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1.When is World Wetlands Day celebrated?
A. 2nd January B. 2nd February C. 2nd March D. 2nd April
2.Who among the following is known as the ‘Father of Fiber Optics’?
A. Euclid B. Vinod Dham C. Varghese khurien D. Narinder Singh Kapany
3.Who is the founder of aerospace company Blue Origin?
A. Franz Josef Strauss B. William E Boeing C. Jeff Bezos D. Frederick Rentschler
4.UN has named which Indian economist to high level advisory board to respond to socio economic challenges?
A. Madhu Verma B. Jayati Ghosh C. Suman Bery D. Ashwini Deshpande
5.With which sports Ryan Crouser is associated?
A. Shot put B. Handball C. Hammer throw D. Javelin throw
6.What is profession of Padma Vibhushan awardee B M Hegde?
A. Audiologist B. Veterinarian C. Radiologist
2 www.gradeup.co D. Cardiologist
7.When was UNFCCC agreed on at Rio Earth Summit?
A. 1990 B. 1991 C. 1992 D. 1993
8.What does Doctrine of Ex Debito Justitiae mean?
A. From what is due to justice. A remedy which the applicant gets as a matter of right. B. Any law inconsistent with Fundamental Rights is not invalid C. Laws made by a state legislature are not applicable outside the state, except when there is a sufficient nexus between the state and the object. D. If there is any offending part in a statute, then, only the offending part is declared void and not the entire statute.
9.How is acronym VVPAT expanded?
A. Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Testimony B. Voting Verifiable Paper Audit Trail C. Voting Verifiable Paper Audit Testimony D. Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail
10.Who among the following is Chairperson of GAIL?
A. Ashutosh Karnatak B. Manoj Jain C. B C Tripathi D. C R Prasad
11.Tinaighat Caranzol rail line runs between which two Indian states?
A. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka B. Karnataka and Goa C. Goa and Kerala D. Kerala and Tamil Nadu
12.Which dating app has been fined by Norway for privacy invasion?
3 www.gradeup.co A. Grinder B. Vipps C. Mivai D. NRK
13.Who among the following is CEO of AstraZeneca?
A. Albert Bourla B. Severin Schwan C. Pascal Soriot D. Vasant Narasimhan
14.Tagline ‘Simply Clever’ belongs to which company?
A. Ford B. Skoda C. Toyota D. Renault
15.Who among the following is CEO of Goldman Sachs?
A. Lloyd Blankfein B. David Solomon C. Henry Paulson D. Jon Corzine
16.With which sports K Y Venkatesh is associated?
A. Para-athletics B. Para-cricket C. Wheelchair Tennis D. Para Table Tennis
17.Who among the following is President of Italy?
A. Giorgio Napolitano B. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi C. Oscar Luigi Scalfaro D. Sergio Mattarella
18.What is expected real GDP growth of India according to Economic Survey 2020 for FY 2021- 2022?
4 www.gradeup.co A. 10% B. 11% C. 12% D. 13%
19.Who among the following is United States Special Envoy for Climate?
A. Todd Stern B. Michael R. Bloomberg C. Avril Haines D. John Kerry
20.On behalf of Indian Women who presented the national flag on 15th August, 1947?
A. Hansa Mehta B. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit C. Swarup Rani D. Kanaklata Barua
21.When did ‘Patharughat Uprising’ took place in Assam?
A. 1864 B. 1874 C. 1884 D. 1894
22.When is International Holocaust Remembrance Day observed?
A. 27th January B. 27th February C. 27th March D. 27th April
23.Who is author of autobiography – ‘By Many a Happy Accident’?
A. I.K Gujral B. L K Advani C. Hamid Ansari D. Manmohan Singh
24.What is the percentage of hike of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in insurance?
5 www.gradeup.co A. 48% to 75% B. 49% to 74% C. 48% to 74% D. 49% to 75%
25.With which sports Reshma Patel is associated?
