300 Best Current Affair MCQs Part 3

Feb'2020 - Free PDF Download

Obituaries :-
 Former TERI chief K. Pachauri passed away
 Sonam Sherpa, founding member & lead-guitarist of music band Parikrama, passed
away
 Veteran Kannada actor Kishori Ballal

Important days :-
 World Day of Social Justice : 20 February 2020
 Soil Health Card Day was observed on : 19 th Feb
Q) Which city will host the National Organic Food Festival for women entrepreneurs?

1. Bengaluru
2. New Delhi
3. Bhopal
4. Lucknow

Q) Which former Indian cricketer was appointed as director of cricket of the United Arab
Emirates?

1. Amit Bhandari
2. Ashish Nehra
3. Murali Kartik
4. Robin Singh

Q) Which country has banned e-cigarettes in both domestic and international flights as
well as at airports?

1. UAE
2. India
3. Canada
4. Sweden

Q) Under whose chairmanship, the Fifteenth Finance Commission has formed a 5-

members panel on defence & internal security?

1. T V Somanathan
2. Ajay Bhalla
3. Ajay Kumar
4. N K Singh

Q) Who has become the first India to win the“Player of the Year for 2019” by International
Hockey Federation (FIH)?

1. Rupinder Pal Singh

2. Akashdeep Singh
3. Vivek Sagar Prasad
4. Manpreet Singh

Q) Who has been elected as the new President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
(ICAI) for the year 2020-21?

1. Nihar Niranjan
2. Atul Kumar Gupta
3. Sushant Singh
4. Abhimanyu Patil
Q) Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who is on the ocial visit to India, is the President of which
country?

1. Spain
2. Benin
3. Portugal
4. Greece

Q) The Union Cabinet has approved changes in the 'Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Bill,
2020‘ to cover the pending litigation of which tribunal?

1. Debt Recovery Tribunal

2. Central Administrative Tribunal
3. Income Tax Appellate Tribunal
4. COmpetition Appellate Tribunal

Q) Who has been appointed as the President of the COP 26 by the United Kingdom?

1. Rahul Chhabra
2. Sunjay Sudhir
3. Alok Sharma
4. Manoj Soni

Q) Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India?

1. Punit Goenka
2. Rathin Roy
3. Rajiv Bansal
4. Ashok Shukla

Q) Prime Minister Naredra Modi will unveiled the 63 feet Pancha Loha Statue of Pt
Deendayal Upadhyaya in which city?

1. Surat
2. Varanasi
3. Gurugram
4. Patna

Q) Who has been appointed as the finance secretary?

1. Vinod Rai
2. Debasish Panda
3. Ajay Narayan Jha
4. Darshan Rawat

Q) Which city will host the first ever 'North East India Fund Fest’?
 1. Kohima
2. Imphal
3. Guwahati
4. Shillong

Q) Apiary on Wheels-A concept for Bee Keeping is designed by _________?

1. NITI Aayog
2. NABARD
3. Ministry of Agriculture
4. Khadi and Village Industries Commission

Q) Which has become the first union territory in the country to pass a resolution against
the Citizenship Amendment Act?

1. Puducherry
2. Chandigarh
3. Delhi
4. Lakshadweep

Q) Which state has launched the Gyan Deepika Scholarship scheme?

1. Arunachal Pradesh
2. Assam
3. Himachal Pradesh
4. Uttarakhand

Q) Who has won the prestigious Dan David Prize for her expansive work in the fields of
population policies?

1. Neha Patil
2. Seema Khurana
3. Gita Sen
4. Harshita Shrivastav

Q) GoAir will appoint whom as its Chief Executive Ocer (CEO)?

1. Praveen Garg
2. Vinay Dube
3. Ashwani Lohani
4. Pradeep Singh Kharola

Q) SEBI has constituted a municipal bonds development committee which will be headed
by whom?

1. Sujit Prasad
 2. Ananta Barua
3. Jayanta Jash
4. Parag Basu

Q) Which state has launched the `Pyaar ka Paudha` campaign to promote the practice of
planting trees?

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

Q) Which country will be India's partner country at the Technology Summit 2020 to be
held in Delhi later this year?

1. Poland
2. Portugal
3. France
4. Sweden

Q) On the first anniversary of the Pulwama attack, the CRPF has inaugurated a memorial
at Lethpora camp, the camp is located at which place?

1. Udhampur
2. Leh
3. Srinagar
4. Baramulla

Q) Chief of Defence Sta (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat is aiming to set up the first integrated tri-
services command which will be headed by whom?

