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Weekly Current Affairs Question Bank Weekly Current Affairs Question Bank (8th – 14th April 2018) QUESTION 1 c) Bronze d) Platinum Wrestler Bajrang Punia won his first Commonwealth Games ________ medal in the QUESTION 6 men's freestyle 65 kg final in CWG 18. Manika Batra and Mouma Das won which medal in a) Gold b) Silver the women's table tennis doubles event at c) Bronze d) Platinum Commonwealth Games 2018? a) Gold b) Silver QUESTION 2 c) Bronze d) Platinum MC Mary Kom has become the first Indian woman boxer to win which medal at the Commonwealth QUESTION 7 Games 2018? Mausam Khatri bagged which medal at the a) Gold b) Silver Commonwealth Games 2018? c) Bronze d) Platinum a) Gold b) Silver c) Bronze d) Platinum QUESTION 3 Naman Tanwar won which medal in the men's 91 kg QUESTION 8 category at the 2018 Commonwealth Games? Among the following, who took the metro during a) Gold b) Silver rush hour on his way to inaugurate Dr Ambedkar c) Bronze d) Platinum National Memorial on the eve of the Dalit icon's birth anniversary? QUESTION 4 a) Amit Shah b) Yogi Adityanath Wrestler Pooja Dhanda won which medal in the c) Arun Jaitley d) Narendra Modi women's freestyle 57 kg event in the Commonwealth Games 2018? QUESTION 9 a) Gold b) Silver Recently, US along with which two countries c) Bronze d) Platinum launched air strike on Syria? a) UK and France b) Germany and Spain QUESTION 5 c) China and Japan d) India and France Boxer Amit Panghal clinched which medal in the men's 46-49kg event at the CWG 2018? a) Gold b) Silver QUESTION 10 2.The bench is headed by NGT Acting Chairperson ________ has become the second Indian male Jawad Rahim. boxer to win gold in the flyweight category (52kg) at 3.Committee shall inform the tribunal of the extent the Commonwealth Games 2018. of hydrophytes in the lakes, along with the incidents a) Naman Tanwar b) Vijender Singh of fire that have taken place till April 12, 2018. c) Gaurav Solanki d) Shiva Thapa Which of the above statement/statements is/are correct? QUESTION 11 Ambedkar Jayanti is celebrated on which day every a) Only 1 b) Only 2 year in india? c) Only 3 d) Both 1 and 2 a) 14th April b) 15th April c) 16th April d) 17th April QUESTION 15 Who has been awarded with Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2018 for his contribution to Indian Cinema? QUESTION 12 a) Rajesh Khanna b) Rishi Kapoor Sridevi has posthumously conferred with the Best c) Vinod Khanna d) Shashi Kapoor Actress Award for her film ________ at the 65 National Awards. a) Mom b) Bombay Talkies 2 QUESTION 16 c) English Vinglish d) Chandni Which movie won the best hindi film award at the 65th National Film Awards? a) Newton b Secret Superstar QUESTION 13 c) Tubelight d) Hindi Medium India and the ________ are holding talks to seal an agreement on mutual recognition of educational qualifications. QUESTION 17 a) Germany b) United Kingdom Read the following statements:- c) China d) Japan 1. India’s factory output remained strong in February, suggesting a rosier outlook for the QUESTION 14 economy. Read the following statements:- 2. The index of industrial production rose 8.1% in 1.Following orders from the National Green February over the year, compared with a revised Tribunal, a committee constituted by the tribunal is 8.4% growth in the previous month, according to set to carry out an inspection, of the Bellandur, data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Agara & Varthur lakes in Bengaluru. Implementation. 2 | P a g e 3. A Bloomberg poll of economists had projected a QUESTION 21 6.8 percent rise. The NASA mission called The North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) Which of the above statement/statements is/are will examine which of the following organisms? correct? a) Phytoplankton b) Microalgae a) Only 1 b) Only 2 c) Seabirds d) Coral polyps c) Only 3 d) Both 1 and 3 Question 22 QUESTION 18 Which country has replaced Germany to become the India's economic growth will rise to ________ this fourth-largest passenger market globally for the first fiscal and further to ________ in the next financial time ever? year, retaining the fastest-growing Asian economy a) China b) Russia tag, on back of GST and banking reforms. c) India d) South Africa a) 6.8%, 7.1% b) 7.3%, 7.6% c) 7.5%, 7.8% d) 7.6%, 7.9% Question 23 Under which ministry has NBCC signed a MoU with QUESTION 19 Skill Development Institute, Bhubaneswar for Among the following, who has became the first-ever construction of its institute? Indian to win gold in javelin throw at the a) Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Commonwealth Games? Alleviation a) Devender Singh b) Devendra Jhajharia b) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs c) Kashinath Naik d) Neeraj Chopra c) Ministry of Rural Development d) Ministry of Human Resource Development QUESTION 20 ________ and Saina Nehwal won their respective Question 24 semi-finals to set up the first-ever all-Indian The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has women's badminton singles' final at the approved a $140 million loan for India to enhance Commonwealth Games 2018. rural connectivity in ________. a) Mary Kom b P. V. Sindhu a) Assam b) Madhya Pradesh c) Ashwini Ponnappa d) Carolina Marin c) Jharkhand d) Rajasthan Question 25 Who has won the Shorenstein Journalism Award for 2018? 