CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ
1. Which two cities sign pact to be sister cities?
a) Bengaluru and San Francisco
b) Bengaluru and Tokyo
c) Tokyo an Hyderabad
d) Bengaluru and Beijing
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Answer a) Bengaluru and San Francisco. Bengaluru, the silicon valleys of the east and San Francisco the silicon valley of the west have inked pacts to foster cultural bonds by entering in the field of public art and promoting women entrepreneurship.
2. Honda car India introduces an app. Name it.
a) Honda app
b) Hondacars
c) Honda Connect
d) Honda All
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Answer c) Honda Connect. Honda Cars India introduced Honda Connect – an App that provides convenient access to detailed information about Honda vehicles and other services.
3. Lok Sabha passed a bill that will allow _______ to have collaboration with other PSUs in the nuclear field.
a) BHEL
b) GAIL
c) NTPC
d) NPCIL
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Answer d) NPCIL. Lok Sabha passed a bill that will allow state-run NPCIL to have collaboration with other PSUs in the nuclear field. The government has allayed the fears that it will facilitate FDI into the sector or allow participation of a private company in atomic power production. .
4. World Bank approves _____ sum to support clean India campaign.
a) USD 1.0 billion
b) USD 2.0 billion
c) USD 2.5 billion
d)USD 1.5 billion
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Answer d)USD 1.5 billion. The World Bank has approved a USD 1.5 billion loan for the ambitious clean India campaign. It aims to support the government in its efforts to ensure all citizens in rural areas have access to improved sanitation and end the practice of open defecation by 2019.
5. Who won the women’s gold in air rifle in the 59th National shooting championship on December 15′ 2015?
a) Geetakshi Dixit
b) Apurvi Chndela
c) Itzhak serena
d) None
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Answer b) Apurvi Chndela. Apurvi Chandela won the women’s gold in air rifle in the 59th National shooting championship on December 15. Geetakshi Dixit clinched the silver, one point behind Apurvi. In the final, Anjum Moudgil led throughout before she stumbled with shots of 9.6 and 9.9 that left her win the bronze medal.
6. Who is the CEO of Google?
a) Sundar Pichai
b) Larry Page
c) Satya Nadella
d) Shivam Balochia
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Answer a) Sundar Pichai. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will meet President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his first visit to India since he took the top job in August. There will be no new launches this time, but Pichai will meet Google employees. The India-born CEO, who will visit India on Dec 16 and 17, is scheduled to address the media on Dec 16. He will meet Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad later.
7. Full form of SAARC.
a) South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation
b) South Asian Associate of Regional Cooperation
c) South Asian Association of Rally Cooperation
d) South Asian Association of Regional Cooperate
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Answer a) South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation. India is all set to launch an “India Business Card” for the business community in SAARC countries.The stumbling block so far for issuance of this card had been Pakistan, but the decks have now been cleared with renewed ties with Pakistan. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi all set to visit Pakistan to attend the SAARC summit in late 2016, the government wants to deliver on the announcements he made during the summit in Nepal.
8. Name the Japaneses firm which won its first solar power project in India.
a) SoftBank
b) Inmobi
c) Forteyli
d) None
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Answer a) SoftBank. Marking its debut in the Indian solar sector after its investment announcement of $20 billion, Japan’s Soft Bank won its first solar power project in India. The Japanese firm won the 350 megawatt (Mw) project, under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (NSM), through its joint venture (JV) company SBG Cleantech
9. Which country has reopened its embassy in Iraq after 25 years.
a) Pakistan
b) Saudi Arabia
c) India
d) UAE
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Answer b) Saudi Arabia.Saudi Arabia has reopened its embassy in Iraq, a quarter of a century after Riyadh broke off diplomatic relations with Baghdad following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The staff of the Saudi embassy arrived on Dec 15 in Baghdad..
10. Transactions above Rs. ________need PAN from January 1
a) Rs. 2 lakhs
b) Rs. 1 lakhs
c) Rs. 3 lakhs
d) Rs. 4 lakhs
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Answer a) Rs. 2 lacs. In a bid to curtail domestic black MONEY flow, the finance ministry on Dec 15 announced mandatory furnishing of permanent account number (PAN) for all transactions above Rs 2 lakh through all payment modes with effect from January 1, 2016.
11. SC bans diesel vehicles above ________ engine upto 31st March 2016.
a) 2000 cc
b) 1500 cc
c) 3000 cc
d) 5000 cc
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Answer a) 2000 cc. The Supreme Court has banned the registration of new diesel-guzzling luxury cars and SUVs with an engine capacity of over 2000 cc until March 31. The decision effectively stops the sale of popular vehicles such as Toyota’s Innova, Mahindra & Mahindra’s Scorpio, the Tata Safari and Sumo, and Mitsubishi Pajero during the ban period, but existing diesel cars can continue to ply. It also hurts luxury car-makers across the board as most of their best-sellers are diesel-driven..
13. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)?
a) K V Chowdhary
b) Arun Kumar Jain
c) Anita Kapur
d) Akhil Sharma
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Answer b) Arun Kumar Jain. Senior revenue service officer Arun Kumar Jain has been appointed as the Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). The appointment has been also approved by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
14. Who has been appointed as as UP Lokayukta?
a) Ranjan Gogoi
b) NV Ramana
c) Virendra Singh
d) Akhil Sharma
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Answer c) Virendra Singh .A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and NV Ramana appointed former Allahabad High Court judge Virendra Singh as the new UP Lokayukta, after recording the repeated failure of the state government to comply with the court’s directives — the state government has breached at least three deadlines in the last one year.
15. Vijay Diwas was observed on______.
a) 16 December
b) 17 December
c) 15 December
d) 6 December
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Answer a) 16 December .Vijay Diwas has been observed across India on 16 December 2015. On this day, nation remembers martyrs, who laid down their lives during Indo-Pak War of 1971. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Army Chief D S Suhag, Navy Chief R K Dhowan and Air Chief Arup Raha remembered martyrs and paid tributes at Amar Jawan Jyoti in New Delhi
