Current Affairs Questions and Answers for TNPSC Exam Part 1
1. Who is the current Prime Minister of India?
Narendra Modi
2. Who is the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu as
of 2023?
M. K. Stalin
3. Which country hosted the 2022 FIFA World
Cup?
Qatar
4. What is the name of the COVID-19 vaccine
developed by Pfizer and BioNTech?
BNT162b2 (Comirnaty)
5. Which Indian state was the first to achieve
100% vaccination coverage against COVID-19 among its eligible population?
Sikkim
6. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for
their efforts to combat famine and raise awareness about hunger-related
conflicts?
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov
7. Which country hosted the 2021 United
Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)?
United Kingdom (UK)
8. What is the name of the social media
platform launched by Donald Trump in 2021?
Truth Social
9. Which spacecraft successfully landed on
Mars in February 2021 and is the first to send back audio recordings from the
planet?
Perseverance (Mars 2020 Rover)
10. Who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine for their discoveries concerning receptors for temperature and
touch?
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian
11. Which cryptocurrency became widely popular
in 2021 and is known for its rapid price fluctuations?
Bitcoin
12. What is the name of the mission launched
by NASA in 2021 to study the asteroid Bennu and collect a sample for return to
Earth?
OSIRIS-REx
13. Which Indian cricketer became the fastest
to score 12,000 runs in One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 2021?
Virat Kohli
14. Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for the development of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology?
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
15. Which country is the largest producer of
oil in the world as of 2021?
United States
16. Which city was chosen as the host of the
2024 Summer Olympics?
Paris, France
17. What is the name of the vaccine developed
by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford to combat COVID-19?
Oxford-AstraZeneca (Covishield in India)
18. Who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
for their work on our understanding of complex physical systems?
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann
19. Which country became the first to land a
rover on the far side of the Moon in 2019?
China
20. What is the name of the initiative
launched by India in 2020 to provide COVID-19 vaccines to neighboring
countries?
Vaccine Maitri
