DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ: MARCH 2, 2018

1.India has test-fired the Anti Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) Nag in desert conditions. It is developed by which organization?

a) DRDO

b) ISRO

c) CSIR

d) HAL

e) TATA Advanced System

2.Which of the following state government has launched an m-Governance mobile application called ‘T App Folio’ to help citizens with one point access to government services like MeeSeva services?

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Telangana

c) Tripura

d) Maharashtra

e) Tamil Nadu

3.Tata Boeing Aerospace Limited (TBAL), a joint venture between Boeing and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), inaugurated the country’s first facility to produce fuselages for the AH-64 Apache helicopter in which city?

a) Hyderabad

b) Mumbai

c) Chennai

d) Kochi

e) Bangalore

4.The State Bank of India has raised its lending rates by what percent, recently. It is the first lending revision by the bank since April 2016?

a) 8.50 per cent

b) 8.15 per cent

c) 8.20 per cent

d) 8.10 per cent

e) 8.25 per cent

5.Who has been appointed as the secretary of Higher Education by the Ministry of Human Resource Development?

a) T Sudharashan

b) K K Sharma

c) K Vinay Kumar

d) V Subramaniya Kumar

e) R Subramanyam

6.Which country’s Olympic membership has been restored by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following its suspension from Pyeongchang 2018?

a) Russia

b) Peru

c) Paraguay

d) Tajikistan

e) South Korea

7.Name the Para-swimmer has been suspended for three years by the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) for allegedly recording videos of his female counterparts at the National Championships in Jaipur last year?

a) Prasanta Karmakar

b) Suyash Narayan

c) Murlikant Petkar

d) Prasanth Petkar

e) Subash Murali

8.Who has been settled for Silver Medal in the 50kg Freestyle competition at the Asian Wrestling Championship in Kyrgyzstan?

a) Kavita Devi

b) Vinesh Phogat

c) Sangita Phogat

d) Geeta Phogat

e) Shakshi Malik

9.Arabinda Muduli has passed away due to cardiac arrest at the age of 56. He belongs to which field?

a) Singer

b) Actor

c) Writer

d) Journalist

e) Politician

10.Who has been appointed to take over as Air Officer-in-charge Maintenance of Indian Air Force?

a) RKS Teera

b) RKS Singh

c) RKS Sharan

d) RKS Shera

e) RKS Veera

11.Power backup solutions provider Luminous Power Technologies announced the launch of its new independent brand ‘Amaze’. Who was the brand ambassador of Amaze?

a) Ravichandran Ashwin

b) Akshay Kumar

c) M S Dhoni

d) Sachin Tendulkar

e) Virat Kholi

12.Who has been appointed as the India’s ambassador to Afghanistan, recently?

a) Manpreet Vohra

b) Vinay Kumar

c) Arjun Kumar

d) Saurabh Kumar

e) George Raju

13.Which of the company has announced its first 5G chip (Balong 5G01 chip) at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona?

a) Sony

b) HP

c) Huawei

d) Lenovo

e) Dell

14.India has signed various MoUs with Jordan. Which of the following does not belongs to the agreement?

a) Cooperation in the field of Health and Medicine

b) Twining Agreement between Agra and Zarqa

c) Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement

d) Cultural Exchange Programme

e) MoU on Defence Cooperation

15.Who has inaugurated the conference to mark ‘World Rare Disease Day’ in New Delhi with the theme “Research”?

a) J.P. Nadda

b) Dr Jitendra Singh

c) Preeti Sudan

d) Both a and b

e) Both b and c

16.How much crore has been sanctioned by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for Capital Acquisition Proposals of the Services and Coast Guard?

a) Rs. 6,435 crore

b) Rs. 9,435 crore

c) Rs. 9,035 crore

d) Rs. 7,435 crore

e) Rs. 8,435 crore

17.Women and Child Development Ministry has approved projects worth over how much amount under the Nirbhaya fund for eight major cities to make them safer for women?

a) Rs. 3,900 crore

b) Rs. 5,900 crore

c) Rs. 1,900 crore

d) Rs. 4,900 crore

e) Rs. 2,900 crore

18.Clean energy firm Avaada Power has said that it will invest Rs 3,500 crore to develop 500 MW utility-scale solar projects in which state?

a) Maharashtra

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Telangana

e) West Bengal

19.World Rare Disease Day is observed on _______.

a) January 31^st

b) March 3^rd

c) February 28^th

d) February 24^th

e) March 1^st

20.Huawei has signed with which company for a joint innovation program to experiment 5G in Bordeaux, France, recently?

a) SFR

b) Bouygues Telecom

c) Vivendi

d) Technicolor SA

e) MobiWire

ANSWER KEY

1. a) DRDO
2. b) Telangana
3. a) Hyderabad
4. b) 8.15 per cent
5. e) R Subramanyam
6. a) Russia
7. a) Prasanta Karmakar
8. b) Vinesh Phogat
9. a) Singer
10. d) RKS Shera
11. e) Virat Kholi
12. b) Vinay Kumar
13. c) Huawei
14. b) Twining Agreement between Agra and Zarqa
15. d) Both a and b
16. b) Rs.    9,435 crore
17. e) Rs.    2,900 crore
18. c) Andhra Pradesh
19. c) February 28^th
20. b) Bouygues Telecom

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