CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ
1. Who will head the committee recently made by GOI to oversee the revival of three urea plants as well as the progress of Jagdishpur-Haldia gas pipeline.
a) Arvind Panagariya
b) Arvind Kejriwal
c) Arvind Baweja
d) H L Dattu
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Answer a) Arvind Panagariya. He is the vice Chairman of NITI Aayog.
2.Which Country hosted the first Bhagvad Gita Conference?
a) The United States of America
b) Nepal
c) Mauritius
d) United Kingdom
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Answer d) United Kingdom. It was hosted in London. Indian and British experts came together with an aim to seek answers to the innumerable questions.
3. The government has firmed up plans to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to_______
a) 62%
b) 49%
c) 51%
d) 32%
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Answer b) 49%.The government has firmed up plans to bring down its holding in IDBI Bank to 49 per cent, marking a big bang start to its commitment to reform state-run banks.
4. Enda Kenny is associated with
a) Canada
b) Denmark
c) Greece
d) Ireland
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Answer d) Ireland. He is Ireland’s Prime Minister. In Ireland they call TAOISEACH to Prime Minister which means HEAD of GOVERNMENT.
5. Who has been honoured by the Indian community in Singapore?
a) Uma Rajan
b) Sonia Gandhi
c) Chanda Kochar
d) Arundati Bhattacharya
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Answer a) Uma Rajan. a 75-year-old Indian-Singaporean doctor. She got the award. Dr. Uma Rajan became the first woman to receive the Community Champion Award.
6.Which star will be honored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation?
a) Sharukh Khan
b) Tom Cruise
c) Leonardo DiCaprio
d) Amir Khan
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Answer c) Leonardo DiCaprio.The actor will receive the organization’s “Actors Inspiration Award” at a Nov. 5 event in Los Angeles. He will be honored for his work in films like The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator.
7. Who has been named the first-ever global advocate for girls and women at the United Nations Foundation?
a) Angelina Jolie
b) Taylor Swift
c) Jennifer Lopez
d) Jennifer Aniston
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Answer c) Jennifer Lopez. The 46-year-old star will travel the globe in an attempt to highlight the plight of females struggling in war zones, refugee camps and even on the mean streets of her native New York, reported Marie Claire.
8. Who won their sixth title of the year at the Guangzhou Open?
a) Sania Mirza
b) Martin Hingis
c) Serena Williams
d) Both a and b
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Answer d) Both a and b.
9. Who is the New CEO of the Volkswagen Group?
a) Matthias Mueller
b) Dieter Zetsche
c) Harald Krüger
d) None of the above
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Answer a) Matthias Mueller. The Supervisory Board held a meeting in its headquarters in Wolfsburg and decided to appoint Matthias Mueller, 62, as CEO Volkswagen AG with immediate effect.
10. Which social site is transforming itself as an enabler of Internet access through various initiatives aimed at reaching the next billion users?
a) Facebook
b) Twitter
c) Instagram
d) All of the above
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Answer a) Facebook. Facebook has announced that it has partnershiped with Internet Service Providers in India to launch wi-fi enabled broadband services in rural areas.
11. Which co. has launched its much-awaited RE60 quadricycle?
a) Atlas
b) Accell Group
c) Bajaj Auto
d) Hero Cycle
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Answer c) Bajaj Auto. Bajaj Auto has launched its much-awaited RE60 quadricycle, which has been named ‘Qute’, at a free-on-board (FoB) price tag of $2,000 (around ₹1.35 lakh).
12.________ wins the CSIR Award for S&T Innovations for Rural Development – 2014.
a) CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow
b) CSIR-CIMAP, JNU
c) ICS-UNIDO
d) None of the option
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Answer a) CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow.