A. Racewalk B. Trail running C. Sandboarding D. Tower running
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1. Ans. B.
World Wetlands Day is celebrated on 2nd February since 1971, when several environmentalists gathered to reaffirm the protection and love for wetlands. Theme of 2021 World Wetlands Day is ‘Wetlands and Water’.According to UNESCO, the particular theme has been adopted to highlight the “importance of wetlands as a source of freshwater” and encourage “action to restore them and stop their loss”.
2. Ans. D.
Indian-American physicist, Narinder Singh Kapany is known the 'Father of Fibre Optics'. He was awarded with the Padma Vibhushan India's second highest civilian award in 2021. He was the founding chairman of the Sikh Foundation and a major funder of its activities for over 50 years. At age of 94 years he passed away on 4th December, 2020.
3. Ans. C.
Blue Origin is an American aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos who is also founder of Amazon. Bob Smith is CEO of Blue Origin. The company's name refers to the blue planet, Earth, as the point of origin. In May 2019, Jeff Bezos unveiled Blue Origin's vision for space and also plans for a moon lander known as 'Blue Moon', set to be ready by 2024.
4. Ans. B.
United Nations has named Jayati Ghosh among 20 prominent personalities to high-level advisory board that is supposed to provide recommendations to the UN Secretary-General for responding to the current and future socio-economic challenges in the post-COVID-19 world. She has been the Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Currently she is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Ryan Crouser is associated with Shot put and Discus throw. He has set a new World Indoor Shot Put Record on 24 January, 2021 in Fayetteville, Arkansas USA. In 2020, he was named a Finalist for Male Track and Field World Athlete of the Year by World Athletics, the international governing body for track and field. He was born on 18th December, 1992 at Portland, Oregon, United States. Ryan Crouser has won the gold medal in the Shot put at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, setting the current Olympic Games record of 22.52 m.
6. Ans. D.
Padma Vibhushan awardee Belle Monappa Hegde is a cardiologist, professional educator and author. Dr. B. M. Hegde was born on 18th August 1938 in Pangala, Udupi, Karnataka, India. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2010. He is the former Vice Chancellor of Manipal University, Co-Chairman of the TAG-VHS Diabetes Research Centre, Chennai and the chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mangalore.
7. Ans. C.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) part of Rio Convention was agreed in June 1992 at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. The other two Conventions were Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is committed to the objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
8. Ans. A.
Doctrine of Ex Debito Justitiae implies that Justice System owes to litigant to rectify an error in a judicial dispensation. Ex Debito Justitiae will be applicable only in a circumstance where the order of the Supreme Court had been passed without notice or where the order has the effect of eroding the public confidence in the justice delivery mechanism.
9. Ans. D.
VVPAT is expanded as Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail. VVPAT is a method of providing feedback to voters using a ballot less voting system. It is intended as an independent verification system for voting machines designed to allow voters to verify that their vote was cast correctly, to detect possible election fraud or malfunction, and to provide a means to audit the stored electronic results. VVPAT system gives instant feedback to the voter showing that the vote polled has in fact been allotted against the candidate chosen.
10. Ans. B.
Manoj Jain is the Chairman and Managing Director of Indian public sector natural gas processing and distribution company GAIL headquartered at New Delhi, India. GAIL was conferred with the Maharatna status on 1st Feb 2013, by the Government of India. Today the company owns and operates more than 11000 km long cross country natural Gas Pipeline in India having presence in 22 states in the country.
7 www.gradeup.co 11. Ans. B.
Tinaighat Caranzol rail line runs between Karnataka and Goa. The National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) has recommended the proposal for railway track doubling from Tinaighat-Castlerock at Karnataka to Caranzol in Goa with 72 new structures to be built for protecting the wildlife crossing the railway line.
12. Ans. A.
Norwegian Data Protection Authority has fined dating app Grindr with $11.7 million for breach of stringent European Union privacy rules and sharing personal information of users with advertising companies. This fine is equal to 10% of the U.S. company’s global revenue.
