Daily Competitive Quiz, November 7, 2020

Q1. Who has been appointed 1st Chairperson of the Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) ?

Rekha Sharma
Gautam Gambhir
Prakash Javadekar
M M Kutty

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Q2. Where did the Second Batch Of Rafale Jets arrive after flying non-stop From France ?

Ambala Air Force Station
Jamnagar AFS
Amritsar AFS
Faridabad AFS

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Q3. Where was a joint tri-service exercise code named ‘Bull Strike’ conducted by the Army’s Parachute Brigade, Navy commandos MARCOS and Special Forces?

Paradip, Odisha
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Teressa Island, Andaman & Nicobar
Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu

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Q4. Which Indian physicist, born on November 7, 1888,made groundbreaking works in the field of light scattering?

Vikram Sarabhai
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

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Q5. Which Indian freedom fighter born on 7 November 1858, was one third of the “Lal Bal Pal” triumvirate & known as the “Father of Revolutionary thoughts in India”?

Lala Lajpat Rai
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Aurobindo Ghosh
Bipin Chandra Pal

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Q6. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has signed a MoU, to set up solar power plants at airports, with which of the following ?

Coal India
NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN)
Bharat Petroleum
Indian Railways

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Q7. Priyanca Radhakrishnan became first-ever Indian-origin minister of which country?

Maldives
Mauritius
Canada
New Zealand

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Q8. Who has been sworn in as the India’s Chief Information Commissioner?

Bimal Julka
Uday Mahurkar
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
M M Kutty

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Q9. Which Indian diplomat has been elected to the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), a subsidiary of UNGA ?

Harsh Vardhan Shringla
Syed Akbaruddin
Vidisha Maitra
Vikram Misri

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Q10. Who is the author of the book “Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi”?

Vinay Sitapati
Ramachandra Guha
Amish Tripathi
Chetan Bhagat

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Daily Competitive Quiz, November 6, 2020

1. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has allowed which messaging platform to start it’s payments service? 

Twitter
Telegram
Whatsapp Pay
Apple Pay

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2.Which club(s) are joining the Indian Super League (ISL) this year?

SC East Bengal
ATK Mohun Bagan
Both
None of the above

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3.Who became the fourth men’s player in tennis (Open era) to reach 1000 match wins?

Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
Novak Djokovic
Andy Murray

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4.Shri Nitin Gadkari called for intensive use of bamboo resources, & asked which ministry to formulate comprehensive "Bamboo Policy'' ?

Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises
Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DONER)
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Ministry of AYUSH

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5.The Supreme Court has refused to stay the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) order on OTSC. What is the full form of OTSC ?

Over the Signal capacity
Over time Signal Charge
One time Spectrum Charge
One time Signal Charge

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6.Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the Co-Lending Model (CLM) scheme to provide loans to priority sector, based on a prior agreement between ?

Banks & NBFCs (including HFCs)
Banks & NBFCs (excluding HFCs)
Cooperative Banks & NBFCs (including HFCs)
Cooperative Banks & NBFCs (including HFCs)

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7.INS Airavat will deliver food aid to Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea, under which mission ?

Mission Sagar
Mission Sagar-II
Vande Bharat Mission
AtmaNirbhar Bharat

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8.The world’s strongest storm this year, that hit eastern region of Philippines is ?
Super Typhoon Meranti
Super Typhoon Haiyan
Super Typhoon Goni
Super Typhoon Nina

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9. National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) celebrates Ganga Utsav every year (since 2016) on ?

November 2
November 4
November 5
November 6

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10.Which country has become first to formally exit the Paris Climate agreement ?

China
USA
Iran
North Korea

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Daily Competitive Quiz Answers+Notes November 6, 2020

A1:

- National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) approved WhatsApp Pay in a limited manner and only allowed to have 20 million UPI users in India.

- NPCI said that the no third-party app part of UPI payment system would be allowed to carry out more than 30 per cent of all UPI transactions w.e.f January 1, 2021.

- NPCI is the nodal agency for retail payments system in India.

A2:

-The new entrants in ISL this season are Mohun Bagan and East Bengal.

- Mohun Bagan merged with ISL franchise ATK to become ATK Mohun Bagan.

- East Bengal sold a majority stake in the club to Shree Cement  to become SC East Bengal.

A3:

- Rafael Nadal became the 4th men's player to reach 1000 match wins to join Jimmy Connors, Roger Federer and Ivan Lendl.

A4:

- Shri Gadkari has asked Ministry of DoNER to formulate a comprehensive ''Bamboo Policy'' as most of the bamboo is produced in North East.

- Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) ~Shri Jitendra Singh

A5: one-time spectrum charge (OTSC)

A6:

- Under the Co-Lending Model (CLM), banks will be permitted to co-lend with all registered NBFCs (including HFCs) based on a prior agreement.

-The primary focus of "Co-Lending Model" (CLM), is to improve the flow of credit to the unserved and underserved sector of the economy.

A7:

- INS Airavat  has delivered 100MT of food aid to Sudan as part of COVID relief package as a part of Mission Sagar II.

-First Mission Sagar  was undertaken in May-June 2020, wherein India provided food and medicines to Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Comoros. 

- SAGAR ~ Security and Growth for All in the Region 

A8: 

- Goni made landfall as a super typhoon, at Philippines on November 1, 2020 with wind speed  of 225km/h (140mph).

- Goni is known as Rolly in the Philippines

- President of Philippines : Rodrigo Duterte

A9:

- Ganga was declared "National River' on November 4, 2008. 

- National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is organized a 3-day 'Ganga Utsav 2020' on virtual platforms from November 2,2020

- Director-General of NMCG ~ Rajiv Ranjan Mishra

A10:

- US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement  formally come into effect on November 4, 2020.

-Paris accord was adopted in 2015(signed in 2016), within United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is designed to boost greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation worldwide.