CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ : 12th SEPTEMBER , 2017

Q.1) Which of the following Indian Institute have found a place in the top 200 universities in the latest edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings?

1. A) IISc- Bengaluru
2. B) IIT-Bombay
3. C) IIT-Delhi
4. a) Only A
5. b) Only B
6. c) Only C
7. d) Both A and B
8. e) All A, B and C

Q.2) Who has addressed a students’ convention to mark the 125th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago address and BJP ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya’s centenary celebrations?

1. a) Ram Nath Govind
2. b) Narendra Modi
3. c) Arun Jaitley
4. d) Nirmala Sitharaman
5. e) Venkaiah Naidu

Q.3) With which of the following country India promised to extend development assistance to every province through projects worth over $300 million?

1. a) Nepal
2. b) Bhutan
3. c) Pakistan
4. d) Afghanistan
5. e) Myanmar

Q.4) Which of the following payment bank has partnered with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch a RuPay-powered digital debit card?

1. a) Vodafone M-Pesa
2. b) Airtel Payment Bank
3. c) Paytm Payment Bank
4. d) India Post payments bank
5. e) FINO Payment bank

Q.5) India’s ranked______among 190 countries in the Ease of business Index.

1. a) 125^th
2. b) 130^th
3. c) 135^th
4. d) 140^th
5. e) 145^th

Q.6) Which of the following country planned to ban trading of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies on domestic exchanges, dealing another blow to the $150 billion crypto currency market after the country outlawed initial coin offerings?

1. a) Japan
2. b) China
3. c) Australia
4. d) Germany
5. e) USA

Q.7) Which of the following ministers has recently included by the government of India in CCEA(Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs) and CCPA (Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs) as permanent members?

1. A) Nirmala Sitharaman
2. B) Piyush Goyal
3. C) Dharmendra Pradhan
4. a) Only A
5. b) Only B
6. c) Only C
7. d) Both A and B
8. e) All A, B and C

Q.8) Who is to be the Singapore’s first female president?

1. a) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2. b) Doris Leuthard
3. c) Halimah Yacob
4. d) Park Geun-hye
5. e) Megawati Sukarnoputri

Q.9) Who will be conferred with the first Lifetime Achievement Award instituted by the Badminton Association of India (BAI) for his rich contribution to the sport?

1. a) Parupalli Kashyap
2. b) Prakash Padukone
3. c) Saina Nehwal
4. d) P. V. Sindhu
5. e) Pullela Gopichand

Q.10) Who has won third US Open title and 16th Grand Slam crown with a rout of South African giant Kevin Anderson?

1. a) Roger Federer
2. b) Novak Djokovic
3. c) Rafael Nadal
4. d) Andy Murray
5. e) Andre Agassi

Q.11) Who has won the US Open women’s doubles title?

1. a) Chris Evert & Roberta Vinci
2. b) Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza
3. c) Martina Hingis & Chan Yung-Jan
4. d) Kim Clijsters & Chris Evert
5. e) Svetlana Kuznetsova & Roberta Vinci

Q.12) Name the Indian relay star who won gold at the 2014 Incheon Asian, has been banned for eight years the sanction period for an athlete committing a second doping offence.

1. a) Priyanka Panwar
2. b) Gaurav Kumari
3. c) Sunita Rani
4. d) Tintu Luka
5. e) Manjit Kaur