DAILY GK QUIZ:13, 14 DEC 2020
[Q] Which Union
Territory (UT) has become India’s first 100% organic under the Centre’s
Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (organic farming improvement programme)?
(a) Chandigarh
(b) Ladakh
(c) Dadra and Nagar Haveli
(d) Lakshadweep
(e) Jammu and Kashmir
[ANS] d
[Q] Which
Company has partnered with Skylotech India to launch world’s first satellite
based Narrow Band-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) device to provide Pan-India
Connectivity?
(a) Vodafone
Idea
(b) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
(c) Jio
(d) Bharti Airtel
(e) Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)
[ANS] b
[Q] which
country will host the 2023 Indian Ocean Island Games?
(a) Comoros
(b) Maldives
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) Madagascar
(e) Bangladesh
[ANS] d
[Q] Which
Organisation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National
Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) on December, 2020 to support skill
development of Teachers?
(a) Khan
Academy
(b) Coursera
(c) Unacademy
(d) BYJU’S
(e) Vedantu
[ANS] d
[Q] Under which
project, Anil Agarwal Foundation has partnered with Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030?
(a) Seva
Bharati Programme
(b) Project Annapurna
(c) Project Nand Ghar
(d) Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
(e) Project Gram Vikas
[ANS] c
[Q] Which
organisation was awarded ‘The Most Innovative Research Institute of the Year’
under Innovation Quotient in the CII Industrial Innovation Awards 2020?
(a) IIT
Guwahati
(b) IIT Madras
(c) IIT Roorkee
(d) IIT Kanpur
(e) IIT Delhi
[ANS] c
[Q] Who are the
Time’s Person of the Year 2020?
(a) Donald
Trump and Joe Biden
(b) Essential Workers
(c) Barack Obama and Kamala Harris
(d) Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
(e) Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
[ANS] e
[Q] For which of
his Novel, Raj Kamal Jha won the 3rd Edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary
Prize 2020?
(a) The blue
bedspread
(b) The City and the Sea: A Novel
(c) She Will Build Him a City
(d) If you are afraid of heights
(e) A Suitable Boy
[ANS] b
[Q] When was the
annual United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) day
celebrated?
(a) 15th
December
(b) 10th December
(c) 12th January
(d) 11th December
(e) 6th January
[ANS] d
[Q] Which animal
was reported to decline by 90% before 2050 from the findings of First-of-its-kind
survey conducted by Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) under the Ministry of
Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC)?
(a) Snow
Leopard
(b) Kashmiri Red Stag
(c) Malayan Giant Squirrel
(d) Lion-tailed macaque
(e) Nilgiri Tahr
[ANS] c
[Q] What is the theme of
International Universal Health Coverage Day 2020?
(a) Health For All: Protect Everyone
(b) Keep the promise
(c) Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere
(d) Unite for Universal Health Coverage
(e) Health For All by 2030
[ANS] a
[Q] Who has been named as the
TIME 2020 “Athlete of the Year”?
(a) Kawhi Leonard
(b) Giannis Antetokounmpo
(c) James Harden
(d) Anthony Davis
(e) LeBron James
[ANS] e
[Q] Who has been named as the
TIME 2020 “Entertainer of the Year”?
(a) The Beatles
(b) The Beach Boys
(c) BTS
(d) Pink Floyd
(e) ABBA
[ANS] c
[Q] Who has been named as the
TIME 2020 “Businessperson Of The Year”?
(a) Mark Zuckerberg
(b) Eric Yuan
(c) Sundar Pichai
(d) Satya Nadella
(e) Shantanu Narayen
[ANS]
b
