Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2020

1. What is the name of the mobile application launched by the Directorate of Cashew Research (DCR)?
[A] Cashew Care
[B] Cashew India
[C] Cashew Credit
[D] Quality Cashew

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2. What is the name of India’s solar-powered ferry that has won the prestigious Gustave Trouve Award?

[A] Aditya
[B] Arunan
[C] Ravikant
[D] Soorya

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3. Which fin tech company launched a UPI payment link service that allows transactions from any payment app?

[A] PhonePe
[B] MobiKwik
[C] BharatPe
[D] Freecharge

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4. Which Indian journalist has been named the winner of Prem Bhatia Award for political reporting?
[A] Dipankar Ghose
[B] Ravish Kumar
[C] Siddharth Varadarajan
[D] Malini Parthasarathy

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5. Which England cricketer has been made the member of House of Lords of the British Parliament?
[A] Ian Botham
[B] Viv Richards
[C] Bob Willis
[D] David Bower

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6. Amar Singh, who passed away recently, was related to which field?

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

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7. ‘Indira Rasoi Yojana’ is a welfare scheme of which Indian state?

[A] Punjab
[B] Rajasthan
[C] Chhattisgarh
[D] Mizoram

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8. Which Indian state/UT launched a new mobile application named ‘E-Gyan Mitra’?

[A] Puducherry
[B] Goa
[C] Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
[D] Lakshadweep

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9. Which Indian bank is set to launch an Artificial-Intelligence powered multilingual voice bot ‘AXAA’?

[A] HDFC Bank
[B] ICICI Bank
[C] Yes Bank
[D] Axis Bank

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10. Which Indian state has launched a scheme called ‘Godhan Nyay Yojana’?

[A] Gujarat
[B] Chhattisgarh
[C] Madhya Pradesh
[D] Uttarakhand

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