TNPSC Current Affairs February for Group 1 Exam

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1.     Which Indian State flagged of India’s 1st of its kind ‘Fruit Train’ Carries a load of 980 metric tonnes of Bananas under brand name ‘Happy Bananas’ (January 2020)?

A)       West Bengal

B)       Uttar Pradesh

C)       Karnataka

D)       Andhra Pradesh

 

Answer – D) Andhra Pradesh

 

2.       Which is the 1st Indian State to launch doorstep Pension delivery scheme in February 2020?

A)       Telangana

B)       Andhra Pradesh

C)       Odisha

D)       Uttar Pradesh

 

Answer – B) Andhra Pradesh

 

3.       Nasa Astronaut who returns (Feb 2020) to earth after record long stay in International Space Station (ISS) is?

A)       Peggy Whitson

B)       Luca Parmitano

C)       Christina Koch

D)       Alexander Skvortsov

 

Answer – C) Christina Koch

 

4.       The Indian army major who developed world’s 1st bullet proof helmet which can stop AK-47 bullet from a distance less than 10 meters is     ?

A)       Nitish Kumar Singh

B)       Girish Chandra Joshi

C)       Anoop Mishra

D)       AshwinNagpal

 

Answer- C) Anoop Mishra

 

5.       Who has won the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) coaches lifetime achievement award in male category for the year 2019?

A)       Pullela Gopichand

B)       Ramakant Achrekar

C)       Bishweshwar Nandi

D)       Ravi Shastri

 

Answer – A) Pullela Gopichand

 

6.       What is the theme of the 23rd edition of National conference on e-governance 2020 held at Mumbai, Maharashtra (Feb 7-8, 2020)?

A)       Theme: “India 2020: Cultural Transformation”

B)       Theme: “India 2020: Economic Transformation”

C)       Theme: “India 2020: Digital Transformation”

D)       Theme: “India 2020: eliteracy transformation”

 

Answer – C) Theme: “India 2020: Digital Transformation”

 

7.       Which is the first Indian Aerospace Private firm to build the foreign owned satellites to the customers of Sweden and France?

A)       Larson & Toubro

B)       Ananth Technologies

C)       TRANSPACE Technologies

D)       Dhruva Space

 

Answer – B) Ananth Technologies

 

8.       Who is the 1st Indian Hockey Player to receive the International Hockey Federation (FIH) player of the year award in 2019?

A)       Dilpreet Singh

B)       Gursahibjit Singh

C)       Ramandeep Singh

D)       Manpreet Singh

 

Answer – D) Manpreet Singh

 

9.       Which is India’s 1st railway station to add 5-star hotel on the tracks built by famous hotel chain Leela group which will be completed by December 2020?

A)       The Howrah Railway Station

B)       Vijayawada Railway Station

C)       Charbagh Railway Station

D)       Gandhinagar railway station

 

Answer – D) Gandhinagar railway station

 

10.      Who is the 1st Indian sportsman to win a Laureus world sports (Oscars of sports) award at 20th annual edition held at Berlin, Germany (Feb 17, 2020)?

A)       Abhinav Bindra

B)       Vinesh Phogat

C)       Sachin Tendulkar

D)       Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Answer – C) Sachin Tendulkar

 

11.      Which is the 1st South Asian country to host 2022 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women’s Asian Cup?

A)       Nepal

B)       India

C)       Bangladesh

D)       Maldives

 

Answer – B) India

 

12.      Who has won the 21st edition of Ernst & Young (EY) Entrepreneur of the year award for 2019 held at New Delhi?

A)       Siddhartha Lal

B)       Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

C)       Vijay Shekhar Sharma

D)       Sachin Bansal

 

Answer – B) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

 

13.      Union Minister of State (MoS) for shipping Mansukh Mandaviya has inaugurated India’s 1st floating jetty at which Indian state?

A)       Gujarat

B)       Maharashtra

C)       Goa

D)       Karnataka

 

Answer – C) Goa

 

14.      Name the 1st Indian state/UT which achieved 100% LPG coverage due to implementation of PMUY (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana) scheme?

