Current Affairs Quiz
1. ________________________ to be conferred with AAAI Lifetime Achievement Award
a) Rangaswamy
b) Kandaswamy
c) Srinivasan K Swamy
d) None of these
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Answer c) Srinivasan K Swamy. The Advertising Club, Madras, has in its diamond jubilee year, conferred the Distinguished Service Award (DSA) to Srinivasan K Swamy, Chairman and Managing Director, RK SWAMY BBDO. This award is the highest honour to be given to an individual in India for outstanding contribution in the advertising industry. Swamy is the sixth recipient of this award in the last 22 years, with RK Swamy being the first recipient of the award in 1994.
2. Who has been appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd?
a) Ajay Gupta
b) Sanjay Gupta
c) Prakash Gupta
d) Mahesh Gupta
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Answer b) Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay Gupta, who had been officiating as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD)of Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. (KRCL), has been appointed as the CMD of the corporation. He is the youngest ever CMD of KRCL. Prior to his elevation, he was working as Director (Operating and Commercial) of KRCL.
3. SIDBI partners ______________ for loan guarantee under World Bank scheme
a) State Bank of India
b) Axis Bank
c) Yes Bank
d) ICICI Bank
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Answer c) Yes Bank. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between SIDBI and YES BANK under the partial risk sharing facility (PRSF) for financing energy efficiency projects programme sponsored by the World Bank. As per the terms of the agreement, Sidbi will guarantee 75% of loans of up to Rs 15 crore extended to the energy efficiency projects.
4. Vice- President Hamid Ansari would inaugurate the new building of Uttar Pradesh State Information Commission (UPSIC) in ________________
a) Lucknow
b) Allahabad
c) Kanpur
d) Varanasi
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Answer a) Lucknow . Vice- President Hamid Ansari would inaugurate the new building of Uttar Pradesh State Information Commission (UPSIC) in Gomtinagar area of the state capital. The programme was scheduled on July 8 but was postponed to July 11 following the festival of Eid.
5. Which state government plans to plant 5 crore saplings across the state to set a Guinness World Record?
a) Madya Pradesh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Andra Pradesh
d) Rajasthan
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Answer b) Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his parliamentarian wife Dimple Yadav will take active part in the mega plantation drive, under which the state government plans to plant 5 crore saplings across the state to set a Guinness World Record. The initiative gives boost to the UP government’s ‘Clean UP, Green UP’ Mission.
6. ________________ inks pact with IITs for Centre for Propulsion Technology
a) ISRO
b) AAI
c) DRDO
d) NIDM
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Answer c) DRDO. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has signed Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with IIT-Bombay and Madras to establish a bi-nodal ‘Centre of Propulsion Technology’ (CoPT) at the two institutions. The Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed among DG DRDO S Christopher, IIT Bombay Director Prof Devang Khakhar and IIT Madras Director Prof B Ramamurthi.
7. Government of India plans to clean 10 iconic places under Swachh Bharat Mission. Who is the Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation?
a) Radha Mohan Singh
b) Uma Bharathi
c) Ramvilas Paswan
d) Narendra Singh Tomar
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Answer d) Narendra Singh Tomar . The Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Narendra Singh Tomar has stated that government will carry out a drive to clean 10 iconic places in the country as part of a pilot project under the Swachh Bharat mission. Mr. Tomar said his ministry was in the process of selecting 10 iconic places for cleaning under the mission and most would be either tourist or religious spots.
8. Who is the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce & Industry?
a) Nirmala Sitharaman
b) Jitendra Singh
c) Piyush Goel
d) Smriti Irani
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Answer a) Nirmala Sitharaman. The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce & Industry, Nirmala Sitharaman to lead the delegation of over 110 Indian companies which showcase India’s engineering prowess at the Russian engineering and technology event under the Brand India Engineering campaign.
9. Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh announced that a National Research Centre for Banana will be set up in ______________
a) Gujarat
b) Kerala
c) Rajasthan
d) Bihar
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Answer d) Bihar . Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh announced that a National Research Centre for Banana will be set up in Bihar. The land for this was allotted when Jitan Ram Manjhi was the Chief Minister, he said. The announcement came while inaugurating ‘Horti-Sangam 2016’, an event where farmers from over a dozen states put fruits, vegetables, and flowers on display.
10. India and _______________ signed five bilateral agreements during PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the African country.
a) Tanzania
b) Libya
c) Zambia
d) Tunisia
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Answer a) Tanzania . India and Tanzania signed five bilateral agreements during PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the African country. These include the extension of a $92 million line of credit by India for the rehabilitation of the water supply system in Tanzania’s Zanzibar region. The four other agreements include MoUs on water resource management and visa waiver for diplomatic passport holders.
11. The 27th summit biannual summit of NATO 2016 was held in _______________
a) Beijing, China
b) Warsaw, Poland
c) Tokyo, Japan
d) New Delhi, India
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Answer b) Warsaw, Poland. The 2-day long NATO Summit concluded on 9 July 2016 in Warsaw, Poland. It was the 27th summit biannual summit of NATO since its inception in 1949. The summit was attended by Heads of State and Heads of Government of NATO members including the USA President Barack Obama, Polish president Andrzej Duda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Besides, the summit also saw the presence of Heads of Government of non-member States and organizations of NATO including Afghanistan.
12. Who won the Wimbledon men’s singles titles 2016?
a) Andy Murray
b) Roger Ferderer
c) Rafael Nadal
d) Milos Raonic
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Answer a) Andy Murray. Andy Murray threw his racket into the crowd and punched the air in delight after demolishing Milos Raonic to secure his second Wimbledon title. Britain’s Andy Murray became Wimbledon champion for the second time with a superb performance against Canadian sixth seed Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 on Centre Court in the final. Murray is the first British man to win multiple Wimbledon singles titles since Fred Perry in 1935.
13. Who won Wimbledon women’s doubles title 2016?
a) Tímea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova
b) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
c) Serena Williams and Venus Williams
d) Caroline Garcia and France Kristina Mladenovic
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Answer c) Serena Williams and Venus Williams. Serena Williams and Venus Williams won their six Wimbledon doubles title after defeating Tímea Babos of Hungary and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-4. The American pair is now 14-0 in Grand Slam finals. This is the fourth time Serena has won both singles and doubles titles in a single year, while Venus has done it twice herself.
14. British Paralympian __________________ won the first-ever Wimbledon wheelchair men’s singles title 2016.
a) Stéphane Houdet
b) Nicolas Peifer
c) Stefan Olsson
d) Gordon Reid
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Answer d) Gordon Reid. British Paralympian Gordon Reid won the first-ever Wimbledon wheelchair men’s singles title, after defeating Sweden’s Paralympic champion Stefan Olsson 6-1, 6-4. Reid also won the wheelchair men’s doubles title, alongside compatriot Alfie Hewett. Wheelchair tennis has featured in Wimbledon since 2001, but 2016 is the first edition to feature men’s and women’s singles.
15. Who won the British Grand Prix title 2016?
a) Nico Rosberg
b) Verstappen
c) Lewis Hamilton
d) Fernando Alonso
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Answer c) Lewis Hamilton. Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix for the third year in a row, beating team-mate Nico Rosberg, who finished second. This was Hamilton’s 47th career victory, helping cut Rosberg’s overall lead to four points after the tenth race of the season. Red Bull’s Dutch Max Verstappen finished third.
16. Edhi Foundation Chairman, philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi who passed away recently, He was from ______________
a) India
b) Pakistan
c) Bangladesh
d) Saudi Arabia
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Answer b) Pakistan . Edhi Foundation Chairman, Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi passed away at the age of 92 in Karachi due to kidney failure. He was the founder and head of the Edhi Foundation in Pakistan and known as Angel of Mercy, Pakistan’s ‘Father Teresa’ and was considered country’s most respected figure.
