ENGLISH QUIZ 30.06.2022

1. Who has been appointed as the new CEO of NITI Aayog?

A. Parameswaran Iyer

B. Vipin Mishra

C. Kiran Kumar

D. Baljit Tripathi

2. Which state has recently announced the launch of a health insurance scheme, ‘Medicep’?

A. Uttarakhand

B. Kerala

C. Goa

D. Telangana

3. Shreya Lenka became India’s first K-pop star, she belongs to which state?

A. Assam

B. Haryana

C. Odisha

D. Chhattisgarh

4. Who has become the first Indian to win a silver in the Asian Track Championships?

A. Shekhar Sharma

B. Jaipal Bhardwaj

C. Ranjit Singh

D. Ronaldo Singh

5. V Krishnamurthy, who passed away was a former chairperson of which of the following companies?

A. SAIL

B. GAIL

C. NTPC

D. ONGC

6. Which women athletes has won the gold medal at the Qosanov Memorial 2022 athletics meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan?

A. Karina Vasilyeva

B. Navjeet Dhillon

C. Yulianna Shchukina

D. Seema Punia

7. Who Indian drones’ startups has received the “Best Drone Organization Start-up Category” by Airwards for its approach of helping local communities?

A. Infoedge India

B. Zomato Ltd

C. IG Drones

D. Aotom Technology

8. Veteran Pallonji Mistry, who has passed away was a famous _________.

A. Political Writer

B. Wildlife Photographer

C. Sportsperson

D. Businessman

9. What is the revised upper loan limit, that is raised by the Kerala Financial Corporation under the Chief Minister’s Entrepreneurship Development Programme (CMEDP)?

A. 2 crore

B. 1 crore

C. 1.5 crore

D. 2.5 crore

10. Which fintech services companies has launched Offline UPI 123Pay payment and wearable ATM cards?

A. Profitbooks

B. Acemoney

C. Monzo

D. Ally Financial

11. Consider the following statements related to NCAP :

1. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) approved the Draft GSR Notification for introducing Bharat NCAP (New Car Assessment Program), in a bid to bring safer cars for India.

2. NCAP will be rolled out from 1st April 2024 and will mean auto manufacturers in India as well as importers will have the option of getting cars star rated within country.

Which of the above statement/statements are correct?

A. 1 only

B. 2 only

C. Both 1 and 2

D. Neither 1 nor 2

12. Consider the following statements related to VPN :

1. As per the new rule issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in), VPN companies have been asked to collect and protect data on their customers for a period of five years.

2. VPN stands for “Virtual government Network” and describes the opportunity to establish a protected network connection when using public networks.

3. CERT-in, which works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has issued a new set of guidelines for coordinating emergency measures along with response activities with respect to cyber security incidents.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

A. 1 and 2 are correct

B. 1 and 3 are correct

C. 2 and 3 are correct

D. All of the above

13. Consider the following statements:

1. The Ministry of Education has released the performance grading index report for the years 2018-19 and 2019-20.

2. In this report, there has been a big change in school education in 2019-20 as compared to the year 2018-19.

Which of the above statement/statements are correct?

A. 1 only

B. 2 only

C. Both 1 and 2

D. Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: 1) A

Explanation

• Former Drinking and water Sanitation Secretary, Parameswaren Iyer has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog for 2 years.
• He will succeed Amitabh Kant. Kant was appointed as the CEO of the National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog) on February 17, 2016, for a fixed two-year term.
• Kant was later given an extension till June 30, 2019. His term was further extended for two years, till this month-end, in June 2019.In June 2021, Kant received another one-year extension.

Answer: 2) B

Explanation

• Kerala government is going to start MEDISEP scheme from July 1, 2022.
• It is a medical insurance scheme for state government employees, pensioners and their eligible family members.
• It will provide cashless medical assistance with comprehensive coverage up to Rs 3 lakh per year.

Answer: 3) C

Explanation

• Shreya Lenka is the first Indian woman to ever have a successful career as a K-pop performer.
• Along with a Brazilian woman named Gabriela Dalcin, the 18-year-old from Odisha is currently a member of the well-known South Korean girl group Blackswan.
• DR Music, the recording company for Blackswan, released the information.

Answer: 4) D

Explanation

• At Asian Track Championship, by placing second in the sprint race on the final day of the Asian Track Championship in this city, Ronaldo Singh made cycling history by becoming the first Indian cyclist to win a silver medal in a continental competition in the senior division.
• The feat accomplished by Ronaldo was the best in a continental competition by an Indian cyclist. Even though he fought hard against the skilled rider Kento Yamasaki of Japan, he won silver.

