Current Affairs Quiz 07th March 2020: Chronicles of Change Champions, YES Bank, COVID-19

The Current Affairs section constitutes a major part of General Awareness section in a competitive examination and needs your undivided attention. The questions which are asked in the exam are generally framed on National News, International News, State News, Sports, Awards, Summits, Schemes, Books & Authors, Ranks & Reports, Important Days, Economy, Defence, Science & Technology etc. To excel in this section of the competitive examinations you are required to cover the above areas.

To complement your preparation for General Awareness section of the upcoming exams like SBI Clerk Mains, RBI Assistant Mains and NABARD Grade A Prelims, we are providing you Current Affairs Quiz of 07th March 2020 covering the following topics: Chronicles of Change Champions, YES Bank, COVID-19.

Q1. Name the deputy governor of RBI, who has announced his resignation due to health problems.
(a) Viral Acharya
(b) NS Vishwanathan
(c) Mahesh Kumar Jain
(d) NK Singh
(e) Arvind Subramanian

Q2. Former ______________ Chief Javier Perez de Cuellar passed away at the age of 100.
(a) UNICEF
(b) FAO
(c) UNESCO
(d) NATO
(e) United Nations

Q3. Union Minister for Women and Child Development ______________ has released a book titled “Chronicles of Change Champions” in New Delhi.
(a) Smriti Irani
(b) Nirmala Sitharaman
(c) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
(d) Giriraj Singh
(e) Mahendra Nath Pandey

Q4. Google Cloud announced its plans to open a Delhi Cloud Region. This will be the company’s second cloud region in India since it launched one in ______________ three years ago in 2017.
(a) Gurugram
(b) Kolkata
(c) Chennai
(d) Mumbai
(e) Hyderabad

Q5. The ___________ edition of the Women Transforming India Awards 2019 will be organised on the occasion of International Women’s Day i.e. on 8 March 2020.
(a) tenth
(b) sixth
(c) fourth
(d) seventh
(e) third

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. RBI Deputy Governor N S Vishwanathan has announced his resignation due to health problems. He announce his retirement three months before the end of his extended one-year tenure.

S2. Ans.(e)
Sol. Former UN Chief Javier Perez de Cuellar passed away at the age of 100. He was served as the president of the UN Security Council from 1973 to 1974.

S3. Ans.(a)
Sol. Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Zubin Irani has released a book titled “Chronicles of Change Champions” in New Delhi.

S4. Ans.(d)
Sol. Google Cloud announced its plans to open a Delhi Cloud Region. This will be the company’s second cloud region in India since it launched one in Mumbai three years ago in 2017.

S5. Ans.(c)
Sol. The fourth edition of the Women Transforming India Awards 2019 will be organised on the occasion of International Women’s Day i.e. on 8 March 2020. The Women Transforming India Awards 2019 will be organized by the Women Entrepreneurship Platform of the NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India).

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