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Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 19 Aug 2021 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ: 19 AUG 2021 1. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar (e) Ireland Singh Dhami has announced that Indian 6. Name the Military exercise which was women’s hockey team player_______ conducted (in Aug’ 21) jointly between will be the brand ambassador of the India and Russia. state’s Department of Women (a) INDRA-2021 Empowerment and Child Development. (b) Konkan- 2021 (a) Lalremsiami (c) CORPAT- 2021 (b) Deep Grace Ekka (d) Shakti (c) Vandana Katariya (e) Indradhanush (d) Nikki Pradhan 7. The 6th meeting of the Agriculture (e) Navneet Kaur Ministers of the member countries of the 2. Who among the following has awarded SCO was virtually hosted (in Aug’ 21) Ashok Chakra in Gallantry awards 2021? from which country? (a) Vikas Khatri (a) India (b) Ashutosh Kumar (b) Tajikistan (c) Neeraj Ahlawat (c) China (d) Arun Kumar Pandey (d) Kyrgyzstan (e) Babu Ram (e) Kazakhstan 3. Name the following, who has been 8. Which organization had set up a panel (in awarded Kirti Chakra in Gallantry awards Aug’ 21) to reduce India’s trade 2021. settlement cycle from the current Trade (a) Altaf Hussain Bhat plus 2 days to Trade plus 1 day? (b) Perminder Antil (a) Reserve Bank of India (c) Chitesh Kumar (b) Ministry of Corporate Affairs (d) Manjinder Singh (c) Insurance Regulatory and (e) Sunil Choudhary Development Authority 4. Where did the Indian government (d) Securities and Exchange Board of recently (in Aug’ 21) inaugurate the India World’s 2nd largest refurbished National (e) Pension Fund Regulatory and Gene Bank? Development Authority (a) Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast 9. Name the person who was appointed (in Centre Aug’ 21) as the Brand Ambassador for (b) National Bureau of Plant Genetic Amway’s Nutrilite range of products. Resources (a)Neeraj Chopra (c) National Plant Genome Research (b)Mirabai Chanu Institute (c)P V Sindhu (d)National Bank for Agriculture and (d)Sakshi Malik Rural Development (e)Lovlina Borgohain (e) Delhi Agricultural Marketing Board 10. Which state launched India’s first ‘Smart 5. ‘Exercise Konkan- 2021’ in which INS Health Cards scheme’ under the ‘Biju Tabar ship participated (in Aug’ 21) was Swasthya Kalyan Yojana’? held between India and which country? (a) Karnataka (a) USA (b) Kerala (b) Canada (c) Andhra Pradesh (c) Germany (d) Odisha (d) UK (e) Telangana 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 1 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040556677. Web :www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ: 19 AUG 2021 11. Who was appointed (in Aug ’21) as the ambassador of adventure tourism in ANSWER KEYS Kerala? 1 c 9 b (a) Manpreet Singh 2 e 10 d (b) P T Usha 3 a 11 c (c) P R Sreejesh 4 b 12 a (d) T C Yohannan 5 d 13 d (e) S. Sreesanth 6 a 14 c 12. Hakainde Hichilema has won the Presidential election of which country? 7 b 15 b (a) Zambia 8 d (b) Botswana (c) Ghana (d) Kenya (e) Chile 13. Muhyiddin Yassin has recently resigned as the Prime Minister of which country? (a) Turkey (b) Sri Lanka (c) Bhutan (d) Malaysia (e) Thailand 14. Who is the first Indian to receive the highest civilian award in the United States? (a) Narendra Modi (b) Neeraj Chopra (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru (e) Subash Chandra Bose 15. Lionel Messi is ______times winner of the Ballon d’Or for Europe’s best soccer player. (a) 7 times (b) 6 times (c) 10 times (d) 9 times (e) 5 times 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 2 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040556677. Web :www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] .
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