Today’s Current Affairs Quiz (17 February 2022) | 17 Feb MCQ
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17 February MCQ 2022
17th Feb Current Affairs Questions
1. Centre has allocated Rs 2.26 crore for Medaram Jatara 2022 Festival. The biennial festival is organised in which state?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Telangana
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Assam
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2. Who has been named as Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21?
(a) Sandeep Bakhshi
(b) Amitabh Chaudhry
(c) Aditya Puri
(d) Shyam Srinivasan
3. Which Indian FMCG company has become the first plastic waste neutral company in the country?
(a) Patanjali
(b) Godrej
(c) Dabur
(d) Nestle
4. Vedanta has tied with which company to form a joint venture for manufacturing semiconductors in India?
(a) Pegatron
(b) Acer
(c) Asus
(d) Foxconn
5. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)?
(a) Sanjay Malhotra
(b) Manoj Ahuja
(c) Rajesh Kumar
(d) Vineet Joshi
6. Maru Mahotsav is celebrated in which of the following state?
(a) Haryana
(b) Bihar
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Assam
7. The Ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) has projected India’s gross domestic product (GDP) deflator for FY23 at _________.
(a) 2.5-2.9%
(b) 3.0-3.5%
(c) 5.0-5.5%
(d) 6.8-7.3%
8. India’s retail inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), rose to ______% in the month of January.
(a) 4.51%
(b) 4.79%
(c) 5.31%
(d) 6.01%
9. The Centre has reduced the agri-cess for Crude Palm Oil from ___________to 5 percent.
(a) 5.5 %
(b) 7.5 %
(c) 12.5 %
(d) 8.5 %
10. Recently, ICC has announced as Heather Knight as the women Player of the Month for January 2022. She is the women’s team captain of ___________.
(a) England
(b) South Africa
(c) Australia
(d) New Zealand
11. The government of India has banned ____ apps of Chinese origin citing security concerns.
(a) 51
(b) 52
(c) 53
(d) 54
12. Bappi Lahiri who passed away was related to which field?
(a) Businessman
(b) Director
(c) Environmentalist
(d) Singer
13. Who has launched the first colour souvenir coin on ‘Panchtantra’ on the occasion of the 17th foundation day of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL)?
(a) Nirmala Sitharaman
(b) Rajnath Singh
(c) Narendra Modi
(d) Amit Shah
14. ______ has bagged the ICAI award for excellence in financial reporting for the year 2020-21 in Public Sector Entities Category.
(a) RBI
(b) ICICI Bank
(c) RailTel
(d) SBI
15. Haryana cadre IPS officer Kala Ramachandran has recently been appointed as the first woman police commissioner of which city?
(a) Panipat
(b) Sonipat
(c) Gurugram
(d) Delhi
16. Which of the following High Court has struck down the provisions of the Karnataka Police Act, 2021?
(a) Pune High Court
(b) Chennai High Court
(c) Delhi High Court
(d) Karnataka High Court
17. Which Indian mining major has tied up with Foxconn to manufacture semiconductors in India?
(a) Hindustan Zinc
(b) Vedanta
(c) Hindlow Industries
(d) Jindal Industrial
18. Which of the following IAS officer has been recently appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education?
(a) Manoj Ahuja
(b) Sumit Sharma
(c) Sanjit Mehta
(d) Vineet Joshi
19. Which company has become the first Indian consumer goods company to become completely plastic waste neutral?
(a) Facebook
(b) Google
(c) Microsoft
(d) Dabur India
20. Which of the following bank’s MD & CEO Sandeep Bakshi has been named Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21?
(a) Canara Bank
(b) Indusland Bank
(c) Yes Bank
(d) ICICI Bank
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17 February MCQs – Answers
1. B
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India, has sanctioned Rs. 2.26 Crores for Medaram Jatara 2022 Festival in Telangana.
2. A
Sandeep Bakhshi has been named the Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21. He is the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of ICICI Bank.
3. C
Dabur India has become the first Indian consumer goods company to become completely plastic waste neutral.
4. D
The Indian mining major Vedanta has inked an MoU with Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company, Hon Hai Technology Group (better known as Foxconn) to form a joint venture (JV) for manufacturing semiconductors in India.
5. D
IAS Vineet Joshi has been appointed as the new Chairman of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) with effect from February 14, 2022.
6. C
The renowned Jaisalmer Desert Festival, also known as Maru Mahotsav of the Golden City started from 13 to 16 February 2022 at Pokaran village in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
7. B
The Ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) projected India’s gross domestic product (GDP) deflator for FY23 at 3 to 3.5%.
8. D
India’s retail inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), accelerated to 6.01% in the month of January, breaching the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tolerance band of 6%, albeit marginally.
9. B
With a view to provide further relief to consumers and to keep in check any further rise in the prices of domestic edible oils, the Centre has reduced the agri-cess for Crude Palm Oil from 7.5 percent to 5 percent.
10. A
South Africa’s Test sensation Keegan Petersen and England women’s team captain Heather Knight were voted ICC Players of the Month for January 2022.
11. D
The government of India has banned 54 apps of Chinese origin citing security concerns. The apps include Sea Ltd.’s marquee game Free Fire and other apps related to tech firms like Tencent, Alibaba and NetEase.
12. D
Veteran singer and composer, Bappi Lahiri has passed away at the age of 69. He was lovingly called Bappi Da in the industry is known for delivering iconic songs in several films of the late 1970s-80s like Chalte Chalte, Disco Dancer, and Sharaabi.
13. A
Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has launched the first colour souvenir coin on ‘Panchtantra’ on the occasion of the 17th foundation day of Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL).
14. C
RailTel has bagged the ICAI award for excellence in financial reporting for the year 2020-21 in Public Sector Entities Category.
15. C
Haryana cadre IPS officer Kala Ramachandran has recently been appointed as the first woman police commissioner of the city of Gurugram. He did K.K. Rao has been replaced. They have been shifted to the Police Training and Research Center at Bhondsi near Gurugram.
16. D
The Karnataka High Court consists of Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Krishna S. Dixit recently struck down the provisions of the Karnataka Police Act, 2021. Whereas online games were banned. All forms of online games including all forms of betting, betting and gambling are banned in Karnataka.
17. B
India’s mining major Vedanta recently signed an agreement with Taiwan’s electronics manufacturing company Hon High Technology Group (Foxconn) to manufacture semiconductors in India. has done. Anil Agarwal, presently non-executive chairman of Vedanta, will be the chairman of the joint venture company.
18. D
IAS officer Vineet Joshi has recently been appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education. He will replace IAS Manoj Ahuja. While Manoj Ahuja has been appointed as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
19. D
Recently Dabur India Company has become the first Indian consumer goods company to become completely plastic waste neutral. Dabur has done this by collecting, processing and recycling around 27,000 metric tonnes of post-consumer plastic waste during FY 2021-22.
20. D
ICICI Bank’s Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sandeep Bakshi has been chosen as the Business Standard Banker of the Year 2020-21. The winner was selected by a 5-member jury headed by former RBI Deputy Governor SS Mundra.
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