Current Affairs Quiz – June 20, 2016
Q.1) which among the following Indian building is first in the country to get trademarked by Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL)?
a) Mysore Palace
b) Charminar
c) Hawa Mahal
d) Taj Palace
e) Agra Fort
Q.2) Which of the following union minister launched the Energy Conservation Building Code 2017 (ECBC 2017). It was developed by Ministry of Power and Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)?
a) Arun Jaitley
b) Venkaiah Naidu
c) Harsh Vardhan
d) Mahesh Sharma
e) Piyush Goyal
Q.3) Dr Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Culture & Tourism launched the implementation of the National Mission on Cultural Mapping of India (It is talent hunt programme) in ______
a) Assam
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Punjab
d) Haryana
e) Nagaland
Q.4) Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of GST, recently?
a) PV Sindhu
b) Amitabh Bachchan
c) Priyanka Chopra
d) Rajini Kanth
e) Kamal Hasan
Q.5) How many days were completed by Mars Orbiter Mission in Orbit. Mission is more than 5 times the number of days it was designed to last?
a) 500 days
b) 650 days
c) 850 days
d) 1000 days
e) 750 days
Q.6) Najib Razak is the Prime Minister of which among the following country?
a) Singapore
b) Malaysia
c) Spain
d) China
e) Turkey
Q.7) India became the ____ country to ratify the United Nations TIR (Transports Internationaux Routiers) Convention, a move that will help boost trade through smoother movement of goods across territories.
a) 60th
b) 67th
c) 71st
d) 77th
e) 81st
Q.8) Which among the following country has plan to send mini-ecosystems containing potato seeds and silkworm eggs to the Moon next year. In an attempt to study how the organisms develop on the lunar surface?
a) Japan
b) India
c) USA
d) China
e) France
Q.9) Recently, Online financial services marketplace BankBazaar started operations in which among the following country?
a) Singapore
b) India
c) Malaysia
d) Srilanka
e) Nepal
Q.10) Which among the following company signed an agreement with American firm Lockheed Martin to produce and export new generation F-16 fighter aircraft. The deal was signed at the Paris Air Show?
a) Reliance Industry
b) Tata Group
c) Larsen & Toubra
d) Adani Group
e) None of these
Q.11) Which country’s freestyle wrestlers team was finished on top at the Junior Asian Wrestling Championship held in Taichung City of Taiwan?
a) Iran
b) Taiwan
c) India
d) Kazakhstan
e) Italy
Q.12) How many gold medal out of 7 medals was won by Iran in the Junior Asian Wrestling Championship held in Taichung City of Taiwan?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
e) 7
Q.13) How many total medals was won by India in Asian Wrestling Championship held in Taichung City of Taiwan?
a) 7
b) 2
c) 4
d) 9
e) 13
Q.14) World Refugee day is celebrated every year on ___.
a) June 18
b) June 19
c) June 20
d) June 21
e) June 22
Q.15) Recently, which state was adopted GST bill in legislative assembly?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Jammu & Kashmir
c) West Bengal
d) Haryana
e) Karnataka
Q.16) Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) announced that it has secured coal linkage in the recently-concluded auctions for the captive power sub-sector. It was a deal for _____.
a) 2 year
b) 3 year
c) 4 year
d) 5 year
e) 6 year
Q.17) Which among the following actor would open the 8th edition of the Jagran Film Festival on July 1?
a) Amitabh Bachchan
b) Amir Khan
c) Rishi Kapoor
d) Karan Jokar
e) Shahrukh Khan
Q.18) Who will own the franchise from Cape Town, team named as Cape Town Knight Riders in Africa new T20 Global League?
a) Shah Rukh Khan
b) Johannesburg
c) Nita Ambani
d) Karan Paul
e) N. Srinivasan
Q.19) which of the following airway signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Boeing, valued at $4.7 billion at current list prices for buy 40 737 MAX Planes. It was signed at the Paris Air Show?
a) Air India
b) IndiGo
c) SpiceJet
d) Vistara
e) GoAir
Q.20) Adani Group has signed an MoU with one of China’s largest private companies “East Hope Group” to invest of how many millions in a manufacturing unit of an Indian port in Mundra Special economic zone in Gujarat?
a) 100
b) 220
c) 300
d) 352
e) 400
Q.21) Recently, which among the following payment banks about to join UPI platform by August in this year?
a) IPPB
b) Vodafone M-Pesa
c) Airtel Payment bank
d) Paytm payment bank
e) None of these
Q.22) Which government announced complete waiver of crop loans of up to 2 lakh for small and marginal farmers with up to five-acre holdings, and a flat 2 lakh relief for all other marginal farmers, irrespective of their loan amount?
a) Rajasthan
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Haryana
d) Punjab
e) Gujarat
Q.23) How many schoolchildren formed the “longest yoga chain” in front of the iconic Mysuru palace eyeing the Guinness World Records?
a) 8,378
b) 8,387
c) 8,337
d) 8,373
e) 8,368
Q.24) AU Small Finance Bank will come up with an initial public offering (IPO) of ________ crore equity shares.
a) 5.14
b) 5.24
c) 5.34
d) 5.44
e) 5.54
Q.25) Florentino Perez to continue as president of Real Madrid until ______.
a) 2018
b) 2019
c) 2020
d) 2021
e) 2022
Q.26) Newly appointed Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Najma A. Heptulla, unveiled a ‘Wall of War Heroes’ that displays the portraits of How many martyrs?
a) 19
b) 20
c) 21
d) 22
e) 23
Q.27) Name the plasma physicist who spearheaded India’s efforts to produce energy through thermonuclear fusion, died in Ahmedabad.
a) P S Kaw
b) P R Kaw
c) P N Kaw
d) P K Kaw
e) P Q Kaw
Q.28) Name the International Master who crashed through the defences of US champion Sabina Foisor to guide the Indian women team to a victory in the second round of world women’s team chess championship.
a) Alexandra Kosteniuk
b) Padmini Rout
c) Harika Dronavalli
d) Padma Sachdev
e) Tania Sachdev
Q.29) How many medals won by India in the Wushu competition of the first ever BRICS Games?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6
e) 7
Q.30) Who has been re-appointed as prime minister after the weekend’s legislative run-off vote and asked him to form the next government?
a) François Hollande
b) Nicolas Sarkozy
c) Jacques Chirac
d) Edouard Philippe
e) François Mitterrand
Q.31) Who has re-nominated as its candidate for another term as judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)?
a) Dalveer Bhandari
b) Mohammad Hidayatullah
c) Yogesh Kum Sabharwal
d) Sudhi Ranjan Das
e) Altamas Kabir
Q.32) The ICJ elections will be held in November and, the justice will serve a term of ______ years.
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7
e) 9
Q.33) The first ever BRICS Game is concluded in ________, China.
a) Shanghai
b) Chengdu
c) Suzhou
d) Hangzhou
e) Guangzhou
Q.34) World Team Chess Championship held at ________.
a) Sochi
b) Moscow
c) Kazan
d) Khanty-Mansiysk
e) Vladivostok
Q.35) AU Small Finance Bank will come up with an initial public offering (IPO) from June 28. The headquarters of AU Small Finance Bank is located at ________.
a) Rajasthan
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Haryana
d) Punjab
e) Gujarat
