CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 25TH JULY 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 25^TH JULY 2019

1.        Under which scheme more than 7 crore 32 lakh farmer families across India received the first and second instalments of Rs 2000?

A) Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)

B) Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)

C) Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PMKSNY)

D) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)

E) None of these

2.        Expand UDAN?

A) UDAN – Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik

B) UDAN – Ude Desh Ka Adarsh Naagrik

C) UDAN – Ude Desh Ka Atal Naagrik

D) UDAN – Ude Desh Ka Amrut Naagrik

E) None of these

3.        Under which scheme the Centre has added 8 new air routes thus making the total operational routes to 194?

A) Metropolitian Connectivity Scheme(MCS)

B) Urban Connectivity Scheme(UCS)

C) Rural Connectivity Scheme(RCS)

D) Regional Connectivity Scheme(RCS)

E) None of these

4.        Name the drug banned by Union health minister, which is used in poultry industry for producing animals, aqua farming etc.

A) Tylosin

B) Colistin

C) Lincomx

D) Penicillin

E) None of these

5.        By which year, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has decided to declare all lanes at toll fee plaza on National Highways as ‘FASTag lanes’?

A) 1st May 2020

B) 1st December 2019

C) 1st January 2020

D) 1st April 2020

E) None of these

6.        Which state registered the highest number of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) frauds in India for the FY 2018-19 as per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, accessed by the Times of India (TOI)?

A) Karnataka

B) Maharashtra

C) Kerala

D) New Delhi

E) None of these

7.        Name the state, which became first in India to reserve 75% private jobs for locals?

A) Andhra Pradesh

B) Kerala

C) Tamil Nadu

D) Karnataka

E) None of these

8.        Name the head of Inter-Ministerial committee, which recommended to ban all private cryptocurrencies & jail time of up to 10 years.

A) Pradeep Kumar Sinha

B) Subhash Chandra Garg

C) Sanjay Kothari

D) Nripendra Misra

E) None of these

9.        Which organization has agreed to offer Rs 1.25 trillion (Rs 1.25 lakh crore) line of credit by 2024, to fund highway projects for timely execution of the Rs 8.41 trillion ambitious Bharatmala project?

A) HDFC Bank

B) State Bank of India(SBI)

C) Reserve Bank of India(RBI)

D) Life Insurance Corporation(LIC)

E) None of these

10.    Name the organization, which has collaborated with Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) International along with domestic banks to launch RuPay JCB Global Cards.

A) National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)

B) Axis Bank

C) HDFC Bank

D) State Bank of India

E) None of these

11.    Who bagged the “Mr. South Asia” award at the 12th South Asia Bodybuilding and Physic Sports Championships 2019 held in Kathmandu, Nepal?

A) Ankur Sharma

B) Rajendran Mani

C) Ravinder Kumar Malik

D) Murli Kumar

E) None of these

12.    Who won the contest for the British Prime Minister (PM)?

A) Harold Wilson

B) Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

C) Gordon Brown

D) Margaret Thatcher

E) None of these

13.    What is the name of “India’s lightest bullet- proof jacket” that was launched at the International Police Expo 2019 in New Delhi recently?

A) Bhabha Jacket

B) Lightest Kavach

C) Bhabha Kavach

D) Jacket

E) None of these

14.    Researchers from which university have created an algorithm rather than a machine called Ramanujan Machine to honor the prominent and path-breaking mathematician of the 20th century?

A) Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

B) Tel Aviv University

C) University of Haifa

D) Ben Gurion University of the Negev

E) None of these

15.    Akane Yamaguchi of which country defeated the Indian player P.V.Sindhu & won Women’s Singles title in the 38th edition of the Indonesia Open for the year 2019?

A) China

B) Indonesia

C) Japan

D) Taiwan

E) None of these

16.    Where was the 21st Edition of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships for the year 2019 held?

A) Beijing, China

B) Moscow, Russia

C) Geneva, Switzerland

D) Cuttack, Odisha

E) None of these

17.    Which country topped the medal tally in 21st Edition of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships for the year 2019?

A) India

B) England

C) Singapore

D) Malaysia

E) None of these

18.    Which country is set to host the10th edition of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) under 20 Women World Cup 2020?

A) Algeria

B) Somalia

C) Nigeria

D) Ethiopia

E) None of these

19.    Where was the World Aquatics Championships 2019 held?

A) Gwangju, South Korea

B) Kigali, Rwanda

C) Kampala, Uganda

D) Nairobi, Kenya

E) None of these

20.    Who broke his own world record in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke at the World Aquatics Championships 2019 held in Gwangju, South Korea?

A) Sarah Sjöström

B) Adam George Peaty

C) Cameron van der Burgh

D) Chad le Clos

E) None of these

21.    Who won the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships 2019 at the 44th edition of International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, United States?

A) Juan Martín del Potro

B) Marin Čilić

C) Kevin Anderson

D) John Isner

E) None of these

22.    National broadcasting day observed annually on ________?

A) 21st July

B) 23rd July

C) 22nd July

D) 20th July

E) None of these

23.    Which country celebrates the 50-year anniversary of ‘Apollo 11’ human moon landing mission on July 16, 2019?

A) China

B) Japan

C) United States

D) Russia

E) None of these

24.    Which hockey player has been chosen for 2019 Mohun Bagan Ratna?

A) Udham Singh

B) Keshav Dutt

C) Leslie Claudius

D) Dhanraj Pillay

E) None of these