CURRENT AFFAIRS MCQ DECEMBER 2020 (NO. OF QUESTION -100)
1. Which word is named as the Word of the Year 2020 as per the most searched words on the Cambridge Dictionary in 2020? (a) Pandemic (b) Corona (c) Vaccine (d)Quarantine
2. China is going to construct the first downstream dam on the lower reaches of the river marking a new phase in China’s hydropower exploitation of the river with potential ramifications for India? (a) Indus (b) Ganges (c) Brahmaputra (d) Sutlej
3. Which Country has the most FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) equity inflows in India during April- September 2020 according to DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)? (a) USA (United States of America) (b) Singapore (c) Mauritius (d) Japan
4. Who has been appointed as the Ambassador for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Breakthrough initiative in India 2020-21? (a) Rohit Sharma (b) Ayushman Khurana (c) Shah Rukh Khan (d) AR Rahman
5. British Driver Lewis Hamilton the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix (officially known as Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix) held at Bahrain International Circuit. Which Automobile brand does he represent? (a) Ferrari (b) Mercedes (c) Audi (d) Renault
6. Which Public Sector Unit has set a new record for successfully manufacturing and testing India’s highest- rated auto transformer ‘500 MVA 400/220/33 kV? (a) Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) (b) Bharat Heavy Electronics Limited (BHEL) (c) India Grid Trust (IndiGrid) (d) Both 1 & 2
7. Where has the first of its kind “Organ Donor Memorial” been inaugurated virtually in the country on the occasion of 11th National Organ Donation Day celebration? (a)Gujarat (b) Maharashtra (c) Rajasthan (d) Punjab
8. Name the Indian Foreign Secretary who inaugurated Three schools built under Indian assistance in Nepal’s Gorkha district . (a) Rajiv Gauba (b) T S Trimurti (c) Anil Kumar Gupta (d)Harsh Vardhan Shringla
9. Who has been appointed as interim chairperson of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)? (a) Dilip Rath (b) T Nanda Kumar (c) Varsha Joshi (d) Renu Devi
10. Which Organization appointed Sandeep Kataria as the CEO (1st Indian to be appointed as the global CEO) of the organization? (a) Red Chief (b) Parle Agro (c) Bata (d )Patanjali
11. Who chaired the 19th meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government (India’s first Summit-level Meeting held under India’s Chairmanship) virtually hosted by India? (a) Narendra Modi (b) Rajnath Singh (c) S Jaishankar (d) M Venkaiah Naidu
12. Which City has been ranked as most polluted city in the world as per Air Pollution Data released by United States (US) Air Quality Index? (a) New Delhi, India (b) Lahore, Pakistan (c) Kathmandu, Nepal (d)Beijing, China
13. Which Country topped the Asia in bribery, use of personal connections to access public services as per the 10th edition of the report titled “Global Corruption Barometer (GCB)-Asia 2020” by corruption watchdog Transparency International? (a) Pakistan (b) Bangladesh (c) Nepal (d) India
14. Which institute has topped the QS Asia University Rankings 2021 released by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in association with King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)? (a) Tsinghua University (China) (b) National University of Singapore (NUS) (c) IIT-Delhi (d) IIT-Bombay
15. Which Anti-Ship version missile was successfully test- fired from the Andaman & Nicobar Islands Territory & It was the first time that the missile was flight tested by 3 Services of the Indian Armed Forces (Army, Air Force & Navy)? (a) Agni (b) BrahMos (c) BrahmAstra (d) Shaurya
16. What was the 2020 theme of the World AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) Day observed on 1st December globally? (a) Global solidarity, resilient HIV services (b) Communities make the difference (c) Know Your Status (d) My Health, My Right
17. Which Petroleum Company launched India’s first 100 Octane Petrol also known as XP 100? (a) Indian Oil Corporation (b) Bharat Petroleum (c) Hindustan Petroleum (d) Gas Authority of India Ltd
18. PowerChina, Hydropower Company of China is going to construct the first downstream dam on Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet. The Yarlung Zangbo River is known as in India. (a) Indus (b) Ganges (c) Brahmaputra (d) Sutlej
