Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been conferred with Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) by the French authorities recently?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Anand Mahindra
c) Azim Premzi
d) Shah Rukh Khan
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Answer b) Anand Mahindra. rancois Richier, Ambassador of France to India, conferred the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) on Anand G Mahindra, chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra.
2. Who has been named as the Arab League’s new secretary general of Arab League?
a) Mohammad Yusuf Khan
b) Shahid Ahmad
c) Ahmed Abul Gheit
d) Adhul Kasim Ghalid
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Answer c) Ahmed Abul Gheit. Abul Gheit, who served as foreign minister under Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak, takes office at a time when the Cairo-based Arab League is facing several tests of its unity.
3. Who has been appointed as Deputy Chief of Army Staff?
a) NPS Hira
b) Dhananjay Singh
c) Sanjay Mukherjee
d) Vengadesh Govindasamy
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Answer a) NPS Hira. Lt Gen NPS Hira is from the Sikh Light Infantry. He has commanded the Jallandhar-based 11 Corps ‘Defenders of Punjab’. He has vast experience of counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and in the North-East region, as well as conventional operations in Western Command of the Army.
4. UJALA is a scheme associated with
a) Free Laptops for Students
b) Mid Day Meal Scheme in schools
c) Small Savings scheme in High Schoold
d) LED based Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme
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Answer d) LED based Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme. UJALA, an acronym for Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All, is being implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL). The National LED programme was launched by the Prime Minister on January 2015 with a target of replacing 77 crore incandescent lamps with LED bulbs.
5. Project ‘Mausam’ is the initiative of
a) Ministry of Defence
b) Home Ministry
c) Ministry of Culture
d) Ministry of Human Resource Development
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Answer c) Ministry of Culture. This project aims to explore the multi-faceted Indian Ocean ‘world’ – collating archaeological and historical research in order to document the diversity of cultural, commercial and religious interactions in the Indian Ocean.
6. Railways launch online “Clean My Coach” service. Passengers have to send an SMS on a mobile number ___________.
a) 38888
b) 69999
c) 58888
d) 46666
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Answer c) 58888. Alternatively, passengers can use the android app or Web page www.cleanmycoach.com for logging the request.
7. Government aims to computerize the PDS sector by installing electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devices at all fair price shops across the country by
a) March 2017
b) March 2018
c) March 2019
d) March 2020
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Answer c) March 2019. Government has also started a pilot project linking the PDS with Aadhar card under Direct Benefit Transfer scheme in Puducherry, Chandigarh and in urban areas of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
8. ________ has approved curbs on ‘wilful defaulters’, which entails ban on public issue of securities.
a) CBI
b) PFRDA
c) SEBI
d) RBI
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Answer c) SEBI. The move by Sebi will help other regulators, particularly the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its drive against cracking down on wilful defaulters.
9. Kakrapar Atomic Power Station is in
a) Rajasthan
b) Gujarat
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Karnataka
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Answer b) Gujarat. One of the two 220 MWe units at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat had to be shut down at 9 am on Friday (March 11, 2016) after leakage of heavy water from its coolant system.
10. ____________ is currently developing a speech synthesis engine to its encyclopedia.
a) Google
b) Microsoft
c) Facebook
d) Wikipedia
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Answer d) Wikipedia.
11. India and ___________ have launched the Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship.
a) United Kingdom
b) Germany
c) United States
d) France
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Answer c) United States. The new initiative is to advance bilateral cooperation on climate change, that will enable Indian research scholars to work with American institutions in the field.
12. India will supply 18 Meter Gauge 1350 HP Diesel Electric Locomotives to
a) Myanmar
b) Bhutan
c) Nepal
d) Laos
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Answer a) Myanmar. This objective is to augment locomotive fleet of Myanmar Railways to meet increasing demand for passenger and freight traffic.
