300 Best Current Affair MCQs Part 3 December’19 – Free PDF Download

Important Days

• International Tea Day: December
• 15  48^th Vijay Diwas – 16 December
• International Migrants Day: 18 December  Theme “We Together
• Minorities Right Day in India 2019 : 18 December
• Goa Liberation Day is observed on December 19  every year in India.
• International Human Solidarity Day is observed on  20 December
• National Mathematics Day 2019 observed on  December 22

Obituaries

• Kannada writer and critic L.S. Sheshagiri Rao,  referred to as LSS in literary circles, passed  away
• Former West Indies batsman Basil Butcher  passed away
• Former Union Minister ID Swami of BJP passed away  recently. two times Lok Sabha member from Karnal in  Haryana.
• New Zealand’s middle distance runner Peter Snell  Passed Away
• Nationalist Congress Party’s Kerala State President  and former Minister Thomas Chandy passed away
• Veteran film actor Danny Aiello, known for his roles  in the movies Do The Right Thing and The Godfather  Part II passed away.
• French actress Anna Karina dies at 79 in Paris
• Veteran actor and acclaimed theatre personality  Shriram Lagoo has passed away in Pune

Q) Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won the Presidential election of which country?

1. 1. Albania
   2. Nigeria
   3. Algeria
   4. Ukraine

• Mokgweetsi Masisi – New President of Botswana
• Alberto Fernandez – New President of Argentina 
• Namibia – New President of Hage Geingob
• Filipe Nyusi – New President of Mozambique
• First female President of Ethiopia – Sahle-Work Zewde 
• Gotabaya Rajapaksa – SL new president
• Pritivirajsing Roopun – Mautitius
• President of the European Commission – Ursula Von Der Leyen
• Kyriakos Mitsotakis – Prime Minister of Greece 
• Mahindra Rajpakshe – PM of SL  Manuel Marrero Cruz – CUBA
• Abdalla Hamdok – Sudan  Sanna Marin – Finland
• Oleksiy Honcharuk – Ukraine 
• Pravind Jugnauth – Mauritius 
• Sophie Wilmes – Belgium
• Antonio Costa – Portugal 
• Hassan Diab – Lebanon

Q) Which city has become the first city to have an online waste exchange for municipal solid waste?

1. New Delhi
2. Bengaluru
3. Amravati
4. Chennai

Q) Which Indian actress won the Crystal Award for raising mental health awareness?

1. Deepika Padukone
2. Anushka Sharma
3. Manisha Koirala
4. Sushmita Sen

Q) World Design Organization (WDO) will launch its new global programme ‘World Design Protopolis’ in which city?

1. New Delhi
2. Chennai
3. Mumbai
4. Bengaluru

Q) Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life is an autobiography which sports person?

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Viswanathan Anand
3. Sunil Chetri
4. Mahesh Bhupathi

Q) Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi chaired the first meeting of the National Ganga Council in which city?

1. Kanpur
2. Rishikesh
3. Haridwar
4. Varanasi

Q) Which has become the first among CAPF to launch a matrimonial site for its staff?

1. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
2. Indo-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP)
3. Central Industrial Security Force(CISF)
4. Sashastra Seema Bal(SSB)

• CRPF unveiled India’s first body protector for women  personnel in combat
• BSF launched Operation Sudarshan
• Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) launched an online  encyclopedia called Securitypedia
• ITBP + Assam rifles merger
• 2 new operational commands for ITBP at Chandigarh and  Guwahati

Q) Which state has become the seventh state to receive the prestigious  President’s Colours, also called as Nishaan?

1. Karnataka
2. Odisha
3. Gujarat
4. Rajasthan

Q) Which of the following ministries has decided to establish “Sustainable Development Cell”  (SDC)?

1. Ministry of Coal
2. Ministry of Defence
3. Ministry of Corporate Affairs
4. Ministry of Home Affairs

• Chairman of Coal India? – A K Jha
• Cabinet recently approved 100% FDI in  Coal mining
• Govt launched PRAKASH portal for monitoring coal supply to power  plants
• Coal India to produce one billion tonne of coal by 2024  Minister of Coal & Mines, Pralhad Joshi
• Ministry of Coal announced hike in ex-gratia amount from Rs 5 lakhs  to Rs 15 lakhs, for fatal coal mines accidents

Q) Which bank has signed a loan agreement of 277 million dollars with KfW, the German development bank for establishing an  energy-efficient housing programme in India?