19. Name the Veteran Bollywood Actor, Who has been honoured with the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Puraskar 2020 at the Sangit Kala Kendra Awards virtual function? (a) Anupam Kher (b) Nana Patekar (c) Naseeruddin Shah (d) Paresh Rawal
20. Amul (Anand Milk Union Limited) a brand of dairy cooperative major Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), is ranked at which place as the Largest Milk Processor globally in the list of Top 20? (a) 1st (b) 3rd (c) 8th (d) 5th
21. The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority will be renamed to Saudi Central Bank under a new law approved by Saudi Arabia’s King. Who is the king of Saudi Arabia? (a) Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (b) Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (c) Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (d) Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi
22. International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA) obtained membership of International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). Where is the headquarters of IFSCA? (a) Ahmedabad, Gujarat (b) Mumbai, Maharashtra (c) Pune, Maharashtra (d) Gandhinagar, Gujarat
23. Which Indian Company has topped the 2020 Fortune 500 Ranking List of Indian companies? (a) Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) (b) Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) (c) State Bank of India (SBI) (d) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
24. Virat Kohli became the Fastest Batsman to reach 12, 000 runs in ODIs during the 3-match Dettol ODI series 2020 in Australia. He took how much innings to achieve the milestone? (a) 240 innings (b) 235 innings (c) 242 innings (d) 252 innings
25. Which is the 1st country to recognise Pfizer-bioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine? (a) Russia (b) Britain (c) Australia (d) United States
26. Who has been appointed as the first Vice President of the World Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association (WLPGA)? (a) Shashi Shanker (b) Mukesh kumar Surana (c) Shrikant Madhav Vaidya (d) D Rajkumar
27. Defence Ministry approved the Creation of 2 New Posts namely– Deputy Chief for Military Operations & Strategic Planning and Director General (DG) of Information Warfare. Who will be the 1st Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Military Operations & Strategic Planning? (a) Birendra Singh Bisht (b) Pankaj Bhatt (c) Paramjit Singh (d) Bipin Rawat
28. Who has been appointed as the 27th Director General of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) recently? (a) S S Deswal (b) Rakesh Asthana (c) Rajeev Chaudhry (d) Alok Verma
29. Who has won the US $1 million annual Global Teacher Prize 2020 (the prize was founded by Varkey Foundation & organized in partnership with UNESCO)? (a)Dr Susanta Kar (b)Sadat Rahman (c)S Hareesh (d)Ranjitsinh Disale
30. Who has been named as the first ever “Kid of the Year” by TIME Magazine? (a) Udit Singhal (b) Krishna Tirath (c) Sadat Rahman (d) Gitanjali Rao
31. Which Police Station has topped the annual list of India’s Top 10 Police Stations for the year 2020 released by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) during the virtual 55th annual DGPs and IGPs conference 2020? (a) AWPS-Suramangalam, Tamil Nadu (TN) (b) Kharsang, Arunachal Pradesh (c) Nongpok Sekmai, Manipur (d) Jhilmili (Bhaiya Thana), Chhattisgarh
32. Who is the richest women of India according to the 2nd edition of “Kotak Wealth Hurun – Leading Wealthy Women” 2020? (a) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (b) Roshni Nadar Malhotra (c) Nilima Motaparti (d) Leena Gandhi Tewari
33. Padma Bhushan Dharampala Chunni Lal Gulati, also called as “King of Spice”, passed away recently. He was founder and CEO of which Brand? (a) Goldie Masale (b) Ashok Masala (c) MDH Masala (d) Catch Masala
34. Indian Navy Day celebrates in annual day on which day to celebrate the achievements of Indian Navy and commemorate the launch of Operation Trident during the 1971 Indo-Pak war? (a) December 1 (b) December 2 (c) December 3 (d) December 4
35. Who is the Newly appointed President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for the year 2020-21 (a) Shobana Kamineni (b) Uday Shankar (c) Sunil Rayan (d) Jahnabi Phookan
36. Who is the Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year 2020? (a) Mukesh Ambani (b) Tim Cook (c) Jeff Bezos (d) Elon Musk
