Current Affairs Quiz
1. Who has been awarded Krutitava Smagra Samman for 2015 by the Kolkata’s Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award?
a) Padma Sachdev
b) Soumya Gupta
c) Nisha Tiwari
d) Amrutha Subramaniyan
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Answer a) Padma Sachdev. Sachdev received this award for her outstanding contribution in literature and great service to Dogri Language. West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi presented the award to the poetess.
2. Mohammed bin Nayef is the crown Prince of
a) Iran
b) Syria
c) Iraq
d) Saudi Arabia
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Answer d) Saudi Arabia. President Francois Hollande has awarded the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour, to visiting Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef.
3. Which bank gets preliminary approval for Myanmar branch?
a) ICICI
b) HDFC
c) SBI
d) Axis
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Answer c) SBI. The State Bank of India is among four new foreign banks given preliminary approval to open 100 per cent-owned branches in Myanmar. The Southeast Asian nation has made this move to woo investment to the country long ruled by the military and hit by Western sanctions.
4. Recently the foundation stone of India’s first-of-its-kind Octomax unit was laid at the
a) Mathura Refinery
b) Ganga Refinery
c) Agra Refinery
d) Madurai Refinery
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Answer a) Mathura Refinery. Octomax, a “novel technology” developed in-house by Research and Development Centre of Indian Oil, involves conversion of cracked C4 streams to high-octane gasoline blending stock for production of Euro-IV/V equivalent gasoline.
5. SRESHTA is on News recently. It is associated with
a) Public Sector Banks
b) Indian Postal Department
c) Indian Railways
d) Indian Airways
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Answer c) Indian Railways. Indian Railways is all set to set up a Special Railway Establishment for Strategic Technology and Holistic Advancement (SRESHTA), a new entity that will comprise mostly scientists and railway experts. SRESHTA will be responsible for long-term research for improving the functioning of the public sector behemoth.
6. GOI has decided to discontinue the scanning of the Food products from which country that run the risk of being contaminated by radioactive substance?
a) Germany
b) Canada
c) Japan
d) Australia
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Answer c) Japan. Even after five years of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, reports indicate that food products from Japan carry the risk of radioactive contamination that can lead to various forms of cancer.
7. Digital payments platform ___________ has partnered with Mexico-based chain of movie theatres, Cinepolis.
a) EasyCharge
b) Freecharge
c) FreeECharge
d) TapCharge
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Answer b) Freecharge. With the partnership going live in the second week of March, customers can pay for movie tickets and Food& Beverages (F&B) across 38 Cinepolis theatres in 28 Cities using the FreeCharge wallet.
8. The Raisina Dialogue is an annual conference held in which country?
a) India
b) Singapore
c) Nepal
d) China
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Answer a) India. Raisina Dialogue, a joint initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs and a leading think tank, Observer Research Foundation.The Raisina Dialogue is an annual conference held in New Delhi, envisioned to be India’s flagship conference of geopolitics and geo-economics.
9. Which country plans to land a probe on Mars in 2021?
a) Saudi Arabia
b) China
c) Sweden
d) Germany
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Answer b) China. China plans to land a probe on Mars in 2021 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of founding of the ruling-Communist Party of China and a decade after its first failed mission in 2011, after which India, US, Russia and EU stole the march. The probe is expected to reach Mars in 2021 after a flight of seven to ten months.
10. Scientists have created the world’s first biological supercomputer using
a) ATP
b) CTP
c) NTP
d) BTP
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Answer a) ATP. Scientists have created the world’s first biological supercomputer which is energy efficient and it hardly heats up at all. It uses proteins instead of electrons to relay information around a circuit. The proteins are powered by adenosine triphosphate (ATP) ,the energy provider to all the cells in a human body.
11. Ulsoor Lake is in
a) Hyderabad
b) Bengaluru
c) Mysuru
d) Chennai
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Answer b) Bengaluru. Thousands of dead fish have washed up on the banks of a polluted lake in India’s southern technology hub of Bangalore. It is suspected that sewage from many parts of the city has been flowing into the lake, depleting oxygen levels in the water.
12. Pro Kabaddi League Season 3 Title has been clinched by
a) Patna Pirates
b) U Mumba
c) Puneri Paltan
d) Bengal Warriors
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Answer a) Patna Pirates. The Patna Pirates were crowned champions of the Pro Kabaddi League Season 3 after they defeated defending champions and heavy favourites U Mumba in a memorable encounter.
13. The paddlers of which country win Gold at World Table Tennis Championship?
a) China
b) USA
c) India
d) Russia
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Answer c) India. Indian paddlers made history twice in less than 24 hours with both women’s and men’s teams emerging triumphant in the second division of their respective sections at the 2016 World Table Tennis Championships.
14. Kalabhavan Mani, who passed away recently, was a/an
a) Economist
b) Journalist
c) Actor
d) Politician
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Answer c) Actor. Popular Malayalam actor Kalabhavan Mani died at a private hospital. He was 45. Mani had acted in over 200 films in Malayalam and other South Indian languages.
15. Ray Tomlinson, who passed away recently, was
a) the inventor of email
b) the man who picked the @ symbol for addresses
c) man behind ARPANET, the Internet’s predecessor
d) All the above
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Answer d) All the above.