1. Bank of Baroda
2. State Bank of India
3. Punjab National Bank
4. Corporation Bank

Q) Who has won men’s singles title at the BWF World Tour Finals in China?

1. Kento Momota
2. Shi Yuqi
3. Lin Dan
4. Chen Long

Q) Who has become the first batsman to score hundreds on both Test and ODI debuts?

1. Usman Khawaja
2. Shaun Marsh
3. Abid Ali
4. Marcus Stoinis

Q) Who has surpassed Steve Bucknor’s record of umpiring in most number of Test matches?

1. Paul Reiffel
2. Rod Tucker
3. Joel Wilson
4. Aleem Dar

Q) Which site has been selected for  sample collection on asteroid Bennu?

1. Bellot
2. Nightingale
3. Hercules
4. Ricco

Q) Author Amitabh Bagchi has won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 for which novel?

1. Half The Night Is Gone
2. This Place
3. Above Average
4. Bengali Immigrants: Making America Home

Q) Who has ben appointed as the new Chairman And Managing Director (CMD) of National Aluminium Company  Limited (NALCO)?

1. Balesh Sharma
2. Ravinder Takkar
3. Ashwani Kumar
4. Sridhar Patra

List of Maharatna Companies in India

1. BHEL – Nalin Shinghal
2. BPCL – D Rajkumar
3. Coal India Limited – Anil Kumar Jha
4. GAIL – Dr. Ashutosh Karnatak
5. HPCL – Mukesh Kumar Surana
6. Indian Oil Corporation – Sanjiv Singh
7. NTPC Limited – Gurdeep Singh
8. ONGC – Shashi Shanker
9. Power Grid Corporation of India – K Sreekant
10. SAIL – Shri Anil Kumar Chaudhary

• Joint venture of three Central Public  Sector Enterprises NALCO, HCL and  MECL which was setup by Ministry of  Mines
• KABIL Khanij Bidesh India Ltd
• Google in News
• ‘gStation’ project
• `INTERNET SAATHI’ PROGRAMME
• ‘Build for Digital India’ programme
• Google – new undersea internet cable ‘Equiano‘ which will connect  which two continents Europe and Africa
• Digital Payment Abhiyan  India MD – Sanjay Gupta
• Developed a 54 qubit (quantum bit) processor named “Sycamore”  Project “Crafted in India”

Q) What is the rank of India in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index?

1. 112^th
2. 108^th
3. 140^th
4. 98^th

Q) The 7-Day International Film Festival was inaugurated in which town of Madhya Pradesh?

1. Sanchi
2. Khajuraho
3. Mandu
4. Ujjain

• 95^th Classical Music Festival ‘Tansen Samaroh’  Gwalior
• Vocalist Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas won the  National Tansen Award for 2019

Q) The State-level Orange Festival was recently inaugurated in which state?

1. Maharashtra
2. Himachal Pradesh
3. Manipur
4. Punjab

Q) Who has been named as the Junior Wrestler of the year 2019 by United World Wrestling (UWW)?

1. Suraj Aswala
2. Deepak Punia
3. Sunil Kumar
4. Veer Dev Gulia

Q) Which country has recently  developed a robot ‘Surena’ that can  speak and translate 100 languages?

1. India
2. Japan
3. Iran
4. China

Q) The first-ever Global Refugee Forum (GRF) was held in which country?

1. Norway
2. Denmark
3. Spain
4. Switzerland

Q) The woman cricketer of which country Laura Alexandra Marsh has announced her retirement?

1. South Africa
2. Australia
3. England
4. New Zealand

• Smriti Mandhana – 2019 Wisden India Almanack ‘Cricketer of  the Year’ award
• Shafali Verma – Youngest Indian cricketer to score a half-century  in international cricket?
• Yuzvendra Chahal – Fastest Indian cricketer to take 50 T20  wickets
• Steve Smith – fastest Cricketer to reach 7,000 Test runs

Q) The Union government has launched National Broadband Mission to provide Broadband access to all villages by which year?

