CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27TH AUG 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 27^TH AUG 2019

1.        Which state has topped in the implementation of free medicine scheme as per the National Health Mission (NHM)?

A) Gujarat

B) Assam

C) Rajasthan

D) Uttar Pradesh

E) None of these

2.        Who topped in the Forbes magazine’s world’s Highest-Paid actresses of 2019 list with the earning of $56 million?

A) Reese Witherspoon

B) Scarlett Johansson

C) Sofia Vergara

D) Nicole Kidman

E) None of these

3.        Where was the National Centre for Avian Ecotoxicology centre inaugurated?

A) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

B) Kolkata, West Bengal

C) New Delhi, Delhi

D) Mumbai, Maharashtra

E) None of these

4.        Which state has topped in water management practices as per recently released report,” Composite Water Management Index 2019” (CWMI 2.0) for the year 2017-2018?

A) Gujarat

B) Andhra Pradesh

C) Madhya Pradesh

D) Karnataka

E) None of these

5.        Where was the FSSAI’s (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) National Food Laboratory(NFL) inaugurated?

A) Ghaziabad

B) Faridabad

C) Faizabad

D) Gurgaon

E) None of these

        

6.        Which countries topped in the 2019 Henley Passport Index and became the “world’s most powerful passport”?

A) Denmark and Italy

B) France and Sweden

C) Japan and Singapore

D) South Korea and Germany

E) None of these

7.        What is the maximum turnover limit of the small startups, to get the promised tax holiday as per Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)?

A) Rs 30 crore

B) Rs 10 crore

C) Rs 25 crore

D) Rs 50 crore

E) None of these

8.        How much amount will be infused into public sector banks (PSBs) with an objective to boost lending and improving liquidity situation?

A) Rs 40,000 crore

B) Rs 70,000 crore

C) Rs 50,000 crore

D) Rs 85,000 crore

E) None of these

9.        Who headed the committee, that recommends on ease of credit, marketing, technology, delayed payments etc. made within 30 days?

A) N. K. Singh

B) UK Sinha

C) Ajit Doval

D) Deepak Parekh

E) None of these

10.    What is the revised rate of governments Contribution of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)?

A) 6%

B) 5.5%

C) 5%

D) 4%

E) None of these

11.    Name the first Asian-headquartered bank, which was named as the ‘World’s Best Bank’ as per ‘Euromoney’.

A) DBS bank

B) OCBC Bank

C) Standard Chartered

D) Citibank

E) None of these

12.    Name the animal, which was moved to protect for the first time by the nations in the world during the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 2019, in Geneva, Switzerland.

A) Giraffe

B) Giant panda

C) Cheetah

D) Hippopotamus

E) None of these

13.    Who is the author of the book titled “Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story”, which narrates the story of how Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal built e-commerce giant Flipkart?

         A) Anita Desai

B) MihirDalal

C) Aravind Adiga

D) Kiran Desai

E) None of these