Daily GK & Current Affairs Quiz – 23rd April 2020

Correct Answer – A. 21st April

Explanation: Every year 21st April is celebrated as National Civil Service Day. On this day civil servants re-dedicate themselves to work and live for the cause of citizens. They renew their commitment to public service. Civil Services Day is an occasion for the civil servants to rededicate themselves to the cause of citizen and renew their commitment to public service and excellence in work.

Correct Answer – B. Nirmala Sitharaman

Explanation: The 5th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of New Development Bank was held through video-conference. Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman represented India in the Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of New Development Bank.

Correct Answer – B. ICICI Bank

Explanation: Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India(ICICI) bank starts a new feature of voice banking services on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for their customers.

Correct Answer – C. Charles Leclerc

Explanation:  Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc wins the Formula One Esports Chinese Virtual Grand Prix championship. Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, the actual F1 races are not being held. In its place, Formula 1 has announced new F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix series. The virtual races will run instead of each delayed Grand Prix. The Virtual Grand Prix series to use the official F1 2019 PC video game, developed by Codemasters.

Correct Answer – D. Kapil Dev Tripathi

Explanation:  Kapil Dev Tripathi has been appointed as the Secretary to the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. He will replace Sanjay Kothari, who was selected as the Chief Vigilance Commissioner in February. The appointment of Kapil Dev Tripathi has been approved by Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kapil Dev Tripathi is 1980-batch retired IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. Prior to this, He was retired as the Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in June 2018.

Correct Answer – A. 21 April

Explanation: World Creativity and Innovation Day is observed globally on 21 April every year. This day is celebrated to raise awareness around the importance of creativity and innovation in problem-solving.

Correct Answer – E. Both A & C

Explanation:  The government has formed a high-level task force for vaccine and drug testing for coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The objective of the task force is to speed up national and international efforts towards vaccine development to treat Covid. The task force — co-chaired by Vinod Paul, member NITI Aayog, and Professor K Vijay Raghavan, principal scientific advisor to the government. It will also include representatives of Ayush ministry, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), department of biotechnology, and drug controller general of India, among others.

Correct Answer – B. P Iyer

Explanation: Government of India has formed an empowered committee to oversee the facilitating of supply chain and logistics management and availability of necessary items such as food and medicines. It is headed by P Iyer, secretary of the department of drinking water and sanitation.

Correct Answer – D. Madhya Pradesh

Explanation: The state Government of Madhya Pradesh (MP) has launched the ‘Chief Minister COVID-19 Yoddha Kalyan Yojana’ to benefit the Anganwadi workers and Assistants of the state. Under the scheme, the state government will provide a special health insurance cover of Rs 50 lakhs.

Correct Answer – C. 2.00 Lakh crore

Explanation: In an important revision, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in consultation with Indian Government has increased the limit for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) by 66% for States/Union Territories (UTs) to Rs 2,00,000 crore from Rs 1,20,000 crore for the remaining part of first half of the financial year 2020-21 i.e H1 FY21 (April 2020 to September 2020) to tackle the financial crisis arisen due to COVID-19 pandemic.