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Current Affairs Quiz

1. World No-Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed every year across the world on?
1) 30 May
2) 31 May
3) 29 May
4) 28 May
5) 27 May

2. Which state Government has launched Swachhata Saptapadi scheme on the lines of Union Government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?
1) Tamilnadu
2) Madhhya Pradesh
3) Maharashtra
4) Gujrat
5) Rajasthan

3. The Eminent scientist who has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) along with the rank of a secretary?
1) APJ Abdul Kalam
2) C.N.R. Rao
3) Dr. Selvin Christopher
4) Shailesh Nayak
5) None of these

4. Which state government has decided to withdraw the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958 from the remaining areas of the state?
1) Tripura
2) Nagaland
3) Mizoram
4) Assam
5) None of these.

5. Four Indians have been named in Forbes magazine’s 12th annual list of World’s 100 most powerful women, the Indian eminent woman who is not inducted in the list?
1) Chanda kochar
2) Kiran mazumdar-Shaw
3) Arundhati Bhattacharya
4) Shikha Sharma
5) Shobhna Bhartia

6. Union government has constituted a 10-member committee to review and revitalise public private partnership (PPP) mode of infrastructure development the committee will be chaired by?
1) Nachiket Mor
2) Vijay Kelkar
3) C.S Rajan
4) Arvind Mayaram
5) None of these

7. The Bank which has launched voice password facility for users?
1) ICICI Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) State Bank of india
5) None of these.

8. Who has won the Monaco Grand Prix Formula One (F1) World Championship title?
1) Nico Hulkenberg
2) Sebastian Vettel
3) Nico Roseberg
4) Lewis Hamilton
5) None of these

9. The country which officially has enacted a law banning undesirable non-governmental organisations (NGOs)?
1) France
2) Russia
3) USA
4) UK
5) None of these

10. The eminent Historian-writer who has been selected for Japan’s Fukuoka Prize 2015 in n the Academic category?
1) Ram Sharan Sharma
2) Irfan Habib
3) Romila Thapar
4) Ramachandra Guha
5) None of these

11. The Eminent scientist and Bharat Ratna awardee who was conferred with Japan’s highest civilian award the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star?
1) A.P.J Abdul Kalam
2) C.V. Raman
3) C.N.R Rao
4) Srinivas Ramanujam
5) None of these

12. Which India’s private sector lender has launched a 10-second paperless instant loan Scheme for its existing customers?
1) Axis bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) ICICI Bank
4) Kotak Mahindra Bank
5) None of these

13. As per recently released Global Peace Index (GPI) for year 2015, India was placed at which rank out 162 countries?
1) 143
2) 142
3) 144
4) 145
5) None of these

14. Which district of West Bengal won the UN Public Service Award 2015 for eliminating open defecation?
1) North 24 Paragnas
2) Malda
3) Nadia
4) South 24 Paragnas
5) None of these

15. Greece has become the first developed nation to default on International Monetary Fund (IMF) debt. It has defaulted on a --------- dollars payment to IMF.
1) 1.6 billion
2) 1.6 trillion
3) 1.6 million
4) 1.7 billion
5) None of these.

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