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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