India Quiz 114: Personalities Quiz

India Quiz 114: Personalities Quiz (Current Affairs)

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1. To which country UN appointed India’s Gita Sabharwal as the UN Resident Coordinator?

Maldives
Thailand
Vietnam
Kenya

2. Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra has been renamed after which late Union Minister?

Sushma Swaraj
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Arun Jaitley
Manohar Parrikar

3. Who has been appointed as the RBI Deputy Governor?

Michael Debabrata Patra
Abhijit Banerjee
Kaushik Basu
Viral Acharya

4. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia developed the first batch of the virus to create a vaccine for Coronavirus. Can you name of the Indian-origin scientist who is leading the research team?

Thomas W. Pranab Bardhan
Abhay Bhushan
Amar Bose
S S Vasan

5. Who was recently conferred with the ‘Kishore Kumar Samman’ by Madhya Pradesh Government?

Waheeda Rehman
Hema Malini
Asha Parekh
Jaya Prada

6. Which cricketer won the Polly Umrigar Award?

Virat Kohli
Smriti Mandhana
Jasprit Bumrah
Rohit Sharma

7. Which Indian actress won the Crystal Award 2020 at the 50th World Economic Forum?

Priyanka Chopra
Alia Bhatt
Deepika Padukone
Dia Mirza

8. Which Indian theater personality has been selected for French honour of ‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’?

Mahesh Dattan
Dolly Thakore
Sanjana Kapoor
Aarti Khanna

9. Which Indian weightlifter has been recently banned for four years after being found guilty of doping?

Sarbjeet Kaur
Sanamacha Thingbaijani Chanu
Pardeep Singh
Vikas Thakur

10. Who among the following is NOT a recipient of Padma Shri award 2020?

Karan Johar
Kangana Ranaut
Ekta Kapoor
Katrina Kaif

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