DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 17,18 AUGUST
1. A Federal Supreme
Court justice authorized corruption probe against Dilma Rousseff. She is the
president of
a) Argentina
b) Brazil
c) Chile
d) Columbia
2. Which city hosted
the 1st National Conference of Investigating Agencies?
a) Mumbai
b) Hyderabad
c) Bengaluru
d) New Delhi
3. Name the person who
bagged the APJ Abdul Kalam Award for meritorious services in the Higher
Education Department of Tamil Nadu?
a) Hansraj Verma
b) Kalpana Chawla
c) RB Udhayakumar
d) P Shanmugam
4. Unilever, the parent
company of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), in August 2016 acquired which air
purification company?
a) Pureit
b) AirQuick
c) Blueair
d) Odonil
5. Name the Indian
music composer who was recently honoured with the Tamil Ratna Award.
a) Yuvan Shankar Raja
b) Santhosh Narayanan
c) Anirudh Ravichander
d) A R Rahman
6. Name the renowned
Punjabi writer and Jnanpith awardee who passed away recently.
a) Gurdial Singh
b) Kartar Singh Duggal
c) Komail Singh Somal
d) None of the above
7. The book “Police and
Counter Insurgency — The Untold Story of Tripura’s COIN Campaign” has been
authored by whom?
(a)
Lalita Babar
(b)
Kuldeep Kumar
(c)
Jerry Pinto
(d)
V.B. Ganesan
8. Who has been
posthumously honoured with the Ashok Chakra on the 2016 Independence Day?
(a)
Hanamanthappa Koppad
(b)
Havildar Hangpan Dada
(c) Niranjan Ek
(d)
Gursevak Singh
9. The sailing campaign
“Jal Tarang” has been started from which state of India?
(a)
Maharashtra
(b)
Himachal Pradesh
(c)
Odisha
(d)
West Bengal Hide
10. T A Razzaq, who
passed away recently, was a script writer of which language?
(a)
Tamil
(b)
Malayalam
(c)
Telugu
(d)
Urdu
ANSWER
1.B, 2.D, 3.D, 4.C, 5.D, 6.A, 7.B, 8.B, 9.B, 10.B,
