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Current Affairs MCQs for Practice – 28 March 2022

Question-1

Who is the first woman Supreme Court judge in India?

a)   Indu Malhotra

b)   Sujata Manohar

c)   B.V. Nagarathna

d)   Fathima Beevi

Ans- d

Explanation-

Justice Fathima Beevi was appointed the first woman Supreme Court judge in October 1989 nearly six months after her retirement from the Kerala High Court.

Question-2

How many time zones does Russia have?

a)   12

b)   6

c)   11

d)   5

Ans- c

Explanation-

Russia has 11 time zones, while the U.S. has five. The demand for two time zones rose in India because northeastern India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, because of their geography, see an early sunrise and sunset relative to the rest of the country.

Question-3

Which is India's largest airline in terms of the number of planes and market share?

a)   Air India

b)   SpiceJet

c)   IndiGo

d)   Vistara

Ans-c

Explanation-

IndiGo, the country’s largest airline in terms of the number of planes and market share, will increase its daily international flights from 80 on Saturday to 120 and gradually climb to the pre-COVID number of 170 flights daily. 

Question-4

The Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary is the world’s largest rookery for which animal?

a)   Sea turtles

b)   Seals

c)   Sea otters

d)   Whales

Ans- a

Explanation-

About 2.45 lakh Olive Ridley Sea Turtles crawled ashore on the Nasi-II beach of the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary along the Odisha coast for laying eggs, marking one of the largest opening days arrivals of turtles at the site. Gahirmatha is the world’s largest rookery for the endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtles. 

Question-5

In what field did S. Phangnon Konyak, from Nagaland recently make history?

a)   First Naga woman in the Rajya Sabha

b)   First woman MP from Nagaland

c)   First woman MP from the north-east

d)   First woman from the north-east in Rajya Sabha

Ans- a

Explanation-

S. Phangnon Konyak president of the BJP’s State Mahila Morcha, will be the first woman to represent Nagaland in the Rajya Sabha but not the first MP. The trendsetter was Rano M. Shaiza, who won the State’s lone Lok Sabha seat as a candidate of the United Democratic Party in 1977.

Question-6

The NMC replaced the Medical Council of India in 2020. What is the full form of NMC?

a)   National Medical Council

b)   National Medical Council of India

c)   National Medical Commission

d)   National Medicine Corporation

Ans- c

Explanation-

With at least one lakh foreign graduates in the country, questions are being raised on why neither the National Medical Commission (NMC) nor its predecessor, the Medical Council of India (MCI)ever stepped in to redeem this situation.

Question-7

Which city in Ukraine is called the pearl of the Black Sea?

a)   Odessa

b)   Kiev

c)   Mariupol

d)   Lviv

Ans- a

Explanation-

If Odessa is ‘the pearl of the Black Sea’, Mariupol, the largest port of the Sea of Azov, was the industrial engine of eastern Ukraine. But everything would change in 2014 after the so-called “Euromaidan revolution”, which the Russians call a coup, brought down the elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych.

Question-8

The Five Eyes alliance comprises of which countries?

a)   The U.S.A, Canada, India, Australia, Japan

b)   The U.K., Australia, Japan, India, Israel

c)   The U.S.A., the U.K., Canada, India, Russia

d)   The U.S.A., the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand

Ans-d

Explanation-

The Five Eyes alliance is an intelligence-sharing arrangement between the U.S.A., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Question 9

The ‘Tejas’ project, launched by Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur, is expected to create a 10,000-strong Indian workforce in which country?

a)   United States

b)   United Arab Emirates

c)   Canada

d)   Saudi Arabia

Ans- b

Explanation-

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Sunday launched the “Training for Emirates Jobs and Skills (Tejas)” project at the Dubai Expo. The project is expected to create a 10,000-strong Indian workforce in the United Arab Emirates during its initial phase.

Question 10

India’s space budget as a percentage of the GDP slipped from 0.09% in 2000-01 to 0.05% in 2011-12, and has remained more or less at that level since then. In relation to GDP, India’s spending is more than which of the following countries?

a)   Germany

b)   China

c)   Japan

d)   All of the above

Ans-  d

Explanation-

The space budget as a percentage of the GDP slipped from 0.09% in 2000-01 to 0.05% in 2011-12, and has remained more or less at that level since then. In relation to GDP, India’s spending is more than that of China, Germany, Italy and Japan, but less than of the U.S. and Russia.

Source- The Hindu Newspaper /PIB/ The Indian Express