Current Affairs Quiz – September 5 and 6 2015

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September 6, 2015

Current Affairs Quiz

1. The President of India inaugurates ____________ programme at Rashtrapati Bhavan on the eve of Teachers’ Day.

a) Be a Good Teacher
b) Be an Inspiration
c) Be a Teacher
d) Be a role Model

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Answer c) Be a Teacher.

2. Who is Kiren Rijiju?

a) MoS for Revenue
b) MoS for Home Affairs
c) MoS for Finance
d) MoS for Tourism

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Answer b) MoS for Home Affairs.

3. The IMF has announced which of the following state among the few bright spots in the Global Economy?

a) Sri Lanka
b) India
c) Bhutan
d) Bangladesh

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Answer b) India

4. What does R stands for in OROP?

a) Reserve
b) Revenue
c) Rank
d) Resource

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Answer c) Rank. OROP – One Rank One Pension. Government of India has announced the acceptance of the long-pending demand for ‘One Rank One Pension’.

5. Who is Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami?

a) Scientist
b) Business Man
c) Politician
d) Soldier

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Answer d) Soldier. Indian Army has paid last tributes to Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, a special forces commando who was a part of three back-to-back operations which killed 10 militants in Jammu and Kashmir.

6. GOI to develop __________ as spiritual capital.

a) Kasi
b) Varanasi
c) Bodh Gaya
d) Madurai

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Answer c) Bodh Gaya. PM Modi described Bodh Gaya as “Land of Enlightment”.

7. Aadesh Shrivastava, who passed away recently, was a

a) Kabbadi Player
b) RBI Committee Head
c) Finance Secretary
d) Music Director

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Answer d) Music Director

8. Which company is going to invest USD 100 Million in Shopo?

a) Flipkart
b) eBay
c) Snapdeal
d) Amazon

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Answer c) Sanpdeal. Shopo is a mobile-only platform, which aims to bring small and medium businesses (SMBs) that cannot register on bigger e-commerce portals.

10. Gagan Narang is associated with

a) Archery
b) Chess
c) Shooting
d) Swimming

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Answer c) Shooting. India’s Olympic medal-winning shooter Gagan Narang has achieved the number one spot in the Asian rankings of the men’s 50m rifle prone category.

11. Who has been appointed as the Director of IGCAR?

a) KN Gopalakrishnan
b) LR Murali Sankarraman
c) SAV Satya Murthy
d) D Rajagopalan Naidu

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Answer c) SAV Satya Murthy.

12. The city Nahara is in which country?

a) Russia
b) Japan
c) North Korea
d) South Korea

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Answer b) Japan. Japan has invited residents to return to a town evacuated in 2011 after the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. Naraha is the first town to allow people to return permanently, following several years of decontamination work.

13. Joshna Chinnapa is associated with

a) Badminton
b) Tennis
c) Squash
d) Hockey

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Answer c) Squash. National champion Joshana Chinappa clinched the women’s title in the USD 15,000 NSCI Open JSW Indian Squash Circuit 2015. She defeated Egypt’s Habiba 11-8 11-9 11-6 in a tough title-clash.

14. Cricket Player Shane Watson represents

a) South Africa
b) West Indies
c) New Zealand
d) Australia

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Answer d) Australia. Australian all-rounder Shane Watson has announced his retirement from Test cricket, effective immediately.

15. Which state government has passed a bill to abolish the Police Recruitment Board in order to end the nepotism in the police recruitments?
a) Punjab
b) Gujarat
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Haryana

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Answer d) Haryana.

16. Vikas Krishnan is associated with which of the following sports?
a) Shooting
b) Archery
c) Boxing
d) Swimming

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Answer c) Boxing. Indian boxer Vikas Krishan has won the silver medal in the Asian Championships held in Bangkok, Thailand.

17. Apurvi Chandela is associated with which of the following sports?

a) Gymnastics
b) Chess
c) Hockey
d) Shooting

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Answer d) Shooting. Young Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela clinched the silver medal in women’s 10m air rifle event of the ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Finals.