DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ: 20 JULY 2021

1. Indian Olympic Association named who (e) Haryana

among the following as Press Attache of 7. According to a recent WWF-UNEP
India’s Olympic contingent? report, what percent of India’s tiger
(a) Rajeev Mehta ranges outside protected areas?
(b) Narinder Batra (a) 35%
(c) B K Sinha (b) 30%
(d) H C Awasthy (c) 40%
(e) Rajesh Kumar Pandey (d) 45%
2. Who will receive the Olympic Laurel at (e) 50%
the Tokyo Games 2021? 8. Which one of the following institutions
(a) Richard H. Thaler recently developed AI algorithm called
(b) Kip Keino ‘NBDriver’ to spot cancer-causing
(c) William D. Nordhaus mutations?
(d) Muhammad Yunus (a) IIT Delhi
(e) Bengt Holmström (b) IIT Bombay
3. Name the following, who recently won (c) IIT Kharagpur
the British Grand Prix 2021. (d) IIT Madras
(a) Lewis Hamilton (e) IIT Kanpur
(b) Charles Leclerc 9. Where is India’s 1st Pod Taxi Service
(c) Valtteri Bottas planned to be launched by the Yamuna
(d) L. Norris Expressway Industrial Development
(e) D. Ricciardo Authority?
4. “A Night of Knowing Nothing” won the (a) New Delhi
Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) award for best (b) Bihar
documentary at the 74th Cannes Film (c) Uttar Pradesh
Festival. Name the director of the (d) Haryana
documentary. (e) Uttarakhand
(a) Prachi Agrawal 10. Identify the points that are correctly
(b) Sunita Agnihotri related to the 2nd Digital Conference &
(c) Payal Kapadia Exhibition on ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat –
(d) Sneha Gupta Self-Reliance for Renewable Energy
(e) Sarojni Tiwari Manufacturing’.
5. ________ won the Cannes’ top prize, the A) The conference was organised by
Palme d’Or, for her film Titane. Confederation of Indian Industry in
(a) Renate Reinsve collaboration with the Ministry of New
(b) Julia Ducournau and Renewable Energy
(c) Jodie Foster B) Due to COVID-19, India announced to
(d) Juho Kuosmanen shift its target of Paris Agreement to
(e) Caleb Landry Jones reduce carbon emission to 30% set by
6. India’s first monk fruit cultivation 2030 to 2035
exercise recently began in which one of C) India will achieve the target of 20%
the following states? ethanol blending with petrol by 2023-24,
(a) Punjab and ultimately move to 100% ethanol
(b) Uttarakhand blending
(c) Himachal Pradesh (a)Only A & C
(d) Uttar Pradesh (b)Only B

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(c)Only A & B d’or (Golden Eye) award for best

(d)Only B & C documentary at the Film Festival.
(e)Only C C) “Palme d’Or”, the biggest award of the
11. Which state recently (in July’21) festival, was won by Jane Campion for
celebrated the monsoon festival “Shravan “The Piano”
Harela festival 2021”? (a)Only A & C
(a)Himachal Pradesh (b)Only B
(b)Uttarakhand (c)Only A & B
(c)Assam (d)Only B & C
(d)Sikkim (e)Only C
(e)Arunachal Pradesh
12. Name the Country that constructed one of
World’s largest floating solar (45-hectare ANSWER KEYS
of size) form to power 5 water treatment 1 c 9 c
plants 2 d 10 a
(a)New Zealand 3 a 11 b
(b)Belgium 4 c 12 e
(c)Italy 5 b 13 c
(d)Cuba
6 c 14 b
(e)Singapore
13. Name the airline that recently (in July’21) 7 a 15 c
became the 1st airline from the Middle 8 d
East to join IATA Turbulence aware
platform
(a) Emirates
(b) Oman Air
(c) Qatar Airways
(d) flydubai
(e) Gulf Air
14. In July 2021, _____ introduced a new
standard with _____ Expected Loss based
Rating Scale for the Credit Rating
Agencies.
(a)RBI; 7 level
(b)SEBI; 7 level
(c)SEBI; 5 level
(d)SEBI; 6 level
(e)RBI; 5 level
15. What are the points that are correctly
related to the 74th Cannes Film Festival
2021?
A) Spike Lee served as Jury President of
2021’s Cannes Film Festival, that was
held annually at Cannes, France
B) ‘Night of Knowing Nothing’ directed
by India’s Payal Kapadia won the Oeil

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