Current Affairs Quiz - February, 2020

11. What is the repo rate, after the sixth bi-monthly monetary policy committee meeting of the Reserve Bank of India, in February 2020?

[A] 5.5%
[B] 5.4%
[C] 5.15%
[D] 4.90%

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12. The Department of telecommunications (DoT) recently approved the merger of consumer mobile operations of the Tata group with which telecom provider?

[A] Jio
[B] Bharti Airtel
[C] Vodafone Idea
[D] BSNL

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13. The first glass-floor suspension bridge of India is to be built in which state?

[A] Uttarakhand
[B] Arunachal Pradesh
[C] Sikkim
[D] Assam

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14. Teenage cricketer Naseem Shah recently became the youngest person to get a hat trick in test cricket. He belongs to which country?
[A] India
[B] Pakistan
[C] Bangladesh
[D] West Indies

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15. Which state has recently launched an initiative to establish hotels to provide meals at subsidised price called ‘Kudumbashree’ hotels?

[A] Andhra Pradesh
[B] Telangana
[C] Kerala
[D] Tamil Nadu

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16. Giriraj Kishore, who recently passed away recently, was associated with which field?

[A] Literature
[B] Arts
[C] Politics
[D] Sports

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17. Which film recently won the Oscar for best picture, which is also the first non- English film to win the award?

[A] Les Misérables
[B] Irishman
[C] Parasite
[D] Border

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18. 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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19. Which bird is named the mascot of UN Convention of Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) (COP 13)?

[A] Great Indian Bustard
[B] White-bellied heron
[C] Forest owlet
[D] Lesser Florican

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20. The storm ‘Ciara’ recently hit several countries of which continent?

[A] Asia
[B] Europe
[C] Australia
[D] North America

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