Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 12 Jan 2018
1. Who among the following will head the Supreme Court appointed three-member special investigation team (SIT) set up to probe 84 anti-Sikh riots?
1) Shiv Narayan Dhingra
2) Antony Dominic
3) Abhilasha Kumari
4) Surya Kant
5) Thottathil B Radhakrishnan
2. Which of the following countries has granted citizenship to Julian Assange, the founder of wikileaks?
1) Chad
2) Ecuador
3) Greece
4) Norway
5) Sweden
3. The Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan visited Victoria recently to attend Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC). Victoria is the capital of
1) Mauritius
2) Trinidad and Tobago
3) Djibouti
4) Seychelles
5) Yemen
4. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its 100th satellite recently onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C40). That 100th satellite is
1) IRNSS-1H
2) SCATSAT-1
3) Cartosat-2
4) Cartosat-2A
5) GSAT-2
5. The 155th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda was observed recently. His birthday is observed as National Youth Day which falls on
1) 02 Jan
2) 10 Jan
3) 12 Jan
4) 22 Jan
5) 31 Jan
6. The govt offloaded its 2.52 per cent stake in which of the following PSUs to get around Rs 1,200 cr recently?
1) NMDC
2) NTPC
3) ONGC
4) SAIL
5) NALCO
7. The Special Envoy of the Maldives President and Foreign Minister Dr Mohamed Asim met PM Narendra Modi recently. The currency of Maldives is
1) Kyat
2) Ngultrum
3) Rupee
4) Rupiah
5) Rufiyaa
8. Benjamin Netanyahu is the present Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
1) Sweden
2) Ukraine
3) Israel
4) France
5) Spain
9. The SEBI barred which of the following organisations recently from issuing audit certificates to any listed company in India for two years? It was found guilty in Satyam scam.
1) Standard and Poors
2) Moody’s
3) Fitch Ratings
4) Price Waterhouse
5) CRISIL
10. L Sarita Devi is associated with which of the following games?
1) Shooting
2) Boxing
3) Archery
4) Badminton
5) Squash
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