Current Affairs Practice Test (23-29 September 2021)

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1. In which city India’s first mobile music classroom and recording studio was launched?
A) Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Chennai
D) Lucknow

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  • Answer: A

2. Which state government has roped in UNICEF and Centre for Policy Research for urban-rural convergence on Faecal Sludge and Septage Management and Plastic Waste Management?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Odisha
C) Haryana
D) Karnataka

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  • Answer: B

3. What is the name of India’s first official framework for air quality forecast which has been accepted internationally?
A) HUM
B) SURYA
C) SUJAL
D) SAFAR

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  • Answer: D

4. Which department has signed a MoU with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support India’s livestock sector?
A) Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying
B) Department of Finance
C) Department of Agriculture
D) Department of Livestock Reforms

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  • Answer: A

5. How many households has been electrified across country so far under Saubhagya scheme as per government data?
A) 2.60 Crore
B) 75 lakhs
C) 78 lakhs
D) 2.82 Crore

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  • Answer: D

6. How much amount worth of capital expenditure projects was approved by Finance Ministry in eight states to give timely stimulus to economic recovery?
A) ₹3015 cr
B) ₹3528 cr
C) ₹2456 cr
D) ₹2903 cr

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  • Answer: D

7. Which state government signed a MoU with Wingsure for AI-driven personalised insurance and advisory services to farmers?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Telangana
C) Odisha
D) Uttar Pradesh

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  • Answer: B

8. Which state government approved the implementation of the Mukhyamantri Bagwani Bima Yojana an assurance-based scheme to compensate crop losses?
A) Bihar
B) Punjab
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Haryana

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  • Answer: D

9. In which state the Indian Army organised ‘Bijoya Sanskritik Mahotsav’ from September 26 to 29?
A) Tamil Nadu
B) West Bengal
C) Assam
D) Uttarakhand

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  • Answer: B

10. What are the demarcates zones in interactive digital airspace map across the country for the purpose of drones flying operation issued by Ministry of Civil Aviation?
A) Green,Yellow,Red
B) Blue,Yellow.Green
C) Black,Blue,Red
D) Green,Blue,Pink

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  • Answer: A

11. Which Programme was launched by Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh to identify 75 Start-Up Innovations in Telemedicine, Digital Health, mHealth with BIG Data, AI, Block Chain and other technologies?
A) JanSuraksha
B) JanCare
C) JanSaman
D) JanSurya

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  • Answer: B

12. Which state launched Samarpan Portal’ for people to offer voluntary service?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Haryana
C) Uttarakhand
D) Punjab

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  • Answer: B

13. In which state the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju inaugurated the country’s first “Sports Arbitration Centre of India”?
A) Gujarat
B) Uttarakhand
C) Haryana
D) Bihar

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  • Answer: A

14. In which country the Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s first statue was unveiled?
A) Switzerland
B) Denmark
C) Hungary
D) Finland

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  • Answer: C

15. After whom the International Astronomical Union has named a crater on the South Pole of the Moon?
A) Matthew Henson
B) Neil Armstrong
C) Rakesh Sharma
D) Sunita Williams

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  • Answer: A

16. With which country’s Airbus Defence and Space Company India has signed a contract for acquisition of 56 C-295MW transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force?
A) Denmark
B) Switzerland
C) Spain
D) France

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  • Answer: C

17. By which year India will become 3rd largest importer according to a report by the UK’s Department of International Trade?
A) 2050
B) 2040
C) 2030
D) 2035

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  • Answer: A

18. With which country India signed pact for construction of 4000 social housing units?
A) Switzerland
B) Denmark
C) Philippines
D) Maldives

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  • Answer: D

19. Which city was named as UNESCO World Book Capital for 2023?
A) Nairobi
B) Asuka
C) Budapest
D) Accra

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  • Answer: D

20. For the first time in how many years World Health Organization has updated its air quality guidelines?
A) 15 years
B) 20 years
C) 25 years
D) 10 years