1. 2021
2. 2022
3. 2023
4. 2024

Temple in News

• Pakistan opened 1,000-year-old Hindu temple “Shawala Teja Singh  Temple” in Sialkot for “worship” after 72 years
• Karnataka asking for UNESCO World Heritage Site status for 14  Hoysala temples
• Budhanilkantha Narayan Temple – Nepal
• Vaishno Devi – Best Swachh Iconic place
• Panchamirtham of Palani Murugan Temple – GI Tag

Q) Which Panchayat has topped the 2019 rankings of gram panchayats in the country?

1. Molugamboondi
2. Bambhaniya
3. Nandagad
4. Mura

• Chhattisgarh made it mandatory the  presence of a person with disabilities  in all panchayats across the state
• Himachal Pradesh
• Prakritik Kheti Khushshal Kissan Yojana

Q) Ministry of MSME has launched which product stitched by militancy affected women of J&K?

1. Shatoosh shawl
2. Pheran
3. Kani Shawl
4. Khadi Rumal

Q) Government e-commerce portal GeM has launched which national outreach  programme called to bring on-board more local sellers?

1. GeM Samvaad
2. GeM Mitra
3. GeM Saathi
4. GeM Saarthi

Q) The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named a white yellow star after which Indian woman scientist?

1. Bhibha Choudhury
2. Mangala Narlikar
3. Aditi Pant
4. Rohini Godbole

Q) Which flagship scheme of the Central Government has been extended by two years?

1. PMJAY
2. PMAY
3. PMUY
4. AMRUT

Q) When is World Arabic  Language Day observed?

1. December 19
2. December 17
3. December 18
4. December 16

• Arabic (18 December)
• Chinese (20 April)
• English (23 April)
• Spanish (23 April))
• French (20 March)
• Russian (6 June)

Q) Who was awarded the ‘India Cyber Cop of the Year 2019’?

1. Santosh Kumar
2. Raghavendra Vatsa
3. Devendra Singh
4. B P Raju

Q) Which state has launched the ‘Jalsathi’ programme to provide safe drinking water to all households in the state?

1. Karnataka
2. Madhya Pradesh
3. Odisha
4. Andhra Pradesh

Q) The Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of Bharat Vandana Park in which city?

1. Bengaluru
2. Mumbai
3. New Delhi
4. Gurugram

Q) Which state has given its approval for the Agriculture Policy 2020, ‘SAMRIDHI’?

1. Karnataka
2. Kerala
3. Rajasthan
4. Odisha

Q) The Abraham Koshy Committee was constituted by which organization?

1. SEBI
2. RBI
3. IRDAI
4. NABARD

Q) Shashi Tharoor was recently chosen for the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award 2019 for his which book?

1. The Hindu Way
2. The Paradoxical Prime Minister
3. An Era of Darkness
4. Why I Am a Hindu

Q) Which book written by PM Modi was recently launched in Braille edition?

1. Jyotipunj
2. Social Harmony
3. Exam Warriors
4. Abode of Love

Q) Which state’s assembly held a special session to pass resolution  to bring state under Inner Line Permit?

1. Assam
2. West Bengal
3. Tripura
4. Meghalaya

Q) Anti-hijacking exercise codenamed Apharan was conducted off the port of which city?

1. Kochi
2. Kanyakumari
3. Vijayawada
4. Visakhapatnam

Q) Who has been included in both the International Cricket Council’s ODI and T20 teams of year?

1. Mithali Raj
2. Smriti Mandhana
3. Jhulan Goswami
4. Poonam Yadav

• 56^th Anniversary Parade of Sashastra Seema  Bal on December 19

Q) Who has been elected as the next Director of the National Science Foundation?

1. France Cordova
2. Sethuraman Panchanathan
3. Ishwar Puri
4. Michael Werner

Q) Which country will launch a Gandhi Citizenship Education Prize?