1. Defence Minister
2. Navy Ocer
3. Army Ocer
4. Air Force Offcer

Q) Which state has launched the ‘Yodhavu’ mobile app to combat drug menace?

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

Q) The Government Medical College in Maharashtra's Latur will be named after whom?

1. Vilasrao Deshmukh
 2. Ashok Chavan
3. Prithviraj Chavan
4. Manohar Joshi

Q) Which city bus stand was renamed after late external aairs minister and BJP veteran
Sushma Swaraj?

1. Gurugram
2. Panipat
3. Ambala
4. Karnal

Q) Who has clinched 77 th Senior National Squash Championship in women's category ?

1. Dipika Pallikal
2. Akanksha Salunkhe
3. Sunayna Kuruvilla
4. Joshna Chinappa

Q) Who has been appointed as the Chairman And Managing Director (CMD) of NewSpace
India Ltd (NSIL)?

1. A. S. Kiran Kumar
2. K. Radhakrishnan
3. G. Narayanan
4. Jitendra Nath Goswami

Q) Amazon will set up two data centres in which state with USD 1.6 billion investment?

1. Telangana
2. Karnataka
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. Odisha

Q) Who has assumed charge of Chairman and Managing Director of GAIL (India)?

1. Anil Kumar Chaudhary

2. Manoj Jain
3. Nalin Singhal
4. Shashi Shanker

Q) Maha Chakri Sirindhorn who visited the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun
recently is the Princess of which country?

1. Malaysia
2. Thailand
 3. Bhutan
4. Indonesia

Q) Lifelong Online has appointed whom as the brand ambassador for its fitness category?

1. Hrithik Roshan
2. Milind Soman
3. Siddharth Malhotra
4. Varun Dhawan

 Lotus Herbals has appointed Jacqueline Fernandez as Brand Ambassador.

Q) What is the theme of the BioAsia 2020 forum which is being held in Hyderabad?

1. Life Sciences
2. Today for Tomorrow
3. Today or Never
4. Ecosystem for Tomorrow

Q) India and Portugal have recently signed an MoU to develop a world-class National
Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) at which place?

1. Rajkot
2. Lothal
3. Godhra
4. Surat

Q) Kashi Mahakal Express will run between Uttar Pradesh and which state?

1. Madhya Pradesh
2. Gujarat
3. Himachal Pradesh
4. Uttarakhand

Q) Kambala is a traditional sport of which state?

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

Q) What was the theme of the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2020?

1. Westlessness
2. Climate Change
3. Focusing on people
 4. Role Of Mediation

Q) Titagarh Wagons has become the only private firm to build and deliver research ships
in the country, what is the name of the second research ship developed by it?

1. Sagar Parikrama
2. Sagar Sindhu
3. Sagar Anveshika
4. Sagar Suraksha

Q) Who has won the TATA Steel PGTI Players Championship 2020?

1. Veer Ahlawat
2. Udayan Mane
3. Gaganjeet Bhullar
4. Shiv Kapur

Q) Microsoft has announced the launch of its third India Development Centre (IDC) in
which city?

1. Gurugram
2. New Delhi
3. Kolkata
4. Noida

Q) Richard Branson has approached India to establish a hyperloop transportation system

between New Delhi and which city?

1. Noida
2. Bengaluru
3. Mumbai
4. Kolkata

Q) Which movie has won the Best film award at 65th Amazon Filmfare Awards 2020?

1. Gully Boy
2. Article 15
3. Uri
4. Kabir Singh

65th Amazon Filmfare Awards 2020:

 Best Film- ‘Gully Boy’.
 Best Director Zoya Akhtar for ‘Gully Boy’.
 Best Actor In A Leading Role (Male)- Ranveer Singh for ‘Gully Boy’.
 Best Actor In A Leading Role (Female)- Alia Bhatt for ‘Gully Boy’.
  Lifetime Achievement Award- Ramesh Sippy.
 Excellence In Cinema- Govinda

Q) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has provided the Indian Air Force with how
many Tejas fighter aircrafts at a reduced cost of Rs 39,000 crore?

1. 40
2. 56
3. 83
4. 72

Q) Third High Level Global Conference on Road Safety was held in which city?

1. Stockholm
2. Berlin
3. London
4. Warsaw

Q) Election Commission of India has collaborated with which IIT institution to work on a
new technology for voting?

1. IIT Hyderabad
2. IIT Bombay
3. IIT Roorkee
4. IIT Madras

Q) Gully Boy has created history by winning the most number of Filmfare awards, beating
the previously held record of which movie?

1. Sholay
2. Black
3. Border
4. Devdas

Q) Which city was the host to joint military exercise between India and Bangladesh
“Sampriti-IX”?

