General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 1st October

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 1st October: Hello Students, General Awareness is an essential part of all government exams. It’s better to prepare this section daily and revise the same using the factsheet provided. 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. UNESCO- MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference is organized at?

(a) Pennsylvania

(b) Noida

(c) Samakand

(d) Mexico City

Q2. Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is to restore the former name of the country’s capital, Astana. What was the name of the capital?

(a) Samarkand

(b) Nursultan

(c) Ashgabat

(d) Dushanbe

Q3. When World Vegetarian Day is celebrated?

(a) 1 October

(b)  2 October

(c) 3 October

(d) 4 October

Q4. Which of the following is correctly matched pairs of company and their initiatives?

(a) Carbon Calculator: Mastercard

(b)  Khushiyon Ka Tyohar : Bank of Baroda

(c) Airtel: Micro ATMs

(d) All of these

Q5. AmazeWIT Circles’, to reiterate its commitment to upskilling and providing meaningful career opportunities to women in the technology space is started by

(a) Amazon

(b) Accenture

(c) Google

(d) Airtel

Q6. The world’s largest online professional network, LinkedIn has released its 2022 LinkedIn Top Startups List for India, revealing the top 25 startups. The list is topped by?

(a) Groww

(b)  upGrad

(c) CRED

(d) Zepto

Q7.  Who has been named by TIME Magazine in the TIME100 Next List?

(a) Akash Ambani

(b) Nikhil Kamath

(c) Bhavish aggarwal

(d) Jayanti Pattnaik

Q8. Who has received the final approval from SEBI for introducing the Electronic Gold Receipt (EGR) segment on its platform?

(a) NSE

(b) BSE

(c) TSX

(d) GIFT

Q9. Nikhil Kamath topped the IIFL Wealth Hurun India 40 & Under Self- Made Rich List 2022. He is the CEO of which Company?

(a) Ola

(b) Media.net

(c) Zomato

(d) Zerodha

Q10. Who is the English translator of the award winning book “ Lata: Sur Gatha”?

(a) Yatindra Mishra

(b) Ira Pande

(c) Lata Mangeshkar

(d)  All of these

Solutions

Ans.1.(d)

The Indian delegation headed by the Minister of State for Culture Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal  represented at UNESCO-MONDIACULT 2022 World Conference held at Mexico City during 28^th-30^th September, 2022.

Ans.2.(b)

Nursultan was the Name

Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is to restore the former name of the country’s capital, Astana, just three years after he renamed it in honour of his predecessor Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Ashgabat: Turkmenistan

Dushanbe: Tajikistan

Ans.3(a)

World Vegetarian Day is celebrated on the first day of October. It also kickstarts Vegetarian Awareness Month.

Ans.4.(d)

Mastercard, a global payment and technology company is set to launch Carbon Calculator features. Mastercard is in talks with Indian Banks to launch the Carbon Calculator feature which will offer the consumers an estimated carbon footprint for each of their purchases.

Bank of Baroda (BOB) has announced to launch of ‘Khushiyon Ka Tyohaar’. The ‘Khushiyon Ka Tyohaar’ includes a series of offers as an annual festival campaign.

Ans.5.(a)

Amazon India has launched ‘AmazeWIT Circles’, to reiterate its commitment to upskilling and providing meaningful career opportunities to women in the technology space.

Airtel Payments Bank has started rolling out 1.5 lakh micro ATMs in a phased manner across tier 2 cities and semi-urban regions to facilitate cash withdrawal for its customers

Ans.6.(c)

The world’s largest online professional network, LinkedIn has released its 2022 LinkedIn Top Startups List for India, revealing the top 25 startups

1. CRED
2. upGrad
3. Groww
4. Zepto
5. Skyroot Aerospace
6. MBA Chai Wala

Ans.7.(a)

Reliance Jio Chairman Akash Ambani, son of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, has been named by TIME magazine in the TIME100 Next list that recognises “rising stars from across industries and around the world.

Jayanti Pattnaik, the first chair of the National Women’s Commission and a former member of parliament, passed away in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha

Ans.8.(b)

Stock exchange BSE has received final approval from the capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for introducing the Electronic Gold Receipt (EGR) segment on its platform.

Ans.9.(d)

Nikhil Kamath, the cofounder of Zerodha, topped the ‘IIFL Wealth Hurun India 40 & Under Self-Made Rich List 2022’ with a net worth of Rs 17,500 crore. Bhavish Aggarwal, the founder of Ola, came in second place (Rs 11,700 crore), and Divyank Turakhia of Media.net in third place (Rs 11,200 crore).

Ans.10.(b)

The English translation of the award-winning book “Lata: Sur-Gatha” will be released in January 2023. “Lata: A Life in Music”, originally written in Hindi by writer-poet Yatindra Mishra, is translated by noted writer and translator Ira Pande. And now celebrating the life and times of Lata Mangeshkar on her 93rd birth anniversary in 2023.

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