General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 14th October

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 14th 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. Himachal Pradesh Started a scheme named HIMCAD. This scheme is meant for:

(a) To provide Computer training to students

(b) To provide culture activities development in the Students

(c) To provide irrigation facilities to farmers

(d) Both a and b

Q2. Which online website started Play Points , a global rewards programme?

(a) Amazon

(b) Zomato

(c) Google

(d) Meta

Q3. Which company has built first of its kind pilot project on Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) in India?

(a) Maruti

(b)  TATA

(c) Toyota

(d) Ashok Leyland

Q4. World Bank has extended an unconditional loan of $250 million to the SALT project of which state?

(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Arunachal Pradesh

(c) Tamil Nadu

(d) Gujarat

Q5. Which actor will be the first to shoot in space?

(a) Vivek Murthy

(b) Pankaj Tripathi

(c) Tulsi Gabbard

(d) Tom Cruise

Q6.Which bank bagged a world record for staging and swinging 101 Oonjals?

(a) IDBI Bank

(b) South Indian Bank

(c) SBI

(d) HDFC Bank

Q7. World Ayurveda Congress is organized at which city?

(a) New Delhi

(b) Panaji

(c) Surat

(d) Leh

Q8. Cyber Security Exercise “PowerEX” is being organized by the CERT-In, It is for which sector the economy?

(a) Education

(b) Finance Sector

(c) IT Sector

(d) Power Sector

Q9. ISSF World Championship is organized at which city?

(a) Berlin

(b) New York

(c) New Delhi

(d) Cairo

Q10. Direct Benefit Transfer scheme, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has termed it a ‘logistical marvel’ considering the sheer size of the country. When Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme started in which year?

(a) 2014

(b) 2017

(c) 2015

(d) 2013

Solutions

Ans.1.(c)

The state government of Himachal Pradesh has started a new scheme named ‘HIMCAD’, to provide irrigation facilities to farmers

Ans.2.(c)

Google is set to launch Play Points, a global rewards Programme for users in India. Users will earn points when they purchase with Google Play, including in-app items, apps, games, and subscriptions. The reward program has four levels known as platinum, gold, silver, and bronze.

Ans.3(c)

Union Minister for Road, Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari has unveiled the Toyota Corolla Altis Flex-fuel car, which has been touted as first of its kind pilot project on Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) in India. This project intends to examine whether ethanol-powered flex-fuel vehicles can be viable in Indian conditions

Ans.4.(a)

World Bank has extended an unconditional loan of $250 million to the Supporting Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT) project in appreciation of the path-breaking reforms implemented by the state government. The reforms initiated under the SALT project have brought about a paradigm shift in the way education was imparted and the outcomes had been encouraging according to Special Chief Secretary B. Rajasekhar (School Education).

Ans.5.(d)

Hollywood Actor Tom Cruise, who is renowned for pulling off high-octane stunts in his projects, is taking things to the next level and may soon become the first actor to shoot in space.

Former US Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard – who was the first Hindu-American to run for the White House in 2020 announced her exit from the Democratic Party.

Indian-origin Dr. Vivek Murthy has been nominated by US President Joe Biden to serve as the country’s representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation.

Election Commission of India (ECI) in creating awareness amongst voters, Actor Pankaj Tripathi has been declared as the ‘National Icon’ of ECI.

Ans.6.(b)

South Indian Bank bagged a world record for staging and swinging the highest 101. The South Indian Bank has organized an event ‘Onnichirikkam Oonjaladam’ and was accoladed with the World Book of Records award for ‘staging and swinging 101 Oonjals’

IDBI Bank said that it has agreed to cooperate with Vayana Network as its first fintech partner to provide end-to-end digitization services

Ans.7.(b)

Union Minister of AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the Curtain Raiser for 9^th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) and Arogya Expo today at Panaji.

Agni Tattva campaign: Agni Tattva campaign to raise awareness under LiFE – Lifestyle for the Environment is now being carried out by Power Foundation of India

Ans.8.(d)

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) in collaboration with Power-CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams in Power sector), successfully designed & conducted the Cyber Security Exercise “PowerEX” for 193 invited Power Sector Utilities.

The theme of the exercise was “Defending Cyber induced disruption in IT & OT infrastructure”

Ans.9.(d)

India began their ISSF World Championship campaign with a bronze in the women’s 25m pistol team junior competition in Cairo, Egypt

Ans.10.(d)

Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) was started on 1st January, 2013.

In a big accolade for the Narendra Modi government’s Direct Benefit Transfer scheme, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has termed it a ‘logistical marvel’ considering the sheer size of the country.

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