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TOP 100 WEEKLY QUIZ: March first week (1-6) 2021
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MARCH FIRST WEEK (1-6) 2021
REVIEW OF THE QUIZ
Q.1) Which state government launched India’s First ‘Integrated Machine Tool Park’?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Maharashtra
c) Karnataka
d) Telangana
e) Gujarat
Q.2) Indian Railways to be fully electrified in which of the following years?
a) 2021
b) 2024
c) 2030
d) 2023
e) 2025
Q.3) Matam Venkata Rao appointed as MD & CEO of Central Bank of India. Previously, He was an executive director of which bank?
a) Indian Bank
b) UCO Bank
c) Canara Bank
d) State Bank of India
e) Axis Bank
Q.4) Which football club beat ATK Mohun Bagan to win the 2020-21 ISL League Winners’ Shield?
a) Bengaluru FC
b) Chennaiyin FC
c) Mumbai City FC
d) Jamshedpur FC
e) Kerala Blasters
Q.5) Which city emerged as the best city (larger cities) among 111 other cities in the government’s Ease of Living Index 2020?
a) Ahmedabad
b) Chennai
c) Pune
d) Bengaluru
e) Surat
Q.6) Recently, the central government selected 12 iconic sites under ‘Swachh Tourist Destinations’. Which among the following is not on the list?
a) Sanchi Stupa
b) Ajanta Caves
c) Kumbhalgarh Fort
d) Padmanabhaswamy Temple
e) Sun Temple
Q.7) Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of AIBA’s champions & veterans committee?
a) Dutee Chand
b) Hima Das
c) Mary Kom
d) Vinesh Phogat
e) Sakshi Malik
Q.8) Agritech firm Arya partners with which bank to extend warehouse finance to farmers?
a) Indian Bank
b) UCO Bank
c) Canara Bank
d) State Bank of India
e) Axis Bank
Q.9) Which city emerged as the best city (smaller cities) in the government’s Ease of Living Index 2020?
a) Kakinada
b) Shimla
c) Vellore
d) Gurugram
e) Salem
Q.10) UNGA adopts India-sponsored resolution declared which year as “International Year of Millets”?
a) 2021
b) 2023
c) 2030
d) 2022
e) 2025
Q.11) Which state allowed DBT for disbursement of funds for students of government schemes? (March 2021)
a) Assam
b) Kerala
c) Meghalaya
d) Bihar
e) Rajasthan
Q.12) National Safety Day is observed on which day?
a) March 5
b) March 6
c) March 2
d) March 3
e) March 4
Q.13) Which film honored with the best film (Drama) in the Golden Globe awards 2021?
a) The father
b) Mank
c) Promising Young Woman
d) The Trial of the Cicago 7
e) Nomadland
Q.14) Which company became the World’s first seed producer to have over a lakh acre in production?
a) National Seeds
b) Kaveri Seeds
c) Ganga Kaveri Seeds
d) Harit Kranti Seeds
e) Syngenta India
Q.15) Pramod Chandra Mody gets further extension for three months as the chairman of which authority?
a) Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
b) Directorate General of Civil Aviation
c) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
d) Central Board of Direct Taxes
e) Securities and Exchange Board of India
Q.16) Indian men’s skeet team won bronze in International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup, was held in______.
a) Cairo, Egypt
b) Moscow, Russia
c) Rome, Italy
d) Paris, France
e) Male, Maldives
Q.17) Recently which Indian cricketer announced retirement from all forms of cricket?
a) Surya Kumar Yadav
b) Wasim Jaffer
c) Mayank Agrawal
d) Faiz Fazal
e) Vinay Kumar
Q.18) A book “Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis” is authored by_________________.
a) Jon Krakauer
b) Anindya Dutta
c) Boria Mazumdar
d) Leonard Shecter
e) Jim Bouton
Q.19) Recently who has been appointed as the UN Goodwill Ambassador?
a) Anna Selezneva
b) Irina Shayk
c) Natalia Vodianova
d) Sasha Pivovarova
e) Natasha Poly
Q.20) Zero Discrimination Day observed as on which date?
a) 27th February
b) 28th February
c) 1st March
d) 2nd March
e) 3rd March
Q.21) who is the Union Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways?
