Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been conferred with Aryabhata Award recently?
a) R Gandhi
b) Arvind Subramaniyan
c) Avinash Chander
d) AS Kiran Kumar
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Answer c) Avinash Chander. Dr Avinash Chander, Former Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and ex-DRDO chief, has received the prestigious Astronautical Society of India’s Aryabhata Award.
2. Father Agnel School in __________ has pipped 500 schools from across the country to emerge as the ‘greenest school’.
a) Noida
b) Tiruvananthapuram
c) Varanasi
d) Guwahati
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Answer a) Noida. The award given away by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) came as part of a green school programme promoted by the CSE.
3. Gianni Infantino has been selected as the President of ________.
a) ICC
b) WHO
c) FIFA
d) UNSC
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Answer c) FIFA. World football’s governing body elected the Swiss-Italian lawyer Gianni Infantino after he defeated nearest rival Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa in the second round of voting. Infantino, 45, succeeds Sepp Blatter, who stepped down last year with the organization mired in allegations of corruption and wrongdoing.
4. Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) has inaugurated India’s first Digital Automotive Experience Outlet called Unity Hyundai in ___________.
a) Mumbai
b) Hyderabad
c) New Delhi
d) Chennai
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Answer c) New Delhi. The company has taken a ‘New Thinking, New Possibility” approach which is aimed at offering customers a completely new way to shop for a car by adopting digital-screens and artworks according the varying tastes of different buyers.
5. President Pranab Mukherjee has declared ________ as the first digital state of the country.
a) Maharashtra
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Kerala
d) Telangana
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Answer c) Kerala. The president noted Kerala’s progress in becoming digitally enabled, right from the launching of a pilot Akshaya e-literacy project in Malappuram district in 2002 to now when the state revenue department alone is issuing about 30,000 digital certificates to the citizens daily.
6. Which state government has taken action against e-commerce giants Snapdeal, Amazon and Flipkart which were selling medicines online without valid licences?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana
c) Karnataka
d) Maharashtra
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Answer d) Maharashtra. Food and Drug Administration, Maharashtra has taken regulatory action against these three companies, which were found to be selling or distributing medicines to consumers through internet without valid sales bill and requisite licenses.
7. __________ has won India’s first-ever gold mining lease auctioned by the Chhattisgarh government.
a) Vedanta Limited
b) Reliance Industries
c) Tata Groups
d) Reddy Mines
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Answer a) Vedanta Limited. The gold mine at Baghmara in Baloda Bazar district, about 140 km north-east of Raipur, is one of the oldest explored deposit of the precious metal in Central India.
8. ISRO is working towards the establishment of a Satellite Tracking & Data Reception Station and Data Processing Facility in
a) Vietnam
b) Laos
c) Cambodia
d) Malaysia
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Answer a) Vietnam. This facility is intended to acquire and process Indian Remote Sensing Satellite data pertaining to ASEAN region and disseminate to ASEAN Member countries.
9. BK Garudachar, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Journalist
b) Economist
c) Cricketer
d) Hockey Player
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Answer c) Cricketer. He was the former captain of Mysore who played as an all-rounder. Garudachar’s best figures were 11 wickets for 62 runs when Mysore won their first Ranji Trophy match against Hyderabad during the 1941/42 season.
10. Rajesh Pillai, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Film Maker
b) Philanthropist
c) Politician
d) Member of the Parliament
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Answer a) Film Maker. South Indian filmmaker Rajesh Pillai died due to liver problem at the age of 42. His latest film Vettah, starring Kunjacko Bobban, Manju Warrier and Indrajith, released recently.
