CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 13TH APRIL 2019
1. Who chaired the panel, for setting up Central Monitoring Committee to enforce a national plan for reducing river pollution?
A) Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel
B) Justice Jawad Rahim
C) Justice Raghuvendra Singh Rathore
D) Justice Sonam Phintso Wangdi
E) None of these
2. Name the flagship programme of India, that was honoured with ‘Public Water Agency of the Year’ award at the Global Water Summit held in London.
A) Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme
B) National Mission for Clean Ganga
C) Rajiv Gandhi Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme
D) Water Mission for North East and Himalayan States
E) None of these
3. Cabinet Committee of Security has cleared the proposal for the procurement of the 464 T-90 tanks from which country?
A) US
B) Russia
C) China
D) Japan
E) None of these
4. Name the education technology startup of India that won “Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019” to empower parents to take charge of their child’s early education.
A) Dost Education
B) Byju
C) Careerguide
D) CueMath
E) None of these
5. Name the Rio Paralympics silver medalist, who was honoured with the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019.
A) Varun Singh Bhati
B) Mariyappan Thangavelu
C) Deepa Malik
D) Devendra Jhajharia
E) None of these
6. Who was elected as the Prime Minister of Israel for the fifth term and thus making him the longest serving Prime Minister of Israel?
A) Yaakov Litzman
B) Benny Gantz
C) Benjamin Netanyahu
D) Avi Gabbay
E) None of these