CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23RD JULY
2019
1.
How much percent of
vote was registered in Lok Sabha by using the Electronically Transmitted Postal
Ballot System (ETPBS)?
A) 60.14%
B) 61.14%
C) 62.14%
D) 63.14%
E) None of these
2.
Name the Scheme,
which was praised by International Energy Agency (IEA) for providing free
cooking gas connection to poor.
A) Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)
B) Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana (PMAY-G)
C) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)
D) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)
E) None of these
3.
Who will head the
reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM), called the “Air India Specific
Alternative Mechanism (AISAM)” on Air India disinvestment?
A) Narendra Singh Tomar
B) Amit Shah
C) Narendra Modi
D) Ram Vilas Paswan
E) None of these
4.
Who has been
appointed as the chairperson of Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI)?
A) Y. N. Sukthankar
B) Vishnu Sahay
C) Amita Prasad
D) S. S. Khera
E) None of these
5.
Which city topped
the “most digitised cities” as per Razorpay Software Pvt Ltd’s digital
transactions quarterly(April-June 2019 ) report, ‘The Era of Rising Fintech’?
A) Bengaluru
B) Hyderabad
C) Mumbai
D) Pune
E) None of these
6.
Which film has been
included into NFAI(National Film Archives of India) recently?
A) Pink
B) Indu Sarkar
C) Raajneeti
D) Baadshaho
E) None of these
7.
Where was the G7
finance ministers meeting held?
A) Russia
B) Japan
C) France
D) Germany
E) None of these
8.
Which Payment Bank
will shut down its operations within 18 months, which had started its operation
on February 22, 2018?
A) Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank (ABIPBL)
B) Paytm
C) Airtel Payments Bank india
D) Jio Payments Bank india
E) None of these
9.
Who became the
Israel‘s longest-serving prime minister after spending 4,876 days (more than 13
years) in office?
A) Ehud Barak
B) Ariel Sharon
C) Ehud Olmert
D) Benjamin Netanyahu
E) None of these
10. Name the first Asian tennis player, who was inducted into
Tennis Hall of Fame.
A) Zheng Saisai
B) Peng Shuai
C) Li Na
D) Wang Qiang
E) None of these
11. Who became India’s 64th Grandmaster (GM) during Portuguese
League 2019?
A) Surya Shekhar Ganguly
B) Pentala Harikrishna
C) Praveen Thipsay
D) Prithu Gupta
E) None of these
12. The 10th Jagran Film Festival (JFF-2019) has started in
which city?
A) New Delhi
B) Mumbai
C) Kolkata
D) Kochi
E) None of these
13. The Andhra Bank has partnered with which company to launch
AI chatbot “ABHi”?
A) Microsoft
B) Wipro
C) Infosys
D) Floatbot
E) None of these
14. The 5th International Police Expo 2019 was held at which
city?
A) Kanpur
B) Udaipur
C) New Delhi
D) Shimla
E) None of these
15. Prithu Gupta is associated to which sports?
A) Chess
B) Judo
C) Hockey
D) Football
E) None of these
16. The Indian women team has defeated which team to won Gold at
the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship 2019?
A) Australia
B) South Africa
C) England
D) Singapore
E) None of these
17. The 2019 Durand Cup is slated to be held in which state?
A) Bangaluru
B) Agra
C) New Delhi
D) Kolkata
E) None of these
18. The scientists of which country have developed a concept
named Ramanujan Machine?
A) United States
B) Israel
C) Japan
D) France
E) None of these
19. Which state government has decided to set up India’s first
Space Park?
A) Kerala
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Telangana
E) None of these
20. Which Indian bodybuilder has clinched 2019 Mr. South Asia
title?
A) Yatinder Singh
B) Miihier Singh
C) Yogesh Kumar Sanan
D) Ravinder Kumar Malik
E) None of these
21. The 11th biennial edition of DefExpo India – 2020 is
scheduled to be held in which city?
A) Delhi
B) Lucknow
C) Amravati
D) Hyderabad
E) None of these
22. The 2019 Homeless World Cup football tournament is scheduled
to be held in which country?
A) United Kingdom
B) France
C) United States
D) Germany
E) None of these
23. The 2019 Hand-in-Hand military exercise is scheduled to be
held in which Indian state?
A) Meghalaya
B) Nagaland
C) Arunachal Pradesh
D) Sikkim
E) None of these
