CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 30TH AUG
2019
1.
Which country has
launched the world’s first ever Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID)
which captures the facial biometric data of seafarers?
A) China
B) Bangladesh
C) Sri Lanka
D) India
E) None of these
2.
Where was the 18th
meeting of Conference of the Parties (CoP18) of Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) held?
A) Geneva,
Switzerland
B) Beijing, China
C) Washington D.C., U.S.
D) London, United Kingdom
E) None of these
3.
Expand ECF?
A) Economic Credit Framework
B) Economic Capital
Framework
C) Economic Collateral Framework
D) Economic Capacity Framework
E) None of these
4.
Name the India’s
first company that provides lifetime credit of up to Rs.5 lakh Instantly to its
customers.
A) Bajaj Finserv
B) Indiabulls
C) KreditBee
D) MoneyTap
E) None of these
5.
Where was the
Digital Governance Tech Summit 2019 held?
A) Kolkata, West Bengal
B) Mumbai, Maharashtra
C) Bengaluru, Karnataka
D) New Delhi, Delhi
E) None of these
6.
Where was the 1st
FinTech centre of excellence, FinBlue was set up?
A) Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
B) New Delhi, Delhi
C) Hyderabad, Telangana
D) Mumbai, Maharashtra
E) None of these
7.
Who topped in the
Forbes magazine’s ‘highest-paid woman in music’ category for the year 2019?
A) Mariah Carey
B) Rihanna
C) Taylor Swift
D) Beyonce
E) None of these
8.
Who became the
first ever female officer to be appointed as flight commander(second in
command) of a flying unit of Indian Air Force(IAF)?
A) Chandramukhi Basu
B) Shalija Dhami
C) Sucheta Kriplani
D) Medha Patkar
E) None of these
9.
To which country,
Pavan Kapoor was appointed as the Ambassador of India?
A) Qatar
B) United Arab
Emirates(UAE)
C) Bahrain
D) Oman
E) None of these
10. Who was appointed as the President of Paytm?
A) Munish Varma
B) Ravi Adusumalli
C) Pallavi Shroff
D) Amit Nayyar
E) None of these
11. Where was the 2019 Badminton World Federation (BWF)
Para-Badminton World Championships held?
A) Beijing, China
B) Basel,
Switzerland
C) Geneva, Switzerland
D) Washington D.C., U.S.
E) None of these
12. Which country’s cricket player Cecil Wright (85), announced
retirement recently?
A) Australia
B) Bangladesh
C) India
D) West Indies
E) None of these
