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SUPER Current Affairs MCQ PDF 2nd August 2021

By Dream Big Institution: (SUPER Current Affairs) © Copyright 2021

Q.On which date National Mountain Climbing Day is observed every year?

A) 29 July C) 31 July

B) 30 July D) 1 August

Answer - D

 The National Mountain Climbing Day is observed annually on August 1. Mountains have major geographical significance in our day-to-day lives.

 They are responsible for defining the natural borders of nations and landscapes. People who admire these elevated features often go hiking or climbing, sometimes at the risk of their lives.

 The day was established in order to honour Bobby Matthews and his friend Josh Madigan, for successfully climbing the 46th peak of New York State’s Adirondack Mountains.

Q.Who has won the Hungarian Grand Prix 2021?

A) Lewis Hamilton C) Esteban Ocon

B) Max Verstappen D) Sebastian Vettel

Answer - C

 Esteban Ocon (Alpine-Renault/ France) has won the Hungarian Grand Prix 2021, held on August 01, 2021 at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Hungary. List of Winners of F1 Grand Prix 2021

S.No Grand Prix Winner 1. Bahrain Grand Prix 2021 Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain)

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2. Emilia Romagna F1 Grand Prix Max Verstappen (Red Bull – Netherlands) 2021 3. Portuguese Grand Prix 2021 Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain) 4. Spanish Grand Prix 2021 Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain) 5. Monaco Grand Prix Max Verstappen (Red Bull – Netherlands) 6. Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sergio Perez (Mexico- Red Bull) 7. French Grand Prix Max Verstappen (Red Bull – Netherlands) 8. Styrian Grand Prix Max Verstappen (Red Bull – Netherlands) 9. Austrian Grand Prix Max Verstappen (Red Bull – Netherlands) 10. British Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain) 11. Hungarian Grand Prix Esteban Ocon (Renault – France) Q.Who has been appointed as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA) of India?

A) Anil Yadav C) Bhagwat Karad

B) Deepak Das D) Pijush Mohanta

Answer - B

 Civil Accounts Service officer Deepak Das took charge as the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) under the Department of Expenditure.

 A 1986-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) officer, Das has held important positions at different levels in ministries such as science & technology, environment and forest, and Departments for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. About Deepak Das:

 Prior to assuming charge of CGA, he was the principal chief controller of accounts in the Central Board of Direct Taxes, where he was pivotal to several important technology-driven initiatives relating to direct taxes collection, reporting and receipt accounting. List of Chairman of Important Organisation

 SIDBI– S Ramann

 SEBI- Ajay Tyagi

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 NABARD- Chintala Govinda Rajulu

 NHRC- Arun Mishra

 UIDAI- Saurabh Garg

Q.Which country has assumed the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)?

A) India C) France

B) Russia D) Germany

Answer - A

 India has assumed the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the month of August 2021.

UNSC

Permanent Members :

 China  France  Russia  UK  US

Non - Permanent members :

 Estonia  India  Ireland  Kenya  Mexico  Niger  Norway  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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 Tunisia  Vietnam

About UNSC

 United Nations Security Council Headquarters: New York, United States;  United Nations Security Council Founded: 24 October 1945.

Q.Who among the following will lead the Indian delegation at G20 Culture Ministers’ Meeting?

A) Meenakashi Lekhi C) V. Muraleedharan

B) G Kishan Reddy D) Bharati Pravin Pawar

Answer - A

Q.PM Modi has launched the electronic voucher-based digital payment system “e- RUPI”, after which there will be no need for card, net banking to redeem vouchers. “e-RUPI” has been developed by which of the following?

A) Reserve Bank of India C) National Payments Corporation of India B) Securities and Exchange Board of India D) Indian Banks’ Association

Answer - C

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a new digital payment solution –e- RUPI through video conferencing.

 Numerous programmes have been rolled out to ensure that the benefits reach their intended beneficiaries in a focused and leak-proof manner, in order to limit touch points between the government and the beneficiary. About e-RUPI:

 e-RUPI is a cashless and contactless platform for digital payments.

 The instrument acts as an e-voucher which is based on a QR code or SMS string, delivered to the mobile phones of recipients.

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 It has been developed by the National Payments Corporation of India on its UPI platform, in collaboration with the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and National Health Authority.

Q.ISRO-NASA joint mission NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Satellite will be launched in which year?

A) 2021 C) 2023

B) 2022 D) 2024

Answer - C

 Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh stated The ISRO-NASA joint mission NISER (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, aimed at making global measurement of land surface changes using advanced radar imaging, is proposed to be launched in early 2023.

 “NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISER) has not been launched yet. NISER is proposed to be launched in early 2023“.

 It is a dual-band (L-band and S-band) radar imaging mission with the capability of full polarimetric and interferometric modes of operation to observe minor changes in land, vegetation and cryosphere.

