CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 19TH JUNE
2019
1.
Who will chair the five-member
committee constituted by central government of India to review the existing
marketing structure of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)?
A) MA Pathan
B) Errol
D’souza
C) Kirit
Parikh
D) Dharmendra
Pradhan
E) None of
these
2.
Which country is hosting the
Intersessional meeting of Kimberley Process (KP) in June 2019?
A) India
B) U.S.
C) Japan
D) China
E) None of
these
3.
Where was the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation (SCO) summit 2019 held?
A)
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
B) Tashkent,
Uzbekistan
C) Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan
D) Dushanbe, Tajikistan
E) None of
these
4.
How much amount is granted as line of
Credit (LoC) to Kyrgyzstan by Indian government?
A) 400
million dollar
B) 200
million dollar
C) 100 million
dollar
D) 300
million dollar
E) None of
these
5.
Which organization has released the
report titled “Payment and Settlement: The Plumbing in the Architecture of
India’s Financial System” stating digital transactions will rise four times by
2021 in India?
A)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
B) United
Nations (UN)
C) Reserve
Bank of India (RBI)
D) World Bank
(WB)
E) None of
these
6.
Name the state, which received Rs
1,650cr from Asian Development Bank(ADB) for development of piped water supply,
underground drainage, underground sewage or scientific septage management,
roads with pavement.
A) Tripura
B) Mizoram
C) Manipur
D) Meghalaya
E) None of
these
7.
Who was appointed as the executive
director of United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP)?
A) Erik
Solheim
B) Julian
Huxley
C) Julia
Marton-Lefèvre
D) Inger
Andersen
E) None of
these
8.
To which entity, Ravinder Singh Dhillon
was appointed as the Director (Projects)?
A) Coal India
B) Power Grid
Corporation of India
C) Power
Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC)
D) Rural
Electrification Corporation Limited
E) None of
these
9.
Jyothi Surekha Vennam was in news
recently, she was associated with which sport?
A) Shooting
B) Tennis
C) Archery
D) Badminton
E) None of
these
10. What was the
theme of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (WDCD) 2019?
A) Theme –
“Women and Desertification”
B) Theme –
“Let’s Grow the Future Together”
C) Theme –
“Protect Earth. Restore Land. Engage People”
D) Theme –
“Land has true value. Invest in it”
E) None of
these
11. Who has been
sworn-in as the first female President of Slovakia?
A) Zuzana Caputova
B) Adriana Karembeu
C) Jana Kolesarova
D) Suzie Kronerova
E) None of
these
12. Which of the
following companies will soon roll out TechBee programme to hire and train
students for IT jobs?
A) Wipro
B) Infosys
C) HCL
D) Reliance
E) None of
these
