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[WpProQuiz 7123]1) When is World Environmental Health Day observed?
a) September 26
b) September 25
c) September 24
d) September 27
e) September 28
2) Which state has unveiled a mascot named ‘Tiki Mausi’ to spread public awareness about child and woman’s nutrition and their development?
a) Jharkhand
b) Mizoram
c) Maharashtra
d) West Bengal
e) Odisha
3) Bhopal metro will be named after the Indian king _______.
a) Raja Bhoj
b) Raja Vikramaditya
c) Raja Mihira Bhoja
d) Raja Harsha Vardhana
e) Raja Maharana Pratap
4) The green bond fund, FX Piles has been launched by __________?
a) Bank of International Settlements
b) World Bank
c) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
d) Asian Development Bank (ADB)
e) European Investment Bank
5) Name the first Indian to be appointed as the Chairman of International Egg Commission?
a) Vikas Chitturi
b) Jaydeep Chitturi
c) Suresh Chitturi
d) Vikarm Chitturi
e) Mahesh Chitturi
6) Who has been appointed unopposed as President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association?
a) Vijaya Gurunath
b) Nirmala Gurunath
c) Rupa Gurunath
d) Ramya Gurunath
e) None of these
7) The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes is awarded in which field?
a) journalism
b) science and technology
c) banking sector
d) acting and music
e) education
8) Which state bagged the top honour at the National Tourism Awards 2017-18?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana
c) Karnataka
d) Tamil Nadu
e) Kerala
9) Which airport has been selected as the best airport in terms of services offered to passengers, based on the ASQ survey conducted by Airport Council International?
a) Calicut International Airport, Kerala
b) Biju Patnaik International Airport, Odisha
c) Chennai International Airport, Tamil Nadu
d) Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport, Uttar Pradesh
e) Cochin International Airport, Kerala
10) Which Indian company has won the UN Global Climate Action Award?
a) TCS
b) Wipro
c) Infosys
d) Coniziant
e) BOSCH
11) Which country has launched the Spaceship ‘Kounotori8’ To Replenish Supplies At ISS?
a) China
b) Russia
c) US
d) Japan
e) France
12) Which brand has topped the BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable Indian Brands Ranking?
a) LIC
b) TCS
c) SBI
d) Airtel
e) HDFC Bank
13) Name the Navy’s first new stealth frigate that is recently launched by Union Defense Minister?
a) INS Nilgiri
b) INS Seshadri
c) INS Saptagiri
d) INS Yadadri
e) None of these
14) Name the senior partner of Mumbai’s iconic eatery Britannia & Co Restaurant who passed away recently.
a) Chittaranjan Das
b) Ayyapa Mohili
c) Satyaraj Pillai
d) Varun Krishnan
e) Boman Rashid Kohinoor
Answers :
1) Answer: A)
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is honored to join the International Federation of Environmental Health in celebrating World Environmental Health Day (WEHD) September 26, 2019 to raise global awareness about today’s most pressing environmental health concerns. This year’s theme is Climate Change Challenges, Time for Global Environmental Health to Act in Unison.
2) Answer: E)
The department of Women & Child Development and Mission Shakti has unveiled a mascot and a comprehensive communications strategy to provide information about child and women nutrition in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.
The mascot ‘Tiki Mausi’ or the campaign #TikiMausiKuhe (Tiki Mausi says) will be used to ensure last mile penetration in every corner of the state through social media, folk media, radio jingles, animated videos, wall paintings and hoardings.
Tiki Mausi will help give difficult information to the people in rural areas in a simple manner. With the help of panchayat representatives and women self help groups, this will turn out to be an effective move.
3) Answer: A)
Bhopal metro will be named after ‘Raja Bhoj’ and known as ‘Bhoj Metro’, announced the Chief Minister Kamal Nath.The first phase of the metro rail network Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal and Indore will be operational by the beginning of 2023. CM Kamal Nath laid the foundation stone of the Bhopal Metro Rail Project to be built at a cost of about Rs 6,941.4 crore rupees.
The project will be executed under a partnership between the central and Madhya Pradesh governments in 50:50 ratio and will connect all nodes of the city. Both Bhopal and Indore metro corridors will have multimodal integration with railway and Bus Rapid Transit System stations and feeder network of buses, intermediate public transport and non-motorised transport.
4) Answer: A)
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched an open-ended fund for central bank investments in green bonds.
Responding to a growing demand for climate-friendly investments among official institutions, the BIS’s green bond fund initiative helps central banks to incorporate environmental sustainability objectives in the management of their reserves.
With the support of an advisory committee drawn from a global group of central banks, the fund pools BIS client assets to promote green finance through sizeable climate-friendly investments and support the adoption of best market practices to deepen the green bond market.
The open-ended fund, denominated in US dollars, is structured according to Swiss law and belongs to the BIS Investment Pool (BISIP) family, a format commonly used by BIS Asset Management for its fixed income investment products.
