Popular General Knowledge Quiz for Competitive Exams

1. Rabindranath Tagore wrote "Amar Sonar Bangla" to inspire the liberation struggle. 

2. The song was written in 1905 during the first partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon. 

3. This song was meant to rekindle the unified spirit of Bengal, to raise public consciousness against the communal political divide. 4. The first ten lines of this song constitute Bangladesh's national anthem, adopted in 1971 during its liberation war. 

5. Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel laureate for literature and wrote the words and music to India‘s national anthem.

Famous Bengali cartoonist Narayan Debnath passed away at 97 on Tuesday morning at a South Kolkata nursing home after a prolonged illness.

The partition of Bengal was revoked in 1911. A new scheme of partition of Bengal was implemented on linguistic rather than religious grounds.

Some of the scholars in the Court of Kanishka were Parsva, Vasumitra, Asvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Charaka and Mathara.

The Indian government has finalised an air bubble agreement with Saudi Arabia, which will allow all eligible travellers to travel between the two countries. The flights between the two countries will begin on January 1, 2022.

The correct answer is Japan. Japan has introduced a minibus lookalike world's first dual-mode vehicle (DMV) in its town of Kaiyo in December 2021. It is said that the vehicle can run on roads as well as rail tracks. The vehicle runs on normal rubber tyres on the road and on steel wheels on rail tracks.

Pfizer India appointed Pradip Shah(As of Feb 2022) as the chairman of its board following the resignation of R A Shah. Pradip Shah is the ex-managing director and a founding member of Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL).

Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu has launched the book titled ‘Dr V L Dutt: Glimpses of a Pioneer’s Life Journey’ authored by Dr V L Indira Dutt, Chairperson and Managing Director of KCP Group, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The book is based on the life of Late Velagapudi Lakshmana Dutt (V.L. Dutt), the former Chairman of KCP Group.

Ashwani Kumar has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of the city-based public sector UCO Bank with effect from June 1. Prior to this, he was the executive director of the state-owned Indian Bank.