General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 23rd 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. Which of the following Digital Payments initiative are not launched at the Global Fintech Fest 2022?
(a) RuPay Credit Card on Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
(b) Comprehensive Ombudsman Scheme
(c) UPI Lite
(d) Bharat BillPay Cross-Border Bill Payments
Q2. Which of the statement is incorrect about UPI Lite?
(a) The upper limit of a UPI Lite payment transaction will be ₹200
(b) It is an offline mode of digital transaction
(c) The total limit of the UPI Lite digital payment mode on the wallet on a device would be ₹5,000 at any point in time
(d) All are correct
Q3. Which of the following is not appointed in September as teustees of the PM Cares fund?
(a) Ratan Tata
(b) Kariya Munda
(c) Mukul Rohtagi
(d) KT Thomas
Q4. Who has won the Chennai Open 2022 and which to which game this open is related to?
(a) Linda Fruhvirtova, Tennis
(b) Manika Batra, Table Tennis
(c) Nikhat Zareen , Boxing
(d) P V Sindhu, Bandminton
Q5. What is the estimated projection of India for FY 2023 by Asian Development Bank (ADB)?
(a) 7.0%
(b) 7.1 %
(c) 7.2%
(d) 7.5%
Q6. With which country Abhyas drill was organized by India and which armed force of India participated in it?
(a) Japan, Navy
(b) UK, Airforce
(c) Australia, Army
(d) USA, Indian Coast Gaurd
Q7. Project Saaras for menstruation health is an initative of which embassy in India in conjunction with Ngo Khushi?
(a) USA Embassy
(b) Israeli Embassy
(c) UK Embassy
(d) France Embassy
Q8. Veteran Assamese swimmer, Elvis Ali Hazarika has become the first from the North East to cross the North Channel. The North Channel is the strait between___?
(a) Northern Ireland and South- western Scotland
(b) Northern Scotland and South- western Ireland
(c) Northern Iceland and South- western Scotland
(d) Northern Scotland and South- western Iceland
Q9. Union Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan launched the SCALE app. What does ‘L’ stands for?
(a) Leadership
(b) Leader
(c) Leather
(d) Laughter
Q10. Which of the pairs of Summit/ Event with the Venue is correctly matched?
(a) MotoGP World Championship: Greater Noida
(b) International dairy summit: Delhi
(c) Leeds -2022: Mumbai
(d) SCO summit : Beijing
Solutions
Ans.1.(b)
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, Shaktikanta Das, launched three key digital payment initiatives at the Global Fintech Fest 2022. The three digital payment initiatives that were launched by the RBI are RuPay Credit Card on Unified Payments Interface (UPI), UPI Lite, and Bharat BillPay Cross-Border Bill Payments.
Ans.2.(c)
Now that UPI Lite on BHIM App will be enabled, the users will be able to make small-value transactions in a near-offline mode.
Total limit on UPI Lite:
The upper limit of a UPI Lite payment transaction will be ₹200. The total limit of the UPI Lite digital payment mode on the wallet on a device would be ₹2,000 at any point in time. Customers of these eight banks would be able to use UPI Lite digital payment system. These are Canara Bank, HDFC Bank, Indian Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Punjab National Bank, State Bank of India (SBI), Union Bank of India and Utkarsh Small Finance Bank.
Ans.3(c)
Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata, former Supreme Court judge KT Thomas, and former deputy Lok Sabha speaker Kariya Munda have been nominated as trustees of the PM CARES Fund.
Mukul Rohtagi is the 14th Attorney General of India.
Ans.4.(a)
Czech Republic’s 17-year-old, Linda Fruhvirtova scripted a brilliant comeback to win the Chennai Open 2022 WTA 250 tennis singles.
Ans.5.(a)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pared its 2022-23 growth projection for India’s economy to 7% from 7.5% estimated in April.
Ans.6.(d)
Abhyas drill: The Coast Guards of India and the United States participated Off the coast of Chennai in the massive Abhyas drill or the Abhyas joint drill.
Ans.7.(b)
Project “Saaras” for menstruation health launched by Israeli embassy in Ghaziabad
Project “Saaras”: An initiative of the Israeli embassy in India in conjunction with NGO Khushii, which aims to raise awareness about menstruation health and cleanliness.
Ans.8.(a)
Veteran Assamese swimmer, Elvis Ali Hazarika has become the first from the North East to cross the North Channel. The North Channel is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland. Elvis and his team clocked a timing of 14 hours 38 minutes to achieve this feat. With this, Elvis has become the oldest Indian swimmer to cross the North Channel.
Ans.9.(c)
Union Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan launched the SCALE (Skill Certification Assessment for Leather Employees) app at Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai.
Ans.10.(a)
In 2023, India will hold its first MotoGP World Championship race at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida.
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, the union minister for Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare, virtually addressed the Leeds-2022 conference in New Delhi, which was hosted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
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