CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 6TH AUG 2019


CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 6TH AUG 2019
1.        How many years of jail term is rewarded to person, who indulge in pornography using child as per the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) (Amendment) Bill, 2019?
A) Life Imprisonment
B) 15 years  
C) 5 years
D) 10 years
E) None of these

2.        Which government body will become paperless from the next session?
A) Lok Sabha
B) Rajya Sabha
C) Election Commission of India
D) Both 1 & 2
E) None of these

3.        Who will chair the National Statistical Office (NSO)?
A) Prabhat Kumar
B) Pravin Srivastava
C) P. K. Sinha
D) Ajit Seth
E) None of these

4.        Which Indian city, will hold the Regional Conference on Good Governance?
A) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
B) NewDelhi, Delhi
C) Jaipur, Rajasthan
D) Mumbai, Maharashtra
E) None of these


5.        Which country has imposed a ban on Burqa or niqab in public places, including public transport, government buildings and at health and education institutions?
A) Denmark
B) Switzerland
C) Netherland
D) Belgium
E) None of these

6.        Which entity, has been barred by Reserve Bank of India(RBI) from charging pre-payment penalties or foreclosure charges from individual borrowers?
A) Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC)
B) Commercial Banks
C) Payment Banks
D) Co-operative Banks
E) None of these

7.        Which bank has tied up with Finwizard Technology Pvt Ltd to offer mutual funds (MFs), through its ‘KBL Mobile Plus’ application?
A) Canara Bank
B) HDFC Bank
C) State Bank of India
D) Karnataka Bank
E) None of these

8.        Who will be conferred with International Broadcasting Convention’s(IBC) highest award “International Honor for Excellence” during the IBC’s awards ceremony 2019, in Amsterdam, Netherlands?
A) Daniel Craig
B) Andy Serkis
C) Idris Elba
D) Daniel Radcliffe
E) None of these

9.        Name the Indian Cricketer, who was conferred with Bharat Gaurav Award 2019.
A) Sourav Ganguly
B) Sachin Tendulkar
C) Kapil Dev
D) Sunil Gavaskar
E) None of these

10.    Who was appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Cyprus on 2nd August, 2019?
A) Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat
B) Naveen Srivastava
C) Renu Pall
D) Alok Kumar Sinha
E) None of these

11.    Where did India test-fired a sophisticated all-weather and all-terrain two Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) recently?
A) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
B) Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
C) Bengaluru, Karnataka
D) Chandipur, Odisha
E) None of these

12.    What is the strike range of newly tested Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM)?
A) 30-35 km
B) 25-30 km
C) 35-40 km
D) 40-45 km
E) None of these

13.    Kanti Bhatt, who passed away recently, was the veteran personality of which field?
A) Journalism
B) Poltics
C) Sports
D) Arts
E) None of these

14.    ISRO has decided to setup Space Situational Awareness Control Centre in which city?
A) Kochi
B) Bengaluru
C) Hyderabad
D) Raipur
E) None of these

15.    On which date, the 2019 UN International Day of Friendship is celebrated recently?
A) July 24
B) July 26
C) July 30
D) July 27
E) None of these

16.    Which state has become the India’s first state to adopt a digital fingerprint and iris scanning system?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Maharashtra
C) Rajasthan
D) Odisha
E) None of these

17.    Which Bollywood actor to be felicitated with ‘Excellence in Cinema’ award by Victorian Government?
A) Priyanka Chopra
B) Shekhar Kapoor
C) Shahrukh Khan
D) Deepika Padukone
E) None of these

18.    Naaz Joshi, who won the Miss World Diversity 2019 title, is from which country?
A) Mauritius
B) Indonesia
C) India
D Thailand
E) None of these