General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 5th- 6th October |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 5th-6th 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. Who has been appointed as the deputy election commissioner?

(a) Ajay Bhadoo

(b) Akash Tripathi

(d) Lochan Sehra

Q2. Which ministry has started the Yuva2.0 programme?

(a) Ministry of Youth affairs

(b) Ministry of Social Justice

(d) Ministry of Culture

Q3. Who has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by US President Joe Biden?

(a) Vivek lall

(b) Roxy Mathew Koll

(d) None

Q4. Which panchayat became the first totally digitally literate panchayat?

(a) Ekta Nagar

(b) Bhavnagar

(d) Pullumpara

Q5. Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) has commissioned the world’s largest wind-solar power plant of 600 MV capacity at which place?

(a) Jaipur

(b) Jaisalmer

(d) Lothal

Q6. Antim Panghal, the World under-20 champion, made an impressive debut at the National Games 2022. She is from which state?

(a) Uttar Pradesh

(b) Haryana

(d) Rajasthan

Q7. India’s Rohan Bopanna won the doubles title ATP tennis Tournament with Matwe Middelkoop. Middelkoop belongs to which country?

(a) USA

(b) France

(d) Norway

Q8. World Teachers’ Day or International Teachers’ Day is observed every year on October 5. What is the theme of the day in 2022?

(a) Leading in crisis, reimaging the future

(b) Mind the Gap. Leave No One and Place Behind”

(d) The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers”

Q9. Who has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

(a) Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless

(b) Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger

(d) Alain Aspect, Morten Medal and John F. Clauser

Q10. Which month is the Breast Awareness Month?

(a) September

(b) October

(d) December

Solutions

Ans.1.(a)

Senior bureaucrat, Ajay Bhadoo has been appointed as the Deputy Election Commissioner.

Akash Tripathi, a 1998 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), MyGov, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
Basant Garg, a 2005 batch IAS officer of Punjab cadre, has been named Additional CEO, National Health Authority under the Department of Health & Family Welfare.
Lochan Sehra, a 2002 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, will be joint secretary, Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe), Ahmedabad for a tenure of five years.

Ans.2.(c)

YUVA 2.0 programme: The Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors, known as YUVA 2.0 (Young, Upcoming and Versatile Authors), was launched by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education

Ans.3(a)

Vivek Lall, an Indian-origin General Atomic Global Corporation Chief Executive is honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by US President Joe Biden with the citation of ‘With Grateful Recognition’

Roxy Mathew Koll, a scientist at the Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), received the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2022 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal.

Anees Salim’s The Odd Book of Baby Names (English fiction) and Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together (English non-fiction) were among the eight that were adjudged the best books of the year at the ‘Valley of Words Book Awards. The PFC-VoW Book Awards, currently in its sixth edition, is considered one of the most comprehensive independent literary award programmes in India.

Ans.4.(d)

The Pullumpara village panchayat in the Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala achieved the distinction of becoming the first totally digitally literate panchayat in the country

Ans.5.(b)

Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) has commissioned the world’s largest wind-solar power plant of 600 MV capacity in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The plant has a power purchase agreement with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) at Rs 2.69/kWh for 25 years.

Ans.6.(b)

Antim Panghal, the World under-20 champion, made an impressive debut at the National Games 2022 as she won the gold medal in women’s 53kg wrestling

Ans.7.(c)

India’s Rohan Bopanna and Dutch player Matwe Middelkoop cruised to a 6-2, 6-4 victory over third seeds Santiago Gonzalez and Andres Molteni in the doubles final of the $1,019,855 ATP tennis tournament in Tel Aviv.

Ans.8.(d)

World Teachers’ Day or International Teachers’ Day is observed every year on October 5

This year marks the 28th anniversary of World Teachers’ Day and the theme is “The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers”.

National teachers day: 5 th September : ‘Leading in crisis, reimaging the future.’

World Habitat day : 3^rd October : “Mind the Gap. Leave No One and Place Behind”

Ans.9.(a)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to Alain Aspect (France), John F. Clauser (USA) and Anton Zeilinger (Austria) for their work on quantum mechanics.

Ans.10.(b)

Every year Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) is observed in the month of October, from 01 to 31.

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