CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ
1. Name the Deputy Governor of RBI, who is likely to get re-appointed after his three-year term ends on February?
a) HR Khan
b) SS Mundra
c) R Gandhi
d) Urjit Patel
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Answer d) Urjit Patel. Patel, who joined the RBI in January 2013, heads its monetary policy department and is widely considered to be a trusted lieutenant to Governor Raghuram Rajan.
2. Which Indian bank will partner FINO PayTech to foray into the payments bank space?
a) Axis Bank
b) ICICI Bank
c) HDFC Bank
d) SBI
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Answer b) ICICI Bank. The ICICI Group, with about 16 per cent stake in FINO Paytech, a business correspondent, is the largest domestic shareholder. FINO Paytech has received ‘in principle’ licence from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to start a payment bank.
3. Who is the present Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas?
a) Anath Kumar
b) Shashi Kant Kapoor
c) Dharmendra Pradhan
d) Geetha Lakshmi
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Answer c) Dharmendra Pradhan. The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MoPNG) has launched an Online Initiative to engage the LPG Consumers and Citizens of India. Two online discussion forums have been launched and are available on myGov.in and mylpg.in for Citizen-Friendly Services and Increasing LPG Coverage in the Country.
4. ______ festival is also known as Uttarayana.
a) Pot
b) Book
c) Paint
d) Kite
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Answer d) Kite. The International Kite Festival has began at Surat and Rajkot in Gujarat with kite-flyers from 31 countries set to participate in the week-long event. The festival will be held in Vadodara, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad city, Bhuj, Porbandar, Modhera and Khambhat cities.
5. NPCI has collaborated with ___________ Services India to launch Aadhaar Enabled Payment System.
a) CSC e-Governance
b) Fidelity e-Governance
c) CNL Groups
d) Infosys
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Answer a) CSC e-Governance. India’s retail payment platform NPCI and CSC eGov have jointly launched Aadhaar enabled payment system that will facilitate government entitlements such as NREGA as well as old age pension.
6. Domain of which country has become the world’s most commonly used in the internet?
a) Germany
b) India
c) China
d) USA
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Answer c) China. China’s country code domain ‘.cn’ has become the world’s most commonly used in the internet with 16.36 million users, surpassing Germany’s ‘.de’ domain.
7. According to the poll carried out by WIN/Gallup International, ___________ is the Happiest country in the world.
a) Saudi Arabia
b) Finland
c) Switzerland
d) Colombia
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Answer d) Colombia. Second Rank goes Fiji Islands. Third Rank goes to Saudi Arabia.
8. Who is El Chapo?
a) Famous Politician
b) Former President of Mexico
c) World Famous Athlete
d) World’s Top Drug Lord
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Answer d) World’s Top Drug Lord. Mexico recaptured the world’s top drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
9. Victoria Azarenka is associated with which of the following sport?
a) Golf
b) Badminton
c) Tennis
d) Swimming
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Answer c) Tennis. Former world number one Victoria Azarenka of Belarus won her first title since 2013 by beating Angelique Kerber of Germnay in the Brisbane International final.
10. Hopman Cup is associated with
a) Cricket
b) Tennis
c) Badminton
d) Football
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Answer b) Tennis. Australians Nick Kyrgios and Daria Gavrilova beat Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina and Alexandr Dolgopolov to win the mixed teams Hopman Cup in Perth.
11. Novak Djokovic beats ___________ to win Qatar Open title.
a) Roger Federer
b) Stan Wawrinka
c) Rafael Nadal
d) Leander Paes
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Answer c) Rafael Nadal. World number one Novak Djokovic claimed his first title of the year with an impressive 6-1 6-2 win over Rafael Nadal in the Qatar Open.
12. Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis have won their _______ consecutive title by lifting the WTA Brisbane trophy.
a) Fourth
b) Fifth
c) Sixth
d) Seventh
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Answer c) Sixth. The top seeded pair defeated the German wildcards Angelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic 7-5 6-1 in mere 69 minutes.
(Also Read the Current Affairs for January 09, 2016)
