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[WpProQuiz 7291]1) Recently the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released a special commemorative coin on Paramahansa Yogananda to mark his ____________ birth anniversary
a) 100
b) 150
c) 125
d) 175
e) 130
2) What is the enhanced e-payment target by volume set by government for FY 20?
a) 35 billion
b) 45 billion
c) 60 billion
d) 55 billion
e) 50 billion
3) Recently, Government accords ‘Maharatna’ status to which among the following PSU companies?
a) Hindustan Petroleum and Indian Oil Corporation
b) Indian Oil Corporation and Power Grid Corporation
c) Bharat Petroleum and Power Grid Corporation
d) Hindustan Petroleum and Power Grid Corporation
e) Hindustan Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum and Power Grid Corporation and Power Grid Corporation
4) Name the first state of India to enact a law on contract farming?
a) West Bengal
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Assam
d) Tamil Nadu
e) Maharashtra
5) Which among these banks has issued the highest number of FASTag till now?
a) Axis Bank
b) HDFC Bank
c) RBL Bank
d) ICICI Bank
e) Yes Bank
6) Who among these is not one of the Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) to the Government of India?
a) Rajinder Khanna
b) Datta Padsalgikar
c) Ajit Doval
d) Pankaj Saran
e) None of these
7) Who has been appointed as the new Adjutant General of the Indian Army?
a) Dheeraj Shah
b) Arvind Dutta
c) Suresh Chawla
d) Ashwini Kumar
e) None of these
8) Who received the Golden dragon award at Cardiff international film festival 2019 held in Wales, UK ?
a) Nawazuddin Siddiqui
b) Pankaj Tripathi
c) Anurag Kashyap
d) Saif Ali Khan
e) None of these
9) What is the theme for the 35th ASEAN Summit?
a) Resilient and innovative Asean
b) Turning Vision into Reality for a Dynamic ASEAN Community
c) Our People, Our Community, Our Vision
d) Advancing Partnership for sustainability
e) None of these
10) How many achievements of India are listed in the Guinness World Records 2020?
a) 60
b) 80
c) 70
d) 50
e) 100
11) India’s first Indian Brain Atlas (IBA) has been developed by which institute?
a) IIIT Hyderabad
b) Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad
c) Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
d) Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad
e) IIT Mumbai
12) Which country has topped the EIUs 2019 Global Microscope Report on Financial Inclusion index?
a) Mexico
b) Peru
c) Chile
d) Colombia
e) Russia
13) What is the rank of India in the 2019 Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion report by The Economist Intelligence Unit?
a) 5th
b) 11th
c) 9th
d) 20th
e) 6th
14) Pooja Rani is associated with which sports?
a) Shooting
b) Wrestling
c) Golf
d) Boxing
e) Running
15) Gurudas Dasgupta who died recently was a veteran leader of which of these party?
a) Communist Party of India
b) Indian National Congress
c) Telugu Desam Party
d) Rashtriya Janata Dal
e) Bharatiya Janata Party
16) Name the first female head of the UN Refugee who passed away recently?
a) Sakura Ando
b) Kazu Ando
c) Michiko Inukai
d) Sadako Ogata
e) None of these
17) Actress Geetanjali passed away recently, she hailed from which state ?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Kerala
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Telangana
e) None of these
18) Who took charge as India’s new Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)?
a) Pavan Kapoor
b) Shivshankar Menon
c) Nirupama Rao
d) Kanwal Sibal
e) None of these
19) Where was the KVS-Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Parv inaugurated?
a) India Gate, Maharashtra
b) Ellora Caves, Maharashtra
c) Lohagad Fort, Maharashtra
d) Lonavla, Maharashtra
e) None of these
20) For which project National Aluminium Company bagged the National CSR Award?
a) Hamesha Nalconian
b) Nalco Ki Ladli
c) Namasya
d) Nalco Nisarg
e) Naginaa Nalco
21) Who has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of the union territory Jammu & Kashmir?
a) Girish Chand Murmu
b) R.K Mathur
c) D K Joshi
d) Praful Patel
e) V.P. Singh Badnore
22) Dhanlaxmi Bank MD and CEO T. Latha has resigned recently. Where is the bank headquartered at?
a) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
b) Mysore, Karnataka
c) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
d) Thrissur, Kerala
e) Warangal, Telangana
23) Srei Equipment Finance Ltd has partnered with which bank to offer loans to the MSME sector & retail customers under a co-lending arrangement?
a) Bank of Baroda
b) Canara bank
c) Indian Bank
d) Union Bank of India
e) Syndicate Bank
24) Name the first Indian pair to enter the finals of a BWF World Tour Super 750 event at the Yonex French Open 2019 .
a) Srikanth Kidambi and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
b) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
c) Srikanth Kidambi and Chirag Shetty
d) Parupalli Kashyap and Srikanth Kidambi
e) None of these
25) Which institute has signed an MoU (Memorandum of understanding) with Frankfurter Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie GmbH (FiZ), Germany in New Delhi for research in the field of genomics ?
a) National Institute of Health and Family Welfare(NIHFW)
b) All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA)
c) Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology(IGIB)
d) Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College(AUTC)
e) None of these
Answers :
1)Â Answer: C)
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on October 29, 2019 released a special commemorative coin on Paramahansa Yogananda to mark his 125th Birth Anniversary.Paramahansa Yogananda is known as the Father of Yoga in the West.
2) Answer: B)
The government is making changes in its digital payments road map as it has now increased the target for e-transactions in the financial year ending March 2020 to 45 billion (by volume) from 40 billion.The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has also redistributed individual targets for banks and payments firms for the same period.
