Current Affairs Quiz for Bank Exams 2021: 20th August

Current Affairs 20th August 2021 Quiz

Here is the Current Affairs Quiz of 20th August covering the following topics Headlines: PRISM, Regulatory GAAR, Smart Health Cards, World Athletics U20 Championships, OPERATION KHUKRI, SBI Life eShield Next.

The Current Affairs section constitutes a major part of General Awareness section in a competitive examination and plays an instrumental role. To supplement your preparation for the General Awareness Section of the upcoming exams like IBPS PO/Clerk Mains, SBI PO Mains and SEBI Grade A Prelims, we are providing you Current Affairs Quiz of 20th August 2021 covering the following topics Headlines: PRISM, Regulatory GAAR, Smart Health Cards, World Athletics U20 Championships, OPERATION KHUKRI, SBI Life eShield Next.

Q1. Which country is the chair for the 5th meeting of BRICS Industry Ministers in 2021?
(a) South Africa
(b) India
(c) Brazil
(d) Russia
(e) China

Q2. World Photography Day is celebrated on _______ every year to promote photography.
(a) 19 August
(b) 20 August
(c) 21 August
(d) 22 August
(e) 23 August

Q3. World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is observed every year on ______ to pay tribute to humanitarian personnel and those workers who lost or risked their lives while doing humanitarian service.
(a) 16 August
(b) 17 August
(c) 18 August
(d) 20 August
(e) 19 August

Q4. What is PRISM, that is placed by RBI to strengthen compliance by supervised entities?
(a) Software to manipulate fraud Payment systems
(b) Application based software for security
(c) Web-based end-to-end workflow automation system
(d) An Antivirus Software
(e) Automation Software to be implemented in every e-commerce sites

Q5. India Navy ship INS Ranvijay has undertaken a bilateral maritime exercise in the South China Sea with which of the following country?
(a) China
(b) Japan
(c) Thailand
(d) Vietnam
(e) Malaysia

Q6. Anandha Kannan passed away recently. He was a/an ______________.
(a) Politician
(b) Journalist
(c) Actor
(d) Environmentalist
(e) Singer

Q7. Who among the following has been authored the book “OPERATION KHUKRI”?
(a) Laxmi Sehgal & Mulk Raj Anand
(b) Rajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia
(c) Kiran Bedi & Nirad C Chaudhuri
(d) Amrita Pritam & Arun Shourie
(e) M. Veerappa Moily & Ravi Rajan Sharma

Q8. Which country host 2021 edition of the World Athletics U20 Championships?
(a) Kenya
(b) Russia
(c) China
(d) Pakistan
(e) Indonesia

Q9. Who among the following is set to be named as the brand ambassador of adventure tourism in Kerala?
(a) Murali Sreeshankar
(b) Jabir M Palliyalil
(c) Sajan Prakash
(d) PR Sreejesh
(e) Alex Antony

Q10. Which of the following state is all set to launch India’s first ‘Smart Health Cards scheme’?
(a) Uttarakhand
(b) Himachal Pradesh
(c) Assam
(d) Kerala
(e) Odisha

Q11. What is the theme of 5th meeting of BRICS Industry Ministers?
(a) BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, Security and Prosperity
(b) Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus
(c) New Industrial Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges for Manufacturing Industry
(d) Broad Vision and Shared Prosperity
(e) BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Development, Integration and Industrialisation

Q12. Which country bagged the top position in the list of cities with the cleanest air, according to British company HouseFresh?
(a) Muonio
(b) Kailua Kona
(c) New York
(d) Judbury
(e) Sydney

Q13. Which country was the most polluted country across the world in 2020, according to British company HouseFresh?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Nepal
(c) Myanmar
(d) Sri Lanka
(e) Afghanistan

Q14. Which state government will sponsor Indian Hockey teams for 10 more years?
(a) Assam
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Tamil Nadu
(e) Odisha

Q15. ‘JAZBAA-E-TIRANGA’, a replay Marathon organised by the Indian Army in Jammu and Kashmir, is of _______________ Kms.
(a) 250 km
(b) 120 km
(c) 400 km
(d) 40 km
(e) 325 km

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, Shri Piyush Goyal chaired the 5th BRICS Industry Ministers Meeting. India holds the Chairship of BRICS for 2021.

S2. Ans.(a)
Sol. The World Photography Day is celebrated on 19 August every year to promote photography as a hobby and also inspire photographers around the globe to share a single photo with the rest of the world.

S3. Ans.(e)
Sol. World Humanitarian Day (WHD) is observed every year on 19 August to pay tribute to humanitarian personnel and those workers who lost or risked their lives while doing humanitarian service.

S4. Ans.(c)
Sol. The Reserve Bank of India is putting in place a Platform for Regulated Entities for Integrated Supervision and Monitoring (PRISM), a web-based end-to-end workflow automation system, to strengthen compliance by supervised entities (SEs). This is aimed at helping supervised entities to strengthen their internal defences and resilience and bringing focus on root cause analysis.

S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. In continuation with the ongoing deployment of Indian Navy ships in the South China Sea, INS Ranvijay and INS Kora undertook bilateral maritime exercise with Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN) frigate VPNS Ly Thai To(HQ-012) on 18 Aug 21.

S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. Tamil star and popular TV host Anandha Kannan passed away. He started his career with Vasantham TV in Singapore before moving to Chennai where he worked with Sun Music as a video jockey.

S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. CDS General Bipin Rawat was presented a book “OPERATION KHUKRI” by authors Major General Rajpal Punia & Ms Damini Punia.

S8. Ans.(a)
Sol. The 2021 edition of the World Athletics U20 Championships has been started in Nairobi, Kenya. The impact of Covid on teams travelling and logistics of moving vital equipment around the world have proven to be a challenge, the governing body said in a release.

S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. Olympian Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh (PR Sreejesh), goalkeeper and former captain of the Indian National Hockey team is set to be named as the brand ambassador of adventure tourism in Kerala.

S10. Ans.(e)
Sol. Odisha is all set to launch India’s first ‘Smart Health Cards scheme’ covering its 3.5 crore people of 96 lakh families under the Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana.

S11. Ans.(b)
Sol. The theme of 5th meeting of BRICS Industry Ministers is ‘Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation and Consensus’.

S12. Ans.(d)
Sol. Judbury in Australia bagged the top position in the list of cities with the cleanest air with a PM2.5 level of 2.4µg/m3. Kailua Kona in America’s Hawaii and Muonio in Finland with PM2.5 concentrations of 2.6µg/m3 and 2.8µg/m3 respectively were the next top cities of 2020 with clean air.

S13. Ans.(a)
Sol. Bangladesh was the most polluted country across the world in 2020, followed by Pakistan, India and Mongolia.

S14. Ans.(e)
Sol. The Odisha government will sponsor the Indian Hockey teams for 10 more years, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced on 17th August. The state government started sponsoring the national hockey teams in 2018.

S15. Ans.(c)
Sol. In Jammu and Kashmir, the Army organised a 400 Km “JAZBAA-E- TIRANGA” Relay Marathon. The event was flagged off by Major General Rajeev Puri, General Officer Commanding, Ace of Spades Division, who led the relay, closely followed by other military personnel. More than 300 troops took part, carrying the Indian Tricolour all along the Line of Control (LoC).

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