1. South Africa
2. France
3. Portugal
4. Germany

Q) National Rail Transport Institute (NRTI) has signed an MoU with which University to set up its first Centre of Excellence for Next  Generation Transportation Systems?

1. Stanford University
2. Columbia University
3. Yale University
4. Birmingham University

Q) Who has become the Most Googled Person Of The Year In India 2019?

1. Anand Kumar
2. Yuvraj Singh
3. Abhinandan Varthaman
4. Vicky Kaushal

Q) Who has become the first player to play 150 Ranji games?

1. Devendra Bundela
2. Wasim Jaffer
3. Amol Muzumdar
4. Hanuma Vihari

Q) Which country has launched its second aircraft carrier named Shandong?

1. Japan
2. South Korea
3. North Korea
4. China

Siberia pipeline project

• India-China exercise – ”Hand-in-Hand 2019’ –  Meghalaya
• According to the 2019 Global Diplomacy Index,  China has maximum diplomatic posts across the  world
• 2019 Military World Games – Wuhan, Hubei, China

Q) Which state has topped the list of ‘Digital States of India 2019’?

1. Maharashtra
2. Chhattisgarh
3. Haryana
4. Madhya Pradesh

Q) Which state has recently launched e- Cop app for women’s safety?

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Odisha
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Rajasthan

Q) Which company has acquired PlayGiga, a Madrid-based cloud gaming startup?

1. 1. Google
   2. Facebook
   3. Amazon
   4. Microsoft

Q) Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of  the General Insurance Corporation India?

1. 1. Gaurang Shah
   2. Prathap Reddy
   3. Milind   Kharat
   4. Devesh Srivastava

Q) Donald Trump has become the third US President to be impeached. Who was the first one?

1. 1. Bill Clinton
   2. Andrew Johnson
   3. Jimmy Carter
   4. Ronald Reagan

Q) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Government of India has signed a $490 million loan agreement for upgradation of roads of  which state?

1. 1. Karnataka
   2. Madhya Pradesh
   3. Odisha
   4. Tamil Nadu

Q) Which country’s first satellite ETRSS was launched from China?

1. Eritrea
2. South Sudan
3. Ethiopia
4. Somalia

Q) The Ministry of Minority Affairs will organize more than 100 Hunar Haat in the next how many years?

1. 2 years
2. 4 years
3. 3 years
4. 5 years

Q) The Kambala sport, which is to get its own museum, is a sport of which state?

1. Tamil Nadu
2. Andhra Pradesh
3. Odisha
4. Karnataka

Q) Who has been named the International Tennis Federation (ITF)  Women’s World Champion 2019?

1. Ashleigh Barty
2. Karolina Pliskova
3. Naomi Osaka
4. Simona Halep

Q) Which state has launched the Mahatma Phule Shetkari Karja Mukti Yojana?

1. Gujarat
2. Uttar Pradesh
3. Maharashtra
4. Rajasthan

Q) How many West African countries have agreed to change the name of their common currency to Eco?

1. Nine
2. Ten
3. Five
4. Eight

Q) Satellite CBERS-4A is jointly developed by China and which country?

1. Belgium
2. Brazil
3. Belarus
4. Benin

Q) Which country has launched an EChO Network, a national program to provide a template for cross-disciplinary  leadership in the country?

1. United States
2. Canada
3. India
4. Spain

Q) The Supreme Court has set up a two-judge committee to expedite disposal of rape cases across the country. Who are these two memebers?

1. Justice Subhash Reddy
2. Justice MR Shah
3. Justice Jasti Chelameswa
4. A&C
5. A&B
6. B&C

Q) Who has been appointed as the chairman and managing director of Ruchi Soya?

1. Acharya Balkrishna
2. Baba Ramdev
3. M Bhushan
4. V K Srivastava

Q) The ‘Cricket 4 Good’ is a partnership program of ICC with which organization?

1. UNESCO
2. UNICEF
3. BCCI
4. NADA

Q) Indian railways has installed the first ever ‘Atmospheric Water Generator’ kiosk named Meghdoot  at which railway station?

1. Bhopal
2. Ahmedabad
3. Mumbai
4. Secunderabad

 
 
 

 

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