Current Affairs, 18 January 2021

 Current Affairs, 18 January 2021

1. Which state government has recently announced the establishment of ‘Flim City’?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Maharashtra

(c) Haryana

(d) Punjab

Answer: (c) Haryana

 

2. Which state government has recently included 367000 families in Ayushman Bharat Yojana?

(a) West Bengal

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Madhya Pradesh

(d) Gujarat

Answer: (b) Uttar Pradesh

 

3. Who recently inaugurated ‘Prarambh: Startup India International Summit’?

(a) Piyush Goel

(b) Nirmala Sitharaman

(c) Narendra Modi

(d) Amit Shah

Answer: (a) Piyush Goel

 

4. Which social worker in Pune received the Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award?

(a) Ravi Kumar

(b) Robbie Gaikwar

(c) Kailash Kangru

(d) Pritam Bairagi

Answer: Robbie Gaikwar

 

5. Which country recently unveiled a submarine-powered ballistic missile?

(a) South Korea

(b) North Korea

(c) Japan

(d) China

Answer: (b) North Korea

*Capital- Pyongyang

*The name of the currency - Won

*President-Kim Jong-un

 

6. Where has the 51st International Film Festival of India recently started?

(a) Kolkata

(b) Goa

(c) Mumbai

(d) New Delhi

Answer: (b) Goa

 

7. Who recently received the SKOCH Challenger Awards?

(a) Rajnath Singh

(b) Piyush Goel

(c) Arjun Munda

(d) None is correct

Answer: (c) Arjun Munda

 

8. Which state government has recently started 'Parashuram Kund Tirtha Jatra'?

(a) Uttar Pradesh

(b) Uttarakhand

(c) Himachal Pradesh

(d) Arunachal Pradesh

Answer: (d) Arunachal Pradesh

 

9. Jüri Ratas recently resigned as the Prime Minister of which country?

(a) Estonia

(b) Fiji

(c) Greenland

(d) Finland

Answer: Estonia

*Capital - Tallinn

*Currency name - Euro

*President- Kersti Kaljulaid

 

10. In which state is India's first labor movement museum being set up?

(a) Kerala

(b) Tamil Nadu

(c) Maharashtra

(d) Andhra Pradesh

Answer: Kerala

*It is being set up in Alappuzha, Kerala

*Capital - Thiruvananthapuram

*CM- Pinarayi Vijayan

*Governor- Arif Mohammad Khan

 

11. Who won the ‘Indian Personality of the Year’ award at the International Film Festival held in Goa?

(a) Prosenjit Chatterjee

(b) Biswajit Chatterjee

(c) Karan Johar

(d) S.S. Rajamouli

Answer: Biswajit Chatterjee

*He is a renowned actor, singer and director

 

12. The late Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan was associated with what?

(a) Tabla

(b) Acting

(c) Music

(d) Cricket

Answer: (c) Music

*He was originally an Indian classical music artist

*He was awarded Padma Shri in 1991, Padma Bhushan in 2006 and Padma Bhushan in 2016.

*He was 69 years old at the time of his death

 

13. Which state is planning to set up a 'Film City' in the state recently?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Haryana

(c) Delhi

(d) Mumbai

Answer: (b) Haryana

*Capital - Chandigarh

*Chief Minister- Manoharlal Khattar

*Governor- Satyadeva Narayan Arya

 

14. Which Union Minister launched ‘Aero India-21’ mobile app?

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) Rajnath Singh

(c) Prakash Javedkar

(d) Karambir Singh

Answer: (b) Rajnath Singh

He is currently the Union Minister of Defense

 

15. Which state government has waived the examination fee of secondary candidates in the current academic year?

(a) West Bengal

(b) Orissa

(c) Tripura

(d) Assam

Answer: (b) Orissa

*Capital - Bhubaneswar

*Chief Minister- Naveen Patnaik

*Governor- Jagadish Mukhi

 

16. In which state ‘Kanuma Festival’ has been celebrated recently?

(a) Karnataka

(b) Telangana

(c) Kerala

(d) Tamil Nadu

Answer: (b) Telangana

 

17. Who was elected as the Vice-Chairperson of US-India Business Council?

(a) Arundhati Roy

(b) Kiran Majumdar Sau

(c) Nisha Desai

(d) Kritika Pandey

Answer: (b) Kiran Majumdar Sau

*USIBC Headquarters - Washington

*Establishment year - 1985

*Chairman- Nisha Desai Biswal

 

18. Pat Gelsinger has recently been appointed as the CEO of which company?

(a) OPPO

(b) INTEL

(c) VIVO

(d) APPLE

Answer: (b) INTEL

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