Current Affairs : 07 September to 13 September : Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) : Assam Jobs Guide

CURRENT AFFAIRS

07 SEPTEMBER, 2021 TO 13 SEPTEMBER, 2021

1. Which institute has been top ranked in Overall Category of the NIRF India Rankings 2021?

(a) IIT Guwahati

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru University

(c) IIT Madras

(d) IIM Shillong

Answer: (c)

2. What is the rank of Gauhati University in Overall Category of the NIRF India Rankings 2021?

(a) 67th

(b) 72nd

(c) 75th

(d) 80th

Answer: (a)

3. What is the rank of Gauhati University in University Category of the NIRF India Rankings 2021?

(a) 38th

(b) 45th

(c) 52nd

(d) 63rd

Answer: (b)

4. Which institute has been top ranked in University Category of the NIRF India Rankings 2021?

(a) Calcutta University, Kolkata

(b) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

(c) University of Delhi, Delhi

(d) Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Answer: (d)

5. Who has been appointed as the Governor of Uttarakhand?

(a) Gurmit Singh

(b) Banwarilal Purohit

(c) R.N. Ravi

(d) Jagdish Mukhi

Answer: (a)

6. Who has been appointed as the Governor of Punjab?

(a) Satya Pal Malik

(b) Anandiben Patel

(c) Banwarilal Purohit

(d) Mangubhai C. Patel

Answer: (c)

7. Who has been appointed as the Governor of Tamil Nadu?

(a) R.N. Ravi

(b) Baby Rani Maurya

(c) Banwarilal Purohit

(d) Jagdish Mukhi

Answer: (a)

8. Which of the following has become the first country in Asia to launch a Plastics Pact, a new platform to promote a circular system for plastics?

(a) Japan

(b) China

(c) Bangladesh

(d) India

Answer: (d)

9. Which state government has announced to set up India’s first dugong conservation reserve?

(a) Kerala

(b) Karnataka

(c) Odisha

(d) Tamil Nadu

Answer: (d)

10. Which state government has appointed Rajnish Kumar, a former SBI Chairman, as its economic advisor?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Andhra Pradesh

(c) West Bengal

(d) Gujarat

Answer: (b)

11. Which of the following became the first country in the world to vaccinate children from the age of two against COVID-19, using home-grown jabs not recognised by the World Health Organisation?

(a) Finland

(b) Denmark

(c) Cuba

(d) Kazakhstan

Answer: (c)

12. Which of the following has become the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender?

(a) Guatemala

(b) Honduras

(c) Costa Rica

(d) El Salvador

Answer: (d)

13. Who is the author of the new book titled "Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster"?

(a) Uday Bhatia

(b) Suhel Seth

(c) Shobhaa De

(d) Dinesh Raheja

Answer: (a)

14. Which bank has launched an all-in-one Pointof-Sales (POS) swiping machine dubbed as ‘WisePOSGo’, for its merchant customers to process business payments?

(a) Bank of Baroda

(b) ICICI Bank

(c) Karnataka Bank

(d) HDFC Bank

Answer: (c)

15. Which of the following banks has announced the launch of its digital banking platform named ‘bob World’ with the aim to provide all banking services under one roof?

(a) Bank of Baroda

(b) Punjab National Bank

(c) State Bank of India

(d) ICICI Bank

Answer: (a)

16. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Tata AIA Life Insurance?

(a) Aditi Ashok

(b) Ravi Kumar Dahiya

(c) Bajrang Punia

(d) Neeraj Chopra

Answer: (d)

17. Who has won the Formula One Dutch Grand Prix 2021?

(a) Max Verstappen

(b) Lewis Hamilton

(c) Valtteri Bottas

(d) Fernando Alonso

Answer: (a)

18. Who has broken the world record for most goals scored in men’s international football surpassing Iranian striker Ali Daei’s long-held record of 109 international goals by scoring a brace against Ireland in a World Cup Qualifier?

(a) Lionel Messi

(b) Luis Suárez

(c) Kylian Mbappé

(d) Cristiano Ronaldo

Answer: (d)

19. When is World Literacy Day observed?

(a) 05 September

(b) 08 September

(c) 12 September

(d) 15 September

Answer: (b)

20. When is Word EV Day observed?

(a) 02 September

(b) 05 September

(c) 09 September

(d) 14 September

Answer: (c)