A)       New Delhi

B)       Goa

C)       Haryana

D)       Himachal Pradesh

 

Answer – 5) Himachal Pradesh

 

15.      The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) organized the 1st ‘National conference on Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CDRR&R) at which Indian state/UT?

A)       Kerala

B)       Uttar Pradesh

C)       Odisha

D)       New Delhi

 

Answer – D) New Delhi

 

16.      Where is India’s 1st ever Glass floor bridge replacing iconic suspension bridge Lakshman Jhula?

A)       Uttar Pradesh

B)       Madhya Pradesh

C)       Himachal Pradesh

D)       Uttarakhand

 

Answer – D) Uttarakhand

 

17.      Who is the 1st Asian filmmaker to win academy award (Oscars) for original screenplay category?

A)       Ang Lee

B)       Bong Joon-ho

C)       Ismail Merchant

D)       William Kong

 

Answer – B) Bong Joon-ho

 

18.      Name the Indian football club, which becomes 1st ever Indian club to qualify for group stage of AFC (Asian Football Club) champions league (2021 edition)?

A)       Mohun Bagan AC

B)       Bengaluru FC

C)       Chennaiyin FC

D)       FC Goa

 

Answer – D) FC Goa

 

19.      Find the railway station where the Indian railways launched its First “Restaurant on Wheels” for railway passengers?

A)       Durgapura Station, Rajasthan

B)       Asansol Station, West Bengal

C)       Haridwar Station, Uttarakhand

D)       Suratgarh Station, Rajasthan

 

Answer – B) Asansol Station, West Bengal

 

20.      The President of India has presented the International Gandhi awards for Leprosy under individual category to          (Feb 2020).

A)       N.S. Dharmashaktu

B)       Yohei Sasakawa

C)       Damodar Ganesh Bapat

D)       Ralph Nader

 

Answer – A) N.S. Dharmashaktu

 

21.      Name the Bollywood actor, who has won best actor award in Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2020 was held in Mumbai, Maharashtra?

A)       Shahrukh Khan

B)       Hrithik Roshan

C)       Salman Khan

D)       Akshay Kumar

 

Answer – B) Hrithik Roshan

 

22.      Name the Indian scientist, who has been honoured with Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Women Excellence Award-2020?

A)       Dr. Aastha Mishra

B)       Dr. Swati Tripathi

C)       Dr. Mehak Gupta

D)       Dr Niti Kumar

 

Answer – D) Dr Niti Kumar

 

23.      Which movie has won the ‘best film’ award in 65th edition of Amazon Filmfare Awards 2020 was held at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati, Assam (Feb 15-16, 2020)?

A)       War

B)       Article 15

C)       Gully Boy

D)       Uri: The Surgical Strike

 

Answer – C) Gully Boy

 

24.      Name the person, who has won the Sahitya Akademi’s Translation Prize for 2019 in the category of translation into English for the translation of Kannada novel Kusumabale to English?

A)       C.T Indra

B)       Rita Kothari

C)       Pramod K. Nayar

D)       Susan Daniel

 

Answer – D) Susan Daniel

 

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25.      The National Science Day (NSD) in India celebrated annually on February 28. What is the Theme of NSD 2020?

A)       Theme: “Science & Technology for especially abled persons”

B)       Theme: “Women in Science”

C)       Theme: “Science for people and people for science”

D)       Theme: “Science and Technology for a sustainable future”

Answer – B) Theme: “Women in Science”

 

26.      The theme of world wetlands day 2020 is “Wetlands and Biodiversity”. The World Wetlands Day every year was observed on?

A)       January 31

B)       February 2

C)       February 4

D)       February 9

 

Answer – B) February 2

 

27.      The India’s biggest rural technical festival ‘Antahpragnya 2020’ with the theme ‘Spot and encourage rural tech innovators’ held at which Indian State?

A)       Tamil Nadu

B)       Andhra Pradesh

C)       Telangana

D)       Maharashtra

 

Answer – C) Telangana

 

28.      The World Cancer day (WCD) organized by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) observed every year on February 4. The Theme WCD for 2019-21 is?

