CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 04TH JULY 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 04^TH JULY 2019

1.        Who chairs the high powered 9 member committee of chief ministers for transforming Indian agriculture and raising farmers’ income, which will suggest policy measures, attract investments and raise growth in food processing?

A) Bhupesh Baghel

B) Pema Khandu

C) Sarbananda Sonowal

D) Devendra Fadnavis

E) None of these

2.        Which country has officially resumed commercial whaling for the first time in more than three decades?

A) China

B) Russia

C) Japan

D) India

E) None of these

3.        What is the full form of NIIF?

A) NIIF – National Interest on Infrastructure Fund

B) NIIF – National Infrastructure and Investment Fund

C) NIIF – National Interest on Investment Fund

D) NIIF – N ational Investment and Infrastructure Fund

E) None of these

E) None of these

4.        Who was awarded with an honorary doctorate from IIT Kanpur (Indian Institutes of Technology) on the occasion of their 52nd convocation?

A) Parupalli Kashyap

B) Pullela Gopichand

C) P. V. Sindhu

D) Srikanth Kidambi

E) None of these

5.        Which bank won the Finance Organisation of the Year during the 3rd edition of the UK-India Awards?

A) Punjab National Bank

B) Bank of India

C) State Bank of India

D) AXIS Bank Limited

E) None of these

6.        Name the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), whose tenure was extended for one more year.

A) Viral Acharya

B) M K Jain

C) B P Kanungo

D) N S Vishwanathan

E) None of these

7.        Which telescope of National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) has discovered its Smallest Planet ever, named as L 98-59b?

A) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

B) Kepler space telescope(KST)

C) James Webb Space Telescope(JWST)

D) Spitzer Space Telescope(SST)

E) None of these

8.        Which telescope was used by researchers for discovering the source of FRB 180924, a mysterious powerful pulse of cosmic energy known as Fast Radio Burst (FRB)?

A) Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST)

B) Australia Telescope Compact Array Pathfinder (ATCAP)

C) Atacama Large Millimeter Array Pathfinder (ALMAP)

D) Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)

E) None of these

9.        Which Indian state is set to host 21st Commonwealth Championship for the year 2019?

A) Odisha

B) Maharashtra

C) Tamil Nadu

D) Uttar Pradesh

E) None of these

10.    Gaganjeet Bhullar is associated with which sport?

A) Badminton

B) Cricket

C) Football

D) Golf

E) None of these

11.    On which date, the 2019 edition of International Day of the Tropics is observed?

A) June 27

B) June 28

C) June 29

D) June 30

E) None of these

12.    Dr. Jaya Arunachalam, veteran social activist has passed away. She was from which state?

A) Kerala

B) Karnataka

C) Andhra Pradesh

D) Tamil Nadu

E) None of these

13.    Which Indian personality has been elected as a member of International Olympic Committee (IOC)?

A) Pargat Singh

B) Narinder Batra

C) Ramandeep Singh

D) Dilip Tirkey

E) None of these