CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ
1. Dutee Chand is associated with
a) Chess
b) Archery
c) Shot Put
d) Athletics
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Answer d) Athletics. Indian sprinter Dutee Chand won gold (100 m) at the National Open Athletics Championships in Salt Lake.
2. The Cricket Club of India (CCI) has conferred honorary life membership on
a) Bhuvneshwar Kumar
b) Shikhar Dhawan
c) Stuart Binny
d) Ajinkya Rahane
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Answer d) Ajinkya Rahane. Rahane and his wife were given membership cards for utilising all facilities of the club by CCI president Kekoo Nicholson. The CCI is also conferring an honorary life membership on India’s top woman tennis professional Sania Mirza after her recent win of the US women’s doubles title with “Swiss Miss” Martina Hingis.
3. Operation Smile is associated with
a) Women Empowerment
b) Eradicating Hunger
c) Housing and Education
d) Rescuing Children from being pushed into prostitution and bonded labor
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Answer d) Rescuing Children from being pushed into prostitution and bonded labor. Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s Operation Smile has rescued 19,000 missing children from being pushed into prostitution and bonded labor to ill-treatment by parents.
4. Who is Eric Fanning?
a) Newly Appointed US Ambassador to India
b) Recently retired NBA Player
c) World Champion in Boxing
d) Recently nominated Army Secretary
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Answer d) Recently nominated Army Secretary. In a historical move, US President Barack Obama has nominated Eric Fanning as Army secretary and make him the first openly gay person to serve in that role.
5. Bal Pandit, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Journalist
b) Economist
c) Commentator
d) Novelist
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Answer c) Commentator. Bal Pandit, the secretary of Maharashtra Cricket Association in the mid-1980s, passed away in Pune at the age of 86. A law graduate, Pandit was one among the pioneers in Marathi cricket commentary and was commissioned by All India Radio for many decades.
6. Indian Railways’ hybrid vacuum toilets use how many litres of water for flushing?
a) 500 ml
b) 1 litre
c) 1.5 Litres
d) 2 Litres
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Answer a) 500 ml. The design was developed by the development cell of the Railway Board that combines the advantages of vacuum toilets and those of bio-toilets .
7. Which of the following bank has recently inaugurated it’s official page on Pinterest and Instagram?
a) Canara
b) IOB
c) BOB
d) SBI
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Answer d) SBI
8. Which of the following bank bags first prize from Indian President under Rajabhasa Kirti Puraskar Scheme?
a) State Bank of India
b) HDFC Bank
c) Bank of Baroda
d) Indian Overseas Bank
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Answer c) Bank of Baroda. The PSU has bagged the award for outstanding performance in official language implementation under the category of nationalized banks.
9. Mangal Singh Champia is associated with
a) Shooting
b) Archery
c) Athletics
d) Swimming
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Answer b) Archery. Deepika Kumari and Mangal Singh Champia have qualified for the individual recurve pre-quarterfinals at the International Archery Challenge for the Rio Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.
10. Union Government formed _______ Committee on restructuring water agencies.
a) Visvesaraya
b) Mihir Shah
c) Prakash Gupta
d) Pranav Mishra
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Answer b) Mihir Shah. GOI constituted a seven-member committee to advise it on restructuring the Central Water Commission (CWC) and the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB). The expert committee will be headed by former Planning Commission member Mihir Shah.
11. Two Years Eight Months Twenty Eight Nights is penned by
a) Nikhil Arora
b) Arundhadthi Roy
c) Hamid Ansari
d) Salman Rushdie
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Answer d) Salman Rushdie.
12. The 4th Meeting of India-Kuwait Joint Working Group is associated with
a) Controlling Terrorism
b) Hydrocarbons
c) Human Traficcking
d) Bilateral Trade
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Answer b) Hydrocarbons.
13.The parliament of ______ has allowed the military to fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War.
a) Germany
b) Italy
c) Japan
d) Norway
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Answer c) Japan.
