Current Affairs Quiz

1. The Thomas Cup is an international men’s team competition of?

 badminton

 tennis

 squash

 billiards

 golf

2. India is placed at which position in the ‘Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index’, according to an recent EY report?

 First

 Second

 Third

 Fourth

 Fifth

3. The ‘Income Declaration Scheme’ or four month window for declaration of domestic black money will commence from?

 1 Jun 2016

 1 Sep 2016

 1 Dec 2016

 1 Jan 2017

 1 Apr 2017

4. _______ will become the first Indian to be inducted into the ‘International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Hall of Fame’.

 G Madhavan Nair

 UR Rao

 KK Radhakrishnan

 CNR Rao

 K Kasturirangan

5. The Air Forces of which two countries concluded their four-week-long “Red Flag” aerial combat exercises at Alaska in the US recently?

 Pakistan and US

 China and US

 Japan and US

 South Korea and US

 India and US

6. The world football governing body FIFA appointed who among the following as deputy chairman of its governance committee recently?

 Mukul Mudgal

 Praful Patel

 Baichung Bhutia

 Sarbananda Sonowal

 IM Vijayan

7. The economic think-tank NCAER recently projected India’s economic growth rate at what percent in 2016-17?

 6.9 per cent

 7.1 per cent

 7.4 per cent

 7.6 per cent

 7.7 per cent

8. Which of the following pairs won women’s doubles title of the 2016 Rome Masters?

 Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnin

 Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis

 Raquel Atawo and Abigail Spears

 Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu

 None of the above

9. The Women Economic Forum with a theme ‘Women: Uplifting and Uniting The World’ was held recently in?

 Jaipur

 Bhopal

 Kolkata

 New Delhi

 Mumbai

10. The 2nd phase of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana to provide LPG connections to 5 cr women beneficiaries from BPL families was launched recently from Dahod district of?

 Jharkhand

 West Bengal

 Tamil Nadu

 Kerala

 Gujarat