 NASA is developing L-band SAR and associated systems while ISRO is developing S-band SAR, spacecraft bus, the launch vehicle and associated launch services. ISRO IN NEWS 2021

 ISRO-NASA Joint Mission NISAR Satellite To Be Launched In 2023  ISRO Successfully Conducts 3rd Test On Engine For Program  ISRO Plans To Launch Geo Imaging Satellite On August  ISRO, NOAA-Led Multinational Project Endorsed By UN Body  ISRO Demonstrates India’s First Free-Space Quantum Communication  ISRO Launches Sounding Rocket RH-560 To Study Attitudinal Variations  ISRO Develops Joint Earth Observation Satellite Mission Radar With NASA  ISRO’s PSLV-C51 Launches Brazil’s Amazonia-1 Satellite  India’s Homegrown App MapMyIndia Ties Up With ISRO

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 ISRO Opens Satellite Testing Centre For Private Sector  ISRO To Launch City College’s Academic Satellite  SpaceX Breaks ISRO’s Record By Launching 143 Satellites  ISRO Sets Up Dedicated Control Centre ‘NETRA’ For SSA  Space-tech start-up ‘Pixxel’ to launch remote-sensing satellite on ISRO rocket in early 2021  ISRO Chairman K Sivan Conferred with Doctor of Science honorary doctorate by Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala  Indian Space Research organisation ISRO has scheduled the launch of the Earth Observation Satellite EOS01.Launch vehicle PSLV-C49  ISRO Launches Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-01) and 9 Foreign Satellites from Sriharikota  Xiaomi to bring ISRO’s NavIC technology to smartphones in 2020  ISRO Chief K Sivan named for Von Karman Award 2020 by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)  ISRO will launch GSAT-30 satellite onboard Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA 251) from French Guiana  ISRO to launch its Venus mission in 2025, France to take part: French space agency About Indian Space Research Organisation [a] (ISRO)

 Founded : 15 August 1969  HQ : Bengalore, Karnataka  Founder / 1st Chairman :  Chairman : Kailasavadivoo Sivan (Rocket Man of India)  ISRO’s motto : “Space technology in the Service of humankind”.   ISRO built India's first satellite, , which was launched by the Soviet Union on 19 April 1975  In 1980, became the first satellite  Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to , was launched successfully on October 22, 2008  Chandrayaan-2, India`s second moon mission to study south pole of lunar surface On 22 July 2019

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About National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Founded : 1958 Headquarters : Washington, D.C Motto : For the Benefit of All Administrator : Jim Bridenstine

Q.As per the QS Best Student Cities 2022’ ranking, India’s ______was ranked at ____ in the Top 100 cities globally in the ‘employer activity’ indicator

A) Mumbai; 27th C) Bangalore; 27th

B) Mumbai; 52nd D) Bangalore; 7th

Answer- B

Q.Indian MSME Sector Loans witnessed a growth of 40% to Rs.9.5 lakh crore in FY21, as per “MSME Pulse Report”. Name the organisation that released the report.

A) SIDBI C) CARE Ratings

B) Transunion-Cibil D) Both 1 & 2

Answer- D

 As per the report released by SIDBI and Transunion-Cibil, “Sidbi - TransUnion Cibil MSME Pulse Report”, the value of new loans disbursed to the MSME sector in FY21 (COVID-19 period) was Rs.9.5 lakh crore, 40% higher than Rs.6.8 lakh crore in FY20 (pre-COVID-19 period).

Q.In July 2021, Guido Bellido was appointed as the Prime Minister of which country?

A) Chile C) Peru

B) Ecuador D) Costa Rica Answer - C NEWLY Elected PRIME MINISTER IN NEWS

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 Guido Bellido : Peru  Moctar Ouane : Mali  Najib Mikati : Lebanon  Mohamed Hussein Ruble : Somalia  King Mswati III : Eswatini  Yoshihide Suga : Japan  Ariel Henry : Haiti  Francisco Asue : Equatorial Guinea  Sher Bahadur Deuba : Nepal  Keith Rowley : Trinidad and Tobago  Abiy Ahmed : Ethiopia  Mohamed Ould Bilal : Mauritiana  Nikol Pashinyan : Armenia  Walter Roger Martos Ruiz : Peru  Henri Dondra : Central African  Mahinda Rajapaksa : Sri Lanka Republic  Hichem Mechichi : Tunisia  Naftali Bennett :Israel.  Ossouka Raponda : First woman PM  Anatole Collinet Makosso : Republic of Gabon of Congo’s  Lee Hsien Loong : Singapore  KP Sharma Oli : Nepal  Jean Castex : France  Kim Boo-kyum : South Korea  Micheal Martin : Ireland  Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou : Niger  Kubatbek Boronov : Kyrgyzstan  Pham Minh Chinh : Vietnam  Robert Abela : Malta  Eduard Heger : Slovakia  Pedro Sanchez : Spain  Mark Rutte : Netherlands  Mikhail Mishustin : Russia  Irakli Garibashvili : Georgia  Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin  Mario Draghi : Italy  Abdulaziz Al Thani : Qatar  Kaja Kallas : Estonia  Muhyiddin bin Haji Muhammad  Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid : Kuwait  yassin :Malaysia  Saad Hariri : Lebanon  Janez Jansa : Slovenia  Jacinda Ardern : New Zealand  Denys Shmygal : Ukraine  Bishr al- Khasawneh : Jordan  Mustafa Al Kadhimi : Iraq

