Current Affairs Quiz

1. Farzad B gas field is located in which of the following country?

a) Iran

b) Oman

c) Saudi Arabia

d) Afghanistan

e) Canada

Answer: Iran

2. Who among the following is popularly known as “Krishi ka Rishi”?

a) Subhash Palekar

b) Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

c) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

d) Norman Ernest Borlaug

e) None of the above

Answer: Subhash Palekar

3. The headquarters of the Confederation of Indian Industry ( CII) are located at?

a) New Delhi

b) Mumbai

c) Chennai

d) Ahmedabad

e) Kolkata

Answer: New Delhi

4. Whose birth anniversary will be celebrated on April 13, 2016 at the UN headquarters?

a) B R Ambedkar

b) Annie Besant

c) Florence Nightingale

d) George Washington

e) Nelson Mandela

Answer: B R Ambedkar

5. The RV Easwar Committee gave recommendations on:

a) simplification of income tax laws

b) Goods and Services Tax in India

c) banking reforms

d) crude oil and gas pricing

e) None of the above

Answer:simplification of income tax laws

6. The Mullaperiyar Dam has been a subject of controversy between which two states?

a) Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

b) Kerala & Tamil Nadu

c) Telangana and Karnataka

d) Kerala & Karnataka

e) Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh

Answer: Kerala & Tamil Nadu

7. The Group of Seven (G-7) summit for the year 2016 is to be held in which country?

a) Japan

b) France

c) Canada

d) Germany

e) USA

Answer: Japan

8. “Mission Bhagiratha” is the prestigious water grid project in which state of India?

a) Telangana

b) Uttarakhand

c) Bihar

d) Uttar Pradesh

e) Maharashtra

Answer: Telangana

9. As per figures for 2014-15, which of the following is the correct order of states with their Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP)?

a) Maharashtra>Uttar Pradesh>West Bengal>Gujarat

b) Gujarat>Maharashtra>Uttar Pradesh>West Bengal

c) Uttar Pradesh> Maharashtra> West Bengal>Gujarat

d) Maharashtra>Gujarat>Uttar Pradesh>West Bengal

e) None of the above

Answer: Maharashtra>Uttar Pradesh>West Bengal>Gujarat

10. What is “doda post”, which has been frequently making news?

a) A mammal species that has been recently declared extinct

b) It is a drug made of poppy husk

c) A bacterium species capable of breaking down plastic

d) A space probe built by the Indian Space Research Organisation

e) None of the above

Answer: It is a drug made of poppy husk

11. The Bihar govt decided to waive off entertainment tax on the movie Chalk N Duster recently. The film with Juhi Chawla in the lead role, has been directed by?

a) Shabana Azmi

b) Jayant Gilatar

c) Meghna Gulzar

d) Sanjay Gupta

e) Apoorva Lakhia

Answer: Jayant Gilatar

12. India put on hold the application of the DBS Bank to become a whollyowned subsidiary of the parent recently in a retaliatory measure. The banks is based in?

a) China

b) Singapore

c) US

d) Germany

e) South Korea

Answer: Singapore

13. India recently assured the visiting Syrian Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Walid alMoallem to complete all stalled projects there. The capital city of Syria is?

a) Nassau

b) Manama

c) Damascus

d) Tirana

e) Yerevan

Answer: Damascus

14. Indiaborn Indra Nooyi has become the Yale School of Management’s biggest alumni donor and the first woman to endow a deanship at a top BSchool.She is the present CEO of?

a) PepsiCo

b) Coca Cola

c) Nestle

d) Yahoo

e) General Motors

Answer: PepsiCo

15. The World Bank said about which of the following initiatives recently that it is estimated to be saving the govt about $1 bn annually?

a) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

b) Pradhan Mantri JanDhan Yojana

c) Aadhaar

d) Mission Indradhanush

e) MGNREGA

Answer: Aadhaar