Current Affairs Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 || 04 Aug 2020 ||

Current Affairs Quiz Questions and Answers 2020

04 AUG 2020

(Q.01) Which of the following plans to send an enormous balloon to the edge of Earth’s stratosphere in search of secrets about how stars and planets form?

1) ISRO

2) JAXA

3) ESA

4) NASA

Ans. :- (4) NASA

(Q.02) In July 2020, who was named England’s Footballer of the Year?

1) Jordan Henderson

2) Fabinho

3) Roberto Firmino

4) Naby Keita

Ans. :- (1) Jordan Henderson

(Q.03) Which of the following has become the first DGCA-approved drone training school of the country?

1) Indian Aviation Academy

2) Bombay Flying Club

3) Carver Aviation

4) Inspire Academy

Ans. :- (2) Bombay Flying Club

(Q.04) When is the World Sanskrit Day being celebrated in 2020?

1) 31 July

2) 1 August

3) 2 August

4) 3 August

Ans. :- (4) 3 August

(Q.05) Who has approved a unique employment generation program to make India Atma Nirbhar in Agarbatti production?

1) Nitin Gadkari

2) Amit Shah

3) Prakash Javadekar

4) Piyush Goyal

Ans. :- (4) Piyush Goyal

(Q.06) How many women entrepreneurs have been awarded by the Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment, WEE cohort, in August 2020?

1) 5

2) 7

3) 9

4) 11

Ans. :- (4) 11

(Q.07) Who inaugurated a two-day international webinar on the theme of ‘Lokmanya Tilak – Swaraj to Self-reliant India’ in August 2020?

1) Amit Shah

2) Rajnath Singh

3) Jagat Prakash Nadda

4) Nitin Gadkari

Ans. :- (1) Amit Shah

(Q.08) Who among the following launched ‘Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan, 2020-21 in August 2020?

1) Dr Harsh Vardhan

2) Nitin Gadkari

3) Mamata Banerjee

4) Smriti Irani

Ans. :- (1) Dr Harsh Vardhan

(Q.09) Who took over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Air Command of Indian Air Force in August 2020?

1) Arvindra Singh Butola

2) Navkaranjit Singh Dhillon

3) Shashiker Choudhary

4) V. R. Chaudhari

Ans. :- (4) V. R. Chaudhari

(Q.10) Government has decided to permit exports of ventilators. The export restriction on ventilators was imposed in which month?

1) February

2) March

3) April

4) May

Ans. :- (2) March

(Q.11) Northern Railway ran first-ever Vyapar Mala Express train in August 2020. How many wagons did the train have?

1) 34

2) 38

3) 42

4) 46

Ans. :- (4) 46

(Q.12) Who has announced the successful completion of pan-India 1,000 genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2?

1) Dr Harsh Vardha

2) Amit Shah

3) Nitin Gadkari

4) Harsh Vardhan Shringla

Ans. :- (1) Dr Harsh Vardhan

(Q.13) Which country has become the first country in the Arab World to produce nuclear energy?

1) Saudi Arabia

2) Qatar

3) Yemen

4) UAE

Ans. :- (4) UAE

(Q.14) In which state, the second plasma bank was inaugurated in August 2020 by Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma?

1) Nagaland

2) Sikkim

3) Manipur

4) Assam

Ans. :- (4) Assam

(Q.15) IPL 2020 will be played from September 19 to November 10, 2020, in which country?

1) UAE

2) Turkey

3) Saudi Arabia

4) Egypt

Ans. :- (1) UAE