Current Affairs 9th February 2023 : Daily GK Update in English

1. Manuela Roka Botey has been appointed as the first female Prime Minister of which country?
A. Finland            
B. Equatorial Guinea
C. Norway           
D. Sweden
Answer [B] Equatorial Guinea
2. Which country has found the radioactive capsule that went missing in January?
A. USA            
B. Australia
C. Russia         
D. Ukraine
Answer [B] Australia
3. ‘World Interfaith Harmony Week’ is being observed in which month?
A. January           
B. February
C. March            
D. April
Answer [B] February
4. Which cricketer scored 126 runs and set a new record for the highest individual score by an Indian in T20I cricket?
A. Virat Kohli                        
B. Shubman Gill
C. Suryakumar Yadav         
D. Rohit Sharma
Answer [B] Shubman Gill
5. Which Union Ministry along with the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment implements the NAMASTE scheme?
A. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs      
B. Ministry of Rural Development
C. Ministry of MSME                                          
D. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Answer [A] Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
6. World’s first ‘super’ ,magnets for testing in nuclear fusion plant is developed by Tokamak Energy in February 2023. In which country is Tokamak Energy based?
A. USA               
B. Japan
C. China            
D. UK
Answer [D] UK
7. Who has been awarded the Golden Book Awards 2023 for the book ‘Now You Breathe’ on 6 February 2023?
A. VP Nandakumar           
B. Aparna Sen
C. Rakhi Kapoor                
D. Ambikasuthan Mangad
Answer [C] Rakhi Kapoor
8. In February 2023, who launched the ‘Save Wetlands Campaign’?
A. Piyush Goyal            
B. Bhupender Yadav
C. Kiren Rijiju               
D. Narendra Modi
Answer [B] Bhupender Yadav
9. Visva-Bharati University, founded by Rabindranath Tagore, is set to become the world’s first “living heritage university”. It was founded in which year?
A. 1920                  
B. 1921
C. 1922                  
D. 1923
Answer [B] 1921
10. Which of the following will organize the 22nd edition of the Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM), from 16th to 26th February 2023?
A. Film and Television Institute of India            
B. Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
C. Asian Academy of Film and Television          
D. National School of Drama
Answer [D] National School of Drama