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Daily Current Affairs Quiz Date: 14 Jan 2020 1. Which two union territories have been 6. Name the Lokpal Member and the Former Chief evaluated as progressive UTs in the State Energy Justice of the Allahabad High Court, who has Efficiency Index 2019? resigned from his post recently? (A) Daman and Diu and Lakshadweep (A) Justice Sanjay Karol (B) Ladakh and Tripura (B) Justice Hrishikesh Roy (C) Nagaland and Mizoram (C) Justice Dilip B Bhosale (D) Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh (D) Justice Krishna Murari (E) Puducherry and Chandigarh (E) Justice Indira Banerjee 2. Who has been sworn in as Prime Minister of 7. Who has recently been awarded with the best Oman recently? international cricketer (women) at the BCCI's (A) Asa'ad bin Tariq bin Taimur al Said annual award function in Mumbai? (B) Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said (A) Jemimah Rodrigues (C) Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah (B) Punam Yadav (D) Darwish bin Isma'eel bin Ali al Balush (C) Deepti Sharma (E) Hatham bin Tariq al Said (D) Veda Krishnamurthy (E) Harmanpreet Kaur 3. What is the theme of 23rd National Youth Festival 2020? 8. Recently Union Steel Minister Dharmendra (A) Indian Youth for Development, Skill, and Harmony Pradhan has launched which mission to make the (B) Youth for Digital India eastern region an integrated steel hub? (C) Sankalp Se Siddhi (A) Mission Purvak (D) Fit youth fit india (B) Mission Purvodaya (E) Channelizing Youth Power for Nation Building (C) Mission Purvkaay (D) Mission Purvanchal 4. Which private sector Bank has launched (E) Mission Purvshram 'myApps' for large institutions tapping into B2B2C space? 9. Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi has (A) Axis Bank renamed Kolkata Port Trust as ___ at an event to (B) Yes Bank mark the 150 years of the Trust. (C) DCB Bank Ltd (A) Syama Prasad Mukherjee port (D) HDFC bank (B) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Port (E) ICICI Bank (C) Atal Bihari Vajpayee Port (D) M. S. Golwalkar Port 5. What is the theme of this year's World Future (E) Bal Gangadhar Tilak Port Energy Summit? (A) Rethinking Global Consumption, Production, and 10. Sangeet-Natak Akademi awardee Idu Sharif, Investment who died recently, was the famous _. (B) Rethink Universal Consumption output and input (A) Jugni Singer (C) Rethink Globel service Consuming Production, and (B) Mahia Singer Investment (C) Dhadi singer (D) Rethinking Universal Consumption output and (D) Tappe Singer input (E) Jindua Singer (E) Rethinking Globel service Consumed output and input Answers: - 1-(E) 2-(E) 3-(D) 4-(D) 5-(A) 6-(C) 7-(B) 8-(B) 9-(A) 10-(C).

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