Current Affairs

Correct answer: (A) Manoj Soni

Dr. Manoj Soni was the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) at the time of the exam.

Correct answer: (A) Campbell Wilson

Campbell Wilson was appointed CEO and Managing Director of Air India in 2022 after Tata took over the airline.

Correct answer: (B) General Manoj Pande

At the time of the 2022 exam the Chief of the Army Staff was General Manoj Pande, who took charge on 30 April 2022 as the 29th COAS.

Correct answer: (C) 101st

Satyajit Ray was born on 2 May 1921, so in 2022 his 101st birth anniversary was being celebrated.

Correct answer: (B) Rajiv Kumar

Rajiv Kumar was appointed the 25th Chief Election Commissioner of India, taking charge in May 2022.

Correct answer: (C) Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma became the second Indian, after Virat Kohli, to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket.

Correct answer: (C) Ravi Kumar Dahiya

Ravi Kumar Dahiya won India's solitary gold medal at the 2022 Asian Wrestling Championships, in the men's 57 kg freestyle category.

Correct answer: (A) Manik Saha

Dr. Manik Saha was appointed the Chief Minister of Tripura in May 2022, replacing Biplab Kumar Deb.

Correct answer: (B) Czech Republic

After Russia was suspended from the UN Human Rights Council in April 2022 over the Ukraine war, the Czech Republic was elected to fill its vacant seat.

Correct answer: (C) Vivek Agnihotri

The 2022 film 'The Kashmir Files', based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, was directed by Vivek Agnihotri.

Correct answer: (B) Honduras

Xiomara Castro was sworn in in January 2022 as the first-ever woman President of Honduras.

Correct answer: (A) Sri Lanka

The 5th BIMSTEC Summit in March 2022 was hosted (virtually) by Sri Lanka from Colombo, which also assumed the chairmanship.

Correct answer: (B) Shinjo Abe

The Netaji Award 2022 of the Netaji Research Bureau was conferred on former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Correct answer: (C) Ranil Wickremesinghe

Amid Sri Lanka's economic crisis, Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed Prime Minister in May 2022.

Correct answer: (C) Taranjit Singh Sandhu

Taranjit Singh Sandhu was appointed India's Ambassador to the United States.

Correct answer: (D) Hungary

Viktor Orban won a fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister in Hungary's 2022 general election.

Correct answer: (C) 2001

Lata Mangeshkar was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 2001.

Correct answer: (D) Jane Campion

Jane Campion won the Best Director Oscar in 2022 for 'The Power of the Dog', becoming the third woman to win the award.

Correct answer: (A) Namita Gokhale

Namita Gokhale won the 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award in English for her novel 'Things to Leave Behind'.

Correct answer: (B) India

India won the Thomas Cup (men's team badminton) for the first time in 2022, defeating 14-time champions Indonesia in the final.

Correct answer: (A) Victoria

The 2026 Commonwealth Games were awarded to the Australian state of Victoria (later cancelled), so the intended host answer is Victoria.

Correct answer: (B) P.V. Sindhu

P.V. Sindhu won the women's singles title at the Swiss Open 2022, beating Busanan Ongbamrungphan of Thailand in the final.

Correct answer: (A) Balkrishna Doshi

Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi (also a 2018 Pritzker laureate) was conferred the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for 2022.

Correct answer: (A) Louise Glück

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück for her 'unmistakable poetic voice'. Peter Handke won it the previous year (2019).

Correct answer: (D) Classes IX to XII

Under West Bengal's Sabooj Sathi scheme, free bicycles are given to students of government and aided schools/madrasahs studying in Classes IX to XII.

Correct answer: (B) Oman

Cyclone Yaas (2021) was named by Oman, following the rotational naming list of countries in the North Indian Ocean basin; 'Yaas' refers to a jasmine-like tree.

Correct answer: (C) Democratic Party

Joe Biden, the 46th US President, belongs to the Democratic Party. (There is no 'Labour' or 'Nationalist' party among the two major US parties.)

Correct answer: (B) England won Super Over by boundaries.

The 2019 ICC World Cup final and the Super Over were both tied, so England were declared champions on the tie-breaker of having scored more boundaries in the match than New Zealand.

Correct answer: (B) Sushil Chandra

As of June 2021 the Chief Election Commissioner of India was Sushil Chandra, who assumed office in April 2021 succeeding Sunil Arora.

Correct answer: (A) Manpreet Singh

Manpreet Singh captained the Indian men's hockey team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where India won bronze - its first Olympic hockey medal in 41 years. Sreejesh was the goalkeeper and Harmanpreet a key drag-flicker, but the captaincy was Manpreet's.

Correct answer: (D) All of the above

All of these apply. Under Kanyashree, the family income ceiling is waived for a girl who is physically challenged, is an inmate of a Juvenile Justice (JJ) Home, or has lost both parents, so option D covers every listed exemption.

Correct answer: (D) None of the above

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is not a legislative Bill or Act; it is a register/list prepared under the Citizenship Act rules. As of the exam, it existed only as a register (the Assam list), so 'None of the above' is correct.

Correct answer: (B) Dingko Singh

Dingko Singh, the Manipuri boxer who won gold at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games, died in 2021 at age 42 after battling cancer. He was an Arjuna and Padma Shri awardee.

Correct answer: (D) None of them

There was no chief guest at the Republic Day parade of 2021. UK PM Boris Johnson was invited but cancelled his visit due to the COVID-19 situation, so the answer is 'None of them'.

Correct answer: (D) Rohit Sharma

For 2020 the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (now Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna) went to cricketer Rohit Sharma, among five sportspersons honoured that year.

Correct answer: (B) Rs. 1,00,000

Under West Bengal's Gatidhara self-employment scheme (for commercial vehicles by unemployed youth), the maximum government subsidy a beneficiary can avail is Rs. 1,00,000.

Correct answer: (C) a digital equivalent of pamphlets and fliers that helped mobilise protesters.

A 'toolkit' in the 2021 news context (the Greta Thunberg/farmers' protest case) is a shared digital document, the online equivalent of pamphlets and fliers, that lays out ways to spread awareness and mobilise supporters for a protest. It is not an e-commerce platform or a hacking site.

Correct answer: (A) 8

As per the state's records, 8 new government medical colleges became functional in West Bengal over the preceding ten years, expanding medical education and seat capacity in the state.

Correct answer: (C) 100%

Under the Swasthya Sathi scheme the entire (100%) health insurance premium is borne by the Government of West Bengal, making the cashless hospitalisation cover free for beneficiary families.

Correct answer: (D) Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic won the 2021 French Open (Roland Garros) men's singles title, coming back from two sets down to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, capturing his second French Open crown.