Current Affairs Quiz – March 30′ and 31′ 2016

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April 1, 2016

Current Affairs Quiz – March 30 and 31 2016

1. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA)?
a) Gaurav Kapoor
b) Jitendra Jagota
c) Guru Charan Singh
d) Vinayak Mahadev

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Answer b) Jitendra Jagota. Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) has announced its new Executive Committee at the General Body Meeting held in New Delhi. Jitendra Jagota, Director Legal and Government Affairs, Avon Beauty Products India Pvt. Ltd has been has become the Chairman of the Association.

2. Under a new special currency swap agreement signed by RBI and Sri Lankan Central Bank, RBI would allow to draw up to __________ over a maximum period of three months.
a) $400 million
b) $500 million
c) $600 million
d) $700 million

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Answer d) $700 million. The RBI has previously provided currency swaps to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, including plans to extend a $1.5 billion agreement by one year.

3. The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) growth forecast of _______% for 2016-17 is substantially lower than its earlier projection of 7.8 percent.
a) 7.4
b) 7.5
c) 7.6
d) 7.7

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Answer a) 7.4. ADB said Global headwinds will pull down India’s growth rate to 7.4 percent in the next fiscal from 7.6 percent this year.

4. Rakhine state is in
a) Nepal
b) Bhutan
c) Myanmar
d) Bangladesh

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Answer c) Myanmar. Myanmar’s outgoing President Thein Sein has lifted the state of emergency in the state of Rakhine. The order was imposed in June 2012 as violence flared between Buddhist and Muslim communities

5. Htin Kyaw has sworn in as the President of
a) Kosova
b) Central African Republic
c) Morocco
d) Myanmar

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Answer d) Myanmar. Myanmar has been under military or military-dominated rule since a coup in 1962, and the elections in November which brought the new government to power were the first openly contested polls since 1990.

6. Who launched ‘Make in India’ conference in Sydney?
a) Sushma Swaraj
b) Rajnath Singh
c) Arun Jaitely
d) Smriti Irani

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Answer c) Arun Jaitely.

7. BeiDou navigation satellite is associated with which country?
a) Japan
b) Russia
c) China
d) South Korea

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Answer c) China. China has launched a satellite to support its global navigation and positioning network. The satellite, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, was taken into orbit by a Long March-3A carrier rocket.

8. What is India’s rank among countries with high number of financial Trojan infections.
a) Second
b) Third
c) Fourth
d) Fifth

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Answer b) Third. Using financial Trojans to defraud customers of online banking services is still a popular method among cybercriminals looking to make a profit.

9. Patty Duke, who passed away recently, was a/an _________.
a) Journalist
b) Economist
c) Actress
d) Novelist

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Answer c) Actress. US actress Patty Duke, who won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker in 1963, has died aged 69.

10. Patrick Dupuis has been appointed as the Independent Board Member in _________.
a) TCS
b) Infosys
c) Wipro
d) CTS

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Answer c) Wipro.

11. Which state has unanimously passed the Excise (Amendment) Bill 2016 to enforce the ban on country made liquor from April 1?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) Kerala
d) Tamil Nadu

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Answer b) Bihar.

12. Faustin Archange Touadera is the new President of _______________.
a) Zimbabwe
b) Peru
c) Sweden
d) Central African Republic

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Answer d) Central African Republic.

13. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel remotely launched Asia’s biggest telescope in _____________.
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Bihar
c) Uttarakhand
d) Kerala

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Answer c) Uttarakhand. Place – Nainital.

14. India has signed an MoU with ___________ for building a state-of-the-art Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project in the country.
a) Switzerland
b) Russia
c) USA
d) China

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Answer c) USA. The project will bring unprecedented opportunities for scientists and engineers to dig deeper into the realm of gravitational wave and take global leadership in this new astronomical frontier.

15. Researchers have discovered a tadpole that eats sand, lives in darkness till the time it turns into a young frog. The tadpoles were discovered at the ________________.
a) Andaman & Nicobar Islands
b) Western Ghats
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Himalayan Ranges

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Answer b) Western Ghats.