37. The administrator of the Union Territory(UT) of Lakshadweep, Dineshwar Sharma, passed away recently, he was also the former chief of which organisation (a) Intelligence Bureau (b) Research and Analysis Wing (c) National Investigation Agency (d) Bureau of Police Research and Development
38. Who has returned his Padma Vibhushan Award in protest to the Farm Bills? (a) Chhannulal Mishra (b) Sir Anerood Jugnauth (c) Parkash Singh Badal (d) M. C. Mary Kom
39. Who has been named as the “Asian of the Year”, 2020, for his contribution in fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic? (a) Chen Wei (b) Adar Poonawalla (c) Jake Pang (d) Narendra Modi
40. Which space agency has launched its 21st Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-2(a)to International space station(ISS) recently? (a) Roscosmos (b) ISRO (c) NASA (d) SpaceX
41. Who became the youngest athlete ever to be named as the World Athletes of the Year, recently in 2020? (a) Mondo Duplantis (b) Yulimar Rojas (c) Sifan Hassan (d) Angelica Bengtsson
42. Who became the First Indian to win a Formula 2 race during the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix? (a) Jehan Daruvala (b) Karun Chandhok (c) Narain Karthikeyan (d) Yash Aradhya
43. Which two Indian cites have been inscribed by UNESCO to its world heritage cities under urban landscape city programme in December, 2020? (a) Gwalior and Orchha (b) Gwalior and Sagar (c) Sagar and Orchha (d) Jabalpur and Raipur
44. Forbes 100 Influential Women 2020 ranked Nirmala Sitharaman at position. (a) 34 (b) 39 (c) 68 (d) 41
45. What is the theme of 2020, United Nations(UN) International Anti-Corruption Day is observed annually on December 9? (a) Recover with Integrity (b) Together We Can (c) Fight the Pandemic (d) Rejuvenate Economy
46. Who is the winner of 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize from Asia? (a) Hans Cosmas Ngoteya, Tanzania (b) Paul Sein Twa, Myanmar (c) Malaika Vaz, India (d) Gloria Chang, Hong Kong
47. Which Island of the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef was under threat due to Australian Bushfire on December, 2020? (a) Heron Island (b) Bedarra Island (c) Hayman Island (d) Fraser island
48. On December 2020, Union Cabinet chaired by PM Modi approved wireless internet hotspot service project “PM-WANI”. What does ‘A’ stands for in PM-WANI? (a)Adaptive (b)Acquired (c)Accept (d)Access
49. Which two organisation together accounts for more than 82% of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as per the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) November, 2020 data? (a) Google Pay and Paytm (b) Amazon Pay and MobiKwik (c) Google Pay and PhonePe (d) Freecharge and Amazon Pay
50. Which organisation awarded “India Sports Awaeds- 2020” where Wrestler Bajrang Punia and Shooter Elavenil Valarivan received the highest honour “Sportsperson of the Year of Male & Female” Award? (a) Federation of Indian Commerce and Industry (b) Sports Authority of India (c) Masters Athletics Federation of India (d) Khel Khel Mein Foundation
51. Name the city that ranks top in the Urban Quality of Life (UQoL) Index 2020 released by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B). (a) Chennai (Tamil Nadu) (b) Kolkata (West Bengal) (c) Mumbai (Maharashtra) (d) New Delhi
52. Which country will host the 2021 Edition of Asia Cup, Cricket tournament? (a) Pakistan (b) Bangladesh (c) Sri Lanka (d) India
53. United Nations(UN)’s Human Rights Day is annually observed across the world on . (a) 11th December (b) 10th December (c) 07th December (d) 6th December
54. Who are the Time’s Person of the Year 2020? (a) Donald Trump and Joe Biden (b) Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (c) Barack Obama and Kamala Harris (d) Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
55. Which is the most searched word in India as per the Google Trends 2020? (a) Corona virus (b) Pandemic (c) IPL (d) Narendra Modi
56. Which disease remained as the Top Cause of death at the Global level over the period 2000-19 in World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 Global Health Estimates? (a) Ischaemic Heart Disease (b)Kidney Diseases (c) Novel Coronavirus (d) Chronic Obtructive Pulmonary Disease
57. Which country will host the Special Annual Meeting 2021 of World Economic Forum (WEF)? (a) Germany (b) Malaysia (c) Singapore (d) Switzerland
58. Who became the 1st Non-Indian to win the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020? (a) Marcelo Viana (b)Yakov “Yasha” Eliashberg (c) Joseph Keller (d)Carolina Araujo
59. Which country become the 2nd to plant their National Flag on Moon’s Surface? (a) China (b) Russia (c) USA (d) Israel
