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Welcome to the General Knowledge Section of Free Time Learning. As we are aware General Knowledge (GK) is a very important area in all the competitive exams held in the country. Nowadays, a good knowledge of general awareness is very important in clearing any competitive and government recruitment examinations.

These General Knowledge Question are very important and usefull to UPSC, IAS/PCS, UPPSC, IBPS, SBI, RBI, SSC, CGL, Railway, APPSC, TSPSC, KPSC, TNPSC, TPSC, UPPSC, MPSC, RPSC, BPSC, MPPSC, UKPSC, MPSC, and other competitive exams.

A)
MS Dhoni
B)
Rohit Sharma
C)
Virat Kohli
D)
Dinesh Karthik

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Rohit Sharma


Rohit Sharma became the first Indian cricketer to complete 400 appearances in the Twenty20 format during the second T20I against South Africa in Guwahati on Sunday(2nd Oct 2022).
 
The India skipper, making his 141st appearance in Twenty20 Internationals in the second game of the three-match series against the Proteas, marked the special occasion with a stroke-filled 43 off 37 balls, which included seven hits to the fence and one over it.
 
Rohit, who has led the Mumbai Indians to five titles in the Indian Premier League and was also part of the victorious Deccan Chargers side in 2009, is the most-capped Indian cricketer in the shortest format. 
 
Veteran wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik (368) is second on the list followed by Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni (361). Virat Kohli (354) and Suresh Raina (336) complete the top five..

Source : First Post

Published On : October 4, 2022
A)
Daniel Ricciardo
B)
Max Verstappen
C)
Sergio Perez
D)
Charles Leclerc

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Sergio Perez


Red Bull’s "Sergio Perez" won the Singapore Grand Prix 2022 at Marina Bay on Sunday(2nd Oct 2022).
 
Perez finished 7.5 sec ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who came at the second position. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz grabbed the third position. Perez’s teammate & Italian GP 2022 winner Max Verstappen finished seventh in the race. Hamilton secured ninth. Verstappen needed a win, and other results to go his way, to become world champion for the second successive time.

2022 Singapore Grand Prix race results :

2022 Singapore Grand Prix

Source : Motorsport
 

Published On : October 4, 2022
A)
Antim Panghal
B)
Swati Sanjay
C)
Hina Khalifa
D)
Vinesh Phogat

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Antim Panghal


In the National Games 2022under-20 World wrestling champion "Antim Panghal" won the gold medal in women's 53kg wrestling October 3, 2022.
 
Haryana's Antim Panghal, who made history in August by becoming the first Indian to become U20 world champion in women's wrestling, beat Priyanshi Prajapati of Madhya Pradesh by fall in the final.
 
Gujarat's Hina Khalifa and Swati Sanjay of Maharashtra won the bronze medals in the women's 53kg.

Meanwhile, Olympian gymnast Pranati Nayak picked up two gold medals at the Sama Indoor Sports Complex in Vadodara.
 
The West Bengal gymnast collected her first gold - the uneven bars - in the morning and rounded off her campaign by clinching the floor exercise crown in the evening.
 
In men's 200m cycling, Ronaldo Singh, David Beckham, and Esow Alben clinched the three podium finishes.
 
In National Games,  Services lead the medals tally with 51 medals including 23 Gold, 14 silver, and 14 bronze followed by Haryana with 49 medals including 22 gold, 16 silver, and  11 bronze. Uttar Pradesh has won 13 gold 9 silver, and 8 bronze medals while Tamil Nadu has won 12 gold 9 silver, and 11 bronze medals.
 
The National Games 2022 is being held across six cities, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar, in Gujarat. The National Games 2022 will conclude on the 12th of October..

Source : AIR

Published On : October 3, 2022
A)
Parag Agarwal
B)
Kash Patel
C)
Vivek Lall
D)
Laxman Narasimhan

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Vivek Lall


Vivek Lall, an Indian-origin General Atomics CEO, is honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by US President Joe Biden with citation of 'With Grateful Recognition'.
 
The citation was given to Lall, who has done PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Wichita State University in Kansas, by the AmeriCorps and the Office of the President. It was also personally signed by the President of the United States, as per the official statement.
 
