Current Affairs (Awards) Practice Test 09-15 December 2021
1. What was the rank of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Forbes’ 100 most powerful women list?
A) 37
B) 40
C) 45
D) 35
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- Answer: A
2. To whom President Ram Nath Kovind presented the President’s Standard award?
A) 22nd Missile Vessels Squadron - Indian Navy
B) 4th Squardron Southern Command – Indian Air force
C) 5/11 Gorkha Riffles – Indian Army
D) 12 INAS - Indian Navy
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- Answer: A
3. Who bagged “Young Geospatial Scientist” Award for Developing Indian Geoid Model?
A) Ropesh Goyal
B) Nitin Tyagi
C) Rohit Garwal
D) Tanmay Bhatt
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- Answer: A
4. Who won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 2022 Royal Gold Medal?
A) Balkrishna Doshi
B) Mayank Agarwal
C) V Narayan
D) Swami Agnihotri
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- Answer: A
5. Which bank has been conferred with two DigiDhan awards instituted by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)?
A) Karnataka Bank
B) South Indian Bank
C) IDBI Bank
D) Federal Bank
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- Answer: A
6. Who is the author of book 1971: Charge of the Gorkhas and Other Stories’?
A) Vikas Singroul
B) G Swamy
C) Mayank Singh
D) Rachna Bisht
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- Answer: D
7. Who received the 10th annual Dr. Ida S. Scudder Humanitarian Oration award?
A) Gita Gopinath
B) Indra Nooyi
C) Ratan Tata
D) Aziz Premji
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- Answer: D
8. Who was crowned with Miss Universe 2021 title?
A) Shivani Srivastava
B) Andrea Meza
C) Manushi Chillar
D) Harnaaz Sandhu
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- Answer: D
9. Who has been awarded the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries?
A) Tanya Tyagi
B) Surya Barman
C) Nikhil Srivastava
D) Neena Gupta
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- Answer: D
10. Who is the author of book titled Watershed: How We Destroyed India’s Water and How We Can Save It”?
A) Gurucharan Shaw
B) Mridula Ramesh
C) Amit Banerjee
D) Saumya Rawa
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- Answer: B
11. Which bank won two awards at ET BFSI Excellence Awards 2021?
A) ICICI Bank
B) HDFC Bank
C) IDBI Bank
D) DBS Bank
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- Answer: D
12. Who was named Time magazine’s ‘person of the year‘ 2021?
A) Elon Musk
B) Narendra Modi
C) Virat Kohli
D) Joe Biden
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- Answer: A
13. Who is the author of book titled Pride, Prejudice and Punditry’?
A) Akshata Rao
B) Roman Saini
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Shashi Tharoor
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- Answer: D