Current Affairs Quiz , 21 Dec 2019

1) Preliminary Gas Transit Deal is signed between

a) North Korea and South Korea
b) Japan and China
c) US and Mexico
d) Russia and Ukraine

Answer: d
• Moscow and Kiev have signed a preliminary deal on the transit of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, after months of difficult talks but ahead of the looming New Year deadline.

2) Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) is an officially recognized book of standards as per the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. First foreign nation to recognise it is

a) US
b) Afghanistan
c) UK
d) China

Answer: b
• IP has been recognised formally by the Public Health Ministry of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the first country to recognise IP.

3) South Asian Literature award for 2019 is won by

a) Amitabha Bagchi
b) Raj Kamal Jha
c) Madhuri Vijay
d) None of the above

Answer: a
• Amitabha Bagchi’s novel Half The Night Is Gone won the South Asian Literature 2019 award.

4) NAFTA 2.0, recently seen in news, is an agreement involving which of the following countries?

a) US
b) Canada
c) Mexico
d) All of the above

Answer: d
• The House of Representatives has passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement — the replacement for NAFTA, or the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. The new deal includes stronger labor and environmental provisions. American labor groups have backed the new trade deal.

5) Which among the following is not one of the carbon neutral countries in the world?

a) Bhutan
b) Suriname
c) Germany
d) None of the above

Answer: c
• Bhutan and Suriname are the only carbon neutral countries in the world.
• In the background of the failure of the global community to reach any agreement in the recently concluded COP 25, the European Union (EU) has come up with a climate action plan known as the European Green Deal.