CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 15TH JUNE
2019
1.
Which country has recognized forests as
living entities on the World Environment Day ?
A) Ecuador
B) Costa Rica
C) Nicaragua
D) El
Salvador
E) None of
these
2.
Which country is set to host the 45th
session of the G7 Summit?
A) Sicily,
Italy
B) Biarritz,
France
C) Ottawa,
Canada
D) Bavaria,
Germany
E) None of
these
3.
Which two prepaid payment instrument
(PPI) issuers were penalized by Reserve Bank of India for violating PPI norms
pertaining to its issuance and operation?
A) Axis Bank
and My Mobile Payments Limited
B) HDFC Bank
and Vodafone M-Pesa Limited
C) Yes Bank
and ZipCash Card Services
D) ICICI Bank
and Itz Cash Card Ltd.
E) None of
these
4.
How much is the highest monetary reward
issued to the genuine informant of insider trading as per the regulatory body,
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) recently?
A) Rs. 5
Crore
B) Rs. 4
Crore
C) Rs. 2
Crore
D) Rs. 1
Crore
E) None of
these
5.
Name the Manipur youth, who was
inducted into Facebook ‘Hall of Fame’ for discovering Whatsapp bug .
A) Maharaj
Kumar Priyabarta Singh
B) Donny
Luwang
C) Zonel
Sougaijam
D) Thingnam
Anjulika Samom
E) None of
these
6.
Who was the only Indian athelete in the
Forbes list of World’s highest paid athletes 2019 ?
A) Rohit
Sharma
B) Shikhar
Dhawan
C) M.S. Dhoni
D) Virat
Kholi
E) None of
these
7.
To which organization, Krishnamurthy
Subramanian and B Sriram was appointed as the part-time members ?
A) Insolvency
and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
B) Insurance
Regulatory and Development Authority(IRDAI)
C) Reserve
Bank of India(RBI)
D) Securities
and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
E) None of
these
8.
Researchers from which institute have
created high-resolution maps of points around the globe where groundwater meets the oceans, for
the first time ?
A) Saint
Louis University
B) University
of Notre Dame
C) Ohio State
University
D) University
of Nebraska Omaha
E) None of
these
9.
Which state recorded the highest number
of discoveries with 59 species as per the data released by Botanical Survey of
India (BSI) and the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) ?
A) Andhra
Pradesh
B) West
Bengal
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Kerala
E) None of
these
10. Name the new
species of ‘paddy frog’, which is discovered from from Northeast India,
primarily Assam.
A) Dapylil
B) Hammer
C) Aishani
D) Hopper
E) None of
these
