CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23RD SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23^RD SEP 2019

1.        Which organization has partnered with National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) and Skill India to introduce the job-centric Spot codes to offline locations and NSDC centres?

A) Microsoft

B) IBM

C) Facebook

D) Google

E) None of these

2.        Name the integrated exercise conducted by Indian army in the Eastern Ladakh region in order to test and improve its capabilities in war fighting?

A) Ekuverin

B) Ajeya Warrior

C) Chang Thang

D) Vajra Prahar

E) None of these

3.        What is the revised corporate tax rate for domestic companies that is reduced from earlier 30%, for those not availing tax incentives/exemptions?

A) 20%

B) 22%

C) 15%

D) 25%

E) None of these

4.        The reduced tax rate for the new domestic manufacturing companies was 15%, what was the previous tax rate for those companies?

A) 18%

B) 22%

C) 25 %

D) 27%

E) None of these

5.        Who won the Young Scientist Award for the year 2018 for the significant work in the fields of petrology, volcanology and geochemistry?

A) M.S. Dayanand

B) Nandkumar Mekoth

C) Annapurna Sakhardande

D) Sohini Ganguly

E) None of these

6.        Name the first Indian defence minister, who fly (for 30 minutes) in the indigenously-built light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas?

A) Manohar Parrikar

B) Rajnath Singh

C) Chidambaram Subramaniam

D) Nirmala Sitharaman

E) None of these

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 22ND SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 22^ND SEP 2019

1.        Name the 12th century bronze statue that was returned to India by United Kingdom (UK), which was stolen 57 years ago from the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) Nalanda site museum in August 1961?

A)  Buddha statue

B)  Swami Vivekananda statue

C)  Mahavira statue

D)  Bodhidharma statue

E)  None of these

2.        Which country has topped the United Nations(UN)’s report titled ‘The International Migrant Stock 2019’ with 17.5 million migrants globally for the year 2019?

A)  China

B)  India

C)  Mexico

D)  Russia

E)  None of these

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 21ST SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 21^ST SEP 2019

1.        Where was the first International Conference on Sustainability Education (ICSE) 2019 held?

A) Beijing, China

B) Geneva, Switzerland

C) New Delhi, India

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

E) None of these

2.        In which city, Asia’s first environment school named “World Environment School (WESc)” will be set up & to become operation by 2021?

A) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

B) Coorg, Karnataka

C) New Delhi, Delhi

D) Pune, Mumbai

E) None of these

3.        In which city, India’s first Central Police University will be established?

A) Guwahati, Assam

B) New Delhi, Delhi

C) Kolkata, West Bengal

D) Greater Noida , Uttar Pradesh

E) None of these

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 20TH SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 20^TH SEP 2019

1.        What is the maximum limit for an individual to receive gifts upto which they are not required to inform the government as per the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), 2011 new amendment?

A) Rs 1 lakh

B) Rs 2 lakh

C) Rs 3 lakh

D) Rs 5 lakh

E) None of these

2.        Where was the India’s first Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER) setup?

A) Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

B) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

C) Indian Institute of Science- Bengaluru

D) Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi

E) None of these

3.        Where was the 1st edition of the 5 days maiden trilateral exercise of Singapore, India and Thailand named SITMEX (Singapore-India-Thailand Maritime Exercise) held?

A) Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar islands

B) Bukit Timah, Singapore

C) New Delhi, India

D) Bangkok, Thailand

E) None of these

4.        To how much amount of aggregate savings deposits in the Indian private and public sector banks (PSBs) reached as on March 31, 2019 as per the Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy 2018-19?

A) Rs 33.72 lakh crore

B) Rs 35.72 lakh crore

C) Rs 37.72 lakh crore

D) Rs 39.72 lakh crore

E) None of these

5.        What is the GDP(Gross Domestic Product) growth of India in Q1(Apr-June) for the year 2019-20 as per the Reserve Bank of India(RBI)?

A) 5%

B) 7%

C) 6.5%

D) 5.5%

E) None of these

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 19TH SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 19^TH SEP 2019

1.        Name the famous heritage building, which was renovated & inaugurated in National Film Archive of India (NFAI) in Pune, Maharashtra.

A) McCluskieganj Bungalow

B) Chel Bungalow

C) Taljhora Bungalow

D) Jayakar bungalow

E) None of these

2.        Which country’s civil servants are trained under special training programme (STP), which is a part of an MoU ‘Training and Capacity Building Programme’ signed with Indian government?

A) Maldives

B) Seychelles

C) Mauritius

D) Madagascar

E) None of these

3.        Name the External Affairs Minister (EAM) of India, who visited Poland for the first time since 1987.

A) Manmohan Singh

B) Pranab Mukherjee

C) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

D) Salman Khurshid

E) None of these

4.        Name the IPS officer, who was selected for the 2019 Asia Society Game Changers Award for investigating 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape.

A) Chhaya Sharma

B) Archana Ramasundaram

C) Meera Borwankar

D) Sanjukta Parashar

E) None of these

5.        Who has directed the ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’, the only Indian film which was listed in the British daily “The Guardian list of the 100 Best Films of the 21st century”?

A) Ram Gopal Varma

B) Karan Johar

C) Vikramaditya Motwane

D) Anurag Kashyap

E) None of these

6.        Where was the 18th Men’s FIBA (Federation Internationale de Basketball ) World Basketball Championship 2019 held?

A) Geneva, Switzerland

B) Beijing, China

C) Tokyo, Japan

D) New Delhi, India

E) None of these

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CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 18TH SEP 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 18^TH SEP 2019

1.        Which country won the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup 2019, that held in Colombo, SriLanka?

A) India

B) Bangladesh

C) China

D) Russia

E) None of these

2.        Which country is set to host the biennial international women’s youth football championship, FIFA Women’s Under - 17 World Cup in November 2020?

A) India

B) United States

C) Russia

D) China

E) None of these

3.        On which date, International Day of Democracy 2019 held?

A) September 13

B) September 14

C) September 15

D) September 12

E) None of these

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