19th January 2025 Current Affairs

1. Who has won Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25?

   a) Vidarbha
   b) Karnataka 
   c) Uttar Pradesh
   d) Railways

2. Where will ISRO’s third launch has been located?

   a) Srihari Kota
   b) Kulasekarapattinam
   c) Chennai
   d) Hyderabad

3. When was the foundation day of Lokpal of India celebrated for the first time?

   a) 12th January
   b) 14th January
   c) 15th January
   d) 16th January 

4. Who developed the World’s most powerful hydrogen fuel driven engine?

   a) China
   b) India
   c) Germany
   d) USA

5. What is the overall rank of India in QS World Future Skills Index 2025?

   a) 14
   b) 18
   c) 22
   d) 25

6. Where was the world class archaeological experience museum inaugurated?

   a) Himachal Pradesh
   b) Haryana
   c) Gujarat 
   d) Uttarakhand

7. Which state government has launched She Cohort 3.0?

   a) Punjab
   b) Rajasthan
   c) Uttar Pradesh
   d) Maharashtra

8. Where has ‘Big Boy’, one of the world’s dangerous spider species, been discovered?

   a) Australia 
   b) England
   c) Sweden
   d) Kenya

9. Where has the Foreign Minister inaugurated the 5th US Consulate?

   a) Mumbai
   b) Bengaluru 
   c) Kolkata
   d) Pune

• Tegbir Singh (5 years) – Youngest Asian to conquer Mt. Kilimanjaro

• Aarambh Programme (to promote education for children)

• Mission Nishchay Abhiyan (to make Punjab drug free)

• India’s first medical institutional museum – Chandigarh

• 14th Hockey India Junior Men National C’ship 2024 – in Punjab = Punjab, UP

• India’s fifth ‘Har Ghar Jal State’ with 100% tap water connection – Punjab

• First state to map accident hotspots – Punjab

• Who launched ‘Sirjan’ mobile app to reduce maternal mortality rate

• Recently in Australia scientists have discovered a bigger and more poisonous species of Sydney Funnel-web spider

• Which is one of the most deadly species in the world

• It is nicknamed Big Boy

• Its real name is Atrax christenseni

• The name of the world’s largest snake discovered in the Amazon forest is Eunectes akyama

• Vasuki indicus which was the largest snake in history, its fossils were found where – Gujarat

• Study of Spider? – Arachnology

• Spiders belong to which phylum? – Arthropoda

19th January 2025 Current Affairs