A)       Theme: “I am, no one can”

B)       Theme: “I am and I will”

C)       Theme: “We can, I can”

D)       Theme: “We and I will”

 

Answer – B) Theme: “I am and I will”

 

29.      What is the theme of the 23rd edition of National conference on e-governance 2020 held at Mumbai, Maharashtra (Feb 7-8, 2020)?

A)       Theme: “India 2020: Cultural Transformation”

B)       Theme: “India 2020: Economic Transformation”

C)       Theme: “India 2020: Digital Transformation”

D)       Theme: “India 2020: eliteracy transformation”

 

Answer – C) Theme: “India 2020: Digital Transformation”

 

30.      Which state government has launched the “Reading Mission” (Feb 2020) based on central government’s “Reading Mission-2022” to encourage habit of reading books?

A)       Goa

B)       Himachal Pradesh

C)       Telangana

D)       Haryana

 

Answer – D) Haryana

 

31.      The 5th edition of Military Exercise AJEYA WARRIOR conducted in Salisbury plain is between India and       (Feb 2020)?

A)       Singapore

B)       United States

C)       United Kingdom

D)       Russia

 

Answer – C) United Kingdom

 

32.      Which Indian state hosts “CLIMFISHCON-2020” the International conference on climate change and ocean health in February 2020 with the theme “Climate change-effective adaptation for a secure Future”?

A)       Maharashtra

B)       West Bengal

C)       Kerala

D)       Tamil Nadu

 

Answer – C) Kerala

 

34.      The report by EY (Ernst & Young Private Limited) titled “Today for tomorrow: realising the potential of Life Sciences 4.0” was released in 17th BioAsia 2020. The BioAsia 2020 held at?

A)       Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh

B)       Chennai, Tamil Nadu

C)       Hyderabad, Telangana

D)       Bengaluru, Karnataka

 

Answer – C) Hyderabad, Telangana

 

35.      The 5th edition of Indradhanush – “Indradhanush V 2020” held at Hindan, Uttar Pradesh. The Indradhanush is the Air exercise held between India and which of the following country?

A)       Russia

B)       United States

C)       Sri Lanka

D)       United Kingdom

 

Answer – D) United Kingdom

 

36.      The Government of India has appointed M. Ajit Kumar as chairman of (January 2020)?

A)       National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC)

B)       Competition Commission of India (CCI)

C)       Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)

D)       University Grants Commission (UGC)

 

Answer – C) Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)

 

37.      Which Technological Giant company has launched “We think Digital” Programme in partnership with National Commission for Women (NCW) and Cyber Peace Foundation to provide digital literacy training to 1 Lakh women in 7 states (Feb 2020)?

A)       Google

B)       Microsoft

C)       Facebook

D)       Amazon

 

Answer – C) Facebook

 

38.      Which country has elected Ashraf Ghani as their president for second consecutive time in February 2020?

A)       Qatar

B)       United Arab Emirates

C)       Kuwait

D)       Afghanistan

 

Answer – D) Afghanistan

 

39.      According to the report, “A future for the world’s children?” Commissioned by WHO–UNICEF– Lancet ‘Sustainability Index’ is topped by Burundi. What is rank of India in the index?

A) 71

B) 77

C) 69

D) 87

 

Answer – B) 77 (The Index was topped by Burundi and Qatar at bottom)

 

40.      According to Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) ‘The Worldwide Education for the Future Index (WEFFI) 2019 report, Finland topped the index and India’s rank in the Index is        _.

A) 35

B) 38

C) 40

D) 47

 

Answer – A) 35

Rank  Economy

35       India

1        Finland

2        Sweden

3        New Zealand

 

41.      Faure Gnassingbe has been re-elected as the president of ‘Togo’ for the 4th time (in Feb 2020). What is the capital of Togo?

A)       Lome

B)       Porto-Novo

C)       Bamako

D)       Monrovia

 

Answer – A) Lome

 

TNPSC Current affairs February 2020 MCQ for preparation of Group Exams –1, 2, 4, vao, deo, ae exams.

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