Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 08 Feb 2018

1. The Indian School of Mines has been ranked at 141st position in THE Asia University Rankings 2018. The ISM is located in

1) Dhanbad  

2) Jaipur

3) Bhubaneswar

4) Bhopal

5) New Delhi

2. ________ has become the first female cricketer to take 200 ODI wickets.

1) Ekta Bisht

2) Amy Satterthwaite

3) Mithali Raj

4) Kristen Beams

5) Jhulan Goswami

3. Madavoor Vasudevan Nair passed away recently. He was the maestro of

1) Manipuri

2) Kuchipuri

3) Bharatnatyam

4) Kathakali

5) Odissi

4. The RBI issued its sixth bi-monthly monetary policy of FY18 recently. The RBI has pegged the economic growth for 2017-18 at

1) 6.9%

2) 7.2%

3) 7.4%

4) 7.6%

5) 7.8%

5. Which bank recently raised $600 mn through its first US dollar denominated bond offering? It is the first bank based in GIFT City to launch a Medium Term Note (MTN) programme.

1) Kotak Mahindra Bank

2) YES Bank

3) Federal Bank

4) Axis Bank

5) ICICI Bank

6. The 32nd Al Jana-driyah festival was held in which of the following cities, recently, which was attended by the External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj?

1) Manama

2) Riyadh

3) Abu Dhabi

4) Muscat

5) Kuwait City

7. ________ and NCERT have signed a pact to integrate a course on ‘Digital Citizenship and Safety’ in information and communication technology curriculum.

1) Facebook

2) Microsoft

3) Google

4) My Space

5) Apple

8. The Supreme Court recently quashed the second renewal of iron ore mining leases given to 88 companies in 2015 in which state?

1) Goa

2) Karnataka

3) Jharkhand

4) Karnataka

5) Odisha

9. The first-of-its kind one-day Pelican Festival was held at the Atapaka Bird Sanctuary on Kolleru, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the country, on Feb 4 in the state of

1) Kerala

2) Karnataka

3) Tamil Nadu

4) Andhra Pradesh

5) Odisha

10. India successfully test-fired indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile recently. The surface-to- surface missile has a strike range of

1) 100 km

2) 250 km

3) 350 km

4) 750 km

5) 1,500 km

Answers:

1. 1
2. 5
3. 4
4. 3
5. 2
6. 2
7. 3
8. 1
9. 4
10. 3