CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ

1. Who of the following won India’s first gold medal at the Rio Paralympic Games? 
a)    Varun Singh Bhati
b)    Mariyappan Thangavelu
c)    Ankur Dhama 
d)    Virender Dhanka

2.Name the state that bagged ‘Best Horticulture State’ award at 9th Agricultural Leadership Summit 2016.
a)    Uttarakhand
b)    Himachal Pradesh
c)    Punjab
d)    Haryana

3. Name the registration module for Indian students studying abroad that was launched by the Union Government? 
a)    India
b)    Study
c)    Madad
d)    Sahayata

4.RBI cancelled the certificvate of registration of how many non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)?
a)    Three
b)    Four
c)    Five
d)    Six

5.SEBI approved an insurance company to launch its initial public offering (IPO)?
a)    Aviva Life Insurance Co.
b)    Aegon Life Insurance Co.
c)    Bharti AXA Life Insurance Co.
d)    ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co

6. Which smartphone usage and carriage on board aircraft was prohibited by the Civil Aviation Ministry?
a)    Samsung Galaxy Note 7 
b)    Apple iPhone 7
c)    Xiaomi Redmi Note 3
d)    Lenovo K3 Note

7.Which of the following city topped the 2016 ‘Swachh Survekshan’ for rural India under Plains category?
a)    Nadia, West Bengal
b)    Dhanbad, Jharkhand 
c)    Satara, Maharashtra 
d)    Sindhudurg, Maharashtra

8.The United Nations charter has been translated into which Indian language?

 a) Tamil

 b) Sanskrit

 c) Telugu

 d) Hindi 

9.Who has won the MM Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK)?

 a) Helena Page Schrader

 b) Stuart Blackburn

 c) A K Ramanujan

 d) Kermit Roosevelt

10. Which bank has become the first Indian bank to deploy software robotics for power banking operations?

 a) State Bank Of India

 b) Axis Bank

 c) ICICI Bank

d) HDFC Bank