Current Affairs Quiz
1. Indian-American Author ______________________ won 2016 International Dublin Literary Award
a) Ishant Sharma
b) Rohit Sharma
c) Akhil Sharma
d) Prakash Sharma
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Answer c) Akhil Sharma.Indian-American author Akhil Sharma has won the prestigious 100,000-euroInternational Dublin Literary Award, the world’s richest award for a single novel, for his second novel ‘Family Life’. The Delhi-born New Yorker has already bagged the 2015 Folio Prize worth 40,000 pounds for his autobiographical novel that tells the tale of how a family moves from Delhi to New York, where the older brother has an accident that leaves him brain-damaged and in need of 24-hour care. “
2. Who has been appointed as new head of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire line between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir?
a) Major General Per Gustaf Lodin
b) Major General Delali Johnson Sakyi
c) Major General Ling Seth Sara
d) Major General SK Saini
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Answer a) Major General Per Gustaf Lodin.A high-ranking Swedish military official will be the new head of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire line between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir. Major General Per Gustaf Lodin, 59, also a logistics expert, was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the Chief Military Observer and Head of Mission for the United Nations Military Observer Group (UNMOGIP) in India and Pakistan. Maj Gen Lodin succeeds Major General Delali Johnson Sakyi of Ghana, who completes his two-year assignment as Chief Military Observer and Head of Mission for the UNMOGIP on July 2.
3. Which Bank launched India’s first certified green bond at London Stock Exchange?
a) HDFC Bank
b) Axis Bank
c) State Bank of India
d) ICICI Bank
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Answer b) Axis Bank.Axis Bank has raised $500 million at the London Stock Exchange after it launched India’s first internationally-listed certified green bond to finance climate change solutions around the world. One of India’s leading private sector capital markets banks opened trading at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with the bond, which is certified by the Climate Bonds Standards Board and raised $500 million.
4. According to a nationwide survey by the Registrar General of India, the percentage of non-vegetarians in Telangana was _______
a) 78%
b) 100%
c) 99%
d) 95%
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Answer c) 99%.Telangana has the highest proportion of meat-eaters in the country with almost 99% of its residents being non-vegetarians, a Registrar General of India survey of people aged 15 years and above has revealed. An almost equal percentage of men (98.8) and women (98.6) are non-vegetarians in the state.
5. India’s first reported ‘Harlequin’ baby born in _______________
a) Assam
b) Maharashtra
c) West Bengal
d) Tamil Nadu
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Answer b) Maharashtra.With the birth of a baby girl in Nagpur, India has reportedly recorded its first ever case of a baby born with a rare genetic disorder called ‘Harlequin Ichthyosis‘. The disease, which affects 1 in 3 lakh babies, causes thickening of the skin all over the body with cracks in between and makes babies prone to infection.
6. The Indian unit of search giant Google Inc and Tata Trusts launched ‘Internet Saathi‘program in __________________
a) West Bengal
b) Rajasthan
c) Sikkim
d) Andra Pradesh
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Answer a) West Bengal.The Indian unit of search giant Google Inc and Tata Trusts launched ‘Internet Saathi‘ program in West Bengal. The initiative will roll out from West Bengal’s Purulia district and will focus on training women and larger communities in the state to learn and explore various uses and benefits of the Internet.
7. Which country has become the first country to stop clear-cutting of trees, a huge step toward curbing global deforestation?
a) USA
b) India
c) Austria
d) Norway
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Answer d) Norway.Norway has become the first country to stop clear-cutting of trees, a huge step toward curbing global deforestation. At the rate we are going, the world’s rain forests could completely vanish in 100 years. In their pledge, Norwegian lawmakers also committed to find a way to source essential products such as palm oil, soy, beef and timber so that they leave little to no impact on their ecosystems. It’s a pledge Norway made at the U.N. Climate Summit in 2014, alongside Germany and the United Kingdom. This move could be potentially transformative.
8. NATO announced that the alliance will deploy four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Expand NATO?
a) North Atlantic Trade Organization
b) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
c) North Asian Treaty Organization
d) North Atlantic Travelling Organization
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Answer b) North Atlantic Treaty Organization.NATO announced that the alliance will deploy four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, as tensions with Russia remain high in the wake of Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discussed the deployment at a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, prior to this week’s gathering of alliance defense ministers.
9. Which country’s scientists turn CO2 into Stone under CarbFix Project?
a) Spain
b) Australia
c) Iceland
d) USA
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Answer c) Iceland.Carbon dioxide has been pumped underground and turned rapidly into stone, demonstrating a radical new way to tackle climate change. The unique project promises a cheaper and more secure way of burying CO2 from fossil fuel burning underground, where it cannot warm the planet.
10. How many new elements got new names in Periodic table?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7
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Answer a) 4.The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the gatekeeper to the periodic table, announced the proposed names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118:nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson. The new names for the four super heavy, radioactive elements will replace the seventh row’s uninspired placeholders of ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctium.
