Important Current Affairs Quiz for Bank Mains Exams 2022- 18th February

Q1. Who has become India’s first UN Development Programme (UNDP) Youth Climate Champion?
(a) Manoj Mishra
(b) Aruna Sharma
(c) Prajakta Koli
(d) Nikhil Mumbaikar
(e) None of the above

Q2. Which bank won the UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021 for Best Automation under ‘Crisis for Business Continuity’?
(a) DBS Bank
(b) South Indian Bank
(c) Canara Bank
(d) Axis Bank
(e) None of the above

Q3. Lavni artist from Maharashtra, Sumit Bhale has won a gold medal at the International Folk Art Festival. In which of the following the International Folk Art festival has been organized?
(a) Rome
(b) Istanbul
(c) Cairo
(d) Dubai
(e) None of the above

Q4. Who has been awarded the 12th Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award 2022?
(a) Deepika Padukone
(b) Harshaali Malhotra
(c) Anjali Menon
(d) Leena Seth
(e) None of the above

Q5. Name the person who has been awarded ‘Journalist of the Year’ award for 2020 (RedInk Award 2020) by the Mumbai Press Club?
(a) Danish Siddiqui
(b) Basant Misra
(c) Buddhadeb Dasgupta
(d) Lakshmi Nandan Bora
(e) None of the above

Q6. Which Indian film won the best film award in the Asian Film Competition section at the 20th Dhaka International Film Festival?
(a) Karnan
(b) Jai Bhim
(c) Koozhangal
(d) Yuni
(e) None of the above

Q7. Who was conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau?
(a) Angela Markel
(b) Barrack Obama
(c) Vladimir Putin
(d) Shinzo Abe
(e) None of the above

Q8. Who among the following has achieved the first-ever Guinness World Record in Numerology and the first world record of 2022?
(a) JC Chaudhry
(b) Anupam Kapil
(c) Dr. Vedant Sharma
(d) Sheelaa Bajaj
(e) None of the above

Q9. The government of Assam has conferred its highest civilian award ‘Assam Baibhav’ on whom?
(a) Sonu Sood
(b) Ratan Tata
(c) Neeraj Chopra
(d) Manoj Bajpayee
(e) None of the above

Q10. Which bank was named as the ‘Best Private Bank’ in India at the ‘Global Private Banking Awards 2021’ organised by Professional Wealth Management (PWM)?
(a) IndusInd Bank
(b) ICICI Bank
(c) Kotak Mahindra Bank
(d) HDFC Bank
(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1.Ans(c)
Sol. Prajakta Koli has become India’s first UN Development Programme (UNDP) Youth Climate Champion. She is a content creator on various online platforms like youtube, Instagram, etc.

S2.Ans (b)
Sol. South Indian Bank (SIB) won the UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021 for Best Automation under ‘Crisis for Business Continuity’.

S3.Ans(d)
Sol. Lavni artist from Maharashtra, Sumit Bhale of Fulbari taluka has won a gold medal at the International Folk Art Festival in Dubai.

S4.Ans (b)
Sol. The 2015 film Bajrangi Bhaijaan fame actress, Harshaali Malhotra has been awarded the 12th Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award 2022.

S5.Ans(a)
Sol. Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who died during an assignment in Afghanistan, has been posthumously awarded as the ‘Journalist of the Year’ for 2020 by the Mumbai Press Club. CJI N V Ramana presented the annual ‘RedInk Awards for Excellence in Journalism’.

S6.Ans(c)
Sol. P S Vinothraj directed film Koozhangal from India won the best film award in the Asian Film Competition section at the 20th Dhaka International Film Festival.

S7.Ans(d)
Sol. Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau.

S8.Ans(a)
Sol. India’s one of the top numerologists, JC Chaudhry has achieved the first-ever Guinness World Record in Numerology and the first world record of 2022.

S9.Ans(c)
Sol. The government of Assam has conferred its highest civilian award ‘Assam Baibhav’ on Industrialist Ratan Tata.

S10.Ans(d)
Sol. HDFC Bank was named as the ‘Best Private Bank’ in India at the ‘Global Private Banking Awards 2021’ which was organised by Professional Wealth Management (PWM).