CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27TH AUG
2019
1.
Which state has
topped in the implementation of free medicine scheme as per the National Health
Mission (NHM)?
A) Gujarat
B) Assam
C) Rajasthan
D) Uttar Pradesh
E) None of these
2.
Who topped in the
Forbes magazine’s world’s Highest-Paid actresses of 2019 list with the earning
of $56 million?
A) Reese Witherspoon
B) Scarlett
Johansson
C) Sofia Vergara
D) Nicole Kidman
E) None of these
3.
Where was the
National Centre for Avian Ecotoxicology centre inaugurated?
A) Coimbatore,
Tamil Nadu
B) Kolkata, West Bengal
C) New Delhi, Delhi
D) Mumbai, Maharashtra
E) None of these
4.
Which state has
topped in water management practices as per recently released report,”
Composite Water Management Index 2019” (CWMI 2.0) for the year 2017-2018?
A) Gujarat
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Karnataka
E) None of these
5.
Where was the
FSSAI’s (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) National Food
Laboratory(NFL) inaugurated?
A) Ghaziabad
B) Faridabad
C) Faizabad
D) Gurgaon
E) None of these
6.
Which countries
topped in the 2019 Henley Passport Index and became the “world’s most powerful
passport”?
A) Denmark and Italy
B) France and Sweden
C) Japan and
Singapore
D) South Korea and Germany
E) None of these
7.
What is the maximum
turnover limit of the small startups, to get the promised tax holiday as per
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)?
A) Rs 30 crore
B) Rs 10 crore
C) Rs 25 crore
D) Rs 50 crore
E) None of these
8.
How much amount
will be infused into public sector banks (PSBs) with an objective to boost
lending and improving liquidity situation?
A) Rs 40,000 crore
B) Rs 70,000 crore
C) Rs 50,000 crore
D) Rs 85,000 crore
E) None of these
9.
Who headed the
committee, that recommends on ease of credit, marketing, technology, delayed
payments etc. made within 30 days?
A) N. K. Singh
B) UK Sinha
C) Ajit Doval
D) Deepak Parekh
E) None of these
10. What is the revised rate of governments Contribution of
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)?
A) 6%
B) 5.5%
C) 5%
D) 4%
E) None of these
11. Name the first Asian-headquartered bank, which was named as
the ‘World’s Best Bank’ as per ‘Euromoney’.
A) DBS bank
B) OCBC Bank
C) Standard Chartered
D) Citibank
E) None of these
12. Name the animal, which was moved to protect for the first
time by the nations in the world during the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 2019, in Geneva,
Switzerland.
A) Giraffe
B) Giant panda
C) Cheetah
D) Hippopotamus
E) None of these
13. Who is the author of the book titled “Big Billion Startup:
The Untold Flipkart Story”, which narrates the story of how Binny Bansal and
Sachin Bansal built e-commerce giant Flipkart?
A)
Anita Desai
B) MihirDalal
C) Aravind Adiga
D) Kiran Desai
E) None of these
