General Awareness Quiz Series 2023: 15th 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. Where is the headquarter of SAIL?
(a) New Delhi
(b) Jamshedpur
(c) Bhopal
(d) Raipur
(e) Chennai
Q2. What doe “C” stand for in CCI?
(a) Carpet Commission of India
(b) Competition Commission of India
(c) Cancel Commission of India
(d) Competition Counsellor of India
(e) Chief Combatant of India
Q3. Where is Divya Kala Mela is being organized?
(a) Delhi
(b) Varanasi
(c) Mumbai
(d) Hyderabad
(e) Patna
Q4. Who’s the president of the International Solar Alliance?
(a) Hardeep Singh Puri
(b) Kiren Rijiju
(c) Piyush Goyal
(d) R.K. Singh
(e) Narender Modi
Q5. Which state police has received ‘President’s Colour’?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Orissa
(d) Kerela
(e) Haryana
Q6. In which college ‘Cycle for Health’ is being organized?
(a) Lady Hardinge Medical College
(b) AIIMS
(c) Presidency College
(d) Amity University
(e) Mahatma Gandhi Medical College
Q7. What is the venue of the upcoming Asian Games?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) China
(c) Qatar
(d) Kuwait
(e) Russia
Q8. Which force was attacked in the pulwama attack?
(a) Indian Army
(b) J&K Police
(c) CRPF
(d) SSB
(e) BSF
Q9. Where is Boeing headquartered?
(a) Berlin, Germany
(b) London, UK
(c) Paris, France
(d) Virginia, United States
(e) Rome, Italy
Q10. Who owns Air India?
(a) Government of India
(b) Birla Group
(c) Reliance
(d) Adani Group
(e) Tata Group
Solutions
S1. Ans.(A)
Sol. SAIL is headquartered in New Delhi. Steel Authority of India Limited is a central public sector undertaking based in New Delhi, India. It is under the ownership of the Ministry of Steel, Government of India with an annual turnover of INR 1,03,480 Crore for the fiscal year 2021–22. Incorporated on 24 January 1973, SAIL has 60,766 employees.
S2. Ans.(B)
Sol. CCI stands for Competition Commission of India. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is India’s chief national competition regulator. It is a statutory body within the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and is responsible for enforcing the Competition Act, of 2002 to promote competition and prevent activities that have an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India.
S3. Ans.(C)
Sol. Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities is organizing ‘Divya Kala Mela’ in Mumbai from 16th to 25th February 2023.
S4. Ans.(D)
Sol. The International Solar Alliance is an alliance of 123 signatory countries, most being sunshine countries, which lie either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
S5. Ans.(E)
Sol. Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah presented the ‘President’s Colour’ to the Haryana Police.
S6. Ans.(A)
Sol. Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare organizes a Cyclathon with the theme, ‘Cycle for Health’ at Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC).
S7. Ans.(B)
Sol. The 2022 Asian Games, officially known as the 19th Asian Games, also known as Hangzhou 2022, will be a multi-sport event celebrated in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Hangzhou will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games, after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010.
S8. Ans.(C)
Sol. CRPF convoy was attacked. The 2019 Pulwama attack occurred on 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
S9. Ans.(D)
Sol. The Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, telecommunications equipment, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support services.
S10. Ans.(E)
Sol. Air India is the flag carrier airline of India, headquartered in New Delhi. It is owned by Talace Private Limited, a Special-Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Tata Sons, after Air India Limited’s former owner, the Government of India, completed the sale.
Other Post
- Types Of Insurance In India
- Economic Survey-2023 Indian Economy To Grow 6%-8% Next Fiscal Year
- Union Budget:- 2023-2024
- Budget Highlights 2023-24 For Salaried Employees
- Worlds Deadliest Earthquakes Since 2000 Complete List Here
- e₹-R Is In The Form of a Digital Token That Represents Legal Render CBDC
- General Awareness Quiz Series 2023: 14th February