General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 24th December |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 24th December: 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. Which state is going to host world Table Tennis series event?

(a) Kerala

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Goa

Q2.Sethrichem Sangtam ha s won Rohini Nayyar Prize. Rohini Nayyar Prize is given for

(a) Mathematics

(b) Literature

(d) Banking

Q3. Chillai kala the harshest winter is experienced in which UT/State of India?

(a) Ladakh

(b) Himachal Pradesh

(d) Uttarakhand

Q4. Who has been appointed as the chairperson of New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC)?

(a) Aloke Singh

(b) D Y Chandrchud

(d) Hemant Gupta

Q5. Patriot missile defence system is of which country?

(a) USA

(b) Israel

(d) India

Q6. Which country has used steam as a propulsion in space launch?

(a) USA

(b) Germany

(d) Japan

Q7. India and South Korea signed the arrangement regarding Economic Development Cooperation Fund loan of what amount?

(a) 245 billion rupees

(b) 245 Billion Dollars

(d) None of these

Q8. Who is the UNSC representative of India?

(a) Indermit Gill

(b) Ruchira Kamboj

(d) None of these

Q9. Which Bollywood actor has become the only Indian to be named in an international list of 50 greatest actors of all time by a prominent British magazine?

(a) Amitabh Bachchan

(b) Priyanka Chopra

(d) Sharukh Khan

Q10. Which of the following has won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize ?

Sudeep Sen
Shobhana Kumar
M Rajendran

(a) 1,2

(b) 2,3

(d) 1,2,3

Solutions

Ans.1.(d)

Goa will host India’s first ever World Table Tennis (WTT) series event. In the top ranking players participate

Ans.2.(c)

Rohini Nayyar prize: Sethrichem Sangtam, who helped triple the incomes of 1,200 marginalised farmers in Eastern Nagaland, was awarded the first Rohini Nayyar prize for outstanding contribution to rural development

Ans.3(c)

With the onset of winter solstice, one of the harshest winter periods of 40 days, called Chillai Kalan, has begun in Kashmir.

Ans.4.(d)

The Air India management has appointed Air India Express CEO Aloke Singh as the chief of Air India’s low-cost airline business from January 1, 2023.

Former Supreme Court judge Hemant Gupta has been appointed as the chairperson of New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC).

Ans.5.(a)

The United States is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine. Ukraine has asked its Western partners for air defenses, including U.S.-made Patriot systems, to protect it from heavy Russian missile bombardment including against its energy infrastructure. The system is part of $1.85 billion in assistance unveiled in parallel with a visit to Washington by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russian Missile Defence System: S-400 Truimf

Israel: Arrow

Ans.6.(d)

Japan’s space agency Jaxa has announced that it has successfully used steam to propel its spacecraft, which was launched as one of the payloads aboard Nasa’s Orion spacecraft.
As per JAXA, this is the world’s first successful orbit control beyond low-Earth orbit using a water propellant propulsion system.

Ans.7.(c)

India and South Korea signed the arrangement regarding Economic Development Cooperation Fund loan of over 245 billion Korean won.
The agreement is for the establishment of Intelligent Transport System on Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway Project in Delhi. South Korea was designated as India’s Official Development Assistance partner for development cooperation in, 2016.

Ans.8.(b)

Ruchira Kamboj

Why in News?

A UNSC resolution on the mental health of UN peacekeepers has India’s support. According to India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, as one of the nations that has sent the most troops over the years, India pays the utmost significance on the safety, security, and welfare of UN soldiers.

Ans.9.(d)

Bollywood superstar, Shah Rukh Khan has become the only Indian to be named in an international list of 50 greatest actors of all time by a prominent British magazine.

Ans.10.(a)

The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize has been jointly won by Sudeep Sen for his genre and formbender Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books & Media, 2021) and Shobhana Kumar for her haibun collection A Sky Full of Bucket Lists (Red River, 2021).

M Rajendran : Shatiya Akademi Aawrd winner for KaLa Pani.

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