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WEEKLY OBJECTIVE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ON CURRENT AFFAIRS:

FOR WEEK 24/52 -JUNE 11-17(2019)

1. Which of the following organisation has released India’s first Type Approval Certificate (TAC) for Bharat Stage–
VI (BS–VI) norms that are the latest emission norms as notified by the Government of India for the two-
wheeler segment?
a) Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC)
b) Automotive industry in India
c) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
d) International Centre for Automotive Technology
2. FormerChief Minister between 1996 and 2000 and a senior DravidaMunnetraKazhagam leader RV
Janakiraman was passed away recently. He was former CM of-
a) Lakshadweep b) Kerala c) Goa d) Puducherry
3. The V.O. Chidambaranar Port Trust, Tuticorin and _________have signed an MoU for facilitating Direct Port
Entry (DPE) of e-sealed factory stuffed export container to the port under ‘Ease of Doing Business’.
a) National Fertilizers Limited
b) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
c) Central Warehousing Corporation
d) Food Corporation of India
4. Which company has acquired ethnic apparel and lifestyle retailer ‘Jaypore E-Commerce Pvt. Ltd‘ which sells
ethnic fashion merchandise under its own brand ‘Jaypore’ for Rs 110 crore?
a) Lifestyle
b) Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd
c) Myntra
d) Future Group
5. Who has topped in the recently released Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Rankings?
a) Novak Djokovic b) Rafael Nadal c) Roger Federer d) Dominic Thiem
6. Which of the following state has decided that the all farmers, including peasants, will be given Rs 12,500 a
year as input subsidy before the sowing season in the recently cabinet meeting?
a) Arunachal Pradesh b) Sikkim c) Telangana d) Andhra Pradesh
7. IRSDC entered a Tripartite Agreement with French Railways (SNCF) & AFD, a French Agency which will finance
up to 7,00,000 EURO, through French National Railways (SNCF)-Hubs and Connexions as a Technical Partner to
IRSDC to support the Railway Station Development Program in India. What is full form of IRSDC?
a) Indian Railway Station Development Corporation
b) Indian Railway Station Development Council
c) Indian Railway Scheme Development Chamber
d) Indian Railway Station Department Corporation
8. Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that single-use plastics will be banned in the country from-?
a) 2023 b) 2025 c) 2022 d) 2021
9. India has received an invitation to attend the outreach Session at the G-7 Summit 2019 to be held in-?
a) Canada b) Italy c) France d) Germany
10. US retail giant ___________ has moved past hi-tech titans Apple and Google to become the world's most
valuable brand, a key survey showed recently.
a) Youtube b) Amazon c) Facebook d) Gmail
11. Who has been named as acting Central Vigilance Commissioner as current (CVC) recently?
a) Anita Bhatia b) Sanjiv Puri c) Azim Premji d) Sharad Kumar
12. The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour to be organized
across the world on ____________
a)10th June b) 8th June c) 12th June d) 15th June
13. The Reserve Bank of India constituted a six-member committee to review the ATM interchange fee structure
with a “view to increase the ATM deployment in the unbanked areas”. The committee will be led by
___________
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a)Vimal Karnad b) V G Kannan

c) Arvinda Srivastava d) Kamlesh Nath
14. Name the person who has been re-appointed as Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with
Cabinet minister rank.
a)Devansh Mishra b)Devashish Pant c)Kriplesh Singh d)NripendraMisra
15. Name the company that has surpassed US technology giant IBM in terms of market capitalization.
a)Tata Consultancy Services b) WIPRO
c) Infosys d) Reliance Communication
16. Name the Very Severe Cyclonic Storm that has hit over East-central Arabian Sea and moved nearly northwards
with a speed of about 13 kmph.
a) FANI b) VANI c) VAYU d) FONI
17. British consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser named PepsiCo executive _____________ to succeed Rakesh
Kapoor as chief executive officer.
a) Prakritesh Talwar b) Suwarna Raju
c) Kamal Nath d) Laxman Narasimhan
18. Name the Union Minister for Tribal Affairs who has recently launched the “e-governance initiatives for ST
Welfare schemes” at a function organized by Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
a) Raj Kumar Singh b) Ashwini Kumar Choubey
c) Arjun Ram Meghwal d) Arjun Munda
19. Name the country that has decided to invest an amount of Rs.13,000 crore, in several ongoing as well as new
projects in different states of India’s North- Eastern region.
a) China b) Maldives c) Japan d) Male
20. 2nd Bi-Monthly monetary policy statement has been released. The reverse repo rate under the LAF stands
adjusted to ____________.
a) 5.75% b) 5.50% c) 5.25% d) 5.00%
21. What is the theme for World Day Against Child Labour 2019?
a) Stop Child Labour, Protect Childhood
b) Let's Together Protect Childhood
c) Say No To Child Labour
d) Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!
22. The Union Cabinet has cleared the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC) Bill, 2019. The NDIAC
will effect from-
a) 2nd March 2019
b) 2nd January 2019
c) 2nd May 2019
d) 2nd June 2019
23. Which of the following university will confer the distinguished alumni award to Union Ministers Nirmala
Sitharaman and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar?
a) Indira Gandhi National Open University
b) Jawaharlal Nehru University
c) University of Delhi
d) Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
24. According to annual report on internet trends by venture capitalist Mary Meeker, Which country accounts for
12% world’s internet users?
a) China b) USA c) India d) Germany
25. India successfully conducted a first test flight of the indigenously developed Hypersonic Technology
Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) from a base off the-
a) Coastal States b) South coast of India
c) West Bengal coast d) Odisha coast
26. The U.S. Embassy organised its _____________ annual ‘Student Visa Day’ and launched ‘Education USA India
a) first b) second c) third d) fifth

