Current Affairs Quiz – April 16 and April 17

1. Film Director and Actor Bidyut Chakraborty, who passed away recently, belongs to
a) West Bengal
b) Asom
c) Odisha
d) Gujarat

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Answer b) Asom

2. Who has been appointed as the new Ambassador to France?
a) Arun Bhatia
b) John Snow
c) Mohan Kumar
d) Kiran Kapoor

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Answer c) Mohan Kumar

3. India successfully test fired ________ from the Odisha Coast.
a) Agni III
b) Agni IV
c) Agni V
d) Agni II

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Answer a) Agni III

4. Surya Bahadur Thapa, who passed away recently, was the Former Prime Minister of
a) Bhutan
b) Sri Lanka
c) Nepal
d) Myanmar

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Answer c) Nepal

5. Who will chair the GOI’s Task Force, which has been set up to quicken the work on interlinking of rivers?
a) KN Chadurvedi
b) M Rajamohan
c) BN Navalawala
d) Kasturirangan

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Answer c) BN Navalawala

6. In India, the Telemedicine Initiative has been encouraged by
a) Indian Naval Command
b) Border Security Force
c) Kerala Government
d) Green Peace NGO

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Answer b) Border Security Force

7. BHEL Commissioned 600 MW Thermal Unit of the OP Jindal Super Thermal Power Project at
a) Gujarat
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Chhattisgarh
d) Rajasthan

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Answer c) Chhattisgarh

8. Who has been conferred with the prestigious Hevesy Medal Award 2015?
a) Aruna Kumari
b) Nisha Anand
c) Pavithra Subramaniyam
d) Susanta Lahiri

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Answer d) Susanta Lahiri

9. Which one of the following not among the Indians who have named in Time’s 100 most Influential People in the World?
a) Narendra Modi
b) Arvind Kejriwal
c) Chanda Kochar
d) Vikram Patel

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Answer b) Arvind Kejriwal

10. The first stadium in India to install solar panels on rooftop is
a) M Chinnaswamy cricket stadium
b) Mohali Cricket Stadium
c) AC Chidambaram Cricket Stadium
d) Eden Garden Cricket Stadium

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Answer a) M Chinnaswamy cricket stadium

11. Who becomes the New York’s first Indian American Judge?
a) Samyukta Sinha
b) Raja Rajeswari
c) Pavithra Ramanarayanan
d) Amrutha Anand

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Answer b) Raja Rajeswari

12. The Warship __________ is going to get its own shield.
a) INS Arjuna
b) INS Vikramaditya
c) INS Cauvery
d) INS Surya

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Answer b) INS Vikramaditya

13. Oil India Limited has commissioned Wind Energy Projects in
a) Gujarat and Rajasthan
b) Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh
c) Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
d) Haryana and Punjab

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Answer c) Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh