Current Affairs Quiz - March, 2020

41. ‘RAISE 2020’, which was seen in news, is the first global Artificial Intelligence Summit of which country?

[A] France
[B] United States
[C] India
[D] United Arab Emirates

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42. Which organisation announced on World Water Day, that between 3.5 and 4.4 billion people in the world will live with limited access to water?

[A] Food And Agricultural Organisation
[B] United Nations
[C] World Food Programme
[D] World Wide Fund For Nature

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43. Veteran Director cum Actor M.R. Viswanathan, who recently passed away, was a famous personality in which language?

[A] Malayalam
[B] Tamil
[C] Kannada
[D] Telugu

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44. SDMC recently launched a website for information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a Disaster Management agency of which bloc?

[A] BIMSTEC
[B] SAARC
[C] ASEAN
[D] OPEC

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45. Which Indian state/UT launched the ‘Mukhya Mantri Health Card’ scheme, during its budget?

[A] New Delhi
[B] Assam
[C] Arunachal Pradesh
[D] Chandigarh

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46. Which Indian author won the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award of PEN America?

[A] Ruchika Tomar
[B] Madhuri Vijay
[C] Arundhati Roy
[D] Jhumpa Lahiri

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47. ‘Mo Jeeban (My Life)’ is an initiative of which Indian state to advise people to stay indoors amid the coronavirus pandemic?

[A] West Bengal
[B] Odisha
[C] Telangana
[D] Bihar

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48. Which country, that holds the presidency of G20 bloc, is to chair an emergency virtual summit of G20 leaders?

[A] Germany
[B] Saudi Arabia
[C] Italy
[D] France

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49. In the G-20’s first virtual summit, what is the stimulus package the member countries pledged to infuse into the global economy?

[A] $1 trillion
[B] $2 trillion
[C] $5 trillion
[D] $10 trillion

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50. Which organisation has launched a campaign called ‘StayHomeIndiaWithBooks’, to encourage people to stay home amid the Covid-19 pandemic?

[A] National Book Trust
[B] National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
[C] National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
[D] Press Trust of India

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