JANUARY 2020 CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 12

JANUARY 2020 CURRENT AFFAIRS SET 12

1.  Indian Shooter, Manu Bhaker bagged 4 gold medals in the women’s 10 meter air pistol event in individual and team events in senior and junior category in the 63rd National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) 2019, she hails from which state ?
1) Assam                 2) West Bengal
3) Odisha                4) Haryana
Answer:-4) Haryana
2. Who won the gold medal in the men’s 10 meter air pistol in 63rd National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) 2019 ?
1) Arjun Babuta
2) Jitu Rai
3) Saurabh Chaudhary
4) Sidhartha Babu
Answer:-3) Saurabh Chaudhary
3. Vijayveer Sidhu was seen in news recently, he is associated with which sport ?
1) Shooting                   2) Wrestling
3) Weight Lifting             4) Archery
Answer:-1) Shooting
4.  Padma Vibhushan awardee, Triloki Nath Chaturvedi passed away recently.He served as the governor of which Indian state in the year 2002-2007 ?
1) Assam                    2) Karnataka
3) Kerala             4) Gujarat        
Answer:-2) Karnataka
5.  Name the former Member of Parliament (MP) of India’s 1st Lok Sabha, who passed away recently in Bihar .
1) Suresh Kumar Shetkar
2) Ponnam Prabhakar
3) Ramesh Rathod
4) Kamal Bahadur Singh
5) None of these
  Answer:-4) Kamal Bahadur Singh 
6. Who is the author of the book titled ‘The Cuckoo’s Nest’ ?
1) Subhash Chandran
2) M. T. Vasudevan Nair
3) A Sethumadhavan
4) M. Mukundan
5) None of these
  Answer:-3) A Sethumadhavan
7.  Which state government launched the “Mukhyamantri karmchari swasthya bima yojana” for the welfare of all 12.55 lakh employees of the state ?
1) Madhya Pradesh (MP)       2) Maharashtra
3) West Bengal                    4) Assam
Answer:-1) Madhya Pradesh (MP)
8. Which 2 Countries participated in the naval exercise named ‘Naseem-Al-Bahr’, that held in Goa recently ?
1) India and Russia
2) India and Oman
3) India and Japan
4) India and United Arab Emirates (UAE)
5) None of these
  Answer:-2) India and Oman
9.  Who chaired the High Level Committee (HLC) that sanctioned Rs 5908 crore to 7 states from National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) ?
1) Nitin Gadkari                   2) Rajnath Singh
3) Narendra Modi                            4) Amit Shah
5) None of these
  Answer:-4) Amit Shah
10.   Which state has celebrated the 4th edition of the Buxa Bird Festival 2020 recently ?
1) Gujarat
2) Arunachal Pradesh (AR)
3) West Bengal(WB)
4) Andhra Pradesh (AP)
5) None of these
  Answer:-3) West Bengal(WB)