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[WpProQuiz 7533]1) When is the Minorities Rights Day observed all across the country?
A) December 12
B) December 15
C) December 16
D) December 18
E) December 10
2) Who has inaugurated the 79th Conference of Presiding Officers of Legislative Bodies ?
A) Om Birla
B) Venkaiah Naidu
C) Narendra Modi
D) Prahlad Patel
E) Thawarchand Gehlot
3) Who has been fined with USD 327 million tax bill in Australia ?
A) Telegram
B) Google
C) Facebook
D) Instagram
E) Whatsapp
4) The 136 km international rail link will connect Raxaul, Bihar to __________.
A) Birgunj
B) Kathmandu
C) Pokhara
D) Lalitpur
E) Bhaktapur
5) Which state police has launched e-cop app for women’s safety?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Punjab
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Haryana
E) Uttar Pradesh
6) Who has released the braille edition of the Book “Exam Warriors”?
A) Prakash Javedkar
B) RamNath Kovind
C) Smiriti Irani
D) Thaawarchand Gehlot
E) Narendra Modi
7) Who has become the oldest person ever to complete in the Antarctic Ice Marathon ?
A) Kenny Kipchoge
B) William Haffertry
C) Ron Margins
D) Dutch Kennedy
E) Roy Jorgen Svenningsen
8) Which among the following will invest $225 million in the India Resurgence Fund ?
A) ADB
B) IBRD
C) IMF
D) CPPIB
E) WB
9) In which state, the first Agro-Based Food Processing SEZ will be set up ?
A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Manipur
D) Assam
E) Tripura
10) What is the theme of the 11th Regional Quality Conclave (RQC) being held at Rudrapur, Uttarakhand ?
A) Advance manufacturing with quality, innovation & technology Interventions
B) Improving manufacturing with technology interventions
C) Industry 4.0
D) Technical upgradation of skills
E) Maintaining quality and consistency
11) Patanjali Ayurved has made its first big acquisition of Rs. 4350 crore. It has acquired which company ?
A) Giiava Ind
B) OmshreeAgro
C) Ruchi Soya
D) Wilmar
E) Dd Garlic
12) Who has been bestowed with the Icon of the Jubilee award at the Golden Jubilee edition of the International Film Festival of India?
A) Dilip Kumar
B) Amitabh Bachan
C) Meena Kumari
D) RajniKanth
E) Kamal Hassan
13) The Book “Exam Warriors” has been written by __________.
A) Narendra Modi
B) Venkaiah Naidu
C) RamNath Kovind
D) Thaawarchand Gehlot
E) Rajnath Singh
14) Which Bank has crossed $100 billion in market cap, becoming the third firm in the country?
A) SBI
B) HDFC
C) ICICI
D) Axis Bank
E) IndusInd
15) In which state, the 11th Regional Quality Conclave will be held ?
A) Punjab
B) Assam
C) Uttarakhand
D) Haryana
E) Bihar
16) Madhya Pradesh police has launched which app to facilitate girls to get immediate back-up just by the push of a button ?
A) super-cop
B) e-mitr
C) e-cop
D) e-sahyata
E) e-police
17) The GST Council has fixed a uniform tax rate of ______ percent on both states and private lotteries.
A) 5 percent
B) 28 percent
C) 20 percent
D) 12 percent
E) 15 percent
18) Who is the largest contributor of troops to UN peacekeeping operations ?
A) EU
B) India
C) Russia
D) US
E) France
19) Who has inaugurated the 5th Khajuraho International Film Festival ?
A) Smriti Irani
B) Venkaiah Naidu
C) Kamal Nath
D) Naveen Patnaik
E) Narendra Modi
20) Which state has organized the Golden Jubilee edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) ?
A) Goa
B) Sikkim
C) Manipur
D) New Delhi
E) Tamil Nadu
21) Which state government has launched the ‘Jalsathi’ program ?
A) Sikkim
B) Odisha
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Karnataka
E) New Delhi
22) Which state government has started Janta Clinic to provide free primary healthcare to the needy ?
A) Assam
B) Punjab
C) Karnataka
D) New Delhi
E) Rajasthan
23) December 19th is observed annually in the country as which day ?
A) National Science Day
B) World Health Day
C) Goa’s Liberation Day
D) National Technology Day
E) Assam’s Liberation Day
24) Which country has signed a new law to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’ ?
A) Ireland
B) France
C) Germany
D) US
E) Russia
25) India is the world’s third-largest publisher of science & engineering articles. Which country is the top publisher ?
