300 Best Current Affair MCQs Part 1

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Obituaries:
 Former India Basketball Captain Matthew Satya Babu Passes Away.
 Eminent Punjabi writer, novelist and Sahitya Akademi Awardee Jaswant Singh Kanwal
passed away
 Noted Punjabi novelist and short storyteller Dr Dalip Kaur Tiwana has passed away.
 Maharashtra-based veteran social activist and Marathi feminist writer/editor, Vidya Bal
passed
 Noted Urdu poet Ajmal Sultanpuri passed away.
 Former Speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly and sitting Congress MLA Pranab
Kumar Gogoi passed away.
 Kenya's former President Daniel arap Moi passed away.
 Important Books:

Q) Who is the Brand Ambassador of Mobile Premier League (MPL)?

1. Rahul Dravid
2. Virat Kohli
3. Rohit Sharma
4. Hardik Pandya

 Fast-moving consumer goods firm CavinKare Pvt Ltd has appointed Bollywood actors
Akshay Kumar and Ileana D’Cruz as the brand ambassadors for its hair colour brand
Indica.

Q) Which country has launched 4 million pound (about Rs 37 crore) Innovation Challenge
Fund in India?

1. United States
2. Australia
3. Germany
4. United Kingdom

Q) Which has become the first train in India to becomes to have aircraft-style bio-vacuum
toilets?

1. Amaravati Express
2. Ajanta Express
3. Akal Takht Express
4. Kalka-Delhi Shatabdi

Q) Who has won the 'World Games Athlete of the Year' award?

1. Hima Das
 2. Rani Rampal
3. Mary Kom
4. Dutee Chand

Q) Ajay Bisaria has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to which
country?

1. United Kingdom
2. Latvia
3. Poland
4. Canada

Q) Who has been named as the Chief Executive Ocer of International Business Machines
(IBM)?

1. Venugopal Dhoot
2. Arvind Krishna
3. Pankaj Patel
4. Rishad Naoroji

Q) Ball boys and girls are wearing the eco friendly T-shirts at the ongoing Australian
Open. Which company has manufactured these T shirts?

1. Loyal Group
2. Mandhana Industries LTD
3. NC John & Sons
4. Arvind Mill

Q) World Leprosy Day 2020 was observed on?

1. 30 January
2. 29 January
3. 28 January
4. 27 January

Q) United Nations (UN) has appointed whom as the Resident Coordinator in Thailand?

1. Gita Sabharwal
2. Ankita Sharma
3. Diksha Kapoor
4. Anamika Patidar

Q) As per the survey by Transparency International, which state has emerged as the top
state in terms of best practices followed in budget formulation?

1. Andhra Pradesh
 2. Assam
3. Kerala
4. Odisha

Q) FICCI has projected India’s GDP growth rate at what percent for FY20?

1. 4.5%
2. 4.9%
3. 5.1%
4. 5%

Q) Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to which
country?

1. Nepal
2. Bangladesh
3. Bhutan
4. Sri Lanka

Q) Union minister Nitin Gadkari has launched the limited edition of Khadi wrist watches
manufactured by which company?

1. Fastrack
2. Titan
3. Fossil
4. Dressberry

Q) Who has been selected for the 2019-2020 PEN Gauri Lankesh Award?

1. Ravish Kumar
2. Afroz Alam Sahil
3. Yusuf Jameel
4. Dibang

Q) The ninth edition of joint military training exercise SAMPRITI-IX will be held between
India and which country?

1. Russia
2. Sri Lanka
3. Israel
4. Bangladesh

Q) What is the name of the Mascot of the Goa 2020 National Games?

1. Rubigula
2. Tyro
 3. Gomdori
4. Frasia

Q) Which state has flagged off the country’s first fruit train?

1. West Bengal
2. Odisha
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. Telangana

Q) Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes
and Customs (CBIC), recently?

1. Rajeev Lochan
2. Arvind Kumar
3. M. Ajit Kumar
4. Ajay Bhushan Pandey

Q) Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi has been appointed as the Prime Minister of which country?

1. Jordan
2. Kuwait
3. Turkey
4. Iraq

Q) Which bank has launched the self-service delivery facility called ‘iBox’?

1. Yes Bank
2. Federal Bank
3. ICICI Bank
4. Axis Bank

Q) Union government has announced to establish how many more airports by 2024 under
the UDAN scheme?

1. 200
2. 50
3. 100
4. 150

Q) World Wetlands Day 2020 was observed on?

