Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 23 and 24 August 2022

Hello Aspirants,
Here is the quiz based on the Current Affairs of August 2022.

This article will help you to ace in General Awareness Section of the upcoming various competitive exams such as ibps rrb po, ibps rrb clerk, sbi po, sbi clerk, ibp po, ibps clerk, etc.

 

Q1. S. Jaishankar Unveils Bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Paraguay? What is the capital city and currency of Paraguay?

Ans: Capital: Asunción; Currency: Paraguayan guaraní

 

Q2. The Punjab and Haryana governments have agreed to name the Chandigarh International Airport in Mohali after___________________.

Ans: Shaheed Bhagat Singh

 

Q3. Which bank has launched India’s first one-stop solution portal for Electric Vehicles Ecosystem, “All things EV”?

Ans: HDFC Bank

HDFC Bank Founded: August 1994; Headquarters: Mumbai; Chairman: Atanu Chakraborty

 

Q4. What is the India’s rank in the International Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad?

Ans: third

 

Q5. India’s First Observatory To Monitor Space Activity To Come Up In ______________.

Ans: Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand Capitals: Dehradun (Winter) and Gairsain (Summer); Chief Minister: Pushkar Singh Dhami; Governor: Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh

 

Q6. 65th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference to be host by _____________.

Ans: Canada

Canada Capital: Ottawa; Currency: Canadian Dollar

 

Q7. Indian chess master _______________ has defeated world champion, Magnus Carlsen, in the FTX Crypto Cup in Miami, an international chess Championship.

Ans: Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa

 

Q8. World Water Week 2022 takes place from ______________.

Ans: 23 August to 1 September

 

Q9. What is the theme of the World Water Week?

Ans: Seeing the unseen: The value of water

 

Q10. The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is an international day celebrated on ___________ of each year.

Ans: 23 August

 

Q11. What is the theme of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 2022?

Ans: Decolonisation

 

Q12. Which state government will set up 300 rural industrial parks in the state?

Ans: Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh Capital: Raipur; Chief Minister: Bhupesh Baghel; Governor: Sushri Anusuiya Uikey

 

Q13. Which state government is planning to build an education township in the state?

Ans: Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh Capital: Lucknow; Chief Minister: Yogi Aditya Nath; Governor: Anandiben Patel

 

Q14. Who has been appointed as the Secretary to President Droupadi Murmu?

Ans: Rajesh Verma

 

Q15. Who is appointed to UK as India’s High Commissioner?

Ans: Vikram Doraiswami

 

Q16. Global escrow banking solution provider, Castler has partnered with ________ to offer digital escrow services for the bank’s customers.

Ans: Yes Bank

Yes Bank Founded 2004; Headquarters: Mumbai; MD & CEO: Prashant Kumar; Tagline: Experience our Expertise

 

Q17. Which company has started its first cow dung-based compressed biogas project?

Ans: HPCL

 

Q18. Adani Group founder, Gautam Adani has set the ball rolling to acquire a controlling stake of 55.18% in _____.

Ans: New Delhi Television (NDTV)

 

Q19. 23rd Central Zonal Council meeting presided over by Amit Shah in ____________.

Ans: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh Capital: Bhopal; Chief Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan; Governor: Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel

 

Q20. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy successfully flight-tested the indigenously designed and developed Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. Where is the headquarters of DRDO?

Ans: New Delhi

Odisha Capital: Bhubaneswar; Chief Minister: Naveen Patnaik; Governor: Prof. Ganeshi Lal

Delhi Chief Minister: Arvind Kejriwal; Lieutenant Governor: Vinai Kumar Saxena

 

Q21. World Gujarati Language Day 2022 is celebrated every year on __________.

Ans: 24 August

 

Q22. India’s first indigenously developed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus has been inaugurated in which city?

Ans: Pune

 

Q23. Which is the location of the National Seed Congress in 2022?

Ans: Gwalior

 

Q24. What is the name of the 3.5-km-long freight train, which was recently tested?

Ans: Super Vasuki

 

Q25. The Central government has planned to collaborate with which state to develop a ‘district good governance portal’?

Ans: Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh Capital: Itanagar; Chief Minister: Pema Khandu; Governor: Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.)

 

Q26. Which state has inaugurated Rajiv Gandhi Centre of Advance Technology (R-CAT)?

Ans: Rajasthan

Rajasthan Capital: Jaipur; Chief Minister: Ashok Gehlot; Governor: Kalraj Mishra

 

Q27. What is ‘Garba’, which was nominated by India to be inscribed on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list?

Ans: Dance Form

 

Q28. India announced the establishment of a working group on transnational education with which country?

Ans: Australia

Australia Capital: Canberra; Currency: Australian dollar ($)

 

Q29. India’s first commercial space situational awareness observatory is to be established in which state/UT?

Ans: Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand Capitals: Dehradun (Winter) and Gairsain (Summer); Chief Minister: Pushkar Singh Dhami; Governor: Lt. Gen. Gurmit Singh

 

Q30. India recently inaugurated the new Indian Embassy in which country (in August 2022)?

Ans: Paraguay

Capital: Asunción; Currency: Paraguayan guaraní

 

Q31. Which state has announced to set up online monitoring system of medicines in government-run medical institutions?

Ans: Kerala

Kerala Capital: Thiruvananthapuram; Chief minister: Pinarayi Vijayan; Governor: Arif Mohammad Khan

 

IBPS Guruji

🔹YouTube             👉 https://bit.ly/2ZKeQk2

🔹Instagram           👉 https://bit.ly/3kqB4PF

💥Puzzles               👉 https://bit.ly/2QGfRYQ

💥Current Affairs 👉 https://bit.ly/3xD4dyP

💥Maths Tricks     👉 https://bit.ly/2RckNVc

💥Job Alerts          👉 https://bit.ly/3s4hKhE