General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 4th October |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 4th 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. Red Bull’s driver, Sergio Perez has won the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix 2022. Who came second?

(a) Max Verstappen

(b) Charles Leclerc

(d) None of these

Q2. When Mangalyaan started orbiting Mars?

(a) 24 September 2014

(b) 24 September 2013

(d) 5 November 2014

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Q3. Who won the Nobel Prize 2022 for Medicine?

(a) Svante Paabo

(b) Charles lec

(d) All of these

Q4. What is the prize money for the Nobel prizes?

(a) 10 million dollars

(b) 10 million Swedish crowns

(d) 10 million pounds

Q5. Which of the appointments are correctly matched?

(a) Sunil Barthwal: Secretary, Department of Commerce

(b) S Bharathan : Director -HPCL

(d) All of these

Q6.Who has been appointed as the chairman of the board of governors of the Advertising standards council of India?

(a) N S Rajan

(b) Dr. Lalait Bhasin

(d) None of these

Q7. What does A stands in “2FA”?

(a) Aadhar

(b) Authentication

(d) Authority

Q8. For the sixth consecutive time, Indore has been adjudged as India’s cleanest city, which city came second?

(a) Surat

(b) Delhi

(d) Bhavnagar

Q9. Match the following awardees with awards

Srishti Bakshi a. Dada Saheb Phalke Award
Dr. Madhav Hada b. Bihar Puraskar
Asha Parekh c. UN SDG Action Awards

(a) 1-a,2-b,3-c

(b) 1-c,2-b,3-a

(d) None of these

Q10. Where India’s First green Hydrogen Fuelling station being setup?

(a) Bhavnagar

(b) Surat

(d) Bengaluru

Solutions

Ans.1.(b)

Red Bull’s driver, Sergio Perez has won the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix 2022. Perez finished 7.5 sec ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who came at the second position.

Canadian Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Miami Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
French Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Spanish Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Hungarian Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Belgian Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Dutch Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Italian Grand Prix 2022 – Max Verstappen (Netherlands)
Monaco Grand Prix 2022 -Sergio Pérez (Mexico)
Australian Grand Prix 2022 – Charles Leclerc (Monaco)
Bahrain Grand Prix 2022 – Charles Leclerc (Monaco)
Austrian Grand Prix 2022 – Charles Leclerc (Monaco)

Ans.2.(a)

Mars Orbiter Mission: Mangalyaan, the Indian Mars Orbiter Craft runs out of fuel and battery after completing 8 years. Mangalyaan was a huge achievement for the Indian Space Research Organization.

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is also known as Mangalyaan. It was a space probe orbiting Mars on 24th September 2014. The Indian Space Research Organization launched the MOM on 5th November 2013.

Ans.3(a)

The Nobel Prizes 2022 for medicine or physiology was awarded to Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo. Svante Pääbo was given the award “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution,” the Nobel Prize committee

Ans.4.(b)

Considered the most prestigious prize in the scientific world, it is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($900,357).

Ans.5.(d)

Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Shri Sunil Barthwal was appointed as the Secretary, Department of Commerce under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry in New Delhi, Delhi, India.

S Bharathan took over as Director-Refineries of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), a Maharatna Company.

senior scientist in Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dr. A K Anil Kumar, was elected as the Vice President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) during its Annual Conference International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2022 held in Paris during 18-22 September 2022.

Ans.6.(a)

N S Rajan (Director of August One Partners LLP) has been unanimously elected as the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI).

Noted lawyer Dr. Lalit Bhasin has been appointed as the national president of Indian American Chambers of Commerce (IACC).

Ans.7.(b)

Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) decided to extend the two-factor authentication (2FA) for subscription transactions in units of mutual funds to further safeguard the interest of investors.

Ans.8.(a)

For the sixth consecutive time, Indore has been adjudged as India’s cleanest city, followed by Surat and Navi Mumbai on the next two positions in the Central government’s annual cleanliness survey

Ans.9.(b)

Srishti Bakshi from India wins the ‘Changemaker’ award at UN SDG Action Awards.

President Droupadi Murmu presented the Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2020 to actress Asha Parekh.

Writer Dr. Madhav Hada will be awarded the 32nd Bihari Puraskar for his 2015 literary criticism book ‘Pachrang Chola Pahar Sakhi Ri’, the KK Birla Foundation announced.

Ans.10.(c)

India’s first green hydrogen fuelling station, being set up at Leh in the Union Territory of Ladakh, is all set to be commissioned before May 2023.

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