Wednesday, October 28, 2015

20-20 GA Capsule Quiz (India/International News/Appointments/Summits)

1. Who is the new PM of Australia?
Answer. Malcolm Turnbull 

2. Who has been appointed as the Mayor of German city of Bonn?
Answer. Ashok-Alexander Sridharan 

3. Name the person who has been invited to the United Nations’ High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST).
Answer. Metro Man Elattuvalapil Sreedharan

4. Who is appointed as the new PM of Egypt?
Answer. Sherif Ismail

5. Who is the new PM of Trinidad and Tobago?
Answer. Keith Rowley

6. Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has decided to recognize which sport as a sports discipline and place it in the Priority category?
Answer. Yoga

7. With which country, India have set the bilateral trade target of one billion dollar by 2018?
Answer. Belarus

8.Who has become the first political leader to have a mobile app, developed for him to digitally connect with the citizens of the country?
Answer. Narendra Modi launched the 'Narendra Modi Mobile App'

9.The road transport and highways ministry will add nearly how much kilometres of roads to the National Highways (NH) network in the country in the next six months?
Answer. 50,000 km

10. Where will be the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) located?
Answer. New Delhi

11. Against which country, India has lost solar case at the World Trade Organisation (WTO)?
Answer. United States

12. Name the system which is launched by India for Foreign Employers, under which foreign employers (FEs) who wants to recruit Indian workers, including nurses, will have to register in the system.
Answer. E-Migrate system

13. What is the new name given to the Highest mountain of North America Mt McKinley?
Answer. Denali

14. Name the Indian-origin driver in Australia, who was named as Australian of the Day by Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Answer. Tejinder Pal Singh 

15. Who has been appointed as the Australia's ambassador to India - for education?
Answer. Adam Gilchrist

16. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with which country have signed an agreement to create the world's first internationally-controlled bank of low-enriched uranium to ensure fuel supplies for power stations and prevent nuclear proliferation?
Answer. Kazakhstan

17. Which is the first country in the World to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis?
Answer. Cuba

18. Where is the Disaster Mitigation conference of member counties of South Asian Association on Regional Cooperation (SAARC) held?
Answer. New Delhi

19. Where is the India-US Ministerial Energy Dialogue held?
Answer. US Department of Energy, Washington
20. Call To Action Summit 2015 on ending preventable child and maternal deaths was held in?
Answer. New Delhi

21. Second Australia-India Defence Minister’s dialogue concluded in which city of India?
Answer. New Delhi


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