UPSC Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: Take This Quiz & Check Your General Knowledge

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts one of the most difficult exams and interviews in India. Year after year, millions of aspirants end up giving the exams after years of hard work, but in the end, only a handful get selected. Along with hard work and dedication, these aspirants look up to those who have cracked these exams and ended up acquiring respectable positions.

Due to their busy schedules with their studies, many UPSC aspirants didn't get enough time to look out for daily current affairs that happened across the world. Hence, we have prepared the UPSC weekly current affairs MCQ quiz question every Saturday from our daily news updates.

UPSC Weekly Quiz

These weekly current affairs questions will help you perform well in a variety of competitive exams, including Indian Railways, Banking, SSC, UPSC, and other state and central exams. Take this quiz to test your general knowledge.

Answers

Answer 1: The song "Naatu Naatu," from the wildly popular Telugu film RRR, made history at the 80th Golden Globes as it became the first Indian song to win the Best Original Song award.

Answer 2: India will celebrate its 74th National Republic Day on January 26, 2023. So far, India has celebrated 73 Republic Days after Independence. On this day, the Constitution of India came into force on January 26, 1950.

Answer 3: India is expected to be the fastest-growing major economy in the world, as it is estimated to grow by 6.6 percent in fiscal 2023¨C24 (FY24), according to the World Bank's "Global Economic Prospects" report.

Answer 4: The world's longest river cruise will cover a distance of 3,200 km in roughly 51 days, reaching Assam's Dibrugarh through Bangladesh.

Answer 5: The MV Ganga Vilas is the first indigenously made cruise vessel to be made in India.

Answer 6: National Youth Day, also known as Vivekananda Jayanti, is celebrated on January 12, the birthday of Swami Vivekananda. In 1984, the Government of India declared this day as National Youth Day, and since 1985, the event is celebrated in India every year.

Answer 7: Japan's passport is the most powerful in the world in 2023; India ranks 85th.

Answer 8: Veteran music director MM Keeravani composed the song "Naatu Naatu."

Answer 9: World Hindi Day, also known as Vishwa Hindi Diwas, is celebrated on January 10 every year by Hindi enthusiasts across the world to mark the importance of and celebrate Hindi as a language.

Answer 10: Even as India is going about the implementation of 75 fully digital banking branches throughout the country, including making allocations for rural areas in the 2022¨C2023 budget, Kerala claims it has emerged as the first state in India to go fully digital in its banking services.

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