Current Affairs Quiz – March 5 2016

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Current Affairs Quiz

1. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a National conference on ‘Women Legislators: Building Resurgent India’ in ___________.
a) New Delhi
b) Chennai
c) Bengaluru
d) Thiruvananthapuram

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Answer a) New Delhi. The meeting with the theme, ‘Role of Women Legislators in Nation Building’, has been organised by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

2. Three districts – Narnaul, Bhiwani and Jhajjar were awarded for efforts to improve sex ratio. These districts are in which state?
a) Karnataka
b) Bihar
c) Punjab
d) Haryana

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Answer d) Haryana. Cash awards of Rs five lakh, Rs three lakh and Rs two lakh would be given away to districts of Narnaul, Bhiwani and Jhajjar respectively.

3. ____________ has won eight awards in various categories for 2013-14 and 2014-15 from NABARD.
a) Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank
b) Catholic Syrian Bank
c) Lakshmi Vilas Bank
d) Karur Vysya Bank

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Answer a) Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank. The KVGB Chairman, Ashok Reddy, received the awards from Eugene E Karthak, Regional Director of Reserve Bank of India, in Bengaluru.

4. India has filed a complaint against which country’s decision to impose high fees L-1 and H-1B categories of temporary working visas in WTO?
a) United Kingdom
b) United States of America
c) Australia
d) Germany

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Answer b) United States of America. US had imposed fees on certain applicants for L-1 and H-1B categories of non-immigrant temporary working visas into the country.

5. The multi crore institute ‘Gita Gyan Sansthanam’ will be set up in which Indian State?
a) Punjab
b) Haryana
c) Himachal Pradesh
d) Arunachal Pradesh

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Answer b) Haryana. The main purpose of the institute will be to spread the message of most revered Hindu scripture of Bhagavad Gita worldwide.

6. Election Commission has recently announced the schedule for the forthcoming Assembly elections in four States and one Union Territory. Which of the following is not among those states/UT?
a) Assam
b) Kerala
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Karnataka

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Answer d) Karnataka. The states/UT are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry.

7. Alok Verma took over as the new Police Commissioner of
a) Delhi
b) Mumbai
c) Kolkata
d) Chennai

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Answer a) Delhi.

8. TCS CEO and MD Natarajan Chandrasekaran, former Chief Secretary of Gujarat Sudhir Mankad, Bharat Narotam Doshi, non-executive chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra have been appointed as non-official directors to the board of RBI for _______ years.
a) Three
b) Four
c) Five
d) Six

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Answer b) Four.

9. GOI is all set to digitise all rural post offices by which year?
a) 2017
b) 2018
c) 2019
d) 2020

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Answer a) 2017. The government has approved Rs 4,909 crore for modernisation of 1.55 lakh post offices including 1.29 lakh post offices in rural areas, called Gramin Dak Sewak post offices.

10. Which state government has decided to illuminate 25 municipalities in the state with LED bulbs in 100 days?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana
c) Kerala
d) Karnataka

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Answer b) Telangana.

11. Who was named for Lifetime Achievement Award of the 11th edition of the Mahindra Excellence Theatre Awards (META)?
a) Ratan Thiyam
b) Ilayaraja
c) AR Rahman
d) Manoj Kumar

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Answer a) Ratan Thiyam.

12. Which government has renamed the village Mustafabad in Yamuna Nagar district to Saraswati Nagar?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Haryana
d) Punjab

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Answer c) Haryana.

14. Name the author from India, who was chosen for the 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize for his novel “Em and The Big Hoom” in the fiction category?
a) Jerry Pinto
b) Arundhadthi Roy
c) Mukhul Sharma
d) JJ Krishnan

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Answer a) Jerry Pinto.

15. ________ ties up with Delhi Metro for card recharge
a) ICICI
b) RuPay
c) Visa
d) Paytm

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Answer d) Paytm. Paytm has tied up with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). As a part of the agreement, Delhi Metro travellers will be able to recharge their metro cards via Paytm and DMRC website.

16. The Traditional Chapchar Kut festival celebrated across which Indian State?
a) Meghalaya
b) Manipur
c) Mizoram
d) Assam

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Answer c) Mizoram. Chapchar Kut, the most important traditional festival of the Mizoram people was celebrated across the state and also in the Mizo-inhabited areas in the neighbouring states.

17. River Atoyac has vanished overnight after tremors. This river is in which country?
a) Russia
b) Mexico
c) Norway
d) Brazil

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Answer b) Mexico. Thousands of Mexicans were astonished when they woke up to discover their local river had vanished overnight. The Atoyac River, the sole source of water for 10,000 in the state of Veracruz, is thought to have disappeared into a crevasse following an earthquake tremor.

18. Napoleon Singh is associated with which of the following games?
a) Cricket
b) Hockey
c) Football
d) Badminton

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Answer b) Hockey. Hockey India national-level umpire Napoleon Singh has been promoted to the International Outdoor Umpire by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).

19. __________ has been named new associate sponsor of BCCI.
a) AMUL
b) TCS
c) PepsiCo
d) Dabur

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Answer c) PepsiCo. Within months after withdrawing as the title sponsor for the Indian Premier League (IPL), soft drinks major PepsiCo has re-entered into a collaboration with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as one of its three new associate sponsors.

20. Pat Conroy, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Novelist
b) Economist
c) Environmentalist
d) Philanthropist

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Answer a) Novelist. His famous books are “The Great Santini” and “The Prince of Tides”.

21. __________, India’s pioneering film archivist and film scholar, has passed away recently.
a) PK Nair
b) KN Sangma
c) NK Tripathi
d) RT Mishra

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Answer a) PK Nair. Nair had collected over 12,000 films, of which 4,000 were foreign language films.