CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27TH JUNE
2019
1.
Which state has topped among the larger states for overall performance
on health indicators as per the NITI Aayog report titled “Healthy States,
Progressive India”?
A) Maharashtra
B) Kerala
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Odisha
E) None of these
2.
Under which scheme, Department of School Education and Literacy provides
Self defence training for girls in schools?
A) Shagun
B) Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat
C) Samagra Shiksha
D) Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan
E) None of these
3.
Name the portal launched by Reserve Bank of India(RBI) for lodging
complaints against banks and NBFCs (Non-Banking Financial Companies) on its
website.
A) Complaint Management System (CMS)
B) Complaint Against Bank (CAB)
C) Complaint Over Bank and NBFC (COBN)
D) Lodge Complaints against Bank (LCB)
E) None of these
4.
Which state government will receive the loan worth $147 million from the
World Bank for improving the management capacity of the urban local bodies
(ULBs) in the state?
A) Tamil Nadu
B) Maharashtra
C) West Bengal
D) Jharkhand
E) None of these
5.
Who won the RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year 2019’ for exposing
the functioning of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and its
Aadhaar data cache in 2018?
A) Ravish Kumar
B) Rachna Khaira
C) Barkha Dutt
D) Rajat Sharma
E) None of these
6.
Who was appointed by World Archery to sort out problems in the Archery
Association of India (AAI)?
A) Abhinav Bindra
B) Anjali Bhagwat
C) Harihar Banerjee
D) Bhim Singh II.
E) None of these
7.
Which entity is set to acquire the stakes held by BNP Paribas in their
two joint venture (JV) companies for a total of around Rs1,000cr?
A) Magma Fincorp
B) Cholamandalam Investment and Finance
Company
C) Sundaram Finance Ltd (SFL)
D) Bajaj Finserv Ltd
E) None of these
8.
Name the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) first
Astrobee robot to fly under its own power in space.
A) ‘Robocop’
B) ‘Doraemon’
C) ‘Tachikomas’
D) ‘Bumble’
E) None of these
9.
By which year, half of the world’s power will be delivered by Wind and
solar energy as per “New Energy Outlook (NEO) report 2019” by BloombergNEF?
A) 2050
B) 2040
C) 2030
D) 2020
E) None of these
10.
Name the Indian film actor, who penned an Auto-Biography titled “Lessons
Life Taught Me, Unknowingly”, published by Penguin Random House?
A) Sanjay Dutt
B) Anupam Kher
C) Amitabh Bachchan
D) Naseeruddin Shah
E) None of these
