13 July 2020 GK Current Affairs MCQ Answers Quiz

1. Which company announced on July 12, 2020 that it has decided to invest Rs. 730 crore in Jio Platforms for a 0.15% stake and has become a 12th investor in Reliance Industries Ltd’s digital and telecom business in less than a time period of two months?

Sequoia Capitals
Qualcomm Ventures
Alibaba Group
Blackstone Capital

2. Supreme Court upholds the rights of Travancore royal family in the administration of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. The verdict was pronounced on Monday, 13th July 2020, on the dispute over management of Thiruvananthapuram's historic temple, which is considered one of the richest temples in the country. The sprawling temple, an architectural splendour in granite, was rebuilt in its present form in the 18th century by the Travancore Royal House which had ruled southern Kerala and some adjoining parts of Tamil Nadu before integration of the princely state with the Indian Union in 1947. Even after India's independence, the temple continued to be governed by a trust controlled by the erstwhile royal family for whom Lord Padmanabha is their family deity. Lord Padmanabha is also known as?

Lord Vishnu
Lord Shiva
Lord Brahma
Lord Ganesha

3. Who was on Saturday, 11th July 2020, appointed as the working president of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC)?

Ajay Lallu
Amit Chavda
Bharatsinh Solanki
Hardik Patel

4. The clinical trials of the world’s first vaccine for the novel Coronavirus has been completed by Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University in which country?

Russia
Croatia
China
Uzbekistan

5. The president of Turkey on July 10 formally converted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had made the religious landmark a museum. Istanbul's 6th-century Hagia Sophia — the main cathedral of the _____________ which was converted into a mosque with the Ottoman conquest of the city, then known as Constantinople, in 1453, in Istanbul. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul.

Ottoman Empire
Hittite Empire
Byzantine Empire
Shang Empire

---

Your score =

Score in percentage =

Correct Answers 1 =

Correct Answers 2 =

Correct Answers 3 =

Correct Answers 4 =

Correct Answers 5 =