QUIZ-24

    QUIZ-24

Q1. UNESCO celebrates International Mother Language Day (IMLD) on 21 February every year. What was the theme of IMLD 2017?

(a) Lead with Multilingual Education

(b) Lets develope through Multilingual Education

(c) Language A bridge to global success

(d) Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education

(e) None of the above options are true

Q2. Name the hospital that will provide medical support to forest department employees and local communities in the areas where WWF-India (World Wide Fund for Nature-India) operates for conservation.

(a) Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

(b) Medanta Hospital

(c) Apollo Hospitals

(d) Lilavati Hospital

(e) Hirandani Hospitals

Q3. Bharat QR code was launched recently to make retail e-payments more seamless and help India to get a step ahead towards Cashless Economy. Who among the following launched Bharat QR code?

(a) Shri R. Gandhi

(b) Shri Viral Acharya

(c) Shri S.S. Mundra

(d) Shri N.S. Vishwanathan

(e) Dr. Urjit R. Patel

Q4. Name the country that has committed to start initial deliveries of military helicopters to India in 2018 in order to an agreement signed in October 2016, to manufacture 200 of the KA-226T helicopters for the Indian Armed Forces.

(a) France

(b) Japan

(c) Russia

(d) The USA

(e) China

Q5. The Ahmedabad-based Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), an acknowledged national resource institute for entrepreneurship education, research, training and institution-building, has received the prestigious award for the year 2016-17 for the best overall presentation of its 2015-2016 annual report. Name of that award is _______________.

(a) Make in India Emerging Entrepreneurs Awards

(b) Forbes India Leadership Awards

(c) Entrepreneur of The Year

(d) International Mercury Awards (IMA)

(e) None of the above options are true

Q6. The 13th Agricultural Science Congress being organised in Bengaluru from 21-24 February 2017 by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) and the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) was established in _______________.

(a) 1916

(b) 1929

(c) 1956

(d) 1936

(e) 1973

Q7. Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank (KVGB) has made 13 villages of Karnataka under its jurisdiction as 100 percent digital villages for banking activities. Who is the Chairman of KVGB?

(a) P. Rastogi

(b) Ajay Tyagi

(c) A. Acharya

(d) P. Jayarama Bhat

(e) S. Ravindran

Q8. Country's largest Public Sector bank State Bank of India (SBI) has rebranded its corporate website as _______________ from the earlier "sbi.co.in".

(a) bank.in

(b) sbi.bank

(c) bank.sbi

(d) banksbi.in

(e) banksbi.co.in

Q9.Which of the following Tata Steel's iron mine has been honored with the Best Green Organization of the Year Award at the Global Green Future Leadership Awards in recognition of its environmental protection measures, recently.

(a) Noamundi

(b) Katamati

(c) Joda

(d) Khondbond

(e) Jharia

Q10. Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) president Shurhozelie Liezeitsu will be sworn in as Nagaland's new Chief Minister. He will be ____________ Chief Minister of Nagaland.

(a) 8th

(b) 11th

(c) 15th

(d) 21st

(e) 22nd

Q11. V. K. Srinivasan passed away recently after a prolonged illness in Hyderabad. He was famous ___________________.

(a) Bureaucrat

(b) Columnist

(c) Director Institute of Economic Studies

(d) All of the above

(e) None of the above

Q12. Name the newly appointed National Security Advisor of The United States of America.

(a) Herbert Raymond McMaste

(b) Michael T. Flynn 

(c) Susan Rice

(d) Thomas E. Donilon

(e) James L. Jones

Q13. Name the famous Pakistani Cricketer who has announced retirement from International Cricket, recently.

(a) Shoab Malik

(b) Misbah Ul Haq

(c) Shahid Afridi

(d) Younus Khan

(e) Wahab Riaz

Q14. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has recently it appointed V Ramakrishnan as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He has replaced _______________.

(a) Cyrus Mistry

(b) N Ganapathy Subramaniam

(c) Ratan Tata

(d) V Ramakrishnan

(e) Rajesh Gopinathan

Q15. Ved Prakash Sharma passed away recently. He was famous ______________.

(a) Novelist

(b) Critc

(c) Classical Singer

(d) Painter

(e) Wrestler

ANSWERS

S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. UNESCO celebrates International Mother Language Day (IMLD) on February 21, 2017 under the theme 'Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education'. To foster sustainable development, learners must have access to education in their mother tongue and in other languages. 

