CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 25TH – 26TH AUG 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 25^TH – 26^TH AUG 2019

1.    Which country’s Electoral commission has signed an MoU with Election Commission of India?

A) Namibia

B) Zambia

C) Zimbabwe

D) Botswana

E) None of these

2.    Where was the two-day National Conference on Varmam Science inaugurated?

A) Kolkata, West Bengal

B) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

C) Mumbai, Maharashtra

D) Bengaluru, Karanataka

E) None of these

3.    Which country was blacklisted by the Asia Pacific Group (APG) of the Financial Action Task Force(FATF) for non-compliance & non-enforcement of safeguards against terror financing & money laundering during FATF APG meeting in Canberra, Australia?

A) Pakistan

B) Srilanka

C) Russia

D) Bangladesh

E) None of these

4.    Which bank has signed a bancassurance agreement with Digit Insurance to provide Digit Insurance’s suite of products to its SMEs(Small and medium-sized enterprises) customers?

A) Indian Overseas Bank(IOB)

B) State Bank of India(SBI)

C) ICICI Bank

D) Karur Vysya Bank(KVB)

E) None of these

5.    Name the Indian destinations, which were featured in Time magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places” 2019 list.

A) Statue of Unity, Gujarat

B) ‘Soho House’, Mumbai

C) Taj Mahal, Uttar Pradesh

D) Both 1 & 2

E) All the above

6.    Who topped in the Forbes magazine’s Worlds Highest-Paid Actors Of 2019 list?

A) Dwayne Johnson

B) Chris Hemsworth

C) Robert Downey Jr.

D) Jackie Chan

E) None of these

7.    Where was the 18th meeting of Conference of Parties to Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) held?

A) Vienna, Austria

B) Paris, France

C) Washington D.C., United States

D) Geneva, Switzerland

E) None of these

8.    Abdalla Hamdok sworn in as the Prime Minister of which country?

A) Sudan

B) Syria

C) Algeria

D) Egypt

E) None of these

9.    Which energy was declared as the renewable energy by R K Singh, Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister recently?

A) Wind Energy

B) Biomass Energy

C) Hydrogen Energy

D) Ocean energy

E) None of these

10.Which country launched its air defence system called “Bavar-373” recently?

A) China

B) Japan

C) Iran

D) Russia

E) None of these

11.Who was appointed as India’s new batting coach?

A) Sanjay Bangar

B) Milind Soman

C) Vikram Rathour

D) MSK Prasad

E) None of these

12.    Who is the author of the book “Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story”?

A) Mihir Dalal

B) Prahalad Joshi

C) Raj Kumar Singh

D) Ashwini Kumar