DAILY GK QUIZ 12 NOV 2020
[Q] How much has
been released by Central Govt. as first instalment to 42 cities from 15 states
for the improvement of air quality measures according to the recommendation of
15th Finance Commission?
(a) 2,000
crore
(b) 1,700
crore
(c) 2,500
crore
(d) 2,200
crore
(e) 3,200
crore
[ANS] d
[Q] What is the
percentage of GDP targeted by the 15th Finance Commission for Health
Expenditure by including the health care scenario for the first time in India?
(a) 1.2 %
(b) 1.8 %
(c) 2.1 %
(d) 2.5 %
(e) 2.7 %
[ANS] c
[Q] What will be
the venue for International Bird Festival to be organised in February 2021?
(a)
Ahmadabad, Gujarat
(b) Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh
(c) Kevadiya,
Gujarat
(d)
Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
(e) Lucknow,
Uttar Pradesh
[ANS] d
[Q] Ministry of
New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) revised the PM-KUSUM scheme goal to of 30.8
GigaWatt (GW) by 2022 with revised Central Financial Support of INR 34, 035
crores. Who are the beneficiaries of PM-KUSUM?
(a)
Transgenders
(b) Self-Help
Groups (SHGs)
(c) Farmers
(d) Street
Vendors
(e) Micro
& Small Enterprises
[ANS] c
[Q] Which Bank
launched a new indigenous contactless RuPay debit card- National Common
Mobility Card (NCMC)?
(a) Karnataka
Vikas Grameena Bank
(b) Andhra
Bank
(c) South
Indian Bank
(d) Karnataka
Bank
(e) State
Bank of India
[ANS] d
[Q] Name the
India’s First Individual Covid-19 Life Insurance Policy launched by Edelweiss
Tokio Life Insurance Company Limited.
(a) Covid
Secure+
(b) Covid
Kavach+
(c) Covid
Bubble+
(d) Covid
Guard+
(e) Covid
Shield+
[ANS] e
[Q] Who has won
the “Dr. Tulsi Das Chugh Award 2020” for his research work on the life cycle of
Malaria Parasite?
(a) S.
Hareesh
(b) Jayasree
Kalathil
(c) Satish
Mishra
(d) Yash
Gulati
(e) Yogi
Aeron
[ANS] c
[Q] Which State
has won the first place in the Union ministry of Jal Shakti’s 2nd National
Water Awards for 2019 under the best state (normal) category for the
conservation and management of water?
(a) Andhra
Pradesh
(b) Goa
(c) Kerala
(d) Tamil
Nadu
(e) Odisha
[ANS] d
[Q] Who will
head the 9 member working group set up by IRDAI to revisit the product
structures of engineering tariffs?
(a) Subhash
Chandra Khuntia
(b) Ajay
Tyagi
(c) Praveen
Kutumbe
(d) R
Chandrasekaran
(e) V S
Narendra Chandra
[ANS] d
[Q] Which State
topped the index “Interstate Migrant Policy Index (IMPEX) 2019” released by
India Migration Now?
(a) Andhra
Pradesh
(b) Goa
(c) Kerala
(d) Rajasthan
(e) Uttar
Pradesh
[ANS] c
[Q] Which state
has shown the maximum incremental improvement in 6th edition of “Doing Business
in India: The UK Perspective” released by United Kingdom India Business
Council’s (UKIBC)?
(a) Karnataka
(b) Delhi
(c) Punjab
(d)
Maharashtra
(e) Gujarat
[ANS] d
[Q] Which tech
giant signed an agreement to acquire a 100% of the shares of Postbank Systems
AG (PBS) from Deutsche Bank AG?
(a) Microsoft
(b) Google
(c) TCS
(d) Tech
Mahindra
(e) Wipro
[ANS] c
[Q] Virgin
Hyperloop successfully completed the first-ever human trial in the hyperloop
pod at the 500 metre DevLoop test facility in the Las Vegas,United States (US)
on November 8, 2020. India’s first Hyperloop project is being set up in which
state?
(a) Tamil
Nadu
(b) Gujarat
(c)
Maharashtra
(d) Karnataka
(e) Andhra
Pradesh
[ANS] c
[Q] Which
Country released a pictorial anthology on Mahatma Gandhi, titled ‘Maile Bujheko
Gandhi’ (the Gandhi as I understood or ‘My understanding about Gandhi’) to
celebrate the 151st birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Indonesia
(b) Israel
(c) South
Africa
(d) Nepal
(e)
Bangladesh
[ANS] d
[Q] Who released
the Book (a compilation of selected Facebook posts) ‘Majhi Bhint’ (My Wall)
authored by Rajendra Darda, former Maharashtra Minister of Education?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Ram Nath
Kovind
(c) Bhagat
Singh Koshyari
(d) Uddhav
Thackeray
(e) M
Venkaiah Naidu
[ANS] c
[Q] Who authored
the Book titled ‘How to Be a Writer’?
(a) J K
Rowling
(b) Ruskin
Bond
(c) Salman
Rushdie
(d) Chetan
Bhagat
(e) Shashi
Tharoor
[ANS] b
[Q] What percent
of the river Ganga has high biodiversity according to the first ever study done
in India on the entire Ganga River by Wildlife Institute of India (WII)?
(a) 25%
(b) 40%
(c) 49%
(d) 55%
(e) 61%
[ANS] c
[Q] National
Education Day is observed in India on which day?
(a) 10 November
(b) 11 November
(c) 9 November
(d) 8 November
(e) 12 November
[ANS] b
[Q] Who among
the following has topped the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020?
(a) Hinduja Brothers
(b) Mukesh Ambani
(c) Shiv Nadar
(d) Ratan Tata
(e) Azim Premji
[ANS] e
[Q] Ken Spears
who has passed away recently was a renowned American producer, known for
creating which animated series?
(a) DuckTales
(b) Ben 10: Alien Force
(c) Scooby-Doo
(d) Mr. Bean
(e) Dexter’s Laboratory
[ANS] c
[Q] Indian
astronomers have collaborated with the 2020 Physics Nobel Laureate Prof. Andrea
Ghez for Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project. The TMT will be installed at
which place?
(a) Virginia
(b) Alaska
(c) California
(d) Hawaii
(e) New York
[ANS] d
[Q] Who was
presented with the Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award?
(a) Chetan Bhagat
(b) Ruskin Bond
(c) Arundhathi Roy
(d) Salman Rushdie
(e) Vikram Seth
[ANS] b
[Q] Which of the
following country became the first one in November 2020 to launch world’s first
6G experiment satellite?
(a) The USA
(b) Russia
(c) India
(d) China
(e) France
[ANS] d
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