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What is called general awareness?

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General Awareness Quiz Series 2023: 12th-13th February

General Awareness Quiz Series 2023: 12th-13th February: Hello Students, General Awareness is essential to all government exams. It’s better to prepare this section daily and revise the same using the factsheet provided. The 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 country is a leading producer of Biofuel?
(a) USA
(b) Myanmar
(c) Laos
(d) Cambodia
(e) Afghanistan

Q2. Where is NALCO headquartered?
(a) Lucknow
(b) Bhubaneswar
(c) Chandigarh
(d) Dhanbad
(e) Patna

Q3. What’s the name of the monthly publication started by Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya?
(a) Hindustan Dainik
(b) Free Hindustan
(c) Rashtra Dharma
(d) Nav Jeevan
(e) Mook Nayak

Q4. Where is Jaffna located?
(a) India
(b) Bhutan
(c) Afghanistan
(d) Sri Lanka
(e) Nepal

Q5. Where is the 2 Indian Rice Congress taking place?
(a) Kolkata
(b) Ludhiana
(c) Jind
(d) Agra
(e) Cuttack

Q6. Where will the 1st Agriculture Deputies Meeting (ADM) othe f the Agriculture Working Group (AWG) under India’s G20 Presidency be held?
(a) Indore
(b) Bangalore
(c) Dehradun
(d) Lucknow
(e) Ahmedabad

Q7. What’s the name of the indigenously developed Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAV by DRDO?
(a) DHRUV
(b) TAPAS
(c) MANAS
(d) AKASH
(e) SURYA

Q8. Who was the founder of ARYA SAMAJ?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Dayananda Saraswati
(d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(e) Jyoti Rao Phule

Q9. Where is Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav is being held?
(a) Prayagraj
(b) Delhi
(c) Bhopal
(d) Mumbai
(e) Hyderabad

Q10. What’s the full form of DHARA?
(a) Developing Holistic Action for Urban Rains
(b) Digging Holistic Action for Urban Retreat
(c) Demonstrating Holistic Action for Urban Rivers
(d) Developing Holistic Action for Urban Rivers
(e) Driving Holistic Action for Urban Rivers

Solutions

S1. Ans.(A)
Sol. The United States was the leading biofuel producer in the world in 2021, with production amounting to 1,436 petajoules. Brazil and Indonesia ranked second and third, with figures at roughly 840 and 312 petajoules, respectively. By comparison, Germany’s biofuel production reached around 121 petajoules that year, placing the country amongst the top five countries in biofuel production, and the leading producer in Europe.

S2. Ans.(B)
Sol. National Aluminium Company Limited is a government company having integrated and diversified operations in mining, metal, and power under the ownership of the Ministry of Mines and the Government of India. Presently, the Government of India holds 51.5% equity in NALCO. It’s headquartered in Bhubaneswar.

S3. Ans.(C)
Sol. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya was an Indian politician, a proponent of integral humanism ideology, and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Upadhyaya started the monthly publication Rashtra Dharma, broadly meaning ‘National Duty’, in the 1940s to spread the ideology of Hindutva nationalism.

S4. Ans.(D)
Sol. Jaffna is a city on the northern tip of Sri Lanka. Nallur Kandaswamy is a huge Hindu temple with golden arches and an ornate gopuram tower.

S5. Ans.(E)
Sol. President Droupadi Murmu inaugurates the 2nd Indian Rice Congress in Odisha’s Cuttack.

S6. Ans.(A)
Sol. The 1st ADM, a three-day event, will be held at Indore during 13-15 February 2023. Around a hundred delegates from G20 member countries, guest countries, and International Organizations are expected to participate in the meeting.

S7. Ans.(B)
Sol. TAPAS is the name of the indigenously developed Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAV by DRDO.

S8. Ans.(C)
Sol. Dayanand Saraswati, also known as Maharshi Dayanand, was an Indian philosopher, social leader, and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic dharma.

S9. Ans.(D)
Sol. The Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav is back, this time in Mumbai, and it promises to be a visual and musical treat for everyone.

S10. Ans.(E)
Sol. Driving Holistic Action for Urban Rivers(DHARA) the annual meeting of the members of the River Cities Alliance (RCA) is being organized by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) in association with the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) from the 13th to 14th February in Pune.

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