GK & CURRENT

AFFAIR
GK & Current Affair Worksheet – 26/04/2024
For students preparing for MAH-B.BCA/BBA/BMS/BBM CET 2024 for admission to BCA,
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CURRENT AFFAIR
DECEMBER 2023 PART – 2

1.Where is the men's club World Championship

volleyball 2023?
Bangalore (Koramangala Indoor Stadium)

Edition – 18, First Indian team to participate in

this championship – Ahmedabad Defenders
2. Who was recently chosen as Time Magazine's
Person of the Year?
Taylor Swift (Famous Singer)
Garba dance is the 15th heritage of India to get
the status of cultural heritage of UNESCO.
This announcement was made on 5 December
2023 in the 18th meeting of the UNESCO
Intergovernmental Committee formed for the
protection of intangible cultural heritage in the
African country Botswana.

Earlier, Durga Puja of Bengal was included in the

World Heritage List at 14th place in 2021.

4. Which Indian university has recently won the

prestigious Green University Award in COP 28?
IIT Mandi
2022 Time Person of the Year- Volodymyr
Zelenskyy
Event- Dubai
3. Who was recently included in UNESCO's 5. Which state has recently won the Santuary
Intangible cultural heritage list? Asia Award for The Best Sustainable Wildlife
Garba Tourism State?
Madhya Pradesh

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6. Who has recently built the world's largest
nuclear fusion reactor?
Japan and EU
Name- JT 60SA
In this nuclear reactor, helium will be created by
fusion of hydrogen, due to which energy will be
provided in the form of heat and light.
7. Who has recently been chosen as the Athlete
of the Year by Time Magazine?
Lionel Messi
8. Who was recently awarded the United Nations
Global Climate Action Award?
Michelle Zá rate Palomec from Mexico and
Sebastian Mwaura from Kenya
He was given this honor in COP 28- UAE.
9. Where was the Green Rising initiative
launched?
Dubai Cares-hosted RewirEd Summit
Objective- To make youth aware about Green
Revolution
10. Which block is on top in the first delta
ranking of the recently released Aspirational
Block Programme?
Tiriyani Block (Telangana)
11. Who ranks first in QS World University
Sustaiabilty Ranking 2024?
The University of Toronto
Delhi University in India – World Ranking 220,
Asia Rank – 30
Delhi University is the only university in the top
300.
12. Which state has Lakadong turmeric GI tag?
Meghalaya's
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13. According to the Dynamic Ground Water
Resources Assessment Report 2023, which is the
state with the highest groundwater increase?
West Bengal
Issued by Ministry of Jal Shakti (Minister
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat)
Second place Assam, third- Telangana
The states with maximum water exploitation are
Punjab and Haryana.
14. Who has recently become the first woman
officer to command a warship in the Indian
Navy?
Prerna Deosthalee
Prerna Devasthali will command the warship
(name- INS Trikand) of the Western Fleet of the
Indian Navy.
INS Trikand was inducted into the Indian Navy in
2000.
15. Which state has started Mahalakshmi
scheme-
Telangana
Under this scheme, women, girls and
transgenders will be able to travel free bus.
Besides this, they will also be given Rs 2500
monthly.
16. What is India's rank in the Global Climate
Change Performance Index?
7th
Who releases the Climate Change Performance
Index – German Watch
In this the first, second and third places are
vacant. Denmark is in fourth place.
Last time India's rank was eighth.
Saudi Arabia at the bottom
17. Who was given the 33rd Vyas Samman?
Pushpa Bharti (Hindi Writer - Uttar Pradesh)
Prize money Rs 4 lakh (by KK Birla Foundation)
For the first time this honor was given to Ram
Vilash Sharma in 1991.
18. Which has become the first state to get 18 GI
tags in a single day?
Uttarakhand
Now Uttarakhand has got GI tag for 27 products.
19. Who became the PM of Poland?
Donald Tusk
Name of the Parliament of Poland – Sejm
Capital of Poland – Warsaw
20. International Human Rights Day-
10th December
Theme - Freedom, equality and justice for all
Edition 75th
UNHRC established 2006 HQ – Geneva
21. Who will preside over COP 29 in 2024?
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan
From 11 to 24 November 2024
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22. What is the deepest and largest underground
laboratory in the world?
China Jinping Underground Laboratory
Name: DURF Deep Underground and Ultra-low
radiation background facility for frontier physics
experiments.
23. Who was the first Asian male player to be
inducted into the International Tennis Hall of
Fame?
Leander Paes and Vijay Amritraj
24. Who is the first female player from Asia to be
included in the International Tennis Hall of
Fame- Li Na
25. Recently in which country thousands of
people were affected by Cyclone Jasper?
Australia
26. Who recently won the title of best track
athlete of 2023?
Noah Lyles
This honor was conferred by World Athletics at a
ceremony organized in Monaco.
India's Neeraj Chopra was named in the top 11 in
Athlete of the Year 2023.
27. In which country was the statue of Tamil poet
Thiruvallur unveiled recently?
France
Thiruvalluvar is called Saint Kabir of South India.
28. When was National Energy Conservation Day
celebrated?
14th December
29. Who tops UK's 2023 South Asian celebrities
list?
Shahrukh Khan, Alia Bhatt is in second place
30. Who has recently become the first Indian
brand to become Decacorn?
IPL
31. Recently, which state government decided to
establish PM College of Excellence in all the
districts of the state?
Madhya Pradesh (Cost- Rs 460 crore)
32. What is the name of India's fastest solar
electric boat launched in December 2023?
Barracuda
33. Who has recently developed AMRIT
technology to remove arsenic and metal ions
from water?
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) –
Madras
AMRIT- Arsenic and metal removal by indian
technology
34. Where was the Tibetan New Year Losar
Festival celebrated?
Ladakh
Wearing a mask is mandatory in this.
35. Which AI operated regional language
translation tool was recently launched by the
Supreme Court?
Suvas
SUVAS - Supreme Court Vidhik Anuvaad
Software
With the help of this software, Kesavanand
Bharti case was translated into 10 languages.
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36. Who has been awarded the Indira Gandhi
Peace Prize 2023?
Ali Abu & Daniel Barenboim
The Indira Gandhi Peace Prize was established
by the Indira Gandhi Trust in 1986. In this, a
prize money of Rs 25 lakh is given.
37. Who has recently launched the world's first
methane-powered rocket Zhuque-2?
China
38. Who tops Mercer's Quality of Living City
Index 2023?
Vienna, Austria
2. Zurich Switzerland
3. Auckland- New Zealand
India's best liveable city is Hyderabad (153rd
position)
Second city Pune (154th position)
Third city Bengaluru (156th position)
39. Who won the title of Miss India USA 2023?
Rijul Maini
40. Which country's NGO AWSDC has been
awarded the International Gender Equality
Award 2023?
Afghanistan
International Gender Equality Prize by Finland
in December 2023.
41. Which country's decommissioned ship INS
Tarmugli was re-inducted into the Navy?
Maldives
INS Tarmugli, a Fast Attack Craft (FAC), was
commissioned into the Indian Navy at the Naval
Dockyard in Visakhapatnam on December 14,
2023.
Tarmugali is an island of Andaman and Nicobar.
Construction – Garden Rich Ship Builders &
Engineers Limited
 Varanasi
42. Who has recently launched India's first
sodium ion battery? 49. Where was the International Geeta Mahotsav
KPIT Technologies organized?
Haryana
International Police Cooperation Day –
Celebrated on 7 September. 50. Which player has won the ITF World
Champion Award 2023?
43. Who has launched Operation Storm Makers- Novak Djokovic
II?
Interpole Women - Aryna Sabalenka
Objective: Prevention of human trafficking
51. When was International Migrant Day
Article 23 describes prevention of human celebrated?
trafficking. 18 December
Theme: Act Today
44. Which state of India became the top state in
receiving FDI? 52. Who won the title of Vijay Hazare Trophy
Maharashtra 2023-2024?
Haryana
45. Who is on top in the recently released Hurun
Top 100 Under 30 list? Final – in Rajkot, Gujarat
Kaivalya Vohra (21 years) and Aadit Palicha (22 Runner up- Rajasthan
years) Player of the Match – Sumit Kumar (Haryana)
It is also known as Ranji One Day Trophy.

