Summits and Conferences MCQ Quiz - Objective Question with Answer for Summits and Conferences - Download Free PDF

The Correct Answer is ​Nice.

In News

• Union Minister Jitendra Singh Leads Indian Delegation to UN Ocean Conference in France.

Key Points

• Dr. Jitendra Singh, Earth Sciences Minister, left for France to attend an International Meet on Oceans.

• The United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC) is being held in Nice, France.

• The event includes leaders, scientists, policymakers, and civil society discussing sustainable ocean governance.

The Correct Answer is New Delhi.

In News

• India & 5 Central Asian countries express interest in joint exploration of rare earth & critical minerals.

Key Points

• India and Central Asian countries aim for joint exploration of rare earth and critical minerals.

• The 4th India-Central Asia Dialogue was held in New Delhi, chaired by Dr. S. Jaishankar.

• Ministers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan attended.

• Nations welcomed the first India-Central Asia Rare Earth Forum (held in Sept 2024) and urged an early second forum.

• Emphasis on financial connectivity, including digital payment systems.

• Joint Statement called for interbank ties, trade in national currencies, and investment promotion.

• Interest expressed in forming a Joint Working Group on banking and financial linkages.

The Correct Answer is New Delhi.

In News

• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan participates in ‘National Agro-RE Summit 2025’.

Key Points

• Event: National Agriculture–Renewable Energy Conference 2025

• Location: New Delhi

• Organised by: National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI)

• Attended by: Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

• Purpose: To promote integration of renewable energy in the agriculture sector

• Released: NSEFI’s report and annual reference book on agriculture & renewable energy

• 6 Key Focus Areas for Farmer Prosperity:

  • Increase production

  • Reduce cost of production

  • Ensure fair prices

  • Provide compensation for losses

  • Encourage diversification

  • Promote balanced fertilizer use

The Correct Answer is ​Family Pension.

In News

• 13th Pension Adalat held to address 417 family pension grievances across 17 ministries.

Key Points

• Event: 13th Pension Adalat

• Location: Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi

• Chaired by: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh

• Theme: ‘Family Pension’

• Goal: Resolve 417 grievances related to family pension

• Involves: 17 Departments/Ministries including –

  • Ministry of Home Affairs

  • Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare

  • Department of Financial Services

• Organised by: Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare

• Aim: Ensure faster grievance resolution, enhance financial security for family pensioners

The correct answer is Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.

In News

• The 55th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting began in Davos with the theme “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.”

Key Points

• Crystal Awards were presented to David Beckham, Diane von Furstenberg, and Riken Yamamoto for contributions to social, environmental, and creative progress.
• 3,000 global leaders from public and private sectors are participating in the five-day event.
• Key discussions focus on geopolitical, geo-economic, and technological challenges and opportunities.
• Indian delegation, led by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, highlights economic policies, digital transformation, and state investment opportunities.

Additional Information

• Crystal Awards
  • Recognize individuals for advancing impactful causes such as community regeneration, gender equality, and children’s rights.
• Indian Delegation Highlights
  • Focus on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s economic policies and India’s digital architecture.
  • State leaders like Devendra Fadnavis and N. Chandrababu Naidu promote state-specific investment opportunities.
• World Economic Forum (WEF)
  • Founded in 1971, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Serves as a platform for global leaders to discuss pressing issues and promote public-private collaboration.

The correct answer is China.

Key Points

• The first BRICS Sherpas meeting of 2022 was held virtually on January 18-19, 2022.
• China has taken on the rotating chairmanship of BRICS in 2022.
• Program and priorities for the year were discussed during the meeting.
• India’s BRICS Sherpa was Mr. Sanjay Bhattacharyya.

Additional Information

• BRICS:
  • BRICS is a grouping of five major emerging economies —  Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. 
  • Since 2009, the governments of the BRICS states have met annually at formal summits.
  • India hosted the most recent 13th BRICS summit on 9 September 2021 virtually.
  • Originally the first four were grouped as "BRIC" before the induction of South Africa in 2010.

The correct answer is 'Egypt'.Key Points

• The 27^th annual UN meeting on climate, COP27 (Conference of Parties) will take place in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt from 6^th to 18^th November.
• This will be the fifth time a Climate Conference is being hosted in Africa.
• Governments of more than 200 countries have been invited to participate.
• COP27 will focus on three main areas, reducing emissions, helping countries to prepare and deal with climate change and securing technical support and funding for developing countries for climate activities.
• Some of the issues that were not fully resolved or taken up at the COP26 will also be taken up at this edition of the conference.
• The issues included providing money to help countries recover from the effects of climate change, establishing a global carbon market to price the effects of emissions into products and services globally, and strengthening the commitments to reduce coal use.
• There will also be days with specialized themes for focused talks and announcements on issues including gender, agriculture and biodiversity. 

Additional Information

• The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
• They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties (Conference of the Parties, COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change,
• The first UN Climate Change Conference was held in 1995 in Berlin.

 The correct answer is One Earth One Family One Future.Key PointsG20 Summit 2023:

• India will host the 2023 G20 summit for the first time in its history.
• G20 or Group of Twenty is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States and the European Union.
• The G20 was founded in 1999 after the Asian financial crisis as a forum for Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors to discuss global economic and financial issues.
• The G20 Summit is held annually, under the leadership of a rotating Presidency.
• The theme of India’s G20 Presidency - “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth · One Family · One Future” - is drawn from the ancient Sanskrit text of the Maha Upanishad. 
• Bangladesh, Egypt, Mauritius, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, Spain and UAE are countries invited as a special guests in the 2023 summit.
• India has also invited various important organisations like the UN, IMF, World Bank, WHO, WTO, etc.
• The G20 members represent around 85% of the global GDP, over 75% of the global trade, and about two-thirds of the world population. ​

Additional Information

• The theme of World Wetlands Day 2023 is “It’s Time for Wetlands Restoration,” which highlights the urgent need to prioritize wetland restoration.

