Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 22 January 2019
1. The govt is considering issuing NCD of up to Rs 29,000 cr to repay Air India’s outstanding working-capital loans. Here, the term NCD means
1) Non-Contractible Debentures
2) Non-Convertible Debt
3) Non-Convertible Debentures
4) Non-Collectable Debt
5) None of these
2. _______ has been chosen for the first Sheikh Saud International Prize for Materials Research, given by the Centre for Advanced Materials of the UAE.
1) CNR Rao
2) MS Swaminathan
3) Pedro A Sanchez
4) Daisaku Ikeda
5) Jayant Narlikar
3. The World Bank, in its recent Global Economic Prospects report, has projected the global growth to slow to what per cent in 2019?
1) 2.2 per cent
2) 2.9 per cent
3) 3 per cent
4) 4.2 per cent
5) 4.4 per cent
4. Anurag Thakur was bestowed with Sansad Ratna Award for distinguished performance as a parliamentarian recently. The award was presented by Banwarilal Purohit, the present governor of
1) Kerala
2) Telangana
3) Karnataka
4) Tamil Nadu
5) Andhra Pradesh
5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the Armoured Systems Complex (ASC), developed by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) at Hazira in
1) Maharashtra
2) Haryana
3) Punjab
4) Rajasthan
5) Gujarat
6. The world’s oldest man, Masazo Nonaka died recently at the age of 113. He hailed from which country?
1) China
2) Japan
3) Philippines
4) Thailand
5) Vietnam
7. China’s economy grew at what per cent in 2018, its slowest rate in almost three decades.
1) 6.2 per cent
2) 6.4 per cent
3) 6.6 per cent
4) 6.8 per cent
5) 6.9 per cent
8. Ruchira Khamboj has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to which country?
1) Bangladesh
2) Maldives
3) Myanmar
4) Thailand
5) Bhutan
9. Which of the following states topped the medal tally with 228 medals at the Khelo India Youth Games 2019 which concluded in Pune recently?
1) Jharkhand
2) Haryana
3) Delhi
4) Maharashtra
5) Uttar Pradesh
10. ______ won the Gandhi Peace Prize, 2017.
1) Ekal Abhiyan Trust
2) Grameen Bank of Bangladesh
3) HAL
4) Reliance Foundation
5) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Answers:
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 5
- 2
- 3
- 5
- 4
- 1
