19th October Current Affairs Quiz for Bank Exams 2022

19th October Current Affairs 2022: Here, we are providing the 19th 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:

• PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022
• INTERPOL
• Slovak Republic
• World Trauma Day
• Global Handwashing Day

19th 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 19th October 2022 covering the following topics Headlines: PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022, INTERPOL, Slovak Republic, World Trauma Day, Global Handwashing Day.

Q1. Who has inaugurated the PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022 at Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Narendra Singh Tomar
(c) Amit Shah
(d) Piyush Goyal
(e) Anurag Thakur

Q2. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has launched an MBBS course in Hindi for the first time in the country in which of the following city?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Bhopal
(c) Bhubaneswar
(d) Ahmedabad
(e) Mumbai

Q3. India will host which edition of the General Assembly of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) in New Delhi?
(a) 50th
(b) 60th
(c) 75th
(d) 90th
(e) 100th

Q4. Who has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to the Slovak Republic?
(a) Avtar Singh
(b) Bandaru Wilsonbabu
(c) Adarsh Swaika
(d) Partha Satpathy
(e) Apoorva Srivastava

Q5. Who has released a book titled ‘Pandemic Disruptions and Odisha’s Lessons in Governance’?
(a) Droupadi Murmu
(b) Jagdeep Dhankhar
(c) Naveen Patnaik
(d) Ganeshi Lal
(e) Amit Shah

Q6. World Trauma Day is observed every year on which day?
(a) 16 October
(b) 17 October
(c) 18 October
(d) 14 October
(e) 15 October

Q7. __________ is marked as Global Handwashing Day, with the aim of increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing.
(a) 16 October
(b) 17 October
(c) 18 October
(d) 14 October
(e) 15 October

Q8. What is the theme of Global Handwashing Day 2022?
(a) Clean Hands for All
(b) SAVE LIVES: Clean your hands
(c) Our Future is at Hand – Let’s Move Forward Together
(d) Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene
(e) Hand Hygiene for All

Q9. Name the 50th Chief Justice of India, who replace present Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit?
(a) Sanjay Kishan Kaul
(b) Justice DY Chandrachud
(c) S. Abdul Nazeer
(d) K. M. Joseph
(e) Mukesh Shah

Q10. Who among the following has been appointed as new CEO of Adani Airports?
(a) Arun Bansal
(b) Vipin Sharma
(c) Irfan Khan
(d) Sonam Dixit
(e) Deepak Kumar

Q11. Who has won the Britain’s Booker Prize 2022 for fiction for his work “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”?
(a) Claire Keegan
(b) Percival Everett
(c) NoViolet Bulawayo
(d) Elizabeth Strout
(e) Shehan Karunatilaka

Q12. Who was awarded the Sir Syed Excellence Award 2022 by the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)?
(a) Ishtiaq Ahmad Zilli
(b) Tariq Mansoor
(c) Asghar Abbas
(d) Barbara Metcalf
(e) M Shafey Kidwai

Q13. Who has scripted history in the ongoing Aimchess Rapid online tournament as he defeated Magnus Carlsen, thereby becoming the youngest player?
(a) Arjun Erigaisi
(b) Donnarumma Gukesh
(c) Praggnanandhaa
(d) Pranav Anand
(e) V Pranav

Q14. CERT-In in collaboration with Power-CSIRTs, successfully designed & conducted the Cyber Security Exercise “PowerEX”, what was the theme of the exercise?
(a) Risk of remote work
(b) Increased consumer and small-business focus on cyber
(c) Defending Cyber induced disruption in IT & OT infrastructure
(d) Improved recognition of the role of the network in zero trust
(e) Growing attention to wireless security requirements

Q15. Sweden’s parliament elected Moderates leader ___________ as the country’s new prime minister.
(a) Magdalena Andersson
(b) Ulf Kristersson
(c) Stefan Löfven
(d) Fredrik Reinfeldt
(e) Göran Persson

Solutions

S1. Ans.(a)
Sol. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022 at Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi.

S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has launched an MBBS course in Hindi for the first time in the country in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

S3. Ans.(d)
Sol. India will host the 90th General Assembly of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) from 18 to 21 October in New Delhi.

S4. Ans.(e)
Sol. A diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service Apoorva Srivastava has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to the Slovak Republic.

S5. Ans.(c)
Sol. Odisha CM, Naveen Patnaik has released a book titled ‘Pandemic Disruptions and Odisha’s Lessons in Governance’.

S6. Ans.(a)
Sol. World Food Day is observed every year on 16 October. To raise awareness about the global hunger crisis and to spread the message that food is a fundamental and basic human right.

S7. Ans.(e)
Sol. October 15 is marked as Global Handwashing Day, with the aim of increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.

S8. Ans.(d)
Sol. This year’s theme, “Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene”, calls on all of society to work together to scale up hand hygiene.

S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Dr Justice DY Chandrachud as the new Chief Justice of India. He will succeed the present Chief Justice of India Justice Uday Umesh Lalit.

S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. Adani Airport Holdings has again rejigged its top management, naming Ericsson veteran Arun Bansal its chief executive officer.

S11. Ans.(e)
Sol. Sri Lankan author, Shehan Karunatilaka has won Britain’s Booker Prize 2022 for fiction for his work “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”, about a journalist murdered amid the country’s sectarian strife.

S12. Ans.(d)
Sol. Noted American historian Prof. Barbara Metcalf was awarded the Sir Syed Excellence Award 2022 by the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on the 205 th birth anniversary of its founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.

S13. Ans.(b)
Sol. India teenager Donnarumma Gukesh scripted history in the ongoing Aimchess Rapid online tournament as he defeated Magnus Carlsen, thereby becoming the youngest player ever to beat him as world champion.

S14. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Objective of the exercise was to “Recognize, Analyse & Respond to Cyber Incident in IT & OT Systems”. The theme of exercise was “Defending Cyber induced disruption in IT & OT infrastructure”

S15. Ans.(b)
Sol. Sweden’s parliament elected Moderates leader Ulf Kristersson as the country’s new prime minister.

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