CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23RD SEP 2019


CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 23RD SEP 2019
1.        Which organization has partnered with National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) and Skill India to introduce the job-centric Spot codes to offline locations and NSDC centres?
A) Microsoft
B) IBM
C) Facebook
D) Google
E) None of these

2.        Name the integrated exercise conducted by Indian army in the Eastern Ladakh region in order to test and improve its capabilities in war fighting?
A) Ekuverin
B) Ajeya Warrior
C) Chang Thang
D) Vajra Prahar
E) None of these

3.        What is the revised corporate tax rate for domestic companies that is reduced from earlier 30%, for those not availing tax incentives/exemptions?
A) 20%
B) 22%
C) 15%
D) 25%
E) None of these

4.        The reduced tax rate for the new domestic manufacturing companies was 15%, what was the previous tax rate for those companies?
A) 18%
B) 22%
C) 25 %
D) 27%
E) None of these

5.        Who won the Young Scientist Award for the year 2018 for the significant work in the fields of petrology, volcanology and geochemistry?
A) M.S. Dayanand
B) Nandkumar Mekoth
C) Annapurna Sakhardande
D) Sohini Ganguly
E) None of these

6.        Name the first Indian defence minister, who fly (for 30 minutes) in the indigenously-built light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas?
A) Manohar Parrikar
B) Rajnath Singh
C) Chidambaram Subramaniam
D) Nirmala Sitharaman
E) None of these


7.        Which Indian Business School was ranked 7th globally and 1st in Asia in the Forbes’ “Best International 1-Year Business Schools 2019” rankings recently?
A) Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, Telangana
B) Xavier School of Management Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
C) Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Gujarat
D) Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Karnataka
E) None of these

8.        Which railway station became the first station awarded with green ‘Platinum rating’ by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) under the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)?
A) Kesamudram railway station
B) Hyderabad Deccan railway station
C) Errupalem railway station
D) Secunderabad railway station
E) None of these

9.        Who was appointed as the 26th chief of air staff in the Indian Air Force(IAF)?
A) Pradeep Vasant Naik
B) Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
C) Arup Raha
D) Birender Singh Dhanoa
E) None of these

10.    Who is the author of the pictorial biography of PM Narendra Modi titled ‘Turbulence & Triumph: The Modi Years’?
A) Rahul Agarwal and Bharathi S Pradhan
B) Ashwin Sanghi and Preeti Shenoy
C) Rahul Agarwal and Preeti Shenoy
D) Bharathi S Pradhan and Preeti Shenoy
E) None of these

11.    Who is the newly elected chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for 2019-20?
A) Praful Sen
B) Girish Ahuja
C) Madhukar Kamath
D) Milan Saxena
E) None of these

12.    Which high court has recently ruled that the right to access Internet is part of the fundamental Right to Education (RTE) & Right to Privacy?
A) Kerala
B) Delhi
C) Allahabad
D) Jabalpur
E) None of these

13.    Who is the head of the SEBI committee to suggest norms for Social Stock Exchanges (SSE)?
A) Shamika Ravi
B) Amit Chandra
C) Ishaat Hussain
D) Vineet Rai
E) None of these

14.    Which state government has  decided to ban private practice of govt. doctors?
A) Chhattisgarh
B) Rajasthan
C) Andhra Pradesh
D) Odisha
E) None of these

15.    Who is the author of the book “Being Gandhi”?
A) Dhaval Kulkarni
B) Amrita Mukherjee
C) Paro Anand
D) Sanjay Kak
E) None of these

16.    NEAT scheme, which is in news recently, is related to which field?
A) Education
B) Sports
C) Arts
D) Journalism
E) None of these

17.    Who has been appointed the new Chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF)?
A) Siddharth Shrivastava
B) Rakesh K Singh Bhadauria
C) P S Chander
D) Narendra Rajput
E) None of these

18.    The Union Government has decided to set-up state-of-the-art National Police University (NPU) at which city?
A) Dehradun
B) Greater Noida
C) Pune
D) Bhopal
E) None of these

19.    Which tech giant has joined hands with the Union Government for ‘Digital Payment Abhiyan’?
A) Facebook
B) Twitter
C) Google
D) Microsoft
E) None of these

20.    Which state government  has decided to make Sanskrit mandatory in all schools from class 3 to 8?
A) Uttarakhand
B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh
D) Chhattisgarh
E) None of these

21.    Which is the official mascot of the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics?
A) Bing Dwen Dwen
B) Shuey Rhon Rhon
C) Asian black bear
D) Bing Keun-suk
E) None of these