a) Nitin Gadkari
b) Mansukh L Mandaviya
c) Kailash Chaudhary
d) Piyush Goyal
e) Shripad Yesso naik
Q.22) Who is the present chairman of ISRO?
a) A S Vishwanath
b) Satheesh Reddy
c) K Sivan
d) A S Kiran Kumar
e) Ritu Karidhal
Q.23) Where is the headquarter of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)?
a) Geneva
b) Washington DC
c) New York
d) Paris
e) Rome
Q.24) Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) celebrated its ______ foundation day on 1st March?
a) 7th
b) 8th
c) 9th
d) 10th
e) 11th
Q.25) Who launched a real-time monitoring system for toll plazas?
a) Piyush Goyal
b) Harshvardhan
c) Nitin Gadkari
d) Nirmala Sitharaman
e) Narendra Modi
Q.26) 39th Agartala International Book Fair begins in Tripura, what is the theme for this year?
a) “Clean Tripura Prosperous Tripura”
b) “Glorious Tripura”
c) “My Tripura, My Culture”
d) “Ek Tripura, Shrestha Tripura”.
e) “Educating By books”
Q.27) 11th Edition of the Global Indian Physicians Congress (GAPIO) held virtually who was the chief guest?
a) Randeep Guleria
b) Harsh Vardhan
c) Venugopal G Somani
d) Soumya Swaminathan
e) Tedros Adhanom
Q.28) ________ is the rate at which the central bank of a country borrows money from commercial banks within the country.
a) Repo Rate
b) MCLR
c) Base Rate
d) Reverse Repo Rate
e) Bank Rate
Q.29) SBI General Insurance signed Corporate Agency Agreement with which Bank?
a) Axis Bank
b) IndusInd Bank
c) Bank of Maharashtra
d) Indian Overseas Bank
e) Bank of India
Q.30) Russia launched the first satellite to monitor the arctic region, what is the name of the satellite?
a) ‘Koronas-Foton’
b) ‘Spektr-R’
c) ‘Perseus-M’
d) ‘Amazônia-1’
e) ‘Arktika-M’
Q.31) Nandkumar Singh Chauhan passed away recently was a veteran _____.
a) Actor
b) Cricketer
c) Journalist
d) Politician
e) Dancer
Q.32) Who received the CERAWEEK Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award?
a) Sergio Moro
b) Boris Johnson
c) Narendra Modi
d) Jair Bolsonaro
e) Donald Trump
Q.33) What is the capital of Myanmar?
a) Nicosia
b) Naypyitaw
c) Thimphu
d) Pyongyang
e) Ulaanbaatar
Q.34) Chandoli National Park is located in which state?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Rajasthan
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
e) Kerala
Q.35) In the DNS settlement method, what does ‘D’ stands for?
a) Demand
b) Deferred
c) Devaluating
d) Dual
e) Deposit
Q.36) Which State/UT topped medals tally at Khelo India Winter National Games held in Gulmarg?
a) Ladakh
b) Haryana
c) Jammu and Kashmir
d) Gujarat
e) Madhya Pradesh
Q.37) ‘Road to Asian games’ campaign introduced for 2022 Asian games. Asian games 2022 to be held in _______.
a) Doha, Qatar
b) Tokyo, Japan
c) Hangzhou, China
d) Geneva, Switzerland
e) Paris, France
Q.38) Which country developed low-cost telescopic device Aries–Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (ADFOSC)?
a) Russia
b) India
c) China
d) USA
e) UAE
Q.39) What is the currency of Norway?
a) Krona
b) Dollar
c) Krone
d) Euro
e) Peso
Q.40) What is the capital of Fiji?
a) Suva
b) Sana
c) Oslo
d) Helsinki
e) Manama
Q.41) Maharana Pratap Sagar lake is also known as Pong Reservoir Lake. Where is it located at?
a) Uttarakhand
b) Punjab
c) Jammu & Kashmir
d) Himachal Pradesh
e) Haryana
Q.42) Anshi National Park is located in which Indian state?
a) Assam
b) Kerala
c) Meghalaya
d) Karnataka
e) Rajasthan
Q.43) Where is the headquarters of the United Nations General Assembly?
