Today’s GK & Current Affairs Quiz for March 22, 2019

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Current Affairs Quiz for 22/03/2019

1. Where did 4th Round of Trade Agreement (FTA) to enhance the two-way commerce between India and Peru was held?

(A Trujillo, Perú
(B) Bengaluru, India
(C) New Delhi, India
(D) Lima, Peru
(E) Pune,India

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Solution: (D)

4th Round of Trade Agreement (FTA) talks between India and Peru concluded in Lima on 15th March. The FTA agreement is aimed to enhance the two-way commerce between India and Peru. The Bilateral trade between India and Peru has been increased from 1.77 billion dollars in 2016-17 to 3.13 billion dollars in 2017-18 and Lima ranked third among export destination for India in Latin America and the Caribbean region.[/ms_expand]

2. Which country has renamed its capital as Nursultan?

(A) Uzbekistan
(B) Kazakhstan
(C) Tajikistan
(D) Kyrgyzstan
(E) Pakistan

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Solution: (B)

Kazakhstan has renamed its capital as Nursultan from its previous name Astana in order to recognize its outgoing leader Nursultan Nazarbayev(78), who has served nearly 30 years as president of Kazakhstan.[/ms_expand]
3. The short term loan given by Reserve Bank of India(RBI) to the state government in order to bridge temporary liquidity mismatches in the state is termed as _______.

(A) Ways and Means Advances
(B) Short term Loans and Advances
(C) Short term repaying Loans
(D) Grants against Fixed Deposits
(E) Short term Loans and Deposits

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Solution: (A)

Reserve Bank of India proposed to replace the previous expenditure-based system with a rule-based approach in fixing new Ways and Means limits for the state governments and set up a panel to recommend the parameters of the new system. The objective of this reform is to prevent automatic monetization of deficits.[/ms_expand]

4 Which bank has signed MoU with State Bank of India to boost business opportunities?

(A) Bank of America
(B) Bank of China
(C) Bank of Scotland
(D) HSBC Bank
(E) Deutsche Bank

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Solution: (B)

State Bank of India (SBI) signed a pact with the third largest Bank in the world by capital size, Bank of China (BoC) to boost business opportunities. It will enhance the business cooperation between both the banks. It will facilitate the two major banks to provide its clients access to banking products and services of each other.[/ms_expand]
5. Which Indian low-cost carrier received the International Air Transport Association (IATA) membership recently?

(A) SpiceJet
(B) GoAir
(C) Air India
(D) IndiGo
(E) Jet Airways

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Solution: (A)

SpiceJet received the International Air Transport Association (IATA) membership, becoming the first among the Indian low-cost carriers. The membership will be helpful for SpiceJet for its expansion plans to have codeshares and agreements with other carriers.SpiceJet is the fifth member of IATA from India. The membership will allow the carrier to infuse innovative ideas and best practices.[/ms_expand]
6. Karen Uhlenbeck has become the first woman to win the Abel Prize. Abel Prize is referred to as Nobel prize of which field?

(A) Physics
(B) Mathematics
(C) Chemistry
(D) Poetry
(E) Psychology

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Solution: (B)

Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck(76) became the first woman to be conferred with 6 million Norwegian kroner ($700,000) Abel Prize, which is regarded as Nobel prize of mathematics. Karen Uhlenbeck.She was recognized for her work in the field of gauge theory and geometric analysis gave an extensive impact in mathematics as well as in physics.[/ms_expand]
7. Name the Indian psychologist professor, who won the Hans-Kilian Award 2019 for providing deeper insight regarding human psyche.

(A) Vipul Rastogi
(B) Kamna Chhibber
(C) Ashis Nandy
(D) Subin Vazhayil
(E) None of these

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Solution: (C)

Indian psychologist professor Ashis Nandy, who was Former director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and co-founder of the postcolonial theory, has been chosen for the Hans-Kilian Award 2019 which carries an amount of 80,000 Euros. He received the prestigious Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007.[/ms_expand]
8. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was sworn in as president of which country?

