Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Lebanon?
a) Kanwal Sibal
b) Mohamed Yunus
c) Sanjiv Arora
d) Nagendra Nath Jha
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Answer c) Sanjiv Arora. Sanjiv Arora, IFS (1984), has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Lebanon. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly. Arora joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1984 and has served in various capacities in India’s diplomatic missions in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Germany and Czech Republic. He served as Director on secondment to Ministry of Finance during 2003-04.
2. Which state government has allocated a budget of ₹12 crore to the Kurukshetra Development Board for the International Gita Mahotsav?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Gujarat
c) Haryana
d) Assam
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Answer c) Haryana. The Haryana government announced that as part of its International Gita Mahotsav, the government is tying up with various organisations to holding aarti simultaneously across different countries. The aarti to be held at Brahm Sarovar in Kurukshetra on December 10 will be telecast live on Youtube. As per state officials, around 18,000 people will participate and chant 18 shlokas of Gita on the occasion.
3. ‘Lost’ Chandrabhaga River found in _____________
a) Rajasthan
b) Odisha
c) Bihar
d) Punjab
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Answer b) Odisha . India’s northwest, scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-KgP) now claim they have found evidence of another “lost” Indian river Called “Chandrabhaga“, this ancient river is believed to have existed at a distance of about two km from the 13th century Sun Temple at Konark, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the eastern state of Odisha.
4. Which state government has offered jobs to eight sports-persons, who have brought laurels to the state through their performance at the national and international level?
a) Kerala
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) West Bengal
d) Maharashtra
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Answer d) Maharashtra . Maharashtra government has offered jobs to eight sports-persons, who have brought laurels to the state through their performance at the national and international level. The government is of the view that sports should be encouraged and a committee has been formed under Chief Secretary (Swadheen Kshatriya) to suggest measures for the same.
5. The book “An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India” has been authored by ______________
a) Salman Rushdie
b) Shashi Tharoor
c) Vikram Seth
d) Chetan Bhagat
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Answer b) Shashi Tharoor. The book “An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India” has been authored by Dr. Shashi Tharoor, the Lok Sabha MP. The book recalls in some detail the misdeeds of the British in looting India and making it suffer an agonizing and violent death. In it, author has rightly points out that British rule in India was effectively and regularly supplemented by famine, forced migration and brutality – the three examples of why British rule over India was despotic and anything but enlightened. The book has released by the Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari.
6. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first International Agro bio-diversity Congress in _______________
a) New Delhi
b) Mumbai
c) Hyderabad
d) Bangalore
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Answer a) New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the first International Agro bio-diversity Congress in the national capital where 900 delegates from 60 countries will discuss conservation of genetic resources. The conference, to be held on November 6-9, is being organised by the Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources and Biodiversity International, a CGIAR Research Centre headquartered in Rome, Italy.
7. Government of India is hosting the Seventh Session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to WHO FCTC during 7-12 November, 2016 in _____________
a) Gujarat
b) Bihar
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Rajasthan
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Answer c) Uttar Pradesh. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India is hosting the Seventh Session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to WHO FCTC during 7-12 November, 2016, at India Exposition Mart Ltd., Greater Noida, District Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. The Conference shall be inaugurated by Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare.
8. Which state accounted for most tiger deaths in 2016?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Madya Pradesh
c) Himachal Pradesh
d) Haryana
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Answer b) Madya Pradesh. In a shocking revelation, as many as 76 tiger deaths have been reported in the country from January to October this year. According to report, Madhya Pradesh is at the top of the list, accounting for nearly a third of all mortalities. Karnataka, which boasts the highest tiger population among states, is in second spot with 13 deaths. The national mortality figure is the highest since 2010.
9. _____________ adopted a controversial cyber security law to counter what Beijing says are growing threats such as hacking and terrorism
a) India
b) France
c) Japan
d) China
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Answer d) China . China adopted a controversial cyber security law to counter what Beijing says are growing threats such as hacking and terrorism, but the law triggered concerns among foreign business and rights groups. The legislation, passed by China’s largely rubber-stamp parliament and set to take effect in June 2017, is an “objective need” of China as a major internet power, a parliament official said.