13. Ans. C.
Pascal Soriot is CEO of AstraZeneca, British–Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company headquartered at Cambridge, England. AstraZeneca has a portfolio of products for major disease areas including cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, respiratory and inflammation. The company was founded in 1999 through the merger of the Swedish Astra AB and the British Zeneca Group.
14. Ans. B.
‘Simply Clever’ is tagline of Skoda a Czech automobile manufacturer headquartered in Mlada Boleslav founded in 1895 by Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement. The famous winged arrow with three feathers still forms the Skoda logo today. The arrow represents speed, the wings progress and freedom, the eye precision and the circle unity, completeness, world and harmony.
15. Ans. B.
American investment banker David Michael Solomon is currently serving as chief executive officer (CEO) of Goldman Sachs. He succeeded Lloyd Blankfein, the previous chief executive, on October 1, 2018, and was named chairman after Blankfein's retirement. Solomon also recreationally produces electronic dance music (EDM) records under the stage name DJ D-Sol.He released his debut single, "Don't Stop" with an extended version on Spotify in June 2018. Goldman Sachs is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.
16. Ans. A.
K Y Venkatesh is a legendary Indian para-athlete and Limca World Record holder from Karnataka. On 1st February, 2021 he was honoured with the Padma Shri. He was born with achondroplasia-induced dwarfism that stunted his growth to 4”2’. In 2005 he created world record by bagging six medals in various sports at the 4th World Dwarf Games.
17. Ans. D.
Sergio Mattarella is the 12th and current President of Italy. He was elected by the Italian Parliament on 31st January, 2015. In 2011, he became an elected judge on the Constitutional Court. From 1987 to 1989 he served as Minister for Parliamentary Relations. He was born on 23rd July 1941 at Palermo, Kingdom of Italy.
8 www.gradeup.co 18. Ans. B.
Expected real GDP growth of India according to Economic Survey 2020 for FY 2021-2022 is 11% which is in line with IMF projection for India’s GDP for FY 2021-2022 and 6.8% for FY 2022-2023. India is expected to emerge as the fastest growing economy in the next two years as per IMF.
19. Ans. D.
John Forbes Kerry is United States Special Envoy for Climate. Previously he served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. He went on to serve as a prosecutor and as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, before serving as United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013. He assumed office on 20th January, 2021.
20. Ans. A.
Mrs. Hansa Mehta from Gujarat leaded a group of 72 women and presented the first Tiranga to Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the Chariman of the Constitutent Assembly. She was an educationist, orator and a freedom fighter who was imprisoned several times by the British India Government.
21. Ans. D.
Patharughat Uprising took place in 1894 in Assam, India. In 1893 British decided to increase agricultural land tax reportedly by 70-80 percent. Across Assam, peasants began protesting the move by organising Raij Mels, or peaceful peoples' conventions. Nearly 140 unarmed peasants were killed by the British.
22. Ans. A.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed on 27th January to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945. The day remembers the killing of 6 million Jews and 11 million others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
23. Ans. C.
'By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life' is autobiography of 12th Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari. It is an account of a life of unplanned happenings that took M. Hamid Ansari away from his preferred fancy for academia to professional diplomacy and then be co-opted in public life and catapulted to the second highest office in the land for two consecutive terms.
24. Ans. B.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget announcement increased FDI limit in insurance from 49% to 74%. This can lead to growth of the insurance sector alongwith value for customers in terms of better products at lower cost. This will bring right amount of completion in Insurance sector.
25. Ans. A.
Reshma Patel from Uttarakhand is associated with Racewalk. She debuted her 10000m Racewalk that completed in 48 minutes 25.90 seconds on National Federation Cup Junior U-20 Athletics Championships
9 www.gradeup.co with a national U-20 record and won a gold medal at TT Nagar Stadium, Madhya Pradesh. In Racewalk one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times which is assessed by race judges.
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