CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ
1. The National Energy Conservation Day is observed on
a) December 11
b) December 12
c) December 13
d) December 14
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Answer d) December 14. The main aim of National Energy Conservation Day is to create awareness among the people about the significance of our energy resources and also to minimize the energy consumption.
2. ISRO is all set to launch how many Singapore Satellites from Sriharikota?
a) Five
b) Six
c) Seven
d) Eight
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Answer b) Six. Of the six satellites, TeLEOS-1 is the primary satellite weighing 400kg whereas the other five satellites include two micro-satellites and three nano-satellites.
3. Losar Festival is celebrated in
a) Bihar
b) Karnataka
c) Jammu and Kashmir
d) Mizoram
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Answer c) Jammu and Kashmir. The ten-day long festival of Losar festival has begun in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir with illumination of religious and residential places on the eve of the festival. Losar is Tibetan word for ‘new year’.
4. Who has been appointed as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia?
a) Mohammad Javed
b) Ahmad Javed
c) Salman Mustaq
d) Salim Maalik
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Answer b) Ahmad Javed. Mumbai Police Commissioner Ahmad Javed has been appointed as the Ambassador to Saudia Arabia. A 1980-batch IPS officer, Javed is scheduled to retire on January 31, 2016.
5. ___________ has invested USD 3 million in US based wearable device startup firm WHOOP to pick up a minority shareholding in the company.
a) TCS
b) Wipro
c) Infosys
d) CTS
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Answer c) Infosys. Infosys said WHOOP’s system includes a device worn by athletes on their wrist that continuously measures key strain and recovery variables and actionable analytics powered by proprietary algorithms that generate intensity and recovery scores.
6. Olympic medallist Vijay Kumar has won gold medal in the 59th National Shooting Championship, held in ________.
a) Hyderabad
b) Bengaluru
c) Kolkata
d) New Delhi
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Answer d) New Delhi. Gurpreet Singh of the Army won the silver while national rapid fire pistol champion Pemba Tamang bagged the bronze to make it a clean sweep for the Army team.
7. Japan’s Kento Momota and Nozomi Okuhara emerged champions in the men’s and women’s singles categories, respectively, in the BWF Superseries Finals, held in _______.
a) Dubai
b) TOkyo
c) Beijing
d) Moscow
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Answer a) Dubai.
8. Which country has evacuated more than 700,000 people ahead of the powerful typhoon Melor?
a) Laos
b) Vietnam
c) Philippines
d) Cambodia
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Answer c) Philippines.
9. Who has been selected as the new national president of IIMM?
a) KJ Panagariya
b) OP longia
c) Arvind Reddy
d) Mukesh Sharma
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Answer b) OP longia
10. ________ has got approval from the DCGI to sell generic version of Daclatasvir, hepatitis C treatment drug.
a) Sun Pharma
b) Biocon
c) Natco Pharma
d) Reddy Labs
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Answer c) Natco Pharma. Daclatasvir is the first-in-class NS5A inhibitor used in combination with Sofosbuvir for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 3 infection.
11. Name the Indian Origin politician, who has been appointed as South Africa’s new Finance Minister by President Jacob Zuma?
a) Parvin Gordhan
b) Karthick Shanmugham
c) Rahul Krishnan
d) Kishore Raveendran
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Answer a) Parvin Gordhan.
