CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 15TH JUNE 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 15^TH JUNE 2019

1.        Which country has recognized forests as living entities on the World Environment Day ?

A) Ecuador

B) Costa Rica

C) Nicaragua

D) El Salvador

E) None of these

2.        Which country is set to host the 45th session of the G7 Summit?

A) Sicily, Italy

B) Biarritz, France

C) Ottawa, Canada

D) Bavaria, Germany

E) None of these

3.        Which two prepaid payment instrument (PPI) issuers were penalized by Reserve Bank of India for violating PPI norms pertaining to its issuance and operation?

A) Axis Bank and My Mobile Payments Limited

B) HDFC Bank and Vodafone M-Pesa Limited

C) Yes Bank and ZipCash Card Services

D) ICICI Bank and Itz Cash Card Ltd.

E) None of these

4.        How much is the highest monetary reward issued to the genuine informant of insider trading as per the regulatory body, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) recently?

A) Rs. 5 Crore

B) Rs. 4 Crore

C) Rs. 2 Crore

D) Rs. 1 Crore

E) None of these

5.        Name the Manipur youth, who was inducted into Facebook ‘Hall of Fame’ for discovering Whatsapp bug .

A) Maharaj Kumar Priyabarta Singh

B) Donny Luwang

C) Zonel Sougaijam

D) Thingnam Anjulika Samom

E) None of these

6.        Who was the only Indian athelete in the Forbes list of World’s highest paid athletes 2019 ?

A) Rohit Sharma

B) Shikhar Dhawan

C) M.S. Dhoni

D) Virat Kholi

E) None of these

7.        To which organization, Krishnamurthy Subramanian and B Sriram was appointed as the part-time members ?

A) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)

B) Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority(IRDAI)

C) Reserve Bank of India(RBI)

D) Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

E) None of these

8.        Researchers from which institute have created high-resolution maps of points around the globe where groundwater meets the oceans, for the first time ?

A) Saint Louis University

B) University of Notre Dame

C) Ohio State University

D) University of Nebraska Omaha

E) None of these

9.        Which state recorded the highest number of discoveries with 59 species as per the data released by Botanical Survey of India (BSI) and the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) ?

A) Andhra Pradesh

B) West Bengal

C) Tamil Nadu

D) Kerala

E) None of these

10.    Name the new species of ‘paddy frog’, which is discovered from from Northeast India, primarily Assam.

A) Dapylil

B) Hammer

C) Aishani

D) Hopper

E) None of these