Important Weekly Current Affairs Quiz from 8th oct -14th oct
1) At the Korean Open tennis tournament in Seoul, Yoshihito Nishioka of which nation won the men's singles title?
Ans:- Japan
2) Which profession does Tulsi Tanti, who passed away from a heart arrest, belong to?
Ans:- Businessman
3) Which area of study garnered Svante Paabo of Sweden the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
Ans:- Evolution
4) Which state government has introduced the "Asara" pension relief programme?
Ans:- Telangana
5) On which day is World Habitat Day observed?
Ans:- October 03
6) For the advancement of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, how many scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
Ans:- 3
7) Which state's governor, B.D. Mishra, also served as governor while serving as the governor of Arunachal Pradesh?
Ans:- Meghalaya
8) The 36 OneWeb Gen 1 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites will be launched on which GSLV.
Ans:- Mk III
9) Which state has been ordered by the NGT to restore the Sukapaika River within six months?
Ans:- Odisha
10) Which country will award the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize to Yunqing Tang in 2022?
Ans:- China
11) By CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao, which state's Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was renamed Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)?
Ans:- Telangana
12) Who is the author of the book The Last Heroes?
Ans:- P Sainath
13) The three-day Digital India Conference of State IT Ministers was held in which city?
Ans:- New Delhi
14) Which nation's navy and the Indian Navy have a White Shipping Information Exchange Agreement?
Ans:- New Zealand
15) In order to erect 25K mobile towers in 500 days, how much money has the government approved?
Ans:- 26000 crore
16) How much of a fee will there be for using a RuPay credit card for purchases?
Ans:- 2000
17) Which state government is responsible for launching the "Vande Mataram" movement there?
Ans:- Maharashtra
18) Who mandated the six-month closure of Brickwork Ratings India?
Ans:- SEBI
19) The novelist Annie Ernaux of which country won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Ans:- France
20) Which state's president Droupadi Murmu started the "herSTART" initiative to support women-led startups?
Ans:- Gujarat
21) Sandeep Kumar Gupta has been named chairman and managing director of which company?
Ans:- GAIL
22) Who has the Government of India appointed as the UAPA Tribunal's Presiding Officer?
Ans:- Dinesh Kumar Sharma
23) Who has been chosen to serve as the Indian Ordinance Factory Service's director general?
Ans:- Sanjeev Kishore
24) When does the Berlin Festival of Lights 2022 begin?
Ans:- October 07
25) Who won the Tel Aviv Open tennis tournament in 2022?
.Ans:- Novak Djokovic
26) In what state has the Anti-Dust Campaign been initiated to reduce air pollution?
Ans:- Delhi
27) The first three all-female Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) battalions in the state were proclaimed by which state.
Ans:- Uttar Pradesh
28) What insurance provider has chosen Kishore Kumar Poludasu to serve as its next MD and CEO beginning in October 2022?
Ans:- SBI General Insurance
29) Who has been selected by the International Hockey Federation as the male goaltender?
Ans:- PR Sreejesh
30) Which state became the first in the nation to introduce Gati Shakti Portal?
Ans:- Gujarat
31) Which institutions will host the first Inclusive TBI (i-TBI), or Technology Business Incubation, based on green technology in India?
Ans:- NIT Srinagar
32) What day of the year does India commemorate Air Force Day?
Ans:- October 08
33) Which state is home to Kuno National Park, where cheetahs were first introduced?
Ans:- Madhya Pradesh
34) Which state government supports Bundelkhand's first tiger reserve?
Ans:- Uttar Pradesh
35) The "Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Ordinance, 2022" was passed in which state?
Ans:- Tamil Nadu
36) Who is the Tamil Nadu governor?
Ans:- R N Ravi
137) Who has won the 36th National Games' gold medal in Yogasana as the first athlete?
Ans:- Pooja Patel
38) Which doctor of Indian heritage has been suggested to represent the United States on the WHO executive board?
Ans:- Vivek Murthy
39) Which organisation has unveiled the new "SupTech effort" dubbed "DAKSH"?
Ans:- RBI
40) Which organisation published a concept note on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)?
Ans:- Reserve Bank of India
41) Whose group published the report, "Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022"?
Ans:-World Bank
42) When is Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Day celebrated each year?
Ans:- October 09
43) Which country in South East Asia has seen more than 1 million people displaced, according to a UNICEF report?
Ans:- Myanmar
44) Which date is World Post Day observed?
Ans:- October 09
45) Who is the chairperson of the commission established to investigate converted Dalits' Scheduled Caste (SC) status?
Ans:- Justice K G Balakrishnan
46) The CEO of Bank of India Mutual Funds has been named.
Ans:- Mohit Bhatia
47) For which of the following goals did Shri Shaktikanta Das launch the DAKSH SupTech initiative for RBI?
Ans:- Supervisory Purpose
48) Which of the following nations' Center for Civil Liberties (CLL) received the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize?
Ans:- Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, Ukrainian NGO Center for Civil Liberties (CLL) & Russian human rights group Memorial
49) What percent of India's growth for FY23 was the World Bank's revised projection as of October 2022?
Ans:- 6.5%
50) Which IT firm will work with the Indian government to develop a programme to train its digital toolkit?
Ans:- Microsoft