Current Affairs Quiz
1. Sanjay Leela Bhansali and ________________ have been chosen for 2016 Dinanath Mangeshkar Award.
a) Ranbir Kapoor
b) Shah Rukh Khan
c) Ranveer Sigh
d) Rishi Kapoor
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Answer c) Ranveer Sigh. On April 24 every year, the Mangeshkars honour the finest artistes in India to commemorate Lataji’s father Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar’s death anniversary. The award will be bestowed upon them by Lata Mangeshkar at a function to be held in Pune on 24 April to commemorate Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar’s death anniversary.
2. Bollywood actor ______________ was felicitated by Melbourne based South Asian community members in Australia.
a) Milind Soman
b) Varun Pruthi
c) Varun Dhawan
d) Randeep Hooda
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Answer d) Randeep Hooda. The members of a non profit organization South Asian Public Affairs Council (SAPAC) honoured the visiting actor with an achievement award for making his mark in the film industry.
3. Senior IPS officer _____________ took charge as the new Commissioner of Delhi Police.
a) Alok Kumar Verma
b) Ashok Kumar Singh
c) Dilip Bhattrai
d) Sanjay Mukherjee
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Answer a) Alok Kumar Verma. Kumar succeeds BS Bassi who was at loggerheads with the AAP government on a range of issues in the last one year.
4. Who was unanimously elected as the Chairperson of the Governing Council of International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)?
a) Dinesh Sharma
b) Suresh Sharma
c) Ramesh Sharma
d) Sravesh Sharma
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Answer a) Dinesh Sharma. He has been elected for a period of two years in its 39th Session held in Rome. IFAD was set-up in 1977 as the 13th Specialised Agency of the United Nations and works towards removing poverty and hunger in rural areas all over the world.
5. National Science Day is observed on
a) February 29
b) February 28
c) February 27
d) February 26
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Answer b) February 28. National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian physicist Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on 28 February 1928. For his discovery, Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. The theme of the year 2016 is on “Scientific Issues for Development of the Nation”.
6. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has recently exposed a scam of more than Rs 1000 Crores related to
a) Electronic Items
b) Basmati Rice
c) Textiles
d) Frozen Chicken
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Answer b) Basmati Rice. According to a probe being done by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), over two lakh metric tonnes of Basmati rice was illegally offloaded in Dubai in the last over a year instead of in Bandar Abbas in Iran. Over 25 big exporters from Haryana and Punjab are under the scanner of DRI and other agencies for their involvement in the multi-crore scam.
7. From March 1′ 2016, which country will have Visa-On-Arrival facility?
a) Japan
b) Netherlands
c) Denmark
d) Norway
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Answer a) Japan. As announced by the Prime Minister, the Visa on Arrival for Japanese nationals is being launched from tomorrow i.e. 1st March, 2016. This facility will be available at six airports viz. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
8. Lamitye 2016 – It is a joint training exercise between the armies of India and _________.
a) Mauritius
b) Maldives
c) Sri Lanka
d) Seychelles
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Answer d) Seychelles. Lamitye 2016, the seventh Indo-Seychelles joint training exercises, aiming to improve interoperability between both armies in counter-insurgency operations, has concluded at Victoria, Mahe Island in Seychelles.
9. _________ will end the support for its app for BlackBerry devices including BlackBerry 10 by the end of 2016.
a) Skype
b) Viber
c) Whatsapp
d) Facebook
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Answer c) Whatsapp. The company will also do away with WhatsApp Messenger for Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, smartphones with Android 2.1, Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1.
10. AS Kiran Kumar is the Chairman of ___________.
a) DRDO
b) ISRO
c) BHEL
d) PETA
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Answer b) ISRO. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman A S Kiran Kumar signaled country’s readiness for Chandrayaan II mission, which will be India’s second mission to the moon. Chandrayaan II is an advanced version of the previous Chandrayaan-1 mission.
11. Basant Bahadur Singh Rana is associated with
a) Archery
b) Shooting
c) Walking
d) Squash
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Answer c) Walking. London Olympian Basant Bahadur Singh Rana clinched the gold medal in men’s 50km race walk event on the second and final day of the National Championships in Jaipur.
12. Who won the 2016 Dubai ATP Tennis title?
a) Novak Djokovic
b) Andy Murray
c) Stan Wawrinka
d) Roger Federer
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Answer c) Stan Wawrinka. World number four Stan Wawrinka overcame the spirited challenge of Marcos Baghdatis to win the Dubai Tennis Championship. The Swiss triumphed 6-4 7-6 (15-13) for his ninth straight final win and his second title of the season.
13. Who won the 2016 Qatar Open Title?
a) Serena Williams
b) Martina Hingis
c) Maria Sharapova
d) Suarez Navarro
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Answer d) Suarez Navarro. Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain won her second career WTA title when she rallied past Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the Qatar Open final.
