Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 07th May 2022

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1) The World Hand Hygiene Day has been observed on which of the following date?

(a) 7 May

(b) 5 May

(c) 6 May

(d) 3 May

(e) 4 May

2) The first International No Diet Day has been celebrated on which of the following date?

(a) 1997

(b) 1994

(c) 1998

(d) 1993

(e) 1992

3) How many ‘One District, One Product’ brands has been launched under the Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro-Food Processing Enterprises Scheme?

(a) Five

(b) Three

(c) Seven

(d) Six

(e) Four

4) The Government has prepared a new draft National Youth Policy, envisaged a ten-year vision for youth development in the country seeks to achieve by___________.

(a) 2031

(b) 2030

(c) 2027

(d) 2041

(e) 2047

5) In which of the following city India’s 1st Flow Chemistry Technology hub would be set up?

(a) Mumbai

(b) Hyderabad

(c) Bangalore

(d) Chennai

(e) Indore

6) India’s first tribal health observatory has to come up in which of the following state?

(a) Assam

(b) Gujarat

(c) Telangana

(d) Andhra Pradesh

(e) Odisha

7) Which of the following bank has become the First Public Sector Bank to Join the Account Aggregator Ecosystem?

(a) State Bank of India

(b) Union Bank of India

(c) Bank of Baroda

(d) HDFC Bank

(e) ICICI Bank

8) Who would be the head of the 18-member advisory committee on secondary marketto improve market safety, efficiency and transparency?

(a) G Mahalingam

(b) Injeti Srinivasan

(c) Rajiv Kumar

(d) Krish Gopalakrishnan

(e) Arun Sinha

9) Which state government haslaunched a Vehicle Movement Tracking System (VMTS) mobile app to help in tracking vehicles carrying sand and other mining material?

(a) Kerala

(b) Meghalaya

(c) Karnataka

(d) Haryana

(e) Maharashtra

10) Which of the following Ministry has joined hands with ISRO to launch ISRO Technical Training Programme?

(a) Ministry of Defence

(b) Ministry of Telecommunications

(c) Ministry of Women and Child Development

(d) Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

(e) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

11) Which company has signed 5 Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for supplying around 1,500 MW of electricity generated from solar plants?

(a) Adani Power

(b) L&T

(c) ReNew Power

(d) Reliance Power

(e) Vedananta

12) When would ISRO has planned to send a spacecraft to orbit Venus?

(a) January 2023

(b) December 2024

(c) April 2025

(d) July 2022

(e) May 2023

13) Which organization has planned to create a farmer distress index (FDI) to identifydistressed farmers with small and marginal farmers getting raw deal farm loan waivers?

(a) Small Industries Development Bank of India

(b) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development

(c) Reserve Bank of India

(d) Securities and Exchange Board of India

(e) National Housing Bank

14) Who among the following has won the World Snooker Championship Title 2022?

(a) Judd Trump

(b) Ronnie O Sullivan

(c) Ray Reardon

(d) Pankaj Advani

(e) Sourav Kothari

15) JAIN University has stopped in the Khelo India University Games 2021. Where was Khelo India University Games 2021 held?

(a) Haryana

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Karnataka

(d) Jammu and Kashmir

(e) Meghalaya

16) Recently, India’s Tokyo Olympics finalist Kamalpreet Kaur has provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU). Which sport does she belong to?

(a) High Jump

(b) Shooting

(c) Shot Put

(d) Archery

(e) Discuss Throw

17) Where is the 12th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2022 held?

(a) Bhubaneswar, Odisha

(b) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(c) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

(d) Noida, Uttar Pradesh

(e) Jamnagar, Gujarat

18) In which of the following category Dhanush Srikanth has won the gold medal at the 24thDeaflympics?

(a) Men’s 25m air rifle

(b) Men’s 10m air rifle

(c) Men’s 50m air rifle

(d) Men’s 15 air rifle

(e) None of the above

19) Who is the Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship?

(a) Krishan Pal Gurjar

(b) Bhupendra Patel

(c) Piyush Goyal

(d) Dharmendra Pradhan

(e) R.K. Singh

20) Which of the following year NABARD was founded?

(a) 1992

(b) 1983

(c) 1994

(d) 1982

(e) 1979

Answers :

1) Answer: B

World Health Organization (WHO) marks May 5 every year as World Hand Hygiene Day. This year, WHO is marking the day with the theme “Unite for safety: clean your hands” with a focus on encouraging people to clean their hands at the right times with the right products that will help lead to high quality safer care everywhere. It states that good hand hygiene is relatively cheap, and a cornerstone of safe and effective health care.

2) Answer: E

International No Diet Day is observed on May 6 annually. People are made aware on this day of body acceptance, leaving the behaviour of body shaming, which consists of people of all shapes and sizes.

In the year 1992, International No Diet Day was celebrated for the first time in the UK by British lady Mary Evans.

3) Answer: B

Food Processing Industries Minister Pashupati Kumar Parashas launched three ‘One District, One Product’ brands under the Pradhan MantriFormalisation of Micro-Food Processing Enterprises Scheme in New Delhi.

The scheme aims to enhance the competitiveness of existing individual micro-enterprises in the unorganized segment of the food processing industry and promote formalization of the sector and provide support to Farmer Producer Organizations and Self-Help Groups.

4) Answer: B

The government has prepared a new draft National Youth Policy (NYP). The draft policy envisages a ten-year vision for youth development that the country seeks to achieve by 2030. It is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and serves to unlock the potential of the youth.

