Current Affairs Quiz , 06 Oct 2020

1) Which among the following countries are not full-time members of Financial Action Task Force (FATF)?

a) Pakistan
b) India
c) China
d) Russia

Answer: a
• FATF is all set to decide on Pakistan’s grey list status in a virtual meeting scheduled later this month.It had placed Pakistan on the grey list in June 2018.Countries that are considered safe haven for supporting terror funding and money laundering are put in the FATF grey list. This inclusion serves as a warning to the country that it may enter the blacklist.

2) Supreme Court recently asked the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India about the steps taken to implement the K.V. Kamath Committee report. It deals with

a) Post COVID economy
b) OBC sub-categorisation
c) Cricket
d) Women safety

Answer: a
• The Supreme Court recently asked the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India about the steps taken to implement the K.V. Kamath Committee report on recommendations to bail out sectors affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

3) 2020 Nobel for Medicine is given for the discovery of

a) Method for genome editing
b) Vaccine for COVID-19
c) Hepatitis C virus
d) None of the above

Answer: c
• Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.

4) Amazon Basin in South America is not shared by

a) France
b) Brazil
c) Columbia
d) Chile

Answer: d
• The basin is shared by eight countries (Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname), as well as the overseas territory of French Guiana.

5) SMART Missile, indigenously developed by India, is a

a) Sub-sonic missile
b) Super-sonic missile
c) Hyper-sonic missile
d) None of the above

Answer: b
• India has successfully flight-tested its indigenously developed Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from a test range off Odisha coast.