DAILY GK QUIZ: 12 DEC 2020
[Q] On December
2020, Union Cabinet chaired by PM Modi approved wireless internet hotspot
service project “PM-WANI”. What does ‘A’ stands for in PM-WANI?
(a) Adaptive
(b) Acquired
(c) Accept
(d) Access
(e) Arrive
[ANS] d
[Q] Union
cabinet approved Submarine OFC Connectivity between Lakshadweep Islands and
_____.
(a) Pune
(b) Maldives
(c) Thiruvananthapuram
(d) Goa
(e) Kochi
[ANS] e
[Q] Which two
organisation together accounts for more than 82% of the Unified Payments
Interface (UPI) as per the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
November, 2020 data?
(a) Google
Pay and Paytm
(b) Amazon Pay and MobiKwik
(c) Google Pay and PhonePe
(d) Freecharge and Amazon Pay
(e) PhonePe and Paytm
[ANS] c
[Q] “Shaheen (Eagle)-IX”, the joint air
force exercise was conducted between _____.
(a) India
and China
(b) China and Bangladesh
(c) Bangladesh and Pakistan
(d) Pakistan and China
(e) Japan and Bangladesh
[ANS] d
[Q] Which states
will be provided complete mobile coverage under the Universal Service
Obligation Fund (USOF) Scheme?
(a) Arunachal
Pradesh and Assam
(b) Manipur and Assam
(c) Nagaland and Assam
(d) Sikkim and Meghalaya
(e) Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya
[ANS] a
[Q] When will
the insurance watchdog had instructed all general and standalone health
insurers will have to offer the personal accident insurance policies with a cap
of Rs. 1 crore as per Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
(IRDAI) guidelines?
(a) January 1, 2021
(b) December 31, 2021
(c) February 1, 2021
(d) March 1, 2021
(e) April 1, 2021
[ANS] e
[Q] Which state
has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Survey of India (SoI) to
implement first of its kind Land Survey?
(a) Tamil Nadu
(b) Punjab
(c) Himachal Pradesh
(d) Haryana
(e) Andhra Pradesh
[ANS] e
[Q] Which
Bengali film has won two awards at Madrid International Film Festival 2020?
(a) Konttho
(b) Gumnaami
(c) Robibaar
(d) Nagarkirtan
(e) Rajlokhi O Srikanto
[ANS] c
[Q] Who authored
the Report on Pandemic Management launched by State Bank of India?
(a) Soumya
Kanti Ghosh
(b) Dinesh Kumar Khara
(c) Abhijit Banerjee
(d) Arvind Panagariya
(e) Krishnamurthy Subramanian
[ANS] a
[Q] Which
country successfully launched 2 satellites for Gravitational Wave Detection
under its GECAM mission ?
(a) Republic
of Korea
(b) Japan
(c) United States of America
(d) China
(e) Israel
[ANS] d
[Q] Name the celebrity who has topped the
’50 Asian Celebrities In The World’ 2020 list of UK based Eastern Eye
newspaper.
(a) Amitabh Bachchan
(b) Priyanka Chopra
(c) Sonu Sood
(d) Armaan Malik
(e) Prabhas
[ANS] c
[Q] Who among the
following has been awarded 2020 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians?
(a) Hoang Hiep Pham
(b) Carolina Araujo
(c) Ritabrata Munshi
(d) Eduardo Teixeira
(e) Chenyang Xu
[ANS] b
[Q] Name the
Indian athlete, who recently honoured with Sportsperson of the Year in female
category by FICCI.
(a) Saina Nehwal
(b) P. V. Sindhu
(c) Elavenil Valarivan
(d) Aparna Popat
(e) Ashwini Ponnappa
[ANS] c
[Q] Which of the
following state has honoured with “Best State Promoting Sports” award by FICCI?
(a) Haryana
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Maharashtra
(d) Gujarat
(e) Uttar Pradesh
[ANS] b
