Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 01st November 2022

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1) Every year, World Vegan Day has been celebrated on which of the following day?

(a) 31 October

(b) 29 October

(d) 30 October

(e) 1 November

2) As per the newspaper report in November 2022, India will provide a $ ___________ donation to the United Nations Trust Fund for Counterterrorism.

(a) 100,000

(b) 500,000

(d) 300,000

(e) 200,000

3) Recently in November 2022, Where was India’s Second National Model Vedic School opened by the Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan?

(a) Bengaluru, Karnataka

(b) Puri, Odisha

(d) Gurugram, Haryana

(e) Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh

4) The Union government has planned to launch the second phase of the‘Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects to develop solar parks. This scheme was launched in December ______.

(a) 2017

(b) 2016

(d) 2012

(e) 2015

5) As per the newspaper report, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of the C-295 transport aircraft manufacturing plant in _________.

(a) Bengaluru, Karnataka

(b) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(d) Chandimandir, Haryana

(e) Vadodara, Gujarat

6) As per the recent report, Which of the following state has celebratedits new year or ‘Bestu Varsh’?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Rajasthan

(e) Jharkhand

7) The MoEFCC has given its nod to set up Terai Elephant Reserve (TER) under Project Elephant in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. It was the ___ Elephant Reserve in Uttar Pradesh.

(a) Third

(b) First

(d) Fourth

(e) Fifth

8) Which of the following state government has signed an MoU with Credit Guarantee Fund Trust to facilitate the flow of credit to MSME borrowers?

(a) West Bengal

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Madhya Pradesh

(e) Gujarat

9) Recently in November 2022, Who among the following has inaugurated a 3-week long cultural festival ‘Jashn-e-Kashmir’?

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) Vinai Kumar Saxena

(d) Manoj Sinha

(e) Jitendra Singh

10) As per the newspaper report in November 2022, Which of the following state government has launched a ‘women-friendly tourism’ project to establish women-friendly tourism centers and empower women?

(a) Kerala

(b) Karnataka

(d) Tamil Nadu

(e) West Bengal

11) The Gujarat government has achieved 100% tap water connections in rural areas under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). Which state ranked at the bottom among states with only 19.41% tap water connections?

(a) West Bengal

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Jharkhand

(e) Bihar

12) Which of the following company has partnered with ManipalCigna Health Insurance to launch India’s first Flexi top-up insurance for employees to personalize and upgrade their corporate health insurance plans?

(a) Healthy Wealth

(b) Policy Guru

(d) Care Health

(e) Sahoo Health Care

13) Which of the following company has collaborated with Medix to offer consumers access to a local and global network of accredited medical specialists during serious illnesses?

(a) New India Insurance Company Limited

(b) United India Insurance Company Limited

(d) Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited

(e) Max Life Insurance Company Limited

14) Leading stock exchange BSE Limited has completed India’s first successful creation, transaction, and settlement of EGRs. What does ‘R’ denotes in EGRs?

(a) Reserves

(b) Receipts

(d) Restraints

(e) Regulars

15) Which of the following organization has launched the Know Your Customer Registration Agency (KYC KRA) that maintains KYC records of investors in an electronic form?

(a) CBDT

(b) NSE

(d) BSE

(e) IRDAI

16) As per the newspaper report in November 2022,SEBI has approved the government’s proposal to convert dues of over _______by telecom operator Vodafone Idea to equity.

(a) $2.24 billion

(b) $1.92 billion

(d) $5.68 billion

(e) $4.97 billion

17) Which of the following company has received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a payment aggregator (PA)?

(a) Future Consumer

(b) Indoco Remedies

(d) Firstsource

(e) Brightcom Group

18) As per the newspaper report, Which of the following company became the first Indian business to publish an earnings call on Metaverse?

(a) Infosys

(b) Bharti Airtel

(d) Reliance Industries Limited

(e) Adani Power

19) Who has been appointed the Chair of the country’s Civil 20 (C20), an official engagement group of the Group of 20 (G20)?

