Important Current Affairs Quiz for Bank Mains Exams 2021- 28th August |

Q1. Which of the two cities of India has jointly won the Smart Cities Award 2020?
(a) Hyderabad & Bangalore
(b) Surat & Pune
(c) Bangalore & Chennai
(d) Indore & Surat
(e) None of the above

Q2. Which airport has won the Airport Council International (ACI) Director General’s Roll of Excellence award in Airport Service Quality?
(a) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
(b) Indira Gandhi International Airport
(c) Cochin International Airport
(d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport
(e) None of the above

Q3. Name the Indian-American chemist who has been honored with the European Inventor Award 2021 in the ‘Non-European Patent Office countries’ category?
(a) Sumita Mitra
(b) Sunita Malhotra
(c) Saina Singh
(d) Saroj Nadir
(e) None of these

Q4. Engineers India Limited (EIL) Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), RK Sabharwal has been honored with the highest civilian award ‘The Order of Polar Star’. This highest civilian award is belongs to which country?
(a) Tibet
(b) Mongolia
(c) Bhutan
(d) Uzbekistan
(e) None of the above

Q5. Environmental organization ‘Family Forestry’ has won the 2021 Land for Life Award by United Nations. It is worked from which of the state?
(a) Kerala
(b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Assam
(d) Rajasthan
(e) None of the above

Q6. Name the former Health Minister of Kerala who has been awarded Open Society Prize for 2021 by the Central European University?
(a) K.T.Jaleel
(b) E.P.Jayarajan
(c) Veena George
(d) KK Shailaja
(e) None of the above

Q7. Palagummi Sainath has been awarded the Fukuoka Grand Prize for 2021. P.Sainath is from which of the field?
(a) Environmentalist
(b) Sports
(c) Wild life photographer
(d) Journalist
(e) None of the above

Q8.Which global technology consulting and digital solutions company has been recognized as the Global Innovation Partner of the Year by Snowflake?
(a) TCS
(b) Google
(c) Larsen & Toubro Infotech
(d) Infosys
(e) None of the above

Q9. Who has won the 2021 Nature TTL Photography Awards for his photo of an Orangutan clinging to a tree?
(a) Thomas Vijayan
(b) Varun Aditya
(c) Jayanth Sharma
(d) Aishwarya Sridhar
(e) None of the above

Q10. Which Indian PSU has been recognized as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the 15th year in a row by the Great Place to Work (GPTW) Institute?
(a) ONGC
(b) NTPC
(c) Indian Oil
(d) BSNL
(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1.Ans(d)
Sol. Cochin International Airport, Cochin has won the Airport Council International (ACI) Director General’s Roll of Excellence award in Airport Service Quality.
S2.Ans(c)
Sol. Cochin International Airport, Cochin has won the Airport Council International (ACI) Director General’s Roll of Excellence award in Airport Service Quality.
S3.Ans(a)
Sol. Sumita Mitra has been honoured with the European Inventor Award 2021 in the ‘Non-European Patent Office countries’ category.
S4.Ans(b)
Sol. Engineers India Limited (EIL) Chairman & Managing Director (CMD), RK Sabharwal has been honoured with the highest civilian award of Mongolia ‘The Order of Polar Star by his excellency.
S5.Ans(d)
Sol. The 2021 Land for Life Award has been won by Familial Forestry of Rajasthan, a unique concept that relates a tree with a family, making it a green “family member”.
S6.Ans(d)
Sol. The Central European University (CEU) Open Society Prize for 2021 has been awarded to KK Shailaja, the former Health Minister of Kerala.
S7.Ans(d)
Sol. Journalist Palagummi Sainath has been awarded the Fukuoka Grand Prize for 2021.
S8.Ans (c)
Sol. Larsen & Toubro Infotech, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company has been recognized as the Global Innovation Partner of the Year by Snowflake, the Data Cloud Company.
S9.Ans(a)
Sol. Thomas Vijayan has won the 2021 Nature TTL Photography Awards for his photo of an Orangutan clinging to a tree. The photograph is titled ‘The World is Going Upside Down’.
S10.Ans(b)
Sol. Indian PSU NTPC has been recognized as a ‘Great Place to Work’ for the 15th year in a row by the Great Place to Work (GPTW) Institute.