CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 25TH APRIL
2019
1.
Where was the first edition of Naval
Commanders Conference held?
A) Kolkata
B) Mumbai
C) New Delhi
D) Bengaluru
E) None of
these
2.
As per the Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE)’s new notification from which year does, visually disabled
students can use magnifying glasses and portable video magnifiers during the
Class X final examination?
A) 2020
B) 2021
C) 2022
D) 2023
E) None of
these
3.
Which country has tested the world’s
most advanced malaria vaccine in a bid to prevent the disease?
A) Burundi
B) Malawi
C) Mozambique
D) Zimbabwe
E) None of
these
4.
Which financial inclusion program of
India is set to cross Rs 1 lakh crore accounts?
A) Pradhan
Mantri Mudra Yojana
B) Pradhan
Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana
C) Pradhan
Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
D) Sukanya
Samriddhi Account
E) None of
these
5.
Who is the head of the expert
committee, that is formed to identify the excess reserves that RBI holds?
A) Mavalankar
B) Bimal
Jalan
C) Rajendra
Prasad
D) Pattabhi
Sitaramayya
E) None of
these
6.
Name the public sector bank, which has
signed BEML Limited (Bharat Earth Movers Limited) for financing Earth Moving
and Construction
Equipment.
A) Bank of
Baroda
B) UCO Bank
C) Syndicate
Bank
D) Punjab
National Bank
E) None of these
7.
As per the Stanford study published in
the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”, Indian Economy
shrunk by ______ percent due to global warming?
A) 50%
B) 31%
C) 40%
D) 65%
E) None of
these
8.
Which entity has collaborated with
India Post for digitizing 1.5 lakh post offices in India, for creating World’s
Biggest EPostal Network?
A) TCS
B) Microsoft
C) IBM
D) Intel
E) None of
these
9.
Which planet in the solar system has a
massive solid inner core according to NASA’s recent report?
A) Mercury
B) Saturn
C) Mars
D) Venus
E) None of
these
10. Mount Agung
erupts recently, it is located in which country?
A) Indonesia
B) Malaysia
C) Philippines
D) Thailand
E) None of
these
11. To promote copyright,reading
& publishing, World Book and Copyright Day is observed annually on
_______________?
A) April 20
B) April 21
C) April 22
D) April 23
E) None of
these
12. Which city is
selected as the World Book Capital for the year 2019?
A) Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia
B) Sharjah,
UAE
C) Jerusalem,
Israel
D) Ankara,
Turkey
E) None of
these
13. When was
International Mother Earth Day observed?
A) April 20
B) April 21
C) April 23
D) April 22
E) None of
these
14. Which scheme
of the West Bengal government has won the 2019 World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) award in Capacity Building category?
A) Sabooj
Sathi
B) Kanyashree
C) Utkarsh
Bangla
D) All of the
above
E) None of
these
15. On which
date, the UN English Language Day is observed recently?
A) April 22
B) April 25
C) April 23
D) April 24
E) None of
these
