Current Affairs Quiz

1. Who is to become the new CM of Jammu and Kashmir after the death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed?

Answer.  Mehbooba Mufti

2. The Supreme Court asked the Centre and public sector banking authorities to consider providing reservation to which employees in promotion to officers’ ranks at all levels?
Answer. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the which airbase in Punjab after a terrorist attack at the site?

Answer. Pathankot

4. Name the chief of Pearls Group who along with his three colleagues, was arrested by the CBI in connection with a ponzi scam involving over Rs.45,000 crore collected from 5.5 crore investors.

Answer. Nirmal Singh Bhangoo

5.  The centre permitted which Tamil Nadu’s traditional bull-taming sport, ahead of the Pongal festival?

Answer. Jallikattu

6. Name the party which recently cleared that it is no longer part of the National Democratic Alliance in the State.

Answer. Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi (KNMDK)

7. Who is named as the most generous Indian of the year for the third time in a row with donations worth Rs. 27,514 crore to the education sector?

Answer. Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro

8. Name the American documentary on the life of Pakistani female activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, which has been nominated at the 68th BAFTA Awards.

Answer. He Named Me Malala

9. Name the Nobel laureate  who said that the NDA government had been slow to move on key reforms and even failed to deliver on the reforms it had promised, thus hampering the successful functioning of a market economy.

Answer. Amartya Sen

10. What is the name of the BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha's biography?

Answer. Anything But Khamosh (Anything But Silent)