CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27TH JUNE 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27^TH JUNE 2019

1.        Which state has topped among the larger states for overall performance on health indicators as per the NITI Aayog report titled “Healthy States, Progressive India”?

A) Maharashtra

B) Kerala

C) Andhra Pradesh

D) Odisha

E) None of these

2.        Under which scheme, Department of School Education and Literacy provides Self defence training for girls in schools?

A) Shagun

B) Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat

C) Samagra Shiksha

D) Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan

E) None of these

3.        Name the portal launched by Reserve Bank of India(RBI) for lodging complaints against banks and NBFCs (Non-Banking Financial Companies) on its website.

A) Complaint Management System (CMS)

B) Complaint Against Bank (CAB)

C) Complaint Over Bank and NBFC (COBN)

D) Lodge Complaints against Bank (LCB)

E) None of these

4.        Which state government will receive the loan worth $147 million from the World Bank for improving the management capacity of the urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state?

A) Tamil Nadu

B) Maharashtra

C) West Bengal

D) Jharkhand

E) None of these

5.        Who won the RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year 2019’ for exposing the functioning of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and its Aadhaar data cache in 2018?

A) Ravish Kumar

B) Rachna Khaira

C) Barkha Dutt

D) Rajat Sharma

E) None of these

6.        Who was appointed by World Archery to sort out problems in the Archery Association of India (AAI)?

A) Abhinav Bindra

B) Anjali Bhagwat

C) Harihar Banerjee

D) Bhim Singh II.

E) None of these

7.        Which entity is set to acquire the stakes held by BNP Paribas in their two joint venture (JV) companies for a total of around Rs1,000cr?

A) Magma Fincorp

B) Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company

C) Sundaram Finance Ltd (SFL)

D) Bajaj Finserv Ltd

E) None of these

8.        Name the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) first Astrobee robot to fly under its own power in space.

A) ‘Robocop’

B) ‘Doraemon’

C) ‘Tachikomas’

D) ‘Bumble’

E) None of these

9.        By which year, half of the world’s power will be delivered by Wind and solar energy as per “New Energy Outlook (NEO) report 2019” by BloombergNEF?

A) 2050

B) 2040

C) 2030

D) 2020

E) None of these

10.    Name the Indian film actor, who penned an Auto-Biography titled “Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly”, published by Penguin Random House?

A) Sanjay Dutt

B) Anupam Kher

C) Amitabh Bachchan

D) Naseeruddin Shah

E) None of these