CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 30TH MARCH 2019


 CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 30TH MARCH 2019
1.    As per New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules-2019, drugs manufactured in India will get approval in _________ days?
A)  30 days
B)  60 days
C)  90 days
D)  130 days
E)  None of these

2.    According to 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), India’s poverty rate has been reduced to ________ percent from 55 percent?
A)  35%
B)  30%
C)  28%
D)  40%
E)  None of these

3.    Which of these fixtures won the world’s best aviation hub award continuously seventh time in Skytrax Global Airport Award 2019?
A)  Hamad International Airport, Qatar
B)  Haneda Airport, Japan
C)  Incheon International Airport, South Korea
D)  Changi Airport, Singapore
E)  None of these

4.    What does the name of first Indian Port operator to achieve a record in handle cargo movement of 200 million tonnes (MT) in 2018-19?
A)  Kamarajar Port Limited
B)  Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ)
C)  APM Terminals
D)  Jawaharlal Nehru Port
E)  None of these

5.    Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun have been conferred with Turing Award 2018.Turing Award is referred as noble prize of which field?
A)  Computing
B)  Physics
C)  Mathematics
D)  Chemistry
E)  None of these



6.    Name the Indian Nobel prize laureate , who was conferred with Oxford University’s Bodley award recently.
A)  Alvin E. Roth
B)  Clive Granger
C)  Amartya Sen
D)  Robert F. Engle
E)  None of these

7.    Israeli cave explorers discovered the World’s longest salt cave named Malham near which sea?
A)  Caribbean Sea
B)  Dead Sea
C)  Red Sea
D)  Caspian Sea
E)  None of these

8.    Tashigang, which is the world’s highest polling station, is located in which of the following Indian states?
A) Jammu & Kashmir
B) Arunachal Pradesh
C) Himachal Pradesh
D) Sikkim
E)  None of these

9.    Which international organisation has recently released the 2018 global Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)?
A) IMF
B) WHO
C) UNDP
D) IEA
E)  None of these

10. Which international organisation has recently published the ‘Global Energy & CO2 Status Report’?
A) WTO
B) IEA
C) WHO
D) WMO
E)  None of these