Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2020

11. The indigenous air to ground missile ‘Khagantak’, which was unveiled during the ongoing DefExpo 2020, is built by which firm/organisation?

[A] Defence Research and Development Organisation
[B] Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd
[C] JSR Dynamics
[D] Bharat Electronics Limited

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12. Recently, Esperanza Base on the Antarctic Peninsula reached a temperature of 18.3 °C , thus becoming the hottest on record for continental Antarctica. Esperanza Base is a research station of which country on Antarctica?
[A] France
[B] Portugal
[C] Argentina
[D] England

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13. Which country has recently unveiled Raad-500 missile?
[A] Pakistan
[B] Iran
[C] Iraq
[D] Saudi Arabia

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14. Who is the author of “Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s Islam”?
[A] Natwar Singh
[B] M J Akbar
[C] Inder Malhotra
[D] Fatima Zakaria

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15. Recently, the Supreme Court of India upheld the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act. When was the original act of 1989 amended?

[A] 2016
[B] 2017
[C] 2018
[D] 2019

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16. Jiri Vesely, who clinched the Tata Open Maharashtra 2020, belongs to which country?

[A] Czech Republic
[B] Serbia
[C] France
[D] Switzerland

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17. The National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) is set to be renamed after which former Union Minister?

[A] Jaswant Singh
[B] Yashwant Sinha
[C] Arun Jaitley
[D] Sushma Swaraj

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18. What does ‘GSP’ stand for, in the context of India- US trade?
[A] Globalised System of Preferences
[B] Generalized System of Preferences
[C] Globalised System of Partners
[D] Generalized System of Partners

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19. Gulmarg, where the National winter games event is set to be held, is located in which state/UT?

[A] Uttarakhand
[B] Arunachal Pradesh
[C] Sikkim
[D] Jammu & Kashmir

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20. Rajiv Bansal has been appointed as chairman and managing director of which Indian airline?

[A] IndiGo
[B] Air India
[C] Spice Jet
[D] Vistara

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