CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 5TH OCT 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 5^TH OCT 2019

1.        Where was the 5th edition of India Today Safaigiri Summit for the year 2019 held?

A) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

B) New Delhi, Delhi

C) Mumbai, Maharashtra

D) Kolkata, West Bengal

E) none of these

2.        Who was conferred with the 2019 Swachchta Ambassador award during the 5th edition of India Today Safaigiri Summit recently?

A) Shahrukh Khan

B) Amitabh Bachchan

C) Sachin Tendulkar

D) Narendra Modi

E) None of these

3.        Where is the National Sports University is being constructed?

A) Imphal, Manipur

B) Guwahati, Assam

C) Bhubaneswar, Odisha

D) Cuttack, Odisha

E) None of these

4.        In which of the following route does, India’s first private train ‘Tejas Express’ is flagged off recently?

A) Lucknow – Guwahati

B) Lucknow – Mumbai

C) Lucknow – Bangalore

D) Lucknow-New Delhi

E) None of these

5.        How much compensation is paid by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) if Tejas Express runs one hour later than its scheduled time?

A) Rs 1000

B) Rs 100

C) Rs 500

D) Rs 200

E) None of these

6.        Where was the 4th edition of KAZIND-2019, the joint military exercise between India and Kazakhstan commenced recently?

A) West Siang, Arunachal pradesh

B) Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

C) Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand

D) Aktobe, Kazakhstan

E) None of these

7.        Which district has become the cleanest district in India as per the 2019 rural Swachhta survey (sanitation survey)?

A) Peddapalli district of Telangana

B) Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh

C) Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh

D) Jagitial district of Telangana

E) None of these

8.        In which route, the second Vande Bharat Express train, India’s fastest train will run?

A) Delhi and Mumbai

B) Delhi and Varanasi

C) Delhi and Katra

D) Delhi and Lucknow

E) None of these

9.        Name the country, that will quit Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) from January 1, 2020 due to fiscal problems?

A) Iran

B) Ecuador

C) Indonesia

D) Saudi Arabia

E) None of these

10.    Who was appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Greece?

A) Srikumar Menon

B) Renu Pall

C) Amrit Lugun

D) Dinesh Bhatia

E) None of these

11.    Koneru Humpy was in news recently, she was associated with which sport?

A) Badminton

B) Cricket

C) Chess

D) Football

E) None of these

12.    India’s largest ‘charkha’ made of waste plastic inaugurated in which city?

A) Kolkata

B) Gandhi Nagar

C) Bikaner

D) Noida

E) None of these

13.    Scientists have excavate ‘ancient river’ in which state that linked the Ganga and Yamuna rivers?

A) Uttar Pradesh

B) Uttarakhand

C) West Bengal

D) Bihar

E) None of these

14.    Who is the author of the book ‘India and the Netherlands – Past, Present and Future’?

A) P C Chagla

B) Navtej Sarna

C) Venu Rajamony

D) Harsh Vardhan Shringla

E) None of these

15.    What is the theme of the 2019 edition of World Space Week (WSW)?

A) Exploring New Worlds In Space

B) The Moon: Gateway to the Stars

C) Remote Sensing: Enabling our Future

D) Mysteries of the Cosmos

E) None of these

16.    On which date, the 2019 edition of World Animal Day (WAD) is observed?

A) October 3

B) October 4

C) October 6

D) October 5

E) None of these

17.    Which bank has launched a short-term online fixed deposit product “Express FD”?

A) Axis Bank

B) ICICI bank

C) HDFC bank

D) SBI

E) None of these