Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been appointed mentor of the Kings XI Punjab for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL)?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Virender Sehwag
c) Rahul Dravid
d) None
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Answer b) Virender Sehwag. Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag has been appointed mentor of the Kings XI Punjab for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL). Sehwag will work closely with head coach Sanjay Bangar and would be responsible for guiding and motivating the squad.
2. Who has been appointed Senior Director for the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group at the World Bank?
a) Atul Mittal
b) Saroj Kumar Jha
c) Satish Mishra
d) Salil Mehta
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Answer b) Saroj Kumar Jha.Saroj Kumar Jha has been appointed Senior Director for the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group at the World Bank. Jha, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, was World Bank’s Regional Director for Central Asia based in Almaty since February 2012.
3. The Reserve Bank of India has kept key interest rates unchanged at__________.
a) 6.00
b) 5.50
c) 6.75
d) 7.5
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Answer c) 6.75. The Reserve Bank of India has kept key interest rates unchanged at 6.75%, in line with market expectations saying that it awaits further data on the development of inflation and the impact from the 7th Central Pay Commission which has recommended wage hikes.
4. India has got its first underwater restaurant in_________.
a) Hyderabad
b) New Delhi
c) Ahmedabad
d) Mumbai
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Answer c) Ahmedabad.India has got its first underwater restaurant in Ahmedabad, giving a new experience to food lovers. According to reports, the restaurant – The Real Poseidon – has a dining area which has been created 20 feet below ground level.
5. Which has been emerged as the fastest-growing state in the whole country with a growth rate of 9.7% in 2013-14?
a) Bihar
b) Goa
c) Hyderabad
d) Meghalaya
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Answer d) Meghalaya. The tiny hill state of Meghalaya has been emerged as the fastest-growing state in the whole country with a growth rate of 9.7% in 2013-14. The state has scored higher than the fastest-growing big state of Madhya Pradesh (9.5%) and several notches ahead of the national growth rate. The data has been released by IndiaSpend.
6.WHO declared ________ as an international emergency.
a) Zika Virus
b) EBOVE
c) HIV
d) None of the above
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Answer a) Zika Virus.The World Health Organization declared the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency, a rare move that signals the seriousness of the outbreak and gives countries new tools to fight it.
7.World’s First “Robot Run” Farm to come up in_______.
a) 2020
b) 2016
c) 2018
d) 2017
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Answer d) 2017. A Japanese firm plans to open the world’s first fully automated, human-free farm – which means robots will do almost every job from watering seedlings to harvesting crops. Spread, a Kyoto-based company said it intends to start operating the farm by 2017 with an entire staff of robots and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day.
8.Craftsvilla acquires ________ for $4.5 Million
a) Blaze
b) Overnite Express
c) Sendd
d) Doton
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Answer c) Sendd. Mumbai-based ethnic etailer, Craftsvilla, has acquired Mumbai-based on-demand shipping service provider startup Sendd for about $4.5 Mn. Sendd was founded by Nav Agrawal (IIT Bombay dropout), Sumeet Wadhwa (IIT Bombay Alumni) and Sargun Singh (IIT Bombay Alumni) in April 2015.
9. Delhi and ______ ink pact for visa-free travel of envoys
a) Kabul
b) Herat
c) Puli Khumri
d) Khost
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Answer a) Kabul. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the Chief Executive Officer of Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, and expressed his gratitude to the government and people of Afghanistan for their bravery in protecting Indians when the Indian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif was attacked early this month.
10. Aditya Mehta has won the National Snooker Championship 2016. He defeated______.
a) Pankaj Advani
b) Manan Chandra
c) Neil Robertson
d) None
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Answer b) Manan Chandra. Aditya Mehta has won the National Snooker Championship 2016. He defeated Manan Chandra by 6-3 in the men’s final round of the National Snooker Championship 2016 that took place in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. In women’s final round at National snooker championship 2016 Vidya Pillai claimed the title by defeating Amee Kamani by 4-2.
