DAILY GK QUIZ: 27 - 29 DEC 2021

 DAILY GK QUIZ: 27 - 29 DEC 2021

[Q] Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the card-on-file (CoF) tokenisation deadline to ____________.

(a) 30 June 2022

(b) 31 December 2022

(c) 31 March 2023

(d) 31 December 2023

(e) 31 December 2024

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Name the indigenously-developed High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) whose flight testing has been successfully conducted by DRDO recently.

(a) AARAMBH

(b) ADVITIYA

(c) AMBAR

(d) ABHYAS

(e) AGNI

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Name the first indigenously built Missile Corvette Indian Navy Ship that was decommissioned after 32 years of service at Visakhapatnam recently.

(a) INS Visakhapatnam

(b) INS Tushil

(c) INS Vikrant

(d) INS Kalinga

(e) INS Khukri

[ANS] e

 

[Q] “The Turnover Wizard – Saviour Of Thousands” is an autobiography of _____________.

(a) Pullela Gopichand

(b) Amit Ranjan

(c) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

(d) Arup Roy Choudhury

(e) Kabir Bedi

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Which Payments Bank has partnered with MoneyGram to enable international fund transfer?

(a) Paytm Payments Bank

(b) Airtel Payments Bank

(c) India Post Payments Bank

(d) Fino Payments Bank

(e) Jio Payments Bank

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Which of the following has launched a contemporary messaging application named ‘ASIGMA’?

(a) Indian Army

(b) Indian Navy

(c) Indian Air Force

(d) Border Security Force

(e) Indo-Tibetan Border Police

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Who among the following has won the Sushila Devi Award 2021 for the best book of fiction by a woman author?

(a) Namita Gokhale

(b) Shubhangi Swarup

(c) Anukrti Upadhyay

(d) Avni Doshi

(e) Anuja Chauhan

[ANS] c

 

[Q] Who among the following has been appointed as president of International Automobile Federation?

(a) Jean Todt

(b) Max Mosley

(c) Christian Wolff

(d) Michael Masi

(e) Mohammed bin Sulayem

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Who among the following has been appointed as new Managing Director of RBL Bank?

(a) Vishwavir Ahuja

(b) Sanjiv Chadha

(c) Sashidhar Jagdishan

(d) Rajeev Ahuja

(e) Sandeep Bakhshi

[ANS] d

 

[Q] India has become the third top country to host Unicorns instead of which of these countries?

(a) Australia

(b) United Kingdom

(c) America

(d) New Zealand

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Gujarat's Chief Minister launched the Gujarati version of which micro-blogging site?

(a) Koo

(b) Chingari

(c) Reddit

(d) Twitter

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Which Bollywood actor has released his first book "Bachelor Dad"?

(a) Akshay Kumar

(b) Manish Malhotra

(c) Ajay Devgan

(d) Tusshar Kapoor

[ANS] d

 

[Q] U.S. health regulators have authorised the first pill against which disease?

(a) Cardio-vascular Disease

(b) COVID-19

(c) AIDS

(d) Pneumococcal Disease

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Which state has topped the composite ranking in the Good Governance Index (GGI) 2021?

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Karnataka

(c) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Gujarat

(e) Punjab

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Name NASA’s $10 billion world’s largest space telescope designed to capture the first glimpse of the universe just shortly after the Big Bang.

(a) Herschel Space Observatory

(b) Spitzer Space Telescope

(c) Hubble Space Telescope

(d) Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

(e) James Webb Space Telescope

[ANS] e

 

[Q] Who among the following has won 2021 National Billiards Title?

(a) Geet Sethi

(b) Pankaj Advani

(c) Vidya Pillai

(d) Yasin Merchant

(e) Aditya Mehta

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Which cricket team has won their first ever Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2021?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Karnataka

(c) Tamil Nadu

(d) Himachal Pradesh

(e) Punjab

[ANS] d

 

[Q] Who has authored a new book titled “The Modi Gambit: Decoding Modi 2.0”?

(a) Sanju Verma

(b) Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad

(c) Shantanu Gupta

(d) SS Oberoi

(e) Rahul Rawail

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Name the Nobel Peace Prize laureate anti-apartheid campaigner African Archbishop who passed away recently.

(a) Richard Rogers

(b) Desmond Tutu

(c) Anne Rice

(d) Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai

(e) Wilbur Smith

[ANS] b

 

[Q] Which of the following motor company has appointed Eishin Chihana as its new chairman:

(a) Yamaha Motor Ltd

(b) Ashok Leyland Ltd

(c) Hero MotoCorp Ltd

(d) Force Motors Ltd

(e) Bajaj Auto Ltd

[ANS] a

 

[Q] Who has been honoured with the Global Environment and Climate Action Citizen Award 2021?

(a) Vinod Kumar Rana

(b) Viral Sudhirbhai Desai

(c) Saurabh Singh

(d) Vikram Sharma

(e) Soniya Dhana

[ANS] b