1. 2 February
2. 1 February
3. 31 January
4. 30 January
Q) Who has won the women’s singles title of Australian Open 2020?

1. Angelique Kerber
2. Sofia Kenin
3. Garbine Muguruza
4. Simona Halep

Q) Which state has announced a new initiative, Direct CTO, to enable green category
industries to receive faster clearances from government?

1. Rajasthan
2. Himachal Pradesh
3. Maharashtra
4. Tamil Nadu

 Who is the Kashmiri poet Nirmala Sitharaman quoted in her budget speech?
 The verse was from a poem by renowned Kashmiri poet Dinanath Kaul Nadim, a
Sahitya Akademy award winner, from his famous work “Myon Vatan” (My Motherland).
 Born in Srinagar in 1916, Nadim has written poems in Urdu, Hindi, English and
Kashmiri. Nadim who died in 1988 was at the centre of Kashmir’s progressive
movement, especially in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.

Q) Who has been conferred with prestigious Ayurveda Ratan Award 2020 in Brussels?

1. Pankaj Kumar Verma

2. Rakesh Chandra Sharma
3. Partap Chauhan
4. Sachin Dua

Q) Which state has launched the ‘YSR Pension Kanuka' Scheme?

1. Telangana
2. Andhra Pradesh
3. Odisha
4. Tamil Nadu

Q) Who has assumed charge as the new chairman and managing director of Coal India
Ltd?

1. Anil Kumar Chaudhary

2. Shashi Shanker
3. Pramod Agrawal
4. Atul Sobti

Q) The third private train of the IRCTC would run between Indore and which city?
 1. Gurugram
2. Jaipur
3. Ranchi
4. Varanasi

Q) Newspaper “Mooknayak”, which completed 100 years recently, was started by whom?

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. B R Ambedkar
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. Motilal Nehru

Q) Who has been elected president of the Paralympic Committee of India?

1. Narender Ranbir
2. Deepa Malik
3. Devendra Jhajharia
4. Amit Kumar Saroha

Q) Rohit Sharma who has become the _________th Indian to cross 14000 runs in
International Cricket?

1. 7th
2. 6th
3. 5th
4. 8th

Q) Gopal Baglay has been appointed as India's High Commissioner to which country?

1. Sri Lanka
2. Myanmar
3. Bhutan
4. Nepal

Q) Who has become the third men's cricketer to play 100 T20I matches?

1. Virat Kohli
2. Kane Williamson
3. Ross Taylor
4. Rohit Sharma

Q) India and which country has signed five MoUs for establishing the Addu Tourism zone
in five islands of Addu atoll?

1. Indonesia
2. Maldives
 3. SriLanka
4. Thailand

Q) Who has been invited by the Indian Olympic Association to become the Goodwill
Ambassador of the Indian contingent at the Tokyo Olympics this year?

1. Abhinav Bindra
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Sourav Ganguly
4. Mithali Raj

Q) Which state has bagged the first position for the implementation of Pradhan Mantri
Matru Vandana Yojana?

1. Gujarat
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Bihar

Q) The annual Ekushey Book Fair is held in which country?

1. India
2. Nepal
3. Pakistan
4. Bangladesh

Q) Indian Navy conducted the Coastal Security Exercise ‘Matla Abhiyan’ in which city?

1. Kochi
2. Kolkata
3. Visakhapatnam
4. Jaipur

Q) The 21 st edition of art festival Kala Ghoda is being held in which city?

1. New Delhi
2. Pune
3. Mumbai
4. Udaipur

Q) Which country will host the G-20 Presidency in 2022?

1. Argentina
2. Brazil
3. Canada
4. India
Q) Which country has once again become a member of the Commonwealth of nations?

1. Maldives
2. Thailand
3. Cameroon
4. Australia

Q) Which state government has ordered ban on alcohol consumption at forts?

1. Telangana
2. Rajasthan
3. Maharashtra
4. Uttar Pradesh

Q) Which country will host the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics?

1. China
2. Japan
3. Spain
4. South Korea

Q) Who is the authors of the book - Made in India?

1. Milind soman
2. Mandira Bedi
3. Rahul Bose
4. Anupam Kher

Q) What is the theme of the World Cancer Day 2020?

1. Debunk the Myths

2. Not Beyond Us
3. We can. I can
4. I Am and I Will

 International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation: 6 February.