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27. Which of the following Indian player ranked 100th and remains the sole Indian in the Forbes list of world’s
highest-paid athletes with estimated annual earnings of $25 million?
a) MS Dhoni b) Rohit Sharma c) MC Marycom d) Virat Kohli
28. The Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) is an unmanned scramjet (allowing supersonic
combustion) demonstration vehicle that can cruise up to a speed of mach 6 (or six times the speed of sound)
and rise up to an altitude of ___________ km in 20 seconds.
a) 55 km b) 65 km c) 40 km d) 32 km
29. Cancer-hit badminton star Lee Chong Wei announced his retirement. He is a retired _______________
professional badminton player.
a) Japanese b) Indonesian c) Malaysian d) Chinese
30. According to a report released by brand analytics firm TRA Research, _______________ has emerged as the
most trusted brand in India in 2019.
a) Apple b) Dell c) Sony d) MI
31. Who was awarded the 54th Jnanpith Award for his contribution to the enrichment of Indian Literature in
English?
a) Amitav Ghosh b) Vikram Seth c) Anita Desai d) Arundhati Roy
32. Name the Bollywood actress, who is a global UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Child Rights is going to be
honoured with Danny Kaye Humanitarian Award by UNICEF at the UNICEF SNOWFLAKE BALL recently?
a) Priyanka Chopra b) Aishwarya Rai c) Katrina Kaif d) Deepika Padukone
33. A team of scientists from _______________ and the Wildlife Institute of India, in collaboration with
researchers from Indonesia and the US, have discovered a new species of ‘paddy frog’ from Northeast India,
primarily Assam.
a) Banaras Hindu University
b) University of Delhi
c) Jawaharlal Nehru University
d) Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
34. PazhavilaRameshan was a _________________ language journalist, poet and lyricist from Kerala, India and
received the 2017 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contributions.
a) Marathi b) Telugu c) Kannad d) Malayalam
35. Which organisation has changed its name to "World Athletics" in its 217th council meeting which took place in
Monaco?
a) European Athletics Association
b) FIFA
c) International Association of Athletics Federations
d) International Shooting Sport Federation
36. Minister of State (I/C) of Culture & Tourism, GoI who inaugurated the exhibition titled “Astitva: The Essence of
Prabhakar Barwe”, at National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi is
a) Jalam Singh patel b) Narendra Singh Tomar
c) Shri Prahlad Singh Patel d) Rakesh Singh
37. The government has reduced the total rate of the contribution made by workers and employers towards the
Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) scheme from 6.5% to _______ for the first time in over two decades?
a)4.4% b)4.2% c)3.5% d)4.0%
38. Which Indian regulatory will infuse Rs 12,500 crore into the financial system through bond purchases under
the Open Market Operation (OMO)?
a) RBI b) IRDAI c) NHB d) SEBI
39. Which asian country has secured 141st rank among 163 countries in the recently released Global Peace Index
2019?
a) Pakistan b) Sri Lanka c) Afghanistan d) India
40. Atop which mountain, a team of Tribhuvan University and National Geographic Society scientists and
researchers have installed the world’s highest, fully automated weather station?
a) Mount Everest b) Mount killimanjaro
c) Cho oyu d) Mount Elbrus

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41. Which Indian regulatory have directed rating companies to create a uniform probability of default benchmark
for each rating category on their website?
a) RBI b) SEBI c) CRISIL d) IRDAI
42. Which day is celebrated as Kargil Vijay Diwas?
a) 26th June b) 26th July c) 20th June d) 16th May
43. What is the minimum fixed monthly pension for farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Pension Yojana?
a) Rs 3000 b) Rs 4000 c) Rs 5000 d) Rs 3500
44. Which country has topped among 163 countries in the recently released Global Peace Index 2019?
a) Finland b) Sweden c) Iceland d) Norway
45. Which corporation have sold its 4.22% stake in Gruh Finance for Rs 899 crore?
a) Life Insurance Corporation
b) Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd
c) Housing Development Finance Corporation
d) India Bulls
46. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry directed all satellite TV channels to display the cast, credits and
titles of Hindi and regional language serials that they broadcast in the respective languages too. Who is the
present Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting?
a) Prakash Javadekar b) Harsh Vardhan
c) Piyush Goyal d) Ravi Shankar Prasad
47. Which organisation has announced names of 22 winners for Bal Sahitya Puraskar and 23 winners for
YuvaPuraskar?
a) Sahitya Akademi b) Sangeet NatakAkademi
c) National School of Drama d) Lalit Kala Akademi
48. What is the current FIFA ranking of Indian Football Team?
th st rd th
a) 100 b) 101 c) 103 d) 104
49. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to Retire in which year?
a) 2019 b) 2025 c) 2030 d) 2020
50. Which of the following consumer lending technology company have partnered with Digit Insurance to offer
EMI insurance to the company's five million customers?
a) Paytm b) Zest Money c) Mobikwik d) Freecharge

ANSWER KEYS
1 d 26 d
2 d 27 d
3 c 28 d
4 b 29 c
5 a 30 b
6 d 31 a
7 a 32 a
8 d 33 b
9 c 34 d
10 b 35 c
11 d 36 c
12 c 37 d
13 b 38 a
14 d 39 d
15 a 40 a
16 c 41 b

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17 d 42 b
18 d 43 a
19 c 44 c
20 b 45 c
21 d 46 a
22 a 47 a
23 b 48 b
24 c 49 d
25 d 50 b

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