Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been nominated for ‘Global Teacher Prize’?
a) David Miller
b) Robin Chaurasiya
c) Kumar Gautham
d) Nisha Subramani
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Answer b) Robin Chaurasiya. Robin Chaurasiya, an Indian teacher who runs a non-profit school in Mumbai for girls from the city’s red light areas has been named in the top 10 short-list for a global prize for teachers.
2. The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley inaugurated the Non Tax _______ Portal.
a) Bill
b) Receipt
c) Reform
d) Payment
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Answer b) Receipt. The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley inaugurated the Non Tax Receipt Portal (NTRP), developed by the Office of Controller General of Accounts (CGA). The portal provides a one-stop platform to citizens /corporates/other users for making online payment of Non-Tax Receipts to Government of India.
3. Warren Richardson is associated with
a) Cricket
b) Volleyball
c) Photography
d) Economist
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Answer c) Photography. The jury of the 59th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by Australian photographer Warren Richardson as the World Press Photo of the Year 2015.
4. The Union Cabinet gave its approval to amend section ______ of the Delimitation Act, 2002 and section ______ of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.
a) 9 and 11
b) 11 and 8
c) 6 and 13
d) 11 and 9
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Answer d) 11 and 9. The proposed amendments will now be available before the Parliament for passing. It will enable Election Commission to carry out limited delimitation of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies in the Cooch Behar District of West Bengal.
5. The China’s Silk Road Train does not pass through
a) Kazakhstan
b) Turkmenistan
c) Iran
d) Nepal
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Answer d) Nepal. The first freight train to resurrect the ancient Silk Road route arrived in Iran from China. It took just 14 days for the 32-container train loaded with Chinese goods to complete the 5,900 mile (9,500 km) journey from China’s eastern Zhejiang province through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
6. IMCOR is associated with India and _____________.
a) Malaysia
b) Moscow
c) Myanmar
d) Mauritius
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Answer c) Myanmar. As part of the ongoing India-Myanmar defence relations, Navies of the two countries have conducted IMCOR along the Maritime boundary since 2013. IMCOR – India-Myanmar Coordinated Patrol. It was successfully undertaken from February 13 to 16, 2016 along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) in the Andaman Sea.
7. What is Cobra Gold?
a) Upcoming James Bond Movie
b) Multilateral Exercise
c) A Diamond
d) Naval Operation to rescue people from Pirates
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Answer b) Multilateral Exercise. A 12-member team of the Indian Army is participating in the “Cobra Gold” multilateral exercises being hosted by Thailand, along with its counterparts from China and Pakistan. India has been invited to the exercises as an “observer plus” country.
8. ISRO and University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies are collaborating on developing the NEMO-AM satellite. What is N in NEMO-AM?
a) Neptune
b) NASA
c) Next
d) National
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Answer c) Next. NEMO-AM – Next Generation Earth Monitoring and Observation and Aerosol Monitoring.
9. Rio Haryanto is associated with
a) Basket Ball
b) Badminton
c) Formula One
d) Football
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Answer c) Formula One. Rio Haryanto will become Indonesia’s first Formula One driver after signing a deal with Manor Racing. The 23-year-old will make his F1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix on 20 March after testing in Barcelona next week.
10. ________ and ________ account for 55 percent of yearly global deaths from air pollution.
a) China and India
b) India and Brazil
c) China and USA
d) Russia and USA
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Answer a) China and India. Air pollution kills more than 5.5 million people around the world each year, with over half of those deaths occurring in fast-growing China and India. The number of premature deaths will continue to climb in the years ahead unless more aggressive measures against pollution are adopted.