a) Geneva, Switzerland
b) New York, United States
c) Brussels, Belgium
d) Tokyo. Japan
e) Paris, France
Q.44) What is the capital of Eswatini?
a) Maputo
b) Lusaka
c) Mbabane
d) Maseru
e) Luanda
Q.45) Name the online platform which was launched by Axis Securities to buy and sell bonds as well as debentures in the secondary market?
a) PAYMENT
b) YIELD
c) SURAKSHA
d) SAVINGS
e) SHIELD
Q.46) India-funded Rs. 246 million for the reconstruction of 3 Cultural Heritages in which country?
a) Bhutan
b) Myanmar
c) Bangladesh
d) Nepal
e) Sri Lanka
Q.47) India signed a key pact with which country for the sale of defence material and equipment?
a) France
b) Russia
c) the Philippines
d) Germany
e) China
Q.48) Name the country which is going to build the world’s first platypus sanctuary to promote breeding and rehabilitation?
a) Canada
b) Singapore
c) Australia
d) Japan
e) Belgium
Q.49) What is the interest rate of Provident Fund deposits for 2020-21 by EPFO?
a) 5.5%
b) 7.7%
c) 7.6%
d) 8.5%
e) 9.2%
Q.50) Which bank signed MoU with the Indian army to handle salary accounts of personnel?
a) HDFC Bank
b) Kotak Mahindra Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) YES Bank
e) Federal Bank
Q.51) Which entity had cancelled Sahara India Financial Corp’s registration as sub-broker?
a) RBI
b) NABARD
c) SIDBI
d) SEBI
e) BSE
Q.52) Our Food Private limited partnered with which bank for arranging cost-effective processing units to farmers through the bank loan?
a) Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank
b) Baroda Gujarat Gramin Bank
c) Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank
d) Kerala Gramin Bank
e) Oriental Bank of Commerce
Q.53) Who was appointed as the Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Morocco?
a) Aman Tiwari
b) Naveen Singh
c) Rajesh Vaishnaw
d) Vinay Sharma
e) Manpreet Singh
Q.54) Who has been appointed as India’s next High Commissioner to Australia?
a) Rakesh Malhotra
b) Vijay Singh Chauhan
c) Gaitri Kumar
d) Manpreet Vohra
e) Ajay Bisaria
Q.55) Which state government launched the ‘Gharoki Pechan, Chelik Naam’ scheme to promote women’s empowerment?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Uttarakhand
c) Karnataka
d) Uttar Pradesh
e) Nagaland
Q.56) Badami Cave temples is located in which Indian state?
a) Punjab
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Maharashtra
d) Karnataka
e) Gujarat
Q.57) Who inaugurated the ‘Maritime India Summit 2021’?
a) Mansukh L Madaviya
b) Narendra Modi
c) Piyush Goyal
d) Nirmala Sitharaman
e) Nitin Gadkari
Q.58) Name the App which was launched by Union Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot along with a handbook “Access – The Photo Digest”?
a) mPassport Seva app
b) Umang app
c) My Speed TRAI app
d) e-Sathi app
e) Sugamya Bharat App
Q.59) Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting join hands with which IIT for a Gaming Centre at the campus?
a) IIT Bombay
b) IIT Madras
c) IIT Bangalore
d) IIT Guwahati
e) IIT Delhi
Q.60) Fino Payments Bank upgraded to Scheduled Commercial Bank status by RBI, under which schedule of RBI Act 1934 banks got the status of schedule banks?
a) Schedule 1st
b) Schedule 2nd
c) Schedule 3rd
d) Schedule 4th
e) Schedule 5th
Q.61) Which bank has partnered with WhatsApp to offer basic banking services?
a) Indian Bank
b) Axis Bank
c) Canara Bank
d) State Bank of India
e) HDFC Bank
Q.62) EXIM Bank inked a $10.40 million soft loan pact with which country?
a) Botswana
b) Mozambique
c) Sierra Leone
d) Eswatini
e) Lesotho
Q.63) India sends the first consignment of Assam’s ‘red rice’ to the US. The rice was grown in the ___________.
a) Lug Valley
b) Chenab Valley
c) Brahmaputra valley
d) Parvati Valley
e) Kashmir Valley
Q.64) Which Minister inaugurated the new Cultural Centre of the High Commission of India in Dhaka, Bangladesh?
a) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
b) Nirmala Sitharaman
c) Rajnath Singh
d) Piyush Goyal
e) Amit Shah
Q.65) PNB Housing Finance signed a strategic co-lending pact with which bank for retail home loans?
a) HDFC Bank
b) Kotak Mahindra Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) YES Bank
e) Federal Bank
Q.66) What does ‘L’ in LEI denotes?
a) Loan
b) Land
c) Liquidity
d) Legal
e) Leverage
Q.67) Which Indian cricketer was appointed as the brand ambassador of Candid Dusting Powder?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Rohit Sharma
c) Shikar Dhawan
d) Rishabh Pant
e) Bhubaneswar Kumar
Q.68) Who was awarded the Bihari Puraskar award 2020?
a) Dhanya Balakrishnan
b) Mohankrishna Bohara
c) Suresh Chandra Mohan
d) Vani Krishnan
e) Sivaraman Nandu
Q.69) Where is Netravali sanctuary located?
a) Goa
b) Karanataka
C) Uttar Pradesh
d) Madhya Pradesh
e) Chattisgarh
Q.70) India with which country holds the first-ever strategic and counter-terrorism dialogue in New Delhi?
a) Malta
b) Nigeria
c) Latvia
d) Austria
e) Kenya
Q.71) Who has partnered with SBI Payments to launch ‘RuPay SoftPoS’ for merchants?
a) NFS
b) NPCI
c) SIDBI
d) SEBI
e) RBI
Q.72) Which health insurance company introduced India’s first health insurance plan with up to 100 percent return on the premium?
a) Kotak Mahindra Health Insurance
b) Aditya Birla Health Insurance
c) Apollo Munich Health Insurance.
d) Bajaj Allianz Health Insurance.
e) Bharti AXA Health Insurance.
Q.73) Who has been appointed as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) in Eastern Naval Command (ENC)?
a) Anil Kumar Chawla
b) Atul Kumar Jain
c) Ajendra Bahadur Singh
d) R. Hari Kumar
e) Ravneet Singh
Q.74) Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj to take additional charge of Revenue Secretary to whom he succeeded?
a) Bhupinder Thakur
b) Ajay Bhushan Pandey
c) Sandeep Thakur
d) Atman Shah
e) Suraj Prakash Sharma
Q.75) Which State to host 5th edition of Indian Women’s League (2020-21)?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Maharashtra
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Odisha
e) Himachal Pradesh
Q.76) Vinesh Phogat beats Vanesa Kaladzinskaya to win gold in Ukraine wrestling, under which category she won the medal?
a) 43 Kg
b) 49 Kg
c) 51 Kg
d) 53 Kg
e) 57 Kg
Q.77) Who has been appointed as the Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau?
a) Kuldeep Singh
b) Samer Shetty
c) Jaideep Bhatnagar
d) Vinoth Kumar
e) Manish Pandey
Q.78) Telangana Grameena Bank (TGB) and Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank (APGVB) became the first RRBs to launch a video-KYC facility, which of the following bank is the sponsored bank of both RRBs?
a) Syndicate Bank
b) Union Bank of India
c) State Bank of India
d) Indian Bank
e) Bank of Baroda
Q.79) Who was appointed as the additional director of Kotak Mahindra Bank?
a) Sanam Shetty
b) Shanmuganathan
c) Ashok Gulati
d) Vinay Singh
e) Kesav Kumar
Q.80) Who headed the National Committee to commemorate 75 years of India’s Independence?
a) Amit Shah
b) Rajnath Singh
c) Narendra Modi
d) Nirmala Sitharaman
e) Piyush Goyal
Q.81) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh participated in a 3-day Combined Commanders’ Conference held in ______.
a) Kevadia
b) Ahmadabad
c) Kolkata
d) Shillong
e) Lucknow
Q.82) Which state government launched ‘Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Yojana’ to uplift 1 lakh families with low family income in the state”?
