DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ : ( 12 SEPTEMBER TO 13 SEPTEMBER 2019)

No. of Questions: 15 Correct: Full Mark: 15 Wrong: Time: 15 min Mark Secured:

1. United States Open(US Open) 5. Name the Spain tennis player, won the Championships 2019 is played on which Men’s Singles title in United States Open(US surface? Open) Tennis Championships 2019, which a) Grass was his 19th title and the 4th b) Clay US Open title ? c) Carpet a) Grigor Dimitrov d) Hard b) Daniil Medvedev e) None of these c) Stan Wawrinka 2. Who became the oldest tennis player since d) Rod Laver (Australia) in 1969 to reach all e) None of these four Grand Slam semi-finals in a single 6. Who became the first tennis player to win 3 season (2019) ? straight US Open mixed-doubles titles in a) Mike Bryan almost 60 years ? b) Roger Federer a) c) Rafael Nadal b) d) Daniil Medvedev c) Juan Sebastian Cabal e) None of these d) Jamie Murray 3. Name the first Indian tennis player, who e) None of these won a set against Roger Federer during 7. Who won the 2019 Italian Grand United States Open(US Open) Tennis Prix(formally known as Formula 1 Gran Championships 2019. Premio Heineken d’Italia 2019) Formula a) 1(F1) race at Monza, Italy ? b) a) Daniel Ricciardo c) b) Valtteri Bottas d) c) Charles Leclerc e) None of these d) Lewis Hamilton 4. Who won the women’s singles title in e) None of these United States Open(US Open) Tennis 8. Name the Sri Lankan bowler, who is the first Championships 2019 and became the bowler to take 100 wickets in the T20I youngest US Open champion & the first (twenty-twenty International) format & also Canadian to win a Grand Slam singles title the first-ever bowler to take a double hat- ? trick ? a) Kirsten Flipkens a) Lasith Malinga b) Bianca Andreescu b) Kasun Rajitha c) Belinda Bencic c) Jeffrey Vandersay d) EliseMertens d) Suranga Lakmal e) None of these e) None of these

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9. Which team won the 2019 Duleep trophy ? issues, the 2019 World Water Week(25 to a) Yellow 30 August) in Stockholm, Sweden ? b) India Red a) Stockholm International Water c) India Green Institute(SIWI) d) India Blue b) World Water Resources Institute(WWRI) e) None of these c) International Water Management 10. Who created record in the 2019 Great Institute(IWMI) North Run event held in the United d) World Water Council(WWC) Kingdom(UK) making the fastest half- e) None of these marathon run ever by a woman ? a) Mo Farah ANSWER KEY: b) Jade Jones-Hall 1 d 9 b c) Jocelyne Jepkosgei 2 c 10 d d) Brigid Kosgei 3 a 11 c e) None of these 4 b 12 a 11. Which team won the 93rd All-India MCC- 5 d 13 a Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey Tournament 6 d 14 d title for the year 2019 in , Tamil 7 c 15 a Nadu ? 8 a a) Indian Railways b) Punjab National Bank (PNB) c) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) d) State Bank of India(SBI) e) None of these 12. Heeralal Sharma passed away recently, he was a ______? a) Freedom fighter b) Actor c) Producer d) Social activist e) None of these 13. Who authored the book titled ‘Fortune Turners: The Quartet that spun India to glory’ on spin quartet ? a) Aditya Bhushan and Sachin Bajaj b) Ashis Ray and Sushil Kumar c) Tridip Suhrud and Sushil Kumar d) Ashis Ray and Tridip Suhrud e) None of these 14. On which date, Himalaya Day 2019 is observed annually ? a) September 6 b) September 7 c) September 8 d) September 9 e) None of these 15. Which organization has organized the 2 Week-long conference on global water 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected]