Current Affairs : August quiz 2016 ( Multiple choice questions) - 7 (LIC AAO , IBPS , SSC , Railways)

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Ques. : 1 Who among the following has been appointed as the new Reserve Bank of India Governor?

1) Arvind Subramanian

2) Arundhati Bhattacharya

3) Urjit Patel

4) Subir Gokarn

5) Rakesh Mohan

Answer:- 3) Urjit Patel

Ques. : 2 The two-day meeting of the BRICS Women's Parliamentarian Forum was held recently in which of the following Indian cities?

1) Patna

2) New Delhi

3) Jaipur

4) Hyderabad

5) Bengaluru

Answer:- 3) Jaipur

Ques. : 3 Indian govt’s Tourism Ministry has decided who among the following the brand ambassador for the Incredible India campaign?

1) Arun Jaitley

2) Sachin Tendulkar

3) Amitabh Bachchan

4) Narendra Modi

5) Raghuram Rajan

Answer:- 4) Narendra Modi

Ques. : 4 SK Sharma has been awarded as the Most Enterprising CEO in Electronics Sector by the Indo Global Business Council (IGBC). He is the present Chairman and MD of

1) BHEL

2) Moser Baer

3) Videocon

4) Sterlite Technologies

5) Bharat Electronics Limited

Answer:- 5) Bharat Electronics Limited

Ques. : 5 Which of the following Indian companies has/have been recognized by Fortune magazine in a list of global firms changing the world for the good? These are the only Indian companies in the list.

1) Cipla

2) Godrej

3) Bharti Airtel

4) All the above

5) Only 1) and 2)

Answer:- 5) Only 1) and 2)

Ques. : 6 Brian Krzanich unveiled Project Alloy, a device that creates merged reality, a new form of virtual reality. Brian is the present CEO of

1) AMD

2) IBM

3) Oracle

4) Intel

5) AT&T

Answer:- 4) Intel

Ques. : 7 Which of the following teams defeated Germany to bag their Olympic Football gold for the first time in its history?

1) Brazil

2) Spain

3) Chile

4) US

5) France

Answer:- 1) Brazil

Ques. : 8 Yogeshwar Dutt is associated with which of the following games?

1) Weightlifting

2) Wrestling

3) Shot put

4) Discuss throw

5) Boxing

Answer:- 2) Wrestling

Ques. : 9 Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has said that the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation will raise proportion of its investments in ETFs from the present 5 percent. The term ETF stands for

1) Exchange Traded Fund

2) Externally Traded Fund

3) Economically Traded Fund

4) Established Trade Fund

5) None of these

Answer:- 1) Exchange Traded Fund

Ques. : 10 The Vistara airline has announced who among the following as its new brand ambassador?

1) Ranbir Kapoor

2) Deepika Padukone

3) Hrithik Roshan

4) Anushka Sharma

5) Katrina Kaif

Answer:- 2) Deepika Padukone

Ques. : 11 In an unprecedented move, the country's highest sporting award - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - will be conferred upon four athletes which do NOT include

1) Yogeshwar Dutt

2) Dipa Karmakar

3) Sakshi Malik

4) Jitu Rai

5) PV Sindhu

Answer:- 1) Yogeshwar Dutt

Ques. : 12 Joyce Carol Thomas passed away recently, He was a renowned

1) author

2) scientist

3) musician

4) singer

5) painter

Answer:- 1) author

Ques. : 13 The Indian origin Sikh MP Bardish Chagger has been named as the new leader of the govt in the House of Commons in which country? She is the first woman to hold the post in the country’s history.

1) UK

2) Canada

3) US

4) France

5) Germany

Answer:- 2) Canada

Ques. : 14 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis recently felicitated Lalita Babar who reached the final event at the Olympics in the game of

1) swimming

2) discuss throw

3) shot put

4) javelin throw

5) steeplechase

Answer:- 5) steeplechase

Ques. : 15 Who among the following has been selected by France for its prestigious Chevalier de L’Ordre Arts et Lettres, also known as Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters?

1) Rajnikant

2) Mithun Chakraborty

3) Hema Malini

4) Chiranjeevi

5) Kamal Haasan

Answer:- 5) Kamal Haasan

Ques. : 16 Name the present President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) who was awarded the Olympic Order for his outstanding services to the Olympic movement recently.

1) N Ramachandran

2) Sandeep Jajodia

3) Vijay Kumar Malhotra

4) Akhilesh Das

5) Kanwar Deep Singh

Answer:- 1) N Ramachandran

Ques. : 17 The world’s highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge was opened to visitors in which of the following countries recently? The bridge connects two mountain cliffs known as the Avatar Mountains.

1) Switzerland

2) Singapore

3) Chile

4) China

5) Sweden

Answer:- 4) China

Ques. : 18 The Fortune 2016 ‘Change the World’ list has been topped by which of the following firms?

1) Walmart

2) GlaxoSmithKline

3) Nestle

4) Mastercard

5) Cipla

Answer:- 2) GlaxoSmithKline

Ques. : 19 SR Nathan, who died recently, was the former President of which of the following countries?

1) Philippines

2) Thailand

3) Singapore

4) Vietnam

5) Cambodia

Answer:- 3) Singapore

Ques. : 20 Which of the following countries topped the medal table at the recently concluded Rio 2016 Olympics?

1) China

2) Brazil

3) US

4) UK

5) Russia

Answer:- 3) US