A) Russia
B) China
C) US
D) Germany
E) Switzerland
26) GEM has signed two MoUs with which banks for payment related services ?
A) Axis Bank and HDFC
B) HDFC and UCO Bank
C) Bank of Maharashtra and UCO Bank
D) Bank of Maharashtra and Axis Bank
E) Axis Bank and UCO Bank
27) Which Ministry has notified the setting up of First ever Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Tripura ?
A) Ministry of Corporate Affairs
B) Ministry of Consumer Affairs
C) MSME Ministry
D) Ministry of Commerce and Industry
E) Ministry of Chemicals &Fertilisers
28) The Future Skill Prime programme to train professionals in futuristic skills will be jointly rolled out by the Information Technology ministry and _______ .
A) Microsoft
B) Niti Aayog
C) CII
D) Nasscom
E) FICCI
29) BP Raju from which organisation has won the ”India Cyber Cop of the Year” award ?
A) CBI
B) RAW
C) IB
D) CISF
E) CRPF
30) Sahitya Akademi has announced the annual SahityaAkademi Awards in how many languages?
A) 18
B) 23
C) 20
D) 25
E) 19
31) Roy Jorgen Svenningsen has become the oldest person ever to complete in the Antarctic Ice Marathon. He is from which country ?
A) France
B) Canada
C) Germany
D) Australia
E) US
32) Shriram Lagoo who passed away recently was a famous ________ .
A) Singer
B) Producer
C) Actor
D) Writer
E) Director
33) GitanathGanguly who passed away recently was the president of _______
A) Dempo FC
B) Mohun Bagan AC
C) East Bengal FC
D) Bengaluru FC
E) Chennaiyin FC
34) Which is the first city in India to get online portal to exchange reusable products ?
A) New Delhi
B) Pune
C) Bhopal
D) Chennai
E) Guwahati
35) The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is headquartered in _____
A) Toronto
B) Quebec
C) Ontario
D) Vancouver
E) Montreal
36) Where will the first Global Refugee Forum be held in ?
A) New Delhi
B) Geneva
C) Paris
D) Copenhagen
E) Chile
Answers :
1) Answer: D
To protect the rights of the minority communities every year on 18 December Minorities Rights Day is observed in India. This day also focuses on bringing a better understanding and educating people about the issues related to minorities and their safety.
2) Answer: A
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla in Dehradun inaugurated the 79th Conference of Presiding Officers of Legislative Bodies.
The presiding officers of all state legislatures are participating in the two-day conference. Among the items on the agenda is the ‘Tenth Schedule to the Constitution and the role of the Speaker’.
Addressing the conference Birla stated people of India are very democratic in nature, it was evident as 2019 elections were held with total transparency.
He also shared his experience as a Lok Sabha Speaker and stated that efforts are put up to follow the parliamentary norms at all costs.
He further stated that despite consent or disagreement in Parliament, the aim is to run democracy properly under parliamentary rules.
3) Answer: B
Google agreed to pay Australian tax authorities 482 million Australian dollars (USD 327 million) to settle a long-running dispute over the tech giant’s multibillion-dollar business in the country.
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) stated the payment covered taxes owed for 2008-2018, and brought to 1.25 billion Australian dollars the amount recovered from global e-commerce titans, including Microsoft, Apple and Facebook.
4) Answer: B
A direct rail ride to Nepal’s capital Kathmandu from India may become possible in the near future. Indian Railways has announced that the survey work on the 136-km international railway from Raxaul on the Bihar border has been completed and is targeted for completion by 2030.
The project would cost Rs 16,550 crore excluding the cost of acquisition of land by Nepal.
A total of 32 road over bridges, 53 underpasses, 259 minor bridges and 41 major bridges will be designed to facilitate the route, which would pass through 39 tunnels.
5) Answer: C
The Madhya Pradesh police have launched ‘MP e-Cop’, a mobile app to facilitate girls to get immediate back-up just by the push of a button.
The MP e-cop app has been introduced amid national debates over women’s safety triggered by a spate of crimes against women all over the country.
There is SOS (an international code signal for extreme distress) facility in the app, which would trigger the SMS to Dial 100 and phone numbers fed in the app by the girls/women.
6) Answer: D
Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot released the Braille Edition of the book “Exam Warriors” authored by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi .
This release of Braille Edition of “Exam Warriors” is taking place at an opportune time when Exams of Secondary and Higher Secondary Standards are fast approaching.
