Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 19th November 2019

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1) Which among the following days is observed across the world on November 19 every year?

a) International Child Rights Day

b) International Men’s Day

c) International Maritime Day

d) International Diabetes Day

e) International Doctor’s Day

2) What is the theme for ‘World Toilet Day’ observed across the world every year?

a) When Nature calls

b) Sanitation and Health

c) Sanitation is a Human Right

d) Leaving No One Behind

e) Toilets for all by 2030

3) Where is the 29th Regional Contact Points (RCP) meeting of Asia Pacific (A/P) region of World Customs Organization (WCO) being organised ?

a) New Delhi

b) Puducherry

c) West Bengal

d) Andhra Pradesh

e) Karnataka

4) Who along with Union Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) and Textiles, Smriti Irani has launched  “Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK)’’ to reduce malnutrition problem faced by the country  ?

a) Shiv Nadar

b) Ratan Tata

c) Mukesh Ambani

d) Melinda Gates

e) Bill Gates

5) North India’s first sugar mill which will produce ethanol directly from sugarcane has recently been inaugurated in___________

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) Haryana

c) Uttarakhand

d) Punjab

e) New Delhi

6) Which of the following was the partner country of India International Cherry Blossom festival held in Shillong from November 13 to 16, 2019 ?

a) Afghanistan

b) Vietnam

c) Philippines

d) South Korea

e) Thailand

7) ___________ has become the first country to introduce WHO recommended typhoid vaccine in its national immunisation program.

a) Sri Lanka

b) Pakistan

c) Bangladesh

d) Nepal

e) Singapore

8) The 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society of Addiction Medicine was recently held in which city ?

a) Panjim

b) Indore

c) Chandigarh

d) New Delhi

e) Hissar

9) Which International organization has agreed to provide a $91 million loan to India for comprehensive water management in the state of Karnataka ?

a) AIIB

b) World Bank

c) ADB

d) IFC

e) IBRD

10) The special winter grade diesel launched by Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) for UT of Ladakh remains unfrozen upto a temperature of ____________

a) – 50 degrees

b) -35 degrees

c) – 20 degrees

d) – 40 degrees

e) – 33 degrees

11) Who has been sworn in as the 47th Chief Justice of India?

a) Justice Krishna Murari

b) Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde

c) Justice Ranjan Gogoi

d) Justice AK Mishra

e) Justice DY Chandrachud

12) Name the maiden maritime exercise between Indian Navy and the Qatari Amiri Naval Force (QANF).

a) Za’ir-Al-Bahr

b) Al-Nagah

c) Nomadic Elephant

d) Sindhu Sudarshan

e) Tiger Triumph

13) Sindhu Sudarshan exercise of the Indian army has been recently conducted in which state?

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Himachal Pradesh

c) Mizoram

d) Rajasthan

e) Meghalaya

14) ISRO will launch ‘Carto-sat 3’ along with 13 commercial nano satellites from the US via PSLV-C47. The satellites would be launched from ___________

a) Balasore, Odisha

b) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

c) Aluva, Kerala

d) Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

e) Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh

15) Which famous boxer has been elected unopposed as a member of AIBA athletes’ commission?

a) Mary Kom

b) Jamuna Boro

c) Sarita Devi

d) Manju Rani

e) Pinki Rani

16) Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated which player to win his maiden ATP World Tour Trophy in London’s O2 Arena?

a) Novak Djkovic

b) Rafael Nadal

c) Danii Medvedev

d) Dominic Thiem

e) Fabio Fognini

17) Who has won the Panasonic Open held at the Classic Golf and Country Club in Gurugram, India?

a) Shiv Kapur

b) Kim Joo Hyung

c) Khalin Joshi

d) Kim Suk Guen

e) Arjun Prasad

18) Who has won Gold in Men’s single  ITTF Challenge Indonesia Open 2019 played in Batam, Indonesia defeating Anthony Amalraj ?

a) Sharat Kamal Achanta

b) Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

c) Soumyajit Ghosh

d) Harmeet Desai

e) Kamlesh Mehta

19) Shreyasi Singh is associated with which sport?

a) Wrestling

b) Shooting

c) Fencing

d) Table Tennis

e) Hockey

Answers :

1) Answer: B

International Men’s Day is an annual international event observed on 19 November. This day highlights the issues faced by men on a global scale and the sacrifices they make for their family and society.

2019 Theme – Making a Difference for Men and Boys

2) Answer: D

World Toilet Day is held annually to spread awareness about the issue of global sanitation crisis and to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, which promises sanitation for all by 2030. The World Toilet Day was made an official UN day in 2013. According to the WHO and UNICEF, around 60% of the global population that is approx 4.5 billion people either have no toilet at home or one that does not safely manage excreta.

2019 Theme- Leaving No One Behind

3) Answer: B

The 29th Regional Contact Points (RCP) meeting of Asia Pacific (A/P) region of the World Customs Organization (WCO) is being organised by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) at Puducherry from 18th to 20th November, 2019. The last Regional Contact Points (RCP) was organised in Nov 2018 in Jaipur.

WCO is the only inter-governmental international organisation engaged in setting up and implementation of principles and standards for cross border procedures and Customs.

