Current Affairs Quiz , 21 Mar 2019

1.Which of the following will be the first G7 country to join China’s Belt and Road project?

1. 1. 1. Germany
      2. France
      3. UK
      4. Italy

Answer: 4

• Italy will be the first G7 country to join China’s controversial Belt and Road project
• Italy would be the first BRI member from the G7, a grouping of democratically governed advanced economies that has long played a role in shaping policy globally. The other members include France, Germany, the UK, Canada, the US, and Japan
  

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2. Which of the following countries has recently renamed the country’s capital from Astana in honour of long-time ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev?

1. 1. 1. Azerbaijan
      2. Georgia
      3. Kazakhstan
      4. Turkey

Answer: 3

• Kazakhstan’s parliament voted to rename the country’s capital in honour of long-time ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev, a day after he resigned as president.
• Astana – the gleaming new capital Nazarbayev erected in the country’s vast steppes – will be renamed Nursultan – which means “Sultan of Light” in Kazakh and other Turkic languages.
  

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3. Worldwide Cost of Living 2019 report, which ranks 133 countries according to the prices of consumer goods and services, is released by

1. 1. 1. Economic Intelligence Union
      2. World Bank
      3. World Economic Forum
      4. UNDP

Answer: 1

• Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong are the world’s most expensive cities for travellers to visit and expatriates to live in, according to a new survey of more than 100 cities around the world.
• The Worldwide Cost of Living 2019 report of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has ranked 133 countries according to the prices of consumer goods and services.
• The three cities, appearing for the first time in the same spot, emerged as the costliest, while Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Karachi were named among the ten cheapest places in the world, with Caracas in Venezuela taking the lead in the bottom ten.
  

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4. World Happiness Report was recently released by

1. 1. 1. Economic Intelligence Union
      2. UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
      3. IMF
      4. Institute of Peace and Economics

Answer: 2

• Indians are not as happy in 2019 as they were in 2018 and the country figures at 140th place, seven spots down from last year, on this year’s UN World Happiness Report released which is topped by Finland for the second year in a row.
• The report was released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations on March 20 which has was declared as World Happiness Day by the UN General Assembly in 2012.
  

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5. Vernal equinox, when the sun passes over Earth’s equator and the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun happens on

1. 1. 1. January 3^rd
      2. June 1^st
      3. Match 20^th
      4. December 21^st

Answer: 3

• March 20, marks the vernal equinox, when the sun passes over Earth’s equator (from our perspective on the planet) and the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun. That leads to longer days (and the start of spring!) in the north and shorter days (and autumn) in the south.
  

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