QUIZ OF DAY 14-05/2017 WEEKEND SPECIAL(GK & CURRENT AFFAIRS)

QUIZ OF DAY 14-05

Ques. :1 The Basel III banking rules are due to fully kick in by
1) Dec 2016
2)Mar 2017
3) Apr 2018
4) Sep 2018
5) Mar 2019

Ans. 5) Mar 2019

Ques. :2 The “Joint Sea-2016” drill was held recently between which of the following countries?
1) US and Japan
2) China and Russia
3) Russia and Pakistan
4) Indian and US
5) Indian and Russia

Ans. 2) China and Russia

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Ques. :3 Who among the following has topped the Fortune’s ‘50 Most Powerful Women International’ list of women based outside the US?
1) Longfor Wu Yajun
2) Ornella Barra
3) Chua Sock Koong
4) Ana Botin
5) Arundhati Bhattacharya

Ans. 4) Ana Botin

Ques. :4 The Union Cabinet approved an extradition treaty between India and which of the following neighbouring countries recently?
1) Maldives
2) Nepal
3) Bhutan
4) Myanmar
5) Afghanistan

Ans. 5) Afghanistan

Ques. :5 The Union Cabinet has approved an MoU between India and Kenya on cooperation in the field of National Housing Policy. The currency of Kenya is
1) shilling
2) dollar
3) peso
4) dinar
5) rand

Ans. 1) shilling

Ques. :6 Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa was removed from the post of Governor of which of the following states recently? V Shanmuganathan (Governor of Meghalaya) has been given the charge of the state.
1) Assam
2) Arunachal Pradesh
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Uttarakhand
5) Jharkhand

Ans. 2) Arunachal Pradesh

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Ques. :7 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the proposal for initiation of the third phase of TEQIP. The TEQIP programme is associated with
1) Textile Export
2) Transport
3) Technical Education
4) Telemedicine
5) None of these

Ans. 3) Technical Education

Ques. :8 Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the Onam celebrations in which of the following states/UT recently?
1) Goa
2) Puducherry
3) Telangana
4) Kerala
5) Karnataka

Ans. 4) Kerala

Ques. :9 Joshna Chinappa is associated with which of the following games? She improved her global ranking recently.
1) Squash
2) Tennis
3) Badminton
4) Table tennis
5) Snooker

Ans. 1) Squash

Ques. :10 India’s Deepa Malik from Haryana created history by becoming the first ever woman from the country to win a medal at the Paralympics. She won silver medal in
1) high jump
2) long jump
3) shot put
4) discuss throw
5) weightlifting

Ans. 3) shot put

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Ques. :11 The Hindi Divas is celebrated every year on which of the following dates? On this day in 1949, the Constituent Assembly of the country had adopted the Hindi language as the official language of the Republic of India.
1) 04 Sep
2) 08 Sep
3) 12 Sep
4) 14 Sep
5) 16 Sep

Ans. 4) 14 Sep

Ques. :12 The 3rd BRICS Urbanisation Forum Meet was held recently in
1) Chennai
2) Chandigarh
3) Ahmedabad
4) Mumbai
5) Visakhapatnam

Ans. 5) Visakhapatnam

Ques. :13 Devendra Jhajharia has become the first Indian to clinch two gold medals at the Paralympics as he won gold at the 2016 Rio Games recently. He is a
1) weightlifter
2) javelin thrower
3) wrestler
4) shot putter
5) high jumper

Ans. 2) javelin thrower

Ques. :14 Andhra Pradesh has become the second state in the country to achieve 100% electrification of households. Which of the following is the first state to achieve this feat?
1) Kerala
2) Karnataka
3) Rajasthan
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Gujarat

Ans. 5) Gujarat

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Ques. :15 Who among the following has taken charge of the post of CMD, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI)?
1) BC Tripathi
2) PK Singh
3) B Ashok
4) Anoop Kumar Sharma
5) Anup Pujari