 2020 Theme: Unleashing Youth Power.

Q) Who has won the Men's Singles Title at 81 st National Table Tennis Championships?

1. Manav Thakkar
2. Harmeet Desai
3. Sharath Kamal Achanta
4. Soumyajit Ghosh

 In women’s category, Haryana’s Sutirtha Mukherjee won the title.

Q) Who has been names as the Telecom Person of the Year for 2019?

1. Sunil Kumar Gupta

2. Abhay Karandikar
3. Ram Sewak Sharma
4. Shailendra Kumar Mishra

Q) Which state has decided to ban all types of online lottery schemes in the state?

1. Haryana
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Punjab
4. Odisha

Q) According to the NCRB report, which state has recorded the highest number of missing
women?

1. Maharashtra
2. West Bengal
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Rajasthan

NCRB Report :
 Most number of Missing Women :- 1)Maharashtra, 2)West Bengal, 3)Madhya Pradesh.
 Most number of Missing Children :- 1)Madhya Pradesh, 2)West Bengal, 3)Bihar.

Q) A Mukti Caravan, which was flagged off in which state, is mobilising people against
child tracking?

1. Bihar
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. Rajasthan
4. Jharkhand

Q) Which ministry has launched the ‘Santusht’ portal?

1. Ministry of Finance
2. Ministry of Home Aairs
3. Ministry of Culture
4. Ministry of Labour and Employment

Q) Who has been named ‘Central Banker of the Year 2020 – Asia-Pacific’ by The Banker?

1. Shaktikanta Das
2. Raghuram Rajan
 3. Naina Lal Kidwai
4. Shikha Sharma

Q) The central government has approved nearly ₹6,000-crore for Ujh multi-purpose
project which will be built in which district of Jammu & Kashmir?

1. Doda
2. Kathua
3. Rajouri
4. Poonch

Q) India's Biggest Rural Technical Festival titled 'Antahpragnya 2020‘ was held in which
state?

1. Odisha
2. Karnataka
3. Chhattisgarh
4. Telangana

Q) Bad Man is an autobiography of which person?

1. Ranjeet
2. Danny Denzongpa
3. Gulshan Grover
4. Ashutosh Rana

Q) Department of Science and Technology (DST) is digitally reconstructing the Poompuhar

port city which was established by which dynasty?

1. Maurya Dynasty
2. Gupta Dynasty
3. Chola Dynasty
4. Kushan Dynasty

Q) Babenco: Tell Me When I Die won the ‘Golden Conch Award for Best Documentary
Film’ at the Mumbai International Film Festival 2020, is a film of which country?

1. Australia
2. United States
3. Spain
4. Brazil

Q) Who has become the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in Ranji Trophy?

1. Amol Muzumdar
2. Vikas Mishra
 3. Priyank Panchal
4. Wasim Jaffer

Q) Which country will host the Pacific islands summit in 2021?

1. Japan
2. Fiji
3. South Korea
4. China

Q) What is the rank of India in the Intellectual Property Index?

1. 50th
2. 40th
3. 36th
4. 45th

Q) Who has taken charge as the new Director General (DG) of Geological Survey of India
(GSI)?

1. Suresh Narayan Meshram

2. Sudesh Kumar Wadhawan
3. Harbans Singh
4. Mondreti Sridhar

Q) Janasevaka scheme has been launched by which state for home delivery of govt
services?

1. Odisha
2. Karnataka
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Himachal Pradesh

Q) Which country has recently discovered a natural gas field dubbed as Jebel Ali field?

1. Saudi Arabia
2. UAE
3. Qatar
4. Yemen

Q) Moody’s has projected India’s GDP growth at what percent in Fiscal Year 2020?

1. 5.1%
2. 5.6%
3. 4.9%
4. 4.3%
Q) The Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of the country’s 13 th major port in
which state?

1. Gujarat
2. Kerala
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Maharashtra

Q) What is the name of the third Scorpene submarine which will be delivered to the Indian
Navy by Dec?

1. Karanj
2. Khanderi
3. Kalvari
4. Karsura

Q) Which among the following has launched the children's protection fund focussed on
reducing the exploitation of children in India?

1. Bill Gates
2. Je Bezos
3. Prince Charles
4. Mark Zuckerberg

Q) The President of India has presented the International Gandhi Award for Leprosy for
the year 2019 to whom?

1. Dr. Lokesh Lingappa

2. Dr N.S. Dharmashaktu
3. Dr. Saurabh Bhargava
4. Dr. Taher Abbas