Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 27 Jan 2018

1. __________ won the women’s doubles title of the 2018 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne recently.

1) Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina

2) Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic

3) Gabriela Dabrowski and Xu Yi-Fan

4) Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Czech Lucie Safarova

5) Hao-Ching Chan and Romanian Monica Niculescu

2. Who among the following is the Housing and Urban Affairs Minister in the present Union Cabinet?

1) Hardeep Singh Puri

2) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

3) Ashwini Kumar Choubey.

4) Shiv Pratap Shukla

5) RK Singh

3. The Govt collected what amount under GST in Dec 2017?

1) Rs 84,701 cr

2) Rs 84,670 cr

3) Rs 86,703 cr

4) Rs 86,937 cr

5) Rs 88,705 cr

4. The Gov has allowed Small Finance Banks and Payments Banks to offer APY. The term APY stands for

1) Atal Promotion Yojana

2) Atal Panchayat Yojana

3) Atal Protsahan Yojana

4) Atal Pramaran Yojana

5) Atal Pension Yojana

5. Hun Sen is the present Prime Minister of which of the following countries? He visited New Delhi recently.

1) Brunei

2) Singapore

3) Philippines

4) Cambodia

5) Myanmar

6. The FRDI Bill 2017 has been in news since quite some time. In the term FRDI, the letter ‘R’ denotes

1) Resolution

2) Responsibility

3) Restructuring

4) Refinance

5) Reference

7. The External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj recently inaugurated India-ASEAN Friendship Park (Bharat-ASEAN Maitri park) recently in

1) Agartala

2) Itanagar

3) Kolkata

4) Bengaluru

5) New Delhi

8. Rakhi Halder won a gold medal in the Women Senior National Championships in Mangalore recently. She is a

1) weightlifter

2) wrestler

3) shooter

4) archer

5) shot putter

9. S Somanath is the new director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). The VSSC of ISRO is located in

1) Bengaluru, Karnataka

2) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

3) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

4) Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

5) Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar

10. The NIIF made its first investment recently. The full form of the term NIIF is

1) National Innovation and Infrastructure Fund

2) National Investment and Innovation Fund

3) National Investment and Infrastructure Fund

4) National Initiative for Innovation Fund

5) None of these

Answers:

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