Current Affairs MCQs of 8 & 9 February 2022

Q.1 Which institution/office announced the ‘Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship 2022’?

a. NITI Aayog

b. Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser

c. IIT- Madras

d. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Q.2 “Rashtriya Yuva Sashaktikaran Karyakram” is a scheme of which Union Ministry?

a. Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports

b. Ministry of Education

c. Ministry of Skill Development

d. Ministry of Labour and Employment

Q.3 Which is the venue of the Nehru Trophy Boat Race in 2022?

a. UAE

b. Sri Lanka

c. Maldives

d. Mauritius

Q.4 Hemidactylus easai is the name of which new species, identified in the Western Ghats, Kerala?

a. Snake

b. Gecko

c. Spider

d. Frog

Q.5 ‘Kanchoth festival’ is celebrated in which Indian state/UT?

a. Bihar

b. Jammu and Kashmir

c. West Bengal

d. Assam

Q.6 India recently held a ‘High Level Conference on Renewable Energy (RE)’ along with which bloc?

a. SAARC

b. ASEAN

c. BRICS

d. G-20

Q.7 Who has become Asia’s richest person, as per Bloomberg Billionaires Index?

a. Cyrus Poonawalla

b. Gautam Adani

c. Azim Premji

d. Shiv Nadar

Q.8 The BCCI plans to launch women’s IPL by which year?

a. 2023

b. 2025

c. 2024

d. 2022

Q.9 Which state has launched the ‘Obavva Art of Self Defence Training’ programme for 50,000 girl students?

a. Maharashtra

b. Madhya Pradesh

c. Karnataka rnataka

d. Delhi

Q.10 Which social media platform launched the Take a Break feature globally including India?

a. Whatsapp

b. Facebook

c. Instagram

d. Twitter

Q.11 What is the theme of the 2022 International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation?

a Accelerating Investment to End FGM

b. No Time for Global Inaction: Unite,Fund, and Act to End FGMaa

c. Both a and d

d. Achieving the new Global Goals through the elimination of Female Genital Mutilation by 2030

Q.12 President Pedro Castillo has resigned from his post, he has been the President of which country?

a. Africa

b. Mexico

c. Peru

d. China

Q.13 Which country has won two gold medals on the first day of the event in the Winter Olympics 2022?

a. Norwegian

b. Sweden

c. Iceland

d. Finland

Q.14 India defeated which team to win the 2022 ICC Under-19 World Cup Championship?

a. New Zealand

b. Pakistan

c. Australia

d. England

Q.15 What is the name of the sole Indian sportsperson who will compete in the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022?

a. Arif Khan

b. Jagdish Singh

c. Shiva Keshavan

d. Asif Khan

Q.16 What is the theme of Financial Literacy week 2022 being observed by RBI in 2022?

a. Credit Discipline and Credit from Formal Institutions

b. Go Digital, Go Secure

c. Farmers

d. MSME

Q.17 USAID has partnered with which organization under the SAMRIDH scheme to Accelerate Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Accelerate Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India?

a. Microsoft India

b. IIT Bombay

c. NITI Aayog

d. FICCI

Q.18 Which is the first Union Territory to be integrated with the National Single Window System (NSWS)?

a. Delhi

b. Ladakh

c. Chandigarh

d. Jammu & Kashmir

Q.19 What is the old name for PMKSY?

a. SAMADHAN

b. SAMPADA

c. SIDDHI

d. SAUBHAGYA

Q.20 Who has been appointed as the new director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)?

a. Dr S Unnikrishnan Nair

b. S Somanath

c. A. S. Kiran Kumar

d. Koppillil Radhakrishnan

Answers – 

Q.1 b) The ‘Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship 2022’ was announced by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the government of India under its ‘Waste to Wealth’ mission.This fellowship has been announced for empowering young innovators- who are engaged in community work of waste management- in the role of ‘Swachhta Saarthis’. ‘Waste to Wealth’ mission is one of the nine national missions of the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).

Q.2 a) The RYSK Scheme is the flagship Central Sector Scheme of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. The Scheme beneficiaries are the youth in the age-group of 15-29 years. Its objective is to motivate youth to strive for excellence in their respective fields and use their energy for national building.

Q.3 a) Nehru Trophy Boat Race, a famous event held in Alappuzha of Kerala, is set to be held in Ras al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this year.The race will be held in the month of March in partnership with International Marine Sports Club Ras Al Khaimah at the Al Marjan Island, UAE. The name of the water race was set after Jawaharlal Nehru’s visit to Kerala Boat Race in 1952.

Q.4 b) A team of researchers has identified a new gecko species from the hills of Attappady, in the Western Ghats, Kerala.The new species, named Hemidactylus easai, belongs to the genus Hemidactylus goldfuss. The gecko measures 105 mm and is a light brown to grey in colour. India has 48 species of geckos of genus Hemidactylus goldfuss.

Q.5 a) 

Q.6 b) The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), and the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), Indonesia, are jointly hosting an ‘ASEAN-India High Level Conference on Renewable Energy (RE)’.

This is being hosted in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). The theme for the conference is ‘Experience and Innovations for Integrated Renewables Market’.

Q.7 b) 

Q.8 a) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) plans to launch a full-fledged women’s Indian Premier League (IPL) as early as 2023. This was informed by BCCI Secretary Jay Shah.

Q.9 c) Karnataka government has launched a self-defence training programme ‘Obavva Art of Self Defence Training’ for 50,000 girl students in schools and colleges.

Q.10 c) In a bid to help youth better manage their Instagram experience, the photo-sharing platform owned by Meta on February 4 launched an online campaign across all India including India.

Q.11 a) 

Q.12 c) 

Q.13 a) Norway continued its dominance at the Winter Olympics by winning two gold medals on the first day of the medal event.

Q.14 d) Indian Cricket team has defeated England by 4 wickets to win the 2022 ICC Under-19 World Cup Championship.

Q.15 a) 

Q.16 b) The Reserve Bank of India will observe February 14-18, 2022 as Financial Literacy week 2022. The theme of Financial Literacy week 2022 is: “Go Digital, Go Secure”.

Q.17 c) Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have announced a new partnership under the Sustainable Access to Markets and Resources for Innovative Delivery of Healthcare (SAMRIDH) initiative.

Q.18 d) Jammu & Kashmir has become the first Union Territory to be integrated with the National Single Window System (NSWS).

Q.19 b) In May 2017, the Central Government had launched SAMPADA (Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters) with an allocation of Rs 6,000 crore. The scheme was renamed as PMKSY in August 2017.

Q.20 a)