Current Affairs Questions & Answers - 8 Part - 1

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1)   What does the CSS, RUSA stand for, in education sector?

a. Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan
b. Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhigyan
c. Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhinay
d. Rashtriya Uchchatar Shikha Abhiyan


2)   IMD will come out for the first time with a temperature outlook for which season?

a. Winter
b. Summer
c. Spring
d. Autumn


3)   Who has been appointed as head of IT with CarDekho dot com?

a. Sameer Chawla
b. Ashok Chawla
c. Mahesh Chawla
d. Pawan Chawla



4)   Who has been appointed as independent director to the Wipro board?

a. Patrick J. Ennis
b. Sam Smith
c. Jonathan Smart
d. None of the above


5)   2016 Irom Shormila Scholarship has been awarded to whom?

a. Rohith Vemula
b. Kanhaiya Kumar
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b


6)   Which renowned Jazz vocalist died on March 10, 2016?

a. Ernestine Anderson
b. Russel Jacquet
c. Johnny Otis
d. Eddie Haywood


7)   Which famous mathematician died on 12th March 2016?

a. John Nash
b. Lloyd Stowell Shapley
c. Alvin Roth
d. None of the above


8)   4th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves was inaugurated on 14 March 2016 at which country?

a. Peru
b. Colombia
c. Cambodia
d. None of the above


9)   The 13th meeting of Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development was held on 14 March 2016 in which city?

a. Dubai
b. Lima
c. London
d. NY


10)   Ministry of Tourism has launched a program to train college students as ____________.

a. Tourist guides
b. Tourist facilitators
c. Paryatak Mitras
d. Both b and c
e. None of the above



11)   UKAD has been granted the role of organising a worldwide fight against drugs in sports as the secretariat for which sports committee?

a. FIFA
b. International Olympic Committee
c. Tennis Federation of India
d. None of the above



12)   Which day is observed as World Consumer Rights Day?

a. March 15
b. March 16
c. March 17
d. March 18



13)   Who has been elected as Myanmar’s first non military president since army took over power in 1962 coup?

a. Aung Sang Su Kyi
b. Htin Kyaw
c. Henry Ban Thio
d. Myint Swe


14)   Which nuclear reactor has leaked in the first week of March 2016?

a. Tarapore
b. Kakrapar
c. Kundankalam
d. None of the above



15)   Which popular musician’s stake in a music catalog has been sold to Sony for USD 750 million?

a. George Michael
b. Michael Jackson
c. Michael Bolton
d. Janet Jackson


16)   Department of instrumentation and Applied Physics at IISc has added a high resolution optics instead of a camera transforming what type of phone into a powerful microscope?

a. Mobile Phone
b. Telephone
c. Smart Phone
d. None of the above


17)   Mother Teresa will be made a saint on September 4. 2016. Which famous prize did she win?

a. Fields Medal
b. Abel Prize
c. Nobel Peace Prize
d. Pulitzer Prize

18)   Which software firm has picked up a minority stake in US-based Emailage Corporation, for an undisclosed sum?

a. Infosys
b. Wipro
c. HCL
d. TCS


19)   Wipro has announced a strategic partnership with which company on March 15th 2016?

a. GE
b. Schneider Electric
c. GM
d. None of the above


20)   India test fired Agni I ballistic missile from Odisha successfully in the second week of March 2016. What is the range of this missile?

a. 500 km
b. 600 km
c. 700 km
d. 800 km

21)   What percentage of the universe is dark matter?

a. 7
b. 17
c. 27d. 37