CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 30TH AUG 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 30^TH AUG 2019

1.        Which country has launched the world’s first ever Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID) which captures the facial biometric data of seafarers?

A) China

B) Bangladesh

C) Sri Lanka

D) India

E) None of these

2.        Where was the 18th meeting of Conference of the Parties (CoP18) of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) held?

A) Geneva, Switzerland

B) Beijing, China

C) Washington D.C., U.S.

D) London, United Kingdom

E) None of these

3.        Expand ECF?

A) Economic Credit Framework

B) Economic Capital Framework

C) Economic Collateral Framework

D) Economic Capacity Framework

E) None of these

4.        Name the India’s first company that provides lifetime credit of up to Rs.5 lakh Instantly to its customers.

A) Bajaj Finserv

B) Indiabulls

C) KreditBee

D) MoneyTap

E) None of these

5.        Where was the Digital Governance Tech Summit 2019 held?

A) Kolkata, West Bengal

B) Mumbai, Maharashtra

C) Bengaluru, Karnataka

D) New Delhi, Delhi

E) None of these

6.        Where was the 1st FinTech centre of excellence, FinBlue was set up?

A) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

B) New Delhi, Delhi

C) Hyderabad, Telangana

D) Mumbai, Maharashtra

E) None of these

7.        Who topped in the Forbes magazine’s ‘highest-paid woman in music’ category for the year 2019?

A) Mariah Carey

B) Rihanna

C) Taylor Swift

D) Beyonce

E) None of these

8.        Who became the first ever female officer to be appointed as flight commander(second in command) of a flying unit of Indian Air Force(IAF)?

A) Chandramukhi Basu

B) Shalija Dhami

C) Sucheta Kriplani

D) Medha Patkar

E) None of these

9.        To which country, Pavan Kapoor was appointed as the Ambassador of India?

A) Qatar

B) United Arab Emirates(UAE)

C) Bahrain

D) Oman

E) None of these

10.    Who was appointed as the President of Paytm?

A) Munish Varma

B) Ravi Adusumalli

C) Pallavi Shroff

D) Amit Nayyar

E) None of these

11.    Where was the 2019 Badminton World Federation (BWF) Para-Badminton World Championships held?

A) Beijing, China

B) Basel, Switzerland

C) Geneva, Switzerland

D) Washington D.C., U.S.

E) None of these

12.    Which country’s cricket player Cecil Wright (85), announced retirement recently?

A) Australia

B) Bangladesh

C) India

D) West Indies

E) None of these