Current Affairs Quiz

1. Who among the following has won the women’s singles title of the Hong Kong Open tennis tournament recently?

1) Sabine Lisicki

2) Karolina Pliskova

3) Karin Knapp

4) Donna Vekic

5) None of these

2. Edward Mawthoh won bronze at World Championships recently. He is associated with which of the following games?

1) Boxing

2) Netball

3) Discuss throw

4) Kickboxing

5) None of these

3. The Govt issued draft guidelines for E-rickshaws recently. Which of the following statements is NOT true in this regard?

1) It will have top speed of 35 kmph.

2) It can carry a maximum of four passengers excluding the driver.

3) Driving licence and periodic fitness certificates mandatory for e-rickshaws.

4) E – rickshaws will be added as a separate vehicle category.

5) None of these

4. The govt has approved the new urea policy. Which of the following statements is NOT correct in this regard?

1) The govt is likely to cover the entire cost of natural gas, the main feedstock accounting for almost 80 per cent of the production cost.

2) The govt has suggested a 12-20 per cent post-tax return on fresh capital infusion by manufacturers.

3) India produces about 22 million tonnes (mt) of urea annually and imports 8-10 mt to meet the total demand of 30-32 mt.

4) The retail price of urea has been fixed by the Government at Rs 5,360 per tonne.

5) None of these

5. The number of telephone connections in India crossed _________ mark at the end of April 2015.

1) 500 million 

2) 1 billion

3) 1.5 billion 

4) 2 billion

5) None of these 

6. The govt approved launching of National Ayush Mission (NAM) to address gaps in health services in vulnerable and far-flung areas of the country. This mission will include which of the following systems of medicine?

1) Homoeopathy

2) Siddha

3) Ayurveda

4) Naturopathy

5) All the above

7. The International sports body FIBA regulates which of the following sports? It allowed the players to wear religious head coverings, such as hijabs or turbans, on a trial basis recently.

1) Football

2) Basketball

3) Badminton

4) Boxing

5) None of these

8. Which of the following universities topped the QS World University Rankings released recently? It is regarded as the most rigorous of its type of ranking.

1) Oxford

2) MIT

3) Harvard

4) Cambridge

5) None of these

9. India and China signed three-Gujarat specific pacts during the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to India. Which of the following is NOT among them?

1) Making Guangzhou city in China and Ahmedabad as sister cities

2) Setting up of industrial parks in this state

3) Agreement between Guangdong province and the Gujarat govt for development of cultural and social ties between the two provinces

4) MoU on feasibility study to develop small ports across the Gujarat coastline

5) None of these

10. The world’s largest ultra mega solar power park to generate 2,500 MW is being established in which of the following Indian states as announced by the Union Minister of Power and Coal, Piyush Goyal recently?

1) Gujarat

2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Andhra Pradesh

4) Tamil Nadu

5) None of these

11. The name Peng Liyuan was doing round in the media during the recent visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to India. She is

1) a renowned businesswomen of China

2) is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

3) personal assistant of Xi Jinping

4) the first lady of China

5) None of these

12.  India’s domestic airlines IndiGo inked a $2.6 bn aircraft finance deal with which of the following banks recently?

1) Bank of Japan

2) ICBC

3) Bank of America

4) Deutsche Bundesbank

5) None of these

13. The three-day Global Investors Summit, Invest Madhya Pradesh, is scheduled to be held in which of the following cities from Oct 8-10?

1) Gwalior

2) Bhopal

3) Jabalpur

4) Indore

5) None of these

14. John Key has won an emphatic victory in the recently held general elections and is all set to lead which of the following countries for the third term?

1) Zimbabwe

2) New Zealand

3) Spain

4) Norway

5) None of these

15. We often read about the term gold ETF in the financial newspapers. What does letter ‘T’ denote in the term ETF?

1) Traded

2) Transferable

3) Transaction

4) Termination

5) None of these

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