07th October Current Affairs Quiz for Bank Exams 2022

07th October Current Affairs 2022: Here, we are providing the 07th October Current Affairs Quiz. These types of topics are important for candidates who prepare for Bank Exam 2022. In this article, we are covering the following topics Headlines:

• UNCTAD
• GAIL
• Devendra Lal Memorial Medal
• World Teachers’ Day
• UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award

07th October Current Affairs Quiz

The Current Affairs section constitutes a major part of the General Awareness section in a competitive examination and plays an instrumental role. To supplement your preparation for the General Awareness Section of the upcoming exams like IBPS PO/Clerk Mains, SBI PO Mains and SEBI Grade A Prelims, we are providing you Current Affairs Quiz of 07th October 2022 covering the following topics Headlines: UNCTAD, GAIL, Devendra Lal Memorial Medal, World Teachers’ Day, UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award.

Q1. The Election Commission has launched a year-long voter awareness program on All India Radio. What is the name of this program?
(a) Voter Junction
(b) Matadata Junction
(c) Radio Junction
(d) Election Junction
(e) Awareness Junction

Q2. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Report 2022, India’s economic growth is expected to decline to ____ in 2022 from 8.2% in 2021.
(a) 7.7%
(b) 6.7%
(c) 5.7%
(d) 4.7%
(e) 6.3%

Q3. Who has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL)?
(a) Rajesh Verma
(b) Vijay Jasuja
(c) Vinayak Godse
(d) N S Rajana
(e) Sandeep Kumar Gupta

Q4. Who has been appointed as Director General of the Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS)?
(a) Rajesh Talwar
(b) Alok Chakrawal
(c) Ramesh Kandula
(d) Sanjeev Kishore
(e) Brijesh Gupta

Q5. Who has received the American Geophysical Union’s Devendra Lal Memorial Medal 2022?
(a) Aruna Lal
(b) Rajiv Kumar
(c) Raj Shukla
(d) Alvaro Lario
(e) Roxy Koll

Q6. World Teachers’ Day is observed every year on which day?
(a) 6 October
(b) 7 October
(c) 5 October
(d) 3 October
(e) 4 October

Q7. UNESCO has launched a list documenting 50 iconic Indian heritage textiles in October 2022, Thigma or wool tie and dye is associated with?
(a) Ladakh
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Assam
(e) Kerala

Q8. On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, which of the following banks in India has announced that it will adopt 30 remote villages across India under the 4th phase of the ‘Gram Seva’ program?
(a) HDFC Bank
(b) Axis Bank
(c) State Bank of India
(d) Indian Bank
(e) Bank of Baroda

Q9. Recently, National Payments Corporation of India and Central Bank Of which of the following country signed an MoU to launch the Rupay debit card in their country?
(a) UAE
(b) Kuwait
(c) Qatar
(d) Oman
(e) Jordan

Q10. Who among the following recently won UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award?
(a) Angela Merkel
(b) Ameen Jubran
(c) Saleema Rehman
(d) Rozma Ghafouri
(e) Alberto Cairo

Q11. The theme of World Teachers’ Day 2022 is ________.
(a) Teachers at the Heart of Education Recovery
(b) Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future
(c) The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers
(d) Young Teachers: The Future of the Profession
(e) The right to education means the right to a qualified teacher

Q12. Who was declared as ‘National Icon’ by Election Commission of India recently?
(a) Aamir Khan
(b) Pankaj Tripathi
(c) Madhuri Dixit
(d) Rekha
(e) Urmila Matondkar

Q13. Where did President Droupadi Murmu launch ‘herSTART’, an initiative aimed at supporting women-led startups?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kerala
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Gujarat
(e) Sikkim

Q14. Who among the following launched ‘Activ Fit’, a comprehensive health insurance plan for young and healthy adults?
(a) IFFCO Tokio General Insurance
(b) The Oriental Insurance Company
(c) Aditya Birla Health Insurance
(d) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
(e) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

Q15. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2022 is being shared by three scientists, Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal & Barry Sharpless, for their work on _______.
(a) Asymmetric Organocatalysis
(b) Lithium-ion batteries
(c) DNA repair
(d) Click chemistry
(e) Genome Editing

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Election Commission has launched Matadata Junction, a year-long voter awareness program on All India Radio.

S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Report 2022, India’s economic growth is expected to decline to 5.7% in 2022 from 8.2% in 2021.

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. Sandeep Kumar Gupta has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL). It is the nation’s largest gas company.

S4. Ans.(d)
Sol. A 1985 batch officer Sanjeev Kishore has been appointed as Director General of the Indian Ordnance Factory Service (IOFS).

S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. Roxy Mathew Koll, a scientist at the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) has received the American Geophysical Union’s Devendra Lal Memorial Medal 2022.

S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. World Teachers’ Day is observed every year on 5 October. In the year 1994, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed October 5 as World Teachers’ Day.

S7. Ans.(a)
Sol. Some of the iconic handcrafted textiles documented from north India are Khes from Panipat, Chamba rumals from Himachal Pradesh, Thigma or wool tie and dye from Ladakh and Awadh Jamdani from Varanasi.

S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the State Bank of India announced that it will adopt 30 remote villages across India under the 4th phase of the ‘SBI Gram Seva’ program.

S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. National Payments Corporation of India and Central Bank Of Oman signed a historic MoU to launch the Rupay debit card in Oman, paving the way for a new era of financial connectivity.

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. Former German chancellor Angela Merkel won the United Nations refugee agency’s prestigious Nansen award for her “leadership, courage and compassion” in ensuring the protection of hundreds of thousands of desperate people at the height of the Syria crisis.

S11. Ans.(c)
Sol. The theme of World Teachers’ Day 2022 is “The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers”.

S12. Ans.(b)
Sol. For his association with the Election Commission of India (ECI) in creating awareness amongst voters, Actor Pankaj Tripathi has been declared as the ‘National Icon’ of ECI.

S13. Ans.(d)
Sol. President Droupadi Murmu launched ‘herSTART’, an initiative of the Gujarat University Startup and Entrepreneurship Council (GUSEC) aimed at supporting women-led startups.

S14. Ans.(c)
Sol. Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co Ltd has announced the launch of Activ Fit, a comprehensive health insurance plan for young and healthy adults.

S15. Ans.(d)
Sol. The three have been awarded for their work in ‘click chemistry’, in which molecules snap together fast and firmly, without the need for a long, complicated process and too many unwanted byproducts.

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