53. According to the World Bank report, which

country has become the largest recipient of
remittances in the world in 2023?
India

India received remittances worth 125 billion

Both of them are the founders of Zepto Startup. dollars.
Zepto becomes the first Indian unicorn of 2023 Second place - Mexico ($67 billion)

46. Recently, by what name did OLA launch 54. When is Goa Liberation Day celebrated - 19
India's first AI Model? December
Krutrim
Goa Revolution Day - 18 June
Ola Electric founder Bhavesh Aggarwal launched Goa Foundation Day – 30 May
this model. It can understand 22 Indian
languages. 55. Which Indian city has ranked first in the
country for food adulteration cases as per the
47. Who topped the Khelo India Para Games held data released by the National Crime Records
for the first time? Bureau?
Haryana Hyderabad

Second place is Uttar Pradesh, third place is 56. Who has won the FIH men's junior hockey
Tamil Nadu. world cup 2023
Germany
48. Where did PM Narendra Modi inaugurate the Events - Malaysia
second edition of Tamil Sangam? Germany has defeated France.

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57. In which state did the prime minister GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Narendra Modi inaugurated the Swarved
Mahamandir Dham?
1. What is the longest river in the USA?
Varanasi
Answer: The Missouri River.
Umrah in Varanasi on 18th December
2. Which U.S. state is known as the
"Sunshine State"?
58. Who has been selected for Major Dhyan
Answer: Florida.
Chand Khel Ratna Award 2023?
Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
3. What is the capital of Italy?
Answer: Rome.

4. What is the largest island in the

Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Sicily.

5. Which country is Prague in?

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has Answer: Czech Republic.
announced the National Sports Awards 2023.
6. What river runs through Baghdad?
Answer: Tigris River.
59. Who will be the most expensive player in the
auction for IPL 2024? 7. What is the largest country in Africa by
Mitchell Starc (Australia) – Bought by Kolkata area?
Knight Riders for Rs 24.75 crore. Answer: Algeria.

Became the second most expensive player – Pat 8. Which two countries share the longest
Cummins (Australia) to Sunrisers Hyderabad for international border?
Rs 20.5 crore. Answer: Canada and the United States.

60. Which player was awarded the National
Order of Merit Gold Medal of Bhutan?
Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh
9. What city is the Statue of Liberty in?
Answer: New York City.
10. What is the capital of New Zealand?
Answer: Wellington.

11. Who was the first President of the United

States?
Answer: George Washington.

12. In which year did the Titanic sink?

Answer: 1912.

13. Who wrote the Declaration of

Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson.

14. What was the name of the first man-

made satellite to orbit the Earth?
Answer: Sputnik.

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15. Which war ended with the Treaty of
Versailles in 1919?
Answer: World War I.

16. Who was known as the 'Maid of Orleans'?

Answer: Joan of Arc.

17. What ancient civilization built the Machu

Picchu complex in Peru?
Answer: The Incas.

18. Who discovered Penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming.

19. The Great Wall of China was primarily

built by which dynasty?
Answer: The Ming Dynasty.

20. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel

Prize (in 1903)?
Answer: Marie Curie.

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