Current Affairs Quiz : March 14, 2017

Current Affairs Quiz : March 14, 2017

Q.1) Who took an additional charge as Defence ministry, recently?

a) Prakash Javdekar

b) Ravi Shankar Prasad

c) Arun Jaitley

d) Suresh Prabhu

e) Venkaiah Naidu

Q.2) Which state government planned to increase the number of Rhino population to 3000 before 2020?

a) Manipur

b) Sikkim

c) Gujarat

d) West Bengal

e) Assam

Q.3) Which Payment bank opened 1 Lakh saving bank accounts in Tamilnadu?

a) India Post Payment Bank

b) Vodafone m-Pesa

c) Paytm

d) Airtel Payment Bank

e) None of these

Q.4) Which Company has signed a deal worth nearly three billion Euros ($3.2 billion) to invest in a major Iranian oil project in the second phase of the Kangan oil production and refinery project in southwest Iran?

a) Tata Motors

b) Hyundai

c) Bharat Benz

d) Ashok Leyland

e) Volkswagen

Q.5) Which software company agreed to buy Israeli autonomous vehicle technology firm Mobileye for $15.3 billion in a deal to driverless systems for global automakers?

a) Intel

b) Microsoft

c) Windows

d) Polaris

e) Accenture

Q.6) Who has been appointed as CEO of Reliance Commercial Finance, a subsidiary of Reliance Capital?

a) Takahiro Hachigō

b) Kenichi Ayukawa

c) Sam Ghosh

d) Devang Mody

e) Poorva Joshipura

Q.7) Filmmaker Diphan had died at the age of 47. He is related to which film Industry?

a) Kannada

b) Malayalam

c) Telugu

d) Hindi

e) Tamil

Q.8) National Pi day was observed on____

a) 12^th January

b) 10^th March

c) 23^rd January

d) 24^th February

e) 14^th March

Q.9) What is the theme of Commonwealth Day 2017, observed on 2nd Monday of March every year?

a) Respecting Difference, Promoting Understanding

b) Opportunity through Enterprise

c) A Peace-building Commonwealth

d) An Inclusive Commonwealth

e) A Young Commonwealth

Q.10) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar took charge as CM for which state, recently?

a) Punjab

b) Goa

c) Uttar Pradesh

d) Manipur

e) Uttarakhand