CURRENT AFFAIRS 03 APRIL 2020
1. Which of the following central government department developed COVID Quarantine Alert System?
a) Department of Science
b) Department of Sports
c) Department of TeleCommunication
d) Department of Health
Answer : C
2. India supplies _________ of essential medicines to Maldives to fight against COVID-19.
a) 2.2 tonnes
b) 9.2 tonnes
c) 6.2 tonnes
d) 5.2 tonnes
Answer : C
3. World Bank offers ________ to India for its project against COVID-19.
a) $5 billion
b) $7 billion
c) $1 billion
d) $3 billion
Answer : C
4. Who of the following appointed as new MD of Sundaram Home Finance?
a) Lakshminarayanan Duraiswamy
b) Murali Natrajan
c) Ashok Vinay Pathak
d) Bijendra Singh
Answer : A
5. With which Insurance company Phone Pe tied up to launch COVID-19 insurance?
a) SBI Insurance
b) Life Insurance Corporation of India
c) ICICI lombard
d) Bajaj Allianz
Answer : D
6. Name the man behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited overs cricket matches, has died aged 78.
a) Baron Carlow
b) Tony Lewis
c) Mcmillan Williams
d) Sandy Roberts
Answer : A
7. Name the noted singer of Sikh ‘Gurbani’ hymns, died of the novel coronavirus in Amritsar.
a) Nirmal Singh Khalsa
b) Vikram Singh Khalsa
c) Harmanpreet Singh Khalsa
d) Amrinder Singh Khalsa
Answer : A
8. Name the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who passed away recently. He received Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977.
a) Philip Warren Anderson
b) Samuel Chao Chung Ting
c) Steven Weinberg
d) Abdus Salam
Answer : A
9. Who is the current head of World Health Organization (WHO)?
a) Margaret Chan
b) Tedros Adhanom
c) Audrey Azoulay
d) Chen Shih-chung
Answer : B
10. Who is the current head of World Bank?
a) Tedros Adhanom
b) David Malpass
c) Ban-ki-Moon
d) Preity Patel
Answer : B