(a) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

(b) Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri

(d) Sathya Sai Baba

(e) Kalki Bhagawan

20) As per the newspaper report in October 2022, In which of the following place the 12^th edition of DefExpo is set to be held?

(a) Gandhinagar, Gujarat

(b) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(d) Noida, Uttar Pradesh

(e) Jamnagar, Gujarat

21) Recently, which country’s Air and Space Force and the Indian Air Force (IAF) is participating in a bilateral exercise, named ‘Garuda VIl’ at Air Force Station Jodhpur, Rajasthan?

(a) Nepal

(b) Sri Lanka

(d) Bangladesh

(e) Maldives

22) As per the newspaper report, The Indian Air Force and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited concluded a contract for ___ HTT-40 indigenous trainer aircraft worth Rs 6,800 crore.

(a) 50

(b) 68

(d) 93

(e) 80

23) Weightlifter Akanksha Vyavahare has set three new national records in the 40kg weight category at the Khelo India National Ranking Women’s Weightlifting Tournament. She hails from which state?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Rajasthan

(e) Jharkhand

24) As per the newspaper report in October 2022, Which among the following pair has won the French Open men’s doubles title?

(a) Lakshya Sen and Chirag Shetty

(b) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty

(d) Srikanth Kidambi and Chirag Shetty

(e) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Prannoy HS

25) Recently, Renowned Assamese artist, Neel Pawan Baruahpassed away at the age of 86. In which year, the Assam governmentconferred him with Assam Saurav Award (Assam’s second-highest award)?

(a) 2021

(b) 2017

(d) 2016

(e) 2019

Answers :

1) Answer: E

Every year, World Vegan Day is celebrated on November 1.
This day is observed to raise awareness of the advantages of veganism for humans, non-human animals, and the natural environment.
Vegan Day is an opportunity to raise awareness about the advantages of a vegan diet and veganism in general.
Louise Wallis, then-Chair of The Vegan Society in the United Kingdom, established the day in 1994 to commemorate the organization’s founding and the coining of the terms “vegan” and “veganism.”
The date of November 1st was chosen by the Vegan Society’s President.

2) Answer: B

India will provide a $500,000 donation to the UN Trust Fund for Counterterrorism.
The foreign minister announced that India will contribute half a million dollars to the UN’s efforts to combat international terrorism when new and developing technologies used by terrorist organizations are posing fresh threats to governments worldwide.
The declaration was made at the UN Security Council Special Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) meeting in New Delhi’s plenary session.
To support the Office of Counterterrorism’s efforts to support member states in preventing and combating the threat of terrorism, India will make a voluntary contribution of half a million dollars to the UN Trust Fund for Counter Terrorism this year.

3) Answer: B

The second Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya (RAVV) in India was opened by the Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan in Puri.
The Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya was established to educate people about the Vedas.
The National Model Vedic School is also known as Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya.
The first institution of its kind is located in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh: Maharishi Sandipani Rashtriya Ved Vidya Pratisthan.
The Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharva are all part of the Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya’s curriculum.
Students will also have the option to choose from courses in agriculture, English, math, social science, and computer science at the Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya.
Veda Bhushan fourth (class 9), Veda Bhushan fifth (class 10), Veda Vibhushan first (class 11), and Veda Vibhushan second (class 12) admissions will be based on merit (class 12).
The classes will start during the academic year 2022–2023.
At Badrinath in Uttarakhand, Sringeri in Karnataka, Dwarka in Gujarat, and Guwahati in Assam, four additional such schools will open.

4) Answer: C

The Union government plans to launch the second phase of a dedicated program to develop solar parks across the country that will aim to plug loopholes and overcome slow progress.
The scheme, ‘Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects, was launched in December 2014 to help solar project developers set up projects in a plug-and-play model.
The scheme is valid till the end of this fiscal.
The government now plans to launch the second phase of this scheme with a focus on floating solar projects.
Under the current scheme, the MNRE provides central financial assistance (CFA) of up to ₹20 lakh per MW or 30% of the project cost, including grid-connectivity cost.

