CURRENT AFFAIRS
29 DECEMBER, 2020 TO 04 JANUARY, 2021
1. Who
won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade?
(a) M.S. Dhoni
(b) Virat Kohli
(c) Steve Smith
(d) Ben Stokes
Answer:
(a)
2. Who
won the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade?
(a) David Warner
(b) Ben Stokes
(c) Virat Kohli
(d) Chris Gayle
Answer:
(c)
3. Who
won the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award for ICC Female Cricketer of the Decade?
(a) Sarah Taylor
(b) Ellyse Perry
(c) Mithali Raj
(d) Smriti Mandhana
Answer:
(b)
4. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan
Arogya Yojana (ABPMJAY) SEHAT scheme to extend health insurance coverage to all
residents of which of the following?
(a) Lakshadweep
(b) Ladakh
(c) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(d) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer:
(d)
5. AU
Small Finance Bank has announced a strategic partnership with which of the
following to offer life insurance solutions?
(a) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
(b) HDFC Life Insurance
(c) SBI Life Insurance
(d) Max Life Insurance
Answer:
(a)
6. Which
of the following has recently signed an MoU with United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) India to co-create India’s first Social Impact Bond (SIB)?
(a) Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Hyderabad
(b) Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Mumbai
(c) Guwahati Municipal Corporation, Guwahati
(d) Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Pune
Answer:
(d)
7. Who
has taken over as the new Chairman of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
with effect from January 01, 2021?
(a) Anil Kumar Chaudhary
(b) Nisa Godrej
(c) Soma Mondal
(d) Ameera Shah
Answer:
(c)
8.
Who has been conferred with the prestigious “Eminent Engineer Award for the
Year 2020”?
(a) Vinod Kumar Yadav
(b) Ashwani Lohani
(c) Piyush Goyal
(d) Sudhir Bhargava
Answer:
(a)
9. Who
has been conferred with the prestigious Tansen Samman in the 96th Tansen Music
Festival held in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh?
(a) Ustad Zakir Hussain
(b) Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
(c) Pandit Shivkumar Sharma
(d) Pandit Satish Vyas
Answer:
(d)
10. Which
Indian wrestler has become the first wrestler of the country to finish on the
podium position at the Individual Wrestling World Cup in Belgrade, Serbia?
(a) Geeta Phogat
(b) Anshu Malik
(c) Sakshi Malik
(d) Babita Phogat
Answer:
(b)
11. The
Badminton World Federation (BWF) has imposed a 5-year ban on which Russian
shuttler for charges of “betting, wagering and irregular match results”?
(a) Nikita Khakimov
(b) Nina Vislova
(c) Vladimir Malkov
(d) Valeria Sorokina
Answer:
(a)
12. Who
has been named as the captain of the ICC ODI Team of the Decade?
(a) M.S. Dhoni
(b) Virat Kohli
(c) Eoin Morgan
(d) Aaron Finch
Answer:
(a)
13. Who
has been named as the captain of the ICC Test Team of the Decade?
(a) Tim Paine
(b) Virat Kohli
(c) Joe Root
(d) Faf du Plessis
Answer:
(b)
14. Who
has been named as the captain of the ICC T20I Team of the Decade?
(a) Eoin Morgan
(b) Quinton de Kock
(c) Aaron Finch
(d) M.S. Dhoni
Answer:
(d)
15. Who
is the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh?
(a) Yogi Adityanath
(b) Nitish Kumar
(c) Shivraj Singh Chouhan
(d) Kamal Nath
Answer:
(c)
16. Who
is the Governor of Madhya Pradesh?
(a) Ganeshi Lal
(b) Jagdish Mukhi
(c) Jagdeep Dhankhar
(d) Anandiben Patel
Answer:
(d)
17. Who
is the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand?
(a) Trivendra Singh Rawat
(b) Hemant Soren
(c) B. S. Yediyurappa
(d) Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Answer:
(a)
18. Who
is the Governor of Uttarakhand?
(a) P. S. Sreedharan Pillai
(b) Najma Heptulla
(c) Satya Pal Malik
(d) Baby Rani Maurya
Answer:
(d)
19. Who
is the present CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC)?
(a) Manu Sawhney
(b) Sourav Ganguly
(c) David Richardson
(d) Greg Barclay
Answer:
(a)
20. When
is the Foundation Day of the Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO)?
(a) 01 January
(b) 02 January
(c) 03 January
(d) 04 January
Answer:
(a)
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