Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who will be conferred with the prestigious 24rd Ekalavya award for the year 2016?
a) Lalita Babar
b) Dutee Chand
c) Srabani Nanda
d) Renjith Maheshwary
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Answer c) Srabani Nanda. Ace sprinter and Olympian Srabani Nanda will be conferred with the prestigious 24rd Ekalavya award for the year 2016. Apart from this, twohockey players Deep Grace Ekka and Dipsan Tirkey will also be felicitated. Ekalavya Award is awarded by Government of Karnataka for the outstanding performance in Life time Achievement in sports.
2. Who has been appointed as China’s new ambassador to India?
a) Peng Liyuan
b) Luo Zhaohui
c) Li Keqiang
d) Yang Jeichi
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Answer b) Luo Zhaohui. Chinese President Xi Jinping has appointed Luo Zhaohui as China’s new ambassador to India, in accordance with a decision from the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the top legislature. He is familiar with India as he worked as third and later Second Secretary in Chinese Embassy in India from 1989 to 1993.
3. _____________was honoured by being made an Honorary Group Captain of the Indian Air Force at the 83rd Indian Air Force Day celebrations at the Hindon Air Base
a) Rahul Dravid
b) Mahendtra Singh Dhoni
c) Virendar Sehwag
d) Sachin Tendulkar
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Answer d) Sachin Tendulkar. Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar was honoured by being made an Honorary Group Captain of the Indian Air Force at the 83rd Indian Air Force Day celebrations at the Hindon Air Base. The Master Blaster, now retired from international cricket, thus became the first sportsperson to be made an Honorary Group Captain in the Indian Air Force.
4. Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in ________________ to provide free LPG connections to BPL households
a) Maharashtra
b) Assam
c) Rajasthan
d) Gujarat
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Answer a) Maharashtra. Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in Maharashtra to provide free LPG connections to BPL households. The move will benefit 91 lakh households living below the poverty line in Maharashtra over the next three years. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who was also present gave away free LPGconnections to 10 women from BPL families.
5. Which state festival ‘Bathukamma’ entered the Guinness Book of World Records as 9,292 women participated in the ceremony?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Telangana
c) Karnataka
d) Andra Pradesh
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Answer b) Telangana. Telangana state festival ‘Bathukamma’ entered the Guinness Book of World Records as 9,292 women participated in the ceremony at L.B. Stadium that was also attended by Tennis star Sania Mirza. They achieved this feat despitebad weather and as they danced around bathukamma (flower stack, arranged with different unique seasonal flowers most of them with medicinal values).
6. Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated India’s first centre for international arbitration in ____________
a) Nashik
b) Pune
c) Nagpur
d) Mumbai
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Answer d) Mumbai . Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated India’s first centre for international arbitration in Mumbai. The Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA) willinitially be located at Express Towers but Fadnavis promised a bigger and exclusive facility at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), Mumbai’s only business district.
7. Indian Air force day is observed on?
a) October 08
b) October 09
c) October 10
d) October 11
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Answer a) October 08. The 84th anniversary of the Indian Air Force (IAF) was celebrated with traditional pomp and gaiety at the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla near Pune. The IAF is theworld’s fourth largest air force with a primary responsibility to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict.
8. World post day is observed on?
a) October 07
b) October 08
c) October 09
d) October 10
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Answer c) October 09. World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October. The event was declaredby the 1969 Universal Postal Congress in Tokyo as a means to mark theanniversary of the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) creation in 1874. The purpose of World Post Day is to bring awareness to the Post’s role in the everyday lives of people and businesses, as well as its contributionto global social and economic development. 2016 Theme: Innovation, Integration and Inclusion.
9. Which country had the highest number of child deaths (under five) at 13 lakh in 2015?
a) India
b) China
c) Japan
d) USA
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Answer a) India . India had the highest number of child deaths (under five) at 13 lakh in 2015 while such deaths have gone down by half in the world between 1990 and 2015, as per the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study. India was followed by Nigeria with over 7 lakh child deaths and Pakistan (3 lakh deaths), stated the study.