5) Answer: E

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the C-295 transport aircraft manufacturing plant, in Vadodara, Gujarat.
The C-295 transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force will be manufactured by Tata-Airbus.
Apart from making 40 aircraft, this facility at Vadodara would be manufacturing additional aircraft for Air Force requirements and exports.
By 2025 India aims defense manufacturing scale to cross $25 billion.
Defense corridors being established in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu would power this scale.
Apart from making 40 aircraft, this facility at Vadodara would be manufacturing additional aircraft for Air Force requirements and exports.
The first Indian Air Force squadron of C-295 transport aircraft would also be based in Vadodara.
The aircraft built in India would be supplied from 2026 to 2031 and the first 16 fly-away aircraft are scheduled to be delivered to the IAF between September 2023 and August 2025.

6) Answer: A

Gujarati New Year, Vikram Sanvat 2079, or Bestu Varsh was celebrated with traditional zeal and fervor by the Gujarati community across the globe.
It is celebrated as part of the five-day Diwali Celebrations.
The Gujarati New Year falls on Shukla Paksha Pratipada of the Kartik month.
Homes are decorated with Asopalav torans and marigold flowers, and an attractive Rangoli at the entrance to welcome guests on the new year.

7) Answer: C

The Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has given its nod to set up Terai Elephant Reserve (TER) under Project Elephant in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh (UP).
The TER is situated on the Nepal India Border.The TER would be the 33rd elephant reserve overall in India and the 2nd Elephant Reservein Uttar Pradesh
The proposal for it was drafted by Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) authorities in April 2022.
The first elephant reserve in Uttar Pradesh was notified in Shivalik in Saharanpur and Bijnor districts in

8) Answer: C

The Meghalaya government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGFTMSE) to help facilitate the flow of credit to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) borrowers.
The MoU between the state Finance department and the CGTMSE under the Ministry of MSME was signed to implement the ‘Meghalaya Credit Guarantee Scheme’.

Objective :

To encourage and promote entrepreneurship in Meghalaya.
The MoU will strengthen the credit delivery system and facilitate the flow of credit to the MSE sector.

9) Answer: D

Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha inaugurated a three-week-long cultural festival “Jashn-e-Kashmir”- New Kashmir New Hope, celebrating tradition, culture, and heritage at Srinagar.
The Cultural Festival is being organized by the All J&K Folk Artists Association, Shah Qalander Folk Theatre, in collaboration with the J&K Academy of Art, Culture & Languages and the Office of Divisional Commissioner Kashmir.

10) Answer: A

The Kerala govt has launched a ‘women-friendly tourism’ project, an initiative of the State Responsible Tourism Mission (RT Mission).

Aim:

To establish women-friendly tourism centers and empower women
The project will be implemented to encourage the participation of women in all tourism activities and attract more women tourists to Kerala
Tourism Minister Shri Mohamed Riyas also inaugurated a one-day workshop organized as part of the project.

11) Answer: B

The Gujarat government has achieved 100% tap water connections in rural areas under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
In Gujarat, a total of73 lakh households in rural areas are provided water through tap connections under the mission.
Apart from Gujarat, Haryana, Goa, Telangana, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Puducherry, Andaman, and Nicobar Island have achieved 100% tap water in households as part of Centre’s Jal Jeevan Scheme.
Uttar Pradesh ranks at the bottom among states with only 41% tap water connections.

12) Answer: C

Employee benefits insurance technology Healthysure has partnered ManipalCigna Health Insurance to launch India’s first Flexi top-up insurance which allows employees to personalize and upgrade their corporate health insurance plans.

About the first Flexi top-up insurance :

Flexi-top-up is powered by Healthysure’s technology platform through which a policy is issued digitally within 30 seconds of making a purchase.
This policy does not require any extra loading premium for pre-existing diseases, nor does it have a co-payment clause.
By paying a nominal add-on premium, employees can upgrade their cover, which can even be continued in a personal capacity post-employment.

13) Answer: C

Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Limited (Tata AIA) has tied up with Medix, a global company in medical management solutions, to offer consumers access to a local and global network of accredited medical specialists during serious illnesses.
This service is complimentary for policyholders who have purchased eligible life insurance products across the term, savings, and pension plans.

