Current Affairs Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 || 03 Sept 2020 ||

Current Affairs Quiz Questions and Answers 2020

03 SEPT 2020

(Q.01) Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance company has entered into partnership with which regional rural bank to offer life insurance (August 2020)?
1) Allahabad UP Gramin Bank
2) Chaitanya Godavari Grameena Bank
3) Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank
4) Andhra PragathiGrameena Bank

Ans. :-(4) Andhra PragathiGrameena Bank

Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce(OBC) Life Insurance Company Limited(Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance)and Andhra PragathiGrameena Bank (APGB) have entered into a strategic tie up virtually. The distribution tie-up is to sell life insurance, health and pension products at all the branches of APGB. It is the 1st virtual launch of Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance tie-up with APGB.

About Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance Company Limited
MD & CEO- Anuj Mathur
Head Office– Gurugram, Haryana
About Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank
Head Office– Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh
Chairman– Sri A Venkata Reddy

(Q.02) Name the 1st Indian origin women who has been honoured with memorial Blue Plaque?
1) Sayyida Fatima
2) Zaira Wasim
3) Arwa al-Sulayhi
4) Noor Inayat Khan

Ans. :-(4) Noor Inayat Khan

Noor Inayat Khan(Noor-un-NissaInayat Khan or Nora Baker), Britain’s World War II spy, who served in the Special Operations Executive(SOE) became the 1st Indian-origin woman to be honoured with a memorial Blue Plaque at her former family home in London, United Kingdom(UK). She is 1st Muslim war heroine of Britain and 1st female wireless operator sent from the UK into Nazi-occupied France to aid the French Resistance during World War II. She was born on January 1, 1914 in Moscow, Russia.

(Q.03) Find the bank which is going to receive Brandon Human Capital Management(HCM) Excellence Award 2020 for its HR initiative,” NayiDisha”.
1) Canara Bank
2) Bank of Maharashtra
3) State Bank of India
4) Indian Overseas Bank

Ans. :-(3) State Bank of India

State Bank of India (SBI) to receive Brandon Human Capital Management(HCM) Excellence Award(also known as the Academy Awards of Learning & Development)2020, a global recognition for its HR initiative,” NayiDisha”. The award winners will be honored at Brandon Hall Group’s annual HCM Excellence Conference, January 26-28, 2021 at the Hilton West Palm Beach, Florida.SBI partnered with M/s Chrysalis & developed the “NayiDisha” Programme.SBI has won the award in The HCM Spring Program under ‘Excellence in Learning and Development’ in 3 categories namely, Best Learning Program supporting a Change Transformation Business Strategy (Gold), Best Use of Blended Learning and Best Unique or Innovative Learning (Gold) and Development Program for its HR initiative (Silver).

(Q.04) Who is the 1stdivyang sportsperson of the country to get prestigious Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award?
1) Devendra Jhajharia
2) Satyendra Singh Lohia
3) Deepa Malik
4) Mariyappan Thangavelu

Ans. :-(2) Satyendra Singh Lohia

Para-swimmer Satyendra Singh Lohia of Madhya Pradesh is the first Divyang Indian sportsperson of the country, who has been awarded today with the Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award. He is also the first Asian Divyang swimmer to cross the 42-kilometer Catalina Channel in the US in just 11 hours 34 minutes.

(Q.05) Union Minister for Education Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ addressed the two-day World Urdu Conference organised by National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL). Where is the HQ of NCPUL located?
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Chennai
4) Kolkata

Ans. :-(1) New Delhi

Union Minister for Education (formerly known as Human Resource Development, HRD Ministry), Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ addressed the inaugural session of the two-days World Urdu Conference organized by New Delhi based National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) from August 27-28, 2020.

(Q.06) Which edition of India-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue (DPD) was held recently?
1) 14th
2) 17th
3) 21st
4) 11th

Ans. :-(1) 14th

India and Singapore carried out a review of their defence ties at the virtual meet of the 14th India-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue(DPD). The DPD was co-chaired by India’s Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and Permanent Secretary (Defence), Singapore Mr Chan HengKee.

(Q.07) Who represented India in the 8th East Asia Summit Economic Ministers’ meeting (EAS-EMM) held recently?
1) Dharmendra Pradhan
2) Nitin Gadkari
3) Nirmala Sitharaman
4) Piyush Goyal

Ans. :-(4) Piyush Goyal

8th East Asia Summit Economic Ministers’ Meeting (EAS-EMM) was held virtually which was attended by Economic Ministers from the ten ASEAN Member States, Australia, China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, the Russian Federation and the United States. The Meeting was chaired by Tran Tuan Anh, Minister of Industry and Trade of Viet Nam. From Indian side it was attended by PiyushGoyal, Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce and Industry.