Answer: 5) A

Explanation

• V Krishnamurthy, a former chairman of steel PSU SAIL has passed away at the age of 97 in Chennai.
• He worked as the chairman of SAIL from 1985 to 1990.
• He had also been the chairman of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), Maruti Udyog and GAIL.

Answer: 6) B

Explanation

• Indian women’s discus thrower, Navjeet Dhillon has won the gold medal at the Qosanov Memorial 2022 athletics meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• She won the women’s discus throw with a 56.24m effort.
• Karina Vasilyeva (Kazakhstan) placed second with 44.61m and Uzbekistan’s Yulianna Shchukina at third with 40.48m on the podium.

Answer: 7) C

Explanation

• Indian startup, IG Drones has been conferred with the “Best Drone Organization Start-up Category” by Airwards for its approach of helping local communities.
• Airwards, is the first panoptic global awards programme of its kind, which identify the positive drone use cases.

Answer: 8) D

Explanation

• Chairman of Shapoorji Pallonji group, Pallonji Mistry has passed away in Mumbai at 93.
• In 2022, Pallonji Mistry stands at rank 125 while he was the ninth richest Indian person as of 2021, as per the Forbes Billionaires List.
• He has been conferred with the Padma Bhushan (2016) for his contribution in business including Real Estate, Textiles, Power, Shipping, Publications and others.
• He was the largest individual shareholder in the Tata Group with a 18.4% holding.

Answer: 9) A

Explanation

• Kerala Financial Corporation has raised the upper loan limit of loans under the Chief Minister’s Entrepreneurship Development Programme (CMEDP) to ₹2 crore.
• Aim: More MSMEs can get funds at a concessional 5% interest rate.
• The Kerala government will provide a subsidy of 3% with the Corporation chipping in with 2% towards the effective interest rate.

Answer: 10) B

Explanation

• Acemoney has launched UPI 123Pay payment and wearable ATM cards.
• UPI 123Pay: Allow people to carry out cashless transactions without smartphones or internet connections by using feature phones only.

Answer: 11) A

Explanation

• Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) approved the Draft GSR Notification for introducing Bharat NCAP (New Car Assessment Program), in a bid to bring safer cars for India.
• NCAP will be rolled out from 1st April 2023 and will mean auto manufacturers in India as well as importers will have the option of getting cars star rated within country.
• The USA was the first country to introduce a programme for testing the safety standards of a car through crash tests.

Bharat NCAP

• The New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) provides a mechanism, wherein automobiles in India will be accorded ‘Star Ratings’, on the basis of performance in crash tests.
• This programme will serve as a consumer-centric platform, and allow customers to use safer cars in the basis of Star-Ratings.
• It will promote a healthy competition among original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across the country, to manufacture safer vehicles.

Answer: 12) B

Explanation

• As per the new rule issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in), VPN companies have been asked to collect and protect data on their customers for a period of five years.
• CERT-in, which works under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has issued a new set of guidelines for coordinating emergency measures along with response activities with respect to cyber security incidents.

VPN

• VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network” and describes the opportunity to establish a protected network connection when using public networks.
• VPNs encrypt internet traffic and disguise the user’s online identity. This makes it more difficult for third parties to track activities online and steal data. The encryption takes place in real time.
• A VPN hides the user’s IP address by letting the network redirect it through a specially configured remote server run by a VPN host.
• This means that if a user is surfing online with a VPN, the VPN server becomes the source of data.\
• Internet Service Provider (ISP) and other third parties cannot see which websites the user visits or data sent and received online.

Answer: 13) C

Explanation

• The Ministry of Education has released the performance grading index report for the years 2018-19 and 2019-20.
• In this report, there has been a big change in school education in 2019-20 as compared to the year 2018-19.
• In this report, the Education Department has prepared this index of the states to show the performance of school education of all the districts through the online portal.
• In this report, the Ministry of Education has prepared the report of the changes in school education in the districts, based on the report of the year 2018-19.
• The Performance Grading Index at the district level consists of a total of 600 marks across all 83 indicators.

Methodology

Structure: The PGI-D structure comprises a total weightage of 600 points across 83 indicators, which are grouped under six categories:

• Outcomes, Effective Classroom Transaction, Infrastructure Facilities & Student’s Entitlements, School Safety & Child Protection, Digital Learning and Governance Process.
• Two categories — digital learning and effective classroom transaction have been added in the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, these categories were not part of the state-level PGI.
• These categories are further divided into 12 domains.