WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTION DISCUSSION – 14.01.2020 TO 19.01.2020

No. of Questions : 40 Correct : ______Full Mark : 40 Wrong : ______

Time : 20 min Mark Secured : ______

1. Recently IRAD was in news. What does ‘I’ stand for in IRAD? A) Interest B) Indian C) Institute D) Integrated 2. Under which scheme, financial support will be provided for one-time treatment of rare diseases? A) Prime Minister Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojna B) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana C) Rashtriya Arogaya Nidhi scheme D) Shramew Arogaya Nidhi Yojana 3. DLT was in news recently, what does ‘D’ stands for? A) Distributed B) Deferred C) Digital D) Dividend 4. RBI ranked in which position in “Outlook 2020: Global economic trends and their impact on gold”report? A) 3rd B) 6th C) 5th D) 4th 5. Who was appointed as the Deputy Governor of the RBI recently? A) Anand Prakash Maheshwari B) Michael Debabrata Patra C) Ishwar Sharma D) Lt Girish Kumar 6. Which edition of National Youth Festival (NYF) 2020 was held recently? A) 23rd B) 22nd C) 21st D) 20th 7. Find the information that will be collected by the citizens of for the first time during Census 2021? i. Data on households headed by a transgender. ii. Inquiry about main cereal consumed iii. Data on OBC A) Only I B) Only ii C) Both i & ii D) All i,ii& iii 8. Which Indian State/UT topped in the ‘Central and state governmental water departments based on their efficiency targets for 2019’? A) Uttar Pradesh B) Gujarat C) Delhi D) Maharashtra 9. Who won the “Sportstar of the Year Award” in Sportstar Aces Awards 2020? A) Smriti Mandhana B) P.V Sindhu C) Rohit Sharma D) Steve Smith 10. Which of the following special class diesel, was developed to reduce carbon footprint in ships? A) High Flash High Speed Diesel (HFHSD- IN 51B) B) High Flash High Speed Diesel (HFHSD- IN 51C) C) High Flash High Speed Diesel (HFHSD- IN 51D) D) High Flash High Speed Diesel (HFHSD- IN 515) 11. Which organisation will provide loan for Inland Water Transport Project of the Indian state? A) AIIB B) World Bank C) NDB D) WEF 12. Where did India successfully test fired the SLBM K-4” recently? A) Mumbai B) Bengaluru C) Chandipur D) Visakhapatnam 13. What was the theme of the World Book Fair 2020 (NDWBF 2020)? A) Indigenous Voices: Mapping India’s Folk & Tribal Literature B) Gandhi: TheWriters’ Writer C) Books for Readers with Special Needs D) Towards 100 years of Indian Cinema 14. Jacqueline Williams who becomes the first woman third umpire in men’s international cricket match belongs to which country? A) B) Jamaica C) Australia D) New Zealand 15. Annual Joint Exercise ‘Sahyog-Kaijin’ was recently held between India & which of the following country? A) Maldives B) Russia C) Japan D) Bangladesh 16. Where did the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Blockchain Technology inaugurated? A) Mumbai B) Bengaluru C) New Delhi D) 17. Arjun Munda was appointed as the President of which organization? A) Athletics Federation of India (AFI) B) Cycling Federation of India (CFI) C) Archery Association of India (AAI) D) All India Football Federation (AIFF) 18. Which organization has released the “The Global Social Mobility Report 2020: Equality, Opportunity and a New Economic Imperative” report? A) ILO B) UNIDO C) UNICEF D) WEF

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WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTION DISCUSSION – 14.01.2020 TO 19.01.2020

