January 2025 Current Affairs Quiz – 100 Important MCQs with Answers December 26, 2025December 9, 2025 by studyvaanii@gmail.com January 2025 Current Affairs Quiz – 100 Important MCQs with Answers Prepare for competitive exams with our January 2025 Current Affairs Quiz. Get 100 most important MCQs with answers for SSC, Banking, MPSC, UPSC and all exams. 1 / 97 Ayushmann Khurrana was appointed brand ambassador of: UNICEF India JioCinema FICCI Frames 2025 Vivo 2 / 97 Who has been appointed CEO of Zoho Corporation? Shailesh Kumar Davey Akhil Gupta Sridhar Vembu Deshnee Naidoo 3 / 97 What is the estimated real GDP growth for FY25 as per Economic Survey 2025? 6.4% 5.4% 7.2% 8.0% 4 / 97 Who represented India at Donald Trump’s swearing-in (2025)? Piyush Goyal Narendra ModiPiyush Goyal S. Jaishankar Vinod Chandran 5 / 97 Mo Farah was appointed as Ambassador of: Commonwealth Games Tata Mumbai Marathon FIFA U-17 World Cup Asian Games 6 / 97 Which contingent won Popular Choice (Services)? Maharashtra West Bengal Uttar Pradesh Gujarat 7 / 97 Jitender Pal Singh was appointed Ambassador to: Israel Japan France Iran 8 / 97 Number of farmers benefiting under PM-KISAN (as of Oct 2024) 5 crore 15 crore 8 crore 11 crore 9 / 97 India’s ranking in patent filings (WIPO 2022) 2nd 6th 10th 4th 10 / 97 The GI tag for Virgin Coconut Oil was given to: Andaman & Nicobar Islands Kerala Tamil Nadu Karnataka 11 / 97 ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2024: Shaheen Afridi Jasprit Bumrah Arshdeep Singh Glenn Maxwell 12 / 97 CAPEX growth post elections (Jul–Nov 2024) increased by: 8.2% 5% 10.1% 15% 13 / 97 Which state won its first National Handball Championship? Kerala Rajasthan Punjab Haryana 14 / 97 Which country ranks last (106th) in the Passport Index 2025? Bangladesh Nepal Pakistan Afghanistan 15 / 97 Which regiment won Best Marching Contingent (Services) – Judges’ Choice? Assam Rifles Sikh Regiment Jammu & Kashmir Rifles Para Regiment 16 / 97 Which ministry ranked second in budget allocation? Railways Rural Development Defence Home Affairs 17 / 97 India signed NBWR rice trade MoU with: China Vietnam Bangladesh Indonesia 18 / 97 Who has been appointed as the new Secretary General of ASSOCHAM? Ashish Naithani Deepak Sood Tuhin Kanta Pandey Manish Singhal 19 / 97 ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2024? Arshdeep Singh Praveen Kumar G. Erasmus Kamindu Mendis 20 / 97 Messi received which honour in the US? Congressional Medal Presidential Medal of Freedom Medal of Liberty Ellis Island Medal 21 / 97 Popular Choice Tableau was won by which state? Maharashtra Gujarat Rajasthan Karnataka 22 / 97 ICC Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year 2024? Esha Oza Annerie Dercksen Melie Kerr Shafali Verma 23 / 97 NHRC Chairperson appointed in December 2024: Justice V. Ramasubramanian Justice S. Ravindra Bhat Justice Arun Mishra Justice Alok Aradhe 24 / 97 Who shared the World Blitz Chess Title? Carlsen & Gukesh Carlsen & Nepomniachtchi Carlsen & Praggnanandhaa Carlsen & Nakamura 25 / 97 Which tiger reserves were added recently? Pench and Kanha Dudhwa and Valmiki Bandipur and Nagarhole Guru Ghasidas–Tamor Pingla & Ratapani 26 / 97 Who was appointed Chairperson of NHRC (2024 end)? Justice Ram Mohan Ray Justice Alok Aradhe Justice Banerjee Justice Ramasubramanian 27 / 97 How many Atal Tinkering Labs will be set up in the next 5 years? 10,000 25,000 50,000 40,000 28 / 97 Who will become the first Indian astronaut to pilot a mission to the ISS? Neeraj Parakh Rakesh Sharma Shubhanshu Shukla Sunita Williams 29 / 97 India added how many villages to ODF Plus in FY25 (Apr–Nov 2024)? 