DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ – 17.01.2019 TO 19.01.2019 DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR QUIZ : (17-19 JAN 2019) No. of Questions: 30 Correct: Full Mark: 30 Wrong: Time: 20 min Mark Secured: 1. Where did Prime Minister Narendra Modi a) Madhya Pradesh b) Telangana inaugurate the “Development of Spiritual c) Rajasthan d) Bihar Circuit: Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple 7. Where was the 1st one day Turtle Festival – Aranmula-Sabarimala” project worth Rs. celebrated in? 92.22 crores under Swadesh Darshan a) Pune, Maharashtra Scheme of Tourism Ministry? b) Puri, Odisha a) Maharashtra b) Tamil Nadu c) Calicut, Kerala c) Karnataka d) Kerala d) Shimla, Himachal Pradesh 2. The bilateral army exercise named IMBEX 8. Supreme Court issued a notice to the 2018-19 between India and which country Centre on a plea challenging the began at Chandimandir, in Chandigarh? government‟s notification authorising a) Malaysia b) Myanmar _____ central agencies to intercept, c) Mauritius d) Maldives monitor and decrypt any computer system? 3. Name the convener of the 7-member a) 5 b) 10 Group of Ministers (GoM) under the title c) 6 d) 9 „GoM for boosting Real Estate Sector 9. Where was the Global Aviation Summit under the GST regime‟ announced by (GAS) 2019 organised by Ministry of Finance Ministry ? Civil Aviation, Airport Authority of India a) Naveen Karmakar b) Dinesh Kumar (AAI) and Federation of Indian Chambers c) Nitin Patel d) Manoj Sinha of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), held 4. Where was the three-day long 9th in? International Micro irrigation conference a) Dehradun b) Mumbai inaugurated by Union Water Resources c) New Delhi d) Bengaluru Minister Nitin Gadkari? 10. The domestic aviation market in India has a) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu been growing at ____ % annually for the b) Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh last 4 years and this growth has been the c) Aurangabad, Maharashtra highest in the world, as announced in the d) Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Global Aviation Summit (GAS) 2019? 5. One out of every _____ Class 8 students in a) 50 % b) 35 % rural India is unable to read simple texts as c) 20 % d) 75 % per the Annual Status of Education Report 11. Where did the 55-day long Kumbh Mela (ASER) 2018 by NGO Pratham? 2019 commence in? a) 10 b) 5 a) Haridwar, Uttarakhand c) 7 d) 4 b) Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh 6. Which state government launched “Jai c) Surat, Gujarat Kisan Rin Mukti Yojana”, which is a Rs d) Jaipur, Rajasthan 50,000 crore farm loan waiver scheme for 1 farmers? 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 – 17.01.2019 TO 19.01.2019 12. Vision 2040 document released at the 19. Name the Indian who has been featured in Global Aviation Summit (GAS) 2019, the Top “Global Thinkers 2019” ranking aims to have _____ air passengers in 2040 released by the Foreign Policy publishing? from 187 million air passengers in 2018? a) Shiv Nadar b) Mukesh Ambani a) 1.12 billion b) 2.35 billion c) Kiran Mazumdar d) Ritesh Gupta c) 4.55 billion d) 3.78 billion 20. Who won the Hindu Literary Prize 2018 in 13. Where was the “Global Housing the “Fiction Category” at the Hindu Lit for Technology Challenge-India” (GHTC- Life event 2019? India) launched to build houses under a) Neelum Saran Gour Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban b) Manoranjan Byapari (PMAY-U) Mission? c) Venita Coelho a) Mumbai b) New Delhi d) Vinayak Varma c) Kolkata d) Kanpur 21. ____ became the first Indian and the 14. India is expected to become the ____ youngest man to climb the seven highest largest aviation market by 2022, as per peaks and volcanic summits across all Vision 2040 document released at the continents? Global Aviation Summit (GAS) 2019? a) Rajesh Shukla a) Second b) Third b) Satyarup Siddhanta c) Fourth d) Fifth c) Anshul Agrawal 15. How many Indian institutions made it to d) Shekar Basu the Emerging Economies University 22. Who was appointed the new chief Rankings 2019 report, released by Times executive officer of International Cricket Higher Education (THE)? Council (ICC)? a) 36 b) 75 a) Deepak Gujral b) Manu Sawhney c) 49 d) 25 c) Sameer Khan d) Rahul Diwan 16. _____ emerged as the world‟s most 23. _____ was appointed the chief coach for dynamic city in the 6th City Momentum India‟s women pugilists by Boxing Index, released by property consultant Federation of India (BFI)? JLL? a) Ramjit Singh a) Hyderabad b) Mumbai b) Mohammed Ali Qamar c) Bengaluru d) New Delhi c) Shiv Singh 17. Finance Ministry asked the public sector d) Vinod Rai banks to bring down the government‟s 24. Name the cargo craft that departed from equity to at least what percent in the first the International Space Station and phase? splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west a) 52 % b) 27 % of Baja California? c) 34 % d) 44 % a) SpaceX-CRS-16 Dragon 18. India has decided to purchase ____ dollar b) SpaceX-Infra 8X worth of oil and gas from the United States c) SpaceX-HNX-211 per annum and $18 billion worth of d) SpaceX-Reckon4 defence equipment? 25. Name the 12-year old boy who became the a) $20 billion b) $10 billion youngest Grand master in India and c) $5 Billion d) $8 billion second in the world? 2 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 – 17.01.2019 TO 19.01.2019 a) D K Sharma a) Rs 3,214 per gram b) D Gukesh b) Rs 2,456 per gram c) Chaitanya Prasad NCV c) Rs 1,260 per gram d) Rushyant Sharma d) Rs 4,382 per gram 26. Where was the 6th „Women of India 29. India‟s headline inflation rate based on the Organic Festival‟to encourage women consumer price index (combined) reduced farmers and entrepreneurs in the organic to an 18-month low of what percent in sector from the remotest parts of India? December 2018, as per an official release a) Ranchi by Central Statistics Office (CSO)? b) Chandigarh a) 3.22 % b) 2.19 % c) Varanasi c) 4.12 % d) 3.14 % d) Cuttack 30. Sir Michael Atiyah passed away. What 27. Which was the first city to introduce was his profession? ROADEO, the robot which will assist the a) Singer b) Mathematician pedestrians, especially children while c) Economist d) Journalist crossing the roads? a) Kolkata b) New Delhi c) Pune d) Agra 28. Ministry of Finance announced that a new series of sovereign gold bonds will be available at _____ rupees per gram from 14th to 18th January 2019? Answer Keys 1 d 11 b 21 b 2 b 12 a 22 b 3 c 13 b 23 b 4 c 14 b 24 a 5 d 15 b 25 b 6 a 16 c 26 b 7 b 17 a 27 c 8 b 18 c 28 a 9 b 19 b 29 b 10 c 20 a 30 b 3 1441, Opp. IOCL Petrol Pump, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar-750015 Ph. : (0674) 6556677, 8093556677. Web : www.vanik.org, E-mail : [email protected] .