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  • Answer: A

21. With which country India has launched new public-private task forces on Hydrogen and Biofuels to expand the use of clean energy technologies?
A) USA
B) France
C) UK
D) Russia

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  • Answer: A

22. How many MoU were signed between India and USA for cooperation in Health and Biomedical Sciences?
A) 3
B) 2
C) 4
D) 5

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  • Answer: B

23. Which country has been elected as the external auditor to the International Atomic Energy Agency?
A) India
B) Denmark
C) Austria
D) France

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  • Answer: A

24. With which country India signed a MoU for exchange of white shipping information and to boost maritime security cooperation?
A) France
B) Maldives
C) Malaysia
D) Oman

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  • Answer: D

25. To how much percent the Asian Development Bank has cut its forecast for India’s GDP growth in 2021-22?
A) 10%
B) 11%
C) 12%
D) 9%

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  • Answer: A

26. To how much percent the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) cut its projection of India’s economic growth percent for the FY22?
A) 9.5%
B) 9.7%
C) 9.9%
D) 10.0%

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  • Answer: B

27. With which company the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) made a MoU for the promotion and sale of natural Van Dhan products?
A) BigBasket
B) Swiggy
C) Zomato
D) Grofers

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  • Answer: A

28. Which bank has announced a tie-up with OneCard for a mobile-first credit card that targets the country’s young, tech-savvy population?
A) SBI
B) Union Bank of India
C) IDBI Bank
D) Federal Bank

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  • Answer: D

29. Which company has topped the 2021 LinkedIn Top Startups India list ?
A) Unacademy
B) Udaan
C) Cred
D) Flipkart

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  • Answer: A

30. With which companyZee Entertainment Enterprise decided to merge itself at its board meeting?
A) Sony Pictures
B) V3S Pictures
C) The Motions
D) Shree Sai Pictures

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  • Answer: A

31. By how much percent bank deposit grew in FY21 as per RBI data?
A) 10.00%
B) 10.70%
C) 11.05%
D) 11.90%

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  • Answer: D

32. Which bank has launched RuPay Signet contactless credit card?
A) Federal Bank
B) SBI
C) IDBI Bank
D) Bank of Baroda

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  • Answer: A

33. Which body has approved the frameworks for gold exchange and Social Stock Exchange?
A) SEBI
B) NSE
C) BSE
D) NASSCOM

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  • Answer: A

34. In which state the World’s highest electric vehicle charging station was inaugurated recently?
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Jammu and Kashmir
C) Punjab
D) Uttarakhand

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  • Answer: A

35. Which state is going to set up a tea Park?
A) Manipur
B) Nagaland
C) Assam
D) Arunachal Pradesh

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  • Answer: C

36. Which institute of India stands among top 22 per cent in the 2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings?
A) IIT Bombay
B) IIT Kanpur
C) IIT Delhi
D) IIT Jammu

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  • Answer: A

37. In which state NHPC’s 510 MW Teesta-V Power Station located as it was conferred with IHA Blue Planet Prize?
A) Nagaland
B) Sikkim
C) Assam
D) TamilNadu

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  • Answer: B

38. In which state the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will set up a training centre for its Idea Development, Evaluation and Application Lab initiative?
A) Bihar
B) Punjab
C) Haryana
D) Uttarakhand

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  • Answer: C

39. Which organisation has signed aMoU with the Natural History Museum (NHM) London to work together to collect, study and conserve faunal specimens for science and to create and exchange associated data and images?
A) The Cultural Art Institute
B) International Science institute
C) Botanical Survey of India
D) Zoological Survey of India

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  • Answer: D

40. Which state’s Sweet Cucumber got GI tag?
A) Nagaland
B) Kerala
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Haryana

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  • Answer: A

41. With which country India signed pact for joint development of small satellite?
A) Indonesia
B) SriLanka
C) Nepal
D) Bhutan

