Current Affairs Quiz
1. Two new Hindi writers have been chosen for the 11th Navlekhan award of the Bharatiya Jnanpith. Who are they?
a) Amlendu Tiwari and Om Nagar
b) Amit Patel and Krishnakant Bhattacharya
c) Ram Joshi and Devanand Patnaik
d) Dilip Chatterjee and Manoj Chawla
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Answer a) Amlendu Tiwari and Om Nagar. The decision to confer the award on Tiwari for his novel ‘Parityakt’ and on Nagar for his non-fictional prose ‘Nib Ke Cheere Se’ was taken unanimously by a selection panel headed by senior writer and journalist Madhusudan Anand.
2. Who has been awarded the Diploma of Honour and President’s Button by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF)?
a) Geroge Kutty
b) Abhinav Bindra
c) Rupadevi
d) Jai Akash
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Answer b) Abhinav Bindra. The 33-year-old Beijing Olympic gold medallist was bestowed the honour by ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Rana.
3. Naresh Bedi has been honored with V Shantaram Life Time Achievement Award. Who is he?
a) Politician
b) Businessman
c) Scientist
d) Wildlife Filmmaker
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Answer d) Wildlife Filmmaker. At the inaugural ceremony of MIFF 2016, Fadnavis and Col. Rathore honoured the veteran wildlife film maker Naresh Bedi with the V Shantaram Life Time Achievement Award.
4. Who was honoured with a special award for her contribution to the film industry as curtains came down on Yashwant International Film Festival?
a) Jaya Bachchan
b) Waheeda Rehman
c) Hema Malini
d) Rani Mukherjee
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Answer b) Waheeda Rehman. The 6th Yashwant International Film Festival-2016 is a joint venture of Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan and Pune Film Foundation.
5. Leslie Berland has been named as the Chief Marketing Officer of
a) Facebook
b) Google
c) Microsoft
d) Twitter
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Answer d) Twitter. Leslie Berland has been named as Twitter’s new chief marketing executive. Hailing from the financial sector, Berland was Executive Vice President, Global Advertising, Marketing & Digital Partnerships at American Express.
6. Who has been appointed as the chairman and managing director of NTPC Ltd?
a) Dhananjay Singh
b) Arjun Singh
c) Gurdeep Singh
d) Prakash Singh
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Answer c) Gurdeep Singh. Government of India has appointed Gurdeep Singh, currently head of Gujarat State Electricity Corp, as the chairman and managing director of NTPC Ltd, India’s biggest power producer.
7. Who has been appointed as the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD)?
a) Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey
b) Dr. Amit Sohail Khan
c) Dr. Raj Kapoor
d) Dr. Krishna Kant Mishra
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Answer a) Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey. Dr. Pandey is a Science Graduate from University of Allahabad and Medical Graduate from Agra University in 1990.
8. Girish Kumar Ahuja and Pushpendra Rai are appointed as the Non-Official Directors of __________.
a) Canara bank
b) SBI
c) IOB
d) bank of Baroda
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Answer b) SBI. Ten part-time Non-Official Directors (NODs) have been appointed by the government on the board of various public sector banks.
9. Akash is
a) Air to Air missile
b) Air to Surface Missile
c) Surface to Air Missile
d) None of these
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Answer c) Surface to Air Missile. India has test fired its indigenously-built surface-to-air Akash missile from complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha.
10. Which country has the highest number of tuberculosis cases in the world?
a) Brazil
b) China
c) India
d) Indonesia
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Answer c) India. To support India’s efforts to end tuberculosis, US development agency USAID has announced grants aimed at scaling up innovative solutions for combating the disease in a country.
11. IRCTC has limited how many tickets per month to one user?
a) Five
b) Six
c) Seven
d) Eight
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Answer b) Six. In a bid to facilitate genuine users and prevent touting activities, a limit has been imposed by authorities on IRCTC online ticket booking and this has been cut to a maximum of 6 tickets in a month from the existing provision of maximum of 10 tickets by an individual user.
12. Who has been officially announced as America’s favourite Hollywood star?
a) Johnny Depp
b) Leo Dicaprio
c) Tom Hanks
d) Dan Radcliffe
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Answer c) Tom Hanks. The Bridge of Spies actor topped the annual Harris Poll which drew the results from a survey of over 2,200 adults. His closest competitor was actor Johnny Depp.
13. Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) and Bharti Airtel will merge their telecom operations in
a) Nepal
b) Bangladesh
c) Bhutan
d) Malaysia
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Answer b) Bangladesh.
14. ____________ has acquired education-technology startup LearnSprout.
a) Apple
b) Google
c) Microsoft
d) IBM
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Answer a) Apple. LearnSprout is a three-year-old, San Francisco-based software startup whose online data insights help K-12 educators track students’ performances.
15. Paul Kantner, who passed away recently, was associated with
a) Politics
b) Science
c) Music
d) Philanthropy
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Answer c) Music. Paul Kantner, one of the giants of the San Francisco music scene has died.
