Most Important Current Affair Quiz April 11,2019

1. Who was appointed as the managing director of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS)?

(A) Srinivasan Natarajan
(B) Vineet Nayyar
(C) Chandra Shekhar Rajan
(D) Malini Shankar

Answer:Chandra Shekhar Rajan

2. Which country has dropped an explosive from its Hayabusa2 spacecraft?

(A) China
(B) Japan
(C) Russia
(D) USA

Answer: Japan

3. Which country designates Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRG) as a terrorist organization?

(A) US
(B) China
(C) Japan
(D) India

Answer:US

4.Which telescope was used to determine that, dark matter is not made up of tiny primordial black holes as stated by Stephen Hawking?

(A) Hobby-Eberly Telescope
(B) Subaru telescope
(C) Large Binocular Telescope
(D) Large Zenith Telescope

Answer:Subaru telescope

5. 7th April to 14th April is observed as ___________.

(A) National Activity Professionals Week
(B) National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
(C) Employee Appreciation Week
(D) National Handloom week

Answer:National Handloom week

6. Who has been honored with the Presidential Award of Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman 2019 by Vice- President of India M Venkaiah Naidu?

(A) Dr. Gyanaditya Shakya
(B) Homi K. Bhabha
(C) Vandana Shiva
(D) Medha Patkar

Answer:Dr. Gyanaditya Shakya

7. The scientists from this country discovered a possible "death switch" mechanism in the plant's immune system that triggers infected cells to self-destruct.

(A) Russia
(B) India
(C) China
(D) UK

Answer:China

8. Cafe Scientifique a public science initiative was launched in which state?

(A) Andra Pradesh
(B) Kerala
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Meghalaya

Answer:Kerala

9. SEBI agrees to crore 'Airport Specific Fund' worth Rs ___________.

(A) Rs 10,000 crores
(B) Rs 15,000 crores
(C) Rs 16,500 crores
(D) Rs 22,500 crores

Answer:Rs 10,000 crores

10. Which Armed force signs MoU with CSIR for advanced technologies, recently?

(A) Indian Air Force
(B) Indian Navy
(C) Indian Coast Guard
(D) National Security Guard

Answer:Indian Navy

11. Who has reduced the UPI transaction charges from 25 paise to 10 paise up to Rs.1,000?

(A) Reserve Bank of India
(B) State Bank of India
(C) National Payments Corporation of India
(D) Banking Codes and Standards Board of India

Answer:National Payments Corporation of India

12.African Lion 2019 is a Joint Exercise between which two countries?

(A) Monaco-Morocco
(B) Morocco-US
(C) Turkey-US
(D) Spain-Turkey

Answer:Morocco-US

13. Who was named as female 'Sportsperson of the year' in the ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards 2018?

(A) Sania Mirza
(B) Geeta Phogat
(C) P V Sindhu
(D) Sakshi Malik

Answer:P V Sindhu

14. Which company has bagged the Global Slag Company of the Year at the 14th Global Slag Conference and Exhibition 2019?

(A) Sun Pharmaceutical Industries
(B) Tata Steel
(C) Hindalco
(D) Aditya Birla Group

Answer:Tata Steel

15. Amazon India launched a new seller-funding programme to help the small businesses and entrepreneurs to raise funds through the crowdfunding platform. It was named as;

(A) Amazon Connect
(B) Pay Easy
(C) Amazon Fund
(D) Amazon Wings


Answer:Amazon Wings

16.Recently, this country evacuates peacekeeping CRPF contingent from Libya.

(A) India
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) Bangladesh
(D) Pakistan

Answer:Indian

17. Which Indian state celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kohima?

(A) Meghalaya
(B) Nagaland
(C) Tripura
(D) West Bengal

Answer:Nagaland

18. National Thermal Power Corporation has signed a term-loan agreement of Rs 2,000 crore with which of the following bank?

(A) Syndicate Bank
(B) Punjab National Bank
(C) Axis Bank
(D) Canara Bank

Answer:Canara Bank

19. Who has been appointed as the head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar in April 2019?

(A) Nicholas Koumjian
(B) Robert Mueller
(C) Bernie Sanders
(D) Ted Cruz

Answer:Nicholas Koumjian

20 The 3-day National Cardiology Conference 2019 was held in __________.

(A) Lucknow
(B) Mumbai
(C) Chennai
(D) Delhi

Answer:Lucknow