All the pictures of the book have been well described for the benefit of blinds readers.
7) Answer: E
An 84-year-old Canadian national named Roy Jorgen Svenningsen has become the oldest person ever to complete the Antarctic Ice Marathon.
Roy, a retired oil worker, is from the Canadian city of Edmonton, and he has been running since 1964. He spent a year training for 42-km Antarctic marathon.
The Antarctic Ice Marathon is the planet’s southernmost race and is considered one of the toughest.
8) Answer: D
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will invest $225 million in India Resurgence Fund (IndiaRF), a distressed asset buyout platform. CPPIB, through its wholly-owned subsidiary CPPIB Credit Investments Inc, will infuse money into the fund, which was set up by Piramal Enterprises and Bain Capital Credit.
9) Answer: E
Tripura SEZ to open Avenues for Investment and Connectivity. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has notified the setting up of the first ever Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Tripura on December 16, 2019.
The SEZ is being set-up at Paschim Jalefa, Sabroom, South Tripura District, which is 130 km away from Agartala. It will be a Sector Specific Economic Zone for Agro-Based Food Processing. The estimated investment in the project will be around 1550 Crore.
10) Answer: A
Quality Council of India (QCI) along with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) is organizing its 11th Regional Quality Conclave (RQC) on 20th December 2019 at, Rudrapur, district Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand.
The theme of the Rudrapur RQC is “Advance Manufacturing with Quality, Innovation & Technology Interventions.” The objective of the Conclave is to create awareness about the significance of quality culture in businesses, deliberate on how organizations could continuously improve and innovate and share the technological advancement like Industry 4.0 and predictive maintenance.
11) Answer: C
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved on made its first big acquisition when it paid Rs. 4,350 crore to take over soya food brand Nutrela-maker Ruchi Soya through an insolvency process.
The acquisition will help Patanjali acquire edible oil plants as also soybean oil brands such as Mahakosh and Ruchi Gold.
12) Answer: D
The Golden Jubilee edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Panaji, Goa.
Renowned Superstar Rajinikanth was bestowed with the Icon of the Jubilee Award.
Renowned French film actor Isabelle Huppert was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
13) Answer: A
Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot released the Braille Edition of the book “Exam Warriors” authored by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
The Braille Edition in Hindi and English has been prepared in the Braille Press of Rajasthan Netraheen Kalyan Sangh.
14) Answer: B
HDFC Bank Ltd crossed the $100 billion market capitalisation, becoming only the third firm in the country to achieve this milestone.
The lender is now in the league of Reliance Industries Ltd, which has a market cap of $140.74 billion, and Tata Consultancy Services that has a market cap of $114.60 billion.
With this, HDFC Bank now ranks 110th in the world’s most valued companies. According to Bloomberg data, currently, there are 109 companies in the list which have a market cap of over $100 billion.
Among the most valued banks and financial companies around the world which have a market cap of over $100 billion, HDFC Bank ranks 26th.
15) Answer: C
Quality Council of India (QCI) along with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) is organizing its 11th Regional Quality Conclave (RQC) on 20th December 2019 at, Rudrapur, district Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand.
The Conclave will be inaugurated by Madan Kaushik,Minister of Urban Development Government of Uttarakhand.Faggan Singh Kulaste,Minister of State, Ministry of Steel, Government of India will also attended.
16) Answer: C
The Madhya Pradesh police have launched ‘MP e-Cop’, a mobile app to facilitate girls to get immediate back-up just by the push of a button.
The MP e-cop app has been introduced amid national debates over women’s safety triggered by a spate of crimes against women all over the country.
There is SOS (an international code signal for extreme distress) facility in the app, which would trigger the SMS to Dial 100 and phone numbers fed in the app by the girls/women.
The police will find the location of the person in distress after it receives the alert.
People can avail several facilities through a single app. They can inform about missing documents and mobile phones from their homes. Secret information can be shared with police without disclosing the name.
17) Answer: B
The 38th meeting of the GST Council met under the Chairmanship of the Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman . has decided to keep the tax slabs untouched for the time being and has fixed a uniform tax rate of 28 per cent on both state and private lotteries, effective from March 1, 2020.
18) Answer: B
India is among the largest troop contributing countries to UN peacekeeping operations.
Currently, 2,342 Indian troops and 25 police personnel are deployed with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
About 850 Indian peacekeepers serving in South Sudan have been awarded the prestigious UN medal for their service and contribution to building peace in the strife-torn nation and supporting the local communities.