AmeriCorps is a part of the US Government. The organisation aims to foster activities that bring Americans closer together to "serve communities." Dr Lall, an industry leader and scientific community titan works as Chief Executive at General Atomics.

The company is a global leader in the specialised fields of nuclear technology and has developed state-of-the-art Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) like the Predator, Reaper and Guardian drones.
 
Lall, a son of an Indian diplomat, was one of the handfuls of individuals with Indian origins to have been invited to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the past year during his Washington visit.
 
Notably, before his leadership position in General Atomics, Dr Lall worked at other leading organisations like NASA, Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin; his experience and accolades have been considered unparalleled by many in the scientific community and by long-term industry watchers alike.
 
He is serving as a US Technical Team Member to the Noth Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Science and Technology (STO) with the Pentagon.
 
He was appointed in a critical advisory role to the US Cabinet Secretary heading the Department of Transportation, encompassing entities like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in 2018..

Source : Tribune India

Published On : October 3, 2022
A)
Apache
B)
Prachanda
C)
Dhruv
D)
Mangusta

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Prachanda


In a big boost to its combat prowess, the Indian Air Force formally inducted the first indigenously developed multirole light combat helicopters (LCH), named Prachand, into its fleet at its Jodhpur base in Rajasthan in the presence of Defence minister Rajnath Singh, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
 
These helicopters are capable of destruction of enemy air defence, performing counter-insurgency operations, combat search and rescue tasks.
 
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari were also present at the induction ceremony in the 143 Helicopter Unit at the Jodhpur base. 
 
Speaking at the induction ceremony, Rajnath Singh said, “For a long time, there was a need for attack helicopters and during the Kargil war, its need was felt seriously. The LCH is a result of research & development for two decades. And its induction into the IAF is an important milestone in defence production.".

Source : Mint

Published On : October 3, 2022
A)
7 Years
B)
8 Years
C)
9 Years
D)
10 Years

Correct Answer : Option (B) - 8 Years


India’s Mars Orbiter craft has run out of propellant and its battery is drained beyond the safe limit, fuelling speculation that the country’s maiden interplanetary mission Mangalyaan may have finally completed its long innings.
 
The ₹450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission was launched onboard PSLV-C25 on November 5, 2013, and the MOM spacecraft was successfully inserted into the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014 in its first attempt. “Right now, there is no fuel left.
 
The satellite battery has drained,” a source in the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. “The link has been lost.” There was, however, no official word from the country’s national space agency.
 
ISRO officials noted that the Mars orbiter craft functioned for almost eight years(8 Years), well beyond its designed mission life of six months.
 
The MOM — a technology demonstration venture — carried five scientific payloads (total 15 kg) collecting data on surface geology, morphology, atmospheric processes, surface temperature and atmospheric escape process.
 
The five instruments are: Mars Color Camera (MCC), Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (TIS), Methane Sensor for Mars (MSM), Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA) and Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP).
 
“MOM is credited with many laurels like cost-effectiveness, short period of realisation, economical mass-budget, and miniaturisation of five heterogeneous science payloads", ISRO officials pointed out.
 
Highly elliptical orbit geometry of MOM enabled MCC to take snap shots of ‘Full disc’ of Mars at its farthest point and finer details from closest point.
 
The MCC has produced more than 1000 images and published a Mars Atlas..

Source : News18

Published On : October 3, 2022
A)
Neeraj Chopra
B)
Shivpal Singh
C)
Arshad Nadeem
D)
Davinder Singh Kang

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Shivpal Singh


Top Indian javelin thrower Shivpal Singh has been handed a four-year suspension for failing a dope test last year by the NADA's Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel.
 
Shivpal, who took part in the Tokyo Olympics, was placed under provisional suspension in October last year after he failed an out-of-competition test. He had tested positive for banned substance Metandieonone.
 
The ban period for the 27-year-old Uttar Pradesh athlete began from October 21 last year and his ineligibility period will be up to October 2025.
 
In fact, the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel gave the decision in August and surprisingly there was no detailed order uploaded on the website of the National Anti-Doping Agency.
 
Shivpal's test was conducted after the Tokyo Olympics when there was no national camp in operation. His name was there in the list of athletes announced by the Sports Authority of India for the camp from October 15 to December 31 last year. But he was dropped when the camp was extended till March 31 this year..

