Q.1 India has signed a Rail Services Agreement with which nation?
a. Nepal
b. Bangladesh
c. Myanmar
d. Bhutan
Q.2 Which portfolio has new Cabinet Minister Anurag Thakur received?
a. Minister of Law and Justice
b. Minister of Information and Broadcasting
c. Minister of Civil Aviation
d. Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Q.3 Which of the following two cities of India are ready to host the Women’s Asian Cup 2022?
a. Mumbai and Pune
b. Bhubaneswar and Ahmedabad
c. Chandigarh and Gandhinagar
d. Mumbai and Delhi
Q.4 Who has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award for Economics?
a. Amartya Sen
b. Kaushik Basu
c. Raghuram Rajan
d.Jagdish Bhagwati
Q.5 Name the winner of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee contest?
a. Zaila Avant-garde
b. Rishik Gandhasri
c. Christopher Serrao
d. Erin Howard
Q.6 Recently the Indian Army has named a firing range at Gulmarg in Jammu & Kashmir after which of these Bollywood actress?
a. Priyanka Chopra
b. Vidya Balan
c. Deepika Padukone
d. Anushka Sharma
Q.7 Who is the author of the book “The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha”?
a. Kapil Sibal
b. S. Jaishankar
c. Jairam Ramesh
d. Salman Khurshid
Q.8 Government has constituted a 25-member Development Council for Cement Industry (DCCI).Who is the Chairperson of this Council?
a. Puneet Dalmia
b. HM Bangur
c. K C Jhanwar
d. Madhav Krishna Singhania
Q.9 Which of the following movie has recently been added to the National Film Archive of India?
a. PatherPanchari
b. Lagaan
c. Devadas
d. PK
Q.10 Name the author of the book “The Pregnancy Bible”?
a. Vidya Balan
b. Anushka Sharma
c. Neha Dhupia
d. Kareena Kapoor Khan
Answers –
Q.1 a) India and Nepal on July 9, 2021 signed a Letter of Exchange (LoE) to revise the 2004 India-Nepal Rail Services Agreement (RSA) which will facilitate the import and export of goods through the Indian railway freight services.
Q.2 b)
Q.3 a) Women’s Asian Cup in India will be held in Mumbai and Pune after the Asian Football Confederation dropped Bhubaneswar and Ahmedabad as venues to minimise the travelling time for participants and ensure an “optimum environment” for a bio-secure bubble.
Q.4 b) Indian economist Kaushik Basu has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award for Economics. The award was conferred on him by Professor Dr Hans-Bernd Schäfer of Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.
Q.5 a) Zaila Avant-garde, an African-American, from New Orleans in Louisiana, has won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Q.6 b) The Indian Army has named a military firing range, situated at Gulmarg in the Baramulla district of Jammu & Kashmir, after Bollywood actress Vidya Balan. The firing range will now be called as ‘Vidya Balan Firing Range’.
Q.7 c)
Q.8 a)
Q.9 d) National Film Archive of India (NFAI), announced a significant addition of the original camera negative of Rajkumar Hirani’s 2014 film ‘PK’ in its collection. The filmmaker handed the negatives over to Director NFAI, Prakash Magdum, in Mumbai.
Q.10 d)