Key Highlights :

This alliance would offer a Personal Medical Care Management facility in India, bringing world-class, healthcare advice to consumers.
This will include a reassessment of the medical case, diagnosis thereof, and tailoring an optimized treatment plan with quality care including referrals to leading local specialists and coordination of care.
Through this service, Tata AIA’s consumers can track, manage, communicate with dedicated medical teams, and receive updates on their medical journey, ensuring quality-driven continuity of care.
According to a study by Harvard University, 5.2 million medical errors occur every year in India.

14) Answer: B

Leading stock exchange BSE Limited has completed India’s first successful creation, transaction, and settlement of electronic gold receipts (EGRs).
EGRs are electronic receipts issued based on a deposit of physical gold.
This would pave the way for the operationalization of a gold exchange in
According to the platform, the first transaction that took place on 24 October 2022 during the Muhurat Trading session, was successfully settled on T+1 day, as investors benefited from access to liquidity using the newly created EGRs.
During Muhurat trading, BSE launched two new EGR products of 995 and 999 purity, and trading will be in multiples of 1 gram and deliveries in multiples of 10 grams and 100 grams.
In September 2022, BSE received final approval from the capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for introducing the EGR segment on its platform.

15) Answer: D

BSE Technologies Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), launched the Know Your Customer Registration Agency (KYC KRA), which maintains KYC records of investors in an electronic form.
KRA is a SEBI-regulated intermediary that grants the market participants authorization for investors’ Know Your Client (KYC), which is mandatory for investment in the securities market.
In April 2022 SEBI issued fresh guidelines for KRAs whereby such agencies will have to independently validate the KYC records of all clients from July 1, 2022.
Under the guidelines, KRAs need to independently validate records of those clients (existing as well as new) whose KYC has been completed using Aadhaar as an Officially Valid Document (OVD).
The move came after Sebi, in January 2022 notified new norms to make KRAs responsible for carrying out independent validation of the KYC records uploaded on their system by Registered Intermediaries.

16) Answer: B

India’s capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) approved the government’s proposal to convert dues of over $1.92 billion by telecom operator Vodafone Idea to equity.
Among India’s 3 major telecom players, including Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries’ Jio, the government package was seen as a bailout for Vodafone Idea, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.
The government’s stake in Vodafone after the conversion could be more than 30%, the official added, which would make it one of the largest shareholders in the company along with UK’s Vodafone Group and Aditya Birla Group.

17) Answer: C

Infibeam Avenues Limited (IAL), which operates CCAvenue, has received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a payment aggregator (PA).
The move will enable its flagship brand, CCAvenue, to scale offerings and help onboard a greater number of micro-entrepreneurs onto its fold.
The approval will also allow Infibeam to further expand its reach in multiple business segments across both online and offline arenas
Of these, players such as Razorpay, Mswipe, Pine Labs, Stripe, and Cashfree Payments have already received an in-principle nod for the license.
The startup’s core payment gateway business claims to offer more than 200 cross-border payment options enabling payment processing in 27 international currencies across the globe.

18) Answer: D

The events of Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL) Q2 FY 2022–2023 earnings call were posted on the metaverse.
A company has used the metaverse to interact with its stakeholders for the first time in the history of corporate India.
In collaboration with GMetri, a no-code metaverse creation platform, the RIL metaverse was created.
It can be accessed without wearing AR/VR headgear.
It allows analysts following the company around the world to switch between slides and graphics displayed on various screens by the various buckets in the presentation of the results.
Additionally, they can download the RIL Q2 22–23 media release and the media and analyst call transcript in PDF formats.
The RIL metaverse also includes a special section with quotes from Mukesh Ambani, the company’s chairman, and managing director.

19) Answer: C

Spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) has been appointed the Chair of the country’s Civil 20 (C20), an official engagement group of the Group of 20 (G20), by the union government.
The G20 is the premier inter-governmental forum for the world’s developed and emerging economies to address financial stability on a global basis.
The C20 is its platform for civil society organizations (CSOs) to bring forth non-government and non-business voices to the G20 leaders
India will assume the Presidency of the G20 for 1 year from December 1, 2022, to November 30, 2023.

