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WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ : (1-7) JANUARY 2019 1. Name the second senior-most Supreme Court judge who retired? a) Justice Ananth Chaari b) Justice Madan B Lokur c) Justice Lal Chandra Kanth d) Justice Sumit Sharma e) None of these 2. Who became the highest international -taker of 2018 with 78 ? a) Jasprit Bumrah b) Kagiso Rabada c) Kuldeep Yadav d) Adil Rasheed e) None of these 3. Larry Roberts died. He was a _____? a) Spiritual Leader b) Internet Pioneer c) Virtual Reality Pioneer d) Mathematician e) None of these 4. Indian pace trio of Ishant Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah and _____ broke the 34 year record of highest test wickets in a calendar year and became the most successful pace trio with 131 wickets in 2018? a) Mohammed Shami b) Ravindra Jadega c) K. L. Rahul d) Ajinkya Rahane e) None of these 5. Name the Indian wicket-keeper who became the 1st ever player to take 20 catches in a Test series? a) Rishabh Pant b) Prithvi Shaw c) R Ashwin d) Hardik Pandya e) None of these 6. Indian _____ equaled former Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly’s record with 11th away test win as a captain? a) Shikhar Dawan b) MS Dhoni c) Rohit Sharma d) Prithvi Shaw e) None of these 7. ____ has been appointed the new Information Chief Commissioner by the Government of India? a)RaghavSanghvi b) SudhirBhargava c) AjayMishra d) RamMathur e) None of these 8. Ross Island of Andaman and Nicobar was renamed as _____? a) ShaheedDweep b) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep c) Swaraj Dweep d) Mahatma Gandhi Dweep e) None of these 9. Deen Dayal Veterinary University of which state proposed to set up the first goat fertility lab in the state under Rastriya Krashi Vikas Yojna? a) Uttar Pradesh b)Gujarat c) Chhattisgarh d)Goa e) None of these 10. Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has extended the Credit-Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) for Middle Income Group (MIG) Scheme by another 12 months till _____? a) March 31, 2020 b)April30,2020 c)June30,2020 d)January1,2020 e) None of these 11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched pension management software SAMPANN for pensioners of telecom department in Varanasi. Expand SAMPANN? a) System for Authority and Management of Pension b) System for Automated Management of Pension c) Scheme for All-India Management of Pension d) Systematic Allocation of Monthly Pension e) None of these 12. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the One District, One Product Regional Summit held in _____ ? a) Ghaziabad b) Varanasi c) Kanpur d) Lucknow e) None of these 13. Name the Indian-American teenager who has won the inaugural “Digital Transformation Hackathon” at Cornell University, NewYork,USA?

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a) SharonSebastian b) MahumSiddiqi c) AshwinMuralidaran d) RaghavSanghvi e) None of these 14. Swachh Surveksahan 2018 award for Best Capital City in the Solid Waste Management was conferred to _____, on 28th December 2018? a) GreaterHyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) b) Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) c) Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation (GCMC) d) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) e) None of these 15. _____ who is presently the High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Kenya was concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Somalia, on 28th December 2018? a) SameerKhan b) RahulChhabra c) Manish Chandra d) Vinay Sudeep e) None of these 16. Scientists of which university have developed a virtual reality (VR) 3D model of cancer cell? a) Oxford University, England b) Cambridge University, England c) Harvard University, United States d) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States e) None of these 17. Which Union Ministry has released a booklet titled “A Handbook for Students on cyber Safety” to inform the school children about the different aspects of cyber safety? a) Ministry of Home Affairs b) Ministry of Information Technology c) Ministry of Women and Child Development d) Ministry of Human Resource Development e) None of these 18. Who is the author of the book “Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From” released? a) Tony Joseph b) Anjali Shekhar c) Roopa Malik d) Satyendra Das e) None of these 19. Who was appointed the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Liberia who is also the ambassador of India to the Republic of Cote d’ Ivoire? a)MayuriSingh b)Y.K.SailasThangal c) S.K. Sinthya Thomas d) Manoj Prathap e) None of these 20. Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar said that the Provision Coverage Ratio (PCR) of Public sector bank has gone up from 46.04 % as of March 2015 to what percent? a) 66.85 % b) 54.78 % c) 23.45 % d) 78.65 % e) None of these 21. Union Home Ministry (MHA) approved Uttar Pradesh government’s proposal to rename Allahabad as _____ahead of ‘Kumbh Mela 2019’? a) Ayodhya b) Mithila c) Prayagraj d) Ram Vihar e) None of these 22. Who took charge as the Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)? a) P.K. Shrivastava b) Saurabh Kumar c) Sailesh Babu d) Ram Kumar Saini e) None of these 23. Where was the 10th R R Lakshya Cup 2018 shooting tournament held?

