In recent days current affairs is a very important topic for any type of competitive exams like UPSC, BANK, RAILWAYS, PSU, SSC etc. To crack any type of job exams you need to be very strong in current affairs. Therefore you need to be up to date in recent news or events in your country as well as in the world. Because current affairs carry a good number of questions in the part of general studies or GK in the question paper of various type of exams.
Here you will get monthly current affairs updates for every year. Current affairs questions and answers for the month January 2020 is given below. The keys marked with red colour are the answers to the respective questions.
JANUARY-2020
1. Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh
- Kiran vedi
- Radha Yadav
- Radha Krishna Mathur
- Jagdish Mishra
2. A sports woman “Sunita Chandra” passed away. She was related to which sports
- Cricket
- Hockey
- Badminton
- Tennis
***She was the former captain of Indian women hockey team
3. Manmohan Mohapatra passed away recently. He was a
- Poet
- Sportsperson
- Filmmaker
- Social worker
***Manmohan Mohapatra was called “Father of new wave Odia cinema”
4. Nobel prize winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee conferred D.Litt degree from
- Oxford University
- Harvard University
- Calcutta University
- Jadavpur University
5. New prime minister of Qatar
- Khalifa Bin Hamad Al Thani
- Abdulla Bin Nasser Bin Al Thani
- Khalid Bin Khalifa Bin Abdul Aziz Al Thani
- Bin Jaber Al Thani
6. 107th edition of Indian science congress will be hosting in
- Bangalore
- Chennai
- Bhopal
- Hyderabad
7. Kolkata port is renamed as
- Rammohan Roy port
- Rabindranath Tagore port
- Shyama prasad Mukherjee port
- Vidyasagar port
8. 23rd national youth festival 2020 was organized in
- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
- Lonavala, Maharashtra ,
- Gandhinagar Gujarat
9. 63rd national shooting championship was held in
- Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- Surat, Gujarat
- Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
- Lonavala, Maharashtra
10. CK Nayudu lifetime achievement Award goes to
- Kapil dev
- Sachin Tendulkar
- YuvrajSingh
- Khrishnamachari Srikkanth
11. 3RD edition of Khelo India Youth Game is set to be held in
- Surat, Gujarat
- Guwahati, assam
- Leh, Ladakh
- Bhubaneswar, odisa
12. RBI's new deputy governor is
- Anand Prakash Maheshwari
- NS Viswanathan
- Michael Debaprata Patra
- Bipul Behari saha
13. First state of India to implement Agricultural Land leasing policy is
- Uttar Pradesh
- Madhya Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Rajasthan
14. The ranking of india in EIU’s Democracy index 2019 is
15. ICC Women cricket player of the year 2019 award goes to
- Ellyse Perry, Australia
- Alyssa Healy, Australia
- Smriti Mandhana, India
- Heather Knight, England
16. ICC Cricket player of the year 2019 award goes to
- Virat Kohli, India
- Rohit Sharma, India
- Ben Stokes, England
- David warner, Australia
17. ICC ODI Cricket player of the year 2019 award goes to
- Virat Kohli, India
- Steve smith, Australia
- David warner, Australia
- Rohit Sharma, India
18. Who will be honoured with 29th Saraswati samman
- Ravi Prasad
- Vasdev Mohi
- Harish Salve
- VijayThakur
19. Album of the year award in 62nd Grammy Award goes to
- When we all fall asleep, where do we go?
- Igore
- A lot
- Patty griffin
*** song of the year “Bad Guy”. Best rap song “A lot”.
20. Which sportsperson awarded by Padma Vibhushan 2020?
- PV Sindhu
- Virat Kohli
- Mary Kom
- Jitu Rai
*** PV Sindhu awarded by Padma Bhushan. Jitu Rai with Padma Shri
21. ICC T20 performance of the year 2019 award goes to
- Deepak Chahar, India
- Pat Cummins, Australia
- Rashid Khan, Afghanistan
- Jasprit Bumrah, India
*** Deepak Chahar took 6 wickets for 7 runs vs Bangladesh.
22. ICC test cricket player of the year 2019 award goes to
- Jimmy Anderson, England
- Mitchell Starc, Australia
- Pat Cummins, Australia
- Steve Smith, Australia
23. Top city in National Cleanliness rankings for first two quarters of Swachh Survekshan 2020 is
- Bhopal, Mahhya Pradesh
- Indore, Madhya Pradesh
- Surat, Gujarat
- Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
24. In 71st Republic Day of India (on 26th January) the chief guest was the president of Brazil. The name of the President of Brazil is
- Jair Messias Bolsonaro
- Zoran Milanovic
- Dmitry Medvedev
- Umaro Cissiko Embalo
*** Dmitry Medvedev was Russian PM who has recently resigned.
25. The Book "One Arranged murder" is written by
- Krishna Barman
- Chetan Bhagat
- Aditi Send
- Laxmi Mittal
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