DAILY GK QUIZ: 01 - 05 OCT 2021

 DAILY GK QUIZ: 01 - 05 OCT 2021

[Q] MSME Minister Narayan Tatu Rane inaugurated the India Export Initiative and SME Forum’s portal named __________ to increase export by 50% in 2022.

(a) MSMEXports

(b) ARM-MSME

(c) eMSME

(d) IndiaXports

(e) BharatNiryat

[ANS] d

 

[Q] As per the 3rd edition of ‘Digital Quality of Life Index (DQL) 2021’ prepared by ‘Surfshark’, India was positioned at an overall rank of _______ among 110 countries, while _______ was ranked at the top.

(a) 59th; Denmark

(b) 57th; Denmark

(c) 59th; South Korea

(d) 57th; South Korea

(e) 59th; Finland

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Which bank was removed by RBI from its Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework?

(a) Punjab National Bank

(b) Central Bank of India

(c) YES Bank

(d) Indian Overseas Bank

(e) State Bank of India

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Which Environmental Organisation won the 2021’s ‘Right Livelihood Award’?

(a) Greenpeace India

(b) Centre for Science and Environment

(c) National Ganga River Basin Authority

(d) MS Swaminathan Research Foundation

(e) Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Who was recently appointed as the President of the ruling ‘Liberal Democratic Party’ & set to become the 100thPM of Japan.

(a) Shinzo Abe

(b) Yoshihide Suga

(c) Fumio Kishida

(d) Itō Hirobumi

(e) Naruhito

[ANS] c

 

[Q] Who won 2021’s ‘Ostrava Open women’s doubles’?

(a) Kaitlyn Christian & Erin Routliffe

(b) Barbora Krejcikova & Shuai Zhang

(c) Sania Mirza & Shuai Zhang

(d) Sania Mirza & Barbora Krejcikova

(e) Erin Routliffe & Katerina Siniakova

[ANS] c

 

[Q] Which day has been dedicated by the UN for the commemoration of the International Day of Older Persons?

(a) October 01

(b) October 02

(c) October 03

(d) October 04

(e) October 05

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Who has topped the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2021?

(a) Shiv Nadar

(b) Gautam Adani

(c) Mukesh Ambani

(d) SP Hinduja

(e) Kumar Mangalam Birla

[ANS] c

 

[Q] Who is the chairperson of the expert committee formed by IFSCA on Sustainable Finance Hub at IFSC?

(a) Sujoy Bose

(b) Amit Garg

(c) V Balasubramaniam

(d) C.K. Mishra

(e) Roshan Singh

[ANS] d

 

[Q] The World Vegetarian Day is marked every year on which day?

(a) September 30

(b) October 01

(c) First Friday of October

(d) September 29

(e) October 02

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Who is the author of the book named “Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth”?

(a) Wole Soyinka

(b) Barbara Skeath

(c) Christopher Okigbo

(d) Chinua Achebe

(e) John Wicker

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Which day of the year is observed as the International Coffee Day?

(a) Last Thursday of September

(b) First Friday of October

(c) October 01

(d) September 30

(e) September 29

[ANS] c

 

[Q] What is the theme of the International Day of Older Persons 2021?

(a) Pandemics: Do They Change How We Address Age and Ageing?

(b) The Journey to Age Equality

(c) Digital Equity for All Ages

(d) Celebrating Older Human Rights champions

(e) Take a Stand Against Ageism

[ANS] c

 

[Q] Which organisation partnered with Intel to establish an experience studio at the NITI Aayog Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center (CIC)?

(a) Microsoft

(b) Google

(c) Digital Ocean

(d) Cloud flare

(e) Amazon Web Services

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Which Comic book character was named as the Official Mascot of ‘Namami Gange Programme’?

(a) Dora

(b) Doraemon

(c) Bankelal

(d) Chacha Chaudhary

(e) Shaktimaan

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Who was appointed as the Managing Director of ‘Life Insurance Corporation of India’ (LIC)?

(a) Sandeep Aggarwal

(b) BC Patnaik

(c) Vishwavir Ahuja

(d) Rajiv Lochan

(e) SN Subrahmanyan

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Who is the present Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)?

(a) Rajiv Ranjan Mishra

(b) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

(c) Rattan Lal Kataria

(d) Debashree Mukherjee

(e) Pankaj Kumar

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Name the airline company that was launched by stock market investor ‘Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’.

(a) Akasa

(b) TruJet

(c) Go First

(d) Alliance Air

(e) Air First

[ANS] a

 

[Q] India’s first Sports Arbitration Centre has been unveiled in which city?

(a) Pune

(b) Ahmedabad

(c) Hyderabad

(d) New Delhi

(e) Kolkata

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Name the winners of the 2021 Global Leadership Award, by the US India Business Council (USIBC).

(a) Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan

(b) N Chandrasekaran & Jim Taiclet

(c) Sundar Pichai and Adena Friedman

(d) Adar Poonawalla and Adil Zainulbhai

(e) Shiv Nadar and Adar Poonawalla

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Who has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of the rating agency CRISIL?

(a) Vinita Bali

(b) Amish Mehta

(c) Girish Paranjpe

(d) Shyamala Gopinath

(e) Vikram Singh

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Which Indian organisation has been honoured with the 2021 Right Livelihood Award?

(a) Give Me Trees Trust

(b) Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation

(c) Sulabh International

(d) Clean India Trust

(e) Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment

[ANS] e

 

[Q] The International Day of Non-Violence marks the birth anniversary of which Indian leader?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) Vallabhbhai Patel

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Subhas Chandra Bose

(e) Rajiv Gandhi

[ANS] c

 

[Q] The world’s largest Khadi national flag has recently been unveiled in which place of India?

(a) Ladakh

(b) Sikkim

(c) Jammu & Kashmir

(d) Himachal Pradesh

(e) Uttarakhand

[ANS] a

 

[Q] In India, the week from October 02 to 08 is celebrated every year as _________.

(a) Cleanliness Week

(b) Education Week

(c) Nutrition Week

(d) Wildlife Week

(e) Sports Week

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Mitra Shakti-21 is a bilateral exercise of the Indian Army with the army of which country?

(a) Maldives

(b) Singapore

(c) Nepal

(d) Sri Lanka

(e) China

[ANS] d

 

[Q] The World Habitat Day is observed on which day globally?

(a) First Monday of October

(b) October 01

(c) First Sunday of October

(d) October 03

(e) October 04

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Name the web portal launched by the government to find solutions to India’s waste problems, through community participation?

(a) Magnets of Hope

(b) Waste to Wealth

(c) Millennium Development

(d) Urban Action

(e) Don’t Waste Wealth

[ANS] b

 

[Q] The Week from October 04 to 10, 2021 is being observed as ___________.

(a) World Air Week

(b) World Earth Week

(c) World Fire Week

(d) World Orbit Week

(e) World Space Week

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Najla Bouden Romdhane has been appointed as the first female Prime Minister of which country?

(a) Tunisia

(b) Syria

(c) Algeria

(d) Turkey

(e) Iran

[ANS] a