CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ
1. Who will be made a saint of a Roman Catholic Church in September 2016?
a) Mother Jenny
b) Mother Teresa
c) Mother Nancy
d) Mother Daisy
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Answer b) Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa, the Nobel Laureate of Kolkata, to be made a saint of a Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis has recognized her second miracle and the mother will be given Sainthood.
2. Dena Bank ties up with ________ for Group Life Insurance to its Housing Loan customers under “Dena Grihaswami Suraksha Yojana”.
a) ICICI
b) Axis
c) HDFC
d) SBI Life
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Answer d) SBI Life. The insurance cover will be given to all housing loan borrowers at a very low premium.
3. Who will be honoured with Yash Chopra Memorial Award for the year 2015?
a) Rani Mukherjee
b) Rekha
c) Hema Maalini
d) Sri Devi
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Answer b) Rekha. The Veteran Bollywood actress Rekha to be honoured with Yash Chopra Memorial Award for the year 2015. She is third recipient of this award.
4. Rannotsav festival is famous in
a) Kolkata
b) Telangana
c) Gujarat
d) Mizoram
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Answer c) Gujarat. Rann utsav is a festival of Deserts with the full moon light is being celebrated this year in the Kutch lands of Gujarat.
5. Nasa’s Mars Curiosity rover has found high concentrations of ________ in the planet’s surface.
a) Diamond
b) Uranium
c) Silica
d) Carbon
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Answer c) Silica. Curiosity found much higher concentrations of silica at some sites it has studied in the past seven months than anywhere else it has visited since landing on Mars 40 months ago.
6. Who has been named 2015 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year?
a) Novak Djokovic
b) Sebastian Vettel
c) Usain Bolt
d) Dan Carter
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Answer d) Dan Carter. Carter, 33, was an integral part of the New Zealand team that beat Australia 34-17 to win the World Cup in October.
7. Who has been named the “most fascinating person” of 2015 by Barbara Walters on her annual ABC special?
a) Jennifer Lawrence
b) Scarlett Johnson
c) Emma Watson
d) Caitlyn Jenner
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Answer d) Caitlyn Jenner. Jenner’s name topped a list that included Amy Schumer, Bradley Cooper, Tracy Morgan, Misty Copeland, Bernie Sanders, Donna Karan, Ronda Rousey, Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump.
8. Which country has lifted it’s forty year old ban on oil export?
a) Syria
b) USA
c) Cuba
d) Venezuela
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Answer b) USA. The United States lifted a 40-year-old ban on export of oil, thus paving the way for energy deficient countries like India to open up another frontier to import oil from a distant friendly nation.
9. India’s biggest wildlife rescue centre has been commissioned in __________.
a) West Bengal
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Maharashtra
d) Uttar Pradesh
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Answer c) Maharashtra. Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has dedicated India’s biggest wildlife rescue centre, spread in 30 hectares in Gorewada, to wildlife lovers. This place will be a big asset for entire Vidarbha region where man-animal conflict is at its peak.
10. Which state government has banned the use of polythene bags across the State?
a) Rajasthan
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Madhya Pradesh
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Answer c) Uttar Pradesh. Seeking to make Uttar Pradesh an environemt-friendly place, the state government has decided to enforce the ban on the use of polythene across the state, a month after the Allahabad High Courts direction to prohibit its usage.
11. Chatla Sriramulu has passed away recently. Who is he?
a) Economist
b) Theatre Artist and Writer
c) Journalist
d) Singer
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Answer b) Theatre Artist and Writer. He was born in Vijayawada on December 5, 1931. Sriramulu acted and directed more than 100 plays and wrote several books.
12. Who has been appointed as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)?
a) SN Krishnan
b) RC Rao
c) RK Mathur
d) N Subramaniyam
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Answer c) RK Mathur. Former Defence Secretary RK Mathur has been appointed as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), breaking away from the convention of appointing the head from among the serving Information Commissioners.
13. Jimmy Hill, who passes away recently, was associated with
a) Cricket
b) Football
c) Rugby
d) Tennis
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Answer b) Football. Former Match of the Day presenter Jimmy Hill, one of English football’s most influential figures, died on Saturday at the age of 87.
14. Who has been named as India’s skipper in the ICC World T20 2016?
a) Vitar Kohli
b) Ajinkya Rahane
c) MS Dhoni
d) Suresh Raina
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Answer c) MS Dhoni. India is going to host the T20 world Cup for the very first time next year in March.