Source : Business Standard

Published On : October 3, 2022
A)
Linda Vigilant
B)
Svante Paabo
C)
Herbert Kroemer
D)
Sune Bergström

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Svante Paabo


Swedish paleogeneticist "Svante Paabo" was awarded the Nobel Prize 2022 in physiology or medicine on Monday(3rd Oct 2022) “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution," kicking off a week of winner announcements held under the shadow of the bloody war in Ukraine.

Paabo, founder of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and who also serves as an adjunct professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, accomplished "something seemingly impossible" through his pioneering research, the Nobel committee said: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans.

Nobel Prizes 2022: About his  research : Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the sensational discovery of a previously unknown hominin, Denisova. Importantly, Pääbo also found that gene transfer had occurred from these now extinct hominins to Homo sapiens following the migration out of Africa around 70,000 years ago. This ancient flow of genes to present-day humans has physiological relevance today, for example affecting how our immune system reacts to infections.

In 1990, Pääbo was recruited to the University of Munich, where, as a newly appointed Professor, he continued his work on archaic DNA. He decided to analyze DNA from Neanderthal mitochondria – organelles in cells that contain their own DNA. The mitochondrial genome is small and contains only a fraction of the genetic information in the cell, but it is present in thousands of copies, increasing the chance of success.

About the Svante Paabo : Svante Pääbo (born 20 April 1955) is a Swedish geneticist specialising in the field of evolutionary genetics and a Nobel prize laureate. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. He was appointed director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany in 1997. He is also a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

The Nobel Prize : The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million). The prize money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895. The other prizes are for outstanding work in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics..

Source : Japan Times

Published On : October 3, 2022
A)
Jeff Bezos
B)
Elon Musk
C)
Bill Gates
D)
Mark Zuckerberg

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Elon Musk


On Friday(30th Sep 2022), Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of a humanoid "Optimus" robot that shares some Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and sensors with its cars' Autopilot driver assistance features.
 
Optimus was revealed at Tesla AI Day 2022, an event which aimed to demonstrate how far the company's autonomous robot and vehicle research has come.
 
According to media reports, the event gave the first look of Optimus, strolling around the stage, updates on new self-driving software and also a first look at the Dojo hardware powering Tesla's AI research.
 
According to Elon Musk, this humanoid prototype can do more than what was shown live. However, it first operated without a tether during the Tesla AI Day event. Musk also claimed that the difference between Tesla's humanoid and other very impressive humanoid robot demonstrations is that Tesla's Optimus is made for mass production in the "millions" of units and to be very capable.
 
About Optimus robot's prototype :
 
* After much waiting, the Optimus was finally presented in functional form. It has a 2.3kWh battery, weighs 73 kg, it walks about and waves using external actuators.
 
* The autopilot team at Tesla described how far they have gone with fully autonomous driving, which has increased from 2,000 Tesla drivers to 160,000 this year in its beta testing.
 
* Elon Musk suggested a potential worldwide expansion, despite the fact that it is presently only accessible in the US and Canada..

Source : Business Standard

Published On : October 3, 2022
A)
Jio and Nokia
B)
Airtel and Samsung
C)
Airtel and Nokia
D)
Jio and iPhone

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Airtel and Nokia


Airtel and Nokia partnered to bring India’s first 5G enabled immersive experience to visitors at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) 2022.
 
Airtel and Nokia will bring to life the cultural splendour of Kashi Vishwanath temple and the Statue of Unity through holographic images demonstrating the benefits of ultra- fast and low latency 5G network, the companies said in a statement Saturday(1st Oct 2022).
 
The almost life like holograms, will bring to life the architecture and design of these iconic monuments and temples, replicating the physical experience.
 
"With the advent of 5G, immersive virtual tourism is expected to help reinvent the travel and tourism industry where the masses would be able to see remote places and monuments from the comfort of their homes," the companies said.
 
In 2019 India recorded 2321 million domestic tourists traveling across the country. This number fell to almost 620 million during COVID when travel for leisure practically stopped.
 
In 2020, the travel and tourism industry's contribution to GDP was $121.9 billion; the figure is expected to reach $512 billion by 2028..

Source : Mint

Published On : October 2, 2022