General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 27th September

General Awareness Quiz Series 2022: 27th 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. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out an operation against the circulation and sharing of child sexual abuse material online. What is the name of the Operation?

(a) Skylight

(b) Meghacharkha

(c)  Yatri suraksha

(d)  Nirbhaya

Q2. Which Summit/ Event will host the second edition of the India-Africa Defence Dialogue?

(a) DefExpo

(b) Cyber Crime Investigation and Intelligence Summit 2022

(c) India’s Clean Air Summit (ICAS)

(d) None of these

Q3. Which of the pairs of awardee and awardee is correct?

(a) Daniel Spielman: Breakthrough Prize

(b)  Meena Kandaswamy: Progress Award

(c) Dr Radhika Batra: Global Goalkeeper Award

(d) Ursula von der Leyen: Hermann Kesten Prize.

Q4. Which bank become the first bank to receive the approval from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to open a special Vostro account with Gazprombank of Russia for trade settlement in Indian rupees (INR)?

(a)  SBI

(b)  UCO Bank

(c)  HDFC Bank

(d)  Canara Bank

Q5. Which Bank’ s Foundation has entered into a partnership to generate fine-scale information on the species at a transboundary level with WWF India in safeguarding key habitats of the Red Panda in the Khangchendzonga landscape of Sikkim and Darjeeling?

(a) HDFC Bank

(b) SBI

(c) UCO Bank

(d)  Indian Bank

Q6. There has been recent appointments. Which pair is incorrect?

(a)  Dilip Tirkey: President of BCCI

(b)  Rajiv Bahl: Director of ICMR

(c) Dilip Abse: MD and CEO of NPCI

(d) None of these

Q7. What is the name of the booker prioze winner who recently passed away?

(a)  Louise Fletcher

(b)  Dame Hilary Mantel

(c)  Meena Kandasamy

(d) Mira Nair

Q8. Amazon establishing its first solar project in India, It will be situated in which state?

(a) Karnataka

(b)  Gujarat

(c) Madhya Pradesh

(d)  Rajasthan

Q9. Which state launched the campaign Hamar Beti Hamar Maan’?

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Chhattisgarh

(c)  Uttar Pradesh

(d) None of these

Q10. Indian Army installed the Avalanche Monitoring Radar in north Sikkim with which institution?

(a)  Defence Research and Development Organisation

(b)  Indian Space Research Organisation

(c) Defence Geoinformatics and Research Establishment

(d) Indian Meteorological Department

Solutions

Ans.1.(b)

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has carried out ‘Operation Meghachakra’ at 56 locations in 20 states against the circulation and sharing of child sexual abuse material online.

CBI Headquarters : Delhi

CBI Director: Subodh Kumar Jaiswal

Indian Railway Protection Force (RPF), have launched a pan-India operation known as Operation Yatri Suraksha.

The Indian Army has conducted a pan-India satellite communication exercise named ‘Ex Skylight’, in the last week of July.

Ans.2.(a)

The forthcoming DefExpo 2022, scheduled to be held in Gandhinagar will host the second edition of the India-Africa Defence Dialogue with invites extended to 53 African countries.

Cyber Crime Investigation and Intelligence Summit 2022: The 4th Cyber Crime Investigation and Intelligence Summit-2022 is being organised by the Madhya Pradesh Police

The fourth edition of India’s Clean Air Summit (ICAS) took place in Bangalore with global experts. In ICAS global experts are set to discuss approaches to resolve air pollution and climate change.

Ans.3(a)

Daniel Spielman has been announced as the winner of the Breakthrough Prize in mathematics.

Meena Kandasamy has been announced the winner of the Hermann Kesten Prize.

Dr.Radhika Batra : got 2022 Progress Award

Ursula von der Leyen is a German politician who has been serving as the President of the European Commission. She was awarded for her contribution to maintaining peace and stability in the region. She got 2022 Global Goalkeeper Award

Ans.4.(b)

Public sector lender UCO Bank has become the first bank to receive the approval from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to open a special Vostro account with Gazprombank of Russia for trade settlement in Indian rupees (INR).

Ans.5.(b)

On the Occasion of International Red Panda Day (third Saturday of September- Sep 17, 2022) the State Bank of India Foundation (SBIF) and WWF India entered into a partnership to generate fine-scale information on the species at a transboundary level and engage with communities in safeguarding key habitats of the Red Panda in the Khangchendzonga landscape of Sikkim and Darjeeling, Kalimpong district in West Bengal.

Ans.6.(a)

Former India captain Mr. Dilip Tirkey has been elected unopposed as the new president of Hockey India (HI). 

The Central government appointed Rajiv Bahl as a Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) cum- Secretary Department of Health Research (DHR) for 3 years.

The shareholders of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) approved the re-appointment of Dilip Asbe as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for 5 years with effect from Jan 8, 2023, to 7th Jan 2028.

Ans.7.(b)

United States actress Louise Fletcher Passed away at the age of 88.

Dame Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga of historical novels, has Passed away at the age of 70.

Ans.8.(d)

Amazon establishing its first solar project in India: Amazon said that its first solar farm would be located in India. 3 solar power plants of 420 MW will be built in Rajasthan

Ans.9.(b)

Chhattisgarh government has decided to launch a campaign on women’s safety titled ‘Hamar Beti Hamar Maan’ (our daughter, our honour).

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly is all set to have a day reserved for women legislators to speak and raise women-centric issues in the House

Ans.10.(c)

Indian Army and the Defence Geoinformatics and Research Establishment (DGRE) have jointly installed the Avalanche Monitoring Radar in north Sikkim

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