Q.1 Which day is observed as the UN recognised International Day of Non-Violence?
a. First Saturday of October
b. First Friday of October
c. 01 October
d. 02 October
Q.2 India’s first Sports Arbitration Centre has been unveiled in which city?
a. Pune
b. Ahmedabad
c. Hyderabad
d. New Delhi
Q.3 Who has been appointed as the new Chief of Air Staff (CAS) of the IAF?
a. R K S Bhadauria
b. Anil Khosla
c. Vivek Ram Chaudhari
d. Nirmal Chandra Suri
Q.4 Name the winners of the 2021 Global Leadership Award, by the US India Business Council (USIBC)?
a. Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan
b. N Chandrasekaran & Jim Taiclet
c. Sundar Pichai and Adena Friedman
d. Adar Poonawalla and Adil Zainulbhai
Q.5 Which Indian organisation has been honored with the 2021 Right Livelihood Award?
a. Give Me Trees Trust, Delhi
b. Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE), Delhi
c. Vindhyan Ecology and Natural History Foundation (VENHF), Mirzapur
d. Sulabh International
Q.6 Which country has introduced a new currency with six fewer zeros?
a. Brazil
b. Venezuela
c. Colombia
d. Mexico
Q.7 Who has become the first Indian woman to score a Test hundred on Australian soil?
a. Smriti Mandhana
b. Harmanpreet Kaur
c. Mithali Raj
d. Shafali Verma
Q.8 Which nation’s president has declared a prison emergency after 116 people were killed in a riot?
a. Peru
b. Venezuela
c. Ecuador
d. Bolivia
Q.9 The world’s largest Khadi national flag has recently been unveiled in which place of India?
a. Ladakh
b. Sikkim
c. Jammu & Kashmir
d. Himachal Pradesh
Q.10 What is the theme of the 2021 National Wildlife Week?
a. Life Below Water: For People And Planet
b. RoaR (Roar and Revive)
c. Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet
d. Big cats – Predators Under Threat
Answers –
Q.1 d) Every year, 02 October is celebrated as the International Day of Non-Violence, to mark the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. This day is referred to as Gandhi Jayanti in India.
Q.2 b) The Union Minister of Law and Justice, Shri Kiren Rijiju has inaugurated the first Sports Arbitration Centre of India at Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
Q.3 c) The Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari assumed charge as the new “The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS)” on September 30, 2021. He is the 27th CAS. He succeeds Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria.
Q.4 a) The US India Business Council (USIBC) has chosen Shiv Nadar and Mallika Srinivasan as the recipient of its 2021 Global Leadership Award.
Q.5 b) Delhi-based environmental organisation “Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)” has been felicitated with the 2021 Right Livelihood Award, an international honour, also known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize.
Q.6 b)
Q.7 a)
Q.8 c) Ecuador’s president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system after almost 116 people were killed and around 80 injured in a battle among gang members, one of the worst prison bloodbaths ever in the nation.
Q.9 a) The world’s largest national flag, made up of Khadi cloth, has been installed in Leh, Ladakh, on the occasion of 152nd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 02, 2021. The tricolor is 225-feet long and 150-feet wide. It weighs around 1,000 kg.
Q.10 c)