1.92 lakh 1 lakh 3 lakh 50,000 30 / 97 Livestock sector CAGR is: 6% 7% 5% 8% 31 / 97 Share of renewable energy in total installed capacity by Dec 2024: 47% 40% 55% 30% 32 / 97 Who has been appointed Director-General of DGCA? Faiz Ahmed Kidwai Vikram Dev Dutt Bhuvnesh Kumar Azimul Haque 33 / 97 Which digital wallet is X (formerly Twitter) launching? Visa-X Wallet X Finance X Money (powered by Visa) X Pay 34 / 97 India added how much renewable energy capacity in 2024? 25 GW 10 GW 15 GW 30 GW 35 / 97 What was the total FDI equity inflow into India during April–September 2024? USD 20.45 billion USD 15.30 billion USD 25.10 billion USD 12.52 billion 36 / 97 Agriculture contributes what percent to GDP (FY24 PE)? 10% 16% 20% 26% 37 / 97 Cabinet approved how much for Digital Agriculture Mission? ₹5,000 crore ₹2,817 crore ₹3,000 crore ₹1,500 crore 38 / 97 Who was appointed Chief Justice of Bombay High Court? Justice Alok Aradhe V. Ramasubramanian Justice Devendra Upadhyaya Justice Raju Varadarajan 39 / 97 Who set a new record for the longest spacewalking time by a woman? Christina Koch Sunita Williams Jessica Meir Peggy Whitson 40 / 97 Who has been appointed CEO of UIDAI in January 2025? Bhuvnesh Kumar Faiz Ahmed Kidwai Amit Agrawal Arunish Chawla 41 / 97 Who won the Women’s World Rapid Chess Championship 2025? Harika Dronavalli Koneru Humpy Hou Yifan Ju Wenjun 42 / 97 Who succeeded S. Somanath as ISRO Chairman? Dr. R. Raghvan M. Mohan Dr. V. Narayanan Dr. D. Sahani 43 / 97 Which ministry received the highest allocation in Budget 2025-26? Home Affairs Finance Defence Education 44 / 97 Tableau on Etikoppaka toys was presented by: Kerala Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Telangana 45 / 97 Who became the Chief Scientist of Zoho after stepping down as CEO? Shailesh Kumar Davey Akhil Gupta Sridhar Vembu Pawan Chandak 46 / 97 Duration of India–Indonesia rice MoU is: 7 years 5 years 4 years 6 years 47 / 97 Who won triple crown in Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship? CS Santosh Harith Noah Hemanth Muddappa Aishwarya Pissay 48 / 97 PM Modi cited speeches from which Constitution makers in Mann Ki Baat 2025? Patel, Nehru, Bose Gandhi, Nehru, Patel Ambedkar, Rajendra Prasad, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Bose, Gandhi, Ambedkar 49 / 97 India ranks what position in the 2025 Henley Passport Index? 71 82 85 80 50 / 97 Who was appointed Chief Justice of Delhi High Court? Justice V. Ramasubramanian Justice Arun Mishra Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya Justice Alok Aradhe 51 / 97 FIAT fund under PMFBY is allocated: ₹500 crore ₹650 crore ₹900 crore ₹824.77 crore 52 / 97 Which state became the first in independent India to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC)? Assam Gujarat Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand 53 / 97 Which ministry won Best Ministry Tableau (Judges’ Choice)? Ministry of Tribal Affairs Ministry of Railways Ministry of Culture Ministry of Defence 54 / 97 Who was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on Jan 16, 2025? Justice D.Y. Chandrachud Justice Sanjiv Khanna Rajiv Kumar Justice Krishnan Vinod Chandran 55 / 97 Which athlete received the Arjuna Award 2024 (Athletics category)? Nitu Saweety Jyothi Yarraji Vantika Agrawal 56 / 97 Who has been elected President of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI)? Adille Sumariwalla Aman Neeraj Chopra Bahadur Singh Sagoo 57 / 97 Fisheries sector CAGR is: 7% 8% 6% 8.7% 58 / 97 Who won Australian Open 2025 (Men’s Singles)? Novak Djokovic Jannik Sinner Rafael Nadal Alexander Zverev 59 / 97 Where was India’s first private satellite constellation “Firefly” developed? IIT Bombay DRDO ISRO Pixxel, Bengaluru 60 / 97 Number of active space assets India operates: 40 65 56 50 61 / 97 BSE Market Cap to GDP ratio in Dec 2024 was: 140% 136% 100% 120% 62 / 97 Who has been reappointed as MD & CEO of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd? Shridhar Vembu Jitendra Pal Singh Hiroki Totoki Hisashi Takeuchi 63 / 97 What edition of Republic Day was celebrated in 2025? 