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. 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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3. 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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4. ‘Samarth’ is an initiative of which E-Commerce company, to help artisans enter digital marketplace?

[A] Amazon
[B] Flipkart
[C] Snapdeal
[D] Shopclues

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5. What is the theme of ‘World Breastfeeding Week’ 2020?

[A] Support breastfeeding for a healthier planet
[B] Innocenti Declaration Anniversary
[C] Exclusive breastfeeding
[D] Support Lactating mothers

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6. Which technology company is to set up Robotics Laboratory at IISc, Bengaluru to study about 5G technology?

[A] Amazon
[B] Nokia
[C] Huawei
[D] Jio

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7. Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar, who passed away recently, was the former Chief Minister of which state?

[A] Karnataka
[B] Maharashtra
[C] Madhya Pradesh
[D] Andhra Pradesh

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8. 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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9. Which technology company launched a new file-sharing feature ‘Nearby Share’?

[A] Microsoft
[B] Google
[C] Facebook
[D] Apple

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10. What is the name of the American computer engineer and co-creator of the computer mouse, who recently passed away?
[A] William English
[B] Elmer Petersen
[C] Eric Bentley
[D] Cecil Leonard

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