General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 21st September

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 21st September: 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. What is the new name given to Daulatpur Fort ?

(a) Sambhajinagar

(b) Devagiri

(c) Prayag Raj

(d) Shri Hargobindpur Sahib

Q2. CM Da Haisi web portal is launched by which state?

(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Manipur

(c) Telangana

(d) Jharkhand

Q3. ”Door se Namaste” series is launched by which of the following:

1. UNICEF
2. USAID
3. WHO

(a)1,2

(b)2,3

(c)1,3

(d)1,2,3

Q4.How much amount of the loan which has been sanctioned by world bank to support India’s efforts for providing social assistance?

(a) 1 billion

(b) 10 million

(c) 1 million

(d) 5 billion

Q5. Which Indian Film has been announced as India’s official entry to the Oscars 2023?

(a) Soorarai Pottru

(b) Shershah

(c) Chhello Show

(d) 83 

Q6. Which country have successfully cloned wild Arctic Wolf for the first time?

(a) India

(b) China

(c) Russia

(d) Norway

Q7. Match the festivals with their states:

1. Shumang Leela              a. Manipur
2. Ziro Festival                   b. Sikkim
3. Pang Lhabsol Festival    c. Arunachal Pradesh 

(a)1-b,2-a,3-c

(b)1-c,2-a,3-b

(c)1-a,2-b,3-c

(d)1-a,2-c,3-b

Q8. Recently Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 was implemented, it repeals which of the following act?

(a) Explosive Substances Identification Act, 1908.

(b) Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920

(c) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1961.

(d) National Security Act, 1980.

 Q9. Between which two cities , India’s longest river cruise service is going to be started in 2023?

(a) Allahabad to Kolkata

(b) Delhi to Bogibeel

(c) Varanasi to Bogibeel

(d) Delhi to Kolkata

Q10. Indian Navy decommissions INS Ajay at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai after 32 years of service. What S stands for in INS?

(a) Submarine

(b) Ship

(c) Shipyard

(d) Surface to Air missile

Solutions

Ans.1.(b)

Daulatpur Fort is a historic fortified citadel located in Devagiri Village near Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

Maharashtra Tourism Ministry has decided to rename the Daulatabad fort to Devgiri which is located near Aurangabad. This decision comes after Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray. It is a national heritage monument, which is maintained by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). Previously Maharashtra’s former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray was renamed Aurangabad Sambhajinagar

Punjab’s Shri Hargobindpur city to Shri Hargobindpur Sahib was given in March 2022,

Ans.2.(b)

CM Da Haisi: The Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh at Imphal launched a web facility to gather complaints and concerns from the general public. The web portal is called “CM Da Haisi”.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar has launched the pre-production run of India’s first lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao decided to name Telangana’s new secretariat after Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.

Jharkhand Government agreed to the proposal for granting 77 percent reservation in state government jobs for the SC, ST, Backward Classes, and OBC and further economically weaker sections

Ans.3(a)

The US Agency for International Development and UNICEF launched the Doordarshan and YouTube series titled “Door Se Namaste” at a function held in New Delhi. A theatrical film on Duur Se Namaste was screened at the event, taking the audience through the main story, and showing how the messages of vaccine promotion and COVID-19 Appropriate Behaviour (CAB) have been interwoven in the entertainment education series.

Ans.4.(a)

The World Bank approved a USD 1 billion loan to support India’s efforts for providing social assistance to the poor and vulnerable households, severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ans.5.(c)

The Gujarati film Chhello Show has been announced as India’s official entry to the Oscars 2023.

Soorarai Pottru: National Film Award 2022

Shershah : IFFA Award

83 : Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2022 awards

Ans.6.(b)

Developed by: MGM Healthcare. ➢ Purpose: To transport organs up to a distance of 20km initially

Scientists in China have successfully cloned wild Arctic Wolf for the first time, to prevent the endangered species from going extinct.

Ans.7.(d)

50th All Manipur Shumang Leela Festival 2021-2022 has been held. The festival began in Imphal.

Ziro Festival: Arunachal Pradesh

Pang Lhabsol festival : Arunachal Pradesh

Ans.8.(b)

The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 repeals the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920, whose scope was limited to collecting finger impressions, footprint impressions and photographs of the convicted persons and certain categories of arrested and non-convicted persons based on the order from the Magistrate.

The new law enables police and central investigating agencies to collect, store, analyse physical and biological samples like retina and iris scans of arrested individuals.

Ans.9.(c)

India’s “longest river cruise service” (4,000 km) between Varanasi (UP) and Bogibeel (Assam) to start in 2023 announced by the Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal

Ans.10.(b)

Indian Navy decommissions INS Ajay at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai after 32 years of service

INS Ajay (P34) was an Abhay-class corvette, in service with the Indian Navy. She was named for INS Ajay (1961), the first warship built in independent India

A corvette is a small warship.

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