19) Answer: C
Shri Kamal Nath was inaugurating the 5th International Film Festival in Khajuraho.
The 5th Khajuraho International Festival organized in joint aegis of Culture and Tourism Departments in collaboration with Prayas Production, Mumbai was inaugurated with the screening of Gandhi Film on the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
This year the theme of the Film Festival is ‘Comedy’. In this 7-Day festival, films will be screened and the comedians will also give their performances.
20) Answer: A
The Golden Jubilee edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Panaji, Goa.
Renowned Superstar Rajinikanth was bestowed with the Icon of the Jubilee Award.
Renowned French film actor Isabelle Huppert was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
21) Answer: B
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has launched the ‘Jalsathi’ programme to ensure supply of safe drinking water to all households in the state.
The inclusion of women volunteers from Mission Shakti for piped water supply will boost their economic empowerment.
Patnaik also distributed water quality testing kits and POS (point of sale) machines to the women volunteers – ‘Jalasathis’.
Clean water is the most important factor for good health. Inclusion of women volunteers from Mission Shakti for piped water supply is a cherished step as they will serve the people as ‘Jalasathis’.
For implementation of the ‘Jalsathi’ programme, the Water Corporation of Odisha (WATCO) and women federations in Bhubaneswar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU).
The ‘Jalasathis’ will act as links between consumers and the Public Health Engineering Organisation (PHEO) or WATCO.
They ‘Jalasathis’ will be responsible for water quality testing, facilitating new water connections, regularising connections, reassessment of demands, meter reading, bill generation, bill delivery, collection of water charges and facilitating complaints redressal.
22) Answer: E
Chief Minister Gehlot inaugurated the first Janta clinic at Valmiki Basti in the Malviya Nagar area to provide free primary health care to people living in slums.
In its first phase, 12 Janta Clinics will be opened in Jaipur where people would get free medicines, and free medical examination in some cases. Later, in the second and third phases of this scheme, Janta Clinics will be opened in other areas.
23) Answer: C
The Liberation Day of Goa is celebrated on 19 December annually. On this date in 1961, Goa was released from the Portuguese dominion after army operation and extended freedom movement. This day is celebrated in commemoration of the Indian armed forces that helped Goa to receive freedom from Portuguese rule.
24) Answer: C
The German government signed off on a new law banning “conversion therapies” designed to force heterosexuality on homosexuals.
The legislation, set to be introduced next year, would see the practice made punishable with up to a year in prison and fines of up to 30,000 euros ($33,000).
In March 2018, the European parliament passed a resolution condemning the practice and urging member states to ban it.
25) Answer: B
With over 1.35 lakh scientific papers published, India has become the world’s third largest publisher of science and engineering articles, according to a US government agency data, topped by China.
As per the statistics compiled by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the number of scientific papers published worldwide increased from 1,755,850 in 2008 to 2,555,959 in 2018.
The data, which was released on Tuesday, stated that in 2008, India published 48,998 science and engineering articles.
China, which accounts for 20.67 per cent of all global publications in scientific articles, is at the top position, followed by the US at 16.54 per cent.
26) Answer: C
The Government e- Marketplace signed two MoUs with Bank of Maharashtra and UCO Bank on 16 Dec 2019 to offer a number of services including transfer of funds through GeM Pool Accounts (GPA), advising of Performance Bank Guarantees (e-PBG) and Earnest Money Deposit (EMD) to the registered users on the portal.
Integration for payments and various banking services is one of the priorities for GeM towards the cherished goal of a paperless, contactless and cashless system. GeM has already signed MoUs with 19 Public Sector and Private Banks to enable these functionalities.
27) Answer: D
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has notified the setting up of the first ever Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Tripura on December 16, 2019.
The SEZ is being set-up at Paschim Jalefa, Sabroom, South Tripura District, which is 130 km away from Agartala. It will be a Sector Specific Economic Zone for Agro-Based Food Processing.
The estimated investment in the project will be around 1550 Crore. The developer of the SEZ will be Tripura Industrial Development Corporation (TIDC) Ltd. The SEZ is estimated to generate 12,000 skilled jobs. Rubber based industries, textile and Apparel Industries, bamboo and Agri-food Processing Industries will be set-up in the SEZ.
28) Answer: D
The government announced Rs 436 crore outlay for skilling 4 lakh professionals in futuristic areas such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cybersecurity over the next three years.