5) Answer: B

The Telangana government together with industry partners set up a ‘Flow Chemistry Technology’ hub at Dr Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences (DRILS).

The hub was formally inaugurated by JayeshRanjan, Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce (I&C) and Information Technology (IT) Departments, Govt of Telangana.

6) Answer: E

The Government of Odisha has initiated the process for the establishment of  India’s 1st “Tribal Health Observatory” for ensuring equity in tribal health in odisha. Also a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was inked in this regard between the ST and SC Development Department and the RMRC, a regional centre of the Indian Council of Medical Research.

7) Answer: B

Union Bank of India became the first public sector bank to go live on the Account Aggregator (AA) ecosystem for participating in Govt. of India’s Digital Initiatives.

Union Bank of India endeavors to work both as FIP and as FIU enabling its Customers to share Data digitally on a real time basis.

It has implemented the technology stack as per the Reserve Bank Information Technology (ReBIT) guidelines.

8) Answer: A

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has restructured its committee on secondary market, which provides suggestions to the capital markets regulator on improving market safety, efficiency and transparency.

The 18-member advisory committee will now be chaired by G Mahalingam, former whole-time member of Sebi. Earlier, the panel had 17 members and was headed by Sebi chairperson MadhabiPuriBuch.

9) Answer: D

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched a Vehicle Movement Tracking System (VMTS) mobile app that will help in tracking vehicles carrying sand and other mining material.

The app will be used at different checkpoints in all the districts of Haryana and vehicle details like vehicle number, vehicle type, moving from, moving to along with driver details, like name, driver mobile number and driver license number.

10) Answer: D

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) signs a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). To upskill the technical staff at the Department of Space in the Indian Space Research Organisation.

To create a formal framework for short-term courses to provide training for the skill development and capacity- building of the technical staff of ISRO as per the industry requirements, in the space domain in the country.

11) Answer: C

ReNew Power had signed 5 Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for supplying around 1,500 MW of electricity generated from solar plants.

The company signed PPAs (Power Purchase Agreements) with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), and Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd. (PSPCL), along with multiple long-term agreements with corporate buyers totaling around 2 GW.

12) Answer: B

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Chairperson S Somnath announced it will send a spacecraft to orbit Venus to study what lies below the surface of the solar system’s hottest planet, and also unravel the mysteries under the Sulfuric Acid clouds enveloping it. The Spacecraft is expecting to launch the mission by December 2024. The next similar window would be available in 2031.

13) Answer: B

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)plans to create a farmer distress index (FDI) to track, identify, and assist the really needy and distressed farmers with small and marginal farmers getting a raw deal when it comes to farm loan waivers. This index will not be consistent across the country because stress levels vary from place to place.

14) Answer: B

Ronnie O’Sullivan won a World Snooker Championship title with an impressive victory over Judd Trump (England) which was held from April 16 to May 2, 2022, at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.Ronnie O’Sullivan claimed his seventh World Championship title with an 18-13 win over Judd Trump to equal Stephen Hendry’s record in the modern era.

O’Sullivan, 46, becomes the oldest world champion in Crucible history, eclipsing Ray Reardon, who won his sixth title aged 45 in 1978.

15) Answer: C

Hosts Jain University, powered by swimmer Siva Sridhar’s collection of 7 gold and two silver, overcame a strong challenge from Lovely Professional University, Punjab, to win the overall championship as the curtain came down on the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) with a colourful closing ceremony

Jain emerges on top of the medals table with 20 gold, seven silver and five bronze.

Lovely Professional University (LPU) with 17 golds has placed second and Punjab University placed third with 15 gold medals.

Siva Sridhar has emerged as the star swimmer by winning 11 gold.

The closing ceremony of KIUG was held at Sri Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium, Bengaluru.

Veera was the mascot of KIUG 2021.

16) Answer: E

India’s Tokyo Olympics finalist discus thrower KamalpreetKaur could miss the 2022 Commonwealth Games, 2022 Asian Games, and 2024 Paris Olympics after being provisionally suspended for using a banned substance.

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) confirmed that Kamalpreet tested positive for the use of Stanozolol, a banned anabolic steroid.

17) Answer: C

The 12th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2022 will begin in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.  A total of 27 teams will vie for top honours in the 12-day tournament. The participating teams are divided into eight pools.

18) Answer: B

At the ongoing 24th Deaflympics at Caxias do Sul in Brazil; The Indian contingent began their campaign on Day 3 with two golds and one bronze medal.

Shooter DhanushSrikanth struck gold in the Men’s 10m air rifle competition while ShouryaSaini bagged a bronze, finishing behind Korea’s Kim Woo Rim in the eight-man final.

India is currently placed eighth on the medals table with two gold and one bronze medal.

Ukraine tops the standings currently with 19 gold, six silver and 13 bronze medals.

Dhanush shot 247.5, a finals world record score, to emerge triumphant as Kim fell short with 246.6, while Shourya finished third with 224.3.

The Indian badminton team also won gold beating Japan 3-1 in the final to make it a double celebration for the country.

19) Answer: D

About Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship :

Cabinet Minister: Dharmendra Pradhan

Minister of State: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

20) Answer: D

About NABARD :

  • Founded: 12 July 1982
  • Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • Chairman : GovindaRajuluChintala
  • NABARD was established on the recommendations of Sivaramman Committee (by Act 61, 1981 of Parliament).
  • It is an apex regulatory body for overall regulation of regional rural banks and apex cooperative banks in India.

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