CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ –16TH APRIL 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ –16TH APRIL 2019
1.        Largest insurance company, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), has received ________ years to reduce 10% of its stake in IDBI?
A) 10 Years
B) 12 Years
C) 14 Years
D) 15 Years
E) None of these

2.        Name the first Indian, who was appointed as Chair of International Hockey Federation (FIH) Health and Safety Committee.
A) V.K.Malhotra
B) Neelam kapoor
C) P.R. Sreejesh
D) Dr BK Nayak
E) None of these

3.        Mohammed Ishtayeh was sworn in as the Prime Minister of which country?
A) Palestine
B) Israel
C) Russia
D) Venezuela
E) None of these

4.        Name the World’s largest airplane, that made its first test flight in California.
A) Spruce Goose
B) Roc
C) Tupolev Tu-160
D) Antonov An-124
E) None of these

5.        Find the mobile app, which was launched by Bharti Airtel in collaboration with FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) to assist for women safety?
A) Shout
B) Help
C) My Circle
D) Reach
E) None of these


6.        Where was Boxing World Cup 2019 held recently?
A) Manila, Philippines
B) New York, US
C) Washington DC, US
D) Cologne, Germany
E) None of these

7.        Indian Army celebrates the Year 2019 as ________________________?
A) Year of Revolution
B) Year of Rebellion
C) Year of Next of Kin
D) Year of Martyrs
E) None of these

8.        Which Indian city has been ranked first on the WHO’s list of 15 most polluted cities?
A) Varanasi
B) Faridabad
C) Kanpur
D) Delhi
E) None of these

9.        Which Indian personality has been honored with the Freedom of the City of London?
A) Alice G. Vaidyan
B) Atul Sahai
C) M.R. Kumar
D) Hemant Bhargava
E) None of these

10.    Which of the following telescopes has captured the first-ever Black hole image?
A) James Webb Space
B) Hubble
C) EHT
D) Spitzer Space
E) None of these

11.    Which Indian sportsperson is the recipient of the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019?
A) Abhinav Bindra
B) Sania Nehwal
C) Mary Kom
D) Deepa Malik
E) None of these

12.    Who has been appointed as the first-ever woman Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI)?
A) Najma Akhtar
B) Zahra Nigah
C) Sarwat Zahra
D) Shanaz Nabi
E) None of these

13.    Which tech giant has launched a new open platform “Anthos” to run and manage apps from anywhere?
A) Microsoft
B) Google
C) Facebook
D) Wipro
E) None of these

14.    Who has been appointed as the new CMD of National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC)?
A) Anoop Kumar Mittal
B) Sudha Das
C) Shiv Das Meena
D) P S Mani
E) None of these

15.    India and which European country havelaunched joint Industrial R&D programme to address shared challenges?
A) Italy
B) Sweden
C) France
D) Germany

E) None of these