ENGLISH QUIZ 23.09.2020

1.Who has won the Men’s Single Italian Open title 2020?

A. Novak Djokovic

B. Diego Schwartzman

C. Dominic Thiem

D. Rafael Nadal

2.Who has unveiled the Logo and song for festival “Destination North East-2020”?

A. Amit Shah

B. Jitendra Singh

C. Kiren Rijiju

D. Rajnath Singh

3.Who has been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for Medical Education?

A. Harsvardhan

B. Nirmala Sitharaman

C. Narendra Modi

D. M Venkaiah Naidu

4.Who has been appointed as the chief of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)?

A. Subhash Kamath

B. Anil Jain

C. Dinesh Kumar Tripathi

D. Anil Dhasmana

5.Renowned personality Ang Rita passed away recently, he was a veteran _______.

A. Mountaineer

B. Politician

C. Environmentalist

D. Social Activist

ANSWERS:-

Answer: 1)A

Explanation

World number one Novak Djokovic overcame a sluggish start to lift his fifth Italian Open title, defeating Argentine Diego Schwartzman 7-5 6-3 for a record 36th ATP Masters crown. Playing in his maiden ATP 1000 final, eighth seed Schwartzman raced out of the blocks to convert two break point opportunities for a 3-0 lead as Novak Djokovic’s usually clinical backhand offered up some errors.

Answer: 2)B

Explanation

Union Minister Jitendra Singh has launched Logo and song for ‘Destination North East-2020’ (The Emerging Delightful Destinations) festival through video conference. The festival will be held for 4 days and will be inaugurated on Sep 27, 2020Aim: To familiarize other parts of the nation about the unexplored potential of North East along with promoting tourism in the region. It will also boost magnificent handicrafts, organic products and cultural troupes of North East.

Answer: 3)C

Explanation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for 2020.He has been awarded the prestigious award for “using the COVID-19 pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can”.PM Modi is the second Indian Prime Minister to be honoured with the Ig Nobel Prize. Prior to this, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was awarded in 1998. He jointly won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan for aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs.

PM Modi shares the award with Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan. Apart from this, the governments of India and Pakistan jointly won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other’s doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door in Islamabad and New Delhi city respectively.

Answer: 4)D

Explanation

Anil Dhasmana (IPS officer 1981- batch of MP cadre) has been appointed as the new Chief of National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) with effect from 18 September 2020 for 2 years. He was serving as the chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) from 31 January 2017 to 29 June 2019. He will succeed former Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Satish Chandra Jha. NTRO: Technical intelligence Agency that looks after geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery.

Answer: 5)A

Explanation

Nepal’s Legendary Mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa (72 years) passed away on the outskirts of Kathmandu after suffering brain and liver ailments for a long time. He is the first man to climb Mount Everest 10 times without oxygen. He made all the ascents to the world’s tallest mountain between 1983 and 1996 and that too without bottled oxygen. He was also known as the ‘snow leopard’ for his climbing skills. His name was put down in Guinness World Records in 2017.