General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 24th November |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 24th November: 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. What is the name of the first dog deployed to track down poachers?

(a) Zorba

(b) Phrygian cap

(d) None of these

Q2. Where Air fest 2022 is organized by the Indian Air Force?

(a) Delhi

(b) Nagpur

(d) Noida

Q3. MAARG Portal is launched by which ministry?

(a) Ministry of Commerce and Industry

(b) Ministry of Finance

(d) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Q4. ’53 Hours Challenge’ for ‘75 Creative Minds Tomorrow’ is launched by which minister?

(a) Anurag Singh Thakur

(b) Kiren Rijuju

(d) Smriti Irani

Q5. Which edition of the International Film Festival of India is held in 2022?

(a) 50

(b) 53

(d) 59

Q6. Which countries showed strongest growth in local patent filling according to WIPO report?

(a) India and USA

(b) India and China

(d) China and USA

Q7. Which country has become India’s biggest fertilizer supplier?

(a) USA

(b) Kazakhstan

(d) Ukraine

Q8. Which tiger reserve has launched ‘jumbo trails’ at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu?

(a) Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

(b) Mudunthurai Tiger Reserve

(d) Annamalai Tiger Reserve

Q9. Manika Batra, the Indian Table Tennis player, became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament. She won__

(a) Gold medal

(b) Silver Medal

(d) Both B and C

Q10. How many medalsIndia won in 15^th Asian Championships in South Korea ?

(a) 10

(b) 15

(d) 25

Solutions

Ans.1.(a)

India’s first dog to be deployed for tracking down poachers, Zorba has passed away of old age in Guwahati. The 12-year-old male Belgian Malinois was a member of ‘K9’, the nation’s first dog squad to fight wildlife crime.

The Phrygian cap, the symbol of the French republic but wearing sneakers as a nod to the present, was unveiled as the mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Babu Mani: former football captain passed away

Ans.2.(b)

Air Fest 2022 showcased maneuvers of planes & helicopters in the arsenal of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in an annual event organized at Head Quarters Maintenance Command, Vayusena Nagar in Nagpur. The Air Fest is being conducted as a part of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Shri Giriraj inaugurated the “SARAS AAJEEVIKA MELA, 2022” at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Shri Singh informed that the Ministry of Rural Development has received over 60,000 applications from 3 states for start-up ventures in niche products and crafts areas.

Ans.3(a)

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has launched a call for startup applications for registration on the MAARG portal, the National Mentorship Platform by Startup India.

Ans.4.(a)

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Youth Affairs & Sports Anurag Singh Thakur has inaugurated ’53 Hours Challenge’ for ‘75 Creative Minds Tomorrow’.

Ans.5.(b)

About the ‘53-Hour Challenge’:

‘53-Hour Challenge’ inaugurated today by Union Minister Anurag Thakur, is being organized on the side-lines of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
The competition will challenge the 75 ‘Creative Minds’ to produce a short film on their idea of India@100, all in 53 hours. This segment of IFFI 53 is powered by National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) in collaboration with Shorts TV.
Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting Dr. L. Murugan, Secretary, Ministry of I & B Apurva Chandra were among the dignitaries who attended the event.

Ans.6.(b)

Data published in WIPO’s latest World Intellectual Property Indicators report indicates that innovators filed 3.4 million patent applications globally last year, which was up 3.6 per cent from 2020 – with Asia driving more than two-thirds of requests.

Up by 5.5 per cent, China and India showed strong growth in local patent filings along with South Korea, which jumped 2.5 per cent.

Ans.7.(c)

Russia has become India’s biggest fertilizer supplier for the first time. Russian exporters reportedly grabbed a 21% share of the Indian fertilizer market.

Ans.8.(d)

The Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) has launched ‘jumbo trails’ at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, a programme aimed to educate visitors to the tiger reserve about elephants, the flora, and fauna of ATR.

Ans.9.(d)

Manika Batra, the Indian Table Tennis player, became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament.: Bronze Medal

Other sports news

Novak Djokovic won the sixth ATP Finals singles title win beating Casper Ruud from Norway. Novak Djokovic defeated the opponent by 7-5, 6-3 to walk away with a historic payday of $4.7m. Novak Djokovic has equaled the record of six ATP title wins of Roger Federer.

Ans.10.(d)

India ended their campaign at the 15th Asian Championships in South Korea with 25 gold medals. Indian pair Manu Bhaker and Samrat Rana won the 10-meter Junior Air Pistol Mixed Team event. Bhaker and Rana in the qualification shot 578 shots to finish second against Uzbekistan pair Nigina Saidkulova and Mukhammad Kamalov.

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