60. Where will the World’s largest scooter manufacturing factory to produce Electric Vehicles be built by Ola? (a) Hosur, Tamil Nadu (b) Mangalore, Karnataka (c) Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu (d) Kutch, Gujarat
61. Who won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December, 2020? (a) Max Verstappen (b) Sebastian Vettel (c) Lewis Hamilton (d) Valtteri Bottas
62. Who was appointed as the Managing Director(MD) and Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Kotak Mahindra Bank(KMB) for a period of 3 years effective from 1st January 2021 on December, 2020? (a) Dilip Shanghvi (b) Aditya Puri (c) Jay Kotak (d) Uday Kotak
63. Who received ‘Earth Lifetime Achievement Award’ in the “2020 Champions of the Earth Awards” announced by United Nations (UN) Environment Programme (UNEP)? (a) Robert D. Bullard (b) Nemonte Nenquimo (c) Fabian Leendertz (d) Yacouba Sawadogo
64. Who was named as Time’s 2020 Athlete of the Year? (a) Donavan Brazier (b) LeBron James (c) Mondo Duplantis (d) Daniel Stahl
65. Which Indian tennis player paired with Georgia’s Ekaterine Gorgodze to win the ITF (International Tennis Federation) Doubles title at the 23rd Al Habtoor Challenge 2020 held at Dubai? (a) Sania Mirza (b) Karman Kaur Thandi (c) Ankita Raina (d) Riya Bhatia
66. What profession does late Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan Awardee, Roddam Narasimha belongs to? (a) Journalism (b) Education and Literature (c) Aerospace Science (d) Neuro Science
67. Who topped Forbes 2020’s highest-paid celebrity list on December 2020? (a) Kylie Jenner (b) Lionel Messi (c) Dwayne Johnson (d) Kanye West
68. What is India’s rank in the recently released “Human Development Report 2020 – The next frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene” by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)? (a) 77th (b) 101st (c) 131st (d) 54th
69. Where will be the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH), Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023 conducted? (a) Odisha, India (b) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (c) The Hague, Netherlands (d) Sydney, Australia
70. Indian Navy’s Senior Most Submariner, Vice Admiral Srikant passed away recently, he is the Director general of as of December, 2020. (a) Project 17-A (b) Project-75 (c) Project 75 Alpha (d) Project Seabird
71. When was the 49th Vijay Diwas Celebrated to mark India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War? (a) 15th December (b) 16th December (c) 15th November (d) 16th November
72. Which Zoo became the 1st in India to receive ISO 9001:2015 certification? (a) Alipore Zoological Garden, West Bengal (b) National Zoological Park, Delhi (c) Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, Andhra Pradesh (d) Nehru Zoological Park, Telangana
73. Who was elected as the Vice President of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), one of the World’s largest broadcasting associations for a 3-year term starting from 1st January, 2021? (a) Ibrahim Eren (b) Barkha Dutt (c) Shashi Shekhar Vempati (d) A. Surya Prakash
74. How was late Narinder Singh Kapany popularly know? (a) Father of Business (b) Businessmen’s Master (c) Father of Fiber Optics (d) Father of Infographics
75. What was the name recently approved by CM Yogi Adityanath for the New International airport that will be constructed in Uttar Pradesh, on December, 2020? (a) Prayagraj International Greenfield Airport (b) Jewar International Airport (c) Noida International Greenfield Airport (d) Ghaziabad International Greenfield Airport
76. Government of India issued commemorative stamp on the birth centenary of , that was jointly unveiled by PM Modi and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, on December, 2020. (a) Ziaur Rahman (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (d) Mother Teresa
77. Who was awarded as the Best FIFA Men’s player for 2020? (a) Lionel Messi (b) Robert Lewandowski (c) Luka Modric (d) Cristiano Ronaldo
78. Which country became the 23rd member of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) at the 20th IORA Council of Ministers Meeting virtually hosted by UAE? (a) Sri Lanka (b) France (c) Indonesia (d) Turkey
79. Who was recently appointed as the Chief Justice of Odisha High Court on December, 2020? (a) Mohammad Rafiq (b) Amitava Roy (c) S Muralidhar (d) Pradeep Nandrajog
