DAILY
CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 5 OCTOBER
1. Name the Indian Bank
that became the first to open a branch
in the capital city of Yangon, Myanmar?
a) Central Bank of India
b) State Bank of India
c) Union Bank of India
d) Oriental Bank of
Commerce
ANS B
2. What is the theme of World Space Week is being observed from 4-10
October?
a) Space for Education
b) Exploring the
Universe
c) Mysteries of the
Cosmos
d) Remote Sensing:
Enabling our Future
ANS D
3. Which state became
India’s first state to implement Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in Kerosene?
a) Bihar
b) Jharkhand
c) Odisha
d) Kerala
ANS B
4. What is India’s rank
in ratify the historic Paris Agreement on climate change?
a) 65
b) 55
c) 62
d) 59
ANS C
5. Who was elected as
the president of Indian Newspaper Society (INS) recently?
a) Somesh Sharma
b) Ravindra Kumar
c) Kiran B Vadodaria
d) P V Chandran
ANS A
6. Which Indian wildlife
film-maker was recently appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite
(Knight in the National Order of Merit) by the French Government?
a) Kalyan Varma
b) Prajna Chowta
c) Sandesh Kadur
d) Shekar Dattatri
ANS B
7. Kersti Kaljulaid was
recently elected as the first woman President of which country?
a) Sweden
b) Estonia
c) Ireland
d) Latvia
ANS B
8. Yoshinori Ohsumi won
the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for?
a) Discoveries of
mechanisms for autophagy
b) Elucidating the
metabolism of glucose
c) Discoveries
concerning novel therapies against river blindness
d) Discoveries concerning
novel therapies against lymphatic filariasis
ANS A
9. David J. Thouless
along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz won 2016 Nobel Prize
for ?
a) Nobel Prize in
Chemistry
b) Nobel Prize in
Literature
c) Nobel Prize in
Physics
d) Nobel Prize in
Medicine
ANS C
10. The 2016 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry was awarded to
a) Jean-Pierre Sauvage,
Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa
b) Paul Modrich
c) Jacobus Henricus van
't Hoff
d) Tomas Lindahl, Paul
Modrich and Aziz Sancar
ANS A
