Current Affairs Quiz
1. Indian Origin professor _________________________ awarded Regius Professorship (royal patronage) by Queen Elizabeth II.
a) Lord Kumar Arun Singh
b) Lord Kumar Prasad Yadav
c) Lord Kumar Patnaik
d) Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya
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Answer d) Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya. Queen Elizabeth II has awarded the Regius Professorship (royal patronage) in Manufacturing to the department founded by Indian professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in the University of Warwick. IIT-Kharagpur alumnus Lord Bhattacharyya’s Warwick Manufacturing Group is reportedly the largest centre for manufacturing in the world. The UK has granted 14 such recognitions since Queen Victoria’s rule.
2. Who takes charge as Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore (SBT)?
a) NK Chari
b) CR Sasikumar
c) M Prakash Kumar
d) P Jayakumar
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Answer b) CR Sasikumar. CR Sasikumar has taken over as Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore (SBT), one of the associate banks of State Bank of India (SBI). Sasikumar started his career as a probationary officer with SBI in 1978 and has since held several key assignments.
3. The World Bank cuts Global Growth forecast to _______ in 2016
a) 2.4
b) 2.8
c) 3.0
d) 4.2
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Answer a) 2.4. The World Bank has lowered its global growth forecast, warning that risks to growth have increased since its earlier projection in January. The world economy will grow at 2.4% in 2016 and at 2.8% in 2017, the World Bank said in its June report on global economic prospects, lower than the earlier forecast of 2.9% and 3.1%, respectively, mainly on account of a slower than expected recovery in advanced economies.
4. International team of astronomers found an alien world named _______________
a) HOST- 18c
b) HALL-18a
c) HATS-18b
d) HACK-18d
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Answer c) HATS-18b. International team of astronomers found an alien world named HATS-18b. It is a giant hot Jupiter exoplanet tidally spinning up its parent star. The team led by Kaloyan Penev of Princeton University carried out the observation campaign between April 2011 and July 2013. The new findings were published online on 2 June 2016 on arXiv.org.
5. Government of India launched “Surya Mitra” mobile app for _______________
a) Solar Power
b) Magnetic Power
c) Wind Power
d) None of these
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Answer a) Solar Power. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy launched “Surya Mitra” mobile App at National Workshop on Rooftop Solar Power here today. The GPS based mobile app is developed by National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) which is an autonomous institution of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE).
6. Which country got support for admission into Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)?
a) USA
b) China
c) India
d) North Korea
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Answer c) India. The members of the 34-nation Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), an international anti-proliferation group, have agreed to admit India. The deadline for MTCR members to object to India’s admission had expired without any objections. This would allow India to buy high-end missile technology and surveillance drones.
7. US named __________________as a Major Defence Partner
a) China
b) Japan
c) Russia
d) India
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Answer d) India . The U.S. has recognised India as ‘major defence partner,’ a classification that will allow India to buy more advanced and sensitive technologies from the U.S. This U.S. move will be complemented by India’s entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), an exclusive club that restricts trade in sensitive defence technologies.
8. Which three countries started the MALABAR-16 naval exercise off the Western Pacific coast, close to the disputed South China Sea?
a) India, USA and China
b) India, Japan and Russia
c) India, USA and Japan
d) India, Sri Lanka and China
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Answer c) India, USA and Japan. India, the US and Japan started the MALABAR-16 naval exercise off the Western Pacific coast, close to the disputed South China sea. Japan was included in the exercise as a permanent member in 2015, making the erstwhile Indo-US exercise a trilateral one. China, reacting to this, had earlier warned that Japan should not “heighten tensions” in the region.
9. The first ever e-FIR in the state of Uttar Pradesh was filed in a __________ police station.
a) Meerut
b) Kanpur
c) Lucknow
d) Varanasi
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Answer b) Kanpur . As per reports, the first ever e-FIR in the state of Uttar Pradesh was filed in a Kanpur police station. The FIR was registered after a software engineer sent an email about two men riding a bike snatching his mobile phone. Kanpur SSP Shalabh Mathur on Saturday said the new facility was still being examined for greater efficiency.
10. Which cricketer became the first Indian to score a century on his ODI debut?
a) KL Rahul
b) Virat Kohli
c) Suresh Raina
d) Rahul Dravid
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Answer a) KL Rahul. Opening batsman KL Rahul became the first Indian to score a century on his ODI debut, after registering 100*(115) against Zimbabwe in the first ODI of the series on Saturday. He is the 11th batsman in ODI history to have achieved the feat. The previous best by an Indian on ODI debut was Robin Uthappa’s 86 against England in 2006.
11. Who has been chosen as India’s flag bearer at Rio Olympics 2016?
a) Gagang Narang
b) Abhinav Bindra
c) Vijendar Singh
d) Sushil Kumar
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Answer b) Abhinav Bindra. Olympic champion shooter Abhinav Bindra was chosen as the flagbearer of the Indian contingent at the Rio Games’ opening ceremony on August 5. The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) confirmed that they have chosen the 2008 Beijing Olympic gold medallist as the country’s flagbearer for the quadrennial extravaganza.
12. Who has been named as world’s highest paid athlete?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Tiger Wood
c) Cristiano Ronaldo
d) Lionel Messi
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Answer c) Cristiano Ronaldo. Real Madrid star Ronaldo tops the list having earned $88 million (£60.9m) over the past 12 months, with Barcelona talisman Messi in second with earnings of $81.4m (£56.3m).
13. Which company has secured a contract to build a $135 million stadium for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup?
a) Adidas
b) Larsen and Toubro
c) Vodafone
d) Honda
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Answer b) Larsen and Toubro. Larsen & Toubro Ltd has secured a contract to build a $135 million stadium for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, a boost for the Indian firm facing a slowdown in its key Middle East market due to low oil prices. As part of a joint venture, L&T will serve as a contractor building the 40,000 seat Al Rayyan stadium.
14. KK Katyal who passed away recently was a/an
a) Economist
b) Actor
c) Politician
d) Journalist
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Answer d) Journalist . KK Katyal, veteran journalist and former Delhi Chief of Bureau of The Hindu, who led the newspaper’s wide-ranging coverage from the national capital during a particularly eventful phase of political change, passed away after a brief illness. He was 88. In the 28 years from 1976 that he spent at The Hindu, Mr. Katyal built his work on access to a wide body of political and diplomatic sources.
15. Christina Grimmie who passed away recently was a/an
a) Actress
b) Singer
c) Economist
d) Scientist
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Answer b) Singer . Christina Grimmie, a rising singing star who gained fame as a YouTube sensation and contestant on television’s “The Voice,” died after being shot while signing autographs at a concert hall in Orlando, police said on Saturday .The suspected attacker died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was tackled by the 22-year-old singer’s brother, police said.
16. Inder Malhotra who passed away recently was a/an
a) Singer
b) Actor
c) Journalist
d) Musician
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Answer c) Journalist. Veteran journalist Inder Malhotra passed away in a Delhi hospital. He was 86. He had been on ventilator for some time. One of the most respected journalists of the country, Mr. Malhotra had worked with The Statesman andThe Times of India, New Delhi. He began his career with the United Press of India. He joined it soon after graduating from the Punjab University. He also wrote for The Guardian (1965-95). He is both a Nehru Fellow (1986-87) and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1992-93).
