Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 09 December 2018

Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 09 December 2018

Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 09 December 2018

1. The Indian Coast Guard recently conducted the Regional Level Marine Oil Pollution Response Exercise titled ‘Clean Sea – 2018’ at sea off
1) Port Blair
2) Vishakhapatnam
3) Lakshadweep
4) Mumbai
5) Kandla
2. Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver, Canada recently on the charges of conspiracy to defraud banks. She is the Chief Financial Officer of
1) ZTE
2) Lenovo
3) Xiaomi
4) Huawei
5) Oppo
3. The RBI has asked all banks to replace magnetic-stripe-only cards with EMV-chip based cards by 31 Dec 2018. In the term EVM, letter ‘E’ stands for
1) Electronic
2) Europay
3) Easypay
4) Engraved
5) Embossed
4. The book Free Trade and Prosperity. How Openness Helps the Developing Countries Grow Richer and Combat Poverty has been penned by
1) Pravin Krishna
2) Bibek Debroy
3) Arvind Subramanian
4) Jagdish Bhagwati
5) Arvind Panagariya
5. According to a report by Oxford Economics, the fastest-growing European city by 2035 will be Yerevan which is the capital of
1) Croatia
2) Romania
3) Armenian
4) Malta
5) Slovenia
6. _________ has been bestowed with the ‘Doctor Honoris Causa’ by ESCP Europe Business School. He is the first Indian to get the honour in ESCP Europe’s near – 200 years history.
1) Sunil Bharti Mittal
2) Ratan Tata
3) Dilip Shanghvi
4) Azim Premji
5) Kumar Mangalam Birla
7. Mrutyunjay Mahapatra is the present MD and CEO of which of the following public sector banks? 
1) Corporation Bank
2) Indian Bank
3) Bank of India
4) Canara Bank
5) Syndicate Bank
8. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has decided to observe 2023 as the International Year of
1) Paddy
2) Millets
3) Gram
4) Maize
5) Cane
9. Which IT firm has announced to acquire select IBM software products for $1.8 bn?
1) TCS
2) Wipro
3) HCL Technologies
4) Infosys
5) Tech Mahindra
10. The govt has appointed who among the following as the new chief economic advisor (CEA) for three years?
1) Usha Sangwan
2) Mahesh Kumar Jain
3) NS Vishwanathan
4) Krishnamurthy Subramanian
5) Viral Acharya
Answers:
  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 2
  4. 5
  5. 3
  6. 1
  7. 5
  8. 2
  9. 3
  10. 4

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