Current Affairs Quiz , 20 April 2020

1) Which among the following doesn’t belong to UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage?

a) Yoga
b) Nawrouz
c) Kumbh Mela
d) None of the above

Answer: d
• From India the Intangible Cultural Heritages added into this list include:

• Tradition of Vedic chanting
• Ramlila,
• Kutiyattam,
• Ramman,
• Mudiyettu,
• Kalbelia
• Traditional brass and copper craft
• Chhau dance
• Buddhist chanting of Ladakh
• Sankirtana,
• Yoga
• Nawrouz
• Kumbh Mela

2) Which among the following is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations?

a) G20
b) OECD
c) IUCN
d) None of the above

Answer: d
• Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is an international organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states.It is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations.

3) Triboelectriceffect, recently seen in news, has applications in

a) Rubbingof a plastic pen on a sleeve of cotton
b) Making of face masks
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) Neither (a) nor (b)

Answer: c
• A team of researchers at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bangalore, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), have come up with a recipe for making face masks, termed as TriboE Mask, that can hold electric charges to restrict the entry of infections but interestingly, without any external power.
• Triboelectriceffect, also known as triboelectric charging, is a type of contact electrification on which certain materials become electrically charged after they are separated from a different material with which they were in contact.

4) Which among the following is not one of the three primordial elements produced in the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN)?

a) Helium
b) Lithium
c) Hydrogen
d) All of the above

Answer: d
• Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science &Technology, Govt. of India, have discovered hundreds of Li-rich giant stars.They have also associated such Li enhancement with central He-burning stars, also known as red clump giants, thereby opening up new vistas in the evolution of the red giant stars.

5) Which among the following is not a Corona viruses?

a) SARS-CoV
b) MERS
c) SARS-CoV-2
d) None of the above

Answer: d
• Both the statements are correct.