3) Answer: D)
The government on Wednesday accorded ‘Maharatna’ status to state-owned Hindustan Petroleum and Power Grid Corporation. These orders were issued by the Department of Public Enterprises, under the Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises.
The Boards of Maharatna central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) can make equity investments to undertake financial joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries and undertake mergers and acquisitions in India and abroad, subject to a ceiling of 15 per cent of he net worth of the concerned CPSE, limited to Rs 5,000 crore in one project.
4) Answer: D)
Tamil Nadu has become the first State in the country to enact a law on contract farming, to protect the farming community, particularly marginal farmers, from any untoward challenges as well ensure fair price even in case of excess supply into the markets. The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce and Livestock Contract Farming and Services (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2019 adopted by the state has received the President’s approval.
5) Answer: D)
ICICI Bank announced that it has crossed a milestone of issuing 2 million FASTag till date, the most by any financial institution in the country. The Bank aims to double the number in next six months.ICICI Bank is by far the leader in the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) market in terms of value as well as volume. The Bank commands more than half of the market share in terms of the number of transactions on FASTag.
6) Answer: C)
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner and Maharashtra DGP Datta Padsalgikar has been appointed as Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) to the Government of India. The 1982-batch IPS officer has also served in the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for 26 years. Currently, there are two deputy NSAs, former RAW chief Rajinder Khanna and former IFS officer Pankaj Saran.
7) Answer: B)
Lieutenant General Arvind Dutta has been appointed the next Adjutant General of the Indian Army.He will succeed Lieutenant Gen Ashwini Kumar, who will superannuate on October 31.
8) Answer: A)
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been honoured with the prestigious Golden Dragon Award at the Cardiff International Film Festival for excellence in cinema in the global arena. Veteran Hollywood actor Judi Dench also honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
9) Answer: D)
The 35th ASEAN Summit began in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1-4 November 2019. The theme for the 2019 summit is Advancing Partnership for sustainability.
10) Answer: B)
The longest hair on a teenager, the shortest woman alive, and the largest collection of paper cups are among the 80 record-breaking achievements by Indians that have made it to the latest edition of the Guinness World Records, publisher Penguin Random House.
11) Answer: A)
The researchers at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad have created the first-ever Indian Brain Atlas (IBA). The India-specific brain atlas, named IBA100, has been created by using the MRI scans of 50 individuals of different genders.
12) Answer: D)
Colombia has topped the ranking. Peru is on second, Uruguay is on third and Mexico is on fourth. Total 55 countries have been ranked.
13) Answer: A)
India has been ranked at 5th spot in The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2019 Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion report.
14) Answer: D)
Indian professional boxers Shiva Thapa (63kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) claimed the gold medals at the Olympic Test Event for Boxing in Tokyo, Japan on October 31.
15) Answer: A)
Former Parliamentarian and veteran Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Gurudas Dasgupta passes away. He was 83.
16) Answer: D)
Japanese academic and diplomat Sadako Ogata who became the first female to be appointed as the U.N. refugee chief passed away at 92.
17) Answer: C)
Veteran Telugu actress Geetanjali Ramakrishna has passed away. The veteran actor had appeared in several films in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi, and had also worked with cinema giants like NT Rama Rao. Originally born as Mani in Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, she was married to popular actor Ramakrishna
18) Answer: A)
Pavan Kapoor took charge as India’s new Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was appointed by India’s Ministry of External Affairs on 28 August. His role is to provide guidance to further strengthen bilateral relations between India and the UAE. He was welcomed by the Indian Consulate in Dubai.
19) Answer: A)
KVS- Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Parv was inaugurated at India Gate, Lawn No. 6, Maharashtra. It was inaugurated by Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank inaugurated the four-day mega cultural event KVS Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Parv.
20) Answer: B)
Nalco has been honoured for excellence in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility for its flagship project ‘Nalco Ki Ladli’ at the National CSR Awards ceremony. Basant Kumar Thakur-NALCO Director (HR) received the award from Anurag Singh Thakur. Anurag Singh Thakur is the Union Minister of State for Finance.
21) Answer: A)
2 union Territories of J&K and Ladakh have come into existence on the birth anniversary of the Iron man of India-Sardar Patel. RK Mathur is the 1st Lieutenant Governor of UT Ladakh & Girish Chand Murmu took over as the 1st Lieutenant Governor of UT J&K. Umang Narula is the advisor to the Lt Governor of Ladakh.
22) Answer: D)
Dhanlaxmi Bank MD and CEO T. Latha has resigned due to personal reasons. The board has accepted the resignation & has been intimated to the RBI. It is headquartered at Thrissur, Kerala & was incorporated on 14 November 1927 with a capital of ₹ 11,000. It became a Scheduled Commercial Bank in the year 1977.
23) Answer: D)
Srei Equipment Finance Ltd has partnered with the United Bank of India to offer loans to the MSME sector & retail customers under a co-lending arrangement. They jointly organised Loan Utsavs across 20 cities offering different EMI options for the loans. Loan to value of up to 90% of the equipment value were offered.
24) Answer: B)
Indian men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were ranked 9th in the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) World Rankings 2019. They were the runners in the men’s doubles category at Yonex French Open 2019. They gained two places in the ranking. The ranking was topped by the Indonesian pair of Marcus Fernaldi Gideon & Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo. They were the first Indian pair to enter the finals of a BWF World Tour Super 750 event at the Yonex French Open 2019 and become the 2nd Indian doubles pair after Partho Ganguli and Vikram Singh in 1983 to win the French Open.
25) Answer: B)
All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) under Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homoeopathy) has signed an MoU (Memorandum of understanding) with Frankfurter Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie GmbH (FiZ), Germany in New Delhi to research in the field of genomics & develop norms supported with new-age technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
