Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who won gold medal in an international sand art championship in Russia?
a) Sudarsan Pattnaik
b) Prakash Murti
c) Manas Kumar
d) Narayan Sahu
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Answer a) Sudarsan Pattnaik. Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won gold medal in an international sand art championship in Russia. He made sand art — “Mahatma Gandhi sculpture for non-violence and peace” — in the contest. The week-long sand sculpture competition had started on April 21 at Kolomenskoye, Moscow. Twenty top sculptors from across the world displayed their sculptures.
2. Which two noted Indian scholars have been conferred with Mongolia’s highest civilian award “North Star”?
a) Birendra Nath Datta and Mukund Lath
b) Lokesh Chandra and Mansura Haider
c) Gabriel Chiramel and Ramaranjan Mukherji
d) Ram Shankar Tripathi and Madhu Khanna
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Answer b) Lokesh Chandra and Mansura Haider. Mongolia has conferred its highest civilian award “North Star” on two noted Indian scholars – Lokesh Chandra and Mansura Haider for their contribution to Mongolian studies.
3. How many people appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the global body’s University Council to formulate its principles and policies?
a) 15
b) 20
c) 12
d) 16
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Answer c) 12. An Indian academician is among 12 people appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the global body’s University Council to formulate its principles and policies, consider and approve biennial budget and work programme. Radha Kumar, 63, the Director General of New Delhi-based think tank Delhi Policy Group was named to the governing UN University Council. The 12 appointees, who will take office next month, will serve for terms of either three or six years.
4. Which committee constituted by the Information and Broadcasting ministry to look holistically into the functioning of the censor board?
a) Ashok Lahiri Committee
b) Shyam Benegal committee
c) Bimal Jalan Committee
d) R.K Singh Committee
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Answer b) Shyam Benegal committee . The Shyam Benegal-headed committee constituted by the Information and Broadcasting ministry to look holistically into the functioning of the censor board submitted its report to I&B minister Arun Jaitley. The panel was set up on January 1 to take a relook at the functioning of the controversy-ridden board, headed by Pahlaj Nihalani.
5. GOI constitutes _____________ committee for doubling farmers’ income by 2022.
a) Naresh Chandra committee
b) Ashok Dalwai committee
c) Ashok Mehta committee
d) Abbas committee
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Answer b) Ashok Dalwai committee. GOI constitutes Ashok Dalwai committee for doubling farmers’ income by 2022. The central government has set up a panel to suggest ways to double farm incomes by 2022, as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The task of the inter-ministerial committee will prepare a blueprint to transition farm policies from being production oriented to based on incomes or value addition.
6. Which two facilities to have in all mobile phone handsets from 2017?
a) Video calling and High 3G
b) Panic Button and High 5G
c) Panic Button and GPS system
d) Panic Button and Video Calling
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Answer c) Panic Button and GPS system. The Department of Telecommunications has notified the “Panic Button and Global Positioning System in Mobile Phone Handsets Rules 2016”. The Ministry of Women and Child Development had taken up the issue of installation of a physical panic button on mobile phones as one of the initiatives in June 2014.
7. World Day for Safety and Health observed on?
a) April 26
b) April 23
c) April 28
d) April 30
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Answer c) April 28. The 2016 World Day for Safety and Health at Work was observed across the world on 28 April 2016. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) celebrates World Day for Safety and Health to raise awareness of safety in the workplace. Occurring annually since 2003, each year it focuses on a specific area and bases a campaign around the theme.
8. BlackBerry, in partnership with digital payments platform Digit secure, has launched a new app named _____________.
a) BBM Money
b) BBM Cash
c) MBM Money
d) VBM Money
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Answer a) BBM Money. BlackBerry, in partnership with digital payments platform Digit secure, has launched its money transfer service, called BBM Money, in India. BlackBerry users can download the BBM Money app and transfer funds to one another through BlackBerry Messenger. The company said that the transfers are instant and secure, but restricted to the BBM app.
9. The Election Commission has launched a mobile application titled _________for the upcoming Kerala Assembly polls.
a) “Samadhan “
b) “e election”
c) “e poll”
d) “e voter”
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Answer d) “e voter”. The Election Commission has launched a mobile application titled ‘e-voter’ for the upcoming Kerala Assembly polls, scheduled to be held on May 16 this year. The app will help voters search for their names in the electoral roll, check the location of their polling station, seek information regarding candidates, view affidavits filed by them and file complaints.
10. Which country has successfully launched the Kunpeng-1B sounding rocket?
a) Japan
b) India
c) China
d) Russia
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Answer c) China. China has successfully launched the Kunpeng-1B sounding rocket from a launch pad in Danzhou City in the southern Chinese Hainan Province. The research rocket, which is due to take measurements in the upper atmosphere and helps with high-speed flight and space tourism research, was launched by China’s National Space Science Center (NSSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
11. India successfully launches ____________ navigation satellite.
a) INSAT-4B
b) IRNSS-1G
c) IRNSS-1E
d) IRNSS-1F
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Answer b) IRNSS-1G. India successfully launches IRNSS-1G navigation satellite. With the launch of IRNSS-1G satellite, ISRO’s Indian Regional Navigation Spacecraft System (IRNSS) which is India’s own version of the Global Positioning System (GPS), is in place! The flawless launch of IRNSS-1G, the seventh satellite in the navigation system, marks a big milestone for the Indian Space Research Organisation.
12. What is India’s position in global anti doping rule violations in WADA report?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 2
d) 1
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Answer a) 3. According to the World Doping Agency, India had the third highest Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) in 2014, with 96 cases, behind Russia (148) and Italy (123). Belgium (91), France (91), Turkey (73), Australia (49), China (49), Brazil (46) and South Korea (43) followed India in the top 10. Out of these 96 dope violations, 79 (56 men and 23 women) failed in-competition tests while 13 (9 men and 4 women) were caught out-of-competition.
13. Who won the gold medal at the 2016 Commonwealth Judo Championship finals in the 63 kg weight category?
a) Abbas Ahmed
b) Yashpal Solanki
c) Mohamed Asif
d) Garima Chaudhary
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Answer d) Garima Chaudhary. Garima Chaudhary has won the gold medal at the 2016 Commonwealth Judo Championship finals in the 63 kg weight category at Port Elizabeth in South Africa on Thursday. Notably, the 26-year-old Meerut-based judoka was the only representative from India to contest for Judo Olympic medals at the London Olympic Games in 2012.
14. VT Thomas, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Actor
b) Cartoonist
c) Politician
d) Scientist
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Answer b) Cartoonist . Well known cartoonist VT Thomas, the creator of ‘Boban and Molly‘, has passed away at the age of 86. VT Thomas, better known as Toms for the Malayali population. ‘Bobanum Moliyum’ cartoon series was first published in Malayala Manorama weekly in the late 1950s, following which he worked with Manorama for nearly three decades, before retiring in 1987.
15. Harry Wu, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Architect
b) Musician
c) Human rights activist
d) Actor
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Answer c) Human rights activist. Chinese human rights activist and former political prisoner, Harry Wu, has died at age 79. Wu died while on vacation in Honduras.
