General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 11th October |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 11th October: Hello Students, General Awareness is an essential part of all government exams. It’s better to prepare this section daily and revise the same using the factsheet provided. Bankersadda team has brought you up a new series in which we will come up with 10 questions and answers, other options of the question have related news to them. So don’t miss reading the solutions.

Q1. Novak Djokovic won Astana Open. He won his ____ career championship?

(a) 100

(b) 90

(d) 70

Q2. Who won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2022?

Ben S. Bernake
Douglas W. Daimond
Philip H. Dybvig
Annie Ernaux

(a) 1,2,3

(b) 2,3,4

(d) 1,3,4

Q3. Who has been signed as the Brand ambassador of Gulf Oil India?

(a) M S Dhoni

(b) Smriti Mandhana

(d) All of these

Q4. Who has released the report “Education 4.0 Report “ 2022?

(a) Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)

(b) UNESCO

(d) World Economic Forum (WEF)

Q5. Which organisation launched the Financing Platform to respond to the Global Food crisis and aid in food production in response to mounting food insecurity?

(a) International Finance Corporation (IFC)

(b) World Food Program

(d) WHO

Q6. Who has been voted the FIH Player of the Year?

(a) Jamie Dwyer

(b) Arthur van Doren

(d) Teun De Nooijer

Q7. What is the name of the Chandrayaan -2 Orbiter’s Xray Spectrometer?

(a) Vikram

(b) Shukra

(d) Pragyan

Q8. Which organisation observed the Cyber Jaagrukta Diwas?

(a) IREDA

(b) BHEL

(d) REC

Q9. Which of the following pairs of summit and their place of organisation is incorrect?

(a) 4^th Heli-India Summit: Srinagar

(b) Conference on B20 Indonesia Global Dialogue: Jakarta

(d) All are correct

Q10. Tele MANAS is an initiative of which ministry?

(a) Ministry of Education

(b) Ministry of Health

(d) Ministry pf Social Justice and Empowerment

Solutions

Ans.1.(b)

Novak Djokovic wins Astana Open: With a convincing straight-sets win over Stefanos Tsitsipas in the ATP final in Astana Open, Novak Djokovic won his 90th career championship and fourth in 2022

Ans.2.(a)

US Trio of Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2022 (Nobel Prize for Economics 2022) in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for research on banking and financial crises.”

Annie Ernaux: Nobel prize winner for Literature

Ans.3(b)

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has launched the made-in-India camera drone named ‘Droni’ with advanced features manufactured by Garuda Aerospace

Indian cricket star Smriti Mandhana has signed on as a brand ambassador of lubricant manufacturer Gulf Oil India.

Ans.4.(d)

Education 4.0 Report” 2022, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the report explains how technology can address learning gaps and make education accessible to all.

Other news

In New Delhi, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) held a national workshop on the topic of “Ease of Doing Business.”

Ans.5.(a)

Financing Platform Launched by IFC: The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank, has introduced a new, $6 billion funding facility to boost the private sector’s capacity to respond to the Global Food crisis and aid in food production in response to mounting food insecurity.

Ans.6.(c)

India men’s hockey team defender and vice-captain Harmanpreet Singh has been voted the FIH Player of the Year for the second year running. The 26-year-old became just the fourth player to win the Player of the Year award (men’s category) in consecutive years, joining an elite list that includes Teun De Nooijer (Netherlands), Jamie Dwyer (Australia) and Arthur van Doren (Belgium). The India vice-captain has scored an incredible 18 goals from 16 games, with two hat-tricks, in the FIH Hockey Pro League 2021-22.

Ans.7.(c)

Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter’s X-ray spectrometer ‘CLASS’ has mapped an abundance of sodium on the moon for the first time, as per the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). As Chandrayaan-1’s X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (C1XS) detected sodium from its characteristic line in X-rays, this opened up the possibility of mapping the amount of sodium on the Moon.

Lander name was Vikram

Rover name was Pragyan

Shukrayaan is the name of the project to Venus of ISRO

Ans.8.(a)

To create cybersecurity awareness among all employees, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) observed the “Cyber Jaagrukta Diwas”.

Ans.9.(b)

4^th Heli-India Summit 2022 with the theme ‘Helicopters for last Mile Connectivity’ at Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre, Srinagar, in presence of Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Sh. Manoj Sinha.

Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) hosted Conference on B20 Indonesia Global Dialogue in partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi

Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Bhupender Yadav attended the inaugural session of Sustainable Mountain Development Summit-XI, (SMDS-XI) being held at Leh, Ladakh UT from 10-12 October, 2022.

The theme for SMDS-XI is ‘Harnessing tourism for sustainable mountain development’.

Ans.10.(b)

Establishing a new milestone in the field of mental health on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) initiative of Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare was launched today virtually by Sh. Thawar Chand Gehlot, Hon’ble Governor of Karnataka at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, in the presence of Dr. K. Sudhakar, Minister for Health & Family Welfare and Medical Education, Karnataka & Vice-President, NIMHANS.

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