Current Affairs Quiz – December 5 & 6 2015

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ

1. Which state government has decided to celebrate ‘Gita Jayanti Mahotsava’ throughout the state from December 19 to 21?
a) Punjab
b) Haryana
c) Rajasthan
d) Gujarat

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Answer b) Haryana.

2. Sahitya Rachna Sanman and Sahityakar Sanman awards are associated with which language?
a) Marathi
b) Gujarathi
c) Marwadi
d) Sindhi

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Answer d) Sindhi. The Lifetime Achievement Awards for the year 2014-15 will be conferred to Lakshman Hardwani and Jairam Rupani under the categories of Sahitya Rachna Sanman and Sahityakar Sanman respectively. For the year 2015-16, the Lifetime Achievement Awards will be conferred to Lakhmi Khilani and Kanhaiya Lal Talreja under the categories of Sahitya Rachna Sanman and Sahityakar Sanman respectively.

3. ________ is going to pay Apple $548 million in patent dispute.
a) Google
b) Microsoft
c) Samsung
d) Nokia

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Answer c) Samsung.

4. Who won the Rookie of the Year award?
a) Sebastian Vettel
b) Lewis Hamilton
c) Kimi Raikkonen
d) Max Verstappen

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Answer d) Max Verstappen. The 18-year-old was also won Personality of the Year and the winner of Action of the Year awards.

5. Who has been crowned as 2015 Champion in F1 World Champions?
a) Nico Rosberg
b) Sebastian Vettel
c) Lewis Hamilton
d) None of these

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Answer c) Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton collected the Drivers’ Championship trophy for the third time in his career and second successive year.

6. L Sarita Devi and Shiva Thapa are associated with ________.
a) Chess
b) Archery
c) Boxing
d) Swimming

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Answer c) Boxing.

7. Who released two commemorative coins of Rs 125 and Rs 10 denomination as part of the 125th birth anniversary year celebrations of B R Ambedkar?
a) Arun Jaitely
b) Narendra Modi
c) Pranab Mukherjee
d) Raghuram Rajan

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Answer b) Narendra Modi. The coins were issued on his death anniversary, which is being observed as “Mahaparinirvan Divas of Babasaheb Ambedkar”

8. _________ has sent the first uranium consignment of 250 tonnes to India for its nuclear power reactors.
a) Australia
b) Canada
c) Germany
d) Uzbekistan

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Answer b) Canada. According to the Canadian government, the contract to supply 7.1 million pounds of uranium concentrate (about 2,730 tonnes uranium) to India’s Department of Atomic Energy was worth around Canadian Dollars 350 million ($262 million).

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