Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been named as most powerful woman in technology on the Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women list?
a) Indra Nooyi
b) Sheryl Sandberg
c) Chanda Kochhar
d) Ginni Rometty
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Answer b) Sheryl Sandberg.For the fifth consecutive year, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has been named the most powerful woman in technology on the Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women list, placing at No. 7 on the list overall. With a personal fortune of $1.4 billion, Sandberg is powerful not only as a billionaire and top executive at the world’s fifth most valuable brand, but also as a voice for female empowerment in the workplace and shared responsibilities at home.
2. How many Indians in Forbes 100 most powerful women list?
a) 10
b) 5
c) 2
d) 4
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Answer d) 4.Four Indian women led by Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman of the county’s largest lender, the State Bank of India (SBI), have been ranked in the latest Forbes list of 100 most powerful women in the world. While Bhattacharya has been ranked 25th, others are Chanda Kochhar of ICICI Bank (40th), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon (77th), andShobhana Bhartia of HT Media, which publishes the Hindustan Times (93rd).
3. Facebook appoints ________________ as Managing Director for India
a) Umang Bedi
b) Ramesh Bedi
c) Bharathi Bedi
d) Kiran Bedi
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Answer a) Umang Bedi.Facebook India has named Umang Bedi as its managing director. He will take over from Kirthiga Reddy, who will be returning to the US to take on a new role at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters. Bedi has close to two decades of leadership experience covering sales, marketing and partnerships with multinational companies.
4. India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a USD 120 million loan pact for irrigation in ________________
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Odisha
c) Assam
d) Bihar
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Answer b) Odisha .India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a USD 120 million loan pact to improve irrigation and water management infrastructure in Odisha. The soft loan is the second tranche of a USD 157.5 million financing facility under the Orissa Integrated Irrigated Agriculture and Water Management Investment Program.
5. Online retail giant Amazon to invest ____ billion in India’s online market
a) $3
b) $5
c) $10
d) $7
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Answer a) $3.Online retail giant Amazon is investing $3 billion into its India operations this year, according to founder Jeff Bezos, who was speaking at the U.S.-India Business Council Annual Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., as a part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s U.S visit. The additional money brings the total investment in Amazon India to $5 billion.
6. Ratan Tata invests in kids gaming startup ___________________
a) Sentient Gaming
b) GSN Games
c) Madrat Games
d) Game4u
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Answer c) Madrat Games.MadRat Games is an innovative startup with an aim to provide the world a more wholesome, happy and healthy way of living. Founded by IIT Mumbai and Carnegie Mellon alumnus Rajat Dhariwal along with his team Madhumita Halder and Manuj Dhariwal in 2010, the offline product gaming startup will use the proceeds for product development and pre-order campaign. Initially, it built offline educational games such as board games, learning puzzles, toys and mobile games.
7. Which state to become open defecation-free by November?
a) Karnataka
b) Kerala
c) Rajasthan
d) Gujarat
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Answer b) Kerala.Kerala is all set to become open defecation-free with the state-run Suchitwa Mission aiming to achieve the goal by November 1 this year. State Chief Secretary SM Vijayanand convened a meeting of all stakeholders and higher officials recently to evaluate the progress of the mission. Suchitwa Mission is the state nodal agency for sanitation.
8. World Ocean day is observed on?
a) June 5
b) June 7
c) June 2
d) June 8
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Answer d) June 8.World Oceans Day is a global day of ocean celebration and collaboration for a better future. This site serves as the central coordinating platform for World Oceans Day, with free resources and ideas for everyone – no matter where you live – to help expand the reach and impact of World Oceans Day on June 8 and year round. This year’s theme is “Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet” and individuals and organizations across the planet are taking action for prevention of plastic pollution in our ocean.
9. India has been ranked _____ out of 163 countries in Global Peace Index 2016
a) 150
b) 53
c) 141
d) 98
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Answer c) 141.India has been ranked 141 on a Global Peace Index — making it less peaceful than countries like Burundi, Serbia and Burkina Faso — with violence taking a USD 680-billion toll on its economy in 2015. In a ranking of 163 countries, compiled by global think tank Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), Syria has been named the least peaceful, followed by South Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. On the other hand, Iceland was ranked as the world’s most peaceful country, followed by Denmark and Austria.
10. Indian Reserve Battalion in Rajasthan will be named after ___________________
a) Faisal Khan
b) Maharana Pratap
c) Udai Singh
d) Akbar
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Answer b) Maharana Pratap.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has announced that a new Indian Reserve Battalion in Rajasthan will be named after Maharana Pratap, the great warrior of Mewar region. The Home Minister, who is on a two-day visit to the state, made the announcement at a programme. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje had made a request to Singh in this regard.
11. Who becomes a first woman to contest US presidential elections?
a) Michelle Obama
b) Hillary Clinton
c) Loretta Lynch
d) Penny Pritzker
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Answer b) Hillary Clinton.Hillary Clinton has cemented her position as the presumptive Democratic nominee, seizing her place in history as the first woman to contest a US presidential election at the head of a major political party. The former Secretary of State cruised to victory in four of the week’s six state primaries including, crucially, California – where her rival, Bernie Sanders, had hoped to fuel his flagging campaign.
