Current Affairs Quiz: June 9, 2020

Current Affairs 9 June 2020 Quiz

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1. The BS-VI compliant vehicles will display which colour sticker providing registration details?
   A)Green
   B)Blue
   C)yellow
   D)Pink
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: The Government has mandated a one cm green sticker, providing registration details, in all BS-VI compliant motor vehicles. The order will come into force from October 1, 2020.

2. Recently India’s first physiological parameters monitoring system for COVID-19 patients was launched.Name it?
   A)Covid Desh
   B)Covid Aarogya
   C)Covid Shakti
   D)Covid Beep
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region, Dr. Jitendra Singh has launched COVID BEEP, India’s first indigenous, cost effective, wireless physiological parameters monitoring system for COVID-19 patients, Dr Singh said COVID BEEP is to emerge as an antidote to the original COVID.

3. Which state topped the index that ranked states ensuring food safety in 2019-20 by FSSAI?
   A)Kerala
   B)Maharashtra
   C)Assam
   D)Gujarat
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra have topped an index that ranked states ensuring food safety in 2019-20 said by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)’s second index on food safety, which was released on the occasion of World Food Safety Day

4. Who will head the task force that has been setup to examine maternal mortality rate, age of motherhood?
   A)Jaya Jaitley
   B)Arun Sharma
   C)Sakshi Joshi
   D)Ravi Burnan
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: A taskforce has been set up by the government to examine matters pertaining to the age of motherhood, imperatives of lowering maternal mortality rate and improvement of nutritional levels.
   
5. Who has been appointed as the head of Search and Assistant of Google?
   A)Nivedita Sharma
   B)Sundar Pichai
   C)Ben Gomes
   D)Prabhakar Raghavan
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: Google has announced that it has appointed Prabhakar Raghavan as the head of Search and Assistant.

6. Which cricketer has been signed up as brand ambassador of IIFL Finance?
   A)Rohit Sharma
   B)Virat Kohli
   C)MS Dhoni
   D)Shikhar Dhawan
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: Non-Banking finance company, IIFL Finance has signed up cricketer Rohit Sharma as its brand ambassador.

7. Who has won the 2020 Richard Dawkins Award for critical thinking, holding religious dogma up to scrutiny, advancing human progress and humanist values?
   A)Javed Akhtar
   B)Sonu Sood
   C)AR Rehman
   D)Neha Kakkar
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: Veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar has won the 2020 Richard Dawkins Award for critical thinking, holding religious dogma up to scrutiny, advancing human progress and humanist values.
   
8. Recently Kurt Thomas passed away.He was related to which field?
   A)Actor
   B)Author
   C)Cricketer
   D)Gymnastics
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: Former Olympian Kurt Thomas, the first American male to win the World Championship gold in gymnastics, died from the complications of a stroke. He was 64.

9. Recently Hamza Koya passed away,He was related to which field?
   A)Author
   B)Journalist
   C)Actor
   D)Sports
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: Former footballer Hamza Koya, who represented India and Maharashtra in the Santhosh Trophy, passed away in a Mallapuram hospital due to coronavirus. He was 61

10. Recently which famous Kannada actor passed away?
    A)Sudeep
    B)Shiva Rajkumar
    C)Mahesh Babu
    D)Chiranjeevi Sarja
    
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    Option D
    Explanation: Promising Kannada actor Chiranjeevi Sarja died of heart attack in Bengaluru. He was 39.

11. What is the theme of this year’s World Food Safety Day 2020?
    A)Food Safety, Everyone’s Business
    B)Mainstream Food Safety
    C)Food and Health
    D)Maintain Hygiene with Food
    
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    Option A
    Explanation: WHO in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has organised the second ‘World Food Safety Day’ on June 7 particularly to ensure safe and healthy food practices.

12. What is the theme of this year’s World Ocean Day?
    A)Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean
    B)Gender and the ocean
    C)Preventing Plastic Pollution
    D)Beat The Pollution
    
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    Option A
    Explanation: June 8 is World Oceans Day, the United Nations day for celebrating the role of the oceans in our everyday life and inspiring action to protect the ocean and sustainably use marine resources.The theme of UN World Oceans Day 2020 is “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean.”

STATIC GK BASED ON CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. where is the HQ of World Health Organisation?
   A)Geneva
   B)London
   C)Paris
   D)NewYork
   
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   Option A
   

2. Where is the HQ of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India?
   A)Lucknow
   B)Chennai
   C)Mumbai
   D)NewDelhi
   
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   Option D