DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 29, 30 AUGUST
1. International Day
Against Nuclear Tests observed on?
a)
30 October
b)
23 September
c)
29 August
d)
16 November
2. India’s rank in the
World Risk Index 2016 published by United Nations University Institute for
Environment and Human Security?
a)
34th
b)
146th
c)
77th
d)
89th
3. Name the country who
topped the World Risk Index 2016 published by United Nations University
Institute for Environment and Human Security?
a)
Germany
b)
Tonga
c)
Philippines
d)
Vanuatu
4. Who won the women’s doubles
title at 2016 Connecticut Open?
a)
Saina Mirza and Chuang Chia-Jung
b)
Saina Mirza and Monica Niculescu
c)
Monica Niculescu and Chuang Chia-Jung
d)
Kateryna Bondarenko and Chuang Chia-Jung
5. Which bank is not
part of the four banks that introduced the NPCI’s Unified Payments Interface
(UPI) that will allow customers to make payments via digital means?
a)
HDFC
b)
Bank of Maharashtra
c)
Axis Bank
6. Who awarded the prestigious Saraswati
Samman for the year 2015?
a) Advay Ramesh
b) Padma Sachdev
c) Padma Sharma
d) Sunita Jain
7. With which country India signed Logistics
Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) in August 2016.
a) The United States
b) Nepal
c) Germany
d) Russia
ANS
A
8. Who is the author of the autobiography
'Chitt-Chete' written in Dogri language?
a) Ravi Velloor
b) G Satheesh
c) Padma Sachdev
d) Sanjeev Sanyal
9. Which city hosting the 2016 Mother Teresa
International Film Festival (MTIFF)?
a) Kolkata
b) Bengaluru
c) New Delhi
d) Panaji
10. 29 August is observed as National Sports
Day across India to commemorate birth anniversary of?
a) Mohammed Shahid
b) Milkha Singh
c) Dhyan Chand
d) Dhanraj Pillay
11. Name the sportsperson who won the 2016
Belgian Grand Prix of Formula One (F1)?
a) Lewis Hamilton
b) Daniel Ricciardo
c) Nico Rosberg
d) Nico Hulkenberg
12. Who will head Indian Navy’s high level
committee that was constituted to find out extent of Scorpene Submarine data
leak?
a) Girish Luthra
b) Ashok Kumar
c) Robin K. Dhowan
d) Sunil Lanba
ANSWER
1.C, 2.C, 3.D, 4.B, 5.A, 6.B, 7.A, 8.C, 9.A, 10.C, 11.C,
12.B,
