Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 321: September 2022, Week 1

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Assam/APSC Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 321: September 2022, Week 1

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Q1. Which athlete has recently broken India’s 100m national record?

  1. Amlan Borgohain
  2. Amiya Kumar Mallick
  3. Himashree Roy
  4. Hima Das

Amlan Borgohain

Amlan Borgohain recently broke the national record for men’s 100 meters. He did this by clocking in 10.25 seconds.


Q2. Which film has won the “Best Film” in the popular awards category at the 67th Filmfare Awards 2022?

  1. Sardar Udham
  2. Shershaah
  3. Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
  4. Jai Bhim

Shershaah


Q3. Gautam Adani has become the 3rd Richest Person in the World with how much total net worth?

  1. USD 137 billion
  2. USD 183 billion
  3. USD 191 billion
  4. USD 261 billion

USD 137 billion


Q4. Who has won the title of Miss Diva Universe 2022?

  1. Divita Rai
  2. Sini Shetty
  3. Harnaaz Sandhu
  4. Manasa Varanasi

Divita Rai


Q5. As per a report by Benori Knowledge, India’s rank in the global life insurance market is

  1. Fourth
  2. Fifth
  3. Seventh
  4. Tenth

Tenth

India has now overtaken China and UK to become the world’s 10th largest life insurer.


Q6. Which pharmaceutical company will launch India’s first cervical cancer vaccine?

  1. Serum Institute of India
  2. Glenmark Pharma Ltd
  3. Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories
  4. Divis Labs

Serum Institute of India

The cervical cancer vaccine, Cervavac, is a Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).


Q7. Reliance Industries will set up India’s first and one of the world’s largest carbon fibre plants in which state?

  1. Gujarat
  2. Rajasthan
  3. Uttar Pradesh
  4. West Bengal

Gujarat

Reliance Industries will set up India’s first and one of the world’s largest carbon fibre plants in Hazira, Gujarat.


Q8. Which state education department launches the e-Governance portal Samarth?

  1. Uttarakhand
  2. Maharashtra
  3. Odisha
  4. Arunachal Pradesh

Uttarakhand


Q9. Teachers’ Day in India is observed on September 5 to celebrate the birth anniversary of

  1. S Radhakrishnan
  2. Savitribai Phule
  3. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
  4. Shrikant Jichkar

S Radhakrishnan


Q10. India’s first-ever ‘Night Sky Sanctuary’ is set to come up in which state/UT?

  1. Meghalaya
  2. New Delhi
  3. Ladakh
  4. Rajasthan

Ladakh

The Department of Science & Technology (DST) has undertaken to set up India’s first-ever ‘Night Sky Sanctuary’ in Ladakh which will be completed within the next three months.



Q11. The 36th National Games will be held in which state of India?

  1. Odisha
  2. Kerala
  3. Gujarat
  4. Tamilnadu

Tamilnadu

36th National Games will be organized between September 29 to October 12, 2022, in six cities in Gujarat namely Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Bhavnagar, and Rajkot.


Q12. Which country has recently overtaken the United Kingdom to become the fifth largest economy in the world?

  1. Japan
  2. China
  3. Russia
  4. India

India

India has become the fifth largest economy in the world, pushing the United Kingdom to the sixth spot.

Top 5 largest economy in the world

  1. United States
  2. China
  3. Japan
  4. Germany
  5. India


Q13. Which cities have joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities?

  1. Mysuru, Kochi and Varanasi
  2. Tanjore, Dolavira and Mysuru
  3. Warangal, Thrissur and Nilambur
  4. Jaipur, Mysuru and Varanasi

Warangal, Thrissur and Nilambur

Warangal from Telangana and Thrissur and Nilambur from Kerala have joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC).



Q14. Who has become the 56th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

  1. Liz Truss
  2. Rishi Sunak
  3. Dominic Raab
  4. Boris Johnson

Liz Truss


Q15. Which Indian state/UT launched the Parivar Kalyan Card (PKC) Scheme?

  1. Karnataka
  2. Uttar Pradesh
  3. Madhya Pradesh
  4. Bihar

Uttar Pradesh

The Parivar Kalyan Card (PKC) Scheme will provide a unique 12-digit ID number for each family. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has allowed the state government to link Aadhaar data with the PKC.

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