Current Affairs Quiz
1.The Union government has announced Rs 10,000-crore road and bridges development projects for which city in next five years?
a) Nagaland
b) Meghalaya
c) Assam
d) Manipur
2.Who is Road and Highways Minister?
a) Jairam Ramesh
b) Nitin Gadkari
c) Dr Harsh Wardhan
d) Hamid Ansari
3.Who has been appointed as Managing Director of Indian unit of Information Technology firm Unisys Corporation?
a) Ravikumar Sreedharan
b) Rajkumar Rao
c) Mahesh Kumar Jain
d) R R Reddy
4.Who has been appointed managing director of the Hyderabad-based Andhra Bank?
a) Suresh N Patel
b) Ramesh Mehta
c) K R Rao
d) P N Venkata
5.Who has been appointed as head of Kolkata-based UCO Bank and previously was executive director of Dena Bank?
a) R K Takkar
b) Anurag Kakkar
c) Suresh N Patel
d) Ramesh Garg
6.Who has been named as the Managing director of Corporation Bank?
a) J K Garg
b) Ramesh Shakil
c) R K Mathur
d) Kamlesh Jain
7.All India Radios Programme has bagged the first prize under the Community Service Announcement category at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Prizes 2015 on which social issue?
a) Child labour
b) Dowry
c) Sexual Abuse
d) Drug Abuse
8.Name the Malayamal programme, titled Which is part of an initiative taken up by Biju Mathew, Programme Executive at AIR Thiruvananthapuram on behalf of All India Radio?
a) Nilkkam Ivarkkoppam
b) Child on pyre
c) Water
d) Agony
9.Oscar-winning writer and actor who won an Oscar in 1982 for best original screenplay for writing the film Chariots of Fire, about two athletes at the 1924 Olympic Games. died. Who was he?
a) Audrey Hepburn
b) Colin Welland
c) Ashton Kucher
d) Tim cook
10.Tata Motors on November 2 has signed-up football player as its brand ambassador. Name the football player?
a) Lionel Messi
b) David Beckham
c) Arild Stavrum
d) Reggie White
11. Which country has rolled its first homegrown large passenger jet off the production line in Shanghai, vowing to challenge the dominance of Airbus and Boeing in the global commercial aviation market?
a) Japan
b) China
c) Germany
d) Korea
12.Which Indian goalkeeper has added another feather to his cap by ensuring that he would be the first from his country to be part of a team scheduled to play in the Europa League next season?
a) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
b) Vishal Kumar
c) Jaideep Sandhu
d) Sandeep Kumar
13.Former Janata Dal MLA ____________, who was on a fast unto death demanding liquor ban and strengthening of Lokayukta in Rajasthan, has died?
a) Gurcharan Chabbra
b) Rajendra Rathore
c) Ashok Gehlot
d) Gurpreet Singh
14. A 1980-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, will replace Mr Ranjan Mathai in London named the next High Commissioner to Britain. who is he?
a) Navtej Singh Sarna
b) Gurcharan Chabbra
c) Jaideep Sandhu
d) Sandeep Kumar
15. Who has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to strategically important Afghanistan, succeeding Amar Sinha. Nmae the senior diplomat?
a) Manpreet Vohra
b) Amar Kumar
c) Navtej Singh Sarna
d) Gurcharan Chabbra
16. Nepal has received 73.5 metric tonnes of petrol from which country for the first time after signing a major deal with it to ease crippling shortage of petroleum products?
a) China
b) Dubai
c) Riyaad
d) Japan
17. India and which country have signed two agreements on new and renewable sources of energy and cultural exchange. The agreements were signed in the presence of Vice President M. Hamid Ansari?
a) Indonesia
b) Japan
c) China
d) Riyaad
