General Awareness Quiz Series 2023: 10th February

General Awareness Quiz Series 2023: 10th February: Hello Students, General Awareness is essential to all government exams. It’s better to prepare this section daily and revise the same using the factsheet provided. The 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 all are part of the Indian Parliament?
(a) President
(b) Lok Sabha
(c) Rajya Sabha
(d) b & c
(e) a b & c

Q2. Who’s the highest official in lok sabha?
(a) President
(b) Prime Minister
(c) Vice President
(d) Speaker
(e) House Whip

Q3. How Many operational nuclear reactor do we have in our country?
(a) 24
(b) 23
(c) 22
(d) 21
(e) 20

Q4. Which is the first operational nuclear reactor in our country?
(a) Rajasthan Atomic Power Plant
(b) Tarapur Atomic Power Plant-1 (TAPS-1)
(c) Narora Atomic Power Plant-1
(d) Madras Atomic Power Plant-1
(e) Kakrapar Atomic Power Plant-1 (KAPS-1)

Q5. Where does India’s national accreditation system rank globally as per Global Quality Infrastructure Index (GQII)?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 8
(e) 9

Q6. Who inaugurated ‘Digital Payment Utsav’?
(a) Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw
(b) Ratan Tata
(c) K. Narayan Murthy
(d) Sundar Pichai
(e) Shri Amit Shah

Q7. When was CERT-In founded?
(a) 19 February 2006
(b) 19 January 2004
(c) 01 March 2008
(d) 01 January 2010
(e) 21 September 2008

Q8. What was Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s welfare budgetary allocation?
(a) 1 Lakh Crore
(b) 1.50 Lakh Crore
(c) 1.25 Lakh Crore
(d) 2 Lakh Crore
(e) 2.25 Lakh Crore

Q9. What does article 262 deal with?
(a) High court power
(b) CAG
(c) ECI
(d) Inter-state water dispute
(e) Attorney General of India

Q10. Who’s the founder of the Geological Survey of India?
(a) Francis Mason
(b) William Theobald
(c) Mary Robinson
(d) Henry Benedict Medlicott
(e) Thomas Oldham

Solutions

S1. Ans.(E)
Sol. The Indian Parliament comprises of the President and the two Houses – Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and Lok Sabha (House of the People).

S2. Ans.(D)
Sol. The speaker of the Lok Sabha is the presiding officer and the highest official of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India.

S3. Ans.(C)
Sol. Presently, India has 22 operating reactors, with an installed capacity of 6780 MWe. Among these eighteen reactors are Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) and four are Light Water Reactors (LWRs).

S4. Ans.(B)
Sol. Tarapur Atomic Power Plant-1 (TAPS-1) is the first operational plant. Located in Boisar, Maharashtra.

S5. Ans.(A)
Sol. India’s national accreditation system under the Quality Council of India (QCI) has been ranked 5th in the world in the recent Global Quality Infrastructure Index (GQII) 2021. The GQII ranks the 184 economies in the world based on quality infrastructure (QI). India’s overall QI system ranking continues to be in the Top 10 at the 10th position, with the standardization system (under BIS) at 9th and the metrology system (under NPL-CSIR) at the 21st position in the world.

S6. Ans.(A)
Sol. The Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications, and Railways, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the ‘Digital Payments Utsav’, a comprehensive campaign aimed at promoting digital payments across India.

S7. Ans.(B)
Sol. CERT-In was founded on 19 January 2004. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team is an office within the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Government of India. It is the nodal agency to deal with cyber security threats like hacking and phishing. It strengthens the security-related defense of the Indian Internet domain.

S8. Ans.(C)
Sol. The total budget of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, including Agricultural Education and Research, is about Rs 1.25 lakh crore this time.

S9. Ans.(D)
Sol. ARTICLE 262
In case of disputes relating to waters, Article 262 provides:
Parliament may by law provide for the adjudication of any dispute or complaint concerning the use, distribution, or control of the waters of, or in, any inter-State river or river valley. Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, Parliament may, by law provide that neither the Supreme Court nor any other court shall exercise jurisdiction in respect of any such dispute or complaint as is referred to in Clause.

S10. Ans.(E)
Sol. Thomas Oldham is the founder of the Geological Survey of India.

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