WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTION DISCUSSION – 12.08.2019 TO 20.08.2019 No. of Questions : 40 Correct : ____________ Full Mark : 40 Wrong : _____________ Time : 20 min Mark Secured : _______ 1. Which Indian State was conferred with “best innovation and initiative leadership award” at the World Education Summit-2019? A) Gujarat B) Madhya Pradesh C) Rajasthan D) Uttar Pradesh 2. Which airline became the first Indian Airline to fly over Zero Degree North Pole? A) SpiceJet B) GoAir C) IndiGo D) Air India 3. Name the four holy places, which will be connected by Chardham highway project? A) Bageshwar Uttarkashi, Haridwar and Kedarnath B) Uttarkashi, Haridwar, Badrinath and Kedarnath C) Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri D) Haridwar, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri 4. Who inaugurated the 15,000 square feet underground bunker museum? A) Ram Nath Kovind B) Narendra Modi C) Amit Shah D) Nirmala Sitharaman 5. Where was the India’s first space museum inaugurated? A) Kochi B) Chennai C) Bengaluru D) Hyderabad 6. Who authored the book on the life of actress Sridevi titled “Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar”? A) R.K. Narayan B) Salman Rushdie C) Chetan Bhagat D) Satyarth Nayak 7. Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 will be held at which place? A) Paris B) Birmingham C) London D) Berlin 8. Which year is set as a target by India & Russia to achieve the bilateral trade worth $30 billion between them? A) 2022 B) 2035 C) 2025 D) 2030 9. India’s first Central Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology (CICET) will be build in which place? A) Maharashtra B) Uttar Pradesh C) New Delhi D) Gujarat 10. Who was awarded with Kirti Chakras posthumously during Independence Day 2019? A) Mahesh Kumar B) Prakash Jadhav C) Jaimal Singh D) Manoja Kumar Behera 11. Which organization has released the first-ever global assessment of forest biodiversity, “Below the Canopy: Plotting Global Trends in Forest Wildlife Populations”? A) WWF B) WTO C) WHO D) UNESCO 12. Where was National Tribal Festival held recently? A) Leh-Ladakh B) Kozhikode C) Nongpoh D) Lunglei 13. Mangdechhu hydroelectric power plant was recently inaugurated in which of the following country? A) Nepal B) India C) Bhutan D) Myanmar 14. Name the first Indian judge, who was appointed to the Supreme Court of Fiji recently? A) Madan Lokur B) Arjan Kumar Sikri C) Altamas Kabir D) Ashok Bhushan 15. Which country’s Kajin Sara lakeis set to become world’s highest lake surpassing Tilicho lake? A) Thailand B) Myanmar C) Sri Lanka D) Nepal 16. Who has been appointed as the Director of National Institute of Health and Family Welfare(NIHFW)? A) Balram Bhargava B) RandeepGuleria C) Arun Singhal D) Harshad Pandurang Thakur 17. Recently Tirur Betel leaf which gets GI tag belongs to which state? A)Kerala B)Mizoram C)Assam D)TamilNadu 18. Which country won the inaugural T20 Physical Disability World Cricket? A)Pakistan B)Australia C)England D)India 19. Name the country, which is the world’s top emitter of anthropogenic sulphur dioxide(SOB) as per Greenpeace’s report “Global SO2 emission hotspot database: Ranking the world’s worst sources of SO2 pollution”? A) Japan B) Russia C) India D) Pakistan 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 1 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040456677, Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTION DISCUSSION – 12.08.2019 TO 20.08.2019 20. Which mission has been launched by government of India to ensure safe drinking water to all households? A) Jal Jeevan Mission B) Jal Dayal Mission C) Jal Suraksha Mission D) Jal Sansad Mission 21. Which football club won the first UEFA Super Cup? A) Arsenal B) Manchester City C) Chelsea D) Liverpool 22. Jagannath Mishra who passed away recently was the former CM of which state? A) Jharkhand B) Assam C) Meghalaya D) Bihar 23. Who became the first batsman to score 20,000 international runs in a single decade? A)Kane Williamson B)Steve Smith C)MS Dhoni D)Virat Kohli 24. Which player is all set to get the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award? A)G Sathiyan B)Bajrang Punia C)Deepak Garg D)DivyaNarain 25. How much percent of India’s skilled youth are jobless as per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2017-18? A) 41% B) 50% C) 44% D) 33% 26. 14th Edition of KONKAN-19 annual bilateral navy exercises was held between India and which country? A) Russia B) United States C) India D) United Kingdom (UK) 27. Recently Which government announced free ride for women’s in government buses from Oct 29,2019? A)Assam B)TamilNadu C)Delhi D)Bihar 28. Who won the 35th Men’s Montreal Masters Title? A)Roger Federer B)Daniel Medvedev C)Rafael Nadal D)Novak Djokovic 29. Which application was launched by the centre government for waste collection? A)Swachh Bharat B)Clean my City C)Swachh Nagar D)Swacch Jeevan 30. Which multilateral naval exercise will be hosted by Indian Navy in March, 2020? A) IBSAMAR B) SIMBEX C) MILAN D) INDRA 31. Where was the Under- 12 Asian Tennis Team Championship 2019 held? A) Tajikistan B) Uzbekistan C) Kyrgyzstan D) Kazakhstan 32. Which bank launched world’s first negative interest rate home loan? A)HSBC Bank B)RBL Bank C)Jyske Bank D)Bank of America 33. Who headed the panel that was constituted for making CSR non-compliance a civil offence? A)Bimal Jalan B)Dinesh Singh C)D Chaturvedi D)Injeti Srinivas 34. Who became the first Indian woman to win the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) Bajas World cup 2019? A) Neha Dabas B) Mira Erda C) Aishwarya Pissay D) Alisha Abdullah 35. Which country has launched the commercial use rocket named Smart Dragon-1(SDA) with 3 satellites? A) Japan B) Russia C) China D) United States 36. Where is the Hazratganj Chauraha located, which was renamed as ‘Atal Chowk’ in memory of former Prime Minister of India, Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee ? A) Gwalior B) New Delhi C) Mumbai D) Lucknow 37. Which bank becomes the second bank to link its home loan product to RBI’srepo rate after State Bank of India? A) Union Bank of India B) Bank of Baroda C) Bank of India D) Punjab National Bank 38. World Organ Donation Day is observed on which date? A) August 12 B) August 11 C) August 13 D) August 10 39. Who is the author of the book titled “Second Night” which describes and focuses on friendship, love and loss in the life of a woman ? A) Rajiv Dogra B) Ruskin Bond C) Salman Rushdie D) Chetan Bhagat 40. 5th BRICS Minister of Environment Meeting was held at which of the following place? A) New Delhi B) Sao Paulo C) Beijing D) Moscow 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 2 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040456677, Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUESTION DISCUSSION – 12.08.2019 TO 20.08.2019 ANSWER KEYS 1 C 21 D 2 D 22 D 3 C 23 D 4 A 24 B 5 D 25 D 6 D 26 D 7 B 27 C 8 C 28 C 9 D 29 C 10 B 30 C 11 A 31 D 12 A 32 C 13 C 33 D 14 A 34 C 15 D 35 C 16 D 36 D 17 A 37 B 18 D 38 C 19 C 39 A 20 A 40 B 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-751015 3 Ph. : 8093556677, 9040456677, Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] .