Important Current Affairs Questions 2021
Q1 : Manoj Das, who passed away recently, was a famous writer of English and ______?
(A) Odia
(B) Bengali
(C) Hindi
(D) Marathi
Q2 : Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of ASICS?
(A) Ravichandran Ashwin
(B) Virat Kohli
(C) Rohit Sharma
(D) Ravindra Jadeja
Q3 : Who among the following has won the ‘Wild Innovator Award’ 2021?
(A) Ratika Ramaswamy
(B) Arzu Khurana
(C) Currents of work
(D) Arpita S Murthy
Q4 : Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) is located in which state?
(A) Rajasthan
(B) West Bengal
(C) Rajasthan Punjab
(D) Madhya Pradesh
Q5 : Which Indian state government has started a cleanliness drive named ‘CLAP’?
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Punjab
(C) Madhya Pradesh
(D) Andhra Pradesh
Q6 : Name the author of the novel “Whereabouts”?
(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) Ruskin Bond
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Amitav Ghosh
Q7 : Which state has won the e-Panchayat Award 2021 in Category I?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Arunachal Pradesh
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Himachal Pradesh
Q8 : Which country named its first Mars rover as “Zurong”?
(A) Japan
(B) Russia
(C) Vietnam
(D) China
Q9 : DRDO recently successfully test-fired the 5th generation Python-5 missile successfully. Which state of the art missile is a missile?
(A) Air-to-air missile
(B) surface-to-air missile
(C) Air-to-surface missile
(D) Surface-to-surface missile
Q10 : Which country has launched a robot prototype named ‘NEO-01’ to clear space debris?
(A) Russia
(B) Japan
(C) United States
(D) China
Q11 : What is India’s rank on the Chandler Good Government Index (CGGI) 2021?
(A) 54th
(B) 67th
(C) 36th
(D) 49th
Q12 : Which country plans to send a large oxygen plant to India within a week?
(A) Canada
(B) Germany
(C) Sweden
(D) Italy
Q13 : On what date has a space-mining start-up from China launched a robot prototype in the Earth’s lower orbit?
(A) 27 April, 2021
(B) April 22, 2021
(C) April 20, 2021
(D) None of them
Q14 : What is India’s rank in the SIPRI military spending database released for the year 2020?
(A) 10th
(B) 6th
(C) 4th
(D) 3rd
Q15 : Labor Memorial Day is celebrated on __________.
(A) 27 April
(B) 26 April
(C) 28 April
(D) 25 April
Q16 : The Ministry of Personnel has appointed Expenditure Secretary TV Somanathan to which of the following posts?
(A) Coal minister
(B) Health Minister
(C) Finance secretary
(D) None of these
Q17 : Which of the following players became the first batsman to score 50 fifties in IPL?
(A) Ravindra Jadeja
(B) Kedar Jadhav
(C) David warner
(D) Dinesh Karthik
Q18 : The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced to limit the tenure of CEOs and MDs of banks to how many years?
(A) 20 years
(B) 22 years
(C) 18 years
(D) 15 years
Q19 : International Representative Day is observed on which of the following days?
(A) 10 March
(B) 20 January
(C) 25 April
(D) 12 May
Q20 : What is the new vaccine price of SII for state governments?
(A) 200 rupees
(B) 150 rupees
(C) 300 rupees
(D) 350 rupees
ANSWERS
1.A
2.D
3.C
4.B
5.D
6.A
7.C
8.D
9.A
10.D
11.D
12.B
13.A
14.D
15.C
16.C
17.C
18.D
19.C
20.C