Q.1 13-year-old Tajamul Islam has won the gold medal in World Kickboxing Championship. She is a native of which State/ UT?
a. Jammu & Kashmir
b. Punjab
c. Assam
d. Haryana
Q.2 DRDO has signed an agreement with which nation for the development of dual-use technologies?
a. France
b. Germany
c. Russia
d. Israel
Q.3 Who has become India’s wealthiest self-made woman billionaire?
a. Divya Gokulnath
b. Falguni Nayar
c. Leena Tewari
d. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Q.4 Which one is the name of the first global hackathon launched by RBI?
a. DEVELOPER 2021
b. BLOCKCHAIN 2021
c. HARBINGER 2021
d. BANKING 2021
Q.5 National Education Day is being observed on which date?
a. November 12
b. November 11
c. November 10
d. November 09
Q.6 IBM Corporation has launched a client innovation centre in which city?
a. Aurangabad
b. Mysuru
c. Dehradun
d. Bhopal
Q.7 What is the rank of India out of 30 countries in the 1st edition of the Global Drug Policy Index?
a. 18
b. 22
c. 27
d. 11
Q.8 Which day has been declared as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas?
a. November 17
b. November 13
c. November 11
d. November 15
Q.9 Who has been appointed as the new Director-General of Narcotics Control Bureau?
a. Sheel Vardhan
b. Atul Karwal
c. SN Pradhan
d. R Hari Kumar
Q.10 Which city has been selected in the UNESCO network of creative cities?
a. Srinagar
b. Bengaluru
c. Bhopal
d. Dehradun
Answers –
Q.1 a) Tajamul Islam, 13, is the first Kashmiri girl to have represented India and won the gold medal – in the under-14 age category – in World Kickboxing Championship held at Cairo in Egypt.
Q.2 d) The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Directorate of Defence Research and Development (DDR&D), Defence Ministry, Israel entered into a Bilateral Innovation Agreement (BIA).
Q.3 b) She founded Nykaa in 2012 when she was 50-years-old She owns more than half of Nykaa through two family trusts and other promoter entities.
Q.4 c) The Reserve Bank of India has launched its first global hackathon named “HARBINGER 2021 – Innovation for Transformation”.
Q.5 b) National Education Day is observed annually on November 11 to mark the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad since 2008.
Q.6 b)
Q.7 a) India ranked 18 out of 30 countries in the 1st edition of the Global Drug Policy Index which was released by the Harm Reduction Consortium in November 2021.
Q.8 d) The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi has approved the declaration of November 15 as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas to commemorate the brave tribal freedom fighters as part of the year-long celebrations of 75 years of India’s Independence.
Q.9 c)
Q.10 a) Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, is among the 49 cities selected worldwide to join the UNESCO creative cities network (UCCN).