12. ___________________ became the first Asian country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV
a) Thailand
b) Singapore
c) India
d) Bangladesh
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Answer a) Thailand.The World Health Organization has announced that Thailand became the first Asian country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, a milestone in the fight against the disease. The announcement is a boost for a generation of Thai health workers who have transformed the nation from one of Asia’s most HIV-ravaged societies to a pin-up for how to effectively tackle the crisis.
13. Suzuki chairman ____________________________to step down as CEO
a) Toshihiro Suzuki
b) Michio Suzuki
c) Osamu Suzuki
d) Toshifumi Suzuki
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Answer c) Osamu Suzuki.Suzuki Motor Corp patriarch Osamu Suzuki is stepping down as chief executive and the Japanese automaker promised to cut executive pay and slash 2015 bonuses, hoping to draw a line under the bruising admission of major flaws in its fuel tests. Executive vice president Osamu Honda, who also served as chief technical officer, will retire, taking responsibility for the research and development team at the heart of the testing scandal.
14. World’s 1st passenger drone cleared for testing at _____________
a) China
b) USA
c) Japan
d) Russia
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Answer b) USA.The world’s first passenger drone capable of autonomously carrying a person in the air for 23 minutes has been given clearance for testing in Nevada. Chinese firmEhang, which unveiled the electric Ehang 184 passenger drone at CES in Las Vegas in January, has partnered with the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (Goed) to put the drone through testing and regulatory approval.
15. Which country has launched a smartphone app for terror alerts?
a) USA
b) India
c) Norway
d) France
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Answer d) France.The French government has launched a smartphone app that would alert users to possible terror attacks and provide them with information on how to stay safe. The French Interior Ministry announced the app ahead of the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament, which kicks off outside Paris.
16. Which State government to launch medical insurance of Rs. 2 lakh for BPL families?
a) Jharkhand
b) Uttarkhand
c) West Bengal
d) Telangana
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Answer a) Jharkhand.Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das said that medical insurance of ₹2 lakh will be launched for Below Poverty Line (BPL) families for the treatment of serious ailments. They will also be given an insurance cover of ₹50,000 for common diseases. Further, families earning ₹72,000 per annum will be provided with free dialysis facilities, Das added.
17. What is the present Reverse Repo Rate?
a) 6%
b) 6.5%
c) 4%
d) 6.25%
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Answer a) 6%.The RBI kept the repo rate unchanged at a five-year low of 6.5% in its bi-monthly monetary policy review meeting. The central bank has cut the repo rate by 150 basis points since January 2015, including a 0.25% reduction in April. The RBI further maintained the reverse repo rate at 6%, and the cash reserve ratio at 4%.
18. The __________________ started observing a safety awareness week to educate people regarding safety at railway level crossings.
a) Eastern Railways
b) Northern Railways
c) Western Railways
d) Southern Railways
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Answer c) Western Railways.The Western Railway started observing a safety awareness week to educate people regarding safety at railway level crossings. The awareness campaign will be conducted among school and college students and panchayats, and safety drives will be held at level crossings. Further, all six divisions of Western Railway will observe the International Level Crossing Awareness Day on June 10.
19. Which State government has decided to reduce land circle rates in urban and peri-urban areas by around 50%?
a) Assam
b) Uttarkhand
c) Jammu and Kashmir
d) Tamil Nadu
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Answer b) Uttarkhand.The Uttarakhand government has decided to reduce land circle rates in urban and peri-urban areas by around 50%. Circle rate is the minimum value fixed for the sale of land, houses and other real estate entities. Earlier in January, the state government had effected a 10%-30% increase in land circle rates, drawing flak from several quarters and opposition BJP.
20. Which State police will conduct yoga classes for its personnel to reduce their “fatigue” and help them “discharge their duties better”?
a) Kerala
b) Nagaland
c) Jharkhand
d) Rajasthan
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Answer c) Jharkhand.The Jharkhand Police will conduct yoga classes for its personnel to reduce their “fatigue” and help them “discharge their duties better,” a police official said on Tuesday. “The police headquarters has already been allocated ₹1.44 crore for buying equipment… for yoga training,” said a home department official. The classes are likely to start on International Yoga Day (June 21).
21. The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has set up water ATMs which provide 300 ml water at the cost of Rs. ___ in railway stations across India.
a) 5
b) 10
c) 2
d) 1
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Answer d) 1.According to reports, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has set up water ATMs which provide 300 ml water at the cost of ₹1 in railway stations across India. The IRCTC aims to install 4,500 such water ATMs across 1,200 railway stations in the first phase, officials said. Passengers can pay using cash or smart cards, they added.
22. Maria Sharapova has been banned for _________ years by the International Tennis Federation for using a prohibited drug.
a) Three
b) Two
c) One
d) Five
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Answer b) TwoMaria Sharapova has been banned for two years by the International Tennis Federation for using a prohibited drug. The Russian was provisionally banned in March after testing positive for meldonium at January’s Australian Open. The heart disease drug, which 29-year-old Sharapova says she has been taking since 2006 for health issues, became a banned substance on 1 January 2016.
