Current Affairs Quiz – 23 March 2020

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1. Who among these has been appointed as the head of the high level technical committee of Public Health Experts, formed by the government for prevention & control of COVID-19 pandemic?
   A) Preeti Sudan
   B) Agam Mittal
   C) Vinod K Paul
   D) B Madan Mohan Das
   
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   Option C
   Explanation: The Government of India has constituted a high level technical committee of Public Health Experts to provide guidance about the prevention and control activities for COVID-19 in the country.  The 21 member committee will be headed by NITI Aayog member Dr Vinod K Paul.
2. Which of these days is observed as World Meteorological Day?
   A) 21 March
   B) 23 March
   C) 22 March
   D) 20 March
   
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   Option B
   Explanation:The World Meteorological Day is celebrated every year on 23 March to commemorate the date of the establishment of the World Meteorological Organization in 23 March 1950. The theme for 2020 World Meteorological Day is ‘Climate and Water’.
3. Indian Oil Corp is the first company in the country to begin the supply of BS-VI grade fuel. What is the deadline set by the government to completely switch to ultra-low sulphur BS-VI petrol and diesel in the country?
   A) 1 April 2020
   B) 31 December 2020
   C) 1 July 2020
   D) 31 May 2020
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the biggest oil firm of India, has successfully rolled out the supply of the BS-VI grade fuel, with all its 28,000 petrol pumps dispensing ultra-low sulphur fuel across the country. With this, the company is first in the Country to completely switch to world’s cleanest petrol and diesel, two weeks before the April 1 deadline. The government had set April 1, 2020 as the deadline for starting supply of ultra-low sulphur BS-VI (equivalent to Euro-VI grade emission compliant fuels) petrol and diesel.
4. Veteran businessman Lorenzo Sanz recently died of COVID-19. He was the former President of which of these football clubs?
   A) Barcelona
   B) Real Madrid
   C) Liverpool
   D) La Liga
   
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   Option B
   Explanation: The former Real Madrid President Lorenzo Sanz has passed away after being tested postive for the novel COVID-19 pandemic. He was 76. Sanz was in charge of the Spanish football club from 1995 to 2000. 
5. In India, Martyrs Day is observed on 23rd March to commemorate freedom struggle of which of these leaders?
   A) Lala Lajpat Rai
   B) Rani Lakshmibai
   C) Mahatma Gandhi
   D) Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: Every year, March 23 is observed as Martyrs Day (Shaheed Diwas or Sarvodaya Day) to pay tribute on death anniversary of the freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru, who laid their lives for the freedom of India. It was on March 23 in 1931, in Lahore (Pakistan), that these three were hanged to death for assassinating John Saunders, a British police officer in 1928. 

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