Current Affairs of December 2022

1. Which country has emerged as the top destination for India's petroleum product exports?

Ans: Netherlands

 

2. Name Iran's new Satellite launched by the Revolutionary Guard.

Ans: Ghaem-100

 

3. Which has become the second city in India to issue a municipal bond?

Ans: Vadodara

 

4. Which is the first Indian state to Introduce Uniform Gold Price Based on Bank Rate?

Ans: Kerala

 

5. Who has become the 50th Chief Justice of India?

Ans: Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud

 

6. 26th International Malabar Naval Exercise was held at:

Ans: Yokosuka, Japan

 

7. Who has authored book titled 'E.K. Janaki Ammal: Life and Scientific Contributions', featuring the life and remarkable achievements of India's first woman botanist from Thalassery, Kerala?

Ans: Nirmala James

 

8. Name India's first privately developed rocket, by Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace.

Ans: Vikram- S

 

9. Which state will host Khelo India National University Games in 2023-2024?

Ans: Uttar Pradesh

10. Which cities are connected by the first Vande Bharat Express Train?

Ans: Mysuru and Chennai

 

11. Name the single window facility launched by the Indian Army for the welfare and grievances redressal of army wives.

Ans: Veerangana Sewa Kendra

 

12. Which team won the 2022 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20?

Ans: Mumbai

 

13. What is the theme of World Usability Day 2022?

Ans: Our Health

 

14. Who was known as the Father of Election Science'?

 

Ans: Sir David Butler

 

15. Which year has been declared as the ASEAN-India Friendship year?

 

Ans: 2022

 

16. Which Indian athlete was appointed as the 'Friendship Ambassador' of Switzerland?

Ans: Neeraj Chopra

 

17. Who was elected as the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC)?

Ans: Greg Barclay

 

18. Which shipyard has signed an MoU with the Inland Waterways Authority of India to build the country's first hydrogen fuel cell Catamaran vessel for Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh?

Ans: Cochin Shipyard

19. Who was the captain of the England cricket team that won the T20 World Cup 2022 Final?

Ans: Jos Butler

 

20. Who was elected as First Female Slovenia's President?

Ans: Natasa Pirc Musar

 

21. As per World Bank, which will be the first country in the world to receive $100 billion from remittances during 2022?

Ans: India

 

22. Which Coral reef in Australia is going to be listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?

Ans: Great Barrier Reef

 

23. Which city is planning to issue the nation's first local government bond targeting individual investors?

Ans: Indore

 

24. Who is the head of the Panel formed by the SEBI to Review the Corporate Takeover Rules Forms?

Ans: Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar

 

25. A study report, titled 'Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage Policy Framework and its Deployment Mechanism in India', was released by:

Ans: NITI Aayog

 

26. What is the new name given to Monkeypox disease by WHO?

Ans: Mpox

 

27. Which film has won the ICFT -UNESCO Gandhi Medal at the 53rd edition of IFFI?

Ans: Nargesi

 

28. The US dictionary publisher Webster Merriam- announced the word defines 'the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage' as 2022 word of the year. What is the word?

Ans: Gaslighting

 

29. Which animal has been approved as a food animal' by FSSAI recently?

Ans: Himalayan Yak

 

30. Who was crowned as the Miss Earth 2022?

Ans: Mina Sue Choi

 

31. Who was the first woman to referee a men's FIFA World Cup match?

Ans: Stephanie Frappart

 

32. The World's first Hydrogen -Run Aircraft Engine was tested by:

Ans: EasyJet and Rolls-Royce

 

33. International Lusophone Festival jointly organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and Indian Council of Cultural Relations was held in:

Ans: Goa

 

34. Exercise Sudarshan Prahar conducted by the Sudarshan Chakra Corps of the Indian Army was held in:

Ans: Rajasthan

 

35. Who was named as chairperson of the National Statistical Commission?

Ans: Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar

 

36. Who was the Chairman of the Expert Committee on Urban Co-operative Banks constituted by Reserve Bank of India to examine the issues in urban co-operative banking sector and to review regulatory or supervisory approach for strengthening the sector?

Ans: N. S. Vishwanathan

 

37. Who has won Vijay Hazare Trophy 2022?

Ans: Saurashtra

 

38. Third T20 World Cup cricket tournament for blind was held in:

Ans: India

 

39. Who has won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2022 for the book The Chipko Movement: A People's History'?

Ans: Shekhar Pathak

 

40. Who has assumed charge as Chairperson of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC)?

Ans: Hansraj Gangaram Ahir

 

41. Which company has launched India's first passive tax saver fund?

Ans: IIFL Mutual Fund

 

42. Which Organization has released its first annual State of Global Water Resources Report 2022?

Ans: World Meteorological Organization

 

43. Who has penned down the book Brave Hearts of Bharat, Vignettes from Indian History'?

Ans: Vikram Sampath

 

44. Which tropical bamboo species is associated to the occurrence of famines, rat floods and bamboo death in northeast India?

