Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2020

41. Which mutual fund house announced that it has shut down six of its schemes owing to market disruptions amid Covid-19?

[A] Nippon India Mutual Fund
[B] Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund
[C] Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund
[D] Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund

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42. What is the name of the major observatory of NASA, which recently celebrated its 30th birthday?

[A] The Hubble Space Telescope
[B] The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
[C] The Chandra X-ray Observatory
[D] The Spitzer Space Telescope.

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43. ‘Access to Covid Tools’ (ACT) Accelerator is an initiative launched by which global organisation?

[A] World Economic Forum
[B] United Nations
[C] World Health Organisation
[D] World Bank

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44. Which industry has been recently declared as a public utility service for six months, by the Government?

[A] Banking
[B] Pharmaceutical
[C] Textile
[D] Automobile

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45. Which country abolished the prevalent corporal punishment of flogging (beating with whips)?
[A] Oman
[B] Saudi Arabia
[C] Iran
[D] Kuwait

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46. Preeti Sudan, who was seen in news recently, is the Secretary of which Union Ministry?
[A] Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
[B] Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
[C] Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare
[D] Ministry of Consumer Affairs

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47. As on February 2020, which country held the maximum value of US government securities, as per the recent data of US Treasury Department?

[A] India
[B] China
[C] Japan
[D] United Kingdom

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48. International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day is observed on April 26. In which country is the Chernobyl power plant located?
[A] Japan
[B] Ukraine
[C] Philippines
[D] Brazil

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49. Pitch Black is a multilateral air combat training exercise is hosted by the Air Force of which country?
[A] Japan
[B] Australia
[C] United States
[D] France

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50. Which Indian has featured in the top 20 global leaders of ‘Medicine Maker Power List 2020’?

[A] Pankaj Patel
[B] Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
[C] Ajay Piramal
[D] Dilip Shanghvi

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