S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. Apollo Hospitals Foundation will provide medical support to forest department employees and local communities in the areas where WWF-India (World Wide Fund for Nature-India) operates for conservation. The two organisations have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard. The medicare will be available to over 27,000 staff and people in about 17 states of WWF-India operations. 

S3. Ans.(a)
Sol. Payment networks such as MasterCard and Visa have joined hands with NPCI to launch BharatQR, a common Quick Response (QR) code that would enable seamless digital payments without card swiping machines. Shri R. Gandhi, Deputy Governor of India launched Bharat QR code.

S4. Ans.(c)
Sol. Russia will start initial deliveries of military helicopters to India in 2018, with assembly and manufacturing to follow in Asia's fastest growing economy. India and Russia signed an agreement in October 2016 to jointly manufacture 200 of the KA-226T helicopters for the Indian Armed Forces. 

S5. Ans.(d)
Sol. The Ahmedabad-based Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), an acknowledged national resource institute for entrepreneurship education, research, training and institution-building, has received the prestigious International Mercury Awards (IMA) for the year 2016-17 for the best overall presentation of its 2015-2016 annual report.

S6. Ans.(b)
Sol. The 13th Agricultural Science Congress being organized in Bengaluru from February 21-24 by the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) and the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is an autonomous organization under the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. Formerly known as Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, it was established on 16 July 1929 as a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860

S7. Ans.(e)
Sol. Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank (KVGB) has made 13 villages under its jurisdiction as 100 per cent digital villages for banking activities, according to S Ravindran, Chairman of KVGB. Speaking during the visit of Eugene E Karthak, Regional Director of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Bengaluru, to Hulasageri village in Bagalkot district, stated that the bank is planning to make 100 villages as 100 per cent digital for banking activities by the end of the current financial year.

S8. Ans.(c)
Sol. Country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has rebranded its corporate website as "bank.sbi" from the earlier "sbi.co.in". 'Bank.sbi' is the highest domain protocol, known as generic top level domain (gTLD).The adoption of gTLD enables an organization to use its corporate name .sbi as their website’s top-level identifier instead of using a more traditional ".com" or ".co.in" domains.

S9. Ans.(b)
Sol. Tata Steel's Katamati iron mine has been honored with the Best Green Organization of the Year Award at the Global Green Future Leadership Awards in recognition of its environmental protection measures. The award was presented at a function organized by World CSR Day on February 18, 2017 in Mumbai. 

S10. Ans.(b)
Sol. Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) president Shurhozelie Liezeitsu will be sworn in as the state’s eleventh Chief Minister. As Nagaland Former Chief Minister T R Zeliang stepped down from the post on February 19, 2017 facing revolt from his party MLAs against the decision to reserve 33% seats for women in urban local bodies. 

S11. Ans.(d)
Sol.  V. K. Srinivasan, noted bureaucrat, columnist and director of the Institute of Economic Studies, passed away after a prolonged illness in Hyderabad. He was 76.

S12. Ans.(a)
Sol. US President Donald Trump has appointed Lt Gen Herbert Raymond McMaster as his new National Security Advisor following the ouster of Michael Flynn last week. Making the announcement at his residence in Florida, Mr Trump described McMaster, currently Director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, as a man of tremendous talent and experience.

S13. Ans.(c)
Sol. Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has announced his retirement from international cricket. Afridi's 21 year illustrious career was sometimes checkered with controversies. The 36-year-old star had alreadyquit Test and ODI cricket but still captained the Pakistan Twenty 20 team at the 2016 world championships in India. 

S14. Ans.(e)
Sol. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has appointed V Ramakrishnan as the chief financial officer (CFO). He takes over from Rajesh Gopinathan, who has been appointed as chief executive officer and managing director. Meanwhile, Tata Sons Chairman-designate N Chandrasekaran was also named the chairman of TCS.

S15. Ans.(a)
Sol. Famous Hindi novelist Ved Prakash Sharma passed away in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He was 62. He has written nearly  176 novels which includes “Qaidi No 100” and “Vardi Wala Gunda“. He had also written scripts for about half-a-dozen Hindi movies.