Ans: Melocanna Baccifera

 

45. Name the campaign jointly National launched by Museum of Natural History and UNDP to recognize youth between the ages of 18 to 23 years to become message bearers of sustainable lifestyles.

Ans: In Our LiFE time

 

46. What is the theme of the National Newborn Week 2022?

Ans: Safety, Quality and Nurturing Care- Every Newborn's Birth Right

 

47. What is the new name of India's national grid operator Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (POSOCO)?

Ans: Grid Controller of India Ltd.

 

48. Who was appointed as the chairman of the National Pension System Trust?

Ans: Suraj Bhan

 

49. What was the rank of Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2023?

Ans: Eight

 

50. Which was chosen as the official mascot of Paris Olympics 2024?

Ans: Phrygian cap

 

51. Who was appointed as the Governor of West Bengal?

Ans: Dr. C.V. Ananda Bose

 

52. Uttarakhand High Court is to be shifted from Nainital to:  

Ans: Haldwani

 

53. Which state government is going to build Ramayana, Mahabharata and Buddhist tourism Circuits?

Ans: Uttar Pradesh

 

54. Who was appointed as Meta's new India head?

Ans: Sandhya Devanathan

 

55. Which is the first state in India to launch elephant death audit framework?

Ans: Tamil Nadu

 

56. What was the name given to the mission of launching of India's first privately developed rocket, Vikram-S?

Ans: Prarambh

 

57. First Unani Medicine Regional Center of Northeast Inaugurated in:

Ans: Silchar, Assam

 

58. Who has won the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature?

Ans: Khalid Jawed

 

59. What was conferred the Gandhi Mandela Award 2022?

Ans: Dalai Lama

 

60. Name the Integrated Fire Power Exercise conducted by the South Western Command of the Indian Army, at MFFR in Thar desert of Rajasthan.

Ans: Shatrunash

 

61. Who gets UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize 2022 for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non- Violence? 

Ans: Franca Ma-ih Sulem Yong

 

62. A report titled 'Financing India's Infrastructure Needs: Commercial Financing Constraints and Policy Action Prospects', was released by:

Ans: World Bank

 

63. Which country will host the third edition of the No Money for Terror Conference?

Ans: India

 

64. Which country has become India's biggest fertilizer supplier for the first time?  

Ans: Russia

 

65. Which Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu had launched jumbo trails' to educate its visitors about elephants, the flora and the aboriginal tribes?

Ans: Anamalai Tiger Reserve

 

66. UNESCO-India-Africa Hackathon 2022 was held at:  

Ans: Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida

 

67. Who has become the first Indian woman to win a medal in Asian Cup Table Tennis?

Ans: Manika Batra

 

68. Name the industrialist known for founding the popular drink Rasna, who has passed away recently.

Ans: Areez Pirojshaw Khambatta

 

69. Who was the new Prime Minister of Malaysia?

Ans: Malaysia

 

70. Name the state in which the annual festival of Kadalekai Parishe', also known as the groundnut festival was held.

Ans: Karnataka

 

71. Who was appointed as the new Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)?

Ans: Prof. T. G. Sitharam

 

72. Name the Museum maker who was honoured with Economic Times Inspiring Leaders Award 2022.

Ans: A. P. Shreethar

 

73. Which is the first Indian city to be added to the A-list in the fifth Annual Cities Report published by CDP?

Ans: Mumbai

 

74. Which country has signed the world's longest' gas supply deal with China? Ans: Qatar

 

75. Which has become the first country to formulate a first -of-its-kind policy to prevent suicides as a public health priority?

Ans: India

 

76. Which is the second ship of Project 15B stealth destroyers being built at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited?

Ans: INS Mormugao

 

77. What was the name given to the world's first differently abled astronauts of the European Space Agency?

Ans: Parastronaut

 

78. Name the Tamil Nadu batter who broke the world record for the highest individual score in men's List A cricket by scoring 277 runs.

Ans: Narayan Jagadeesan

 

79. Name the book prepared and published by the Indian Council of Historical Research to showcase the democratic ethos ingrained in India since the dawn of civilisation.

Ans: India: The Mother of Democracy

 

80. Who has become the first male player to score in five World Cups?

Ans: Cristiano Ronaldo

 

81. Name the third of the four Survey Vessels Project, being built by Garden Reach Ship builders & Engineers/L&T for the Indian Navy.

Ans: Ikshak

 

82. The 14th edition of Aero India will be held at:

Ans: Air Force Station, Yelahanka

 

83. Which team won the 2022 Davis Cup?

Ans: Canada

 

84. Which is the first biodiversity heritage site in Tamil Nadu?

Ans: Arittapatti

 

85. Which site in India was conferred with the ward of Excellence at the UNESCO Asia- Pacific Awards Cultural Heritage for Conservation-2022?

Ans: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

 

86. Which is the First science documentary made in Sanskrit and screened at the 53rd IFFI?

Ans: Yanam