Current Affairs Quiz – March 25 2016
1. Who topped the list of world’s 50 greatest leaders released by Fortune?
a) Bill Gates
b) Angela Merkel
c) Jeff Bezos
d) Arvind Kejriwal
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Answer c) Jeff Bezos. Arvind Kejriwal has been named among the world’s 50 greatest leaders by Fortune magazine with the Delhi Chief Minister being the sole Indian leader on the list topped by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
2. Bhushan Patil has been appointed as the President of _________.
a) HDFC Bank
b) Flipkart
c) Amazon India
d) Paytm
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Answer d) Paytm. Bhushan Patil joins Paytm as President after serving 5.5 years at the Chinese company, where he was handling operations of Alibaba.com. He will now focus on building Paytm’s cross border commerce.
3. The government of __________ and JICA signed an agreement on ‘Capacity Enhancement for Sustainable Agriculture and Irrigation Development.’
a) Meghalaya
b) Mizoram
c) Manipur
d) Sikkhim
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Answer b) Mizoram. JICA stands for Japanese International Cooperative Agency.
4. The International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is observed on ___________.
a) March 23
b) March 24
c) March 25
d) March 26
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Answer c) March 25. The transatlantic slave trade resulted in a vast and still unknown loss of life for African captives both in and outside America. Approximately 1.2 – 2.4 million Africans died during transport. More died soon upon their arrival.
5. ISRO has established the Gadanki Ionospheric Radar Interferometer (GIRI) in which state?
a) Kerala
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Gujarat
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Answer c) Andhra Pradesh. Place – Tirupathi. It will provide important information on the angular location of plasma irregularities during the onset phase and its relationship to background ionospheric state parameters and sunset terminator.
6. Tay is an Artificial Intelligence Robot of __________.
a) Google
b) IBM
c) Microsoft
d) Ishimo
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Answer c) Microsoft. Humans will be humans and the latest victim is Microsoft, which launched artificial intelligence (AI)-powered bot on Twitter for a playful chat with people, only to silence it within 24 hours as users started sharing racist and offensive comments with the bot.
7. Which country tops Global Average Internet speed?
a) USA
b) Russia
c) United Kingdom
d) South Korea
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Answer d) South Korea. South Korea had the top average connection speed at 26.7 Mbps, while India was the slowest in the Asia Pacific region with average speeds of 2 Mbps.
8. According to Natural Hazards Vulnerability Index, which continent is more vulnerable to cyclones to earthquakes?
a) Asia
b) Australia
c) Africa
d) North America
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Answer c) Africa. When it comes to vulnerability, Africa is the continent where people are most likely to suffer injury, disease and death as a result of natural disasters.
9. Garry Shandling, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Musician
b) Comedian
c) Historian
d) Dancer
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Answer b) Comedian. Groundbreaking comic Garry Shandling, best known for pioneering the faux docudrama and the shows It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and The Larry Sanders Show, has died at 66.
10. Recently VD Rajappan and Jishnu Raghavan passed away. They are from __________ film industry.
a) Marathi
b) Tamil
c) Telugu
d) Malayalam
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Answer d) Malayalam. VD Rajappan, Kerala’s popular Kadhaprasangam (story telling) artiste and Malayalam film actor, known for his comic roles, has passed away. Malayalam film actor Jishnu Raghavan, son of veteran actor Raghavan, passed away due to cancer at a private hospital. He was 35.
