Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 07th January 2022

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1) Every year the World Day of War Orphans has been recognized on which date?

(a) January 4

(b) January 5

(c) January 6

(d) January 7

(e) January 8

2) Recently the Prime Minister has inaugurated the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institutein Kolkata.At what cost it is built?

(a) Rs 530 crore

(b) Rs 400 crore

(c) Rs 430 crore

(d) Rs 500 crore

(e) Rs 110 crore

3) Recently the 19th Meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority held under the chairmanship of whom among the following?

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) M.V Naidu

(c) Ramnath Kovind

(d) Rajiv P. Rudy

(e) Bhupendra Yadav

4) Whichof the following brandhas not been launched by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries and NAFED under One District One Product?

(a) Amrit Phal

(b) Indori Poha

(c) Cori Gold

(d) Kashmiri Mantra

(e) Somdana

5) Recently the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Federal Chancellor of which country have agreed on diversifying cooperation  in Climate Action and Green Energy?

(a) Russia

(b) Germany

(c) USA

(d) UAE

(e) UK

6) Recently which State has launched Student Start-ups and Innovation Policy 2.0 aimed at financially supporting school students in innovation?

(a) Rajasthan

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Kerala

(d) Haryana

(e) Gujarat

7) Who has/have been recently appointed as the new Executive Director(s) by the Reserve Bank of India?

(a) Deepak Kumar

(b) Ajay Kumar Choudhary

(c) Arun Singh Choudhary

(d) Both a and b

(e) Both a and c

8) Who has been recently appointed as the President of the U.S.-India Business Council, announced by the US Chamber of Commerce?

(a) Sudhir Maheshwari

(b) Kumar Deepak Vaidhya

(c) Deepak Singh

(d) Nisha Desai Biswal

(e) Atul Keshap

9) Which Bank has recently signed cricketer Shafali Verma as its brand endorser?

(a) Bank of India

(b) Bank of Baroda

(c) Central Bank of India

(d) State Bank of India

(e) Axis Bank

10) Which company has recently acquired an Israel-based cyber security startup Siemplify for $500 million?

(a) Amazon

(b) Microsoft

(c) Accenture

(d) Google

(e) Adobe

11) Who is the author of the Book Titled, “Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India”?

(a) Shashi Tharoor

(b) Dhirendra K. Jha

(c) Rakesh Sinha

(d) Divya Murthy

(e) Pritesh Gupta

12) Who is the author of the book, “Mamata: Beyond 2021” recently published on Bengal’s CM Mamata Banerjee’s 67th birthday?

(a) Jayanta Ghosal

(b) Abhishek Banerjee

(c) Mukul Roy

(d) Kirti Azad

(e) Manoj Sinha

13) Recently Bhanuka Rajapaksa has announced his retirement from international cricket. He is from which Country?

(a) Pakistan

(b) Bangladesh

(c) Afghanistan

(d) South Africa

(e) Sri Lanka

14) Renowned social worker and recipient of the Padma Shri Award, Sindhutai Sapkal passed away at the age of 74. She was fondly known as?

(a) Tai (Sister)

(b) Mother of Orphan Children

(c) Aai (Mother)

(d) Mata

(e) All of the above

15) Recently the world-renowned paleoanthropologist-turned-conservationist, Passed away at the age of 77. What was his/her name?

(a) Kevin Perry

(b) Richard Harry

(c) Oshio Ameo

(d) Eddy Krystle

(e) Richard Leakey

Answers :

1) Answer: C

Every year on January 6, the World Day of War Orphans is recognized.  The World Day of War Orphans 2022 reminds the world that caring for children in awful conditions is a duty, particularly in the face of a pandemic. Children who have been injured in a gunfight or separated from their families require particular care in order to heal the mental wounds of war, begin school, and restart normal life. World Day of War Orphans was started by the French organization SOS Infants en Detresse, which aimed to help children affected by conflict. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), an orphan is defined as a child less than 18 years of age who has lost one or both parents to any cause of death.

2) Answer: A

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in Kolkata via video conferencing. The second campus of CNCI has been built in line with the Prime Minister’s vision to expand and upgrade the health facilities in all parts of the country. The second campus of CNCI has been built at a cost of over Rs 530 crore, out of which around Rs 400 crores have been provided by the Union government and the rest by the West Bengal government, in the ratio of 75:25.

3) Answer: E

The 19th Meeting of National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) was held here under the chairmanship of Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change Shri Bhupendra Yadav. During the course of the meeting Shri Yadav also informed that India for Tigers: A Rally on Wheels, organized under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change was a mega success. The rally saw an active involvement of a diverse range of stakeholders including forest officials, school and college students, media persons, local communities, and representatives from NGOs etc.

4) Answer: B

Union Minister for the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Shri Pashupati Kumar Paras and Minister of State, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel and senior officials of NAFED have launched six, One District One Product (ODOP). The Ministry of Food Processing Industries has signed an agreement with NAFED for developing 10 brands of selected ODOPs under the branding and marketing component of the PMFME scheme. Out of these, six brands namely Amrit Phal, Cori Gold, Kashmiri Mantra, Madhumanthra, Somdana, and Whole Wheat Cookies of Dilli Bakes were launched.

