Current Affairs Quiz

1. Singareni Thermal Power Project is located in which state of India?
a) Telangana
b) Odisha
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Karnataka
e) Kerala
Answer:Telangana

2. ‘Project Salamati’, has been launched by which state government in India?
a) Haryana
b) Uttarakhand
c) Telangana
d) Punjab
e) Rajasthan
Answer:Haryana

3. ‘Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve’ is located in which country?
a) Nepal
b) Bhutan
c) Myanmar
d) Sri Lanka
e) Pakistan
Answer:Nepal

4. Which state government has recently launched a new scheme ‘Adapting Homes for the Differently-abled’?
a) Uttarakhand
b) West Bengal
c) Haryana
d) Jharkhand
e) Gujarat
Answer:Haryana

5. Which of the following virus is responsible for diarrhoea among infants and young children?
a) Parvovirus
b) Norwalk virus
c) Megavirus
d) Rotavirus
e) None of the above
Answer:Rotavirus

6. Who is the incumbent chief of the National Investigation Agency?
a) Sharad Kumar
b) Radha Vinod Raju
c) Rajinder Khanna
d) Dineshwar Sharma
e) Ram Sewak Sharma
Answer:Sharad Kumar

7. Who has won the 2016 Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award?
a) Baldev Singh
b) Shankar Laxman
c) Harjeet Singh
d) Kothajit Singh
e) None of the above
Hide Answer:Shankar Laxman

8. The 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup will be hosted by which country?
a) India
b) France
c) Sri Lanka
d) Vietnam
e) China
Answer:India

9. Who has won the best actor award at the 63rd National Film Awards 2016?
a) Ranveer Singh
b) Shahid Kapoor
c) Amitabh Bachchan
d) Salman Khan
e) Prabhas
Answer:Amitabh Bachchan

10. The ITBP’s weapon and support weapon training centre will be set up in which district of Madhya Pradesh?
a) Bhopal
b) Chhindwara
c) Indore
d) Damoh
e) Gwalior
Answer:Damoh

11. Desert city of Palmyra, which has been recently captured by ISIS, is in which country?
a) Iraq
b) Syria
c) Turkey
d) Israel
e) None of the above
Answer:Syria

12. Who among the following has been placed in the list of top 50 most influential leaders of the world by Fortune magazine?
a) Arvind Kejriwal
b) Narendra Modi
c) Sonia Gandhi
d) Mamata Banerjee
e) Manmohan Singh
Answer:Arvind Kejriwal

13. Recently, which State government has developed a mobile app to monitor the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme?
a) Bihar
b) Telangana
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Karnataka
e) Kerala
Answer:Karnataka

14. What does BEPZA stands for?
a) Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority
b) Brazil Export Processing Zones Authority
c) Belgium Export Processing Zones Authority
d) Bahamas Export Processing Zones Authority
e) Bhutan Export Processing Zones Authority
Answer:Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority

15. Who is the author of the novel “That Long Silence”?
a) Shashi Deshpande
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Kiran Desai
d) Anita Desai
e) None of the above
Answer:Shashi Deshpande