Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been named as the Sports Person of the Year in the India Sports Awards 2015?
a) Kuldeep Handoo
b) Dipa Karmakar
c) Lalita Babar
d) Jai Kishore
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Answer c) Lalita Babar. Long-distance runner Lalita Babar was named as the Sports Person of the Year in the India Sports Awards 2015. The Indian Sports Award were were given away at the conclusion of day one of ‘Turf 2015-16’, organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) with the support of the Sports Ministry.
2. Who won the Breakthrough Sports Person of the Year?
a) Dipa Karmakar
b) Suresh Raina
c) Kushan Jian
d) Abhinav Gupta
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Answer a) Dipa Karmakar.
3. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Diageo-controlled United Spirits Ltd?
a) UK Sinha
b) MK Sharma
c) NR Mishra
d) JN Jain
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Answer b) MK Sharma. Mallya’s exit from the board of United Spirits ended a long-drawn tussle between him and the majority owner, UK’s Diageo, following allegations of irregularities on loans given to UB Group companies.
4. Minister of Railways, Suresh Prabhu has announced plans to set up a dedicated, cross functional team called SUTRA. What is A in SUTRA?
a) Arrangement
b) Analytics
c) Analysis
d) Agency
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Answer b) Analytics. SUTRA – Special Unit for Transportation Research and Analytics. The unit’s objective is to carry out detailed analytics leading to optimised investment decisions and operations.
5. Who will be the new director general of the Coast Guard?
a) Dhananjay Singh
b) Sukwinder Singh
c) Rajendar Singh
d) Mukesh Singh
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Answer c) Rajendar Singh. Rajendra Singh will be the new director general of the Coast Guard. This is the first time that the force will get a chief from its own internal cadre since it was set up in 1978 as the country’s fourth armed force after the Army, Navy and IAF.
6. The Reserve Bank of India has announced an open market operation (OMO) purchase of government securities worth ___________ on March 3.
a) Rs 10,000 Crore
b) Rs 12,000 Crore
c) Rs 14,000 Crore
d) Rs 16,000 Crore
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Answer b) Rs 12,000 Crore. The RBI conducts OMO purchases in order to infuse liquidity into the system whenever there is a deficiency, while it conducts OMO sales to suck excess liquidity from the system.
7. What is the present Child Mortality Rate in India?
a) 46
b) 47
c) 48
d) 49
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Answer c) 48. Union Women and Child Development minister Maneka Gandhi said India has the third highest child mortality rate among SAARC countries with 48 deaths reported per 1000 live births.
8. According to the The Indian Express Power List, who is the second powerful person in India?
a) Amit Shah
b) Sonia Gandhi
c) Mohan Bhagwat
d) Rajnath Singh
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Answer c) Mohan Bhagwat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led his party the BJP to a landslide victory in the 2014 national elections, remains the most powerful Indian.
9. Who is the third richest person in the World?
a) Amancio Ortega
b) Jeff Bezos
c) Carlos Slim Helu
d) Bill Gates
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Answer a) Amancio Ortega. Industrialist Mukesh Ambani remains India’s richest person with a sharp surge of 30 per cent in his net worth to $26 billion, pushing his global rank to 21st on a worldwide rich list topped by Bill Gates.
10. The European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo against ___________.
a) Saudi Arabia
b) Iran
c) Iraq
d) Pakistan
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Answer a) Saudi Arabia. EU lawmakers, who voted overwhelmingly in favor of an embargo, said Britain had licensed more than $3 billion of arms sales to Saudi Arabia since Saudi-led forces began military operations in Yemen in March last year.
11. Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis Pair’s winning streak (41 matches) has been ended by Elena Vesnina and Daria Kasatkina of ____________.
a) Switzerland
b) Russia
c) Germany
d) Italy
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Answer b) Russia. Mirza and Hingis had started their win streak in September at the U.S. Open, the first of nine straight titles.
