CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27TH APRIL
2019
1.
Which of the following financial
institution are now fully owned by central government of India after RBI
divested its entire stake?
i.National
Housing Bank (NHB)
ii.Small
Industries Development Bank of India(SIDBI)
iii.National
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
iv.Industrial
Finance Corporation of India(IFCI)
A) Option i
& ii
B) Option i
& iii
C) Option ii
& iv
D) Option i
& iv
E) None of
these
2.
Name the private sector bank, which has
partnered with Germany based global provider of digital payments and commerce
solutions Wirecard to promote financial inclusion in India.
A) HDFC Bank
B) ICICI Bank
C) IDBI Bank
D) RBL Bank
E) None of
these
3.
Under the recommendation of which
committee’s report, RBI has divested its entire stake in National Housing Bank
(NHB) and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to the
central government?
A) Second A C
Shah Committee report
B) Second
Narasimham committee report
C) Second A Ghosh
Committee report
D) Second
Adhyarjuna Committee report
E) None of
these
4.
Which public sector bank has launched
India’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric Vehicle) to encourage customers to buy
electric vehicles?
A) Bank of
Baroda
B) Canara
Bank
C) State Bank
of India (SBI)
D) Indian
Bank
E) None of
these
5.
Which organization is set to partner
with the Embassy of the US to jointly promote domestic investments during
‘Select USA 2019’ summit that will be held in Washington DC?
A) Trade
Promotion Council of India (TPCI)
B) Federation
of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO)
C) National
Productivity Council (NPC)
D) Project
Exports Promotion Council of India (PEPC)
E) None of
these
6.
Name the script writer, who won the
Deenanath Mangeshkar Lifetime Award 2019 recently.
A) Javed
Akhtar
B) Vishal
Bhardwaj
C) Anurag
Kashyap
D) Salim Khan
E) None of
these
7.
What is the name of the world’s first
floating nuclear power plant that is tested by Rosenergoatom of Russia?
A) Bashkir
B) Balakovo
C) Akademik Lomonosov
D) Beloyarsk
E) None of
these
8.
Which country has attained the ODI
status for the first time?
A) Canada
B) United
States of America
C) Papua New
Guinea
D) Namibia
E) None of
these
9.
Where was the 23rd edition of Asian
Athletics Championship also known as Asian Athletics Championship 2019 held
recently?
A) Wembley,
London
B) Milan,
Italy
C) Beijing,
China
D) Doha,
Qatar
E) None of
these
10. Name the
English poet, whose date of birth and death date was celebrated as English
Language Day.
A) William
Blake
B) William
Shakespeare
C) William
Wordsworth
D) Lord Byron
E) None of
these
11. What was the
theme of the World Malaria Day 2019?
A) Theme –
“End malaria for good”
B) Theme – “
Malaria prevention: let’s close the gap
C) Theme –
“Zero malaria starts with me”
D) Theme –
“Ready to Beat Malaria”
E) None of
these
12. National
Panchayati Raj Diwas (NPRD) is observed annually on ___________?
A) 23rd April
B) 24th April
C) 25th April
D) 26th April
E) None of
these
13. What is the
India’s rank in the StartupBlink’s 2019 Startup Ecosystem Ranking?
A) 20th
B) 19th
C) 18th
D) 17th
E) None of
these
14. Which of the
following central banks is the first Asia-Pacific (APAC) central bank to begin
interest rate easing cycle?
A) Central
Bank of Sri Lanka
B) Royal
Monetary Authority of Bhutan
C) Reserve
Bank of India
D) People\’s
Bank of China
E) None of
these
15. Who is the
newly appointed Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA)?
A) Tajinder
Pal Singh
B) Nirmal
Jain
C) Rajendra
Kumar Nayak
D) Vineet
Sharma
E) None of
these