80. Who received the DRDO Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 on December, 2020? (a)N V Kadam (b)Samir V. Kamat (c)Amit Sharma (d)Tessy Thomas
81. Who authored the book ‘Reporting India: My Seventy- Year Journey as a Journalist’ that was virtually launched by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on December, 2020? (a) Vinod Mehta (b) Prem Prakash (c) O. V. Vijayan (d) Mihir Dalal
82. VP Venkaiah Naidu Released “Oh, Mizoram”, Book of English Poems by Governor of Mizoram. Who is Governor of Mizoram? (a) Shri Kalraj Mishra (b) Prof. Jagdish Mukhi (c) Shri P.S. Sreedharan Pillai (d) Prof. Ganeshi Lal
83. Who received the ASSOCHAM Enterprise of the Century Award from PM Narendra Modi on the occasion of 5-day virtual event “ASSOCHAM Foundation Week 2020” celebration on December, 2020? (a) Mukesh Ambani (b) Ratan Tata (c) Anand Mahindra (d) Gautam Adani
84. What is India’s rank in the Ease Of Doing Bussiness 2020 report released by the World Bank on December, 2020? (a) 34 (b) 63 (c) 52 (d) 85
85. Which country’s Navy will join with NATO members for its 1st joint drill with NATO members in the last 10 years? (a) Russia (b) India (c) Japan (d) France
86. Where is Asia’s Deepest Gas Field ‘R-cluster’, the 1st operational project of the 3 deep-water gas projects by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), BP (The British Petroleum Company) located? (a) Mandovi Zuari River Basin (b) Narmada River Basin (c) Krishna-Godavari River Basin (d) Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River basin
87. Who was recently honoured with ‘Legion of Merit’ (Degree: Chief Commander) by US President Donald Trump on December, 2020? (a) Benjamin Netanyahu (b) Anjela Markel (c) Narendra Modi (d) Emmanuel Macron
88. Who received the 2020 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (10000 USD)? (a) Yifeng Liu (b) Shai Evra (c) Kannan Soundararajan (d) Jack Thorne
89. To mark the Centenary celebration of Which University, PM Narendra Modi released a special postal stamp on December, 2020? (a) Banaras Hindu University (b) University of Delhi (c) Jawaharlal Nehru University (d) Aligarh Muslim University
90. Which pharma company will become the world’s first company to produce a ‘Green Vaccine’? (a) Cadila Healthcare (b) Roche (c) Serum Institute of India (d) Pfizer
91. Who authored the book, “The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha”? (a) Kunwar Natwar Singh (b) Jairam Ramesh (c) Chinmay Tumbe (d) Chandrakant Lahariya
92. To honour the birth anniversary of which former Indian Prime Minister, Indian government has recognised 23rd December as National Farmers Day or Kisan Diwas? (a) Rajendra Prasad (b) M. S. Swaminathan (c) Chaudhary Charan Singh (d) Norman Borlaug
93. Where was India’s indigenously High Power Electric Locomotives manufactured in collaboration with Alstom, France, making India the 6th country to manufacture such rail locomotives? (a) Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan (b) Electric Locomotive Factory, Madhepura (c) Golden Rock Railway Workshop, Tiruchirapall (d) Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi
94. Who is the author of the book “Covid-19: Sabhyata ka Sankat aur Samadhan”? (a) Harivansh Narayan Singh (b) Giriraj Kishore (c) Kailash Satyarthi (d) Gopaldas Neeraj
95. What is the theme of National Consumer Day 2020 that is annually observed across India on 24th December? (a) Smart Consumer Movement, Independent and Love Domestic Products (b) Alternate Consumer Grievance/Dispute Redressal (c) Consumer Protection in Digital Era (d) New Features of Consumer Protection Act, 2019
96. Where was India’s largest Hockey Stadium planned to be built, that will be a part of hosting International Hockey Federations’(FIH) 2023 Men’s Hockey World Cup? (a) Rourkela (b) Bhubaneshwar (c) Cuttack (d) Asansol
97. Who was appointed as the Chairman of BCCI’s Senior men’s selection committee on December, 2020? (a) Chetan Sharma (b) Kapil Dev (c) Debashish Mohanty (d) Jay Shah
98. Where was India’s 1st Mega Leather Park planned to be established? (a) Kolkata (b) Ahmedabad (c) Kanpur (d) Saharanpur
99. Who won the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade at the ICC awards of the Decade (2011-2020)? (a) MS Dhoni (b) Kane Williamson (c) Virat Kohli (d) Ben Stokes
100. Who received “Scientist of the Year Award-2018” by DRDO on December, 2020? (a) Hemant Kumar Pandey (b) Tessy Thomas (c) Sudhir Kamath (d) Pravin K Mehta
ANSWER KEY
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