CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 9TH APRIL 2019
1. Which of the following IIT, has signed a MoU with Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) in the field of standardisation and conformity assessment?
A) IIT Roorkee
B) IIT Delhi
C) IIT Kharagpur
D) IIT Bhubaneswar
E) None of these
2. What is the name of the military exercise that held between Morocco –US in Morocco?
A) Sampriti II 2019
B) Brazen Chariots 2019
C) African Lion 2019
D) Ekuverin 2019
E) None of these.
3. Which Indian regulatory body has approved ‘Airport Specific Fund’ titled “Taking off to the future airport fund” worth Rs. 10,000 crore for the first time?
A) Advertising Standards Council of India
B) Securities and Exchange Board of India
C) Small Industries Development Bank of India
D) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
E) None of these
4. What is the new seller-funding programme launched by Amazon India to help the small businesses and entrepreneurs to raise funds through the crowd funding platform?
A) Amazon Go
B) Amazon Inspire
C) Amazon Wings
D) Amazon Business
E) None of these
5. Which organisation has received the approval from Competition Commission of India (CCI) to acquire Bengaluru-based IT services firm Mindtree?
A) Microsoft
B) Larsen and Toubro (L&T)
C) Infosys
D) Wipro
E) None of these
6. What was the theme of the World Health Day 2019?
A) Theme – “Health for Everyone Everywhere”
B) Theme – “Universal health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere”
C) Theme – “Healthy Sleep, Healthy Aging”
D) Theme – “Let’s Bring Change to the World”
E) None of these
7. The world’s first 5G phone has recently released in which of the following countries?
A) South Korea
B) Malaysia
C) United States
D) Denmark
E) None of these
8. Who is the newly appointed Managing Director of LIC?
A) Nishant Patil
B) Vipin Anand Monday
C) Varsha Sharma
D) Puneet Jain
E) None of these
9. Which railway station has become the India’s first-ever railway station to get green ISO certification?
A) Delhi
B) Hyderabad
C) Guwahati
D) Bhopal
E) None of these
10. Which country’s space agency has successfully dropped an explosive on asteroid Ryugu to make crater?
A) China
B) France
C) Japan
D) Germany
E) None of these