The ‘Future Skills PRIME’ programme will be jointly rolled out by the information technology ministry and industry body Nasscom, and will seek to position the initiative as India stack for digital talent.
India is upping the ante in digital skilling at a time when it is poised to see over 90 million people joining the overall workforce by 2030.
Indian IT giants have been investing over Rs 1,000 crore per year to address the reskilling and upskilling requirements of their employees, given the magnitude of the challenge.
In the last phase, two lakh IT employees were trained under the skilling program, and the new initiative will expand the scope beyond IT professionals to others keen to upskill themselves in areas like AI, Cybersecurity, blockchain.
29) Answer: A
CBI officer B P Raju has won the ”India Cyber Cop of the Year 2019” award by NASSCOM-DSCI for cracking a fraud case in an online entrance exam conducted by an engineering college in Rajasthan.
The award was given to Raju by Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ajay Prakash Sawhney, during the annual Information Security Summit held at Gurgaon.
Raju had investigated the case and exposed the fraud in the online entrance examination.
The investigation team headed by B P Raju, arrested nine accused persons and collected incriminating evidence from digital devices, which revealed the modus operandi adopted by the accused. The investigation was also completed within the stipulated time period.
30) Answer: B
Sahitya Akademi announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards in 23 languages.
Seven books of poetry, four of novel, six of short stories, three of essays and one each of non-fiction, autobiography and biography have won the Sahitya Akademi Awards 2019.
Seven books of poetry were awarded to Dr. Phukan Ch. Basumatary (Bodo), Dr. Nand Kishore Acharya (Hindi), Sri Nilba A. Khandekar (Konkani), Sri Kumar Manish Arvind (Maithili), Sri V. Madhusoodanan Nair (Malayalam), Smt. Anuradha Patil (Marathi) and Prof. Penna Madhusudan(Sanskrit).
31) Answer: B
An 84-year-old Canadian national named Roy Jorgen Svenningsen has become the oldest person ever to complete the Antarctic Ice Marathon.
Roy, a retired oil worker, is from the Canadian city of Edmonton, and he has been running since 1964. He spent a year training for 42-km Antarctic marathon.
The Antarctic Ice Marathon is the planet’s southernmost race and is considered one of the toughest.
For an entry fee of 24,800 Canadian dollars (about $19,000), participants are flown to and from Antarctica via Chile’s southernmost airport and are fed and lodged in tented accommodations and provided professional photos of their once-in-a-lifetime run.
The winner of this year’s race was William Hafferty of the US, who set an event record time of 3 hours, 34 minutes and 12 seconds.
32) Answer: C
Eminent theatre and film actor Shriram Lagoo, who played an important role in the growth of theatre passed away following a cardiac arrest. Lagoo’s roles in Marathi plays such as “Natsamrat” and “HimalayachiSaoli”, and films like “Pinjra” made him popular. He essayed memorable roles in Bollywood films such as “Ek Din Achanak”, “Gharonda” and “Lawaris”
33) Answer: B
Mohun Bagan president and retired Justice GitanathGanguly passed away, following a cardiac arrest. Ganguly took over as the club president after the SwapanSadhan Bose-led panel swept the elections in November last year.
34) Answer: D
Chennai residents can now buy and sell reusable and recycled products online as the Greater Chennai Corporation launched a new website that facilitates waste-trading.
The first-of-its-kind website in India, www.madraswasteexchange.com, has a variety of products made from dry and wet waste such as school bags, slippers, vermi-compost, manure, coconut powder, lemon dishwash among other products.
35) Answer: C
CPPIB is headquartered in Ontario, Canada. It will invest $225 million in India Resurgence Fund (IndiaRF), a distressed asset buyout platform. IndiaRF invests in distressed assets by purchasing existing debt and equity securities either through bankruptcy courts or directly from lenders. The fund also has option to invest money through newly-issuedindiaRF had earlier raised $100 million from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) through its Distressed Asset Recovery Program.
36) Answer: B
The first ever Global Refugee Forum is being held in Geneva, Switzerland. It is being jointly hosted by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) along with Government of Switzerland.
Co-convened by Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Germany, Pakistan and Turkey, the Forum is aiming to generate new approaches and long-term commitments from a variety of actors to help refugees and the communities in which they live.
The main objective is to give impetus to efforts to achieve compact’s objectives and translate international solidarity into concrete action.
Arrangements for burden and responsibility-sharing, Solutions, Energy and Infrastructure, Protection Capacity, Jobs and Livelihoods and Education are the Six Thematic Areas to be focussed.
