CURRENT AFFAIRS Quiz - 20 Dec
1. What is India’s rank in the Global Wind
Power Installed Capacity index?
a) First
b) Second
c) Fourth
d) Fifth
ANS : C
2. A rainbow-headed snake was recently
discovered by the scientists in which of the following regions?
a) Brazil's Atlantic Forest
b) Greater
Mekong
c) Madagascar
d) Western
Ghats
ANS : B
3. The United Nations Security Council voted
to deploy UN observers to monitor evacuations in which of the following Syrian
cities?
a) Palmyra
b) Aleppo
c) Damascus
d) Homs
ANS : B
4. Identify the Tamil poet whose statue was
recently inaugurated on the bank of River Ganga in Haridwar.
a) Thiruvalluvar
b) Nakkirar
c) Mamulanar
d) Agastya
ANS : A
5. Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was recently
appointed as the Chief Justice of India by the President Pranab Mukherjee.
Justice Kehar is the
a) 43rd
Chief Justice of India
b) 45th Chief Justice of India
c) 44th
Chief Justice of India
d) 42nd Chief Justice of India
ANS : C
6. Senate of which country has passed a
resolution seeking withdrawal of its biggest currency notes?
a) Yemen
b) Pakistan
c) Bangladesh
d) Afghanistan
ANS : B
7. A huge dead zone has been discovered
recently in one of the major water bodies. Which among the following is the
water body?
a) South China Sea
b) Bay
of Bengal
c) Arabian
Sea
d) Indian Ocean
ANS : B