Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 22nd April 2022

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Dear Readers, Daily Current Affairs Questions Quiz for SBI, IBPS, RBI, RRB, SSC Exam 2022 of 22nd April 2022. Daily GK quiz online for bank & competitive exam. Here we have given the Daily Current Affairs Quiz based on the previous days Daily Current Affairs updates. Candidates preparing for IBPS, SBI, RBI, RRB, SSC Exam 2022 & other competitive exams can make use of these Current Affairs Quiz.

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1) On which among the following date the Government of India has commemorated the National Civil Services Day?

(a) April 18

(b)April 19

(c)April 20

(d)April 21

(e)April 22

2) The World Creativity and Innovation Day has been observed on 21st April. In which among the following year the World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) was founded?

(a) 1990

(b) 1991

(c) 1998

(d) 2000

(e) 2001

3) PM Modi has inaugurated the development projects worth Rs 22,000 crore in which among the following place in Gujarat?

(a) Dahod

(b) Anand

(c) Ghandinagar

(d) Ahmadabad

(e) Kevadia

4) According to Oil India Limited (OIL) India’s first pure green hydrogen plant has commissioned in which among the following state?

(a) Arunachal Pradesh

(b) Assam

(c) Telangana

(d) Kerala

(e) Gujarat

5) Mobile app for 2nd Khelo India University Games has been launched. It is going to take place in which among the following place?

(a) Pune, Maharashtra

(b)Gurugram, Haryana

(c) Bangalore, Karnataka

(d) Hyderabad, Telangana

(e) Chennai, Tamilnadu

6) Which among the following state has scheduled to Get World’s Largest Electric 3-Wheeler Factory?

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Gujarat

(e) Telangana

7) The World Bank has slashed the global growth forecast to __________% for 2022 from 4.1%

(a)3.2%

(b) 3.4%

(c) 3.5%

(d) 3.7%

(e) 3.9%

8) According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), What is the GDP forecast for India for Financial Year 2022-23?

(a) 8.0%

(b) 8.1%

(c) 8.2%

(d) 8.3%

(e) 8.5%

9) The Russian Central Bank has Registered a New Payment System named ___________

(a) RUSPAY

(b) FASTPAY

(c) FASTER

(d) HELLO

(e) UNIQUE

10) Patrick Achi has been re-appointed as the Prime Minister of which among the following country?

(a) Coted’ivoire

(b) Ireland

(c) Burkina Faso

(d) Mali

(e) Ghana

11) Senior IAS officer Naresh Kumar has been recently appointed as the Chief Secretary of which among the following state or Union Territory?

(a) Jammu

(b) Karnataka

(c) Mizoram

(d) Andhra Pradesh

(e) Delhi

12) A 6th Scorpene submarine of Project-75 named __________ has been launched in Mumbai, Maharashtra

(a)INS Vagsheer

(b) INS Vargeesh

(c)INS Khanderi

(d) INS Karang

(e) INS Vela

13) India’s Harpreet Singh and Sachin Sahrawat has bagged bronze medals in Mongolia. They both are belongs to which sport?

(a) Boxing

(b) Shooting

(c) Wrestling

(d) Shooting

(e) Squash

14) Cricket all-rounder Kieron Pollard has announced his retirement from international cricket. He belongs to which country?

(a) West Indies

(b) Australia

(c) New Zealand

(d) England

(e) Zimbabwe

15) Where does Naina Devi Himalayan Bird sanctuary located?

(a) Himachal Pradesh

(b) Sikkim

(c) Jammu & Kashmir

(d)Uttarakhand

(e) None of These

Answers :

1) Answer: D

Every year on April 21, the Government of India commemorates ‘Civil Services Day’ as an opportunity for city officials to recommit themselves to the cause of citizens and renew their vows to public service and work excellence.

