Current Affairs Quiz – March 18 2016
1. Which movie won the maximum awards in the tenth Asian Film Awards?
a) Port of Call
b) The Inside Man
c) The Assassin
d) The Throne
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Answer c) The Assassin. The Assassin, a movie about a highly-trained female assassin swept the Asian Film Awards in Macau, bagging prizes for best film, best actress and best director at the glittering ceremony.
2. Prasad Sutar wont the Best Visual Effects in the tenth Asian Film Awards for which of the following movie?
a) Mountains May Depart
b) Bajirao Mastani
c) Piku
d) Journey to the Shore
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Answer b) Bajirao Mastani.
3. Meir Dagan, who passed away recently, was a famous person from
a) Russia
b) Iran
c) Israel
d) Germany
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Answer c) Israel. Meir Dagan, the former longtime chief of Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, has died of cancer at the age of 71.
4. Who has been conferred with the prestigious Knight of the Legion of Honour recently?
a) Tikka Shatrujit Singh
b) Dhananjay Singh
c) Viswa Jyoti Kapoor
d) Aravind Ahuliwalia
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Answer a) Tikka Shatrujit Singh. He has been awarded for his “extraordinary work in the exchanging the French lifestyle and Indian culture with each other.”
5. Times Internet has appointed ____________ as CEO.
a) Satyan Gajwani
b) Gautam Sinha
c) Vikaram Kapoor
d) Murali Khanna
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Answer b) Gautam Sinha. Also, former CEO Satyan Gajwani is promoted as the Managing Director. The new appointments will come into effect in April.
6. ________ is going to setup ATM making firm in India with the investment of Rs 100 Crore.
a) McKinsey
b) Rualto
c) Hitachi
d) Arianne
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Answer c) Hitachi. The new company has been set up with a capital of Rs 100 crore and is set a target to produce 1,500 units of ATMs per month at the end of calendar year 2016.
7. ____________ has become the first bank to commence the sale of Indian Gold Coin (IGC) in the domestic market.
a) Indian Overseas Bank
b) State Bank of India
c) Indian Bank
d) Canara Bank
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Answer a) Indian Overseas Bank . The IGC has the national emblem, the Ashok Chakra, engraved on one side and the face of Mahatma Gandhi on the other.
8. Recently India signed $35 million loan agreement with World Bank for a project in which state?
a) Gujarat
b) Rajasthan
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Tamil Nadu
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Answer c) Madhya Pradesh. The objective of the project is to improve access and quality of public services in the state through implementation of the Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act, 2010.
9. _________ government signed an MoU with Cisco as part of the inauguration of India’s first statewide broadband project.
a) Kerala
b) Karnataka
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Tamil Nadu
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Answer c) Andhra Pradesh. Chandra Babu Naidu’s government is aiming to provide Internet connection to all households in the state as part of Digital India campaign.
10. Feni, a famous drink in __________ is the first liquor product in the country to obtain Heritage Spirit status and got its Geographical Indication (GI) certification in 2000.
a) Kerala
b) Maharashtra
c) Goa
d) Himachal Pradesh
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Answer c) Goa. Feni (sometimes spelled fenny or fenim) is a spirit produced exclusively in Goa. There are two types of feni; cashew feni and coconut feni, depending on the original ingredient.
11. __________ and ________ are the cleanest Railway Stations in India in the A1 and A Category respectively.
a) Rajkot and Jamnagar
b) Surat and Beas
c) Chandigarh and Salem
d) Madurai and Kovilpatti
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Answer b) Surat and Beas. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi’s railway station ranked poorly in terms of cleanliness as it stood at 65, among the 75 A-1 railway stations
12. The World Sleep Day is observed on _______ of the second full week of March.
a) Monday
b) Tuesday
c) Thursday
d) Friday
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Answer d) Friday. ‘Good sleep is a reachable dream’ is the Theme of this year.
13. Global IT company _________ has announced a $100 million investment plan for India to support the next phase of digitisation in the country.
a) Infosys
b) HCL
c) Cisco
d) CTS
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Answer c) Cisco. The investment forms part of Cisco’s global ‘Country Digitisation Acceleration’ or CDA programme, under which the company will collaborate closely with state governments.
14. _________ has announced a three year partnership with the Virgin Money London Marathon.
a) Thomson Reuters
b) Accenture
c) TCS
d) IRCTC
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Answer c) TCS. Under the terms of the partnership, TCS will become the race’s Official Technology Partner for the 2016, 2017 and 2018 events.
15. Realty portal Magicbricks.com has acquired property analysis platform _________ for an undisclosed amount.
a) Realestate.com
b) Property.com
c) Properji.com
d) Reality.com
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Answer c) Properji.com. Properji.com, which started its operation in 2013, has presence in Bengaluru. The start-up provides detailed research to buyers and has prepared reports for about 100 projects.
