CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 25TH – 26TH
AUG 2019
1. Which country’s Electoral commission has signed an MoU with
Election Commission of India?
A) Namibia
B) Zambia
C) Zimbabwe
D) Botswana
E) None of these
2. Where was the two-day National Conference on Varmam Science
inaugurated?
A) Kolkata, West Bengal
B) Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
C) Mumbai, Maharashtra
D) Bengaluru, Karanataka
E) None of these
3. Which country was blacklisted by the Asia Pacific Group
(APG) of the Financial Action Task Force(FATF) for non-compliance &
non-enforcement of safeguards against terror financing & money laundering
during FATF APG meeting in Canberra, Australia?
A) Pakistan
B) Srilanka
C) Russia
D) Bangladesh
E) None of these
4. Which bank has signed a bancassurance agreement with Digit Insurance
to provide Digit Insurance’s suite of products to its SMEs(Small and
medium-sized enterprises) customers?
A) Indian Overseas Bank(IOB)
B) State Bank of India(SBI)
C) ICICI Bank
D) Karur Vysya
Bank(KVB)
E) None of these
5. Name the Indian destinations, which were featured in Time
magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places” 2019 list.
A) Statue of Unity, Gujarat
B) ‘Soho House’, Mumbai
C) Taj Mahal, Uttar Pradesh
D) Both 1 & 2
E) All the above
6. Who topped in the Forbes magazine’s Worlds Highest-Paid
Actors Of 2019 list?
A) Dwayne Johnson
B) Chris Hemsworth
C) Robert Downey Jr.
D) Jackie Chan
E) None of these
7. Where was the 18th meeting of Conference of Parties to
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) held?
A) Vienna, Austria
B) Paris, France
C) Washington D.C., United States
D) Geneva,
Switzerland
E) None of these
8. Abdalla Hamdok sworn in as the Prime Minister of which
country?
A) Sudan
B) Syria
C) Algeria
D) Egypt
E) None of these
9. Which energy was declared as the renewable energy by R K
Singh, Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister recently?
A) Wind Energy
B) Biomass Energy
C) Hydrogen Energy
D) Ocean energy
E) None of these
10.Which country launched its air defence system called “Bavar-373”
recently?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Iran
D) Russia
E) None of these
11.Who was appointed as India’s new batting coach?
A) Sanjay Bangar
B) Milind Soman
C) Vikram Rathour
D) MSK Prasad
E) None of these
12. Who is the author of the book “Big Billion Startup: The
Untold Flipkart Story”?
A) Mihir Dalal
B) Prahalad Joshi
C) Raj Kumar Singh
D) Ashwini Kumar