10. __________________has been appointed as new brand ambassador of Vizag Steel
a) Saina Nehwal
b) Sakshi Malik
c) PV Sindhu
d) Deepa Karmakar
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Answer c) PV Sindhu. The corporate entity of Vizag Steel, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam, has roped in badminton ace and Rio silver medallist PV Sindhu as its brand ambassador. The deal will make Vizag Steel Sindhu’s major endorsement partner. “An association from a trusted brand certainly helps me concentrate on my game and relieves me of all the off-court concerns,” Sindhu said on the association.
11. All villages in the country would get an electricity connection by _____________
a) Match 2017
b) May 2017
c) December 2017
d) December 2020
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Answer b) May 2017. All villages in the country would get an electricity connection by May 2017, a year before the government’s 1000-day deadline ends, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday. He also affirmed that the states would get soft loans for providing electricity connection to every household. Further, he added that the Centre is discussing ways to restart 22 stalled hydropower projects.
12. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated first Model Skill Development Centre “Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra” In ______________
a) Guwahati
b) Dhubri
c) Jorhat
d) Dispur
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Answer a) Guwahati . Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated first Model Skill Development Centre “Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra” at Panjabari, Guwahati. It is an initiative of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and National Skill Development Corporation. The Centre will give training to the unemployed youths in 13 job roles.
13. Who won the Japanese Grand Prix title 2016?
a) Sebastian Vettel
b) Lewis Hamilton
c) Nico Rosberg
d) Max Verstappen
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Answer c) Nico Rosberg. Mercedes’ German Formula One driver Nico Rosberg won the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka. Starting on the pole position, Rosberg won his maiden Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and teammate Lewis Hamilton. With the win, Rosberg now holds a 33 point advantage over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship standings.
14. Who became the first Indian Test captain to score two double centuries?
a) Sourav Ganguly
b) Virat Kohli
c) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
d) Rahul Dravid
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Answer b) Virat Kohli. India’s Virat Kohli became the first Indian Test captain to score two double centuries after scoring his first double hundred on home soil on the second day of the third Test against New Zealand on Sunday. Kohli also became the fifth Indian to score two double centuries in a year after Vinod Kambli, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid.
15. Indian wrestler ________________ won the gold medal for India at the Mayor’s Trophy International Invitational Wrestling competition in Pune
a) Sushil Kumar
b) Parveen Rana
c) Yogeshwar Dutt
d) Bajrang Punia
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Answer d) Bajrang Punia. Freestyle wrestler Bajrang Punia gave India the first gold medal of the Pune Mayor’s Trophy International Invitational Wrestling competition by beating Mongolia’s Batchuluun Batmagnai 6-4 in the Men’s 65-kg category final. The competition was held at the Late Rajaram Bhiku Pathare Primary School’s Vithoba Maruti Pathare Indoor Stadium.
16. Who won the China Open title 2016 in men’s single category?
a) Roger Federer
b) Andy Murray
c) Rafael Nadal
d) Stan Wawrinka
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Answer b) Andy Murray. Top-ranked British tennis player Andy Murray defeated Bulgaria’s GrigorDimitrov 6-4, 7-6 to win his fifth title of the year at the China Open. With the win, Murray took his season’s record to 59-9. Earlier, British number one and newly instated world number 10 Johanna Konta was beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Agnieszka Radwanska in the women’s final.
17. India won ______ golds, _____ silver at Russian Open badminton
a) Three, One
b) One, Two
c) Two, One
d) One, Three
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Answer c) Two, One. India’s 19-year-old shuttler Ruthvika Shivani Gadde won the women’s singles title at the Russian Open in Vladivostok. Pranaav Jerry Chopra and N Sikki Reddy added to India’s tally by winning the mixed doubles title at the event. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Siril Verma lost out on the gold medal after a three-set defeat to the top-seeded Malaysian Zulfadli Zulkiffli.
