Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 21 November 2018
1. The RBI purchased govt securities under OMO for an aggregate amount of Rs 80 bn on Nov 22, 2018. Here, the term OMO stands for
1) Overseas Market Operations
2) Open Market Operations
3) Out Market Operations
4) Organised Market Operations
5) None of these
2. Carlos Ghosn was arrested in Tokyo recently for alleged financial misconduct. He is the chairman of
1) Toyota Motor
2) General Motors
3) SAIC
4) Nissan Motor
5) Ford Motor Co
3. HDFC Ltd has disbursed subsidy to over 51,000 customers amounting to over Rs 1,100 cr under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana’s CLSS scheme. Here, the term CLSS means
1) Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme
2) Cash Linked Subsidy Scheme
3) Conversion Linked Subsidy Scheme
4) Customer Linked Subsidy Scheme
5) None of these
4. As part of the European Union (EU) project ‘International Urban Cooperation’, Kochi and Vilnius have signed an MoU. Vilnius is the capital of
1) Nigeria
2) Chad
3) Lithuania
4) Morocco
5) Estonia
5. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was sworn in as the new President in which of the following countries recently?
1) Malaysia
2) Indonesia
3) Bangladesh
4) Iran
5) Maldives
6. Following the demise of Ananth Kumar, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has been given to who among the following as an additional charge?
1) Ram Vilas Paswan
2) Vijay Kumar Singh
3) Manoj Sinha
4) Narendra Singh Tomar
5) Manoj Sinha
7. Late Dr Martha Farrell was honoured with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the 6th Indian Social Work Congress. She was killed in a terrorist attack in May 2015 in
1) Pakistan
2) Afghanistan
3) Bangladesh
4) Turkey
5) Saudi Arabia
8. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has appointed who among the following as he Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific?
1) Takehiko Nakao
2) Jin Liqun
3) Siddharth Tiwari
4) Veerathai Santiprabhob
5) Nestor Espenilla Jr
9. Who among the following has been assigned additional portfolio of the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers after the death of Ananth Kumar?
1) Sadananda Gowda
2) Narendra Singh Tomar
3) Jual Oram
4) Kalraj Mishra
5) Anant Geete
10. The two-day annual meeting of World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Future Councils was held recently in
1) Doha
2) Manama
3) Kuwait City
4) Riyadh
5) Dubai
Answers:
- 2
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 5
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 5
