Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 22, 23 & 24 August 2020 EXAMSDAILY

0

1. “Ek Sankalp-Bujurgo ke naam” campaign launched in which state?
a) Gujarat
b) Punjab
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Rajasthan

2. Which of the following bank launches “Green Deposit Programme”?
a) HSBC India
b) HDFC Bank
c) Axis Bank
d) SBM India

3. Name the tribal minister of India who launched the tertiary processing centres of the “Trifood Project” in Maharashtra’s Raigad and Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur.
a) Arjun Munda
b) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
c) Harsh Vardhan
d) MahendraNath Pandey

4. Which state will be the first one in India to offer government jobs based on the CET score?
a) Telangana
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Delhi
d) Maharashtra

5. Which of the following firm will be the official sponsor of the Indian team for the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics?
a) Tata Group
b) Hinduja Group
c) Aditya Birla Group
d) INOX Group

6. Ashwani Bhatia becomes new Managing Director of which Bank?
a) Canara Bank
b) SBI
c) UCO Bank
d) Syndicate Bank

7. Who launched Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI)’s ‘Eat Right India’ Handbook recently?
a) RS Prasad
b) Harsh Vardhan
c) Nirmala Sitharaman
d) PiyushGoyal

8. Which of the following bank launched the new initiative ‘Gig-a-Opportunities’?
a) Kotak Mahindra Bank
b) LVB
c) HDFC Bank
d) Axis Bank

9. Name the Indian wrestler who will be conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for year 2020.
a) Neha Rathi
b) Sakshi Malik
c) Alka Tomar
d) Vinesh Phogat

10. The Uttar Pradesh government has signed MoU with which country for water resource management in Bundelkhand?
a) Botswana
b) Israel
c) Switzerland
d) Estonia

11. International Day for The Remembrance of The Slave Trade and Its Abolition is observed on which date?
a) April 14
b) June 20
c) August 23
d) August 31

12. Name the Indian Golf player who will be conferred the Arjuna Award for year 2020.
a) Ridhima Dilawari
b) Sharmila Nicollet
c) Smriti Mehra
d) Aditi Ashok

13. Which India company enters into top 100 on Fortune Global 500 list (August 2020)?
a) State Bank of India
b) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
c) Reliance Industries
d) Indian Oil Corporation

14. Name the person who authored the book titled, ‘One Arranged Murder’.
a) Chetan Bhagat
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Amitav Ghosh
d) Vikram Seth

15. Name the university which will be conferred the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Maka) Trophy 2020.
a) Panjab University, Chandigarh
b) Jadavpur University, Kolkata
c) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
d) Anna University, Chennai

Static GK based on Current Affairs

16. In which stated the Sardar Sarovar Dam has been constructed on Narmada river?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Gujarat
d) Uttar Pradesh

17. Where is the headquarters of New Development Bank (NDB) situated?
a) New Delhi, India
b) Beijing, China
c) Moscow, Russia
d) Shanghai, China

18. City of Ahmedabad is situated on the banks of river
a) Mahi
b) Narmada
c) Godavari
d) Sabarmati

19. Manas National Park is located at which state?
a) Bihar
b) Assam
c) Sikkim
d) West Bengal

20. Ottawa is the capital city of which country?
a) Australia
b) Mexico
c) Canada
d) Spain

Answer: 

1. C
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. D
6. B
7. B
8. D
9. D
10. B
11. C
12. D
13. C
14. A
15. A
16. C
17. D
18. D
19. B
20. C