Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 12 Feb 2018
1. Red Gerard won the first gold medal for which country in snowboarding at the Pyeongchang Olympics 2018?
1) Japan
2) Canada
3) US
4) UK
5) Germany
2. Asma Jahangir passed away recently. She was a well known activist from
1) Pakistan
2) Afghanistan
3) Nepal
4) Sri Lanka
5) Bangladesh
3. Which bank recently posted a quarterly loss for the first time in nearly 19 years of Rs 24.16 bn in the Dec quarter of 2017-18?
1) PNB
2) ICICI Bank
3) HDFC Bank
4) Axis Bank
5) SBI
4. The RBI conducted its last bond auction of FY18 recently. The govt borrowed what amount through the benchmark 10-year bonds in the auction?
1) Rs 20 bn
2) Rs 40 bn
3) Rs 60 bn
4) Rs 80 bn
5) Rs 100 bn
5. The RBI will soon get another liquidity management tool in SDF scheme. The term SDF stands for
1) Statutory Deposit Facility
2) Standing Deposit Facility
3) Systematic Deposit Facility
4) Structured Deposit Facility
5) None of these
6. In a first, India will buy 10 per cent stake in Abu Dhabi oil fields for what amount
1) $400 mn
2) $600 mn
3) $800 mn
4) $900 mn
5) $300 mn
7. Which is the only India city (with $950-bn wealth) named among the top 15 wealthiest cities globally?
1) Chandigarh
2) Bengaluru
3) Hyderabad
4) Mumbai
5) New Delhi
8. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently officially launched a project for the construction of the first Hindu temple in
1) Amman
2) Tel Aviv
3) Abu Dhabi
4) Tehran
5) Riyadh
9. Who among the following is the present Union Minister of Electronics ‘Information Technology and Law’ Justice?
1) Ravi Shankar Prasad
2) Ajay Sawhney
3) KJ Alphons
4) Prakash Javadekar
5) Piyush Goyal
10. Which of the following states has topped the list of smaller states on overall health performance in ‘performance in health outcome index’ released recently by the NITI Aayog?
1) Goa
2) Manipur
3) Sikkim
4) Tripura
5) Mizoram
Answers:
- 3
- 1
- 5
- 4
- 2
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 5
