General Knowledge Current Affairs Quiz - 21st October 2020

1. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday, 21st October 2020, approved adoption of the Jammu and Kashmir ______________ and said the process for local body polls in the union territory will start soon.

Panchayat Raj Act
J&K Reorganisation Act
Delimitation Act
Domicile Act

2. NASA’s spacecraft OSIRIS-REx successfully touched asteroid __________ surface on Tuesday after a four-year journey. Spreading out its robotic arm, the spacecraft collected a sample of rocks that date back to the birth of our solar system to bring them back to the Earth, the US space agency said.

Eros
Ceres
Hathor
Bennu

3. Researchers have found the evidence of a "lost" river that ran through the central Thar Desert, near Bikaner, as early as _________ years ago, and may have been a life-line to human populations enabling them to inhabit the region. The findings, published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represent the oldest directly dated phase of river activity at Nal Quarry in the central Thar Desert.

172 hundred
172 thousand
10 thousand
100 thousand

4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet on Wednesday, 21st October 2020, approved what amount of bonus for the government employees, which is expected to boost demand during the ongoing festive season?

2,700 crore
3,000 crore
3,700 crore
3,900 crore

5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited by Bangladesh to celebrate the country’s 50 years of Independence on __________. The news was shared by the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, AK Abdul Momen when the newly appointed High Commissioner of India, Vikram Doraiswai made a courtesy call on him in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

26th January, 2021
26th February, 2021
26th March, 2021
26th April, 2021

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