22 April MCQ : Current Affairs Quiz 22nd April 2022
In this article, we will discuss all the important Current Affairs MCQ of 22 April with full explanations. Where we will discuss the daily current affairs quiz’s questions and answers. So read all the important 22 April MCQs carefully.
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22 April Current Affairs MCQ – Questions
1. Indian-American ____ has been appointed as USA Vice President Kamala Harris’s Defence Adviser.
(a)Shantanu Narayen
(b)Shanti Seth
(c)Prabhat Patnaik
(d)Vinod Khosla
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2. Who has been named as New AAC-Global Peace Ambassador 2022?
(a)Babita Singh
(b)Pratibha Parkar
(c)Dinesh Bhatia
(d)Kishan Dan Dewal
3. Who has been appointed as the new managing director and chief executive officer of Digit Insurance?
(a)M R Kumar
(b)Vijay Kumar
(c)Anthony Heredia
(d)Arunabha Ghosh
4. The World Creativity and Innovation Day are marked annually on which day?
(a)22nd April
(b)19th April
(c)21st April
(d)18th April
5. Which country successfully test-fires Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile?
(a)Ukraine
(b)Russia
(c)China
(d)North Korea
6. PM Modi participates in celebrations of ____ edition of Parkash Purab of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji in New Delhi.
(a)400th
(b)300th
(c)450th
(d)350th
7. Which city is the host of the ‘Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit 2022’?
(a)Noida
(b)Gandhinagar
(c)Indore
(d)Mumbai
8. IMF projects India’s general fiscal deficit at _____% of GDP for FY23.
(a)9.9%
(b)7.6%
(c)8.2%
(d)6.6%
9. India’s first pure green hydrogen pilot plant commissioned in which state?
(a)Gujarat
(b)Karnataka
(c)Assam
(d)West Bengal
10. Which bank imposes Rs.17 lakh fine on Manappuram Finance for non-compliance with KYC, PPI rules?
(a)PNB
(b)SBI
(c)BOB
(d)RBI
11. What is the sixth and the last submarine constructed under Project-75?
(a)INS Vela
(b)INS Vagsheer
(c)INS Khanderi
(d)INS Kalvari
12. NPCI ties up with which of the following country, to offer UPI-based payments?
(a)France
(b)UAE
(c) the US
(d)Canada
13. Who has inaugurated the National Cyber Security Incident Response Exercise?
(a)Ajit Doval
(b)S. Jaishankar
(c)Nitin Gadkari
(d)Manoj Kumar
14. Wimbledon tennis tournament bans players from ____ and Belarus from participating.
(a)Germany
(b)India
(c)Russia
(d)France
15. When was Earth Day is observed annually in 2022?
(a)22nd April
(b)19th April
(c)21st April
(d)18th April
16. What is the theme for International Mother Earth Day?
(a)Restore our Earth
(b)Climate action
(c)Harmony with Nature and Biodiversity
(d)Invest in our Planet
17. Who inaugurated a Nationwide Meeting On Agriculture For The 2022 Kharif Campaign?
(a)Narendra Singh Tomar
(b)Smriti Irani
(c)Narendra Modi
(d)Venkaiah Naidu
18. RBI Fined which firm recently Rs. 17.63 Lakh For Failing To Comply With KYC Regulations?
(a)Muthoot Finance
(b)IDFC First Bank
(c)Manappuram Finance Ltd
(d)None of the above
19. From when Lt Gen. Manoj Kumar Katiyar takes the responsibilities as the next DG of Military Operations?
(a)September 1, 2022
(b)November 1, 2022
(c)July 1, 2022
(d)May 1, 2022
20. Who inaugurated a Nationwide Meeting On Agriculture For The 2022 Kharif Campaign?
(a)Narendra Singh Tomar
(b)Smriti Irani
(c)Narendra Modi
(d)Venkaiah Naidu
22 April MCQs – Answers
1. (b)
Indian-American Navyveteran Shanti Sethi has been appointed as USA Vice President Kamala Harris’s Defence Adviser. Shanti Sethi is the first Indian-American commander of a major US Navy combat ship. Shanti Sethi commanded the guided-missile destroyer, USS Decatur, from December 2010 to May 2012.
