WBCS Current Affairs Practice Set-1

WBCS Current Affairs || Current Affairs Practice Set for

WBCS Exam 2020 ||

Here is the 25 most important current affairs Questions that are expected to come in the WBCS Exam . It will be helpful for your ensuing examinations. It will also serve the purpose of your exam like UPSC/ Bank/SSC/Rail/ State PSC etc.

Expected Current Affairs for WBCS Examination

1. Which country has launched ‘Momo-3’ -- a private rocket into space recently?

Answer: Japan

**The objective behind this is to develop low-cost commercial rockets to carry satellites into space.

2. Name the Chile city which became the southernmost city in the world.

Answer: Puerto Williams
Previously, southernmost city was Ushuaia in Argentina.

3. What is the name of the autobiography of Shahid Afridi ?

Answer: Game Changer

**Shahid Afridi is the former captain of the ‘Pakistan national cricket team‘. He is popularly known as ‘Boom Boom’

4.Reserve Bank of India (RBI) observed Financial Literacy Week on _______________ ?

Answer: June 3-7, 2019

The theme of the event is “Farmers” and how they benefit by being a part of the formal banking system.

1. The Role and Functions of the RBI was explained under the title ‘Money Kumar’ .

2. Pictorial booklets describing savings and banking concepts was published under the title ‘Raju’ .

5.What is the name of the last captive white tiger, that has died at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivali, Mumbai ?

Answer: Bajirao

** Bajirao died due to old age related problems at the age of 18.

6.Who lead the 5-member panel constituted by RBI, which suggests 24×7 RTGS, NEFT, elimination of all charges ?

Answer: Nandan Nilekani

RTGS : Real-Time Gross Settlement

NEFT : National Electronic Funds Transfer facility

7. Which country’s parliament has approved a constitutional reform to remove the post of prime minister recently?

Answer: Senegal

8.Mount Etna erupted recently, it is situated in which country?

Answer: Italy

(1) It is Europe’s highest volcano. (2) It is the largest of the three volcanoes ( Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius and Mount Stromboli ) present in Italy.

(3) It was added to UNESCO World Heritage Sites in June 2013.

9. Name the two new award categories inducted to Best FIFA Football Awards 2019 ?

Answer: (1) Off Women’s goalkeeper of the year
(2) Women’s team of the year

** This initiative was taken to promote women’s football across the globe

10. What is the full form of NOTTO?

Answer: National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation

** It has issued guidelines according to which (i) an organ could be allocated to foreigners only after it gives its approval (ii) private hospitals should obtain the consent of the donor family before allocating the organs to foreigners. This decision was made due to media reports which stated that foreigners getting organs ahead of Indian nationals on the waiting list.

11. Name the head of the committee, which submitted draft national education policy 2019 ?

Answer: Dr. Kasturirangan

12. Which country has mandated the visa applicant to provide social media details dated back to five years from the application date as per new immigration rule ?

Answer: U.S

If in any case, the applicants are not using social media they can say no but will face serious consequences if found to be a lie.

13. John Campbell and Shai Hope scored 365 runs to create opening stand world record in ODI cricket. They belong to which country?

Answer: West Indies

** West Indies player John Campbell and Shai Hope created the history against Ireland. Both players shared 365 runs for the first wicket and also become the only opening pair to score 150 runs each in one inning of a 50-over match. Previously, the highest first wicket opening stand was 304 runs in ODI cricket by Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq against Zimbabwe in 2018.

14. Name the deceased first African American female doctor, who invented Cataract treatment .

Answer: Dr. Patricia Bath

15. Name the father of modern legal education in India ?

Answer: NR Madhava Menon

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16. What was the theme of the World Red Cross Day 2019?

Answer: Theme – #Love

** World Red Cross Day is celebrated on 8^th May .

It is celebrated to commemorate the birthday of the founder of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Henry Dunant, who was born on 8th May 1828.

17. Who is the author of the novel titled “An American Marriage”,

Answer: Tayari Jones

US Novelist Tayari Jones received Women’s Prize for Fiction worth for her novel An American Marriage.

18. The Food and Drug Administration of USA has approved first vaccine for the prevention of dengue disease. The name of the vaccine is __

Answer: CYD-TDV

** It is also named as Dengvaxia

19. Which Indian footballer became the most capped football player surpassing the former Indian captain Bhaichung Bhutia ?

Answer: Sunil Chhetri

(1) He surpassed the former Indian captain Bhaichung Bhutia’s 107 international matches.

(2) He is popularly known as Captain Fantastic and scored the 2nd highest number of goals in international matches among active players after Cristiano Ronaldo.

20. As per the report released by RBI, the share of e-Money in India’s payment systems grew in 2017 by ___ %.

Answer: 21.5 %

(1) The share of e-Money in India’s payment systems raise to 21.5 percent in 2017 from 0.8 percent in 2012

(2) Japan topped in the e-Money transactions for the year 2017

(3) India was next to Japan and the US in 2017 w.r.t e-Money transactions of Rs 3,459 million.

21. Which state police has deployed the first Anti-Naxal Women’s Commando unit named ‘Danteshwari Ladake’ ?

Answer: Chhattisgarh

22. Where was India’s first Dinosaur Museum-cum-Park inaugurated ?

Answer: Gujarat

This is the first such park in the country and also the world’s third park which exhibits remains of various dinosaurs and fossil records.

23. Who is the chairman of the 15th Finance Commission of India?

Answer: N.K. Singh