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  • Answer: D

42. Which Organisation tested a new version of the Akash Missile namely ‘Akash Prime’ from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, Odisha?
A) ISRO
B) BHEL
C) SpaceX
D) DRDO

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  • Answer: D

43. Which state’s home-made rice wine namely Judimagot GI tag?
A) Assam
B) WestBengal
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Rajasthan

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  • Answer: A

44. Which country successfully flight tested Raytheon hypersonic weapon?
A) Russia
B) France
C) USA
D) UK

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  • Answer: C

45. Which earth monitoring satellite was launched from California that has recorded human and natural impacts on Earth’s surface for decades?
A) LandSat 9
B) LandSat 7
C) Sat 8
D) Land 9 X

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  • Answer: A

46. What is the name of the cyclone that hit Odisha and Andhra Pradesh?
A) Gulab
B) Katrina
C) Saryu
D) Chaman

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  • Answer: A

47. Who won the President elections in Canada for the third consecutive time?
A) Justin Trudeau
B) Jagmeet Singh
C) Erin Michael O'Toole
D) Stephen Joseph Harper

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  • Answer: A

48. Who was selected as the external auditor of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a prestigious institution that promotes peaceful use of nuclear energy?
A) GC Murmu
B) Tanmay Singh
C) Abhinay Banerjee
D) M Mohapatra

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  • Answer: A

49. Who was appointed as global brand ambassador Of MasterCard?
A) ViratKohli
B) MS Dhoni
C) Chiristiano Ronaldo
D) Magnus Carlsen

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  • Answer: D

50. Who was unanimously elected as the chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for 2021-2022?
A) Ramesh Singh Chaudhary
B) Debabrata Mukherjee
C) Pratap G Pawar
D) Manish Rai

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  • Answer: B

51. Who was re-elected Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI)?
A) Dinesh Dixit
B) Aveek Sarkar
C) BibekDibroy
D) Varsha Joshi

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  • Answer: B

52. Who took over as the new 34th director general of the National Cadet Corps (NCC)?
A) Gurbirpal Singh
B) Sandeep Singh
C) KN Pavan Kumar
D) Ramesh Ahuja

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  • Answer: A

53. Who was unanimously elected the first woman Speaker of the Gujarat Assembly?
A) Nimaben Acharya
B) Bharathi Joshi
C) Sundari Ben
D) RaniChaturvedi

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  • Answer: A

54. What is the official slogan of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics recently unveiled?
A) Aim for Glory
B) Live Higher, Aim Longer
C) Together for a shared future
D) Future and Destiny

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  • Answer: C

55. Who won gold in the 57kg category at the Men’s National Boxing Championships in Bellary?
A) Sachin Kumar
B) LakshyaAwasthi
C) Deepak Kumar
D) RohitMor

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  • Answer: D

56. Who won the IBSF 6-Red Snooker World Cup 2021?
A) Babar Masih
B) Pankaj Advani
C) Rohit Sen
D) MohdAnsar

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  • Answer: B

57. Which state was named the host of this year’s FIH men’s hockey Junior World Cup?
A) Odisha
B) TamilNadu
C) Haryana
D) WestBengal

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  • Answer: A

58. Who won the Norway Chess Open 2021?
A) Valentin Dragnev
B) DmitrijKollars
C) G Iniyan
D) D Gukesh

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  • Answer: D

59. Who has been elected to World Archery’s athletes’ committee for a four-year term?
A) Tanmay Singh
B) Shantanu Mukherjee
C) Abhishek Verma
D) Ashish Singh

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  • Answer: C

60. Who won the F1 Russian Grand Prix 2021?
A) Carlos Sainz Jr
B) Mark Antonies
C) Sebastian Vettel
D) Lewis Hamilton

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  • Answer: D

61. Who has become the first cricketer in IPL history to score 1,000 runs against 1 team?
A) Suresh Raina
B) MS Dhoni
C) Faf Du Plessis
D) Rohit Sharma

