Current Affairs Quiz – December 09 2015

In Current Affairs Quiz
December 10, 2015

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ

1. The International Anti-Corruption Day is observed on
a) December 07
b) December 08
c) December 09
d) December 10

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Answer c) December 09. The International Anti-Corruption Day is observed on December 9 every year.2015 Theme: Break the corruption chain.

2. Which bank has announced to mobilize 5 billion US dollars for climate action by 2020?
a) Axis Bank
b) HDFC Bank
c) Yes Bank
d) HSBC Bank

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Answer c) Yes Bank. YES Bank, India’s fifth largest private bank, has announced it would mobilize $5 billion towards climate finance by 2020 to help India meet its target of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs).

3. _____________ has received approval from DCGI to market generic version of Gilead’s Harvoni, a drug used in the treatment of Hepatitis C in India.
a) Biocon
b) Sun Pharma
c) Pfizer
d) Hetero

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Answer d) Hetero. Hetero is the first Indian company to receive the approval for the fixed-dose combination Ledipasvir-Sofosbuvir (90mg/400mg) from Drug Controller General of India (DCGI).

4. Chen Long is associated with which of the following games?
a) Archery
b) Squash
c) Swimming
d) Badminton

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Answer d) Badminton.Chen Long and Carolina Marin bagged 2015 BWF Player of the Year Awards

5. ______, Rajokot became interim IPL franchises to replace CSK, RR.
a) Kanpur
b) Guwahati
c) Agartala
d) Pune

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Answer d) Pune. Sanjeev Goenka’s New Rising won the bid for Pune, while Intex will represent Rajkot.

6. _________ has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel its “Person of the Year”.
a) Fortune
b) Wall Street
c) TIME
d) Reuters

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Answer c) TIME. The magazine bestowed the title on the 61-year-old world leader for the way she managed the economic crisis over the summer, and the way she’s currently handling the refugee crisis and terrorism threat looming over Europe.

7. India ranks __________ in the world in black money outflows with a whopping $51 billion siphoned out of the country per annum between 2004 and 2013.
a) Third
b) Fourth
c) Fifth
d) Sixth

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Answer b) Fourth. China topped the list with $ 139 billion average outflow of illicit finances per annum, followed by Russia ($ 104 billion per annum) and Mexico ($52.8 billion per annum).

8. Manohar Parrikar becomes first Indian defence minister to visit PACOM. It is based in _______.
a) UK
b) Germany
c) Italy
d) USA

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Answer d) USA. PACOM – Pacific Command.

9. According to the report released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Glaciers in Mount Everest shrink ______ % in 40 years due to climate change.
a) 15
b) 28
c) 35
d) 23

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Answer b) 28%.

10. International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide is observed on _______.
a) December 11
b) December 10
c) December 09
d) December 08

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Answer c) December 09. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the Genocide Convention and its role in combating and preventing the crime of genocide, as defined in the Convention, and to commemorate and honour its victims.

11. Who is the present PFRDA Chairman?
a) Rajeev Shukla
b) Anuragh Prasad
c) Hemant G Contractor
d) Murali Manohar Reddy

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Answer c) Hemant G Contractor.

12. Kartik Sawhney and ________ won the Queen’s Young Leaders award in the UK for their exceptional work in transforming the lives of others and making a lasting difference in their communities.
a) Neha Swain
b) Amrutha Anand
c) Nisha Subramaniyam
d) Pavithra Sundaram

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Answer a) Neha Swain.

13. Lok Sabha has passed a bill to amend the “archaic” Indian Trusts Act, _______.
a) 1992
b) 1982
c) 1882
d) 1892

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Answer c) 1882. The Indian Trusts (Amendment) Bill, 2015, was passed by a voice vote.

14. GOI has established a mechanism to be known as SETU under NITI Aayog. What is T in SETU?
a) Technology
b) Talent
c) Time
d) Telecommunication

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Answer b) Talent. SETU – Self—Employment and Talent Utilisation. The objective is to support all aspects of start—up businesses and other self employment activities, particularly in technology—driven areas.

15. __________ has formally become a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in December 2015.
a) Bhutan
b) Sri Lanka
c) New Zealand
d) Indonesia

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Answer c) New Zealand.

16. Cabinet has given its approval for a MoU between India and __________ in the field of new and renewable energy.
a) Nepal
b) Indonesia
c) Malaysia
d) Laos

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Answer b) Indonesia. The objective is to establish the basis for a cooperative institutional framework to encourage and promote technical bilateral cooperation on new and renewable energy issues on the basis of mutual benefit, equality and reciprocity.

17. Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for signing of a MoU between India and UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on cooperation in the ________.
a) Energy Sector
b) Education Sector
c) Technology Sector
d) Defence Sector

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Answer a) Energy Sector.

18. The Year 2016 has been declared as Year of Education, Research and Innovation between India and ______.
a) USA
b) UK
c) Germany
d) Denmark

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Answer b) UK.

19. Cabinet has approved Central Legislation to declare how many additional inland waterways as national waterways?
a) 101
b) 106
c) 111
d) 116

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Answer b) 106. After the inclusion of 106 additional inlands waterways to the existing five national waterways, the total number of national waterways goes upto 111.

20. Karnataka delegation has signed an Expression of Interest (EoI) agreement with Reitzel Group to promote ________.
a) The importance of Education
b) Tourism
c) Investment
d) Real Estate

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Answer c) Investment.