Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2020

1. Which Indian became the youngest umpire to enter International Cricket Council (ICC) Elite Panel?

[A] Srinivas Venkatraghavan
[B] Sundaram Ravi
[C] Nitin Menon
[D] Krish Srikanth

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2. Who has been conferred with the lifetime achievement award for his contribution to statistics?

[A] D Subba Rao
[B] C Rangarajan
[C] Bimal Jalan
[D] Y V Reddy

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3. What is the theme of the ‘National Statistics Day’ 2020, celebrated on June 29?

[A] Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 5
[B] Honouring P. C. Mahalanobis
[C] Statistics is Life
[D] Indian statistics

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4. When is ‘Chartered Accountants (CA) Day’ celebrated in India?

[A] July 1
[B] July 2
[C] July 3
[D] July 4

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5. Which Union Ministry implements the “PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana” scheme?

[A] Ministry of Rural Development
[B] Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
[C] Ministry of Food and Public Distribution
[D] Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

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6. Which Technology company has announced a new global skills initiative, to train 25 million people worldwide?

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

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7. A place called Nimu, that was seen in news recently, is located on the banks of which river?

[A] Indus
[B] Suru
[C] Yapola
[D] Hanley

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8. What is the name of the free video-conferencing application, launched by Reliance Jio?

[A] JioMeet
[B] Vande Bharat
[C] Hello India
[D] Jio Zoom

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9. As per the World Bank’s classification, India is retained in which category of income group?

[A] Low-income
[B] Lower-middle income
[C] Upper-middle income
[D] High-income

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10. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has partnered with which technology company, to launch a curriculum on digital safety?

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

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