Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2020

1. Which Indian actor has been conferred with UNDP’s SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award?
[A] Amitabh Bachchan
[B] Shah Rukh Khan
[C] Sonu Sood
[D] Deepika Padukone

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2. Which Indian leader founded the ‘Harijan Sevak Sangh’?
[A] B R Ambedkar
[B] M K Gandhi
[C] Rettaimalai Srinivasan
[D] Jagjivan Ram

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3. The Aspirational District Programme (ADP) was launched by which organisation?
[A] NITI Aayog
[B] Oxfam
[C] The Energy and Resources Institute
[D] National Development Council

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4. Which organization in India conducts the Sero survey?
[A] AIIMS
[B] IIT Bombay
[C] ICMR
[D] ICAR

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5. Which African Nation is celebrating its 60th Independence day on Oct 1, 2020?
[A] South Africa
[B] Nigeria
[C] Egypt
[D] Zimbabwe

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6. India announced a Debt service relief under the G-20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative, to which country?
[A] Nepal
[B] Bangladesh
[C] Myanmar
[D] Sri Lanka

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7. Which institution has released the “Time Use Survey in India” report?
[A] UNDP
[B] NSO
[C] Pratham
[D] Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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8. The RAISE 2020 global summit is being organized by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology along with which body?
[A] Department of science and technology
[B] Election Commission of India
[C] National Commission for Women
[D] NITI Aayog

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9. Who is the only Indian to feature in the Forbes list of ‘The World’s Most Influential CMOs’ ?
[A] Ravi Santhanam
[B] Sujit Ganguli
[C] Sanjeev Yadav
[D] Asha Kharga

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10. The South Pacific territory of New Caledonia has rejected independence from which country?
[A] United States
[B] France
[C] Germany
[D] Italy

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