Current Affairs Quiz
1. The Department of Disinvestment has been renamed as __________________________________
a) Department of Investment and Public Asset Motivation
b) Department of Investment and Public Asset Management
c) Department of Investment and People Asset Management
d) Department of Industry and Public Asset Management
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Answer b) Department of Investment and Public Asset Management. The Department of Disinvestment has been renamed as Department of Investment and Public Asset Management or ‘Dipam‘, a decision aimed at proper management of Centre’s investments in equity including its disinvestment in central public sector undertakings.
2. The Government of India has merged Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan with _______________
a) ‘RASHTRIYA KHEL PROTSAHAN PURUSKAR’ programme
b) Youth India programme
c) Khelo India programme
d) None of these
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Answer c) Khelo India programme . The government of India has merged Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan (RGKA), launched by the previous UPA government, with the Khelo India programme for development of sports, thereby dropping former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s name from it. The move left the Congress fuming as this is not the first time that Rajiv Gandhi’s name is being dropped from a scheme after the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power.
3. April 21 is observed as?
a) Civil service day
b) Science day
c) Earth day
d) Administrative day
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Answer a) Civil service day. April 21 is observed as Civil Service day.
4. Who is the China’s Commander in chief of the military’s joint operations command centre?
a) Hu jintao
b) Wang Qishan
c) Xi mingze
d) Xi Jinping
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Answer d) Xi Jinping . China’s President Xi Jinping has taken on a new military title, in his latest move to exert greater control over the armed forces. Mr Xi is now commander in chief of the military’s Joint Operations Command Centre.
5. India and _______have agreed to adhere to “peaceful negotiations” to settle the vexed border issue and reach a “fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution”.
a) Japan
b) China
c) America
d) Russia
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Answer b) China. India and China have agreed to adhere to “peaceful negotiations” to settle the vexed border issue and reach a “fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution”. The decision was taken during the annual 19th round of boundary talks here betweenNational Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi to discuss the way forward to resolve the dispute which has bedevilled the relations between the two countries.
6. Europe has become the world’s first region to wipe out _______, with zero cases reported last year.
a) Zika virus
b) Ebola virus
c) Malaria
d) Rota virus
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Answer c) Malaria . Europe has become the world’s first region to wipe out malaria, with zero cases reported last year. The number of indigenous malaria cases dropped to zero in 2015 from 90,712 in 1995, and the last cases were reported in Tajikistan in 2014.
7. How many international organizations have joined hands to form the Platform for collaboration in Tax Matters?
a) 2
b) 5
c) 4
d) 3
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Answer c) 4. Four international organizations have joined hands to form the Platform for collaboration in Tax Matters. The Platform has been created as their step to boost global cooperation in tax matters. The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), announced a joint platform for collaboration on tax issues, a beginning step to design and implement international standards.
8. India’s premier rocket lab recently manufactured the world’s lightest material called _____________
a) Microlattice
b) Silica aerogel
c) Neutrolattice
d) Carbon
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Answer b) Silica aerogel. Scientists at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, India’s premier rocket lab recently manufactured the world’s lightest material called silica aerogel or‘blue air.’
9. Global consulting and technology services firm Accenture has set up a cyber center in ___________.
a) Hyderabad
b) Bengaluru
c) Chennai
d) Mumbai
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Answer b) Bengaluru. To expand its security presence, Global consulting and technology services firm Accenture has set up a cyber center in Bengaluru. The new facility brings together inter-disciplinary capabilities, ranging from innovation, incubation and development of new solutions to strategic consulting and transformation and the managed delivery of a broad range of cyber defense services.
10. Who is the new president of laos country?
a) Thongloun Sisoulith
b) Asang Laoly
c) Bounnhang Vorachit
d) Thongsing Thammavong
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Answer c) Bounnhang Vorachit. Laos’s National Assembly on Wednesday appointed Communist Party chief Bounnhang Vorachit as the country’s new president and named foreign minister Thongloun Sisoulith as prime minister.
