Current Affairs : September quiz 2016 ( Multiple choice questions) - 17 (LIC AAO , IBPS , SSC , Railways)

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Ques. : 1 The National Sports Day is observed every year to mark hockey legend Dhyan Chand's birthday on

1) 20 Aug

2) 23 Aug

3) 26 Aug

4) 29 Aug

5) 30 Aug

Answer:- 4) 29 Aug

Ques. : 2 Who among the following won the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix of Formula One?

1) Nico Rosberg

2) Kimi Raikkonen

3) Daniel Ricciardo

4) Sebastian Vettel

5) Lewis Hamilton

Answer:- 1) Nico Rosberg

Ques. : 3 SN Subrahmanyan was named the successor of the present executive chairman AM Naik at which of the following firms recently?

1) Essel Group

2) Essar Group

3) Videocon

4) HCL

5) Larsen & Toubro

Answer:- 5) Larsen & Toubro

Ques. : 4 The Union Human Resource Ministry Prakash Javdekar recently launched Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad, which is located in the state of

1) Tamil Nadu

2) Kerala

3) Karnataka

4) Andhra Pradesh

5) Odisha

Answer:- 3) Karnataka

Ques. : 5 Fifteen sportspersons were honoured with the Arjuna Award this year. Who among the following is NOT one of them?

1) Rajat Chauhan (Archery)

2) Lalita Babar (Athletics)

3) Sourav Kothari (Billiards and Snooker)

4) Shiva Thapa (Boxing)

5) None of these

Answer:- 5) None of these

Ques. : 6 Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti launched the central govt’s UJALA scheme in the state. The UJALA scheme is related to the distribution of

1) free lenses among elderly

2) old age pension among people

3) cycles among school going girls

4) LPG cylinders among BPL families

5) LED bulbs among people

Answer:- 5) LED bulbs among people

Ques. : 7 Name the international bank which recently opened a branch in Kochi in the Indian state of Kerala. R Seetharaman is the CEO of the Bank.

1) Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait

2) BNP Paribas

3) Doha Bank

4) Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

5) ABN-AMRO Bank

Answer:- 3) Doha Bank

Ques. : 8 The Legislative Assembly of which of the following states recently (on Aug 29) passed a resolution changing the name of the state?

1) West Bengal

2) Nagaland

3) Andhra Pradesh

4) Telangana

5) Jharkhand

Answer:- 1) West Bengal

Ques. : 9 The NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully executed its first flyby of which of the following planets of the solar system?

1) Mercury

2) Jupiter

3) Pluto

4) Venus

5) Mars

Answer:- 2) Jupiter

Ques. : 10 India has become only the fourth nation to flight-test a Scramjet (or Supersonic Combusting ramjet) engine successfully. Which of the following countries has did it so far?

1) China

2) Russia

3) United States

4) All the above

5) None of these

Answer:- 4) All the above

Ques. : 11 Flipkart owned mobile payments startup PhonePe, in partnership with which private lender, has launched unified payments interface (UPI) based payments app?

1) Yes Bank

2) Federal Bank

3) HDFC Bank

4) ICICI Bank

5) IDFC Bank

Answer:- 1) Yes Bank

Ques. : 12 The RBI, in its Annual Report, has projected India's growth rate at what percent in 2016-17?

1) 7.2%

2) 7.4%

3) 7.6%

4) 7.8%

5) 8.2%

Answer:- 3) 7.6%

Ques. : 13 Yogeshwar Dutt, whose bronze medal from the London Olympics has been upgraded to silver, is an Indian

1) boxer

2) weightlifter

3) wrestler

4) archer

5) shooter

Answer:- 3) wrestler

Ques. : 14 Eminent poetess and novelist Padma Sachdev was recently awarded the prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2015. She writes in which of the following languages?

1) Dogri

2) Tamil

3) Assamese

4) Malayalam

5) Kannada

Answer:- 1) Dogri

Ques. : 15 _________ has decided to appoint Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu as its brand ambassador and bestow the honorary rank of Commandant on the ace badminton player.

1) BSF

2) CRPF

3) SSB

4) CISF

5) NDRF

Answer:- 2) CRPF

Ques. : 16 India and Myanmar have signed four MoU to enhance cooperation and bilateral relations between the two countries. The capital city of Myanmar is

1) Santiago

2) Hanoi

3) Phnom Penh

4) Naypyidaw

5) Bogotá

Answer:- 4) Naypyidaw

Ques. : 17 India and which of the following countries have signed Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) recently to use each other’s military bases?

1) Russia

2) Japan

3) France

4) US

5) Israel

Answer:- 4) US

Ques. : 18 The International Day Against Nuclear Tests is observed on

1) 20 Aug

2) 23 Aug

3) 26 Aug

4) 29 Aug

5) 30 Aug

Answer:- 4) 29 Aug

Ques. : 19 PM Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the first phase of SAUNI project related to irrigation and drinking water supply in which state?

1) Maharashtra

2) Madhya Pradesh

3) Rajasthan

4) Telangana

5) Gujarat

Answer:- 5) Gujarat

Ques. : 20 Apurvi Chandela, who was honoured with the Arjuna Award this year, is a

1) boxer

2) squash player

3) shooter

4) wrestler

5) shuttler

Answer:- 3) shooter