Current Affairs Quiz
1. Wendell Lira is associated with which of the following games?
a) Cricket
b) Football
c) Hockey
d) Badminton
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Answer b) Football. Wendell Lira won the 2015 FIFA Puskas Award for his spinning bicycle kick while playing for Goianesia in the Brazilian Goias state championship.
2. Jallikattu is a famous traditional sport in
a) Karnataka
b) Kerala
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Andhra Pradesh
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Answer c) Tamil Nadu. Days after the central government gave a go ahead to Jallikattu, the Supreme Court ruled that the bull-taming festival would not be celebrated in Tamil Nadu this year.
3. Operation Cold is associated with
a) CBI
b) IB
c) BSF
d) NCC
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Answer c) BSF. Border Security Force (BSF) has launched ‘Operation Cold’ along the international border in Rajasthan covering Sriganganagar, Bikaner, Barmer and Jaisalmer that will continue till January 30.
4. The E-enabled Track Management System and Track Inventory Management System has been launched in
a) Northern Railways
b) Southern Railways
c) North Eastern Railways
d) Central Railways
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Answer a) Northern Railways. Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated the systems.
5. Who chaired the Defence Acquisition Council, which has recently approved major changes in Defence Procurement Procedure?
a) Ashok Sinha
b) Rajnath Singh
c) Manohar Parrikar
d) Arun Jaitely
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Answer c) Manohar Parrikar. The new DPP (Defence Procurement Procedure) will streamline defence acquisitions made by the Defence establishments in India and give a big impetus to indigenisation through the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
6. ____________ has become the first State to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level.
a) Gujarat
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Kerala
d) Telangana
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Answer d) Telangana
7. Which country has recently reshuffled it’s military headquarters in a major revamp?
a) USA
b) Russia
c) China
d) Japan
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Answer c) China. In a major military reform, Chinese President Xi Jinping has reorganised four army headquarters by replacing them with 15 new agencies under the Central Military Commission (CMC) headed by him, tightening his control over the world’s largest force.
8. A new social security agreement signed between India and _______________ has come into operation enabling people of both nations to avail retirement benefits in each other’s country.
a) UK
b) USA
c) Australia
d) France
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Answer c) Australia. The Agreement signed in November 2014 came into operation on January 1, 2016.
9. Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes is located in
a) Hisar
b) Hyderabad
c) Chennai
d) Bengaluru
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Answer a) Hisar. Scientists at Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB) in Hisar claimed to have successfully produced a cloned buffalo offspring ‘Cirb Gaurav’.
10. Who has won the Ballon d’Or award for the world’s best player for the fifth time?
a) Neymar
b) Lionel Messi
c) Cristiano Ronaldo
d) Alexis Ronaldinho
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Answer b) Lionel Messi. The 28-year-old Argentine had 41.33% of the vote, with Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo (27.76%) second and Barca’s Neymar (7.86%) third.
11. Maria Teresa de Filippis, who passed away recently, was associated with
a) Gymnastics
b) Swimming
c) Archery
d) Formula One
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Answer d) Formula One. Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to compete in a world championship Formula One grand prix, has died at the age of 89.
