How to use this General Awareness Quiz?

When you try to solve the questions in GA, all the options in questions have some current news. Try to recall it. This quiz is for revision purpose.

What is called general awareness?

Definition: General awareness means knowledge about the present happenings. General awareness only focuses on the routine happenings of the news around the world it has nothing to do with the historic events. Current affairs is the term which is used in place general awareness for many competitive exams.

General Awareness Quiz Series 2023: 5th-6th March

General Awareness Quiz Series 2023: 5th-6th March: 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 gave the Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman 2023?
(a) President
(b) Prime Minister
(c) Environment Minister
(d) Vice President
(e) Home Minister

Q2. Where was the 7th Boccia National Championship held?
(a) Jaipur
(b) Delhi
(c) Raipur
(d) Srinagar
(e) Chandigarh

Q3. How many Aircraft carriers does India have?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 1
(e) 0

Q4. When is World Wildlife Day celebrated?
(a) 28 Feb
(b) 1 March
(c) 2 March
(d) 3 March
(e) 4 March

Q5. Where was World Book Fair organized?
(a) Mumbai
(b) Bangalore
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Chennai
(e) Delhi

Q6. What’s the name of the world’s first Bamboo crash barrier?
(a) Bahu Balli
(b) Bamboo Suraksha
(c) Bamboo Angrakshak
(d) Bamboo Barrier
(e) Bamboo Balli

Q7. What’s the capital of Mexico?
(a) Cancun
(b) Mexico City
(c) Tulum
(d) Sinaola
(e) Guadalajara

Q8. What was the profession of Dr. G. N. Ramachandran?
(a) Athlete
(b) Politician
(c) Physicist
(d) Singer
(e) Judge

Q9. From where Yuva Utsav was launched?
(a) IIT, Delhi
(b) IIT, Kanpur
(c) IIT, Mumbai
(d) IIT, Ropar
(e) IIT, Mandi

Q10. To whom have the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment signed an MoU for Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan?
(a) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
(b) Red Cross Society
(c) Asansol Life Line Foundation
(d) Centre for Deaddiction, Chennai
(e) Brahma Kumaris

Solutions

S1. Ans.(A)
Sol. The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu presented the Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman 2023 and graced the launch of Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch The Rain -2023 in New Delhi.

S2. Ans.(B)
Sol. The 7th Boccia National Championship was conducted from 28 February to 04 March 2023 at the Rajputana Rifles Regimental Centre, Delhi Cantonment. As a sport, Boccia is predominantly played by athletes with cerebral palsy but has now expanded to include athletes with other disabilities that affect players’ motor skills. The sport is played with a ball. All athletes are required to be seated when releasing the ball and most play from a wheelchair. Athletes can throw, kick, or even use a ramp to get the ball where they want it to go. At the Paralympic level, Boccia is one of only two sports that do not have an Olympic counterpart.

S3. Ans.(C)
Sol. Currently, India operates two aircraft carriers – Russian-built INS Vikramaditya and indigenously built INS Vikrant, a 40,000-tonne vessel.

S4. Ans.(D)
Sol. On 20 December 2013, at its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in its resolution UN 68/205, decided to proclaim 3 March, the international day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) on the planet raise awareness and benefits fauna and flora in 1973, as World Wildlife Day.

S5. Ans.(E)
Sol. The New Delhi World Book Fair, hosted at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, is India’s second oldest book fair after the Kolkata Book Fair. The first New Delhi World Book Fair was held from March 18 to April 4, 1972, in roughly 6790 m² area with 200 participants.

S6. Ans.(A)
Sol. An extraordinary accomplishment towards achieving AatmanirbharBharat has been made with the development of the world’s first 200-meter-long Bamboo Crash Barrier which has been installed on the Vani-Warora Highway, Vidarbha, Maharashtra.

S7. Ans.(B)
Sol. Mexico City is the capital of Mexico.

S8. Ans.(C)
Sol. Gopalasamudram Narayanan Ramachandran, or G.N. Ramachandran, FRS was an Indian physicist who was known for his work that led to his creation of the Ramachandran plot for understanding peptide structure. He was the first to propose a triple-helical model for the structure of collagen.

S9. Ans.(D)
Sol. Union Minister Anurag Thakur launches Yuva Utsav across the nation, from IIT Ropar, Punjab.

S10. Ans.(E)
Sol. Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan – MoU signed between the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment and Brahma Kumaris to make NMBA more effective and widespread. The Brahma Kumaris is a spiritual movement that originated in Hyderabad, Sindh, during the 1930s. The Brahma Kumaris movement was founded by Lekhraj Kripalani.

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