CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 5TH APRIL 2019


CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 5TH APRIL 2019
1.        Over which river does the Indian Army constructed longest suspension bridge named ‘Maitri’?
A) Brahmaputra River
B) Yamuna River
C) Indus River
D) Godavari River
E) None of these

2.        Who was the first Indian President to visit Bolivia?
A) A.P.J Abdul Kalam
B) Ram Nath Kovind
C) Pratibha Patil
D) Pranab Mukherjee
E) None of these

3.        Which country has signed the framework agreement to join the International Solar Alliance recently?
A) Bolivia
B) Zambia
C) Vanuatu
D) Tonga
E) None of these

4.        How many MoU’s are signed between India and Bolivia during President Ram Nath Kovind’s visit?
A) 6
B) 7
C) 8
D) 9
E) None of these

5.        Find the name of African country ,which was opted by India to set up India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD).
A) Uganda
B) Malawi
C) Nigeria
D) Tanzania
E) None of these

6.        According to U.S based Health Effects Institute(HEI)’s State of Global Air 2019 report, which of the following factor is the third highest cause of death in India?
A) Water Pollution
B) Poverty
C) Food Crisis
D) Air pollution
E) None of these

7.        Which bank becomes the first lender to impose charges On UPI transactions, namely, Paytm, Google Pay, PhonePe?
A) ICICI Bank
B) City Union Bank
C) Kotak Mahindra Bank
D) Lakshmi Vilas Bank
E) None of these


8.        Name the investment and wealth management platform of the mobile payments company, which received SEBI approval for Stock Broking recently.
A) Paytm Money
B) Amazon Payments
C) WorldPay
D) WePay
E) None of these

9.        Asian Development Bank has projected India’s GDP as ______ per cent for the year 2019-20?
A) 7.1%
B) 7.5%
C) 7.6%
D) 7.2%
E) None of these

10.    Air Marshal D Choudhury has been appointed as Senior Air Staff Officer of which air command?
A) Eastern Air Command
B) Central Air Command
C) South-Western Air Command
D) Western Air Command
E) None of these

11.    Name the telescope used by astronomers to discover a new exoplanet named as TOI-197.0 or “hot Saturn”.
A) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
B) Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT)
C) Hubble Space Telescope
D) Lunar-based ultraviolet telescope (LUT)
E) None of these

12.    Who became the first Indian male Squash player to break into top-10 of Professional Squash Association world ranking?
A) Abhishek Pradhan
B) Vikram Malhotra
C) Saurav Ghosal
D) Ramit Tandon
E) None of these

13.    Who was the author of the book “Gandhi: The Writer”?
A) Bhabhani Bhattacharya
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Chetan Bhagat
E) None of these

14.    Which country has decided to launch world’s first national 5G networks?
A) South Korea
B) Japan
C) China
D) France
E) None of these

15.    Which state has been ranked first in e-learning training programme of Department of Personal and Training (DoPT) of the Government India?
A) Assam
B) Telangana
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Tamil Nadu
E) None of these