CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 3RD AUG 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 3^RD AUG 2019

1.        Which countries tied at the top spot in the Ipsos‘s “Global Happiness Survey” 2019?

A) France and United States              

B) Australia and Canada

C) Great Britain and China

D) Saudi Arabia and Germany

E) None of these

2.        What is the rank of India in the Ipsos‘s “Global Happiness Survey” 2019?

A) 7th

B) 8th

C) 9th

D) 10th

E) None of these

3.        Name the tech firm, that has partnered with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY) and launched a ‘Build for Digital India’ programme.

A) TCS

B) Microsoft

C) Facebook

D) Google

E) None of these

4.        Which country will overtake China as the largest importer of coking coal by 2025, as per “Fitch Solutions Macro Research”?

A) India

B) United States

C) Japan

D) Russia

E) None of these

5.        Who was appointed as the 25th Director General (DG) of BSF(Border Security Force)?

A) Lachhu Ram

B) Rajni Kant Mishra

C) Vivek Kumar(V.K) Johri

D) Sanjeev Kumar Singh

E) None of these

6.        Which country won the SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) U-15 Championship 2019?

A) India

B) Nepal

C) Bangladesh

D) Srilanka

E) None of these

7.        Which state will host the 36th National Games from October 20 – November 4, 2020?

A) Assam

B) Goa

C) Odisha

D) West Bengal

E) None of these

8.        Which state government has launched Walk to Work on Wednesdays (WWW) campaign?

A) Odisha

B) Meghalaya

C) Tripura

D) Nagaland

         E) None of these

9.        Which city has been ranked first at the Safe Cities Index (SCI-2019) of Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)?

A) Osaka

B) Paris

C) Tokyo

D) Singapore

E) None of these

10.    Which state / UT government has decided to provide free rides to women in city buses and metro trains?

A) Laddakh

B) Punjab

C) Chhattisgarh

D) Delhi

E) None of these

11.    Who has became the first IPS officer to be bestowed with the 2018 Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award?

A) Sonia Narang

B) Sanjukta Parashar

C) Meera Borwankar

D) Aparna Kumar

E) None of these

12.    Which sportsperson has won the 2019 Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar?

A) Abhinav Bindra

B) Jeev Milkha Singh

C) Mary Kom

D) Gagan Narang

E) None of these

13.    Which team has been crowned the Subroto Cup International Football Tournament for sub-junior boys (under-1D) category?

A) Mizoram

B) Tripura

C) Goa

D) Manipur

E) None of these

14.    India’s first-ever sky cycling park to be opened in which city?

A) Manali

B) Mussoorie

C) Nainital

D) Shimla

E) None of these

15.    Bangladesh has signed agreement with which Indian company to set up gas-based plant in Meghnahat?

A) Reliance Power

B) Adani Power

C) Hindustan Power

D) Tata Power

E) None of these

16.    Which movie has become the first Bollywood film to go plastic-free?

A) War

B) Dream Girl

C) Mission Mangal

D) Coolie No. 1

E) None of these

17.    India’s longest electrified rail tunnel has recently inaugurated in which state?

A) Kerala

B) Karnataka

C) Andhra Pradesh

D) Tamil Nadu

E) None of these