CURRENT AFFAIRS
QUIZ - 25 MARCH 2019
1.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has turned
down which of the following bank’s proposal to change its name recently?
A) IDBI Bank
B) Dena Bank
C) Bank of
Baroda
D) Vijaya
Bank
E) None of
these
2.
Which country won the South Asian
Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s Championship 2019 for the fifth year
consecutively?
A) Bangladesh
B) Maldives
C) Nepal
D) India
E) None of
these
3.
Which Indian English word is added as
the 650th entry in Oxford Dictionary?
A) Mantra
B) Chuddies
C) Loot
D) Multan
E) None of
these
4.
According to the world airport traffic
rankings 2018 by Airports Council International (ACI),which Indian airport
became the 12th busiest airport in the world?
A) Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj International Airport
B) Indira
Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)
C) Kempegowda
International Airport
D) Rajiv
Gandhi International Airport
E) None of
these
5.
Government crosses disinvestment target
for the financial year 2018-19 by _________ crore against its target Rs.80000
crore.
A) 5000 crore
B) 10000
crore
C) 2000 crore
D) 7000 crore
E) None of
these
6.
Who was appointed as the 24th chief of
naval staff of India?
A) Robin K
Dhowan
B) Devendra
Kumar Joshi
C) Karambir
Singh
D) Nirmal
Kumar Verma
E) None of
these
7.
Which technology company in partnership
with the University of Washington developed a storage device that can translate
digital information into DNA?
A) Intel
B) IBM
C) Google
D) Microsoft
E) None of
these
8.
Name the Operation launched by India to
provide Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) support to
Mozambique,which was hit by cyclone IDAI.
A) Operation
Sahayata 19
B) Operation
Trident 19
C) Operation
Cactus 19
D) Operation
Parakram 19
E) None of
these
9.
Lasith Malinga announced his retirement
from international cricket after ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020.He belongs to
which country?
A) Srilanka
B) Pakistan
C) Bangladesh
D) India
E) None of
these
10. What was the
theme of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that is observed on 23rd
March?
A) Theme –
“Weather-Ready, Climate-Smart”
B) Theme –
“The Sun, the Earth and the Weather”
C) Theme –
“Understanding Clouds”
D) Theme –
“Climate and Water”
E) None of
these
11. When was
Martyr’s Day (88th) or Shaheed Diwas observed?
A) 21st March
B) 22nd March
C) 23rd March
D) 20th March
E) None of
these
12. Name the
Indian low-cost airlines that has joined the International Air Transport
Association (IATA), recently.
A) Indigo
B) Air India
C) SpiceJet
D) Kingfisher
E) Vistara
13. What is the
theme for the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2019?
A) End TB by
2025
B) It’s time
C) It's Now or Never
D) High Time
to End TB
E) None of the given theme is correct
14. RBI declined
which Bank’s proposal to name change after its merger with LIC?
A) Dena Bank
B) IDBI Bank
C) Andhra
Bank
D) Karur
Vysya Bank