This day was chosen to remember the day in 1947 when SardarVallabhbhai Patel, the first Home Minister of Independent India, addressed the probationers of Administrative Services Officers at Metcalf House in Delhi, referring to public workers as the steel frame of India.”

The first such event took place on April 21, 2006, at VigyanBhawan in New Delhi.

2) Answer: E

The UN-designated 21 April to be celebrated World Creativity and Innovation Day in order to raise awareness about the crucial role of creativity and innovation in different aspects of human development.

The global body is of the belief that there is no universal understanding of creativity.

World Creativity and Innovation Day (WCID) was founded on25 May 2001 in Toronto, Canada. The founder of the day was the Canadian Marci Segal.

3) Answer: A

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone and inaugurated the various development projects worth 22,000 crore rupees at a special function organised at Dahod in Gujarat.

This includes the manufacturing project of 9,000 HP Electric Locomotives at the Railway Production Unit in Dahod.

The project will be completed at the cost of around 20,000 crore rupees.

4) Answer: B

Oil India Limited (OIL) has taken the first significant step towards the Green Hydrogen Economy in India by commissioning India’s First 99.999% pure Green Hydrogen pilot plant, with an installed capacity of 10 kg per day at its Jorhat Pump Station in Assam.

The plant was commissioned in a record time of 3 months.

5) Answer: C

The second edition of the Khelo India University Games to be held in the tech capital of Bengaluru, Karnataka will have its own mobile app.

This app launched is a single point reference for all the information on the University games to be inaugurated by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on 24th April.

6) Answer: E

Telangana will get its three-wheeler factory soon as California-based Biliti Electric Inc (Biliti) intends to set up the world’s largest factory in the state with a production capacity of 240,000 electric vehicles each year.

There will be two phases in which the facility will be built.

Phase I will be developed over 13.5 acres with the capability to produce 18,000 vehicles per year and is expected to be operational in early 2023.

7) Answer: A

The World Bank lowered its annual global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.2% due to the impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the world economy.

Earlier this was estimated at 4.1%.

Other factors behind the slowdown in growth from January’s forecast include higher food and fuel costs being borne by consumers in developed economies across the world.

8) Answer: C

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its latest World Economic Outlook report, slashed the gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for India in FY23 to 8.2 percent.

Earlier in the January 2022 report, this was estimated at 9 percent.

9) Answer: D

The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has registered a new payment system called HELLO to the national register of credit institutions.

The system’s payment infrastructure services will be operated by the Russian commercial bank Trans Kapital Bank.

10) Answer: A

Cote d’Ivoire’sPrésidentAlassaneOuattara has re appointed Patrick Achi as new Prime Minister of Cote d’Ivoire.

He presented his resignation on April 13 in Abidjan  and that of his government following the will of AlassaneOuattara to carry out a reorganization of the government team.

11) Answer: E

According to an order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Senior IAS officer Naresh Kumar has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Delhi.

He will take charge on April 21, 2022.

Kumar will  replace incumbent Vijay Dev, who will retire voluntarily on April 20, 2022.

12) Answer: A

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) has launched INS Vagsheer’- the sixth and the last Scorpene Submarine of Project-75 launched in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar, who was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

These submarines are being constructed at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) Mumbai, under collaboration with M/s Naval Group, France.

13) Answer: C

In Wrestling, Harpreet Singh and Sachin Sahrawat bagged a bronze each as Indian Greco-Roman wrestlers concluded their campaign at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2022 with five medals, in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia.

Harpreet defeated Korea’s Sejin Yang 4-2 in the quarter-final before going down to Iran’s Rasoul Sadegh Garmsiri in the semis by fall in the 82 kg weight category.

14) Answer: A

West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard has announced his retirement from international cricket.

Pollard, who was the captain of West Indies’ limited-overs teams, played a total of 123 ODIs and 101 T20Is.

15) Answer: D

Naina Devi Himalayan Bird Conservation Reserve is a wildlife reserve in the Nainital district of the state of Uttarakhand in India.

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