Current Affairs : August quiz 2016 ( Multiple choice questions) -5(LIC AAO , IBPS , SSC , Railways)

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Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir

Ques. : 1 Which of the following state govts recently (on 10 Aug) decided to grant 33 percent reservation to women in Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)?

1) Nagaland

2) Tripura

3) Arunachal Pradesh

4) Sikkim

5) Manipur

Answer:- 1) Nagaland

Ques. : 2 The Odisha govt has decided to make which of the following mandatory for procurement of paddy in the state?

1) PAN Card

2) Voter ID

3) Kisan Card

4) Aadhaar card

5) MGNREGA Card

Answer:- 4) Aadhaar card

Ques. : 3 Who among the following is the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

1) D Subbarao

2) YV Reddy

3) Bimal Jalan

4) C Rangarajan

5) Raghuram Rajan

Answer:- 5) Raghuram Rajan

Ques. : 4 _________ has launched a Rs 100-cr start-up fund on its diamond jubilee year “to foster, nurture and incubate new ideas related to the oil & gas sector”.

1) Indian Oil

2) ONGC

3) GAIL

4) BPCL

5) HPCL

Answer:- 2) ONGC

Ques. : 5 Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar missed a bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics to Giulia Steingruber of

1) Russia

2) US

3) Switzerland

4) Belgium

5) China

Answer:- 3) Switzerland

Ques. : 6 India has notified a landmark Protocol that has now amended an existing 33-year-old double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) between India and Mauritius. The currency of Mauritius is

1) Mauritian rupiah

2) Mauritian rupee

3) Mauritian rufiyaa

4) Mauritian pound

5) Mauritian dollar

Answer:- 2) Mauritian rupee

Ques. : 7 Ending several months of uncertainty for the Indian dairy industry, which country has finally signed the protocol which will allow exports of dairy products from India to begin?

1) Japan

2) China

3) Mongolia

4) Russia

5) US

Answer:- 4) Russia

Ques. : 8 Usain Bolt won the 100m Final of Rio Olympics, to have the third Olympic Gold medal in the event, an unprecedented feat. He is from

1) Russia

2) Kenya

3) Nigeria

4) South Africa

5) Jamaica

Answer:- 5) Jamaica

Ques. : 9 The Prime Minister Sugam Bharat Mission is associated with which of the following?

1) Border Road Organisation

2) Handicapped people

3) Ease of Doing Business

4) Make in India

5) Smart Cities

Answer:- 2) Handicapped people

Ques. : 10 The BSBDA - Small accounts opened with simplified KYC documents are initially valid for a period of

1) 03 months

2) 06 months

3) 09 months

4) 12 months

5) 18 months

Answer:- 4) 12 months

Ques. : 11 Which of the following has become the first non-Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state to ratify the crucial Goods and Services Tax Bill (GST Bill)?

1) Uttar Pradesh

2) Tamil Nadu

3) Bihar

4) West Bengal

5) Odisha

Answer:- 3) Bihar

Ques. : 12 The Odia language has become the official language for all govt office works in Odisha. Who among the following is the present governor of Odisha?

1) Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir

2) Keshari Nath Tripathi

3) Ram Nath Kovind

4) Mridula Sinha

5) Balram Das Tandon

Answer:- 1) Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir

Ques. : 13 India has provided USD 1-million grant to which country in the wake of El Nino induced drought disaster?

1) Kenya

2) Nigeria

3) Tanzania

4) Albania

5) Zimbabwe

Answer:- 5) Zimbabwe

Ques. : 14 The Central Leather Research Institute's (CLRI) Principal Scientist P Shanmugam has bagged the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Award for meritorious services in the Higher Education Department of

1) Maharashtra

2) Tamil Nadu

3) Karnataka

4) Kerala

5) Andhra Pradesh

Answer:- 2) Tamil Nadu

Ques. : 15 What is India’s current ranking on the Global Innovation Index (GII) released by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)?

1) 66th

2) 69th

3) 71st

4) 78th

5) 81st

Answer:- 1) 66th

Ques. : 16 Which of the following firms has been identified as implementation partner to convert Nagpur, into the country's first large-scale integrated Smart City?

1) Lanco Infratech

2) Larsen & Toubro

3) Reliance Infrastructure

4) Jaypee Group

5) GMR Infra

Answer:- 2) Larsen & Toubro

Ques. : 17 Which country recently successfully launched the world's first quantum satellite which boasts of establishing hack-proof communications between space and the ground? The satellite is nicknamed “Micius”.

1) US

2) Russia

3) South Korea

4) Japan

5) China

Answer:- 5) China

Ques. : 18 The credit of foreign remittances is not allowed in which of the following accounts?

1) Savings account

2) Current account

3) Small account

4) All the above

5) None of these

Answer:- 3) Small account

Ques. : 19 __________ was honoured with Ashok Chakra, the country's highest award for gallantry during peace time on the eve of 70th Independence Day.

1) Gursevak Singh

2) Niranjan Ek

3) Hangpan Dada

4) Kamlesh Kumari

5) Mohan Chand Sharma

Answer:- 3) Hangpan Dada

Ques. : 20 Charti Lal Goel, who passed away recently, was the first speaker of the

1) Haryana Assembly

2) Madhya Pradesh Assembly

3) Jharkhand Assembly

4) Delhi Assembly

5) Chhattisgarh Assembly

Answer:- 4) Delhi Assembly