20) Answer: A

The 12th edition of the prestigious Biennial Defence Exhibition – DefExpo 2022 – India’s flagship exhibition on Land, Naval, and Homeland Security systems held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, to give impetus to the defense sector.
The event has been organized on the theme ‘Path to Pride’.

Key Highlights :

The DefExpo 2022 will also mark the celebration of 1 year of the formation of the 7 new defense companies, carved out of the erstwhile Ordnance Factory Board.
All these companies will be participating for the first time at DefExpo.
DefExpo 2022 is in line with the vision of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to achieve self-reliance in defense and achieve an export of $5 billion by 2025.

21) Answer: C

Indian Air Force (IAF) and French Air and Space Force (FASF) are participating in a bilateral exercise, named ‘Garuda VIl’, from 26 October to 12 November 2022 at Air Force Station Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
It is the seventh edition of the bilateral exercise, being hosted by India for the fourth time so far.
This joint exercise will provide a platform for both countries to enhance operational capability and interoperability, while also sharing best practices

Participants of the exercise :

FASF will participate with 4 Rafale fighter aircraft, one A-330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft, and a contingent of 220 personnel.
The IAF is participating with Su-30 Modernized Commercial Indian (MKI) Jets, Rafale, Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas, and Jaguar fighter aircraft, as well as the Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) and Mi-17 helicopters.
The IAF contingent will also include Combat Enabling Assets like Flight Refuelling Aircraft, Airborne Warning & Control Systems (AWACS), and Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C).

22) Answer: C

451 Memoranda of Understanding, Transfer of Technology agreements, and product launches took place during the Bandhan ceremony of the 12th DefExpo in Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Of the 451, there were 345 MoUs, 42 Major Announcements, 46 Product Launches, and 18 ToTs
It envisages investment worth Rs 1.5 lakh crore.
Indian Air Force and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited concluded a contract for 70 HTT-40 indigenous trainer aircraft worth Rs 6,800 crore

23) Answer: C

Akanksha Vyavahare, a weightlifter from Maharashtra, set three new national records in the 40kg weight category at the Khelo India National Ranking Women’s Weightlifting Tournament.
Akanksha Vyavahare participated in the Target Olympics Podium Scheme as well, setting records in snatch, clean and jerk, and total.
Akanksha beat her previous national snatch record by lifting 60kg.
She lifted 71 kg in the clean jerk, giving her a total lift of 131 kg.
Mirabai Chanu, a Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, presided over the opening ceremony of the Khelo India National Ranking Women’s Weightlifting Tournament.
Mirabai Chanu of Himachal Pradesh won the gold medal in Phase 1 of the Khelo India Weightlifting Tournament.

24) Answer: B

In Badminton, the Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bagged the biggest title of their career, claiming the French Open Super 750 crown with a straight-game decimation of Chinese Taipei’s Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han in the men’s doubles final in Paris.
The world number 8 pair, defeated Lu and Yang, ranked 25th, 21-13, 21-19.
They became the first Indian men’s doubles pair to win the French Open title.
In the Men’s Singles, the reigning world and Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen clinched the title.
World No.1 Viktor Axelsen defeated his compatriot Rasmus Gemke 21-14, 21-15.
With this win, Axelsen became the most successful player on the men’s world tour, overtaking Japan’s Kento Momota with 16 wins in 21 finals compared to Momota’s 15 from 21.

25) Answer: A

An eminent artist from Assam, Neel Pawan Baruah passed away at the age of 86 in Gauhati Medical College & Hospital, Assam.Baruah was born in 1936 in the Jorhat district, Assam.

He was a prominent painter and illustrator, who founded the Assam Fine Arts & Craft Society at Guwahati in 1971 to revive the art of Brindabanivastra, a famous textile painting associated with Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev.
He had created a unique style by sketching art on match and cigarette boxes, displayed at various exhibitions.

In 2021, the Assam government conferred him with Assam Saurav Award, the state’s second-highest award.

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