MCQ on Important Daily Current Affairs of 6th November 2021
In this article, we will discuss MCQ on important current affairs of 6th November 2021 and their answers with explanations.
QUESTIONS
1. NITI Aayog and World Bank will set up a $300-million ‘first loss risk sharing instrument’ to facilitate a program for faster and easier financing of electric vehicles (EVs). Which bank is the program manager in this?
(a) RBL Bank
(b) ICICI Bank
(c) HDFC Bank
(d) State Bank of India
2. WHO has recently granted emergency use listing (EUL) to ____________, adding to a growing portfolio of vaccines validated by WHO for the prevention of COVID-19.
(a) Covishield
(b) Covaxin
(c) Moderna
(d) Sputnik
3. South African author Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for __________.
(a) The Vow
(b) The Prestige
(c) The Promise
(d) The Proposal
4. Who among the following has replaced Jes Staley as the CEO of Barclays bank?
(a) Sunjay Sudhir
(b) Pavan Kapoor
(c) Dinesh Patnaik
(d) CS Venkatakrishnan
5. RBI has issued revised PCA framework for banks. The revised PCA framework will be effective from _________.
(a) January 1, 2022
(b) December 1, 2021
(c) April 1, 2022
(d) July 1, 2022
6. Which of the following country introduced a bill to declare Diwali a national holiday?
(a) Sri Lanka
(b) United Kingdom
(c) Canada
(d) United States
7. Name the Indian cricketer who has won the Arjuna Award in the recently announced National Sports Awards 2021.
(a) Rohit Sharma
(b) Virat Kohli
(c) Shikhar Dhawan
(d) Jasprit Bumrah
8. Who among the following has not awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2021?
(a) Neeraj Chopra
(b) Ravi Kumar
(c) P.R. Sreejesh
(d) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
9. Who has announced that the Central government has extended the benefits of the “Ayushman CAPF healthcare scheme”?
(a) Rajnath Singh
(b) Amit Shah
(c) Narendra Modi
(d) Om Birla
10. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has created ‘Single Window Filming mechanism’, along with which Ministry?
(A) Ministry of Defence
(B) Ministry of Railways
(C) Ministry of Culture
(D) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
11. In the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal, the leaders promised to end and reverse deforestation by which year?
(A) 2030
(B) 2040
(C) 2050
(D) 2070
12. Mandakini river, which was seen in the news recently, starts in which state?
(A) Uttarakhand
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Madhya Pradesh
(D) Bihar
13. IIT Kharagpur researchers have found the presence of which mineral in the Katol L6 Chondrite meteorite?
(A) Bridgmanite
(B) Olivine
(C) Garnet
(D) Pyroxene
ANSWERS
1. D
NITI Aayog and World Bank are setting up a $300-million ‘first loss risk sharing instrument’, with the State Bank of India (SBI) as its program manager.
2. B
WHO has granted emergency use listing (EUL) to COVAXIN (developed by Bharat Biotech), adding to a growing portfolio of vaccines validated by WHO for the prevention of COVID-19.
3. C
South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut won the 2021 Booker Prize for “The Promise”, his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma’s presidency.
4. D
British bank Barclays’s chief executive Jes Staley had quit. Staley has been replaced with immediate effect by its head of global markets, C.S. Venkatakrishnan.
5. A
The RBI issued a revised Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework for banks to enable supervisory intervention at “appropriate time” and also act as a tool for effective market discipline.
6. D
United States lawmakers led by Congresswoman Carolyn B Maloney from New York, introduced a bill to declare Diwali a national holiday in the country.
7. C
Shikhar Dhawan has won the Arjuna Award in the recently announced National Sports Awards 2021.
8. D
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has not awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2021.
9. B
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that the Central government has extended the benefits of the “Ayushman CAPF healthcare scheme” to the personnel of all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs).
10. B
An integrated Single Window Filming mechanism has been created by the Ministry of Railways and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The objective of the scheme is to make the permission for filming across Railways premises easier and more efficient. Under the mechanism, filmmakers can submit online applications for filming at various railway locations under the jurisdiction of any zonal railways in a centralized way.
11. A
In the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal, as many as 110 world leaders promised to end and reverse deforestation by 2030.
12. C
River Mandakini, a tributary of the Yamuna, starts in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district and flows into the Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh Chitrakoot district.
13. A
A study led by IIT Kharagpur researchers have found the presence of mineral bridgmanite, which is the most abundant mineral in the interior of the Earth, within the Katol L6 Chondrite meteorite.
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