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  • Answer: D

62. To which country Moeen Ali belongs to as he has retired from International Test Cricket?
A) England
B) SriLanka
C) Australia
D) NewZealand

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  • Answer: A

63. Which Indian player with Chinese partner Zhang Shuai won the women’s doubles title in the Ostrava Open in Ostrava?
A) Sania Mirza
B) Sania Patel
C) AnkitaRaina
D) Ritu Bhatia

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  • Answer: A

64. What is the theme of this year’s World Rhino Day which is celebrated on September 22 every year?
A) Keep the five Alive
B) Five rhino species forever
C) Protect Rhinos
D) Strength of Rhinos

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  • Answer: A

65. When is International Day of Sign Language observed?
A) September 23
B) September 22
C) September 25
D) September 26

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  • Answer: A

66. What was the theme of World Pharmacist Day 2021 which was observed on September 25?
A) Pharmacy-Always Trusted for your health
B) Safe and effective medicines for all
C) Pharmacist are your medicine experts
D) Be safe and healthy

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  • Answer: A

67. When was Antodaya Diwas observed?
A) September 25
B) September 26
C) September 27
D) September 28

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  • Answer: A

68. When was World Environmental Health Day 2021 observed?
A) September 28
B) September 25
C) September 22
D) September 26

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  • Answer: D

69. What was the theme of World River Day 2021 which is observed on every year on the fourth Sunday of September?
A) Waterways in our communities
B) Emphasis on waterways
C) Lifelines of Planet
D) Rivers are artillery of planet Earth

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  • Answer: A

70. When was International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Observed?
A) September 27
B) September 28
C) September 26
D) September 30

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  • Answer: C

71. When was World Contraception Day observed?
A) September 28
B) September 27
C) September 26
D) September 25

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  • Answer: C

72. When was World Tourism Day observed?
A) September 30
B) September 29
C) September 27
D) September 28

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  • Answer: C

73. When was World Rabies Day observed?
A) September 28
B) September 27
C) September 30
D) September 23

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  • Answer: A

74. What was the theme of International day for Universal Access to Information 2021 which was celebrated every year on 28 September?
A) Information as a source
B) The right to know Information
C) Reliable and Accurate Information
D) The Right to Know — Building Back Better with Access to Information

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  • Answer: D

75. When was World Heart Day observed?
A) September 28
B) September 29
C) September 30
D) September 25

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  • Answer: B

76. Who is the author of book Dancing with Dreams which is released by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy?
A) Somaiya Banerjee
B) AbhijeetGanguly
C) Adityanath Das
D) Srihari Singh

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  • Answer: C

77. Who bagged the 2021 Global Goalkeeper Award by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
A) PhumzileMlambo-Ngcuka
B) FairoozFaizahBeether
C) Jenifer Colpas
D) Nicholas Madrin

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  • Answer: A

78. Who is the author of novel 400 days?
A) Sapna Banerjee
B) Arundhati Roy
C) ChetanBhagat
D) Aruna Singh

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  • Answer: C

79. Who is the author of audiobook “Jungle Nama”?
A) Abhishek Singh
B) Surya Yadav
C) Amitav Ghosh
D) Abhijeet Banerjee

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  • Answer: C

80. Who is the author of book titled “The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Present in India-China Relations”?
A) Antara Singh
B) Sumantra Banerjee
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Nirupama Rao

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  • Answer: D

81. Who is the author of book titled “The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India”?
A) Vijay Ghokle
B) Karambir Singh
C) AnkushLamba
D) Digvijay Singh

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  • Answer: A

82. Who is the author of book “My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future”?
A) Tanya Tyagi
B) AkankshaChaturvedi
C) IndraNooyi
D) Ritu Banerjee

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  • Answer: C

Published date : 07 Oct 2021 07:21PM