Current Affairs Quiz : April 26, 2017

Q.1) Name the Chief Minister who cancelled 15 Public Holidays to marks the birth and death anniversaries of eminent personalities?

a) Pema Khandu

b) Sarbananda Sonowal

c) Yogi Adityanath

d) Vijay Rupani

e) Pinarayi Vijayan

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 c) Yogi Adityanath

Q.2) PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the country’s longest Dhola-Sadiya Bridge which is _______ kilometre long bridge over the Brahmaputra river in Assam on May 24.

a) 7.05

b) 8.25

c) 9.15

d) 10.35

e) 11.55

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c) 9.15 

Q.3) What is the currency of Albania?

a) Lek

b) Kwanza

c) Nakfa

d) Gourde

e) Som

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a) Lek 

Q.4) NITI Aayog plans taxing agriculture income to curb tax evasion. Who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog?

a) Amitabh Kant

b) Arvind Panagariya

c) Narendra Modi

d) V.K. Saraswat

e) Radha Mohan Singh

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b) Arvind Panagariya 

Q.5) How many number of weekly flights were planned by Jet Airways in connecting new city pairs; Nagpur & Delhi, Lucknow & Kolkata, and Kozhikode & Bengaluru?

a) 12

b) 22

c) 32

d) 42

e) 52

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 d) 42

Q.6) Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi  on negotiations over the development of the _______ port in Sri Lanka.

a) Trincomalee port

b) Colombo port

c) Galle port

d) Hambantota port

e) Point Pedro port

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 a) Trincomalee port

Q.7) World Intellectual Property Day 2017 is observed internationally on ________ with the theme “Innovation – Improving Lives”.

a) April 25th

a) April 26th

a) April 27th

a) April 28th

a) April 29th

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a) April 26th 

Q.8) IT services major Infosys announced its engineering footprint in Eastern Europe by opening its first delivery center (DC) in ________.

a) Cyprus

b) Ukraie

c) Monaco

d) Luxemburg

e) Croatia

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e) Croatia  

Q.9) Chairman Prashant Jhawar was removed by Usha Martin Limited which is one world’s top manufacturers of ________.

a) Electrical equipments

b) Steel Wires

c) Electronic Gadgets

d) Heavy Vehicles

e) Space Dresses

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 b) Steel Wires

Q.10) Serum Institute buys Nanotherapeutics Vaccine Company in Czech for €72 mn which produces vaccines for ________ disease.

a) HIV

b) Polio

c) Tuberculosis

d) Malaria

e) Swine Flu

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 b) Polio

Q.11) Tatiana Chernova was stripped of her Beijing Olympic heptathlon bronze medal after failing a doping re-test belongs to which country?

a) United States

b) Australia

c) Canada

d) New Zealand

e) Russia

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e) Russia  

Q.12) India finished with a rich haul of ________ medals at the US Open Karate Championship held in Las Vegas.

a) 10

b) 15

c) 16

d) 12

e) 17

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 c) 16

Q.13) Punjab government appoints R. N. Dhoke and Sudhanshu S. Srivastava as Commissioners of which two cities in its state?

a) Patiala and Pathankot

b) Mansa and Hoshiarpur

c) Barnala and Bathinda

d) Firozpur and Gurudaspur

e) Amritsar and Ludhiana

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 e) Amritsar and Ludhiana

Q.14) Retired Marine Major General Randolph Ailes was appointed as the new Director of the Secret Service of ____________.

a) United States

b) Italy

c) Mexico

d) Australia

e) Germany

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a) United States 

Q.15) Which of the following is the capital of Cyprus?

a) Nicosia

b) Havana

c) Zagreb

d) Pragu

e) Apia

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 a) Nicosia

Q.16) Robert M. Pirsig who died recently belongs to which field?

a) Psychologist

b) Writer

c) Scientist

d) Professor

e) Actor

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b) Writer 

Q.17) Which of the following institute becomes India’s first public hospital to start plaque brachytherapy facility for the treatment of eye tumours?

a) Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research

b) AIMS

c) Armed Forces Medical College

d) King’s George Medical Institute

e) AIIMS

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 e) AIIMS