CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 10TH – 11TH
JUNE 2019
1.
Who is the chairperson of the
government’s policy think tank, National Institution for Transforming India
(NITI) Aayog?
A) Piyush
Goyal
B) Rajiv
Kumar
C) Narendra
Modi
D) Amit Shah
E) None of
these
2.
Food grains production stood at
__________ million tones, as per the 3rd Advance Estimates of production of
major crops for 2018-19 by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and
Farmers Welfare?
A) 285.37
million tonnes
B) 283.37
million tonnes
C) 287.37 million
tonnes
D) 289.37
million tonnes
E) None of
these
3.
Which disease was reviewed by Dr Harsh
Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare(MoHWF) recently in Kerala?
A) Marburg
Virus Disease (MVD)
B) Measles
Virus Disease (MVD)
C) Nipah
Virus Disease (NVD)
D) Lassa
Virus Disease (LVD)
E) None of
these
4.
Which country has signed with Indian
Air Force(IAF) worth Rs 300-crore deal for the supply of more than 100 SPICE
bombs (Balakot bombs)?
A) U.S.
B) Bangladesh
C) Russia
D) Israel
E) None of these
5.
Name the Telangana based NGO, which
bagged the United Nation’s Equator Prize for 2019.
A) Rural
Health Care Foundation
B) Deccan
Development Society (DDS)
C) Desire
Society
D) Rural
Development Society
E) None of
these
6.
Which Government programme, has led to
reduce ground water contamination as per the UNICEF study titled “Environmental
impact of the Swachh Bharat Mission on Water, Soil, and Food”?
A) Sansad
Adarsh Gram Yojana
B) Smart
Cities Mission
C) Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan
D) Digital
India
E) None of
these
7.
Name the singer, who has become the
world’s richest female musician according to the Forbes magazine with an
estimated fortune of $600 million.
A) Nicki
Minaj
B) Beyonce
C) Madonna
D) Rihanna
E) None of
these
8.
Who is the author of the novel titled
“An American Marriage”, for which she received Women’s Prize for Fiction worth
$40,000?
A) Tayari
Jones
B) Toni
Morrison
C) Alice
Walker
D) Donna
Tartt
E) None of
these
9.
Name the first South Asian American
woman to preside over the US House of Representatives as a temporary speaker.
A) Shivana
Jorawar
B) Jayshree
Ullal
C) Pramila
Jayapal
D) Mira Nair
E) None of
these
10. Name the
experimental Ebola drug, which is found to cure Nipah virus as per study
published in Science Translational Medicine from National Institutes of Health
scientists and colleagues.
A) Valacyclovir
B) Famciclovir
C) Remdesivir
D) Acyclovir
E) None of
these
11. Name the
deceased musician, who won grammy award six time.
A) Lari White
B) Malcolm
John Rebennack
C) Dolores O’Riordan
D) Micki
Varro
E) None of
these
12. Who launched
Swachh Survekshan 2020 League in New Delhi recently?
A) Pralhad
Joshi
B) Shripad
Yasso Naik
C) Hardeep
Singh Puri
D) Narendra
Singh Tomar
E) None of
these
13. How many days
are given for the lenders to review a borrower account after default as per the
new NPA guidelines, “Prudential framework for resolution of stressed assets”
released by Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
A) 30 days
B) 45 days
C) 15 days
D) 60 days
E) None of
these
14. Which of the following
banks are included in the second schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act,
1934?
i. Fincare
Small Finance Bank
ii. Kookmin
Bank
iii. Equitas
Small Finance Bank
A) Option i
and ii
B) Option i
alone
C) Option ii
and iii
D) Option
i,ii and iii
E) None of
these
15. Business
confidence index (BCI) of fourth quarter (QD) for India is projected to
_________ percent, for the financial year 2018-19 as per the National Council
of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)?
A) 9.5%
B) 9.3%
C) 9.4%
D) 9.1%
E) None of these
16. What is the
GDP growth of India for the financial year 2019-20 as per the American
multinational banking firm, Goldman Sachs.
A) 7.1 per
cent
B) 7.4 per
cent
C) 7.2 per
cent
D) 7.5 per
cent
E) None of
these
17. Who is set to
receive the 2019 Global Leadership award along with NASDAQ ‘s (National
Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) President Adena
Friedman?
A) Sundar
Pichai
B) Vijay K.
Thadani
C) Dikesh
Malhotra
D) C
Vijayakumar
E) None of
these
18. Which
manufacturing unit of Indian railways, was awarded with best performing
Production Unit in the field of environment on 6th June, 2019?
A) Diesel
Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
B) Rail Wheel
Factory, Yelahanka, Karnataka
C) Rail Coach
Factory (RCF), Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh
D) Rail Coach
Factory (RCF), Kapurthala, Punjab
E) None of
these
19. Who was
elected as the Prime Minister of Thailand?
A) Surayud
Chulanont
B) Somchai
Wongsawat
C) Thanathorn
Juangroongruangkit
D) Prayuth
Chan-ocha
E) None of
these
20. Which country
was permitted by Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to host 2023 Asia Cup?
A) China
B) Korea
C) Russia
D) India
E) None of
these
21. Name the
Indian footballer, who becomes the most capped football player surpassing the
former Indian captain Bhaichung Bhutia.
A) Sandesh
Jhingan
B) Sunil
Chhetri
C) Balwant
Singh
D) Udanta
Singh
E) None of
these
22. What is the
current repo rate in the second bi-monthly monetary policy review of RBI for
FY20?
A) 5.25%
B) 5.50%
C) 5.75%
D) 5.0%
E) None of
these
23. Which country
has recently launched Arctic train service?
A) Russia
B) Germany
C) France
D) United
States
E) None of
these
24. Which social
networking site has launched its first interactive game show ‘Confetti’ in
India?
A) Instagram
B) Pinterest
C) Twitter
D) Facebook
E) None of
these
25. The Airports
Authority of India (AAI) has recently signed pact with which company to
modernize air traffic management in India?
A) Airbus
B) Boeing
C) Embraer
D) Dassault
Aviation
E) None of
these
26. Which country
has successfully launched its first sea-based space rocket from Yellow Sea?
A) Indonesia
B) Vietnam
C) Japan
D) China
E) None of
these
27. Which Indian
personality has been conferred Maldives’s ‘Nishan Izzuddin’ award?
A) Sushma
Swaraj
B) Ram Nath
Kovind
C) Narendra
Modi
D) Nirmala
Sitharaman
E) None of
these
28. Gandhi Cycle
Rally for Peace’ has recently organized in which of the following countries?
A) Oman
B) Saudi
Arabia
C) South
Africa
D) Kenya
E) None of
these
29. Who has been
elected as new Prime Minister of Thailand?
A) Thaksin
Shinawatra
B) Prayuth
Chan-ocha
C) Thanathorn
Juangroongruangkit
D) Prem
Tinsulanonda
E) None of
these
30. Which former
US president will be bestowed with the George H. W. Bush Award for
Statesmanship?
A) George W.
Bush
B) Jimmy
Carter
C) Barack
Obama
D) Bill
Clinton
E) None of
these
31. The
first-ever World Food Safety Day (WFSD) has officially observed on which date?
A) June 7
B) June 8
C) June 9
D) June 6
E) None of
these
