Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: 7 September to 13 September 2020

7 September to 13 September 2020 :The Current Affairs Quizzes section of Jagranjosh aims to help every competitive exam aspirant to revise the day at ease. The day’s updated quizzes cover topics such as new NSD Chairman, Nobel Peace Prize 2021, Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019 and Economic Freedom Index 2020 among others. 

1. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the National School of Drama?
a) Naseeruddin Shah
b) Javed Akhtar 
c) Shabana Azmi 
d) Paresh Rawal
 
2. Who among the following world leaders has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2021?
a) Narendra Modi
b) Shinzo Abe
c) Xi Jinping
d) Donald Trump
 
3. Which Indian company has become the world’s 40th most valuable firm?
a) Tata Steel
b) Larsen & Toubro
c) Reliance Industries
d) Coal India
 
4. Who was conferred with Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019?
a) Robert E. Kohler
b) Peter J. Bowler
c) David Attenborough
d) Floris Cohen
 
5. India was ranked at which position on the Global Economic Freedom Index 2020? 
a) 105th 
b) 71st
c) 88th 
d) 97th 
 
6. India reached a five-point consensus after talks with which nation?
a) Pakistan
b) Nepal
c) China
d) Bangladesh
 
7. Which among the following security forces has deployed female doctors at forward locations in Ladakh for the first-ever time?
a) BSF
b) ITBP
c) NSG
d) SSB
 
8. The last stage of trials of which the COVID-19 vaccine have been paused after a participant fell ill?
a) Moderna
b) AstraZeneca 
c) BioNTech
d) Sputnik V

9. Which private tech investor bought a 1.75% stake in Reliance Retail?
a) General Atlantic
b) Vista Equity Partners
c) Silver Lake
d) KKR

10. Northrop Grumman has named its next Cygnus spacecraft after which Indian descent astronaut?
a) Rakesh Sharma
b) Kalpana Chawla
c) Sunita Williams
d) Ronald McNair

Answers

1. (d) Paresh Rawal
Veteran actor Paresh Rawal has been appointed as the Chairperson of the National School of Drama (NSD), India’s premier theatre institute. The post had been vacant since 2017.
 
2. (d) Donald Trump
The United States President Donald Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize because of his efforts on brokering the historic Israel-UAE Peace Deal.
 
3. (c) Reliance Industries
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has become the world’s 40th  most valuable firm after it became the first Indian company to cross USD 210 billion in market capitalisation intra-day.

4. (c) David Attenborough
David Attenborough, a renowned author, and natural historian was conferred with Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019 by the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presented the Peace Prize in a virtual ceremony.

5. (a) 105th 
India has fallen 26 spots to rank at the 105th position on the Global Economic Freedom Index 2020, as per an annual report released on September 10, 2020. The country was ranked at the 79th spot in last year's rankings.

6. (c) China
India and China have reached a five-point consensus regarding the ongoing border standoff at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) after detailed talks between Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting on September 10, 2020. This was informed by the Ministry of External Affairs in a joint press statement on September 11.

7. (b) ITBP 
The Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) has sent female doctors to forward operating locations in Ladakh for the first-ever time. The ITBP female doctors have given all kinds of charge from sending troops from Leh to taking care of them at the forward locations.

8. (b) AstraZeneca 
The last phase of clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca has been put on hold after one of the participants fell ill in the United Kingdom. AstraZeneca described the pause as a "routine" pause in the case of "an unexplained illness".

9. (c) Silver Lake
Reliance Retail has raised Rs 7,500 Crore by selling a 1.75% Stake to American private equity player Silver Lake. The investment was announced by Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL).

10. (b) Kalpana Chawla
Northrop Grumman has named its next space station resupply ship after Dr Kalpana Chawla, an astronaut of Indian descent. The S.S. Kalpana Chawla spacecraft will be Northrop Grumman's next Cygnus spacecraft to launch to the International Space Station. It has been named in the honor of the astronaut who was one of the seven crew members who died in the Columbia space shuttle disaster.