DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ : ( 20 AUGUST TO 22 AUGUST 2019)

No. of Questions: 20 Correct: Full Mark: 20 Wrong: Time: 20 min Mark Secured:

1. Who inaugurated the 15,000 square feet a) Supra(Scientific and Useful Profound underground bunker museum ? Research Advancement) a) Ram Nath Govind b) Spra(Scientific Profound Research b) Narendra Modi Advancement) c) Amit Shah c) Super(Scientific and Useful Profound d) Nirmala Sitharaman Enhancement Research) e) None of these d) Super-f(Scientific and Useful Profound 2. Where did President of India, Shri Ram Enhancement Research Fund) Nath Govind inaugurated the 15,000 e) None of these square feet underground bunker 6. Name the Indian delegation who visited museum ? Bhutan recently . a) Chennai, Tamil Nadu a) Ram Nath Govind b) Kolkata, West Bengal b) Narendra Modi c) Mumbai, Maharashtra c) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar d) New Delhi, Delhi d) Venkaiah Naidu e) None of these e) None of these 3. National Green Tribunal(NGT) has 7. Where did Prime Minister Narendra formed a committee to look into the Modi inaugurated the Mangdechhu issues of illegal sand mining in which hydroelectric power plant ? river ? a) Nepal a) Mahananda b) India b) Yamuna c) Bhutan c) Ganga d) Myanmar d) Ghaghara e) None of these e) None of these 8. Name the co-operation between India 4. Where will the India’s first Central and Bhutan, which was commemorated Institute of Chemical Engineering & by launching stamps ? Technology (CICET) to be build ? a) Infrastructure a) Maharashtra b) Education b) Uttar Pradesh c) Defence c) New Delhi d) Hydropower d) Gujarat e) None of these e) None of these 9. Under the assistance of which 5. Name the new scheme that is set to organization, Ground Earth Station & launch by Science and Engineering SATCOM network was developed, for Research Board (SERB) to fund new utilization of South Asia Satellite in scientific and engineering Bhutan breakthroughs with global impact. a) Satish Dhawan Space Centre 1

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b) Japan Aerospace Exploration c) Sharat Chandra Agency(JAXA) d) Ch Mohan Rao c) Indian Space Research Organization e) None of these (ISRO) 15. Who was appointed as the President of d) National Aeronautics and Space Paytm on August 19, 2019 ? Administration(NASA) a) Vijay Shekhar Sharma e) None of these b) Pallavi Shroff 10. Name the card, which was launched by c) Ravi Adusumalli Prime Minister Narendra Modi in d) Madhur Deora Bhutan . e) None of these a) Maestro 16. Which organization released the report b) RuPay titled “Global SO2 emission hotspot c) Mastercard database: Ranking the world’s worst d) Visa sources of SO2 pollution” ? e) None of these a) Greenpeace 11. Which of the following IIT has not signed b) Organisation for Economic Co- MoU with Royal University of Bhutan to operation and Development(OECD) focus on STEM(Science, Technology, c) World Health Organization(WHO) Engineering and Mathematics) ? d) United Nations Educational, Scientific a) IIT Madras and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) b) IIT Kanpur e) None of these c) IIT Bombay 17. Name the country, which is the world’s d) IIT Delhi top emitter of anthropogenic sulphur e) None of these dioxide(SO2) as per Greenpeace’s report 12. Who has created a world record for the “Global SO2 emission hotspot database: 2nd time by solving 176 pyraminx Ranking the world’s worst sources of SO2 (pyramid-shaped rubik’s cube) puzzles pollution” . while riding a bicycle in 1 hour and 7 a) Japan minutes ? b) Russia a) Rowe Hessler c) India b) Tyson Mao d) Pakistan c) Lucas Etter e) None of these d) Chinmay Prabhu 18. Which of the following fish species is not e) None of these among the one discovered by 13. Name the biopic, which enters Guinness researchers from the Rajiv Gandhi world book of records as longest University (RGU), Arunachal Pradesh ? documentary . a) Mystus prabini a) Waltz with Bashir b) Garra simbalbaraensis b) Behind the Candelabra c) Exostoma kottelati c) 100 years of Chrysostom d) Garra ranganensis d) The King’s Speech e) None of these e) None of these 19. Where will the 2019 World Youth chess 14. Who won the J C Bose Fellowship award championship to be held from October 2019 for his outstanding contribution in 1-13, 2019 ? the field of population and medical a) Hanoi, Vietnam genomics ? b) Moscow, Russia a) Lalji Singh c) Bangkok, Thailand 2 b) K Thangaraj d) Mumbai, India 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ

e) None of these 20. Who became the first person to replace as a concussion substitute in Test while playing against England in in Lord’s, London ? a) b) c) d) e) None of these

ANSWER KEY: 1 a 11 a 2 c 12 d 3 b 13 c 4 d 14 b 5 a 15 d 6 b 16 a 7 c 17 c 8 d 18 b 9 c 19 d 10 b 20 a

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