General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 9th August

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 9th 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. Who has been crowned as Miss India USA in 2022?

(a) Aarya Walvekar

(b) Sini Shetty

(c) Khushi Patel

(d) Manasa Varanasi

Q2. ‘FPI Advisory Committee’ has been constituted by SEBI.What P stands in FPI?

(a) Parent

(b) Private

(c) Portfolio

(d) Primitive

Q3. Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama was honoured with the ‘dPal rNgam Duston’ award, This award is given by state government?

(a) Jammu Kashmir

(b) Uttarakhand

(c) Ladakh

(d)  Himachal Pradesh

Q4. Name the first woman director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

(a) Abhilasha Barak

(b) Mithali Raj

(c) Madhabhi Puri Buch

(d) Nallathamby Kalaiselvi

Q5. Panchamrut Yojana’ will help to achieve the goal of doubling farmers’ income is by which state ?

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Andhra Pradesh

(d) Odisha

Q6. The 12^th edition of DefExpo – India’s flagship exhibition on Land, Naval and Homeland Security systems will held in which city?

(a) Lucknow

(b) Gandhinagar

(c) Surat

(d) Banglore

Q7. Him Drone-a-thon’ programme is launched by ?

(a) Niti Aayog

(b) Indian Army

(c) Indian Navy

(d) CSIR

Q8. Creation of Management Structures for Hazardous Substances scheme is under which ministry?

(a) Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change

(b) Ministry of chemical and fertilisers

(c) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

(d) Ministry of Electronics

Q9. What is the name of Lunar mission of South Korea?

(a) Chandrayan

(b) Artemis

(c) Apolo

(d) Danuri

Q10. Nagasaki day is commemorated on which day?

(a) 7 August

(b) 8 August

(c) 9 August

(d) 10 August

Ans.1.(a)

Indian American from Virginia, Aarya Walvekar has crowned Miss India USA in 2022 in New Jersey.

Sini Shetty has won the title of Femina Miss India 2022. She will now represent India at the 71st Miss World pageant.

winner of the longest-running Indian beauty pageant outside of India, Miss India Worldwide 2022, was announced as British biomedical student Khushi Patel

Ans.2.(c)

FPI: Foreign Portfolio Investment

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has constituted a 15-member committee to increase foreign investment. The advisory committee constituted by SEBI is called the ‘FPI Advisory Committee’

Ans.3(c)

Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama was honoured with the ‘dPal rNgam Duston’ award, the highest civilian honour of Ladakh.

Ans.4.(d)

Nallathamby Kalaiselvi has become the first woman director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

26-year-old Abhilasha Barak becomes the Indian Army’s first woman combat aviator

Former ICICI Banker, Madhabi Puri Buch has been appointed as the new Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman.

Ans.5.(b)

Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday,4 August announced that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Panchamrut Yojana’ will help to achieve the goal of doubling farmers’ income.

Ans.6.(b)

The 12^th edition of DefExpo – India’s flagship exhibition on Land, Naval and Homeland Security systems – will be held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat between October 18-22, 2022.

Ans.7.(b)

The Indian Army in collaboration with the Drone Federation of India has launched the ‘Him Drone-a-thon’ programme on 08 August 22. This initiative in line with Atmanirbharta in defence manufacturing is aimed to catalyse and provide focused opportunities to the Indian drone ecosystem to develop path-breaking drone capabilities for meeting requirements of frontline troops.

Ans.8.(a)

Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change  under its central sector scheme “Creation of Management Structures for Hazardous Substances” provides financial assistance for innovative technologies for environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes.

SAMPATTI – ‘Sustainable Management of Pre-owned Asset through Trade Initiatives’ : Innovative solutions for municipal solid waste segregation, handling and treatment

Ans.9.(d)

South Korea’s first-ever lunar mission, The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter(KPLO) (nicknamed Danuri), was launched onboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral in Florida to observe the Moon.

Other lunar mission

Chandrayaan: India

Apollo, Artemis: NASA, USA

Luna: Russia

Ans.10.(c)

Japan commemorates the 9th of August every year as Nagasaki day. On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.

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