CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ
1. The American College of Cardiology (ACC), a top medical body in the US, has collaborated with
a) Fortis Health care
b) Reliance Health Care
c) Apollo Hospitals
d) LifeLine
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Answer c) Apollo Hospitals. The American College of Cardiology (ACC), a top medical body in the US, has collaborated with Apollo Hospitals to expand medical education in India. ACC will provide new opportunities to cardiovascular physicians to improve their skills.
2. India’s High Commissioner to Singapore, Vijay Singh Thakur, has received Singapore’s ‘Asian of the Year 2014’ award on the behalf of
a) Pranab Mukheree
b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
c) Narendra Modi
d) Sachin Tendulkar
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Answer c) Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with Singapore’s ‘Asian of the Year 2014’ award by leading Singapore daily The Straits Times in December 2014.
3. The global Call to Action Summit 2015 will be hosted by
a) USA
b) Germany
c) India
d) UK
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Answer c) India. The health ministry has announced that India will host the global Call to Action Summit 2015 on Aug 27 – 28 in New Delhi. The main objective is to end the preventable child and maternal deaths.
4. The Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference 2015 will be held in
a) Islamabad
b) Karachi
c) Peshawar
d) New York
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Answer d) New York. Pakistan has cancelled the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference which was scheduled for September 2015. The conference, which was to bring together speakers of Commonwealth nations, will now be held in New York in the first week of October.
5. Russia to sell Mi-35 ‘Hind E’ combat helicopters to
a) India
b) Bangladesh
c) Pakistan
d) Sri Lanka
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Answer c) Pakistan. In a landmark defence agreement, Russia has agreed to sell four advanced Mi-35 ‘Hind E’ combat helicopters to Pakistan. Both countries were negotiating the deal for the past year.
6. The National Integrated Agriculture Research Centre has been inaugurated at
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) West Bengal
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Answer b) Bihar. The National Integrated Agriculture Research Centre has been inaugurated by Union Minister of Agriculture Shri Radha Mohan Singh in East Champaran district of Bihar. The institute will be dedicated to the welfare of the farmers in the region.
7. What was the venue for II FIPIC Summit?
a) Varanasi
b) Jaipur
c) Chennai
d) Trivandrum
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Answer b) Jaipur. The second Forum for India-Pacific Island Cooperation or FIPIC Summit has concluded in Jaipur. Heads of state and senior officials of fourteen island countries were participated in the summit.
8. What is Nai Roshni? It is a scheme for
a) Eradicating poverty
b) Eradicating Child marriage
c) Promoting Education
d) Leadership Development of Minority Women
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Answer d) Leadership Development of Minority Women.
9. Which state Govt has signed an agreement with Future Consumer Enterprise Ltd. (FCEL) to modernise the public distribution system?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Kerala
c) Rajasthan
d) Punjab
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Answer c) Rajasthan.
10. India becomes the ________ country with which the US has a hotline.
a) Second
b) Third
c) Fourth
d) Fifth
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Answer c) Fourth Country. India becomes only the fourth country- after Russia, Great Britain and China – with which the US has a hotline. For India this is the first hotline at the level of head of state.
