CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23RD SEP 2019
1.
Which organization
has partnered with National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) and Skill
India to introduce the job-centric Spot codes to offline locations and NSDC
centres?
A) Microsoft
B) IBM
C) Facebook
D) Google
E) None of these
2.
Name the integrated
exercise conducted by Indian army in the Eastern Ladakh region in order to test
and improve its capabilities in war fighting?
A) Ekuverin
B) Ajeya Warrior
C) Chang Thang
D) Vajra Prahar
E) None of these
3.
What is the revised
corporate tax rate for domestic companies that is reduced from earlier 30%, for
those not availing tax incentives/exemptions?
A) 20%
B) 22%
C) 15%
D) 25%
E) None of these
4.
The reduced tax
rate for the new domestic manufacturing companies was 15%, what was the
previous tax rate for those companies?
A) 18%
B) 22%
C) 25 %
D) 27%
E) None of these
5.
Who won the Young
Scientist Award for the year 2018 for the significant work in the fields of
petrology, volcanology and geochemistry?
A) M.S. Dayanand
B) Nandkumar Mekoth
C) Annapurna Sakhardande
D) Sohini Ganguly
E) None of these
6.
Name the first
Indian defence minister, who fly (for 30 minutes) in the indigenously-built
light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas?
A) Manohar Parrikar
B) Rajnath Singh
C) Chidambaram Subramaniam
D) Nirmala Sitharaman
E) None of these
7.
Which Indian
Business School was ranked 7th globally and 1st in Asia in the Forbes’ “Best
International 1-Year Business Schools 2019” rankings recently?
A) Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, Telangana
B) Xavier School of Management Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
C) Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Gujarat
D) Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Karnataka
E) None of these
8.
Which railway
station became the first station awarded with green ‘Platinum rating’ by the
Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) under the Confederation of Indian
Industries (CII)?
A) Kesamudram railway station
B) Hyderabad Deccan railway station
C) Errupalem railway station
D) Secunderabad railway station
E) None of these
9.
Who was appointed
as the 26th chief of air staff in the Indian Air Force(IAF)?
A) Pradeep Vasant Naik
B) Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
C) Arup Raha
D) Birender Singh Dhanoa
E) None of these
10. Who is the author of the pictorial biography of PM Narendra
Modi titled ‘Turbulence & Triumph: The Modi Years’?
A) Rahul Agarwal and Bharathi S Pradhan
B) Ashwin Sanghi and Preeti Shenoy
C) Rahul Agarwal and Preeti Shenoy
D) Bharathi S Pradhan and Preeti Shenoy
E) None of these
11. Who is the newly elected chairman of the Audit Bureau of
Circulations (ABC) for 2019-20?
A) Praful Sen
B) Girish Ahuja
C) Madhukar Kamath
D) Milan Saxena
E) None of these
12. Which high court has recently ruled that the right to access
Internet is part of the fundamental Right to Education (RTE) & Right to
Privacy?
A) Kerala
B) Delhi
C) Allahabad
D) Jabalpur
E) None of these
13. Who is the head of the SEBI committee to suggest norms for
Social Stock Exchanges (SSE)?
A) Shamika Ravi
B) Amit Chandra
C) Ishaat Hussain
D) Vineet Rai
E) None of these
14. Which state government has
decided to ban private practice of govt. doctors?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Rajasthan
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Odisha
E) None of these
15. Who is the author of the book “Being Gandhi”?
A) Dhaval Kulkarni
B) Amrita Mukherjee
C) Paro Anand
D) Sanjay Kak
E) None of these
16. NEAT scheme, which is in news recently, is related to which
field?
A) Education
B) Sports
C) Arts
D) Journalism
E) None of these
17. Who has been appointed the new Chief of the Indian Air Force
(IAF)?
A) Siddharth Shrivastava
B) Rakesh K Singh Bhadauria
C) P S Chander
D) Narendra Rajput
E) None of these
18. The Union Government has decided to set-up state-of-the-art
National Police University (NPU) at which city?
A) Dehradun
B) Greater Noida
C) Pune
D) Bhopal
E) None of these
19. Which tech giant has joined hands with the Union Government
for ‘Digital Payment Abhiyan’?
A) Facebook
B) Twitter
C) Google
D) Microsoft
E) None of these
20. Which state government
has decided to make Sanskrit mandatory in all schools from class 3 to 8?
A) Uttarakhand
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Chhattisgarh
E) None of these
21. Which is the official mascot of the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics?
A) Bing Dwen Dwen
B) Shuey Rhon Rhon
C) Asian black bear
D) Bing Keun-suk
E) None of these