11. Which country has successfully launched 23rd BeiDou Navigation Satellite?
a) USA
b) China
c) Japan
d) India
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Answer b) China .China has successfully launched 23rd satellite to support its global navigation and positioning network which is being developed to rival the US Global Positioning System. The 23rd satellite in the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
12. Which company has now unveiled the latest version of its OS X desktop operating system, which named as macOS Sierra?
a) Microsoft
b) Google
c) Lenovo
d) Apple
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Answer d) Apple .Apple has now unveiled the latest version of its OS X desktop operating system, but it’s had somewhat of a name change and make over. Indeed, it’s now called macOS, with the latest version dubbed macOS Sierra. The change was announced at Apple’s WWDC developer conference.
13. Which company announced a $26.2 billion deal to acquire professional social platform LinkedIn for $196 per share?
a) Samsung
b) Microsoft
c) Facebook
d) Google
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Answer b) Microsoft.Microsoft announced a $26.2 billion deal to acquire professional social platform LinkedIn for $196 per share. Shares of LinkedIn surged 47 percent after the announcement to near $193, while Microsoft’s stock was down 3.2 percent. Trading in Microsoft had been halted briefly for news pending before the announcement of the all-cash deal.
14. Tech firm ________________ to buy Blue Coat Systems for $4.65 billion
a) Infosys
b) TCS
c) Symantec Corp
d) Tech Mahindra
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Answer c) Symantec Corp.Symantec Corp. agreed to buy Blue Coat Systems Inc. in a $4.65 billion deal that will give the computer-security company a new portfolio of cyber defense technologies along with a new chief executive. Blue Coat Chief Executive Greg Clark is set to take that role at Symantec after the deal closes, which is expected to occur before October.
15. Pranab Mukherjee became the first Indian President to visit ______________
a) Afghanistan
b) Ghana
c) Iran
d) Iraq
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Answer b) Ghana.In the first leg of his three-nation tour, Pranab Mukherjee became the first Indian President to visit Ghana. Mukherjee will address a joint business forum meeting in the country, and is expected to hold delegation-level talks on agreements on visa waiver. Notably, the tour comes as a part of India’s ‘Outreach to Africa’ initiative.
16. Which company signed a deal to acquire energy firm Welspun Renewables for an estimated value of ₹10,000 crore?
a) Tata Power
b) Adani Power
c) Suzlon
d) Reliance Power
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Answer a) Tata Power .Tata Power said it signed a deal to acquire energy firm Welspun Renewables in what would be the biggest transaction in the renewable energy space in India. The size of the deal was reportedly estimated at ₹10,000 crore. Notably, India has a target of installing 60 GW of wind and 100 GW of solar power capacity by 2022.
17. A Guinness World Record was set for the “Largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts at a single venue” in _______________________
a) China
b) India
c) Singapore
d) USA
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Answer c) Singapore .A Guinness World Record was set for the “Largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts at a single venue” at an event for the upcoming film ‘Ghostbusters’ in Singapore. Dressed in all-white outfits and depicting the film’s “no ghost” symbol, 263 individuals set the record. The film’s director Paul Feig and actress Melissa McCarthy received the official certificate.
18. Who won Canadian Grand prix 2016?
a) Lewis Hamilton
b) Nico Roseberg
c) Sebastian Vettel
d) Fernando Alanso
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Answer a) Lewis Hamilton.Defending Formula one champion Lewis Hamilton dedicated his win at the Canadian Grand Prix to late boxer Muhammad Ali. “Float like a butterfly sting like a bee. That one was for Muhammad, that one was for Ali,” Hamilton said. Hamilton is now nine points behind championship leader and Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, who finished fifth.
19. Legendary ice hockey player Gordie Howe who passed away recently, He was from ________________
a) Japan
b) Argentina
c) Spain
d) Canada
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Answer d) Canada.Canada’s beloved hockey icon Gordie Howe, a fierce competitor who finessed his way into the record books on the ice but was a gentle giant off it, died at the age of 88. Nicknamed as “Mr. Hockey”, Howe is considered one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time and an ironman in many respects both on and off the ice.
20. Achyut Lahkar who passed away recently was a/an
a) Play wright
b) Actor
c) Theatre personality
d) All of the above
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Answer d) All of the above.Achyut Lahkar, doyen of Assam’s mobile theatre movement, and noted playwright and actor, passed away in his hometown Pathsala, about 100km from Guwahati, following a protracted illness. He was 85. Born in 1931, Lahkar, a theatre enthusiast from his childhood days, founded Nataraj Theatre, the first mobile theatre company of Assam in 1963, which — over the past five decades — gave the mobile theatre movement the shape of a successful entertainment industry, and that too in a state where film-making continues to be a difficult proposition.
21. Donald Carr who passed away recently was a/an
a) Cricketer
b) Actor
c) Economist
d) Musician
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Answer a) Cricketer .Donald Carr, the former Derbyshire and England batsman who went on to become one of the most prominent administrators of the post-war era, has died at the age of 89. In a first-class career that spanned from 1945 to 1968, Carr scored nearly 20,000 runs and claimed 328 wickets with his left-arm spin for Oxford University, Derbyshire and England, whom he captained at Madras in 1951-52 in his second and final appearance.
