Current Affairs : September quiz 2016 ( Multiple choice questions) - 12 (LIC AAO , IBPS , SSC , Railways)

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Bisweshwar Nandi

Ques. : 1 Myanmar has decided to support China’s OBOR initiatives. The term OBOR stands for

1) Open Belt and Open Road

2) Open Border and Open Road

3) One Belt and One Road

4) One Border and One Road

5) None of these

Answer:- 3) One Belt and One Road

Ques. : 2 Which of the following Union Ministries has launched PRASAD scheme?

1) Tourism Ministry

2) Home Ministry

3) Commerce and Industry Ministry

4) Finance Ministry

5) Minister, Environment, Forests and Climate Change Ministry

Answer:- 1) Tourism Ministry

Ques. : 3 Bisweshwar Nandi will be awarded Dronacharya Award for 2016. He is the coach of

1) PV Sindhu

2) Sakshi Malik

3) Dipa Karmakar

4) Lalita Babar

5) Babita Kumari

Answer:- 3) Dipa Karmakar

Ques. : 4 Which of the following state govts has issued draft notification on rearranging district borders to create 17 new districts? The new districts will come into being in Oct 2016.

1) Andhra Pradesh

2) Telangana

3) Maharashtra

4) Madhya Pradesh

5) Uttar Pradesh

Answer:- 2) Telangana

Ques. : 5 Anand Krishnamurthy resigned recently as the Managing Director and Chief Executive of which of the following private sector banks?

1) Federal Bank

2) YES Bank

3) IDFC Bank

4) Bandhan Bank

5) Catholic Syrian Bank

Answer:- 5) Catholic Syrian Bank

Ques. : 6 “Fly the new feeling” is the tagline of which of the following airlines operating in India?

1) AirAsia India

2) Vistara

3) Spicejet

4) Indigo

5) Jet Airways

Answer:- 2) Vistara

Ques. : 7 The govt is set to ban cash transactions over what amount as it seeks to clamp down on black money in the economy following recommendations from the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team?

1) Rs 1 lakh

2) Rs 2 lakh

3) Rs 3 lakh

4) Rs 4 lakh

5) Rs 5 lakh

Answer:- 3) Rs 3 lakh

Ques. : 8 Ashok Chawla will take over as Non-Executive Part-time Chairman of which of the following private sector banks from Oct 2016?

1) Axis Bank

2) HDFC Bank

3) ICICI Bank

4) YES Bank

5) Kotak Mahindra Bank

Answer:- 4) YES Bank

Ques. : 9 The Kabaddi World Cup will be held in which of the following cities from Oct 7 to 22 this year?

1) Patna

2) Lucknow

3) Jaipur

4) Bhopal

5) Ahmedabad

Answer:- 5) Ahmedabad

Ques. : 10 Which of the following states has become the first state in the country to draft its own internal security legislation?

1) Maharashtra

2) Gujarat

3) Punjab

4) Assam

5) Arunachal Pradesh

Answer:- 1) Maharashtra

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