Current Affairs Quiz- September 28 2015

Current Affairs Quiz

1. Name the India’s first satellite for astronomical study.
a) ASTROSTAT
b) PSLV C-30
c) MOM
d) None of the above

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Answer a) ASTROSTAT. ISRO has launched ASTROSTAT, India’s first satellite for astronomical study, successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota High Altitude Range (SHAR) in Nellore.

2. Which player clinched the gold in the men’s 10m Air Rifle event of the Asian Air Gun Championships?
a) Sushil Kumar
b) Gagan Narang
c) Abhinav Bindra
d) Jitu Rai

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Answer c) Abhinav Bindra.

3. Which Commodities regulatory body has merged with capital markets watchdog Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)?
a) Forward Markets Commission
b) Securities perfect market
c) Trustline Securities
d) SCRA

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Answer a) Forward Markets Commission

4. Who is the new Meghalaya Governor?
a) Syed Ahmed Khan
b) Geet Sethi
c) Kamal Chawla
d) V Shanmuganathan

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Answer d) V Shanmuganathan.

5. Which Indian company has signed a strategic pact with UAE’s Emirates Defence Industries Company (EDIC)?
a) Reliance
b) Tata
c) ITC
d) None of teh above

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Answer a) Reliance .Reliance Defence Ltd has signed a strategic pact with UAE’s Emirates Defence Industries Company (EDIC) to collaborate in the sector, especially in maintenance, repair and overhaul category.

6. Who won The 2015 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize?
a) Mathew perry
b) Jacob Tsimerman
c) Bhumi
d) Kallen Pokkudan

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Answer b) Jacob Tsimerman.

7. India bagged ______ medals at the 16th Asian Rowing Championships that concluded in Beijing.

a) 5
b) 4
c) 7
d) 10

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Answer c) 7. five silver and two bronze

Suresh Prabhu has launched the Indian Railway Knowledge Portal. Name the portal.
a) O-Portal
b) T-Portal
c) K-Portal
d) Knowledge Portal

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Answer c) K-Portal

9. Who won Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize?
a) Andrei Sakharov
b) Mikhail Aleksandrovich Fedotov
c) Sergei Kovalev
d) Lyudmila Alekseyeva

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Answer d) Lyudmila Alekseyeva

10. India signs deal with________to purchase Apache and Chinook helicopters.
a) Neyveli Lignite corporations
b) Boeing
c) Aerospace
d) AR airways

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Answer b) Boeing

11. Which Corporation has set up first renewable energy?
a) Neyveli Lignite corporations
b) Aerospace
c) Sergei Kovalev
d) BoeingComapny

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Answer a) Neyveli Lignite corporations

12. Former England cricketer died recently. Name the Cricketer.
a) Ray Lindwall
b) Harold Larwood
c) Sergei Kovalev
d) Frank Tyson

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Answer d) Frank Tyson

13. India has announced deal to launch ____ foreign satellites.
a) 21
b) 18
c) 5
d) 23

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Answer d) 23. Out of 23 foreign satellites, two will go in two separate rockets. The remaining 21 satellites will piggy-back on bigger Indian satellite.