About Peru:

 Capital: Lima

 Currency: Sol

 President: Pedro Castillo

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Q.Name the Space Agency that launched the World’s 1st Reprogrammable Satellite - ‘Eutelsat Quantum’

A) Roscosmos C) European Space Agency

B) SpaceX D) NASA

Answer- C

Q.In July 2021, famous folk singer ‘Fakir Alamgir’ passed away. Which country does he belong to?

A) Afghanistan C) Myanmar

B) Pakistan D) Bangladesh

Answer- D

 Bangladeshi folk singer Fakir Alamgir passed away. He was born in Faridpur, Bangladesh. He was awarded Ekushey Padak (Bangladesh’s 2nd highest civilian award) in 1999. BANGLADESH IN NEWS 2021  Bangladesh’s Legendary Folk Singer Fakir Alamgir Passes Away  Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus To Get Olympic Laurel  Bangladesh All-Rounder Mahmudullah Announces Retirement From Test Cricket  Bangladesh decided to develop alternative social media platform for Facebook and Whatsapp  Tashnuva Anan, Bangladesh's first transgender news anchor  PM Narendra Modi inaugurates ‘Maitri Setu’ between India and Bangladesh  Bangladesh To Commemorate 50th Anniversary Of 1971 Liberation War  UN Body Recommends Bangladesh Graduation From LDC  ‘Pahela Phagun’ Spring Festival Celebrated In Bangladesh  14th International Children’s Film Festival Concludes In Bangladesh  Bangladesh Declared As ‘Country In Focus’ For 51st IFFI  Bangladesh Signs Maiden Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA)

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 Bangladesh And US Launch Joint Naval Exercise CARAT Bangladesh 2020 About Bangladesh . Capital : Dhaka . Currency : Taka . President : Abdul Hamid . Prime Minister : Sheikh Hasina Q.Who authored the book, “My Own Mazagon: The History of a Little Island in the Bombay Archipelago”?

A) Ramesh Babu C) R. Hari Kumar

B) Sudeep Nagarkar D) Shekhar Sinha

Answer- A

 Captain Ramesh Babu, authored a new book titled “My Own Mazagon: The History of a Little Island in the Bombay Archipelago”. It is the the history and story of Mazagon, the island which was merged into a single entity as Bombay.

Q.Who authored the book, “Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in India”?

A) Shaaz Jung C) Sanjay Gubbi

B) Valmik Thapar D) Hamir Thapar

Answer- C

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STATIC GK BASED CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQ

Q.Renminbi is the currency of which Answer – C country? Q.In which state is the “Kharchi Puja” A) Poland celebrated?

B) Kuwait A) Madhya Pradesh

C) Serbia B) Tripura

D) China C) Rajasthan

Answer - D D) Telangana

Q.Where is the “Bannerghatta National Answer - B Park” located in India? Q.Lovlina Borgohain is associated with A) Sikkim which sports?

B) Odisha A) Boxing

C) Karnataka B) Badminton

D) Tamil Nadu C) Hockey

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D) Shooting Answer - A

Answer - A Q.“Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve” is located in which part of India ? Q.Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami is the current Chief Minister of which state ? A) Tamil Nadu

A) Gujarat B) Jammu & Kashmir

B) Rajasthan C) Karnataka

C) Odisha D) Maharashtra

D) Uttarakhand Answer - D

Answer - D Q.In which state is the “Lanco Amarkantak Power Plant” situated ? Q.The “All India Chess Federation” (AICF) is headquartered at which city? A) Haryana

A) New Delhi B) Madhya Pradesh

B) Chennai C) Chhattisgarh

C) Kolkata D) Jharkhand

D) Bengaluru Answer - C

Answer - B Q.The “Bhaichung Stadium” is located in which Indian state? Q.Port-au-Prince is the capital of which country ? A) Tripura

A) Haiti B) Sikkim

B) Lebanon C) Mizoram

C) Mali D) Assam

D) Uzbekistan Answer - B

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