DAILY GK QUIZ: 19 FEB 2021

 DAILY GK QUIZ: 19 FEB 2021

[Q] Which state is the top destination for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from United Kingdom, as per Grant Thornton Bharat’s Britain Meets India report?

(a) Karnataka

(b) Delhi

(c) Tamil Nadu

(d) Maharashtra

(e) Haryana

[ANS] a

[Q] Who  got appointed as the Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)?

(a) Usha Rao-Monari

(b) Gita Sabharwal

(c) Soumya Swaminathan

(d) Anita Bhatia

(e) Preeti Sinha

[ANS] a

[Q] The name of the IPL team ‘Kings XI Punjab’ has been rebranded. What is the new name of the team?

(a) Punjab Champions

(b) Punjab Knights

(c) Punjab Warrior

(d) Punjab Lion

(e) Punjab Kings

[ANS] e

[Q] Giorgi Gakharia has recently resigned as the Prime Minister of which country?

(a) Ireland

(b) Poland

(c) Georgia

(d) Sweden

(e) Sudan

[ANS] c

[Q] Name the first Indian to be elected as the Chairperson of the United Nations Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council.

(a) Preeti Sinha

(b) Nazhat Shameem

(c) Mallikarjun Kharge

(d) Roshan Singh Kalra

(e) Ajai Malhotra

[ANS] e

[Q] Who is the President of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council?

(a) Baudelaire Ndong Ella

(b) Joachim Rücker

(c) Choi Kyong-lim

(d) Remigiusz Henczel

(e) Nazhat Shameem

[ANS] e