Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2020

1. Who is the head of the Health ministry’s committee, which recommended the Serological survey?
[A] V K Paul
[B] Harsh Vardhan
[C] Amitabh Kant
[D] V.K. Saraswat

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2. Which Indian state/UT has formed a dedicated commission to create employment opportunities for the migrant labourers?
[A] Odisha
[B] Madhya Pradesh
[C] Uttar Pradesh
[D] Bihar

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3. Lazarus Chakwera has been elected as the President of which African country?

[A] Zimbabwe
[B] Malawi
[C] Zambia
[D] Mozambique

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4. What is the name of the new scheme launched by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) to strengthen research ecosystem?

[A] Accelerate Vigyan
[B] Bharat Vigyan
[C] Vigyan Padhe
[D] Vigyan Kendra

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5. Which Indian American author and oncologist has been named as ‘2020 Great Immigrants’ honouree?
[A] Siddhartha Mukherjee
[B] Jhumpa Lahiri
[C] Fareed Zakaria
[D] Sanjay Gupta

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6. Who are the beneficiaries of the state agency ‘APCOS’, launched by the government of Andhra Pradesh?

[A] MSMEs
[B] Outsourcing staff
[C] Farmers and Fishermen
[D] School Students

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7. Phobos, that was seen in news, is the biggest natural satellite of which planet?

[A] Jupiter
[B] Mars
[C] Saturn
[D] Venus

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8. Which country’s Railways has set up the world’s first solar power plant to directly power Overhead line?

[A] China
[B] India
[C] United States
[D] Singapore

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9. World Zoonoses Day is celebrated on July 6, to commemorate the work of which biologist?

[A] Louis Pasteur
[B] Edward Jenner
[C] Alexander Fleming
[D] Robert Koch

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10. As per the Researchers at Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), which element is produced in the Universe, by Sun like stars in their later life?

[A] Hydrogen
[B] Lithium
[C] Carbon
[D] Oxygen

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