2. (a)
Serial entrepreneur Babita Singh has been conferred as a Global Peace Ambassador for promoting Peace through Education, Sports, Art, Culture & Diplomacy at the India International Conclave 2022 held in collaboration with Asia Africa Consortium (AAC) took place in Shangrila, New Delhi.
3. (c)
Digit Insurance has appointed Jasleen Kohli as the company’s new managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) with effect from April 20, 2022. She succeeds Vijay Kumar who retired from the company on April 19, 2022. She served as chief distribution officer (CDO) at Digit, where she was responsible for all of the company’s sales and distribution channels.
4. (c)
World Creativity and Innovation Day are celebrated on April 21 every year. The day aims to raise awareness about the importance of creativity and innovation in problem-solving and encourage creative multidisciplinary thinking at the individual and group levels.
5. (b)
Russia announced that it successfully test-launched a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile at a time when Moscow-West tensions have sharply escalated over Ukraine. The missile was fired from a silo at 15:12 Moscow Time at the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome in northwest Russia’s Arkhangelsk region, the country’s Defense Ministry was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
6. (a)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi releases a commemorative coin and postage stamp on the occasion of the 400th Parkash Purab celebrations at Red Fort, Delhi. India has never posed a threat to any country or society. The country is moving ahead as per the teachings of the revered Gurus.
7. (b)
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will open the Global Ayush Investment & Innovation Summit 2022 at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The three-day conference will bring together key policymakers, entrepreneurs, investors, startups, and other national and international players to discuss innovation and how India can become a global Ayush destination for entrepreneurship.
8. (a)
India’s general government fiscal deficit (states and Centre combined) has been projected at 9.9 percent of GDP for FY23 as rising energy and food prices will put renewed pressure on the fiscal gap, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its report. With renewed uncertainty on the back of the Russia-Ukraine war, commodity markets have been disrupted fuelling inflation. Governments globally will have to shape their responses against the backdrop of increasing inflation.
9. (c)
India’s First Pure Green Hydrogen Pilot Plant Commissioned in Assam. Oil India Limited (OIL), a Government of India enterprise, has commissioned the country’s only pure green hydrogen pilot plant with an installed capacity of 10 kilograms per day at its Jorhat Pump Station in Assam.
10. (d)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs17 lakh on Manappuram Finance Ltd (a nonbanking finance company mainly known for providing personal loans against gold or gold jewelry) for violating its directions on knowing your customer (KYC) norms.
11. (b)
INS Vagsheer, the sixth and the last submarine constructed under Project-75 was launched by Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar. A venture aimed at building six Scorpene-class submarines at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) here, paving the way for the vessel to undergo a series of rigorous trials before getting commissioned. INS Kalvari, INS Khanderi, INS Karanj, INS Vela, INS Vagir are the five submarines before INS Vagsheer.
12. (b)
NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the international arm of NPCI, has entered the UAE market by partnering with NeoPay, the payment subsidiary of Mashreq Bank, and will offer Unified Payments Interface-based payments for Indians traveling to these regions. Both the entities have been creating the acceptance infrastructure over the past year, with the BHIM UPI service now live on NeoPay terminals.
13. (a)
The National Cyber Security Incident Response Exercise was kicked off by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. According to a statement from the National Security Council Secretariat, more than 140 officials would be trained through training sessions, Live Fire, and Strategic exercises.
14. (c)
Players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year. The third Slam of the year became the first to ban players from those countries, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Belarus’ close allyship to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
15. (a)
April 22, 2022, will mark 52 years of Earth Day. Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and provoke policy changes.
16. (d)
On April 22, World Earth Day, also known as International Mother Earth Day, is commemorated. The theme for this year is “Invest in our Planet.”
17. (c)
An Indian-American Navy veteran, Shanti Sethi, has been named Vice President Kamala Harris’s Defense Adviser.
18. (c)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) penalized Manappuram Finance Ltd Rs 17.63 lakh for failing to comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Prepaid Payment Instruments laws (PPIs).
19. (d)
The new Director-General of Military Operations has been named Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar. On May 1st, he will take over the new position.
20. (a)
The National Conference on Agriculture for the Kharif Campaign 2022-23 was recently opened by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
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