Ans. 4) Anoop Kumar Sharma

Ques. :16 Digital payment platform Free Charge has launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI) that allows instant transactions from a smartphone. For this, Free Charge has partnered with
1) ICICI Bank
2) YES Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) HDFC Bank
5) Federal Bank

Ans. 3) Axis Bank

Ques. : 17 Who among the following has been chosen for Kumaon Literary Festival’s FON (Fellows of Nature) South Asia Short Story Award in Nature writing for his/her short story “People of the Sun”?
1) Anita Desai
2) Aarti V Raman
3) Meghna Pant
4) Amit Varma
5) Arnab Jan Deka

Ans. 3) Meghna Pant

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Ques. :18 Which of the following is all set to bring the first IPO in the life insurance space in the country?
1) ICICI Prudential Life
2) HDFC Standard Life
3) IDBI Federal Life
4) Exide Life Insurance
5) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance

Ans. 1) ICICI Prudential Life

Ques. :19 In the biggest consolidation deal in India’s telecom sector, which of the following two firms have announced to merge their wireless businesses?
1) Reliance Communication and Aircel
2) Reliance Jio and Reliance Communication
3) Airtel and Aircel
4) Vodafone and Idea
5) Reliance Communication and Idea

Ans. 1) Reliance Communication and Aircel

Ques. :20 If a customer having a current or a savings bank account has not done any transactions through it for more than_______, then it will be classified as a dormant account.
1) 06 months
2) 09 months
3) 12 months
4) 16 months
5) 24 months

Ans. 5) 24 months

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Ques. :21 The Uttar Pradesh govt has appointed who among the following as the brand ambassador of its flagship programme “Samajwadi Kisan Beema Yojana”?
1) Nawazuddin Siddiqui
2) Vidya Balan
3) Amitabh Bachchan
4) Irrfan Khan
5) Aamir Khan

Ans. 1) Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Ques. :22 Jim Yong Kim is heading which of the following international institutions at present? He is running for another five-year term at the institution.
1) World Bank
2) IMF
3) WTO
4) United Nations
5) ADB

Ans. 1) World Bank

Ques. :23 The govt has declared India free from Avian Influenza (H5N1) from 5 Sep 2016. Avian influenza (AI) is commonly called
1) typhoid
2) malaria
3) yellow fever
4) swine flu
5) bird flu

Ans. 5) bird flu

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Ques. :24 The US States has signed a USD 38-bn deal with Israel to provide the country with military assistance over a 10-year period. The currency of Israel is
1) dong
2) krona
3) ringgit
4) new shekel
5) kyat

Ans. 4) new shekel

Ques. :25 KK Paul recently released a book titled “Shanti Ki Talaash Mein Zindagi” written in Hindi by author and journalist Radhika Nagrath. KK Paul is the present governor of
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Uttarakhand
3) Jharkhand
4) Haryana
5) Rajasthan

Ans. 2) Uttarakhand

Ques. :26 Vice-President Hamid Ansari will be representing India at the 17th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in
1) Malaysia
2) Cuba
3) Venezuela
4) Egypt
5) Iran

Ans. 3) Venezuela

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Ques. :27 Which of the following teams won the inaugural day/night Duleep Trophy Cricket tournament held in Greater Noida?

1) India Blue
2) India Green
3) India Brown
4) India Red
5) None of these

Ans. 1) India Blue

Ques. :28 The International Democracy Day is observed on
1) 01 Sep
2) 12 Sep
3) 13 Sep
4) 14 Sep
5) 15 Sep

Ans. 5) 15 Sep

Ques. :29 Typhoon Meranti hit which of the following countries recently?
1) Mongolia
2) Kazakhstan
3) Ukraine
4) China
5) Chile

Ans. 4) China

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Ques. :30 Name the newly-elected Nepalese Prime Minister who visited New Delhi recently.
1) Krishna Bahadur Mahara
2) Sher Bahadur Deuba
3) Baburam Bhattarai
4) Khadga Prasad Oli
5) Pushpa Kamal Dahal

Ans. 5) Pushpa Kamal Dahal