Current Affairs 21th May 2021 : Daily GK Update in English
1. Great cicada hatching, which was making news recently, is a process occurring in which country?
A. China
B. USA
C. UAE
D. Brazil
Answer [B] USA
2. SPOT, which was making news recently, is a technology developed for which purpose?
A. Auto-Parking
B. Testing Coronavirus
C. Checking Nutrition values
D. Robotic Navigation
Answer [B] Testing Coronavirus
3. Which country in its recent study on bird population estimated 50 billion individual wild birds in the world?
A. India
B. Italy
C. Australia
D. France
Answer [C] Australia
4. Farzad-B giant gas field, which was making news recently, is situated in which country?
A. Iran
B. Afghanistan
C. Israel
D. UAE
Answer [A] Iran
5. Which institution releases the ‘State of the Economy’ report?
A. Niti Aayog
B. Department of Economic Affairs
C. Asian Development Bank
D. Reserve Bank of India
Answer [D] Reserve Bank of India
6. Which company signed an MoU (in May’21) with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs for implementing AI based curriculum to skill educators & students in Tribal Schools?
A. Microsoft
B. Google
C. IBM
D. Amazon
Answer [A] Microsoft
7. World’s 1st Private Digital Court was launched by ‘Jupitice Justice Technologies’ using Blockchain & Al. Where is the company located?
A. Noida
B. Delhi
C. Mumbai
D. Chandigarh
Answer [D] Chandigarh
8. Which Insurance Company launched the 1st of its kind portal Integrated Partner Onboarding Solution (IPOS) to its customers?
A. National General Insurance
B. Edelweiss General Insurance
C. Royal Sundaram General Insurance
D. Oriental General Insurance
Answer [B] Edelweiss General Insurance
9. Indian Commercial Airlines “GoAir” was renamed as ______.
A. GoIndia
B. Fly Airways
C. Go First
D. Fly India
Answer [C] Go First
10. In May 2021, Baljeet Kaur & Gunbala Sharma became the 1st Indians to reach the summit of ________.
A. Mount Lhotse
B. Mount Manaslu
C. Mount Nuptse
D. Mount Pumori
Answer [D] Mount Pumori