DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ : ( 26 AUGUST TO 27 AUGUST 2019)

No. of Questions: 20 Correct: Full Mark: 20 Wrong: Time: 20 min Mark Secured:

1. Name the Indian para swimmer who has 5. The 2nd Uday (Utkrisht Double-Decker Air become the first Asian swimmer to cross Conditioned Yatri) Express of Indian the Catalina Channel of America? Railway’s will run between a) Sharath Gayakwad ______and Vijayawada. b) Suyash Jadhav a) Kanpur c) Prasanta Karmakar b) New d) Satendra Singh Lohia c) Jaipur e) Niranjan Mukundan d) Ranchi 2. Defence Research and Development e) Visakhapatnam Organisation (DRDO) has handed over the 6. An IIT-Delhi-incubated start-up working on design of ______Metallic the design and development of inclusive Ramp (MMR) to the Indian Army at a learning resources for visually impaired ceremony held in New Delhi. people won the NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal a) Mobile Design Award 2019 for developing a b) Motor multisensory kit. What is the name of that c) Mid-Range kit? d) Magnetic a) PeoplesVison e) Middle b) LightVision 3. Which company has announced a strategic c) TouchVision partnership with the Indian Institute of d) FullVision Science (IISc) to conduct advanced applied e) ExpertVision research in autonomous systems, robotics 7. Name the Indian-American teen who has and 5G? won the South Asian Spelling Bee a) Tata Consultancy Services competition 2019 and a cash prize of $3,000. b) HCL Technologies Limited a) Navneeth Murali c) Infosys Limited b) Pranav Nandakumar d) Reliance Industries Limited c) Vayun Krishna e) Wipro Ltd. d) Sumit Pichai 4. Name the former of Madhya e) Kamal Murali Pradesh who passed away recently. He 8. Name the former Indian pace bowler whose served as the Chief Minister of Madhya life ban has been reduced to 7 years. He was Pradesh from August 2004 to November banned for life in September 2013, along 2005. with his Royals teammates Ajit a) Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, for indulging in b) alleged spot-fixing in the IPL. c) a) Dhawal Kulkarni d) b) Stuart Binny e) Sunderlal Patwa c) Ankit Sharma d) Munaf Patel 1

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e) Shanthakumaran Sreesanth c) Telangana 9. Which state government has launched a d) universal health insurance scheme "Sarbat e) None of these Sehat Bima Yojana" which will allow 15. Who has been recently appointed as Cabinet beneficiaries to avail annual cashless Secretary? treatment of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per a) Arun Lal year? b) Sachin Tanwar a) c) Rajiv Gauba b) d) Vivek Bansal c) Punjab e) None of these d) 16. Which state has recently approved the e) recruitment of women drivers for 10. The 9th Session of the -Kenya Joint government vehicles? Trade Committee (JTC) was held in a) Kerala ______b) Tamil Nadu a) New Delhi c) Andhra Pradesh b) Ranchi d) Telangana c) Jaipur e) None of these d) Lucknow 17. Which state’s high court recently ordered a e) Hyderabad ban on DJs across the state? 11. Who among the following was arrested by a) Rajasthan CBI in relation to the INX Media corruption b) Haryana case? c) Uttar Pradesh a) Yashwant Sinha d) Punjab b) P. Chidambaram e) None of these c) Arun Jaitley 18. Who was appointed as the new Home d) Pranab Mukharjee Secretary? e) None of these a) Jaswant Singh 12. A raging fire has engulfed this rainforest, b) Rajiv Gauba which contributes to about 20 percent of c) Ajay Kumar Bhalla the earth’s oxygen. d) Deepak Chaudhary a) Amazon e) None of these b) Nile 19. US President Donald Trump recently showed c) Congo interest in buying which nation? d) New Guinea a) Iceland e) None of these b) Ireland 13. Which Minister launched NISHTHA, the c) Cuba world’s largest teacher’s training d) Greenland programme on August 21, 2019? e) None of these a) RK Singh 20. Which state’s government has decided to b) appoint a third party agency to study tea c) industry problems? d) a) Kerala e) None of these b) Sikkim 14. Which state has topped this year’s State c) West Bengal Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index (SARAL)? d) a) Andhra Pradesh e) None of these 2 b) 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ

ANSWER KEY: 1 d 11 b 2 a 12 a 3 e 13 c 4 b 14 b 5 e 15 c 6 c 16 a 7 a 17 c 8 e 18 c 9 c 19 d 10 a 20 d

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