General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 25th-26th September

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 25th-26th September: 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. Recently Make in India celebrated its anniversary. How many years it has completed?

(a) 5

(b) 6

(c) 7

(d) 8

Q2. Who has ranked second in the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2022?

(a) Gautam Adani

(b) Mukesh Ambani

(c) Falguni Nayar

(d) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Q3. Which Public Sector Company has been accorded the status of Maharatna in September 2022?

(a) NHPC

(b) BHEL

(c) SECL

(d) REC Ltd

Q4.TerraPay has joined forces with India’s NPCI International Payments (NIPL) to facilitate cross-border transactions. It belongs to which country?

(a) Singapore

(b) Bhutan

(c) Netherland

(d) UAE

Q5. Who has won the  Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in Germany’s Darmstadt?

(a) Gautam Adani

(b) Draupadi Murmu

(c) Meena Kandasamy

(d) None of these

Q6. Which ministry will launch Swacch Toycathon?

(a) Ministry of Youth Affairs

(b) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

(c) Ministry of women and child welfare

(d) Ministry of social justice and empowerment

Q7. Which ministry confers the National Service Scheme award?

(a) Ministry of Youth Affairs

(b) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

(c) Ministry of women and child welfare

(d) Ministry of social justice and empowerment

Q8. Under the guidance of the Minister for Environment, Forest and climate Change, the Ministry is going to launch Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan  that promotes ranking of how many cities?

(a) 121

(b)131

(c)141

(d)151

Q9. Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, sustainable biofuels play key role to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector at the “Global Clean Energy Action Forum-2022. It is organized in which city?

(a) NewYork

(b) Pittsburgh

(c) Berlin

(d) Ekta Nagar

Q10. The Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) in association with Indian mission in which Latin American Country is organizing a Made in India – Trade Show Exhibition on Indian arts & crafts and other products of Indian Handicrafts Manufacturers & Exporters?

(a) El Salvador

(b) Brazil

(c) Guatemala

(d) Argentina

Solutions

Ans.1.(d)

Make in India, the flagship program of the Government of India that aspires to facilitate investment, foster innovation, enhance skill development, completes 8 years of path-breaking reforms on 25th September 2022.  Launched in 2014. Make In India has substantial accomplishments across 27 sectors. These include strategic sectors of manufacturing and services as well.

Ans.2.(b)

According to the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2022, Gautam Adani and family have topped with an estimated wealth of Rs. 10,94,400 crore. . Mukesh Ambani and family have been named as the 2nd richest in India with an estimated wealth of Rs. 7,94,700 crore and a growth of 11 per cent compared with the 2021 list. His daily wealth creation velocity is Rs. 210 crores.

Nykaa Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Falguni Nayar became India’s richest self-made woman by surpassing Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw in net worth.

Ans.3(d)

Power sector-focussed non-banking finance company (NBFC) REC Ltd. has been accorded the status of a ‘Maharatna’ Central Public Sector Enterprise, thus providing it with greater operational and financial autonomy.

Ans.4.(c)

TerraPay, a Dutch(Netherlands ) payments infrastructure company has joined forces with India’s NPCI International Payments (NIPL) to facilitate cross-border transactions for Indian consumers and merchants.

Ans.5.(c)

Indian author and poet Meena Kandasamy has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in Germany’s Darmstadt.

Ans.6.(b)

Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry will launch Swachh Toycathon , a unique competition to make toys from waste

Ans.7.(a)

Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Department of Youth Affairs confers every year the National Service Scheme Award to recognize and reward outstanding contributions towards voluntary community service made by the Universities/ +2 Council, Programme Officers/NSS Units and NSS Volunteers, with a view to further promote NSS in the country. At Present, NSS has about 40 lakh volunteers on its rolls spread over the country.The details of National Service Scheme (NSS) Award for the year 2020-21 in 3 different categories are as under:

Ans.8.(b)

Under the guidance of the Minister for Environment, Forest and climate Change, the Ministry is going to launch Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan  that promotes ranking of 131 cities in the country for implementing City Action Plans prepared as part of National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) for reducing air pollution upto 40% by 2025-26.

Ans.9.(b)

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, sustainable biofuels play key role to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector at the “Global Clean Energy Action Forum-2022” at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States

Ans.10.(c)

The Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) in association with Indian mission in the Guatemala (Latin America) is organizing a Made in India – Trade Show Exhibition on Indian arts & crafts and other products of Indian Handicrafts Manufacturers & Exporters from 22 – 24 September, 2022 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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