Current Affairs Today Quiz - 22 January 2021

1. Who won the Ice Hockey Association of India (IHAI) 10th National Ice Hockey Championship trophy after a superb win in the finals in Gulmarg on 22nd January 2021?

Ladakh
Delhi
ITBP
CRPF

2. Which well-known bhajan singer died at a Delhi hospital on Friday, 22nd Jan 2021?

Narendra Chanchal
Anup Jalota
Vishnu Bhatnagar
Rattan Mohan Sharma

3. DRDO successfully conducted captive and release trial of indigenously developed Smart Anti-Airfield Weapon SAAW from Hawk-I of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) off the Odisha coast on 21st January 2021. The smart weapon was successfully test-fired on Thursday from Indian Hawk-Mk132 of HAL. This was the ninth successful mission of SAAW conducted by DRDO till now. It was a text book launch, which met all mission objectives. The telemetry and tracking systems installed at Interim Test Range (ITR), Balasore captured all the mission events. SAAW is indigenously designed and developed by DRDO’s Research Centre Imarat (RCI) _____________.

Pune
Kanpur
Ghaziabad
Hyderabad

4. Which country announced sanctions on 28 former Trump administration officials after they left office on Wednesday, 20th January 2021 including former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo?

UK
China
Taiwan
Italy

5. Two new species of a rare ant genus have been discovered in India. The species of the ant genus Ooceraea found in Kerala, and Tamil Nadu adds to the diversity of this rare genus. They differ from others of the same genus on the basis of the number of antennal segments. One of them found in the Periyar Tiger Reserve of Kerala, has been named Ooceraea joshii, in honour of Prof. _____________, a distinguished evolutionary biologist from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.

Yash Joshi
Sameer Joshi
Amitabh Joshi
Sanjeev Joshi

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