Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who is appointed as CEO of FSSAI?
a) Pawan Kumar
b) Yudhvir Singh Malik
c) Sunil Verma
d) Sushant Sharma
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Answer a) Pawan Kumar. Senior IAS officer Pawan Kumar Agarwal has been appointed as chief executive officer of food regulator food safety and standards Authority of India (FSSAI), as part of senior level bureaucratic reshuffle. As many as 12 Additional Secretaries, including Agarwal, have been appointed in various central government departments..
2. Full Form of FSSAI.
a) food safety and standard Authority of India
b) food safe and standards Authority of India
c) food safety and standards Authority of India
d) food safety and standards Assembly of India
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Answer c) food safety and standards Authority of India.
3. Who have rejected the Nepal government’s three-point road map to address their demands over some provisions of the new Constitution?
a) Madhesis
b) LITE
c) TNLP
d) Chakrvuyh
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Answer a) Madhesis.Madhesis have rejected the Nepal government’s three-point roadmap to address their demands over some provisions of the new Constitution. They vowed to continue their stir, dimming hopes of an early end to the political crisis plaguing the country. The agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) held a meeting after which the four-party alliance stated it will continue with its protest programmes on the grounds that the government’s proposals “failed to address issues”.
4. Jaguar Land Rover India has announced the launch of its innovative new app. Name it.
a) InControl Apps
b) Rover App
c) Landing app
d) Jaguar app
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Answer a) InControl Apps. Jaguar Land Rover India has announced the launch of its innovative new smartphone integration platform, InControl Apps, which has been developed in alliance with Bosch. Jaguar Land Rover and Bosch have worked closely with leading third party app developers, specifically in India, to enable access to an initial suite of Android and iOS compatible applications.
5. Wipro has said that it will acquire the US-based group. Name the group.
a) Viteos Group
b) Amrapali Group
c) Cyber Group
d) Uniparts group
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Answer a) Viteos Group. Wipro has said that it will acquire the US-based Viteos Group for USD 130 million (nearly Rs 861 crore). It will help the country’s third-largest IT services firm strengthen its position in the capital markets outsourcing space. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, the Viteos Group provides customized straight-through-processing and integrates post-trade operations across every asset class, currency, border or structure for the alternative investment management industry in the US, Europe and Asia.
6. Who has been named as a fellow of US’s National Academy of Inventors (NAI)?
a) Mauli Agarwal
b) Sonal Jain
c) Shanvi Sharma
d) None
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Answer a) Mauli Agarwal. Mauli Agarwal, an Indian-American researcher has been named as a fellow of US’s National Academy of Inventors (NAI), He has been awarded for his work in inventing path-breaking health care technologies. Mr Agrawal, vice president for research at the University of Texas at San Antonio, will be formally inducted into NAI in April 2016. NAI named the 56-year-old researcher as a fellow for his outstanding work in orthopaedic implants, cardiovascular biomaterials and diabetic foot products.
7. In new Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, the age of the juvenile has been renewed from 18 years to________.
a) 17
b) 16
c) 15
d) 20
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Answer b) 16. A new juvenile justice Bill that allows 16 to 18 years old, accused of heinous offences, to be tried as adults was passed by the Rajya Sabha. This paved the way for a new juvenile justice system in which the age of criminal culpability will now be 16 years, subject to some conditions.
8. The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has notified the revised standards for _______.
a) Solar Plant
b) Thermal power plant
c) Forest Department
d) coal-based Thermal Power Plants
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Answer d) coal-based Thermal Power Plants.The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has notified the revised standards for coal-based Thermal Power Plants in the country, with the primary aim of minimising pollution. These standards are proposed to be implemented in a phased manner. Thermal power plants are categorised into 3 categories.
9. Cabinet approves Rs 3,000 crore scheme for _______ sector.
a) fisheries
b) Defence
c) Telecom
d) Automobile
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Answer a) fisheries. An umbrella scheme for integrated development and management of fisheries has been approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). The outlay would be Rs 3,000 crore for five years. The government had initiated a Blue Revolution, aimed at boosting annual growth in the fisheries sector to six-eight per cent in the 12 Five-Year Plan against four per cent in the 11th Plan.
10. Radha Mohan Singh launched two mobile apps for farmers. Name the app.
a) Crop app and agriculture app
b) Agriculture app and pesticides app
c) Crop Insurance and AgriMarket Mobile
d) Pesticides app and Kisan app
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Answer c) Crop Insurance and AgriMarket Mobile. Union Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh launched two mobile apps for farmers. Mobile app ”Crop Insurance” will help the farmers to find out complete details about insurance cover available in their area and also to calculate the insurance premium for notified crops, coverage amount and loan amount in case of a loaned farmer. Mobile apps “AgriMarket Mobile” can be used by the farmers to get the market prices of crops in the mandi within 50 km radius of the device and other mandis in the country.
11. Which palyers named Women’s Doubles World Champions by ITF?
a) Sania Mirza
b) Martina Hingis
c) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
d) Martina Hingis and Martina Navratilova
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Answer c) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis. The 2015 season’s winning spree pair Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis was named as Women’s Doubles World Champions by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in recognition of their stupendous success. Hingis is an ITF World Champion 15 years after last being named World Champion in singles in 2000. Sania and Martina joined forces in March this year but proved a force to be reckoned with in 2015, winning two Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon and the US Open, and seven further tournaments.
12. Who has won the top ICC awards for 2014-15?
a) David Warner
b) Michael Clarke
c) Steven Smith
d) Mitchell Johnson
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Answer c) Steven Smith. Australia captain Steven Smith has won the top ICC awards for 2014-15, being named Cricketer of the Year as well as Test Cricketer of the Year. Smith became the seventh player after Rahul Dravid (2004), Jacques Kallis (2005), Ricky Ponting (2006), Kumar Sangakkara (2012), Michael Clarke (2013) and Mitchell Johnson (2014) to bag both awards in the same year. Smith was “thrilled” to receive the awards, but said he would end 2015 with “mixed feelings”.
13. Who received US’ top Science award?
a) Rakesh K Jain
b) Ramesh Sharma
c) Rahul yadav
d) Rohit Shetty
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Answer a) Rakesh K Jain. President Barack Obama will felicitate a 65-year-old Indian-American professor Rakesh K Jain at the Harvard Medical School with the US’ highest honours for achievement and leadership in advancing the fields of science and technology. Dr Rakesh K Jain, an IIT-Kanpur alumnus and professor of tumor biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School, will receive the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony early next year.
