Hi friends, here is the Current Affairs Quiz: 15 and 16 July 2021. Here we cover all the important happenings of 15 and 16 July 2021 useful for exams. The MCQ Current Affairs Quiz Questions of 15 and 16 July 2021 will be useful for SSC, UPSC, Bank and State PSC Exams.
Current Affairs Headlines: 15 and 16 July 2021
- India’s Tokyo Olympics cheer song “Hindustani Way” has been released.
- United Nations World Youth Skills Day.
- Piyush Goyal appointed as leader of House in Rajya Sabha.
- Draft Drone Rules, 2021 released.
- India’s BHIM-UPI QR-based payments launched in Bhutan.
Current Affairs Quiz: 15 and 16 July 2021
1. Which Union Ministry on 15 July 2021 released Draft Drone Rules, 2021 to provide a secure & a scalable platform to support drone technology?
(A) Ministry of Home Affairs
(B) Ministry of External Affairs
(C) Ministry of Communications and IT
(D) Ministry of Civil Aviation
2. Who was recently appointed as leader of House in Rajya Sabha by Bharathiya Janatha Party?
(A) Ramesh Pokhriyal
(B) Harsh Vardhan
(C) Piyush Goyal
(D) Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Note: Piyush Goyal is the present Union minister for commerce, consumer affairs and food & textiles.
3. The country’s first ‘Grain ATM’ has been recently set up as a pilot project in which city?
(A) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
(B) Surat, Gujarat
(C) Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
(D) Gurugram, Haryana
4. Union Cabinet has recently approved an increase in the Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees and Dearness Relief to pensioners to _ per cent?
(A) 25%
(B) 28%
(C) 31%
(D) 33%
5. India’s Tokyo Olympics cheer song “Hindustani Way” which has been released recently is composed by?
(A) Mohit Chauhan
(B) Shankar Mahadevan
(C) Benny Dayal
(D) A R Rahman
6. United Nations World Youth Skills Day is observed globally on?
(A) 15 July
(B) 16 July
(C) 17 July
(D) 14 July
7. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has recently unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in which country?
(A) France
(B) Russia
(C) Georgia
(D) Italy
8. Who has recently become the first Indian to be selected for judging the gymnastics competition of the Olympic Games?
(A) Deepak Kabra
(B) Ganapathi Swaminathan
(C) Ajay Shastri
(D) Arjun Sharma
9. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has launched India’s BHIM-UPI QR-based payments in which country?
(A) Nepal
(B) Bhutan
(C) Malaysia
(D) Maldives
10. Which state government has recently collaborated with Google to launch a real-time bus tracking system?
(A) Kerala
(B) Delhi
(C) Karnataka
(D) Gujarat
Answers
1. (D) Ministry of Civil Aviation
2. (C) Piyush Goyal
3. (D) Gurugram, Haryana
4. (B) 28%
5. (D) A R Rahman
6. (A) 15 July
7. (C) Georgia
8. (A) Deepak Kabra
9. (B) Bhutan
10. (B) Delhi