Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2020

1. Unnat Bharat Abhiyan centre of which institution has partnered with CSIR and Vijnana Bharti for promoting rural development?
[A] IIT Madras
[B] IIT Delhi
[C] IIT Kharagpur
[D] IIT Guwahati

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2. Which two cities are additionally selected by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs to be made as smart cities?

[A] Leh and Kargil
[B] Ludhiana and Amritsar
[C] Jaipur and Jodhpur
[D] Gangtok and Namchi

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3. Which country has passed a bill to promote the legacies of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr?

[A] India
[B] United States
[C] Australia
[D] United Kingdom

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4. Which country is the first to make Facebook and Google pay its media outlets for news content?

[A] China
[B] Russia
[C] Australia
[D] Germany

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5. Mahatma Gandhi Setu (bridge), that was seen in news, is located in which state?

[A] West Bengal
[B] Bihar
[C] Gujarat
[D] Uttarakhand

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6. Which Union Ministry has received SKOCH Gold Award for its IT enabled Scholarship Schemes?
[A] Ministry of HRD
[B] Ministry of Tribal Affairs
[C] Ministry of Women and Child Development
[D] Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

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7. Who is the Chairman of the High-Level Group on Agricultural Exports set up by the Fifteenth Finance Commission?

[A] Narendra Singh Tomar
[B] Radha Singh
[C] Sanjiv Puri
[D] Preeti Sudan

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8. Lee Teng-hui, who passed away recently, was the first democratically elected President of which country?

[A] Vietnam
[B] Taiwan
[C] Singapore
[D] Malaysia

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9. India observed the 100th death anniversary of which freedom fighter, on August 1?

[A] Lala Lajpat Rai
[B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[C] Subash Chandra Bose
[D] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

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10. 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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