Current Affairs Quiz
1. Bharti AXA General Insurance has appointed ________________ as its CEO and Managing Director.
a) Ajay Kulkarni
b) Sanjeev Srinivasan
c) Dhananjay Singh
d) Alok Gupta
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Answer b) Sanjeev Srinivasan. Srinivasan joined Bharti AXA General Insurance in August 2016 as Chief Commercial and Principal Officer.
2. Diego Maradona represented which country in Football?
a) Italy
b) France
c) Argentina
d) Germany
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Answer c) Argentina. Former Argentine footballer Diego Maradona was inducted in the Italian Federation Hall of Fame in Florence.
3. What is C in CERT?
a) Common
b) Communication
c) Computer
d) Call
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Answer c) Computer. The Union Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval for an MoU between India and Vietnam in the field of Cyber Security. It was signed between Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), India and the Cyber Security Department, Ministry of Public Security, Vietnam.
4. The Capital of UAE is
a) Dubai
b) Abu Dhabi
c) Sharjah
d) Ajman
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Answer b) Abu Dhabi. Union Cabinet gave its nod for signing of five MoU with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
5. What is the Capital of Serbia?
a) Leskovac
b) Belgrade
c) Novi Sad
d) Kraljevo
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Answer b) Belgrade. The Union Cabinet has given ex-post facto approval to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between India and Serbia for promoting cooperation in the field of Information Technology and Electronics.
6. What is the Capital of Peru?
a) Cusco
b) Lima
c) Piura
d) Cajamarca
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Answer b) Lima. The Union Cabinet has approved holding negotiations for Trade Agreement with Peru on trade in goods, services and investment.
7. Asia’s cleanest village Mawlynnong is in which Indian state?
a) Manipur
b) Meghalaya
c) Sikkim
d) Nagaland
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Answer b) Meghalaya.
8. ____________ has become world’s richest football club.
a) Real Madrid
b) Chelsea
c) Manchester United
d) Arsenal
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Answer c) Manchester United.
9. C.V. Vishveshwara, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Novelist
b) Philosopher
c) Scientist
d) Economist
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Answer c) Scientist. Professor C.V. Vishveshwara who did pioneering work on black holes, passed away after a period of illness.
