CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 25 MARCH 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ - 25 MARCH 2019

1.        Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has turned down which of the following bank’s proposal to change its name recently?

A) IDBI Bank

B) Dena Bank

C) Bank of Baroda

D) Vijaya Bank

E) None of these

2.        Which country won the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s Championship 2019 for the fifth year consecutively?

A) Bangladesh

B) Maldives

C) Nepal

D) India

E) None of these

3.        Which Indian English word is added as the 650th entry in Oxford Dictionary?

A) Mantra

B) Chuddies

C) Loot

D) Multan

E) None of these

4.        According to the world airport traffic rankings 2018 by Airports Council International (ACI),which Indian airport became the 12th busiest airport in the world?

A) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport

B) Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)

C) Kempegowda International Airport

D) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport

E) None of these

5.        Government crosses disinvestment target for the financial year 2018-19 by _________ crore against its target Rs.80000 crore.

A) 5000 crore

B) 10000 crore

C) 2000 crore

D) 7000 crore

E) None of these

6.        Who was appointed as the 24th chief of naval staff of India?

A) Robin K Dhowan

B) Devendra Kumar Joshi

C) Karambir Singh

D) Nirmal Kumar Verma

E) None of these

7.        Which technology company in partnership with the University of Washington developed a storage device that can translate digital information into DNA?

A) Intel

B) IBM

C) Google

D) Microsoft

E) None of these

8.        Name the Operation launched by India to provide Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) support to Mozambique,which was hit by cyclone IDAI.

A) Operation Sahayata 19

B) Operation Trident 19

C) Operation Cactus 19

D) Operation Parakram 19

E) None of these

9.        Lasith Malinga announced his retirement from international cricket after ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020.He belongs to which country?

A) Srilanka

B) Pakistan

C) Bangladesh

D) India

E) None of these

10.    What was the theme of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that is observed on 23rd March?

A) Theme – “Weather-Ready, Climate-Smart”

B) Theme – “The Sun, the Earth and the Weather”

C) Theme – “Understanding Clouds”

D) Theme – “Climate and Water”

E) None of these

11.    When was Martyr’s Day (88th) or Shaheed Diwas observed?

A) 21st March

B) 22nd March

C) 23rd March

D) 20th March

E) None of these

12.    Name the Indian low-cost airlines that has joined the International Air Transport Association (IATA), recently.

A) Indigo

 B) Air India

 C) SpiceJet

 D) Kingfisher

E) Vistara

13.    What is the theme for the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2019?

A) End TB by 2025

B) It’s time

 C) It's Now or Never

D) High Time to End TB

 E) None of the given theme is correct

14.    RBI declined which Bank’s proposal to name change after its merger with LIC?

A) Dena Bank

B) IDBI Bank

C) Andhra Bank

D) Karur Vysya Bank