CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ
1. How many new cities join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network?
a) 43
b) 45
c) 47
d) 49
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Answer c) 47. UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, has announced the designation of 47 cities from 33 countries as new members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
2. Who has been awarded with the 2015 Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement?
a) Arundhathi Roy
b) James Carlson
c) Mohammaed Ismail Khan
d) Salman Rushdie
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Answer d) Salman Rushdie. The Award honours writers who fully exercise their freedom of creativity and thrive on dialogue and debate.
3. GOI has imposed an anti-dumping duty ranging from five to 57 per cent on import of cold-rolled flat products of stainless steel for how many years?
a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) Five
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Answer d) Five. The highest duty has been levied on steel imports from China at 57.39 per cent, followed by the European Union at 52.56 per cent. Imports from Thailand will have the least duty imposition of 4.58 per cent.
4. The International Mountain Day has been observed on
a) December 10
b) December 11
c) December 12
d) December 13
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Answer b) December 11. 2015 Theme: “Promoting mountain products for better livelihoods”
5. With assistance from Japan, India’s first bullet train network will come up between Mumbai and ________ at a cost of Rs 98,000 crore.
a) Kolkata
b) Delhi
c) Ahmedabad
d) Chennai
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Answer c) Ahmedabad
6. Government of India Signs MoU to establish 3 IIITs. Which of the following is not among those three places?
a) Ranchi
b) Varanasi
c) Nagpur
d) Pune
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Answer b) Varanasi.
7. _________ has become the tenth state to join UDAY Scheme.
a) Karnataka
b) Telangana
c) Gujarat
d) Tamil Nadu
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Answer c) Gujarat.
8. Veteran farmer’s leader and founder of Shetkari Sanghatana has passed away recently. What is his name?
a) Murali Krishnan
b) Sharad Joshi
c) Shankar Khanna
d) Arjun Prasad
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Answer b) Sharad Joshi. Born in Satara, Joshi completed his education in Mumbai and had worked as a lecturer in Economics in Pune University.He had also worked with the Indian Postal Services and United Nations before starting the pan Maharashtra farmer’s organisation called Shetkari Sanghatana.
9. Who got the second Hollywood Walk of Fame star recently?
a) Quentin Tarantino
b) Ron Howard
c) Christopher Nolan
d) James Cameroon
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Answer b) Ron Howard. Howard, who won an Oscar for best director for “A Beautiful Mind”, got a star on the Walk of Fame in 1981 for a television career. Howard’s latest film is a shipwreck story, “In the Heart of the Sea”.
10. Who has taken charge as Chairman of SAIL?
a) Pankaj Mishra
b) Neeraj Kapoor
c) Prakash Kumar Singh
d) Dhananjay Singh
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Answer c) Prakash Kumar Singh.
11. The Aegis Graham Bell award for developing a solution for the Internet of Things (IoT) has been conferred to
a) TCS
b) Wipro
c) Infosys
d) CTS
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Answer b) Wipro. The Aegis Graham Bell Award is the country’s innovation award in the field of Telecom, Internet, Media and Entertainment (TIME) and Social, Mobility Analytics and Cloud (SMAC).
12. Inle Lake is in which country?
a) Bhutan
b) Nepal
c) Bangladesh
d) Myanmar
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Answer d) Myanmar. Myanmar has launched the country’s first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve – Inle Lake in Shan state, opening a new chapter in its commitment to bio-diversity and eco-system conservation
13. Elizabeth Susan Koshy is associated with _______.
a) Archery
b) Swimming
c) Shooting
d) Cricket
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Answer c) Shooting. Kerala’s Elizabeth Susan Koshy has won the Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Gold at the 59th National Shooting Championships held at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting range in New Delhi.
14. Who has been conferred with the prestigious South East Asia Write Award?
a) JM Sali
b) KN Ahamad
c) CR Mustaq
d) NC Khan
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Answer a) JM Sali. Jamaludeen Mohamed Sali, a 76-year-old Indian-origin writer, whose 57 books are read in universities has been declared as the winner of this year’s prestigious South East Asia Write Award.
15. Serik Akhmetov, the former Prime Minister of _______ has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
a) Uzbekistan
b) Turkmenistan
c) Kazakhstan
d) Kyrgystan
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Answer c) Kazakhstan. A court in the industrial city of Karaganda found Akhmetov guilty on four corruption-related charges including embezzlement and abuse of power.
16. Deborah Herold is associated with
a) Boxing
b) Shot-put
c) Disc Throwing
d) Cycling
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Answer d) Cycling. Indian cyclist Deborah Herold became the first Indian female cyclist to be ranked fourth in the World Elite Women Ranking for the 500m time trial event.
17. DuPont has been merged with
a) Pfizer
b) Sun Pharma
c) US Chemicals
d) Dow Chemical Company
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Answer d) Dow Chemical Company. The merged company will be named DowDuPont and it will have a combined market capitalization of approximately 130 billion dollars at announcement.