10. Which company became India’s first firm to get Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) approval for debt recast under Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A)?
a) Hindustan Construction Company
b) Larson & Toubro
c) Jaypee Group
d) Reliance Infrastructure
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Answer a) Hindustan Construction Company. The RBI mandated overseeing committee has approved the Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A) for Hindustan Construction Company Ltd. The ICICI-led Joint Lenders’ Forum had proposed the scheme for the infrastructure major. HCC said it is the first company to secure approval from the committee under the RBI’s S4A scheme. Its total funded debt of about Rs.5, 107 crore has been considered under the scheme, which will be divided into two parts.
11. Politician Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra who passed away recently, he was three times elected as MLA from ___________
a) Punjab
b) Goa
c) Odisha
d) Assam
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Answer c) Odisha . Odisha Congress suffered a major blow after its Congress strongman and three-time MLA Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra, 52, passed away last night at a hospital in Gurugram following a long bout of liver cirrhosis. A major road accident in 2010 had affected his liver adversely. Mohapatra was under treatment for quite some time and had to be admitted in ICU at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram last night. He had multiple-organ failure and suffered a stroke soon after.
12. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is reportedly planning an online system to allocate examination centres to students within ___km radius of their schools
a) 8 km
b) 10 km
c) 12 km
d) 15 km
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Answer a) 8 km. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is reportedly planning an online system to allocate examination centres to students within an 8-km radius of their schools. The Board has asked all schools to provide details about their current infrastructure. “This would enable candidates to locate a centre on GIS maps in their mobile phones,” said an official.
13. Who has been appointed as Executive Director following G Mahalingam’s taking voluntary retirement from the central bank?
a) Chandan Sinha
b) M Rajeshwar Rao
c) K. K. Vohra
d) Meena Hemchandra
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Answer b) M Rajeshwar Rao. The Reserve Bank has appointed M Rajeshwar Rao as Executive Director following G Mahalingam’s taking voluntary retirement from the central bank. RBI said in a statement that as Executive Director, Rao will look after Department of Statistics and Information Management, Financial markets Operations Department and International Department. Prior to taking over as the Executive Director, he was the Chief General Manager, Financial Markets Operations Department. He has previously held charge of the Risk Monitoring Department. He has also worked as the Banking Ombudsman, New Delhi.
14. Who won the Bitburger Open badminton title 2016?
a) Ajay Jayaram
b) Sameer Verma
c) Shi Yuqi
d) Sourabh Verma
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Answer c) Shi Yuqi. Indian badminton player Sourabh Verma lost 19-21, 20-22 to China’s Shi Yuqi in the final of the Bitburger Open. World number 16 Yuqi won his second successive title after winning the French Open Super Series last week. Notably, this was Sourabh’s fourth consecutive final out of which he finished as runner-up in three.
15. Who won the Paris Masters title 2016?
a) Andy Murray
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Roger Federrer
d) Novak Djokovic
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Answer a) Andy Murray . The new world number one Andy Murray won his first Paris Masters title and 14th overall ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title after he defeated American player John Isner in the final. With this win, Murray also claimed his eighth title of the season. He will officially be confirmed as Britain’s first singles world number one.
16. The Indian wushu team bagged _____ medals in the eighth Sanda World Cup held in China’s Xi’an from November 4 to 6
a) One
b) Three
c) Four
d) Five
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Answer d) Five . The Indian wushu team bagged five medals, including four silver and one bronze, in the eighth Sanda World Cup held in China’s Xi’an from November 4 to 6. India was represented by five players at the event, which witnessed participation from 80 of the best Sanda players of 2015’s World Wushu Championship.
17. Who won the Barclay’s ATP World Tour Masters men’s doubles title 2016?
a) Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut
b) Henri Kontinen and John Peers
c) Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan
d) Marc López and Feliciano López
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Answer b) Henri Kontinen and John Peers. Henri Kontinen and John Peers have won the Barclay’s ATP World Tour Masters Doubles title at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Kontinen and Peers defeated top-seeded Frenchmen Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 3-6, 10-6 to claim the title.
18. Jayawantiben Mehta who passed away recently was a/an
a) Actress
b) Singer
c) Politician
d) Author
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Answer c) Politician . Former Union Minister and BJP leader Jayawantiben Mehta passed away. Mehta was Minister of State in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet in 1999. She was the former minister of state for power. She rose in the BJP ranks to become a corporator, an MLA and later a LokSabha member, succeeding Murli Deora from the South Mumbai constituency.
