CURRENT AFFAIRS
09 FEBRUARY, 2021 TO 15 FEBRUARY, 2021
1. Who
has won the Allan Border Medal at the Australian Cricket Awards for the period
2020-21?
(a) Pat Cummins
(b) Steve Smith
(c) David Warner
(d) Mitchell Starc
Answer:
(b)
2. Who
has won the Belinda Clark Award at the Australian Cricket Awards for the period
2020-21?
(a) Meg Lanning
(b) Alyssa Healy
(c) Ellyse Perry
(d) Beth Mooney
Answer:
(d)
3. Which
state government has introduced a system of issuing a unique 16-digit Unicode
to mark all kinds of landholdings in the state to check the cases of land
disputes and put an end to fake registries of the disputed land and save people
from falling into the trap of fraudsters?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Assam
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Odisha
Answer:
(c)
4. Which
state government has launched the Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise
Pneumonia Successfully (‘SAANS’) campaign?
(a) Kerala
(b) Tamil Nadu
(c) Tripura
(d) Madhya Pradesh
Answer:
(d)
5. Which
state government issued an official gazette notification to declare
Vijayanagara as the 31st district of the state?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Andhra Pradesh
(c) Kerala
(d) Tamil Nadu
Answer:
(a)
6. Meghalaya
Police has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with which of the
following for implementation of the e-Challan within the jurisdiction of the
Shillong Traffic Police (STP)?
(a) Vijaya Bank
(b) Bank of Baroda
(c) State Bank of India
(d) United Bank of India
Answer:
(c)
7. Which
state government has launched a water conservation campaign called
‘Jalabhishekam’, under which more than 57,000 water structures has been
constructed?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Gujarat
Answer:
(b)
8. Which
of the following has put a probe called Hope in the orbit around the MARS and
became the fifth country to launch the spacecraft into the orbit of MARS after
United States, Soviet Union, Europe and India?
(a) Qatar
(b) Kuwait
(c) Saudi Arabia
(d) United Arab Emirates
Answer:
(d)
9. Which
of the following conducted a successful test firing of a short-range
surface-to-surface ballistic missile ‘Babar’ on February 11, 2021?
(a) Bangladesh Army
(b) Afghan National Army
(c) Islamic Republic of Iran Army
(d) Pakistan Army
Answer:
(d)
10. Which
of the following has partnered with Axis Bank on a Unified Payments Interface
(UPI) multi-bank model to provide its users with the option to create and use
multiple UPI IDs with Axis Bank’s “@axl” handle?
(a) PhonPe
(b) Paytm
(c) Freecharge
(d) MobiKwik
Answer:
(a)
11. Who
is the author of the book titled ‘By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a
Life’?
(a) Ram Nath Kovind
(b) Manmohan Singh
(c) Mohammad Hamid Ansari
(d) Àmit Shah
Answer:
(c)
12. Who
is the author of the book titled ‘Platform Scale: For a Post-Pandemic World’?
(a) Geoffrey Parker
(b) Marshall Van Alstyne
(c) Geoffrey G Parker
(d) Sangeet Paul Choudhary
Answer:
(d)
13. Who
has won the first prize in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s
Choice Award Contest?
(a) Chandler Powell, United States
(b) Robert Irwin, Australia
(c) Paul Nicklen, Canada
(d) Kalyan Varma, India
Answer:
(b)
14. Which
film has won “Tiger” award, at the 50th edition of the International Film
Festival Rotterdam 2021?
(a) Kabadadaari
(b) Kalathil Santhippom
(c) Koozhangal
(d) Eeswaran
Answer:
(c)
15. Who
has been crowned as the winner of VLCC Femina Miss India World 2020?
(a) Manasa Varanasi
(b) Manika Sheokand
(c) Manya Singh
(d) Khushi Misra
Answer:
(a)
16. Who
has become the first player in history to score a double century in his 100th
Test match?
(a) Steve Smith
(b) Virat Kohli
(c) Joe Root
(d) Rohit Sharma
Answer:
(c)
17. When
is World Unani Day observed?
(a) 10 February
(b) 11 February
(c) 12 February
(d) 13 February
Answer:
(b)
18. When
is Samarpan Diwas observed on the occasion of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya’ death
anniversary?
(a) 11 February
(b) 13 February
(c) 15 February
(d) 17 February
Answer:
(a)
19. When
is World Pulses Day observed?
(a) 06 February
(b) 08 February
(c) 10 February
(d) 12 February
Answer:
(c)
20. When
is National Women’s Day observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of
Sarojini Naidu?
(a) 07 February
(b) 09 February
(c) 11 February
(d) 13 February
Answer:
(d)
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