The correct answer is United Kingdom.

• The Global Vaccine Summit was hosted by the United Kingdom (UK).

Key Points

• Almost 50 ​countries including the business leaders, UN agencies, civil society, government ministers, Heads of State, and country leaders participated in the Summit.
• The Summit was intended to urge nations around the world to pledge to fund vaccinations to protect the world from future outbreaks of infectious diseases.
• The Summit was aimed at raising USD 7.4 million to immunize further 300 million children in the world's poorest countries by 2025.

The correct answer is "The State of the World".

Key Points

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos Agenda virtual event on 17 Jan'22.
• The WEF is hosting the event on its website and social media channels from 17-21 January.
• The event is being convened on the theme of 'The State of the World'.
• The Davos Agenda 2022 will also mark the launch of several WEF initiatives to accelerate the race to net-zero emissions.

Additional Information

• PM Narendra Modi has been invited as the chief guest at the 54th convocation ceremony of the IIT Kanpur on 28th Dec 2021.
• Amid the Omicron scare, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the Covid-19 vaccine for children and booster doses for Health workers and senior citizens in December 2021.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh in December 2021.
• In October 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Indian Space Association (ISA).
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been named among the 100 most influential people of 2021 by Time Magazine.
• In August 2021, Narendra Modi has become the first Indian Prime Minister to chair an open debate at United Nations Security Council (UNSC).

The correct answer is Japan.

Key Points

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to participate in the Quad Leaders' Summit in Tokyo on 24th May at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
• US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will participate in the summit.
• The Quad is a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the USA.
• The current Prime Minister of Australia is Anthony Albanese. (2022)

Additional Information

• ​The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD), colloquially the Quad, is a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States.
• The dialogue was initiated in 2007 by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
• The dialogue was paralleled by joint military exercises titled Exercise Malabar.

The correct answer is RK Shanmukham Chetty.

• RK Shanmukham Chetty was the finance minister was India’s delegate to the World Monetary Conference at Bretton Woods in 1944.
• He was an Indian lawyer, economist and politician who served as independent India's first finance minister from 1947 to 1948. 

Key Points

• Bretton Woods Agreement:
  • It was an agreement negotiated in July 1944 by 730 delegates from 44 Nations at the United Monetary & Financial conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire thus getting its name 'Bretton Woods Agreement'.
  • Under this system, Gold was the basis for the US Dollar and the currencies of other Nations were pegged to the US Dollar's value.
  • The agreement ceased to operate in 1970 when US President Richard M Nixon denounced that the US would no longer exchange gold monetary value for US Currency.
  • The principal goals of institutionalizing an efficient foreign exchange system, prevention of arbitrary devaluation of currencies, and promotion of International Economic Growth were central focus which led to the creation of 2 important organizations:
    • The International Monetary Fund(IMF).
    • The World Bank.
  • Post Bretton Wood agreement dissolution in the 1970s, the IMF & World Bank have still remained functional and pillars for the exchange of international currencies.
  • British Economist John Maynard Keynes and American Chief International Economist of the US Treasury Department Harry Dexter White were the designers of the Bretton Wood System which envisaged to establish a global central bank to ensure modest lending fund and a greater role for the US Dollar.
  • IMF monitors the exchange rates and identifies those Nations which require monetary support to balance their deficit financing.

The Correct Answer is Chile.

In News

• Chile becomes 95th member of International Solar Alliance ISA.

Key Points

• Chile has become the 95th member of the International Solar Alliance ISA.
• Chile handed over the Instrument of ISA ratification during the meeting of Ambassador Juan Angulo of Chile with Joint Secretary (Economic Diplomacy) in Ministry of External Affairs Abhishek Singh in New Delhi.
• The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance of more than 120 signatory countries,most being sunshine countries, which lie either completely or partly between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
• The primary objective of the alliance is to work for the efficient consumption of solar energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
• This initiative was first proposed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a speech in November 2015 at Wembley Stadium (London HA9 0WS, United Kingdom), in which he referred to sunshine countries as Suryaputra ("Sons of the Sun").

The correct answer is ​Hyderabad.

Key Points

• The Ministry of Culture is organizing a first-of-its-kind, a global summit in Hyderabad on ‘Reimagining Museums in India’, on 15-16 February 2022.
• It will be inaugurated by Minister of Culture, Tourism and Development of Northeastern Region, G. Kishan Reddy.
• Participants from Australia UAE, UK, etc. will be a part of the summit.
• It is being organized under the aegis of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.

Important Points

• The Global Summit will bring together leading luminaries, domain experts and practitioners in the field of museum development and management from India and around the world to discuss best practices and strategies.
• Over 25 museologists and museum professionals will delve into reimagined priorities and practices for Museums.
• An outcome of this knowledge sharing will include creation of a blueprint for development of new museums, nurture a renewal framework, and reinvigorate existing museums in India.
• The online summit will encompass four broad themes: Architecture and Functional Needs; Management; Collections (including Curation & Conservation practices); and, Education and Audience Engagement.

The Correct Answer is Kerala.

• A two day organized Global Investors Meet – ASCEND 2020 was held in Kochi, Kerala from January 9-10.
• ASCEND 2020 showcased 18 mega projects with over Rs 100 crore investment each.
• The meet was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Kerala Shri Pinarayi Vijayan and was organized by states Department of Industries. 
• Chief Minister of Kerala- Pinarayi Vijayan.
• Governor of Kerala- Arif Mohammad Khan.