Current Affairs Quiz – November 28, 2020

1. Japanese spacecraft carrying from the ‘Ryugu’ asteroid soil samples will reach the earth on which date?

1. December 6th
2. December 1st
3. December 15th
4. December 20th

2. The headquarters of the Airports Authority of India located in which city?

1. Mumbai
2. New Delhi
3. Lucknow
4. Hyderabad

3. Which nation topped FIFA’s final ranking list for 2020?

1. England
2. Belgium
3. Brazil
4. India

4. The Education Minister launched ‘ATAL’ Faculty Development Programmes are organized by which institution?

1. UGC
2. NCTE
3. NASSCOM
4. AICTE

5. The DoT made mandatory Prefixing ‘0’ for the landline to mobile calls, effective from which date?

1. January 15th
2. January 1st
3. December 31st
4. January 5th

6. The National High-Speed Rail Corporation has signed the nation’s largest contract for the Bullet Train project with which company?

1. HAL
2. L&T
3. Reliance Infrastructure
4. Ashok Leyland

7. The martyrdom day of which Sikh Guru is observed in the month of November, as ‘Shaheed Diwas’?

1. Guru Tegh Bahadur
2. Guru Hargobind
3. Guru Gobind Singh
4. Guru Ram Das

8. PM Modi to visit vaccine facilities in 3 cities on November 28, 2020, Which of the following cities is not one of them?

1. Pune
2. Chennai
3. Ahmedabad
4. Hyderabad

9. India has extended the ban on scheduled International commercial passenger flights up to which date?

1. December 15th
2. December 31st
3. January 31st
4. January 15th

10. Who was known as the father of the Indian IT Industry?

1. Azim Premji
2. FC Kohli
3. Mukesh Ambani
4. Ratan Tata

Explanation

1. Ans: December 6th

Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu on 27 June 2018. It surveyed the asteroid for a year and a half and took samples. It left the asteroid in November 2019 and is expected to return to Earth on 6 December 2020.

2. Ans: New Delhi

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3.   Ans: Belgium

FIFA released the 2020 world rankings list while also setting proceedings for the European World Cup qualification draw as Belgium, France, and Brazil topped the list on Friday.

4. Ans: AICTE

Education Minister Inaugurates 46 ATAL Faculty Development Programmes Organised By AICTE.

5. Ans: January 15th

The department of telecommunications (DoT) has made it mandatory to prefix 0 for all calls made from fixed lines to mobiles, effective 15 January. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had in May recommended a ‘0’ prefix for all such calls to create sufficient numbering space for telecom service providers.

6. Ans: L&T

Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project: The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL), responsible for developing the bullet train project in the country, signed a contract agreement with infrastructure conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) for the design and construction of the 237 km long viaduct between Vapi..

7. Ans: Guru Tegh Bahadur

Guru Tegh Bahadur’s Martyrdom Day is also observed as Shaheed Diwas every year on November 24. On this day in April 1675, Guru Tegh Bahadur was publicly executed on the orders of Aurangzeb because he had opposed religious persecution.

8. Ans: Chennai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit vaccine facilities in three cities to personally review the vaccine development and manufacturing process on November 28, 2020.
He will visit the Serum Institute of India in Pune, Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad, and Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad.
The SII has partnered with pharma giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University for its COVID-19 vaccine. The interim data of the phase 3 trials suggest that the vaccine is highly effective, especially among older people.

9. Ans: December 31st

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10. Ans: FC Kohli

FC Kohli, the first chief executive officer of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and popularly known as the ‘Father of the Indian information technology industry’, has passed away. He joined the company in 1969 at the behest of JRD Tata, then chairman of Tata Group.