Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2020

1. India announced establishing a ‘Green Strategic Partnership’ with which country?
[A] Finland
[B] Switzerland
[C] Denmark
[D] France

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2. Which body has ordered to provide dry ration to all sex workers in the country without insisting on ration card?
[A] National Commission on Women
[B] Supreme Court of India
[C] National Administrative Tribunal
[D] National Human Rights Commission

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3. Fraudulent transactions amounting Rs.12,705 crore have been unearthed recently in which financial institution?
[A] ICICI Bank
[B] DHFL
[C] Popular Finance
[D] Sharada Chits

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4. Which organization has been selected as co runner up of USA’s Citizen Diplomacy Award?
[A] Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
[B] Tata Foundation
[C] Reliance Foundation
[D] Sehgal Foundation

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5. What is the name of the global virtual summit of overseas and resident Indian Researchers to be conducted in October 2020?
[A] VAIBHAV
[B] ASPIRE
[C] ACCUMEN
[D] SPARK

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6. The Data Governance Quality Index (DGQI) survey is conducted by which organization?
[A] UNDP
[B] WEF
[C] OEDC
[D] NITI Aayog

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7. 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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8. The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for the work on which virus?
[A] Novel coronavirus
[B] Hepatitis C virus
[C] Food and Mouth Disease Virus
[D] Flaviviridae

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9. Sittwe port, which was seen in news recently, is located in which country?
[A] Bangladesh
[B] Myanmar
[C] Sri Lanka
[D] Nepal

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10. Who has been appointed as the new Director General of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)?
[A] M.A. Ganapathy
[B] Sylendra Babu
[C] Rakesh Asthana
[D] Vijay Kumar

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