Current Affairs Quiz – September 20 2015

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Current Affairs Quiz

1. Which state won the top award in Comprehensive Development of Tourism category?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Gujarat
c) Kerala
d) Rajasthan

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Answer b) Gujarat.

2. Which city won the Best Heritage City Award?
a) Jaipur
b) Hyderabad
c) Kolkata
d) Gwalior

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Answer d) Gwalior.

3. Which state won the award for Most Innovative use of Information technology?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Gujarat
c) Kerala
d) Tamil Nadu

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Answer c) Kerala.

4. Who adopted the Barauliya village in Amethi?
a) Arun Jaitely
b) Smriti Irani
c) Mahohar Parrikar
d) Rajnath Singh

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Answer c) Mahohar Parrikar.

5. Recently who has been elevated as “Distinguished Scientist” by Defence Minstry?
a) P Sivakumar
b) K Karthikeyan
c) N Narasimhan
d) L Balaraman

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Answer a) P Sivakumar. He is the Director of Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), Avadi.

6. ________ has been granted the regulatory approval by the RBI to utilise Rs 2,500 crore non-distributable statutory reserves.
a) HDFC
b) MUDRA
c) IDFC
d) BMB

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Answer c) IDFC.

7. In which state Butterfly Park was inaugurated recently?
a) Kerala
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) West Bengal

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Answer b) Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has inaugurated a butterfly park at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at suburban Vandalur.

8. NJDG is associated with
a) Banking
b) Election Commission
c) Judiciary
d) Jharkhand State Assembly

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Answer c) Judiciary. NJDG – National Judicial Data Grid. It’s a new web portal launched by Supreme Court of India.

9. _______ and Toronto have signed an MoU to engage in mutualco-operation in the fields of film, television, visual effects and gaming.
a) IDFC
b) FICCI
c) Indian Cinema Federation
d) South Indian Film Federation (SIIF)

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Answer b) FICCI – The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

10. Banjara are nomadic people from
a) Gujarat
b) Rajasthan
c) Punjab
d) West Bengal

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Answer b) Rajasthan. An independent organisation named All India Banjara Sangh (AIBS) has been formed to take up long pending issues of the ‘Banjara’ (nomadic people) community.

11. Who has been elected as the first national president of the AIBS?
a) Haricharan Mishra
b) Prancha Gupta
c) Haribhau Rathod
d) Sivguru Kochhar

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Answer c) Haribhau Rathod.

12. According to Hotels.com’s Hotel Price Index, ________ is the first preferred country by Indian travelers among the overseas countries?
a) USA
b) Dubai
c) UK
d) Singapore

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Answer d) Singapore.

13. Who will address India-US Startup Konnect 2015?
a) Pranab Mukherjee
b) Narendra Modi
c) Arun Jaitely
d) Raghuram Rajan

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Answer b) Narendra Modi.