Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 10th December 2019

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1) When is the International Anti-Corruption Day observed annually ?

A) November 9

B) October 11

C) November 12

D) December 9

E) August 12

2) How much has the Govt disbursed to farmers under PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme ?

A) 40,000 crore

B) 36,000 crore

C) 45,000 crore

D) 38,000 crore

E) 48,000 crore

3) Where is the Human Library event , which seeks to replace books with humans, being organized in ?

A) Chandigarh

B) Bengaluru

C) Mysuru

D) Patna

E) Chennai

4) Who has inaugurated the Integrated Command and Control Centre in Gurgaon ?

A) Venkaiah Naidu

B) Manohar Lal Khattar

C) Narendra Modi

D) Nirmala Sitharaman

E) Rajnath Singh

5) The Odisha government has reduced Kalia assistance reduces from Rs. 10000 to ___ ?

A) Rs. 5000

B) Rs. 6000

C) Rs. 7000

D) Rs. 8000

E) Rs. 4000

6) Exim Bank which provide how much credit to Bangladesh for defence procurement ?

A) 450 million

B) 500 million

C) 650 million

D) 700 million

E) 550 million

7) Who partnered with Zestmoney Partners to launch Small Ticket Loans ?

A) MiCredit

B) Paytm

C) Axisbank

D) HDFC

E) ICICI

8) Who has been elected by the News Broadcasters Federation as the governing board’s president ?

A) Rajdeep Sardesai

B) Sudhir Chaudhry

C) Arnab Goswami

D) Pranab Sen

E) Rajat Sharma

9) Who has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Ghana ?

A) Asaf Ali

B) C.Sugandh Rajaram

C) Harsh Vardhan Sringala

D) Vinay Kumar

E) Srikumar Menon

10) The Golden Target award is presented in which sport ?

A) Archery

B) Javelin Throw

C) Football

D) Shooting

E) Swimming

11) Who has been honoured at Marrakech Film Festival for 20 years in cinema ?

A) Priyanka Chopra

B) Katrina Kaif

C) Kareena Kapoor

D) Deepika Padukone

E) Twinkle Khanna

12) Who will be honoured with the Gangadhar National Award ?

A) Ramesh Singh

B) Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari

C) Vasu Kumar

D) Ramnath Tripathi

E) Yogendra Vashisht

13) Where will the 2nd edition of startup India Global Venture Capital Summit 2019 be held in ?

A) Haryana

B) Goa

C) Chandigarh

D) Pune

E) Amravati

14) Who has won the FIDE open category of the London Chess Classic?
A) D.Gukesh
B) Koneru Humpy
C) Raunak Sadhwani
D) Viswanathan Anand
E) R. Praggnanandhaa
15) Who has won the U-21 ITTF Challenge Series title in Canada?

A) Harmeet desai
B) Sanil Shetty
C) Manika Batra
D) Manav Thakkar
E) None of these
16) Braj Bihari Kumar who passed away recently was the chairman of which body?

A) ISRO
B) Indian Council of Social Science Research
C) DRDO
D) IRDAI
E) SEBI

Answers:

1) Answer: D

The International Anti-Corruption Day is observed annually on December 9, under the United Nations (UN) resolution (A/RES/58/4).  The day was selected to be observed, in order to create awareness on corruption and combating and preventing corruption.

The theme for the year 2019 is “United Against Corruption”

2) Answer: B

Around 36 thousand crore rupees have been disbursed under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi as on 30th of November this year.

Around seven crores 60 lakh farmers have been benefited under the scheme.

The government is striving to double the farmer’s income by 2022.The Agriculture Export Policy, 2018 strives to increase India’s Agriculture and allied exports which in turn would help in achieving the goal of doubling the farmer’s income.

3) Answer: C

A human library, a concept which seeks to replace books with humans, will be organised in Mysuru.

The human library aims to break past long-standing prejudices and stereotypes by creating a safe framework for conservation by using a library analogy of lending people rather than books.

It intends to generate greater human cohesion across various social, religious and ethnic diversities.

4) Answer: B

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has inaugurated Gurgaon’s ambitious Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC).

It has been developed as the nerve centre to provide multifaceted online smart services to people.

The ICCC has been designed to serve as the nodal point for all online data related to the Smart City applications, including CCTV-based public safety and adaptive traffic management systems, smart parking system, water supply management system, pollution monitoring, property tax management system and asset management system.

5) Answer: E

Odisha government has reduced the financial assistance given to farmers under the Kalia scheme to Rs 4,000 per annum from Rs 10,000.

The decision to reduce the Kalia assistance was taken after the Odisha government merged the Kalia scheme with the Centres Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), launched in February 2019.

6) Answer: B

India has provided USD 500 million (Rs 3,561 crore) line of credit to Bangladesh for defence-related procurement in the neighbouring country.

Export Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) entered into an agreement on April 11 with Bangladesh’s Armed Forces Division for making available to the latter a Government of India-supported line of credit (LoC) of USD 500 million.

The LoC is for the purpose of financing defence-related procurement in Bangladesh.

7) Answer: A

ZestMoney, India’s first and largest AI-driven EMI financing platform announced the company’s foray into cash loans with Xiaomi.

The new product called MiCredit allows customers to avail instant credit as low as INR 7,000 into their bank accounts almost instantly.

8) Answer: C

The News Broadcasters Federation has elected journalist Arnab Goswami as the president of its governing board.

The broadcaster’s body comprises of 78 news channels in 14 languages from 25 states.

The members unanimously elected Goswami, who is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic TV, to be president of the governing board.

9) Answer: B

Sugandh Rajaram was appointed as the High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Ghana. He is the current Consul General, Consulate General of India, Munich, Germany.

10) Answer: D

Three Indians, Saurabh Chaudhary, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan, who finished as the number 1 shooters in their respective categories in the year-end world rankings, were awarded the prestigious “Golden Target” award by the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF).

This is the first time the federation introduced the Golden Target award, where they recognised and honoured the top-ranked shooters from 12 categories.

11) Answer: A

A day after receiving the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball, Priyanka Chopra Jonas was awarded at Festival International Du Film De Marrakech in Morocco.  The event was held at the popular Jemaa el Fna square in Morocco.

12) Answer: B

Eminent Hindi poet Viswanath Prasad Tiwari would be honoured with the prestigious ‘Gangadhar National Award’ during the 53rd Foundation Day celebrations of Sambalpur University.

Viswanath was the former President of the Sahitya Akademi between 2013-2014 and was born in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh (UP).

13) Answer: B

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), in partnership with Government of Goa, is organizing the 2nd edition of the Startup India Global Venture Capital Summit for Fund Managers and Limited Partners of Top Global Venture Capital Firms.

The theme for Startup India Global Venture Capital Summit 2019 is India Opportunity – Investing in tomorrow together.

14) Answer: E
R. Praggnanandhaa won the FIDE Open category of the London Chess Classic, which concluded with a tally of 7.5 points out of nine rounds. The tournament, organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE), was held at Olympia London in London, United Kingdom.

15) Answer: D
Indian paddler Manav Thakkar, became the first Indian since 2017 to win an U-21 men’s singles title when he lifted the crown at the ITTF Challenge Plus Benemax-Virgo North American Open in Markham, Canada. It was India’s first U-21 men’s singles title since the ITTF Challenge Series became an entity in January 2017, as opposed to being an integral part of the ITTF World Tour.

16) Answer: B
Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), BB Kumar, passed away. Braj Bihari Kumar was appointed as the chairman of the ICSSR in May 2017.

 

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