(A) Azerbaijan
(B) Georgia
(C) Kazakhstan
(D) Uzbekistan
(E) Austria

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Solution: (C)

Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev is a Kazakh politician and diplomat. He took office as the President of Kazakhstan on 20 March 2019, succeeding Nursultan Nazarbayev who resigned on 19 March 2019 after 29 years in office.[/ms_expand]
9. Who was appointed as the first transgender election ambassador by the Election Commission of India?

(A) Sathyasri Sharmila
(B) Joyita Mondal
(C) Prithika Yashini
(D) Gauri Sawant
(E) Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

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Solution: (D)

Transgender activist Gauri Sawant from Mumbai has been appointed as first transgender election ambassador by The Election Commission of India. There was no separate classification of transgenders as voters till 2014 but after that transgenders were first enrolled as voters along with males and females.[/ms_expand]

10. As per US-based researchers from NASA, which planet is closer to earth?

(A) Uranus
(B) Mercury
(C) Jupiter
(D) Neptune
(E) Sun

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Solution: (B)

The US-based researchers from NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory and US army disclosed a new ideology that mercury is closer to earth than Venus. As per the research on the basis of average distance, every other planet when compared to mercury is farther from earth including Venus based on average distance. It also included mercury is the closest planet to every other planet in the solar system when considering the average. The study says mercury is at 0.387 AU from earth while Venus is at 0.722 AU.[/ms_expand]

11. Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics unveiled a __________shaped torch for the 2020 Olympics.

(A) Cherry-Blossom
(B) Trumpet-Shaped
(C) Stellate-Shaped
(D) Cruciform-Shaped
(E) Star-Shaped

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Solution: (A)

The organizers of the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo have chosen a Japanese motif — the cherry blossom for their Olympic torch. The design, unveiled, makes use of not only a traditional “Sakura-mon” blossom emblem but also the same aluminium extrusion technology used in the manufacture of the country’s well-known bullet trains. It will generate five flames from a cluster of petal-shaped cylinders.[/ms_expand]
12. Superfan Naotoshi Yamada often called as ‘Uncle Olympics’ dies at the age of 92. He belongs to which country?

(A)Thailand
(B) Myanmar
(C) China
(D) Japan
(E) Mauritius

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Solution: (D)

Superfan Naotoshi Yamada, famous in Japan for having been to every Summer Games since 1964, has died aged 92 with an unfulfilled dream of watching the Olympics when it returns to Tokyo next year. A Japanese Olympic mega-fan who attended every summer games since Tokyo in 1964 has died, just over a year before his home city was to host its second Olympics. The Tokyo businessman was a national celebrity in his own right with his repeated, gleeful appearances in Olympic stands.[/ms_expand]

13. When was the World Sparrow day observed?

(A)17th March
(B) 18th March
(C) 19th March
(D) 20th March
(E) 21st March

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Solution: (D)

The World Sparrow Day(WSD) is observed annually on 20th March to spread awareness about the house sparrow as well as to educated people about the threat to their population. The Theme for this year’s World Sparrow Day is “I love sparrows”. In the year 2010, the first World Sparrow Day was celebrated and in the year 2012, a campaign “Rise of Sparrows” launched by Delhi Government aimed at conservation of House Sparrow and also declared it as ‘state bird’ of Delhi.[/ms_expand]

14. What was the theme of International Day of Happiness 2019?

(A) Happier Together
(B) Share Happiness
(C) Happiness to be Shared
(D) Live Happily
(E) Share and live

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Solution: (A)

On March 20th of every year the ‘International Happiness Day’ is celebrated worldwide. The concept of happiness day was founded by prominent United Nations special advisor Jayme Illien and it was celebrated from the year 2013. The theme of International Day of Happiness 2019 is ‘Happier Together’. This year also celebrates with a central aim “Share Happiness and be Part of Something Amazing.”[/ms_expand]
15. Which company has unveiled its Cloud Gaming Service called Stadia?

(A) Adobe
(B) Google
(C) Amazon
(D) Microsoft
(E) Apple

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Solution: (B)

Google has unveiled its Cloud Gaming Service called Stadia at the Game Developers Conference(GDC) in San Francisco. Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced the Stadia service during a special keynote at the GDC. The platform is essentially a Cloud-based infrastructure where game developers would be able to design and write games to run directly on the Internet giant’s hardware at data centres.[/ms_expand]

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