Current Affairs Quiz

1. Spiritual leader and Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru ___________ will lead a yoga session at the UN on the occasion of the second International Yoga Day next month.

a) Ravi Shankar

b) Ramdev

c) Jaggi Vasudev

d) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

e) None of the above

2. India and Russia have agreed ‘in principle’ to export the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile "BrahMos" to which of the following country?

a) UAE

b) Vietnam 

c) South Africa 

d) Chile

e) All of the above

3. The Centre has announced how much package for Kerala on the occasion of the Narendra Modi government’s second anniversary in office?

a) 1,000 Crore

b) 5,000 Crore

c) 8,000 Crore

d) 14,000 Crore

e) 12,000 Crore

4. Ministry of Power in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched India’s first integrated web portal designed to promote and mainstream Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) in India. The portal are?

a) www.nzeb.com

b) www.nzeb.edu 

c) www.nzeb.net 

d) www.nzeb.in

e) None of the above

5. Name the Indian woman author who has won the Scholastic Asian Book Award recently?

a) Vikram Seth

b) Aditi Krishnakumar

c) Jhumpa Lahiri

d) Arundhati Roy

e) Amish Tripathi

6. Name the first private-sector bank to open a dedicated branch for start-ups in Bengaluru last month, will launch an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) programme for fintech start-ups in the next 9-12 months recently?

a) ICICI Bank

b) Kotak Mahindra Bank

c) South Indian Bank

d) Axis Bank

e) RBL Bank Ltd

7. Who has been re-appointed as Managing Director of automobile manufacturing company Ashok Leyland?

a) Gopal Mahadevan

b) Vinod Kumar Dasari

c) Rajive Saharia 

d) Anuj Kathuria 

e) None of the above

8. Which of the following company has won the Java copyright case versus Oracle?

a) Yahoo

b) Microsoft

c) Google

d) Facebook

e) IBM

9. The mortgage lender HDFC ltd has been ranked among the world's top ten biggest and most powerful companies in the consumer financial services sector on a Forbes list. The list is topped by global major American Express while HDFC is ranked?

a) 5th

b) 2nd

c) 4th

d) 7th

e) None of the above

10.Five Graduates received the 2016 Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award. They are W. James McNerney Jr., Mary Callahan Erdoes, Thomas J. Tierney, Alan F. Horn and ..................?

a) Sunil Bharti Mittal 

b) Mukesh Ambani

c) Ratan Tata

d) Gautam Adani

e) Azim Premji