19. Which state has the highest number of newborn deaths in India in the year 2018? A) Uttar Pradesh B) Gujarat C) Assam D) West 20. Which panchayat was declared as the first plastic-free area & won award for plastic waste management? A) Badkagaon, Gwalior B) Jobat, Alirajpur C) Sendhawa, Barwani D) Sindoda, Indore 21. Who has been selected for the Saraswati Samman 2019? A) Salman Rushdie B) Chetan Bhagat C) Vasdev Mohi D) Anita Desai 22. Who is the head of the Cabinet Committee on Investment and Growth (CCIG)? A) Ram Nath Kovind B) Narendra Modi C) Nirmala Sitharaman D) Amit Shah 23. Who won the “Spirit of Cricket Award” in the ICC awards 2019? A) MS Dhoni B) Rohit Sharma C) Virat Kohli D) Shikhar Dhawan 24. Rojgar Sangi app was launched by which state to provide employment to youths? A) MP B) Bihar C) Andhra Pradesh D) Chhattisgarh 25. Which organization has released a report titled “Levels and Trends in Child Mortality”? A) FAO B) MWCD C) United Nations D) WHO 26. Which city hosts the Raisina Dialogue 2020 that was held recently? A) Mumbai B) New Delhi C) Kolkata D) Guwahati 27. ChapcharKut festival was celebrated in which state recently? A) Assam B) Mizoram C) Meghalaya D) Gujarat 28. The 1st Indian General who took charge as the first commander-in-chief of the Indian Army in 1949? A) Pratap Chandra Lal B) Kodandera Madappa Cariappa C) D) Subroto Mukerjee 29. What was the theme of World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2020? A) Rethinking Global Consumption, Production, and Investment B) Embracing the Future, Welcoming Disruption C) Driving the Global Energy Transformation D) Smart Energy products and technologies 30. Which country is set to host the 2020 SCO’s annual meeting of council of heads of government? A) Japan B) Russia C) India D) China 31. In which Air force Station, India’s 1st Sukhoi-30 fighter will be inducted? A) Kochi B) Visakhapatnam C) Bengaluru D) Thanjavur 32. Name the villages of Uttar Pradesh, that is set to become India’s first ‘Model Sports villages’? A) Kisarua and Chandau B) Hansigunj and Jirauliya C) Ughaiti and Maujampur D) Bahadurpur and KheriViran 33. Which Indian city hosted the Krishi Manthan, Food, Agri-business and Rural Development Summit of Asia? A) Kolkata B) New Delhi C) Mumbai D) Ahmedabad 34. Which bank has unveiled India’s largest API banking portal? A) SBI B) Axis Bank C) ICICI Bank D) HDFC Bank 35. Who will chair the panel constituted to look into the issues related to revision of royalty rates for minerals? A) Preetha Sacheendran B) Dr. K. Rajeswara Rao C) C. Gangadharan D) Veena Kumari D. 36. GOI has allocated funds for construction of Z-Morh tunnel, in which UT/State? A) Ladakh B) J&K C) Uttar Pradesh D) Assam 37. National Immunization Day is observed on which date? A) January 15, 2020 B) January 19, 2020 C) January 16, 2020 D) January 17, 2020 38. The Indian delegate, who attended the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) 2020? A) Arjun Ram Meghwal B) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury C) Jagat Prakash Nadda D) Om Birla 39. What is the GDP of India for the year 2019-20 as per United Nations? A) 4.9% B) 5.7% C) 4,6% D) 5% 40. How many Islands from Andaman & Nicobar & Lakshadweep Islands were selected for promoting tourism during the meeting of Island Development Agency? A) 22 Islands B) 26 Islands C) 28 Islands D) 29 Islands

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WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTION DISCUSSION – 14.01.2020 TO 19.01.2020

ANSWER KEYS 1 D 21 C 2 C 22 B 3 A 23 C 4 B 24 D 5 B 25 C 6 A 26 B 7 D 27 B 8 B 28 B 9 B 29 A 10 A 30 C 11 B 31 D 12 D 32 D 13 B 33 D 14 B 34 C 15 C 35 B 16 B 36 B 17 C 37 B 18 D 38 D 19 A 39 D 20 D 40 B

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