CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 13TH APRIL 2019
1. Who chaired the panel, for setting up Central Monitoring Committee to enforce a national plan for reducing river pollution?
A) Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel
B) Justice Jawad Rahim
C) Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore
D) Justice Sonam Phintso Wangdi
E) None of these
2. Name the flagship programme of India, that was honoured with ‘Public Water Agency of the Year’ award at the Global Water Summit held in London.
A) Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme
B) National Mission for Clean Ganga
C) Rajiv Gandhi Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme
D) Water Mission for North East and Himalayan States
E) None of these
3. Cabinet Committee of Security has cleared the proposal for the procurement of the 464 T-90 tanks from which country?
A) US
B) Russia
C) China
D) Japan
E) None of these
4. Name the education technology startup of India that won “Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019” to empower parents to take charge of their child’s early education.
A) Dost Education
B) Byju
C) Careerguide
D) CueMath
E) None of these
5. Name the Rio Paralympics silver medalist, who was honoured with the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019.
A) Varun Singh Bhati
B) Mariyappan Thangavelu
C) Deepa Malik
D) Devendra Jhajharia
E) None of these
6. Who was elected as the Prime Minister of Israel for the fifth term and thus making him the longest serving Prime Minister of Israel?
A) Yaakov Litzman
B) Benny Gantz
C) Benjamin Netanyahu
D) Avi Gabbay
E) None of these
7. India and Singapore had participated in which joint military exercise, that was held in Jhansi’s Babina Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh?
A) Lamitye VIII –2019
B) Surya Kiran XIII –2019
C) Bold Kurukshetra –2019
D) Shakti IV –2019
E) None of these
8. Name the parent company of Wing, that has launched its first commercial drone service in Canberra, Australia.
A) Microsoft
B) IBM
C) Alphabet Inc.
D) Intel
E) None of these
9. What is the growth rate of India for the year 2019 as per the World Economic Outlook (WEO) report released by International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
A) 7.3 %
B) 7.5 %
C) 7.1 %
D) 7. 7 %
E) None of these
10. Which is first Islamic bank in the world to launch chat banking facility for its customer via Whatsapp?
A) National Bank of Abu Dhabi
B) Emirates Islamic bank
C) Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
D) Dubai Islamic Bank
E) None of these
11. Who was named as the Leading male cricketer of the year 2019 for the third consecutive time by the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2019?
A) Virat Kohli
B) M.S. Dhoni
C) Rashid Khan
D) Jos Buttler
E) None of these
12. Who was appointed as the Prime Minister of Haiti?
A) Jean-Henry Ceant
B) Jean Michel Lapin
C) Jovenel Moise
D) Miguel Díaz-Canel
E) None of these
13. Name the country,which has appointed Abdelkader Bensalah (77) as its new president in 20 years?
A) Syria
B) Libya
C) Algeria
D) Cyprus
E) None of these
14. Which state government was penalized by National Green Tribunal (NGT) for illegal sand mining?
A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Andhra Pradesh
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Karnataka
E) None of these
15. Periyar River is recently in news for its discolouration. It is located in which Indian state?
A) Karnataka
B) Maharashtra
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Kerala
E) None of these
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