General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 9th December |

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 9th December: 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 picked as the 2022 person of the year by TIME’s Magazine?

(a) Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

(b) Volodymyr Zelensky

(d) Joe Biden

Q2. In which edition of Global Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance concluded in Oman, with the issue of The Muscat Manifesto?

(a) 1

(b) 2

(d) 4

Q3. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of NABARD?

(a) K V Shaji

(b) Madhabi Puri Buch

(d) None of these

Q4. Which state has unveiled Asia’s first drone delivery hub and network?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Meghalaya

(d) Bihar

Q5. Which of the following person and the news related them is incorrect?

(a) Bobby Kinnar: First Transgender councilor in Delhi

(b) K.V. Suresh Kumar: Chairman and MD of BHAVINI

(d) None of these

Q6.Who has become the first female president of Peru?

(a) Dina Boluarte

(b) Natasa Pirc Musar

(d) Elisabeth Borne

Q7. Which Bank has bagged an EAG Laureate award in the International Olympiad of Financial Security held at Sochi, Russia?

(a) Canara Bank

(b) Bank of Baroda

(d) HDFC Bank

Q8. Single – Block and – multiple debits functionality in UPI is through mechanism called ASBA. What does B stands in ASBA?

(a) Bank

(b) Blocked

(d) Banked

Q9. Usha Rao-Monari would distribute the `Jan Dhan’ account kits to waste segregation workers during her first visit to the India. Usha Rao-Monari is under secretary of which institution?

(a) WHO

(b) ILO

(d) UNEP

Q10. Which of thee following has topped the Google’s top trending searches of 2022?

(a) Wordle

(b) Betty White

(d) Bob Saget

Solutions

Ans.1.(b)

Time magazine picked President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as “the spirit of Ukraine,” as the 2022 person of the year for the country’s resistance to Russia’s invasion.

Ans.2.(c)

The Third Global Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance concluded in Oman, with the issue of The Muscat Manifesto, which aims to accelerate One Health actions on antimicrobial resistance to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar had participated in the ‘Third Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance’.

Ans.3(a)

K V Shaji has been named Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

Government of India had appointed Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar, Professor Emeritus at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), as the part-time chairperson of the National Statistical Commission (NSC).

Ans.4.(b)

The Meghalaya government in partnership with startup TechEagle has unveiled Asia’s first drone delivery hub and network which is aimed at providing universal access to healthcare for the people in the state.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has announced that the state will establish a separate Divyang department.

Ans.5.(d)

The national capital has got its first transgender councilor after Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Bobby Kinnar has won the civic polls from Sultanpuri-A ward.

Distinguished Scientist of Department of Atomic Energy, K.V. Suresh Kumar has assumed charge as Chairman and Managing Director of BharatiyaNabhikiyaVidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI).

Sixteen-year-old Aditya Mittal has become India’s 77th chess Grandmaster during an ongoing tournament in Spain

Ans.6.(a)

Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female president amid a political maelstrom when her predecessor and former boss Pedro Castillo was ousted in an impeachment.

Natasa Pirc Musar, won the second round of Slovenia’s Presidential elections. Natasa Pirc Musar becomes the first female President of the country.

Georgia Meloni: Italy President

Elisabeth Borne: France PM

Ans.7.(b)

State-owned Bank of Baroda on 6 December 2022 has bagged an EAG Laureate award in the International Olympiad of Financial Security held at Sochi, Russia on 10 October 2022.

Canara Bank won the ‘Banker’s Bank of the Year Award 2022’’ for India segment at the Global Banking Summit held in London

Ans.8.(b)

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) enhanced the capabilities of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) by introducing a ‘single-block-and-multiple debits’ functionality, which allows a customer to enable a payment mandate against a merchant by blocking funds for specific purposes in his/her bank account which can be debited, whenever needed.

This new functionality will play a key role in building the framework for blocking money for secondary market trades, a mechanism called Application Supported by Blocked Amount (ASBA), which the capital market regulator is planning to implement.

Ans.9.(c)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is helping workers of waste segregation sector to move into formal economy by helping them to access government welfare programmes. • As a part of this initiative, UN Under-Secretary-General Usha Rao-Monari would distribute the `Jan Dhan’ account kits to waste segregation workers during her first visit to the India.

Ans.10.(a)

Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle,

Google’s top trending searches of 2022