74th 76th 75th 73rd 64 / 97 WINDS initiative will install AWS at which level? Village State Block District 65 / 97 What is India’s projected GDP growth for FY25 (RBI)? 7.0% 6.0% 7.6% 6.6% 66 / 97 What is the estimated fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP for the financial year 2025-2026? 5.9% 4.4% 4.1% 3.5% 67 / 97 India’s vision year for ‘Viksit Bharat’ is: 2030 2047 2035 2040 68 / 97 Number of railway Vande Bharat train pairs added (Apr–Oct 2024): 10 17 15 12 69 / 97 India holds what rank globally in services exports? 7th 5th 4th 6th 70 / 97 Sunita Williams’ total spacewalking time is now: 62 hours 6 minutes 60 hours 12 minutes 50 hours 30 hours 71 / 97 Which lab will BMCRI establish as selected by ICMR? South India’s first IRDL AI Health Lab India's first Virology Lab Genomics Supercomputing Lab 72 / 97 Who became CEO of UIDAI in January 2025? Bhuvnesh Kumar Faiz Ahmed Kidwai Azimul Haque Amit Agrawal 73 / 97 Which company launched an AI model claiming to outperform ChatGPT and DeepSeek? ByteDance Tencent Alibaba Baidu 74 / 97 What percentage of India’s installed power capacity comes from non-fossil sources (Nov 2024)? 40% 46.8% 52% 30% 75 / 97 What is the total capital expenditure allocated in Union Budget 2025-26? ₹10.05 lakh crore ₹9.50 lakh crore ₹11.21 lakh crore ₹8.11 lakh crore 76 / 97 Which state will get a new Makhana Board as per the Budget? Assam Uttar Pradesh Punjab Bihar 77 / 97 Who became the world’s first AI Minister appointed by a national government? Israel UAE Sweden Japan 78 / 97 Special DAP Package subsidy amount per MT is: ₹3,500 ₹5,000 ₹4,500 ₹2,000 79 / 97 Who won the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024? Manu Bhaker Gukesh D Praveen Kumar Harmanpreet Singh 80 / 97 Implementation time for Third Launch Pad: 24 months 60 months 36 months 48 months 81 / 97 Who won the PKL Title (2025)? Haryana Steelers Dabang Delhi Tamil Thalaivas UP Yoddhas 82 / 97 India’s FOREX reserves at the end of Dec 2024 stood at: $550 bn $700 bn $640.3 bn $600 bn 83 / 97 Under PM SVANidhi revamp, the new UPI-linked credit card limit is: ₹10,000 ₹30,000 ₹25,000 ₹20,000 84 / 97 ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2024: Ellyse Perry Smriti Mandhana Harmanpreet Kaur Melie Kerr 85 / 97 Who has been named CEO of Vedanta Resources Ltd? Amrit Mohan Prasad Hiroki Totoki Deshnee Naidoo Akhil Gupta 86 / 97 National Voters’ Day is celebrated on: 21 January 24 January 25 January 20 January 87 / 97 Domestic smartphone manufacturing now covers: 50% 99% 70% 90% 88 / 97 Unemployment rate in 2023–24 reduced to: 5.0% 3.2% 4.5% 6.1% 89 / 97 Who set the new record for the longest female spacewalk time? Christina Koch Kalpana Chawla Peggy Whitson Sunita Williams 90 / 97 How much increase was recorded in startups from Nagaland? 200% 100% 50% 150% 91 / 97 What is the objective of the 6-year Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses? Promote oilseeds Promote maize Promote wheat varieties Promote Tur, Urad, Masoor 92 / 97 Under the Union Budget 2025-26, the limit for tax deduction on interest for senior citizens has been increased from Rs 50,000 to: Rs 75,000 Rs 1 Lakh Rs 1.5 Lakh Rs 2 Lakh 93 / 97 Total cost approved for Third Launch Pad at Sriharikota: ₹5,250 crore ₹3,984.86 crore ₹6,100 crore ₹2,500 crore 94 / 97 India’s retail inflation in FY25 (Apr–Dec 2024) declined to: 5.9% 3.8% 4.9% 6.4% 95 / 97 What is the estimated fiscal deficit for FY 2025-26 as per Union Budget 2025-26? 3.5% of GDP 5.2% of GDP 6.1% of GDP 4.4% of GDP 96 / 97 Who won the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024 (one of the awardees)? Salima Tete Gukesh D Praveen Soorma Jyothi Yarraji 97 / 97 India became which country to achieve space docking? 5th 4th 6th 7th Your score isThe average score is 0% 0% Restart quiz