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a) Guwahati b) Navi Mumbai c) Kolkata d) Salem e) None of these 24. _____ was nominated as Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) by President Ram Nath Kovind? a) Justice Madan B. Lokur b) Justice Srikanth Nair c) Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri d) Justice Lokesh Jain e) None of these 25. Delhi High Court has ruled that section _____ of the Indian Penal Code can be used by transgender persons to register complaints of sexual harassment? a) Section 354A b) Section 255B c) Section 123C d) Section 198D e) None of these 26. Which organization launched a new platform named “Samwad with Students” (SwS) as part of the enhanced outreach programme and to engage youngsters in space science, in Bengaluru? a) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) b) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) c) NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog d) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) e) None of these 27. How many free cooking gas (LPG) connections has the government provided under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY)? a) 10 crore b) 5 crore c) 6 crore d) 8 crore e) None of these 28. Who was sworn in as Brazil’s 42nd president ? a) Fernando Haddard b) Jair Bolsonaro c) Richard Hadley d) Rufus Maynard e) None of these 29. Name the Indian-origin student from Singapore who won 2 gold medals at the World Memory Championships held in Hong Kong? a) Dhruv Manoj b) Meera Sehgal c) Rakesh Singh d) Arjun Mittal e) None of these 30. Players in France’s _____ team which won the World Cup in 2018 were awarded the Legion of Honour, France’s highest award for “exceptional service” to the nation?

a) Cricket b) Hockey c) Football d) Basketball e) None of these 31. Name the cricketer who broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record to become the fastest batsman? a) Tim Paine b) Virat Kohli c) Rashid Khan d) Jacques Kallis e) None of these 32. Tropical Storm Usman hit _____ with heavy rains and triggered deadly landslides? a) Vietnam b) Thailand c) Philippines d) Indonesia e) None of these 33. Scientists have developed a device named WAND which stands for “Wireless artifact-free neuromodulation device” that works like a Pacemaker for which part of the body? a) Heart b) Brain c) Lungs

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d) Liver e) None of these 34. Robotic probe Chang’e 4 of which country became the first ever spacecraft to land on face of the Moon not seen from the Earth? a) United States of America (USA) b) Japan c) China d) South Korea e) None of these 35. Name the Pentagon comptroller who was appointed the acting deputy defence secretary of the United States? a) Patrick Shannahan b) David Norquist c) Frank Gallaghar d) Jonathan Roosevelt e) None of these 36. Name the asset management company (AMC) that has become India’s largest AMC after a gap of over two years, as per the latest data of Association of Mutual funds in India (AMFI)? a) ICICI Prudential MF b) HDFC Mutual Fund c) HSBC Mutual Fund d) Yes Mutual Fund e) None of these 37. Where was the 5-day long ‘Indian Science Congress (ISC)-2019’ inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi ? a) Jalandhar, Punjab b) Hisar, Haryana c) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh d) Panaji, Goa e) None of these 38. Union Cabinet approved the restructuring of existing National Health Agency as _____ for better implementation of Pradhan Mantri – Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY)? a) National Health Authority b) National Health Board c) National Welfare Scheme d) National Welfare Authority e) None of these 39. Who is the present managing director and CEO of the Paytm Payments bank? a) Vijay Shankar Sharma b) Satish Kumar Gupta c) Renu Satti d) S K Gujral e) Ajay Shankar Sharma 40. Who has been appointed the new Railway Board Chairman? a) Vikram Bhargava b) Sudhir Bhargava c) V K Yadav d) V S Reddy e) Amitabh Chaudhry 41. Which state government approved 11 projects to revive the mythical Saraswati River? a) Gujarat b) Uttar Pradesh c) Madhya Pradesh d) Haryana e) None of these 42. Which bank signed a MoU with Small Business FinCredit India Pvt. Ltd. (SBFC) to jointly provide credit worth up to Rs 1 crore to MSMEs ?

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a) Axis Bank b) HDFC Bank c) Canara Bank d) ICICI Bank e) None of these 43. Name the Indian who became the world’s first female amputee to climb Mount Vinson, the highest peak of Antarctica? a) Poornima Rao b) Arunima Sinha c) Sudipta Sengupta d) Archana Sarthak e) None of these 44. Who received the “Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja National Award for Lifetime Achievement” in literature in Berhampur University, Odisha ? a) Manoj Das b) Nabaghana Parida c) Shivaji Ram d) Joshua Tandon e) None of these 45. Name PayU India’s CEO who joined as the head of financial technology partnerships and investments for Naspers’ fintech business ? a) Amrish Rau b) Raveendra Nath c) Arvind Kumar d) Kapil Chaudhry e) None of these 46. Which state government announced distribution of free sops to encourage farmers to enroll in the Atal Solar Krishi Pump Yojana ? a) Telangana b) Uttar Pradesh c) Bihar d) Maharashtra e) None of these 47. Finance ministry has exempted rupee payments to _____ that it gets from Indian refiners, from a withholding tax, with effect? a) National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) b) Saudi Arabian Oil Company (SAOC) c) Israel Oil Exporters Corporation (IOEC) d) Egyptian Oil Company (EOC) e) None of these 48. ___ took over as the new Chief Justice of Nepal’s Supreme Court? a) Justice Cholendra Shamsher J B Rana b) Justice Om Prakas Mishra c) Justice Pamal Kumar Singla d) Justice Amal Nath Pariwar e) None of these

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49. Which Sri Lankan cricketer broke the 22 years old record of maximum sixes in an ODI innings by a Sri Lankan player, by smashing 13 sixes? a) Amila Aponso b) c) Akila Dananjaya d) Thisara Perera e) None of these 50. Scientists from Washington University of USA have successfully launched a telescope (X-Calibur instrument) from the McMurdo Station in which continent? a) Europe b) Antarctica c) Australia d) Asia e) None of these

ANSWER KEYS 1 b 11 a 21 c 31 b 41 d 2 a 12 b 22 b 32 c 42 d 3 b 13 b 23 b 33 b 43 b 4 a 14 a 24 c 34 c 44 a 5 a 15 b 25 a 35 b 45 a 6 e 16 b 26 b 36 b 46 d 7 b 17 a 27 c 37 a 47 a 8 b 18 a 28 b 38 a 48 a 9 a 19 b 29 a 39 b 49 d 10 a 20 a 30 c 40 c 50 b

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