Current Affairs Quiz - February 2022

21. Malkangiri, which topped the most improved aspirational districts in ‘Agriculture and Water Resources sector’, is in which state?
[A] West Bengal
[B] Odisha
[C] Telangana
[D] Punjab

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22. Scientists from which country achieved a milestone in nuclear fusion energy, by generating 59 MJ of sustained energy?
[A] USA
[B] China
[C] India
[D] UK

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23. The National Centre of Excellence in Carbon Capture and Utilisation (NCOE-CCU) has been established at which institution?
[A] DRDO
[B] IIT- Bombay
[C] IISc- Bengaluru
[D] ISRO

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24. An ancient Roman settlement has been recently found by the archaeologists in which country?
[A] Greece
[B] UK
[C] USA
[D] Russia

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25. Which country has devised an AI-based algorithm to identify potentially habitable planets?
[A] China
[B] India
[C] UK
[D] Russia

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26. What is ‘Proxima d’, which was seen in the news recently?
[A] New Vaccine
[B] New Exo-Planet
[C] New Star
[D] New Mineral

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27. Which Indian state has the highest number of killings as a part of ‘Witch Hunting’, as per NCRB?
[A] Jharkhand
[B] Odisha
[C] Gujarat
[D] Uttar Pradesh

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28. India signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tourism cooperation with which country?
[A] France
[B] Australia
[C] UK
[D] Sri Lanka

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29. Which Union Ministry is associated with ‘Digital Sky’ platform?
[A] Ministry of Defence
[B] Ministry of Civil Aviation
[C] Ministry of Electronics and IT
[D] Ministry of MSME

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30. ’SMILE’ is a Central Sector scheme launched by which Union Ministry?
[A] Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
[B] Ministry of Education
[C] Ministry of MSME
[D] Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

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