Current Affairs Quiz

1. Emirates Airline continues long standing relationship to which organisation recently?

Answer: International Cricket Council (ICC)

2. Breaking the gender barrier, seven women officers of Short Service Commission batch of 2008-09 have been granted  permanent commission by?

Answer: Indian Navy

3. Who is appointed as Rubber Board chief?

Answer: Ajith Kumar

4. Who is appointed as New lokayukta for Goa?

Answer: P K Mishra

5. World Earth day celebrated on which day?

Answer: 22nd April

6. Which region has become the world’s first region to wipe out Malaria, a mosquito-borne vetor disease with zero cases reported in the year 2015 declared by WHO?

Answer: Europe

7. The National Assembly of which country elected the chief of the ruling Communist Party, Bounnhang Vorachit, as president in a transition of power necessitated by the completion of the maximum permissible 10 years in office by outgoing president Choummaly Sayasone?

Answer: Laos

8. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has set an ambitious target of constructing how many km of national highways every day in 2016-17, up from more than 16 km per day of highways it built in 2015-16?

Answer: 41 KM

9. Signalling a major social change, women were permitted entry to the 'garbha griha' of the which temple in Maharashtra?

Answer: Trimbakeshwar

10. Name the country, which has signed the MoU with India on technical cooperation in the field of capacity building, bench marking and bilateral exchange in infrastructure engineering? 

Answer: Bhutan