Current Affairs Quiz for 18 January 2016

Q1. Who among the following has been elected to the board of directors of the China - sponsored Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank:

a) Vijay Chauhan

b) Vinesh Verma

c) Dinesh Sharma
d) Aditi Singhal 

e) None of The Above

Q2. _____ is the designated governor of the AIIB from India:

a) Arun Jaitley 

b) Narendra Modi 

c) Rajnath Singh

d) VK Singh 

e) None of The Above 

Q3. Recently, who passed away in Hyderabad who was one of the founders of Jana Sangh (Later became BJP) in Andhra Pradesh:

a) Raj Rao

b) Ventrapragada Rama Rao 

c) Trichur Raj Rao

d) Sundram Venketaraman Rao
e) None of The Above

Q4. Anuradha Roy has been announced the winner of the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 for her novel _______at the Fairway Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka:

a) Sleeping on Saturn

b) Sleeping on Venus

c) Sleeping on Jupiter
d) Sleeping on Earth 

e) None of The Above

Q5. Who became the fastest man to score 7000 one day international (ODI) runs and the fastest to reach 24 centuries:

a) Rohit Sharma

b) Sachin Tendulkar
c) Virat Kohli
d) AB De Villiers 

e) None of The Above

Q6. The _______government has inked a pact with IFC, member of the World Bank Group, to set up the world's largest solar energy plant with a capacity of 750 MW:

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Himachal Pradesh

c) Arunachal Pradesh

d) Uttar Pradesh

e) None of The Above

Q7. Who is the current CM of Himachal Pradesh:

a) Thakur Ram Lal 

b) Shanta Kumar 

c) Virbhadra Singh 

d) Prem Kumar Dhumal 

e) None of The Above

Q8. What is the capital city of Dadra and Nagar Haveli:

a) Indira Point 

b) Port Blair 

c) Agartala

d) Silvassa

e) None of The Above 

Q9. Who is the current CM of Goa:

a) Shivraj Singh Chauhan 

b) Tarun Gogoi

c) Raman Singh

d) Laxmikant Parsekar 

e) None of The Above

Q10. What is the capital of Chile:

a) Conakry

b) Budapest 

c) Santiago
d) Banjul 

e) None of The Above

Solution

1. Dinesh Sharma 

2. Arun Jaitley 

3. Ventrapragada Rama Rao 

4. Sleeping on Jupiter

5. Virat Kohli

6. Madhya Pradesh

7. Virbhadra Singh

8. Silvassa

9. Laxmikant Parsekar 

10. Santiago 

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