CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 25TH JULY
2019
1.
Under which scheme
more than 7 crore 32 lakh farmer families across India received the first and
second instalments of Rs 2000?
A) Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
B) Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)
C) Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PMKSNY)
D) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)
E) None of these
2.
Expand UDAN?
A) UDAN – Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik
B) UDAN – Ude Desh Ka Adarsh Naagrik
C) UDAN – Ude Desh Ka Atal Naagrik
D) UDAN – Ude Desh Ka Amrut Naagrik
E) None of these
3.
Under which scheme
the Centre has added 8 new air routes thus making the total operational routes
to 194?
A) Metropolitian Connectivity Scheme(MCS)
B) Urban Connectivity Scheme(UCS)
C) Rural Connectivity Scheme(RCS)
D) Regional Connectivity Scheme(RCS)
E) None of these
4.
Name the drug
banned by Union health minister, which is used in poultry industry for
producing animals, aqua farming etc.
A) Tylosin
B) Colistin
C) Lincomx
D) Penicillin
E) None of these
5.
By which year,
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has decided to declare all
lanes at toll fee plaza on National Highways as ‘FASTag lanes’?
A) 1st May 2020
B) 1st December 2019
C) 1st January 2020
D) 1st April 2020
E) None of these
6.
Which state
registered the highest number of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) frauds in India
for the FY 2018-19 as per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, accessed by the
Times of India (TOI)?
A) Karnataka
B) Maharashtra
C) Kerala
D) New Delhi
E) None of these
7.
Name the state,
which became first in India to reserve 75% private jobs for locals?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Kerala
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Karnataka
E) None of these
8.
Name the head of
Inter-Ministerial committee, which recommended to ban all private
cryptocurrencies & jail time of up to 10 years.
A) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
B) Subhash Chandra Garg
C) Sanjay Kothari
D) Nripendra Misra
E) None of these
9.
Which organization
has agreed to offer Rs 1.25 trillion (Rs 1.25 lakh crore) line of credit by 2024,
to fund highway projects for timely execution of the Rs 8.41 trillion ambitious
Bharatmala project?
A) HDFC Bank
B) State Bank of India(SBI)
C) Reserve Bank of India(RBI)
D) Life Insurance Corporation(LIC)
E) None of these
10. Name the organization, which has collaborated with Japan
Credit Bureau (JCB) International along with domestic banks to launch RuPay JCB
Global Cards.
A) National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
B) Axis Bank
C) HDFC Bank
D) State Bank of India
E) None of these
11. Who bagged the “Mr. South Asia” award at the 12th South Asia
Bodybuilding and Physic Sports Championships 2019 held in Kathmandu, Nepal?
A) Ankur Sharma
B) Rajendran Mani
C) Ravinder Kumar Malik
D) Murli Kumar
E) None of these
12. Who won the contest for the British Prime Minister (PM)?
A) Harold Wilson
B) Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
C) Gordon Brown
D) Margaret Thatcher
E) None of these
13. What is the name of “India’s lightest bullet- proof jacket”
that was launched at the International Police Expo 2019 in New Delhi recently?
A) Bhabha Jacket
B) Lightest Kavach
C) Bhabha Kavach
D) Jacket
E) None of these
14. Researchers from which university have created an algorithm
rather than a machine called Ramanujan Machine to honor the prominent and
path-breaking mathematician of the 20th century?
A) Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
B) Tel Aviv University
C) University of Haifa
D) Ben Gurion University of the Negev
E) None of these
15. Akane Yamaguchi of which country defeated the Indian player
P.V.Sindhu & won Women’s Singles title in the 38th edition of the Indonesia
Open for the year 2019?
A) China
B) Indonesia
C) Japan
D) Taiwan
E) None of these
16. Where was the 21st Edition of the Commonwealth Table Tennis
Championships for the year 2019 held?
A) Beijing, China
B) Moscow, Russia
C) Geneva, Switzerland
D) Cuttack, Odisha
E) None of these
17. Which country topped the medal tally in 21st Edition of the
Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships for the year 2019?
A) India
B) England
C) Singapore
D) Malaysia
E) None of these
18. Which country is set to host the10th edition of Fédération Internationale
de Football Association (FIFA) under 20 Women World Cup 2020?
A) Algeria
B) Somalia
C) Nigeria
D) Ethiopia
E) None of these
19. Where was the World Aquatics Championships 2019 held?
A) Gwangju, South Korea
B) Kigali, Rwanda
C) Kampala, Uganda
D) Nairobi, Kenya
E) None of these
20. Who broke his own world record in the men’s 100-meter
breaststroke at the World Aquatics Championships 2019 held in Gwangju, South
Korea?
A) Sarah Sjöström
B) Adam George Peaty
C) Cameron van der Burgh
D) Chad le Clos
E) None of these
21. Who won the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships 2019 at the
44th edition of International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island,
United States?
A) Juan Martín del Potro
B) Marin Čilić
C) Kevin Anderson
D) John Isner
E) None of these
22. National broadcasting day observed annually on ________?
A) 21st July
B) 23rd July
C) 22nd July
D) 20th July
E) None of these
23. Which country celebrates the 50-year anniversary of ‘Apollo
11’ human moon landing mission on July 16, 2019?
A) China
B) Japan
C) United States
D) Russia
E) None of these
24. Which hockey player has been chosen for 2019 Mohun Bagan
Ratna?
A) Udham Singh
B) Keshav Dutt
C) Leslie Claudius
D) Dhanraj Pillay
E) None of these