3 | P a g e a) Malini Parathasarthy b) Hu Shuli c) Geneva d) Paris c) Anderson Cooper d) Siddharth Varadarajan Question 30 Question 26 Which company has signed a deal with HAL and Who has been appointed the chairman of Mahindra Defence Systems to manufacture Super Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology Hornet fighter aircraft in India? taskforce? a) Airbus b) Cessna a) Sanjeeva Reddy b) Jatin Verma c) Lockheed Martin d) Boeing c) Jayant Sinha d) Naresh Chandra Question 31 Question 27 Which of the following agencies has created a map Gujarat Government has approved to set up a 5000 of the oceanic magnetic field generated by Earth's MW capacity solar park at ________. lithosphere? a) Dholera b) Sanand a) European Space Agency c) Surat d) Simar b) Indian Space Research Organization c) Chinese National Space Agency Question 28 d) Russian space agency (Roscosmos) Read the following statements: Question 32 1. The United Nations has launched a Road Safety Who won the silver medal in women's discus throw Trust Fund. final in the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2018? 2. The trust fund will support the five pillars of the a) Navjeet Dhillon b) Dani Stevens Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road c) Pranati Das d) Seema Punia Safety. 3. The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Question 33 road safety on 13th April. The bronze medal in women's Wrestling Freestyle Which of the above statements is/are correct? 76 kg event in Commonwealth Games 2018 has been a) Only 1 b) Only 2 won by ________. c) 1 and 3 d) 1 and 2 a) Anjum Moudgil b) Sakshi Malik c) Vinesh Phogat d) Kiran Question 29 World's first long-distance electric bus line has been Question 34 inaugurated in which city? In which of the following events did Sushil Kumar a) Copenhagen b) London win his 3rd straight Commonwealth Games gold? 4 | P a g e a) Wrestling, Freestyle 57 kg Question 39 b) Shooting,10m Air Rifle What is the new limit of total investment for c) Wrestling, Freestyle 74 kg startups for availing tax concession from the d) Shooting, 50m Free Pistol government? a) 10 crore b) 12 crore Question 35 c) 15 crore d) 8 crore The final of men's Freestyle 57 kg event at Commonwealth Games 2018 in wrestling is won by Question 40 _______. India's retail inflation in the month of March, based a) Pakistan's Muhammad Bilal on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), stood at b) Canada's Steven Takahashi ________. c) England's George Ramm a) 5.01% b) 4.01% d) India's Rahul Aware c) 4.28% d) 5.52% Question 36 Question 41 ________ became India's youngest gold medallist The silver medal in women’s 53 kg freestyle at the Commonwealth Games 2018, winning Men's wrestling event in Commonwealth Games 2018 has 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Finals. been won by _______. a) Anish Bhanwala b) Neeraj Kumar a) Babita Phogat b) Vinesh Phogat c) Sanjeev Rajput d) Ankur Mittal c) Diana Weicker d) Kavita Devi Question 37 Question 42 The gold medal in women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions A tribal development centre called Quality Finals in Commonwealth Games 2018 has been won Evaluation for Sustainable Transformation centre by ________. (QUEST) has been launched by which Indian state? a) Seema Tomar b) Saniya Shaikh a) Rajasthan b) Madhya Pradesh c) Deepali Deshpande d) Tejaswini Sawant c) Chhattisgarh d) Maharashtra Question 38 Question 43 Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of Who holds the world No. 1 spot in the latest Banks Board Bureau? Badminton World Federation (BWF) men's singles a) Seema Bahuguna b) Bhanu Pratap Sharma rankings? c) Vindod Rai d) N. S. Vishwanathan a) Chou Tien Chen b) Kidambi Srikanth c) Lin Dan d) Prannoy H. S. 5 | P a g e 3. It will offer services like instant loan approvals, Question 44 assistance in choosing investment portfolios. India’s first radio lab for 5G research has been set up Which of the above statements is/are correct? at ________.
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