DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27, 28 AUGUST
1. Name the Sri Lankan cricketer who announced
retirement from international cricket in August 2016?
a) Kumar Sangakkara
b) Tillakaratne Dilshan
c) Mahela Jayawardene
d) Lasith Malinga
2. Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses
(POCSO) e-Box launched by Union Minister Maneka Gandhi. Human being up to which
age are recognised as a child under POSCO Act 2012?
a) 16 years
b) 10 years
c) 14 years
d) 18 yearsANS D
3. For how many number of Olympics Games Prime
Minister Narendra Modi announced the decision to set up a task force to prepare
action Plan?
a) Four
b) One
c) Three
d) Two
4. As per RBI’s direction, at which percent the
women self-help groups (SHGs) in rural areas will be granted loans by all
banks?
a) 8 percent
b) 7 percent
c) 9 percent
d) 6 percent
5. In which Dargah, Bombay High Court on 26
August 2016 ruled that women should be permitted to enter the sanctum sanctorum
of a Dargah set in the heart of Mumbai.
a) Jangli Peer Dargah
b) Syed Qadar Shah Vali Dargah
c) Hazrat Baba Fakhruddin Pir
d) Haji Ali Dargah
6. Which state granted 980 crore rupees by the
World Bank to dredge the Brahmaputra as an initiative to develop waterways to
Bangladesh and to other South East Asian countries.
a) West Bengal
b) Assam
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Sikkim
7. Which
country agreed to provide eight submarines to Pakistan by 2028.
a) China
b) USA
c) North Korea
d) RussiaANS A
8. Name the Indian city that will host the Pravasi
Bharatiya Divas in 2017?
a) Bengaluru
b) Delhi
c) Jaipur
d) Hyderabad
9. Who is the author of the book “I Want 2 be
Tendulkar”?
a) Manish Sharma
b) Devdutt Pattanaik
c) Savi Sharma
d) Sudeep Nagarkar
10. Who will head the 11-member committee that
was constituted by Finance Ministry to suggest steps to promote card payments?
a) Arvind Subramanian
b) DB Shekatkar
c) Anand Desai
d) Ratan P Watal
ANSWER
1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.B, 5.D, 6.B, 7.A, 8.A, 9.A, 10.D,
