CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 12TH – 13TH SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 12^TH – 13^TH SEP 2019

1.        Which country has declared free from H5N1avian influenza (commonly known as bird flu) by OIE(Office International des Epizooties)-World Organisation for Animal Health?

A) China

B) Japan

C) India

D) United States

E) None of these

2.        Which Indian state will set up India’s first International Women’s Trade Centre (iWTC) to boost women entrepreneurship and secure gender parity?

A) Kozhikode, Kerala

B) Bengaluru, Karnataka

C) Mumbai, Maharashtra

D) New Delhi, Delhi

E) None of these

3.        Who headed the 6 member committee, that has submitted its report to the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Shaktikanta Das regarding development of housing finance securitisation market?

A) Yaquta Mandviwala

B) Harsh Vardhan

C) Satish Shankar

D) Siddhartha Karri

E) None of these

4.        What is the initial capital of the intermediary, which will be created by National Housing Bank (NHB) for standard-setting and market-making for the instruments by the panel headed by Harsh vardhan?

A) Rs. 2500 crore

B) Rs. 1500 crore

C) Rs. 1000 crore

D) Rs. 500 crore

E) None of these

5.        Which country has the largest share among developing countries in computer services industry?

A) India

B) Myanmar

C) Maldives

D) Bangladesh

E) None of these

6.        Which film won the “Golden Lion for Best Film” in the 76th edition of the annual Venice International Film Festival Awards for 2019?

A) The Lion King 2019

B) John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

C) Joker

D) Avengers: Endgame

E) None of these

7.        Which is the only Indian International Baccalaureate (IB) school featured in the “Global Top 50 IB Schools 2019″ list by United Kingdom(UK) based education consultancy ‘Education Advisers ltd’?

A) Nahar International School (NIS)

B) Oberoi International School (OIS)

C) American School of Bombay (ASB)

D) Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS)

E) None of these

8.        Who stepped down as the chairman of the Chinese firm Alibaba Group on September 10, 2019?

A) Daniel Yong Zhang

B) Joseph C. Tsai

C) Jack Ma

D) Jack Yun

E) None of these

9.        Which typhoon hits Tokyo, Japan, where there winds of up to 216 kilometres (134 miles) per hour?

A) Typhoon Tokage

B) Typhoon Faxai

C) Typhoon Trami

D) Typhoon Jebi

E) None of these

10.    World Suicide Prevention Day is observed annually on ___________.

A) September 7

B) September 8

C) September 10

D) September 9

E) None of these

11.    Indian Railways has launched its first-ever ‘fun zone’ for kids in which railway station?

A) Hazrat Nizamuddin

B) Bhopal

C) Visakhapatnam

D) Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

E) None of these

12.    Who has become the first bowler to take 100 wickets in Twenty20 International cricket?

A) Lasith Malinga

B) Mohammed Shami

C) Cameron Bancroft

D) Jasprit Bumrah

E) None of these

13.    Who is the newly appointed chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI)?

A) K N Shanth Kumar

B) Mahendra Mohan Gupta

C) Vijay Kumar Chopra

D) Aveek Kumar Sarkar

E) None of these

14.    The 22nd edition of UN Committee on CRPD was held at which city?

A) Geneva

B) Paris

C) New York

D) Berlin

E) None of these

15.    Which Indian diplomat has been bestowed the UAE’s First Class Order of Zayed II award?

A) Raveesh Kumar

B) Navdeep Singh Suri

C) Rahi Masoom Raza

D) Syed Akbaruddin

E) None of these

16.    Who is the author of the book ‘Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past’?

A) Romila Thapar

B) Vikram Sampath

C) Irfan Habib

D) Ramachandra Guha

E) None of these