1. Umroi
2. Tura
3. Jowai
4. Shillong

Q) In order to connect home buyers and developers, CREDAI has launched which mobile
application?

1. CREDAI Niwaas
 2. CREDAI Bhumi
3. CREDAI Awaas
4. CREDAI Kray

Q) The government has unveiled which programme to research on ‘indigenous’ cows?

1. SHUDH PIC
2. DHENU NIC
3. GAU MIN
4. SUTRA PIC

Q) Which city is hosting the Asian Wrestling Championship 2020?

1. New Delhi
2. Pune
3. Bhubaneswar
4. Kolkata

Q) The Union government has decided to rename ‘The Institute for Defence Studies and
Analyses’ (IDSA) after whom?

1. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

2. Manohar Parrikar
3. Sushma Swaraj
4. Anil Madhav Dave

Q) Which motto has been chosen as the motto of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics ?

1. United by Emotion
2. Play in Unity
3. United by Sports
4. High Spirit

Q) Bird ringing station devoted to observation, monitoring and research on migratory

birds will be established in which state?

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

Q) The Union Cabinet has approved the constitution of the 22nd Law Commission with a
period of how many years?

1. Two years
2. Three years
 3. Four years
4. Five years

Q) Who was awarded the Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year?

1. Ashleigh Barty
2. Heather Knight
3. Simone Biles
4. Simona Halep

Q) The Indian government and the World Bank have signed a USD ________ million loan
agreement to arrest the country's depleting groundwater levels?

1. USD 350 million

2. USD 400 million
3. USD 250 million
4. USD 450 million

Q) According to the report by the World Population Review, India emerged as the world's
_______th largest economy in 2019?

1. Seventh
2. Sixth
3. Fifth
4. Eighth

Q) Hindi is the third most spoken language of the world in 2019 with __________million
speakers?

1. 615
2. 455
3. 489
4. 567

Q) To ensure safety and security of people travelling in cabs, the Delhi Police along with
Uber has launched which app?

1. Nirbhaya plus
2. Himmat plus
3. Disha plus
4. Suraksha plus

Q) Which state has launched the CM Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (CMAPS) and the
Yuva Udyamita Vikas Abhiyan (YUVA)?

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

Q) Which state has recently launched the Nadu-Nedu scheme for modernising hospitals?

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

Q) Defence PSU Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) has delivered its
which fourth anti-submarine warfare to the Indian Navy?

1. INS Kamorta
2. INS Kadmatt
3. INS Kiltan
4. INS Kavaratti

Q) Which country will host the Men's Hockey Junior World Cup in 2021?

1. South Africa
2. Australia
3. India
4. Finland

Q) Which airport has become India’s first single-use plastic-free airport?

1. Calicut International Airport

2. Raja Bhoj International Airport
3. Indira Gandhi International Airport
4. Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport

Q) Who was elected as the president of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust?

1. Champat Rai
2. Giriji Maharaj
3. Nritya Gopal Das
4. Awanish Awasthi

Q) The government will launch Tilhan Mission to make the country self-reliant in which
production?

1. Pulses
2. Wheat
3. Rice
 4. Oilseed

Q) India will switch to the world’s cleanest petrol and diesel i.e Euro-VI grade fuel from
which date?

1. April 1
2. March 1
3. May 1
4. June 1

Q) Mongla port belongs to which country?

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

Q) Chintalapudi Lift Irrigation Scheme belongs to which state?

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

Q) Lithium reserves of 14,100 tonnes in Mandya area of which city in Karnataka?

1. Mysuru
2. Bengaluru
3. Hubli
4. Belgaum

Q) Who has been selected as the new Central Vigilance Commissioner by a high-powered
committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi?

1. Suresh Patel
2. Anita Pandove
3. Bimal Julka
4. Sanjay Kothari

Q) Who was appointed as chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development
Authority (PFRDA)?

1. Sujata Chaturvedi
2. Annie George Mathew
3. Supratim Bandyopadhyay
4. Madnesh Kumar Mishra
Q) What is the rank of India in the Worldwide Educating for the Future Index (WEFFI)
2019?

1. 35 th
2. 40 th
3. 23 rd
4. 55 th

Q) Which country will host the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup?

1. Malaysia
2. Uzbekistan
3. Chinese Taipei
4. India

Q) Larry Tesler, who passed away recently, was the creator of which computer function?

1. Cut
2. Copy
3. Paste
4. Search
5. All of the above

Q) Which institution has been ranked first in the Nature Ranking Index-2020?

1. IISc Bangalore
2. CSIR
3. IIT, Madras
4. IIT, Guwahati