5) Answer: B

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz have agreed on further diversifying cooperation and exchanges in new areas including Climate Action and Green Energy. Modi expressed his appreciation for the immense contribution of former Chancellor Angela Merkel in strengthening the India-Germany Strategic Partnership and looked forward to continuing this positive momentum under the leadership of Mr. Scholz.

6) Answer: E

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has launched Student Start-ups and Innovation Policy (SSIP) 2.0 which is aimed at financially supporting school students in innovation. He announced the policy, while inaugurating the two-day International Conference on Academic Institutions at Gujarat Science City in Ahmadabad. This policy has a provision of setting up active innovation and incubation centers across all universities in the state. It intends to cover 50lakh students across One thousand higher education institutes and 10 thousand schools of innovation and entrepreneurship.

7) Answer: D

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Deepak Kumar and Ajay Kumar Choudhary as new executive directors (ED) with effect from 03 January 2022. Deepak Kumar was heading the department of information technology of RBI. Kumar has over a span of three decades working in RBIs central office departments covering policy making and project management functions in the areas of information technology, cyber security, payment systems, etc…Ajay Choudhary was Chief General Manager-in-Charge, Department of Supervision. He has, over a span of three decades, served in supervision, regulation, currency management, payments and settlements, and other areas in the Reserve Bank, in its Central Office as well as Regional Offices.

8) Answer: E

On 5 January, 2022, Former US envoy to India, Atul Keshap was appointed as President of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), announced the US Chamber of Commerce. Atul Keshap replaces Nisha Desai Biswal. Prior to this, Keshap served in Delhi as United States Chargé d’Affaires to India, leading the US Embassy team.He formerly served as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the United States Department of State.

9) Answer: B

State-owned Bank of Baroda has signed cricketer Shafali Verma as its brand endorser.      Shafali Verma was born on 28 January 2004 in Rohtak, Haryana, India. She is an Indian cricketer who plays for the India women’s national cricket team. In 2019, at the age of 15, she became the youngest cricketer to play in a Women’s Twenty20 International match for India. In June 2021, she became the youngest player, male or female, to represent India in all three formats of international cricket.

10) Answer: D

Google has acquired an Israel-based cyber security startup Siemplify reportedly for $500 million. The startup will be integrated into Google Cloud Platform, especially its Chronicle operation.  The acquisition will expand the U.S. tech giant’s security offerings in the country amid rising cyber-attacks. Google has pledged to invest $10 billionin cyber security over the next five years.

11) Answer: B

The New Book Titled Gandhi’s Assassin: the Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India authored by Dhirendra K. Jha. The Book is published by Vintage Books. The Book is the story of Godse’s life and throws a light on the obscure layers of the assassin’s past.      Dhirendra K. Jha is a Delhi-based journalist. He is the author of Ascetic Games: Sadhus, Akharas and the Making of the Hindu Vote and co-author of Ayodhya the Dark Night: The Secret History of Rama’s Appearance in Babri Masjid.

12) Answer: A

On the occasion of Bengals CM Mamata Banerjees 67th birthday, HarperCollins Publishers India hasreleased a New Book Titled Mamata: Beyond 2021 written by Jayanta Ghosal, a political Journalist and translated by Arunava Sinha, fiction and non-fiction translator. The book will be published on January 24, 2022. The book details how Mamata was successfully able to portray herself as the ‘daughter of Bengal’ who worked tirelessly for the state’s poor and disadvantaged.  The author, Jayanta Ghosal, travelled to all the districts of West Bengal and unearthed certain key factors that helped the Trinamool win the state.

13) Answer: E

On Jan 05, 2022, Sri Lanka batsman Bhanuka Rajapaksa announced his retirement from international cricket and submitted his resignation to Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Bhanuka Rajapaksa was born on 24 October 1991 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Rajapaksa represented Sri Lanka in five ODIs and 18 T20Is, scoring a total of 409 across formats which included two fifties.  He was part of Sri Lanka’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 squad, where he finished as the third-highest run-scorer for the Lions in the tournament with 155 runs in eight matches.

14) Answer: B

On Jan 04, 2021, The renowned social worker and recipient of the Padma Shri Award, Sindhutai Sapkal passed away at the age of 74. Sindhutai Sapkal was born on 14 November 1948 in Wardha district, Maharashtra. She is fondly known as the mother of orphan children. Sapkal, popularly referred to as “Mai“, Sapkal ran an orphanage in Pune where she adopted over 1,000 orphan kids. Mee Sindhutai Sapkal, a Marathi movie based on her life, was also released in 2010. Sapkal has received more than 750 awards and honors in her lifetime.

She has used the award money to further build shelters for orphans.

15) Answer: E

Richard Leakey, the world-renowned paleoanthropologist-turned-conservationist, passes away at the age of 77. Richard Leakey was born on 19 December 1944 in Nairobi, British Kenya. He was Director of the National Museum of Kenya, founded the NGO Wildlife Direct and was the chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Leakey was serving as chairman of the Turkana Basin Instituteat Stony Brook University in New York.