DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27, 28 AUGUST

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27, 28 AUGUST

1.    Name the Sri Lankan cricketer who announced retirement from international cricket in August 2016?
a)    Kumar Sangakkara
b)    Tillakaratne Dilshan
c)    Mahela Jayawardene
d)    Lasith Malinga

2.    Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) e-Box launched by Union Minister Maneka Gandhi. Human being up to which age are recognised as a child under POSCO Act 2012?
a)    16 years
b)    10 years
c)    14 years
d)    18 yearsANS D

3.    For how many number of Olympics Games Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the decision to set up a task force to prepare action Plan?
a)    Four
b)    One
c)    Three
d)    Two

4.    As per RBI’s direction, at which percent the women self-help groups (SHGs) in rural areas will be granted loans by all banks?
a)    8 percent
b)    7 percent
c)    9 percent
d)    6 percent

5.    In which Dargah, Bombay High Court on 26 August 2016 ruled that women should be permitted to enter the sanctum sanctorum of a Dargah set in the heart of Mumbai.
a)    Jangli Peer Dargah
b)    Syed Qadar Shah Vali Dargah
c)    Hazrat Baba Fakhruddin Pir
d)    Haji Ali Dargah

6.    Which state granted 980 crore rupees by the World Bank to dredge the Brahmaputra as an initiative to develop waterways to Bangladesh and to other South East Asian countries.
a)    West Bengal
b)    Assam
c)    Arunachal Pradesh
d)    Sikkim

 7.    Which country agreed to provide eight submarines to Pakistan by 2028.
a)    China
b)    USA
c)    North Korea
d)    RussiaANS A

8.    Name the  Indian city that will host the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in 2017?
a)    Bengaluru
b)    Delhi
c)    Jaipur
d)    Hyderabad

9.    Who is the author of the book “I Want 2 be Tendulkar”?
a)    Manish Sharma
b)    Devdutt Pattanaik
c)    Savi Sharma
d)    Sudeep Nagarkar

10.    Who will head the 11-member committee that was constituted by Finance Ministry to suggest steps to promote card payments?
a)    Arvind Subramanian
b)    DB Shekatkar
c)    Anand Desai
d)    Ratan P Watal
ANSWER
1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.B, 5.D, 6.B, 7.A, 8.A, 9.A, 10.D,