Current Affairs : 08 December to 14 December, 2020 : Multiple Choice Questions

CURRENT AFFAIRS

08 DECEMBER, 2020 TO 14 DECEMBER, 2020

1. Which country has signed its first Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Bhutan that will allow duty-free access to a range of goods between the two countries?

(a) Sri Lanka

(b) Myanmar

(c) India

(d) Bangladesh

Answer: (d)

2. Which country has become the second country in the world to unfurl its national flag on the moon surface?

(a) China

(b) Russia

(c) India

(d) France

Answer: (a)

3. Who has been re-appointed as the Prime Minster of Kuwait?

(a) Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah

(b) Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

(c) Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah

(d) Nasser Al-Sabah

Answer: (a)

4. Which bank has launched a techbased loan management solution ‘LenS-The Lending Solution’, to speed up and maintain accuracy in online loan processing and sanctioning of credit proposals?

(a) ICICI Bank

(b) Axis Bank

(c) Punjab National Bank

(d) State Bank of India

Answer: (c)

5. Which bank has launched a new version of its mobile payment app called iMobile Pay, to offer payment and banking services to customers of any bank?

(a) HDFC Bank

(b) ICICI Bank

(c) Axis Bank

(d) IDFC First Bank

Answer: (b)

6. Who has been appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the newly-created “The World Health Organization (WHO) Foundation”?

(a) Tedros Adhanom

(b) Thomas Zeltner

(c) Jane Ellison

(d) Ail Soni

Answer: (d)

7. Who has been elected as the new President of the International Golf Federation (IGF)?

(a) Annika Sorenstam

(b) Peter Dawson

(c) Paula Creamer

(d) Cristie Kerr

Answer: (a)

8. Who has been elected as the new President of the World Squash Federation?

(a) Debendranath Sarangi

(b) Pablo Serna

(c) Jacques Fontaine

(d) Zena Wooldridge

Answer: (d)

9. Which of the following has partnered with Skylotech India (Skylo), a global machine connectivity solutions company, to launch satellite-based narrow band-Internet of things (NBIoT)?

(a) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

(b) Bharti Airtel

(c) Jio

(d) Vodafone Idea

Answer: (a)

10. Who has won the 3rd Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for the novel, “The City and The Sea”?

(a) Shekhar Gupta

(b) Raj Kamal Jha

(c) Arnab Goswami

(d) Vikram Chanda

Answer: (b)

11. Who has been awarded the 2020 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians?

(a) Claudia Sagastizábal

(b) Nalini Anantharaman

(c) Carolina Araujo

(d) Chenyang Xu

Answer: (c)

12. What is the rank of India in the ‘Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2021’, released on 7^th December 2020?

(a) 8th

(b) 9th

(c) 10th

(d) 11th

Answer: (c)

13. What is rank of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the 2020 list of Forbes 100 most powerful women in the world?

(a) 41st

(b) 50th

(c) 62d

(d) 68th

Answer: (a)

14. Who has topped the first-of-its kind ‘50 Asian Celebrities In The World’ 2020 list, published by UK based Eastern Eye newspaper?

(a) Narendra Modi

(b) Amitabh Bacchan

(c) Rahul Gandhi

(d) Sonu Sood

Answer: (d)

15. Who has become the first Indian to win a Formula 2 race at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, Bahrain?

(a) Jehan Daruvala

(b) Narain Karthikeyan

(c) Mahaveer Raghunathan

(d) Karun Chandhok

Answer: (a)

16. Which country will host the will host the Cricket Asia Cup in June 2021?

(a) India

(b) Bangladesh

(c) Sri Lanka

(d) Pakistan

Answer: (c)

17. Who has won the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain?

(a) Esteban Ocon

(b) Sergio Perez

(c) Lance Stroll

(d) Daniel Ricciardo

Answer: (b)

18. When is the International Civil Aviation Day observed?

(a) 7 December

(b) 9 December

(c) 11 December

(d) 13 December

Answer: (a)

19. When is the Armed Forces Flag Day (also known as the Flag Day of India) observed?

(a) 7 December

(b) 8 December

(c) 9 December

(d) 10 December

Answer: (a)

20. When is Human Rights Day observed?

(a) 10 December

(b) 12 December

(c) 14 December

(d) 16 December

Answer: (a)