who authored the book ‘1857 – The Sword of Mastaan’?

(a) R. K. Narayan

(b) Ruskin Bond

(c) Jhumpa Lahiri

(d) Vineet Bajpai

(e) Kiran Desai

[ANS] d

 

[Q] International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female is observed globally on _________.

(a) 3 February

(b) 4 February

(c) 5 February

(d) 6 February

(e) 7 February

[ANS] d

 

[Q] United States President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is publishing his memoir titled?

(a) Promise Me, Dad

(b) Conversations with Joe

(c) Beautiful Things

(d) Promises to Keep

(e) STAFF REPORT Green Jobs

[ANS] c

 

[Q] Which of the following global digital payment platform has announced that the company has decided to wind down its domestic payment services in India?

(a) Amazonpay

(b) MasterCard

(c) Visa

(d) Alipay

(e) PayPal

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Which of the following country has approved a project to build the world’s first energy island, in the North Sea?

(a) Sweden

(b) Norway

(c) Germany

(d) Denmark

(e) Budapest

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Reserve Bank of India projected India’s GDP growth rate at _________ per cent for the fiscal year 2021-22.

(a) 11.5

(b) 10.5

(c) 9.5

(d) 8.5

(e) 7.5

[ANS] b

 

[Q] What is the theme of International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female 2021?

(a) A Piece of Me

(b) Unleashing Youth Power

(c) No Time for Global Inaction: Unite, Fund, and Act to End Female Genital Mutilation

(d) The eliminations of harmful practices, including female genital mutilation

(e) No Time for Global Inaction

[ANS] c

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DAILY GK QUIZ: 5, 6 FEB 2021

 DAILY GK QUIZ: 5, 6 FEB 2021

[Q] Where was India’s 1st Centre for Wetland Conservation and Management (CWCM) got established by MoEFCC?

(a) Nagpur, Maharashtra

(b) Chandigarh

(c) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

(d) Kochi, Kerala

(e) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

[ANS] e

 

[Q] SEBI revised the objective and eligibility criteria of innovation sandbox. As per the revised guidelines, an applicant can move from Stage-I to Stage-II only after a minimum of ____________.

(a) 45 days

(b) 50 days

(c) 100 days

(d) 120 days

(e) 60 days

[ANS] e

 

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DAILY GK QUIZ: 4 FEB 2021

 DAILY GK QUIZ: 4 FEB 2021

[Q] Where was the National Tribal Festival ‘Aadi Mahotsav’ 2021 held?

(a) New Delhi

(b) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(c) Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

(d) Indore, Madhya Pradesh

(e) In TRIFED’s Virtual Platform

[ANS] a

 

[Q] How many products were recently added to Minor Forest Produce (MFP) under the central government’s scheme that receive Minimum Support Price (MSP)?

(a) 49

(b) 63

(c) 6

(d) 9

(e) 14

[ANS] e

 

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DAILY GK QUIZ: 3 FEB 2021

DAILY GK QUIZ: 3 FEB 2021

[Q] When was the Indigenous Tejas Mark II Multirole Combat Jet planned to get launched by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)?

(a) 2025

(b) 2030

(c) 2027

(d) 2023

(e) 2022

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Where is India’s 1st Leather Park located?

(a) Gurugram, Haryana

(b) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(c) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

(d) Ambur, Tamil Nadu

(e) Kolkata, West Bengal

[ANS] c

 

[Q]  PM Modi addressed the 125th anniversary celebrations of the ‘Prabuddha Bharata’ journal. Who started the ‘Prabuddha Bharata’ journal?

(a) Aurobindo Ghosh

(b) Swami Vivekananda

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Subhas Chandra Bose

(e) Rabindranath Tagore

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Who recently  got appointed as the CEO of National Health Authority (NHA)?

(a) Ram Sewak Sharma

(b) Indu Bhushan

(c) Rajiv Kumar

(d) PD Vaghela

(e) Shripad Naik

[ANS] a

 

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DAILY GK QUIZ: 1, 2 FEB 2021

DAILY GK QUIZ: 1, 2 FEB 2021 

[Q] Where was India’s 1st indigenous metro racks deployed ?

(a) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

(b) Kochi, Kerala

(c) Kolkata, West Bengal

(d) Bhubaneswar, Odisha

(e) Mumbai, Maharashtra

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Which organisation recently set up an ‘Innovation Sandbox’ web portal?

(a) National Stock Exchange (NSE)

(b) Life Insurance Corporation (LIC)

(c) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

(d) Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)

(e) NITI Aayog

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Which Indian Brand was ranked 5th as per the Global 500 – Brand Strength Index (BSI) 2021?

(a) Bharti Airtel

(b) Flipkart

(c) Reliance Jio

(d) Paytm

(e) IRCTC

[ANS] c

 

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DAILY GK QUIZ: 30, 31 JAN 2021

DAILY GK QUIZ: 30, 31 JAN 2021

[Q] Who recently got appointed as the MD & CEO of Dhanlaxmi Bank?

(a) Sunil Gurbaxani

(b) S. S. Mallikarjuna Rao

(c) JK Shivan

(d) Atul Kumar Goel

(e) Shyam Srinivasan

[ANS] c

 

[Q] What was India’s rank in the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released by Transparency International?

(a) 80 th

(b) 86 th

(c) 41st

(d) 40 th

(e) 88 th

[ANS] b

 

[Q] What was the Visual Intelligence Tool recently  launched by MeitY turning data into analysis & visualizations for Government Officials?

(a) BhuNaksha

(b) Darpan

(c) GePNIC

(d) TEJAS

(e) eOffice

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Martyr’s Day or Shaheed Diwas is observed every year on __________ in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.

(a) January 26

(b) January 27

(c) January 28

(d) January 29

(e) January 30

[ANS] e

 

[Q] What is the joint initiative launched recently by India and France to boost ties in sustainable development, environment protection called?

(a) Indo-French Year of the Environment

(b) Indo-French Year of the Biodiversity Conservation

(c) Indo-French Year of the Sustainable Development

(d) Indo-French Year of the Renewable Energies

(e) Indo-French Year of the Energy Efficiency

[ANS] a

 

[Q] How much amount has been approved by Central Government for ‘Start-up India Seed Fund Scheme’?

(a) Rs 775 crore

(b) Rs 865 crore

(c) Rs 945 crore

(d) Rs 1015 crore

(e) Rs 815 crore

[ANS] c

 

[Q] Which of the following telecom operator becoming the first telecom operator in India to demonstrate 5G services successfully?

(a) Airtel

(b) Jio

(c) Vi

(d) BSNL

(e) MTNL

[ANS] a

 

[Q] What is the rank of India in ‘Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index’?

(a) 6th

(b) 7th

(c) 8th

(d) 9th

(e) 10th

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Which of the following state is all set to launch the three-tower ‘Gender Park’?

(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Karnataka

(d) Kerala

(e) Telangana

[ANS] d

 

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