CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 12TH JUNE
2019
1.
Who was conferred with ‘Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak ’ during the 2
day Subordinate Officers Conclave 2019?
A) V. S. R.
Murthy
B) Navik
Vinod
C) K. R.
Nautiyal
D) Krishnaswamy
Natarajan
E) None of
these
2.
National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted an expert committee
to ascertain whether further norms are required to restrict the use of plastic
packaging.Who is the Chairperson of National Green Tribunal (NGT)?
A) Sonam
Phintso Wangdi
B) Raghuvendra
Singh Rathore
C) Jawad
Rahim
D) Adarsh
Kumar Goel
E) None of
these
3.
Which of the following countries were elected to United Nations
Security Council (UNSC) as Non-permanent Members for a period of 2-year?
A) Estonia,
Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam
B) Latvia,
Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam
C) Belarus,
Latvia, Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Tunisia
D) Belarus,
Latvia, Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Cyprus
E) None of
these
4.
Which airlines has been named the world’s most punctual airline by
flight data analysis company Flightstats.com?
A) Qatar
Airways
B) All
Nippon Airways
C) Srilankan
Airlines
D) LATAM
Airlines
E) None of
these
5.
Which organization is set to create the foreign exchange trading platform
for retail participants?
A) Central
Board of Indirect taxes and Customs (CBIC)
B) Reserve
Bank of India (RBI)
C) Securities
and Exchange Board of India(SEBI)
D) National
Stock Exchange(NSE)
E) None of
these
6.
What is the minimum tradeable amount in the foreign exchange
trading platform for retail participants?
A) $1000
B) $750
C) $500
D) $250
E) None of
these
7.
Name the organization, which develops the trading platforms for
retail participants.
A) National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
B) Clearcorp
Dealing Systems (India) Limited
C) Legal
Entity Identifier India Limited
D) Clearing
Corporation of India Limited (CCIL)
E) None of
these
8.
Which entity launched the India’s first Mutual Fund Side Pocketing
recently to set aside its troubled investment in Dewan Housing Finance Limited
(DHFL)?
A) ICICI
Prudential Mutual Fund
B) DSP
Mutual Fund
C) Tata
Mutual Fund
D) SBI
Mutual Fund
E) None of
these
9.
Which country topped in the e-Money transactions for the year
2017?
A) Japan
B) USA
C) India
D) Russia
E) None of
these
10. Name the
Indian historian and writer, who has been elected as international member of
American Philosophical Society (APS) at its Annual Spring Meeting.
A) Romila
Thapar
B) Irfan
Habib
C) Ram
Sharan Sharma
D) Bipan Chandra
E) None of
these
11. Where was
India’s first and world’s third Dinosaur Museum-cum-Park inaugurated?
A) Uttar
Pradesh
B) Maharashtra
C) New Delhi
D) Gujarat
E) None of
these
12. Indian
economy will grew by _________ percent in 2019, as per the G-20 surveillance
note prepared by staff of International Monetary Fund (IMF).
A) 7.1%
B) 7.2%
C) 7.3%
D) 7.5%
E) None of
these
13. Which
country has launched the first Arctic tourist train service?
A) Japan
B) China
C) U.S.
D) Russia
E) None of
these
14. Name the bank,
which is first to introduce repo-linked home loan product from July 1, 2019.
A) Industrial
Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) Bank
B) HDFC Bank
C) State
Bank of India (SBI)
D) Axis Bank
E) None of
these
15. Name the
former President of United States of America (USA), who has won the George H.
W. Bush Award for the contributions to relations between the U.S. and China.
A) Richard
Nixon
B) Jimmy
Carter
C) Ronald
Reagan
D) Gerald
Ford
E) None of
these
16. Name the
Cabinet Secretary, whose service period is extended for 3 more months making
him the longest-serving bureaucrat in the post in the last seven decades.
A) Pramod
Kumar Misra
B) Nripendra
Misra
C) Ajit Seth
D) Pradeep
Kumar Sinha
E) None of
these
17. Name the
tennis player, who won Men’s Singles title in French Open and became the first
to win single’s event 12 times and secured his 18th Grand Slam title.
A) Fabrice
Martin
B) Kevin
Krawietz
C) Rafael
Nadal
D) Dominic
Thiem
E) None of
these
18. Who became
the first women’s singles player since Margaret Court in 1974 from Australia to
win the French Open women’s singles title?
A) Zheng
Saisai
B) Timea
Babos
C) Marketa
Vondrousova
D) Ashleigh
Barty
E) None of
these
19. Name the
deceased Actor, Writer and playwright, who won Jnanpith award in 1998, Padma
Shri in 1974 and Padma Bhushan in 1992
for literature.
A) Pyarelal
Wadali
B) Narendra
Jha
C) Girish
Karnad
D) Shrivallabh
Vyas
E) None of
these
20. Name the
first movie to win President’s Golden Lotus Award for Kannada cinema.
A) Aparoopa
B) Sandharbha
C) Vamsha
Vriksha
D) Samskara
E) None of
these
21. Which state
government has recently launched Pink Sarathi vehicles for women’s safety?
A) Karnataka
B) Kerala
C) Uttar
Pradesh
D) Jharkhand
E) None of
these
22. Bancha,
which has become the first Solar Kitchen only village in India, is located in
which district of Madhya Pradesh?
A) Jabalpur
B)
Chhindwara
C) Bhopal
D) Betul
E) None of
these
23. India has
partnered with which country to set up a national maritime heritage museum at
Lothal?
A) United Kingdom
B) Portugal
C) Japan
D) France
E) None of
these
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