World Current Affairs MCQs

According to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020) report released by FAO, the total forest area of the world is___________, making 31% of the total land area.

A. 2.01 Billion Hectares
B. 3.06 Billion Hectares
C. 4.06 Billion Hectares
D. 5.06 Billion Hectares

According to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020) report, which continent has the highest annual rate of forest gain in the period of 2010-2020?

A. Australia
B. Africa
C. South America
D. Asia

According to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020) report, which continent has the highest annual rate of forest loss in the period of 2010-2020?

A. Australia
B. Africa
C. South America
D. Asia

In May, 2020 Facebook announced that it is teaming up with telecoms companies to build a__________km undersea cable to supply faster internet to 16 countries in Africa by 2024.

A. 25000
B. 27000
C. 35000
D. 37000

Facebook is teaming up with telecoms companies to build a 37,000km (23,000-mile) undersea cable to supply faster internet to 16 countries in Africa.

which group of countries became the first to create a “Travel Bubble” allowing their citizens to travel freely between their borders during the cronavirus pandemic?

A. Scandavian States
B. Caucasian States
C. Baltic States 
D. Benelux Union

Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will open their borders to each others’ citizens from May 15, creating a Baltic “travel bubble” within the European Union amid an easing of pandemic restrictions

General Hulusi Akar belongs to which country?A. Saudi Arabia
B. Iran
C. Turkey
D. Malaysia

Hulusi Akar is the current Turkish Minister of Defense and a former four-star Turkish Armed Forces general who served as the 29th Chief of the Turkish General Staff.

 

Recently WHO has released postage stamp to mark which Anniversary of Eradication of Small Pox?

A. 25
B. 30
C. 40
D. 42

Recently who has won “Marcus Wallenberg Prize” (WMP) 2020 OR the Nobel prize for the forest?

A. Joseph J.  Landsberg
B. Nicholas C. Coops
C. Richard H. Waring
D. All of these 

Myanmar’s Civilian leader and Nobel Prize Laureate, Aug Sang Suu Kyi, was awarded the Nobel prize in _______?A. 1991
B. 1992
C. 1993
D. 1994

 

What is name of Iran’s new currency?A. Roman
B. sian
C. Bron
D. Toman

The head of Iran’s Central Bank announced Monday that the nation’s currency was set to be re-named and re-valued. Long called the rial, Iran’s money will soon likely be called the Toman, and an impressive four zeros will be shaved off all denominations. What was previously 10,000 rials will become one Toman under the plans, which were approved Monday by the Iranian parliament.
A proposal has been agreed to by the Iranian parliament to drop four zeros, by replacing the rial with a new currency called the toman, the name of a previous Iranian currency, at the rate of one toman = 10,000 rials. This change is expected to take place between 2020 and 2022.