It consists of six regions worldwide, which is headed by a member country as Vice Chair of that region. India is a member of the Asia Pacific region of WCO and also holds the Vice Chair since July 2018.

WCO is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

4) Answer: E

Union Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) and Textiles, Smriti Irani, along with Bill Gates, co-chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, launched the Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK).

The BPKK will have a repository of diverse crops across 128 agro-climatic zones of India to promote better nutritional outcomes and tackle under-nutrition in a sustainable manner.

The WCD ministry has collaborated with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for this project.

5) Answer: A

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has inaugurated North India’s first sugar mill which will produce ethanol directly from sugarcane. The mill was inaugurated in Pipraich area of Gorakhpur. With the launch of the sugar mill, the government aims to restore the pride of Sugar Bowl’ of east Uttar Pradesh.

6) Answer: D

Shillong, Meghalaya celebrated the 4th edition of the India International Cherry Blossom Festival 2019. This unique autumn flowering fest brings in South Korea as the partner country for 2019. It also featured several popular events including K-pop concert and K-cuisine.

A bilateral summit between South Korea and Meghalaya was also organized to foster socio-economic friendship.

7) Answer: B

Pakistan has become the first country in the world to introduce World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) in its national immunisation program.

The Indian made vaccine Typbar TCV, will play a significant role to curtail the typhoid outbreak.  About 1.2 crore doses of the vaccine have been supplied by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech for this initiative. Pakistan will launch the project in Sindh province, which has already seen a drug resistant typhoid outbreak that began in November 2016.

8) Answer: D

The 21st edition of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Addiction Medicine was held in New Delhi from 13 to 16 November 2019. The conference was organised by the Department of Psychiatry & National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. It served as the event to bring together diverse professionals working in the field of addiction medicine from across the globe, to facilitate exchange of ideas and expertise.

The theme of the conference – “Addiction in a Rapidly Changing World’’

9) Answer: C

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India have signed a $91 million loan to modernize the Vijayanagara Channel irrigation systems and prepare river basin management plans in the Krishna river basin to improve the efficiency of irrigation water usage and contribute to improving sustainable water security in Karnataka.

The investment program will help the Karnataka Government in strengthening its institutions involved in integrated water resource management and modernizing the irrigation system infrastructure for improving water usage efficiency in the State.

10) Answer: E

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) has launched a special winter-grade diesel that remains unfrozen up to minus 33 degree Celsius. This fuel would help provide a year-round access to snow-capped border regions, and is part of India’s efforts to speed up strategic road connectivity.

This new fuel will help Indian security forces to stock up on crucial supplies and ammunition that gets cut off due to bad weather in winters. This fuel will be available across Ladakh region and will help to boost the region’s economy.

11) Answer: B

Supreme Court Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde was sworn in as the 47th Chief Justice of India by President Ram Nath Kovind. He succeeds Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and will serve as the leader of the judiciary till April 23, 2021.

12) Answer: A

The maiden bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and Qatari Amiri Naval Forces (QANF) and Indian Navy has started in Doha.

The five day exercise has been named Za’ir-Al-Bahr (Roar of the sea) and seeks to enhance cooperation between the two forces.

Indian Navy’s Stealth Frigate INS Trikand and Patrol Aircraft P8-I arrived at Hamad Port for the inaugural maritime exercise.

13) Answer: D

On November 16, 2019 the Sudarshan Chakra Corps of the Indian Army conducted ‘Sindhu Sudarshan’ exercise in Rajasthan’s Barmer. Around 40,000 jawans of the Indian Army are participating in the exercise which will be conducted till December 05.

14) Answer: E

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its earth imaging and mapping satellite Cartosat-3 along with 13 commercial nano satellites from the US, on November 25,

The satellites would be launched by PSLV-C47 into Sun Synchronous Orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

15) Answer: C

India’s boxing champion, Laishram Sarita Devi, has been elected unopposed as a member of the first-ever international boxing body (AIBA) athletes’ commission. She is an eight time Asian Championships medalist, with five gold and has been an athlete representative on the executive committee of the Boxing Federation of India, which had nominated her for the position in the world body.

16) Answer: D

Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece beat Dominic Thiem to win the ATP World Tour Finals trophy held at O2 Arena in London on November 17, 2019.

The 21-year-old has become the first Greek player to win the title as well as the youngest winner of the ATP Finals in 18 years.

17) Answer: B

South Korea’s Kim Joo Hyung has won the Panasonic Open held at the Classic Golf and Country Club in Gurugram, India. The victory has made Hyung the second-youngest winner behind Thailand’s Chinnarat Phadugsil on the Tour at 17 years and 149 days.

18) Answer: D

Indian paddler Harmeet Desai defeated his opponent Amalraj Anthony to win the gold medal in the ITTF Challenge Indonesia Open 2019 played in Batam, Indonesia.

This was the second International title of the year for Harmeet, after the Commonwealth championship in Cuttack.

19) Answer: B

Shreyasi Singh won the women’s Trap crown at the ongoing 63rd National Shooting Championship for shotgun event at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range (KSSR) in New Delhi. She represented Bihar and shot 42 out of 50 birds to claim the crown, while Rajeshwari from Punjab managed 38 hits to settle for silver. This is Shreyasi’s fourth individual career National title but her first in Women’s Trap.

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