Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been appointed India’s next Ambassador to Mexico?
a) Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi
b) Atul Jain
c) Rahul Jain
d) Tanmay Gaur
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Answer a) Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi. Senior IFS officer Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi has been appointed India’s next Ambassador to Mexico. Pardeshi, a 1991-batch IFS officer, is currently posted as Joint Secretary (Passport division) in the Ministry of External Affairs.
2. Who has been appointed as Director-General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and has become the first woman to head a paramilitary force?
a) Aneeta Mishra
b) Sonal Jain
c) Seema Ramasundram
d) Archana Ramasundram
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Answer d) Archana Ramasundram. Senior IPS officer Archana Ramasundram has been appointed as Director-General of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the first woman to head a paramilitary force. Ramasundram is currently Director, National Crime Records Bureau. She has been appointed to the post till the date of her superannuation, September 30 next year. 58-year-old Ramasundram is the first woman police officer to have been appointed as the chief of a paramilitary force. The SSB is entrusted with guarding the country’s frontiers with Nepal and Bhutan.
3.CBDT Signs Two Bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements with which country?
a) USA
b) UK
c) Japan
d) China
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Answer b) UK.The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has entered into two bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) with United Kingdom. With this signing, CBDT has concluded three bilateral APAs the first one being a bilateral APA signed with Japan in December, 2014.
4. Which Country Lifts Ban on Import of Indian Groundnut?
a) Japan
b) Armenia
c) Vietnam
d) Pakistan
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Answer c) Vietnam.Vietnam has formally lifted the ban on import of Indian groundnut, thereby providing market access after nine months. The Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development (MARD) has formally communicated the decision to the Indian Government stating that the Plant Protection Department of Vietnam (PPD) will issue import permits for groundnuts for January 18, 2016.
5. Which country to partner ISRO in Mars Mission?
a) France
b) Japan
c) USA
d) China
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Answer a) France. France will partner India in its next Mars mission, which the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch in 2018. French space agency, CNES has signed a letter of intent with the ISRO for French participation in the next Mars mission. India’s first Mars mission was a technology demonstrator.
6. Which Indian Player replaces Finch as No 1 batsman in T20 Internationals?
a) Rahul Sharma
b) MS Dhoni
c) Virat Kohli
d) None
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Answer c) Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli was rewarded for his stupendous performance in India’s clean sweep against Australia in the T20 internationals as he replaced Aaron Finch as the top-ranked batsman in the ICC list for the shortest format.
7.Song Young-han beats whom to win Singapore title?
a) Seine Netlio
b) Tatiana Calderon
c) Pietro Fittipaldi
d) Idol Spieth
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Answer d) Idol Spieth. South Korean Song Young-han held his nerve to edge his role model, world number one Jordan Spieth, by a shot to win the Singapore Open in a weather-delayed Monday finish. Song returned to par the last three holes of his final round for a one-under 70 and 12-under total of 272, claiming the first title of his career after a number of second place finishes on the Japan, Korean and OneAsia Tours.
8. Which Country became the number one side in the ICC T20 rankings?
a) China
b) India
c) South Africa
d) Pakistan
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Answer b) India. India became the number one side in the ICC T20 rankings after whitewashing Australia in the three-match series. India, who are also the number one in Tests, overtook the West Indies to reach the top sport in the shortest format. India have 120 rating points, two more than the Caribbean unit. Sri Lanka also have 118 rating points like the West Indies but they are third in the charts. India have hit top form in the T20 format ahead of the World T20 to be held at home in March-April. They had famously won the inaugural World T20 in South Africa in 2007.
9. Benoit Violier dies aged 44, was a/an________.
a) Chef
b) Singer
c) Painter
d) Guitarist
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Answer a) Chef. Benoit Violier – whose renowned three-star restaurant in a small Swiss town was in December ranked best in the world – was found dead in his in an apparent suicide. Mr Violier, 44, ran the Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in Crissier, near the city of Lausanne.
10. Frank Finlay who died at 89, was a/an______.
a) Actor
b) Writer
c) Painter
d) Athlete
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Answer a) Actor. Frank Finlay, the British actor known for his Oscar-nominated work as Iago in Othello and 1975’s The Three Musketeers, has died, at the age of 89. Finlay had over 100 credits to his name and last appeared in the U.K.’s television mini-series Four Seasons in 2009.
