CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 12TH JUNE 2019


CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 12TH JUNE 2019
1.        Who was conferred with ‘Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak ’ during the 2 day Subordinate Officers Conclave 2019?
A) V. S. R. Murthy
B) Navik Vinod
C) K. R. Nautiyal
D) Krishnaswamy Natarajan
E) None of these

2.        National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted an expert committee to ascertain whether further norms are required to restrict the use of plastic packaging.Who is the Chairperson of National Green Tribunal (NGT)?
A) Sonam Phintso Wangdi
B) Raghuvendra Singh Rathore
C) Jawad Rahim
D) Adarsh Kumar Goel
E) None of these

3.        Which of the following countries were elected to United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as Non-permanent Members for a period of 2-year?
A) Estonia, Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam
B) Latvia, Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam
C) Belarus, Latvia, Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Tunisia
D) Belarus, Latvia, Niger, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Cyprus
E) None of these

4.        Which airlines has been named the world’s most punctual airline by flight data analysis company Flightstats.com?
A) Qatar Airways
B) All Nippon Airways
C) Srilankan Airlines
D) LATAM Airlines
E) None of these


5.        Which organization is set to create the foreign exchange trading platform for retail participants?
A) Central Board of Indirect taxes and Customs (CBIC)
B) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
C) Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI)
D) National Stock Exchange(NSE)
E) None of these

6.        What is the minimum tradeable amount in the foreign exchange trading platform for retail participants?
A) $1000
B) $750
C) $500
D) $250
E) None of these

7.        Name the organization, which develops the trading platforms for retail participants.
A) National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
B) Clearcorp Dealing Systems (India) Limited
C) Legal Entity Identifier India Limited
D) Clearing Corporation of India Limited (CCIL)
E) None of these

8.        Which entity launched the India’s first Mutual Fund Side Pocketing recently to set aside its troubled investment in Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL)?
A) ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund
B) DSP Mutual Fund
C) Tata Mutual Fund
D) SBI Mutual Fund
E) None of these

9.        Which country topped in the e-Money transactions for the year 2017?
A) Japan
B) USA
C) India
D) Russia
E) None of these

10.    Name the Indian historian and writer, who has been elected as international member of American Philosophical Society (APS) at its Annual Spring Meeting.
A) Romila Thapar
B) Irfan Habib
C) Ram Sharan Sharma
D) Bipan Chandra
E) None of these

11.    Where was India’s first and world’s third Dinosaur Museum-cum-Park inaugurated?
A) Uttar Pradesh
B) Maharashtra
C) New Delhi
D) Gujarat
E) None of these

12.    Indian economy will grew by _________ percent in 2019, as per the G-20 surveillance note prepared by staff of International Monetary Fund (IMF).
A) 7.1%
B) 7.2%
C) 7.3%
D) 7.5%
E) None of these

13.    Which country has launched the first Arctic tourist train service?
A) Japan
B) China
C) U.S.
D) Russia
E) None of these

14.    Name the bank, which is first to introduce repo-linked home loan product from July 1, 2019.
A) Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) Bank
B) HDFC Bank
C) State Bank of India (SBI)
D) Axis Bank
E) None of these

15.    Name the former President of United States of America (USA), who has won the George H. W. Bush Award for the contributions to relations between the U.S. and China.
A) Richard Nixon
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Ronald Reagan
D) Gerald Ford
E) None of these

16.    Name the Cabinet Secretary, whose service period is extended for 3 more months making him the longest-serving bureaucrat in the post in the last seven decades.
A) Pramod Kumar Misra
B) Nripendra Misra
C) Ajit Seth
D) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
E) None of these

17.    Name the tennis player, who won Men’s Singles title in French Open and became the first to win single’s event 12 times and secured his 18th Grand Slam title.
A) Fabrice Martin
B) Kevin Krawietz
C) Rafael Nadal
D) Dominic Thiem
E) None of these

18.    Who became the first women’s singles player since Margaret Court in 1974 from Australia to win the French Open women’s singles title?
A) Zheng Saisai
B) Timea Babos
C) Marketa Vondrousova
D) Ashleigh Barty
E) None of these

19.    Name the deceased Actor, Writer and playwright, who won Jnanpith award in 1998, Padma Shri in 1974 and  Padma Bhushan in 1992 for literature.
A) Pyarelal Wadali
B) Narendra Jha
C) Girish Karnad
D) Shrivallabh Vyas
E) None of these

20.    Name the first movie to win President’s Golden Lotus Award for Kannada cinema.
A) Aparoopa
B) Sandharbha
C) Vamsha Vriksha
D) Samskara
E) None of these

21.    Which state government has recently launched Pink Sarathi vehicles for women’s safety?
A) Karnataka
B) Kerala
C) Uttar Pradesh
D) Jharkhand
E) None of these

22.    Bancha, which has become the first Solar Kitchen only village in India, is located in which district of Madhya Pradesh?
A) Jabalpur
B) Chhindwara
C) Bhopal
D) Betul
E) None of these

23.    India has partnered with which country to set up a national maritime heritage museum at Lothal?
A) United Kingdom
B) Portugal
C) Japan
D) France
E) None of these