DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ – 01.01.2019 TO 03.01.2019

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ : ( 01-03 JAN 2019)

No. of Questions: 20 Correct: Full Mark: 20 Wrong: Time: 10 min Mark Secured:

1. Name the second senior-most Supreme record with 11th away test win as a Court judge who retired? ? a) Justice Ananth Chaari a) Shikhar Dawan b) MS Dhoni b) Justice Madan B Lokur c) Rohit Sharma d) Prithvi Shaw c) Justice Lal Chandra Kanth e) None of these d) Justice Sumit Sharma 7. ____ has been appointed the new e) None of these Information Chief Commissioner by the 2. Who became the highest international Government of ? -taker of 2018 with 78 ? a) Raghav Sanghvi a) Jasprit Bumrah b) Sudhir Bhargava b) c) Ajay Mishra c) Kuldeep Yadav d) Ram Mathur d) Adil Rasheed e) None of these e) None of these 8. Ross Island of Andaman and Nicobar was 3. Larry Roberts died. He was a _____? renamed as _____? a) Spiritual Leader a) Shaheed Dweep b) Internet Pioneer b) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep c) Virtual Reality Pioneer c) Swaraj Dweep d) Mathematician d) Mahatma Gandhi Dweep e) None of these e) None of these 4. Indian pace trio of , Jasprit 9. Deen Dayal Veterinary University of Bumrah and _____ broke the 34 year which state proposed to set up the first record of highest test wickets in a calendar goat fertility lab in the state under Rastriya year and became the most successful pace Krashi Vikas Yojna? trio with 131 wickets in 2018? a) Uttar Pradesh b) Gujarat a) Mohammed Shami c) Chhattisgarh d) Goa b) Ravindra Jadega e) None of these c) K. L. Rahul 10. Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has d) extended the Credit-Linked Subsidy e) None of these Scheme (CLSS) for Middle Income Group (MIG) Scheme by another 12 months till 5. Name the Indian wicket-keeper who _____? became the 1st ever player to take 20 a) March 31, 2020 catches in a Test series? b) April 30, 2020 a) c) June 30, 2020 b) Prithvi Shaw d) January 1, 2020 c) R Ashwin e) None of these d) Hardik Pandya 11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched pension management software e) None of these SAMPANN for pensioners of telecom 6. Indian captain _____ equaled department in Varanasi. Expand 1 former Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly’s SAMPANN? 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 – 01.01.2019 TO 03.01.2019

a) System for Authority and Management of cancer cell? of Pension a) Oxford University, England b) System for Automated Management of b) Cambridge University, England Pension c) Harvard University, United States c) Scheme for All-India Management of d) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pension United States d) Systematic Allocation of Monthly e) None of these Pension 17. Which Union Ministry has released a e) None of these booklet titled “A Handbook for Students 12. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended on cyber Safety” to inform the school the One District, One Product Regional children about the different aspects of Summit held in _____ ? cyber safety? a) Ghaziabad a) Ministry of Home Affairs b) Varanasi b) Ministry of Information Technology c) Kanpur c) Ministry of Women and Child d) Lucknow Development e) None of these d) Ministry of Human Resource 13. Name the Indian-American teenager who Development has won the inaugural “Digital e) None of these Transformation Hackathon” at Cornell 18. Who is the author of the book “Early University, New York, USA? Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and a) Sharon Sebastian Where We Came From” released? b) Mahum Siddiqi a) Tony Joseph c) Ashwin Muralidaran b) Anjali Shekhar d) Raghav Sanghvi c) Roopa Malik e) None of these d) Satyendra Das 14. Swachh Surveksahan 2018 award for Best e) None of these Capital City in the Solid Waste 19. Who was appointed the next Ambassador Management was conferred to ___? of India to the Republic of Liberia who is a) Greater Hyderabad Municipal also the ambassador of India to the Corporation (GHMC) Republic of Cote d’ Ivoire? b) Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation a) Mayuri Singh (BMC) b) Y.K. Sailas Thangal c) Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation c) S.K. Sinthya Thomas (GCMC) d) Manoj Prathap d) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) e) None of these e) None of these 20. Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar 15. _____ Who is presently the High said that the Provision Coverage Ratio Commissioner of India to the Republic of (PCR) of Public sector bank has gone up Kenya was concurrently accredited as the from 46.04 % as of March 2015 to what next Ambassador of India to the Federal percent? Republic of Somalia ? a) 66.85 % b) 54.78 % a) Sameer Khan c) 23.45 % d) 78.65 % b) Rahul Chhabra e) None of these c) Manish Chandra d) Vinay Sudeep e) None of these 16. Scientists of which university have developed a virtual reality (VR) 3D model

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ANSWER KEY:

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

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