Current Affairs Quiz: 8 September 2021

Current Affairs Quiz 8 September 2021: The Current Affairs Quiz section of Jagranjosh aims to help every competitive exam aspirant to revise Current Affairs of the day at ease. The day’s updated Current Affairs quizzes cover topics such as International Literacy Day, new  acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan, Day of Social Justice and West Bengal by-polls among others.  

1. When is International Literacy Day observed?

a) September 8th

b) September 7th

c) September 6th 

d) September 5th 

2. Baby Rani Maurya has submitted her resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind. She is the Governor of which state?

a) Uttar Pradesh 

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Uttarakhand 

d) Haryana 

3. Who has been named as the acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan?

a) Mullah Hasan Akhund 

b) Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar 

c) Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob

d) Sirajuddin Haqqani

4. Which Taliban Cabinet Minister is on the FBI's most wanted list?

a) Mullah Hasan Akhund 

b) Sirajuddin Haqqani

c) Zabhiullah Mujahid

d) Sheikh Mawlawi Noorullah

5. Whose birth anniversary will be celebrated as the Day of Social Justice in Tamil Nadu?

a) Jayalalithaa 

b) M Karunanidhi 

c) M G Ramachandran.

d) E V Ramasamy Periyar

6. Who became the first IAS officer to win a Paralympic medal?

a) Sumit Antil  

b) Suhas Yathiraj  

c) Devendra Jhajharia 

d) Krishna Nagar  

7. Who has been elected as the Chairman of Hardline Hurriyat Conference?

a) Masrat Alam 

b) Mullah Khairullah Khairkhah

c) Ahmad Jan Ahmady

d) Abdul Haq Wasiq

8. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will contest by-elections from which constituency?

a) Jangipur 

b) Samserganj 

c) Bhabanipur 

d) Nandigram

Answers

1. (a) September 8th

International Literacy Day is observed every year on September 8th since 1967 to raise awareness about the significance of literacy as a matter of individual rights and dignity. The International Literacy Day 2021 theme is “Literacy for a human-centered recovery: Narrowing the digital divide”. 

2. (c) Uttarakhand 

Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya submitted her resignation to President Ram Nath Kovind on September 8, 2021. She had succeeded Krishan Kant Paul to become the only second woman to serve as the Governor of Uttarakhand in August 2018, after Margaret Alva who was the first in 2009. 

3. (a) Mullah Hasan Akhund 

Mullah Hasan Akhund has been named the acting Prime Minister, while Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s co-founder,  has been named as the deputy Prime Minister. Akhund, the lesser-known Taliban leader is also on the UN terror list. 

4. (b) Sirajuddin Haqqani

The new hardline Taliban government led by Mullah Hasan Akhund includes an all-male cabinet, one of whom is on the FBI's most-wanted list with a $10 million bounty on his head. The man on the FBI's most wanted list is Sirajuddin Haqqani, who has been named as the interior minister of the new caretaker government of Afghanistan. Haqqani is the son of the founder of the Haqqani network, which has been designated as a “terrorist” organisation by the United States.

5. (d) E V Ramasamy Periyar

Tamil Nadu government has decided to celebrate the birth anniversary of E V Ramasamy Periyar on September 17 every year as the Day of Social Justice. Periyar was an Indian social activist, social reformer and founder of Dravidar Kazhagam.

6. (b) Suhas Yathiraj  

Noida District Magistrate Suhas Suhas Yathiraj became the first IAS officer to win a medal in Badminton at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Games. The 38-year-old made history by winning a silver medal in the men’s singles SL4 category. 

7. (a) Masrat Alam

Incarcerated leader Masrat Alam has been elected as Chairman of the Hardline Hurriyat Conference. The decision came after the death of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on September 2, 2021.

8. (c) Bhabanipur 

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will contest by-elections from the Bhabanipur constituency. The TMC chief, who had lost the Assembly Elections from Nandigram has to win the by-poll to retain her Chief Minister's post. The elected TMC MLA of Bhabanipur Sovandeb Chattopadhyay stepped down to pave way for the Chief Minister to contest from the seat.