a) Bihar
b) Haryana
c) Gujarat
d) Maharashtra
e) Manipur
Q.83) Which organisation introduced a $100-million credit guarantee scheme to boost India’s rooftop solar programme for MSMEs?
a) NDB
b) ADB
c) IMF
d) World Bank
e) ECB
Q.84) Atal Innovation Mission Partnered with which company to strengthen the Deep-tech startup ecosystem of India? (March 2021)
a) Autodesk
b) HubSpot
c) MathWorks
d) Nvidia
e) LinkedIn
Q.85) ________ successfully tested the Starship SN10 prototype rocket?
a) ISRO
b) NASA
c) European Space Agency
d) SpaceX
e) Roscosmos
Q.86) Who authored the book titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds”?
a) Amit Khare
b) Harish Sharma
c) Rajiv Malhotra
d) Anil Kumar
e) Indra Malhotra
Q.87) According to NCAER’s Land Records and Services Index 2020-21, Which state ranked first in land record digitisation for the second year in a row?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Maharashtra
c) Karnataka
d) Madhya Pradesh
e) West Bengal
Q.88) Indian women’s trap team won a silver medal at ISSF Shotgun World Cup. The event was held in _______.
a) Tokyo, Japan
b) Moscow, Russia
c) Cairo, Egypt
d) Geneva, Switzerland
e) Paris, France
Q.89) DRDO successfully tested SFDR technology in a bid to develop long-range missiles. The Missile is a long-range ______.
a) Air to Air Missile
b) Surface to Air Missile
c) Air to Surface Missile
d) Surface to Surface Missile
e) None of the Above
Q.90) Indian Medicines Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited (IMPCL) started to sell products on Government e-Market (GeM) portal. IMPCL comes under which ministry?
a) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
b) Ministry of Urban Affairs
c) Ministry of AYUSH
d) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
e) Ministry of Home Affairs
Q.91) Who released the Study Material of Indian Knowledge Tradition Courses Programme recently?
a) Narendra Modi
b) Ramesh Pokhriyal
c) Piyush Goyal
d) Amit Shah
e) Ramesh Bais
Q.92) The merger of Lok Sabha-Rajya Sabha TV into Sansad TV finalized, who has been appointed as the chief executive officer for Sansad TV?
a) Sandeep Thakur
b) Suraj Prakash Sharma
c) Ravi Capoor
d) Atman Shah
e) Sumant Kumar
Q.93) Freedom of Religion Bill introduced in which state’s assembly recently? (March 2021)
a) Haryana
b) Punjab
c) Chhattisgarh
d) Madhya Pradesh
e) Assam
Q.94) Cabinet approved Memorandum of Understanding between India and France on____________.
a) Defence Cooperation
b) Renewable Energy Cooperation
c) Agriculture Cooperation
d) Health Care Cooperation
e) Trade-Related Cooperation
Q.95) Cabinet approved Memorandum of Understanding between India with which country for cooperation in the field of Agriculture and Allied Sectors?
a) France
b) Israel
c) Russia
d) Fiji
e) Bangladesh
Q.96) Indian Air Force to participate in Exercise Desert Flag VI for the first time, in which country it is to be held?
a) Russia
b) Qatar
c) France
d) Saudi Arabia
e) UAE
Q.97) Indian Air Force Participated in 70th Anniversary Celebrations of which country Airforce?
a) France
b) Sri Lanka
c) UAE
d) Germany
e) Bangladesh
Q.98) SIDBI signed MoU with which organisation to test the feasibility of debt capital platform for MSMEs?
a) National Stock Exchange
b) National Company Law Tribunal
c) Central Board of Direct Taxes
d) Bombay Stock Exchange
e) Central Board of Direct Taxes
Q.99) Name the Indian boxer who won a silver medal in the 52kg category at Strandja Memorial in Bulgaria?
a) Ajay Singh
b) Deepak Kumar
c) Narendra Kumar
d) Vinay Sharma
e) Harish Mehta
Q.100) India and which country agreed to conduct marine spatial planning in Lakshadweep and Puducherry?
a) Mauritius
b) Norway
c) France
d) Canada
e) UAE
