General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 25th August |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 25th August: 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. Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) was launched by Prime Minister of India in which year?

(a) 2015

(b) 2017

(d) 2021

Q2. Digantara, a Bengaluru (Karnataka)-based space sector start-up, will establish India’s first private Space Situational Awareness (SSA) observatory. It will be situated in which state?

(a) Himachal Pradesh

(b) Uttarakhand

(d) Arunachal Pradesh

Q3. Akshya Patra Foundation signed MOU with which of the following to promote balanced and healthy diets through the sustainable production and consumption of climate-resilient and nutritious millet in various feeding programme and integration of millets under Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN)?

(a) ISRO

(b) Nutri Hub

(d) Google

Q4. Which state is set to build India’s First Education Township?

(a) Kerela

(b) Gujarat

(d) Goa

Q5.Which state/s had launched the ‘Digital Lok Adalat’ in the respective states?

(a) Goa, Maharashtra

(b) Rajasthan and Maharashtra

(d) Kerela and Tamil Nadu

Q6. Which among the following awards is not awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?

(a) Indira Gandhi Peace Prize

(b) John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award 2022

(d) Liberty Medal

Q7. In which of the following military drills, USA is not the member?

(a) Vostok

(b) ULchi Freedom Sheilds

(d) Yudh Abhyas

Q8. Which PSU has established first of its kind Waste-to-Energy portfolio?

(a) NTPC

(b) NHPC

(d) ONGC

Q9. In August 2022, India recently inaugurated the new Indian Embassy in which country?

(a) Uruguay

(b) Paraguay

(d) Spain

Q10. Which state has announced to set up online monitoring system of medicines in government-run medical institutions?

(a) Goa

(b) Kerela

(d) Karnataka

Solutions

Ans.1.(c)

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) and the Government of India (GoI) signed the Headquarters Agreement (HQA) in New Delhi, Delhi, granting CDRI the status of “Independent and International Legal Entity

The CDRI was launched by India’s Prime Minister (PM), Narendra Modi, on September 23, 2019, during the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, United States (US).

Ans.2.(b)

Digantara, a Bengaluru (Karnataka)-based space sector start-up, will establish India’s first private Space Situational Awareness (SSA) observatory in Garhwal, Uttarakhand, to track objects as small as 10 centimeters (cm) in size orbiting the Earth

Ans.3(b)

Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nutrihub, a technology Business Incubator hosted by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)-Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) to promote balanced and healthy diets through the sustainable production and consumption of climate-resilient and nutritious millet in various feeding programme and integration of millets under Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN).

Ans.4.(c)

The government of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is set to build India’s First Education Township with the idea of ‘Single Entry, Multiple Exit’

Ans.5.(b)

The State Legal Services of Rajasthan and Maharashtra authorities had launched the ‘Digital Lok Adalat’ in the respective states as part of the third National Lok Adalat of 2022. Rajasthan and Maharashtra became the first states to use end-to-end digital platforms during the third National Lok Adalat of the year 2022, which highlighted over 75 lakh cases settled across India including 16.45 lakh pending and 58.33 lakh pre-litigation cases

Ans.6.(a)

The 2022 Liberty Medal is set to be awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He will be honoured at the National Constitution Centre (NCC), Philadelphia, the United States(US) in October 2022

He was also been the recipient of awards

The Ronald Reagan Freedom Award 2022– this was given to those who have made huge contributions to the cause of freedom worldwide.
John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award 2022– this was given to the people, who have been recognized and celebrated the qualities of politically courageous leadership in the spirit of ‘Profiles in Courage’.

Ans.7.(a)

South Korea and the United States began their largest joint military drills in years with a resumption of field training. The annual summertime exercise has been renamed ‘Ulchi Freedom Shield’.

Vostok : Russia, China India and other SCO members

Baltops : USA and NATO allies in Baltic sea

Yudh Abhyas: USA and India

Ans.8.(c)

HPCL Compressed Biogas Project: HPCL’s uses first of its kind Waste-to-Energy portfolio, uses 100 tonnes of dung per day to make biogas, which may be used as vehicle fuel.

Ans.9.(b)

India’s Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar jointly inaugurated the new Indian Embassy in Asuncion in Paraguay with his counterpart.
This is the first ever visit of an Indian Foreign Minister to the Republic of Paraguay which has taken place as the two countries completed the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.

Ans.10.(b)

Kerala government has announced to introduce an online monitoring system, to keep track of medicines in government-run medical institutions.
The system aims to keep track of availability and distribution of medicines. The state’s health minister announced that hospital employees should use the online system of Kerala Medical Services Corporation (KMSCL) to ensure availability of medicines

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