5) Answer: C)
Suresh Chitturi, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of India’s leading poultry firm Srinivasa Farms, has been appointed as chairman of the International Egg Commission (IEC) for the next two years.
The appointment was made at the IEC Global Leadership Conference in Copenhagen in Denmark. Suresh Chitturi will be the first chair from Asia in the history of the institution, as he assumes the role as the Chairman of IEC.
6) Answer: C)
Rupa Gurunath, daughter of N Srinivasan, has been appointed unopposed as President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association. The state association made the announcement following its 87th Annual General Meeting in Chennai.
7) Answer: B)
Twelve scientists from different institutions across the country have been chosen for the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize for 2019.
The award winners include Kayarat Saikrishnan of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune and Soumen Basak of National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi for biological sciences, Raghavan B Sunoj of IIT, Bombay and Tapas Kumar Maji of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru for chemical sciences, and Dishant Pancholi of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, and Nina Gupta of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for mathematical sciences.
The other winners are Dheeraj Kumar of International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi and Mohammad Javed Ali of LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad for medical sciences, Aninda Sinha of IISc, Bengaluru, and Shankar Ghosh of TIFR, Mumbai for physical sciences, Subimal Ghosh of IIT, Bombay for earth, atmosphere, ocean and planetary sciences, and Manik Varma of Microsoft Research India, Bengaluru for engineering sciences.
8) Answer: A)
Andhra Pradesh bagged the top honour at the National Tourism Awards 2017-18.A total of 76 awards were given under various categories this year. Andhra Pradesh bagged the Best State award for overall growth in tourism category.
Goa and Madhya Pradesh were the joint winners in the Adventure Tourism category and Uttarakhand won the award for the Best Film Promotion-Friendly State. Telangana won the award for the Best State for the innovative use of IT.
9) Answer: E)
Airport Council International (ACI) has recognised Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) as the best airport in terms of services it offered to passengers
CIAL was ranked amongst the best airports in the 5-15 million category in the Asia Pacific region for the year 2018 based on annual Airport Service Quality (ASQ) survey conducted by the ACI.
AAI airport Indore figures in the best airport in 2-5 mn category
ACI ASQ survey is world-renowned and established airport service quality benchmarking programme measuring passengers’ satisfaction and is designed for airports to understand the importance of monitoring and improving passenger service.
10) Answer: C)
Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced that it has won the prestigious United Nations Global Climate Action Award in the ‘Climate Neutral Now’ category. Infosys is the only corporate from India to earn the recognition for its efforts to combat climate change. The announcement of the winners came shortly, after the UN Climate Summit in New York was convened by UN Secretary General António Guterres.
The award will be presented to Infosys at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Santiago, Chile (December 2019). The UN Global Climate Action Awards are organized by the Momentum for Change initiative of the UN Climate Change Secretariat.
The award winning projects are recognized for their innovative solutions that address climate change, and help drive progress on many other sustainable development goals, such as poverty alleviation, gender equality and economic opportunity.
11) Answer: D)
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), launched its cargo vessel Kounotori8 to the ISS from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Tanegashima Space Center.
The Kounotori8 is claimed to be the ‘the world’s biggest transport space ship’ by Japan’s space agency JAXA. The cargo vessel was launched using an H-IIB rocket at 1:05 AM (local time) from the Tanegashima island in Japan.
The unpiloted cargo ship carried more than 4 tons of supplies, batteries, and a prototype laser-communications system.
12) Answer: E)
HDFC Bank retained the numero uno spot for the sixth consecutive year in the sixth edition of BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable Indian Brands ranking, released by WPP and Kantar.
With a 2019 brand value pegged at $22.70 billion, HDFC’s brand value has only changed 5 per cent. The bank managed to do this by “maintaining a forward-thinking and innovative outlook, with its consistent focus on exceeding the changing needs of its customers.”
LIC took the second spot in the BrandZ listing with 2019 brand value pegged at $20.13 billion, while Tata Consultancy Services took the third spot with 2019 brand value at $18.16 billion, registering 21 percent change in brand value as compared to last year.
13) Answer: A)
Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh launched the warship Nilgiri in Mumbai. INS Nilgiri is the first ship of the Project -17A frigates, INS Nilgiri is the first of the Indian Navy’s seven new stealth frigates with enhanced stealth features, weapons and sensors.
Project 17A frigates is a design derivative of the Shivalik class stealth frigates with much more advanced stealth features and indigenous weapons and sensors.
The stealth frigate, Nilgiri, is made with the co-ordination of Mazagon Dockyard Limited and Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers with the Indian Navy, DRDO, and other public and private partners
Rajnath Singh also commissioned the largest dry dock of Indian Navy – The Aircraft Carrier Dock at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai
14) Answer: E)
Boman Rashid Kohinoor, the senior partner of Mumbai’s iconic eatery Britannia & Co Restaurant, passed away on 25 September, 2019. He was 97.Britannia continues to remain a favourite among foodies who land up at the café to gorge on its bun maska, chai, its famous berry pulao and salli boti.