(Q.08) What is India’s rank based on average monthly wage as per the data prepared by Picodi.com (Switzerland tops)?
1) 108
2) 72
3) 54
4) 36

Ans. :- (2) 72

In accordance with the global ranking of average wages prepared by Picodi.com, India ranked 72nd among 106 countries with an average monthly wage of Rs 32,800 (USD 437). Picodi.com is an international e-commerce platform, headquartered in Poland, provides discount coupons.  Its analysis team looked into earnings of countries around the world and created a global ranking of average wages.

Rank	Country	Average Monthly Wage
72	India	Rs 32,800 (USD 437)
1	Switzerland	4,49,000 (USD 5,989)
2	Luxembourg	Rs 3,00,900 (USD 4,014)
3	United States	Rs 2,64,900 (USD 3,534)

(Q.09) Which country has launched the warship Type-054 class for Pakistan army?
1) Germany
2) Russia
3) France
4) None of the Above

Ans. :-(4) None of the Above

China launched the first of the four advanced naval warships, Type-054 class frigates for the Pakistan Navy. The Type-054 class frigate is manufactured by China Shipbuilding Trading Company Ltd (CSTC) and was launched in the Chinese state-owned HudongZhonghua Shipyard, Shanghai.

(Q.10) The astronomers at Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) have discovered the aberration in the formations of the stars in dwarf galaxies recently. The ARIES is located in which city?
1) Mumbai
2) Lucknow
3) Patna
4) Nainital

Ans. :-(4) Nainital

ARIES astronomers DrAmitesh Omar and DrSumitJaiswal from the Department of Science and Technology of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, Uttarakhand discovered the aberration in the formations of the stars in dwarf galaxies while studying several such galaxies. This will provide an understanding about the formation of stars and evolution of less massive galaxies in the Universe.

(Q.11) Name the country which plans to host BRICS Games 2021.
1) Russia
2) South Africa
3) Brazil
4) None of the Above

Ans. :-(4) None of the Above

Minister of State (MoS) (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports, KirenRijiju attended the meeting between the Sports Ministers of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa) nations. During the meeting, the Ministers assessed the impact of COVID-19 on sports and discussed ways to bring back normalcy in the industry.After the meeting, Sports Minister KirenRijiju announced that India may host the BRICS Games in 2021 and may align it with the Khelo India Games in India.Haryana will host the fourth edition of Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG).

(Q.12) The Bryan brothers, “Bob” Bryan and “Mike” Bryan who announced retirement recently was associated with which sport?
1) Baseball
2) Tennis
3) Basketball
4) Badminton

Ans. :-(2) Tennis

The Bryan Brothers, 42-year-old identical twins Robert Charles “Bob” Bryan and Michael Carl “Mike” Bryan, the most successful American doubles tennis players announced their retirement from the professional circuit with immediate effect.They won around 119 trophies which includes 16 Grand Slams, 39 ATP Masters 1000s, four Nitto ATP Finals, 438 weeks at No. 1, the 2012 Olympic gold medal and 2007 Davis Cup triumph.

(Q.13) Name the former cricketer/Cricket coach who co-authored the book titled, “Pitching It Straight” with MS Unnikrishnan.
1) J. Arunkumar
2) Sanjay Bangar
3) Ravi Shastri
4) Gurcharan Singh

Ans. :-(4) Gurcharan Singh

Indian Cricket Coach Gurcharan Singh (85 years old) penned his memoir titled “Pitching It Straight” which is co-authored by sports journalist MS Unnikrishnan and published by Vitasta The book portrays the personal and professional life of Gurcharan Singh, who trained numerous young talents.

(Q.14) The prize money of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award was increased from Rs. 7.5 lakh to _______.
1) 25 Lakhs
2) 10 Lakhs
3) 15 Lakhs
4) 50 Lakhs

Ans. :-(1) 25 Lakhs

On 29th August 2020, KirenRijiju announced a hike in 4 of the seven categories of the National Sports and Adventure Awards.The prize money of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award was increased from Rs.7.5 lakh to Rs. 25 lakhs.Arjuna Award has been increased from Rs.5 lakhs to Rs.15 Lakh.The lifetime Dronacharya Award was increased from Rs.5 Lakh to Rs.15 lakh and regular Dronacharya Award was increased to Rs.10 lakhs from Rs.5 lakhs.Dhyan Chand Awardees will be given 10 lakh rupees instead of 5 lakhs rupees.

(Q.15) Which Central Armed Police Force has launched the app named ‘Pensioners Corner’?
1) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
2) Border Security Force (BSF)
3) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
4) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

Ans. :-(3) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has created & launched an in-house mobile Application(app), ‘Pensioners Corner’to get in touch with the pensioners and to bring them to the digital platform as a one stop solution. It will also cater to the needs of its pensioners. It is a part of its ‘e-karyalay’, an electronic office app launched in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.