Current Affairs Quiz – March 15 2016
1. Santhosh Trophy National Football Championships Title won by ________?
a) Services
b) Maharashtra
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Karnataka
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Answer a) Services. Services has retained the Santosh Trophy National Football Championships title after beating hosts Maharashtra 2-1 in the summit clash in Nagpur. Tudu, a national camper for the SAFF Cup last year, scored twice in the space of 11 minutes (26th and 37th) to help Services clinch their fifth title overall. Services took away Rs 5 lakh for winning the tournament while Maharashtra got Rs 3 lakh for finishing runners-up.
2. World Consumer Rights Day was observed on?
a) March 15th
b) March 14th
c) March 12th
d) March 13th
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Answer a) March 15th. 15 March is observed as World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD). It is an annual occasion for celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement. It marks the date in 1962 President John F Kennedy first outlined the definition of Consumer Rights.
3. Farakka Power Plant is located in which state?
a) Andhra Pradeesh
b) Mizoram
c) West Bengal
d) Sikkim
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Answer c) West Bengal. Abysmally low level of water in the Farakka Feeder Canal has caused the National Thermal Power Corporation to shut down five units of its power plant at Farakka in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. The five units together have a combined generating capacity of 1600 MW and the shutdown is likely to affect Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and industry in the Eastern Region.
4. The Kotak Mahindra BSE Group has tied up with ___________ to invest in Indian stressed assets?
a) Canada Pension Plan
b) Kerala Pension Plan
c) Tamilnadu Pension Plan
d) None
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Answer a) Canada Pension Plan. The Kotak Mahindra BSE Group has tied up with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) to invest in stressed assets in India to take advantage of opportunities that arise as banks clean up account books of bad assets. The agreement entails a total investment of up to $525 million, of which as much as $450 million will come from CPPIB.
5. Anita Brookner was an ________ ?
a) Noveslist
b) Actor
c) Dancer
d) Singer
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Answer a) Novelist. The Booker prize-winning British author and renowned art historian Anita Brookner died on 10 March 2016. She was 87. Brookner, who won the Booker in 1984 for her novel Hotel du Lac, was a bestselling author and wrote more than 25 novels.
6. _________ an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist was died?
a) Lloyal
b) Shankar
c) L S Sankar
d) Lloyd Stowell Shapley
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Answer d) Lloyd Stowell Shapley. Lloyd S. Shapley, who shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for work on game theory that has been used to study subjects as diverse as matching couples and allocating costs, died in Tucson.
7. Europe and Russia launched an unmanned spacecraft, it is called ?
a) EuroRus
b) Rusmars
c) ExoMars
d) EuroMars
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Answer a) ExoMars. Europe and Russia launched an unmanned spacecraft, named ExoMars 2016, to Smell Mars’ atmosphere for gassy evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet, or may still be. ExoMars 2016, the first of a two-phase Mars exploration, was hoisted from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Russian Proton rocket.
8. Who won the Editor of the Year award ?
a) Sanjay kumar
b) Sanjay Gupta
c) Sanjay singh
d) Sanjay sahu
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Answer b) Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay Gupta, the Jagran Group CEO and Dainik Jagran editor was presented with theEditor of the Year award at the 4th Indian Advertising Association (IAA) Awards in Mumbai. Sanjay Gupta received the award from Union Minister of State (Home Affairs) Kiren Rijiju.
9. French based tyre maker Michelin had joined hands with ___ to sell its products?
a) Flipkart
b) Snapdeal
c) Amazon
d) Paytym
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Answer b) Sanpdeal. French based tyre maker Michelin had joined hands with E-Commerce major Snapdeal to sell its products through Snapdeal. The Joint initiative will enable consumers to place an order online using Snapdeal to purchase Michelin tyres from an authorised dealer and request for fitment at a time and place of their choice.
10. State Bank of India has released ______ crore under One Rank One Pension (OROP)?
a) Rs 1400 Crore
b) Rs 1500 Crore
c) Rs 1465 crore
d) Rs 1450 Crore
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Answer c) Rs 1465 crore. State Bank of India has released arrears to 7.75 lakhs defence pensioners totalling Rs 1,465 crore under One Rank One Pension (OROP). SBI has largest share of defence pensioners and serves approximately 50% of total defence pensioners across the country. The first tranche of arrear payment will be around Rs 1,465 crore, she said, adding that the bank has introduced facilities in all branches/ centralised pension processing centres (CPPCs) to provide arrear details to the pensioners.
11. ___________ was Myanmar’s 1st civilian President ?
a) Naina
b) Kidwa Lal
c) Aung san suu
d) Htin Kyaw
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Answer d) Htin Kyaw. Myanmar’s Parliament elected National League for Democracy’s (NLD) Htin Kyaw as the President, making him the first civilian in over 50 years to lead the country. Htin Kyaw is a close ally and the former driver of NLD’s President Aung Suu Kyi.
