Current Affairs Quiz February 16 & 17 2015

[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ello Aspirants. Welcome to Online Current Affairs Quiz February 16 & 17 2015 in AffairsCloud.com. Here we are creating quiz covering important news in Current Affairs, which is common for all the IBPS exams and other competitive exams. We have included Some GK questions that are repeatedly asked in many bank exams !!!

1. Who has been conferred with the prestigious USD 500,000 National Science Foundation(NSF) CAREER award 2015?
   a) Abhinav Chander
   b) Kalyan Kumar
   c) ramachandra Bhattacharya
   d) Gurpreet Singh
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   d) Gurpreet Singh 
   
   
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2. Magnus Carlsen defeated _______ to win the Grenke Chess Classic 2015.
   a) Viswanathan Anand
   b) Ikino Kasporovic
   c) Arkadij Naiditsch
   d) Swaro Ivanokovic
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   c) Arkadij Naiditsch 
   
   
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3. Recently, the Civil Nuclear Agreement was signed between India and
   a) Germany
   b) United Kingdom
   c) Sri Lanka
   d) China
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   c) Sri Lanka 
   
   
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4. Who has been appointed as the MD and CEO of Multiple Commodity Exchange?
   a) Karthikeyan Subramaniyam
   b) Diwakar Rajarathinam
   c) Balasubramaniam Venkataramani
   d) Ramamoorthy Balakrishnan
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   c) Balasubramaniam Venkataramani 
   
   
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5. Who has been presented with All India Football Federation’s 2014 Player of the Year award?
   a) Naveen Chander
   b) Kapil Singh
   c) Sunil Chhetri
   d) Arun Subramaniyam
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   c) Sunil Chhetri 
   
   
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6. Who has been presented with All India Football Federation’s 2014 Women’s Footballer of the Year award?
   a) Sitara Devi
   b) Krishna Devi
   c) Bala Devi
   d) Rukmani Devi
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   c) Bala Devi 
   
   
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7. Who has been awarded “honorary life membership” of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club?
   a) Sachin Tendulkar
   b) Rahul Dravid
   c) VVS Laxman
   d) Sourav Ganguly
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   d) Sourav Ganguly 
   
   
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8. Infosys Ltd has agreed to acquire __________ for an enterprise value of about $200 million.
   a) Lodestone
   b) Panaya
   c) Portland Group
   d) McCamish
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   b) Panaya 
   
   
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9. The Finance Ministry of India has imposed anti-dumping dutyanti-dumping duty on imports of
   a) Diamonds
   b) Petroleum
   c) Graphite Electrodes
   d) Gold
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   c) Graphite Electrodes 
   
   
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10. In a recently concluded Joint Trade Meeting between India and Myanmar, the two ministers have agreed to jointly inaugurate the land custom station in
    a) Zawkhatar.
    b) Namchi
    c) Champai
    d) Geyzing
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    a) Zawkhatar. 
    
    
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11. Rajinder Puri, who passed away recently was
    a) Kannada Actor
    b) Former Governor of Maharashtra
    c) Cartoonist
    d) Former RBI Governor
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    c) Cartoonist 
    
    
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12. The United Nations Security Council has recently adopted a unanimous resolution to resolve the political and security crisis in
    a) Syria
    b) Iraq
    c) Yemen
    d) Turkey
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    c) Yemen 
    
    
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13. Who has been appointed as new regional President of HTC South Asia?
    a) Faisal Siddiqui
    b) Bernard Armstrong
    c) Salim Malik
    d) Vinod Sood
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    a) Faisal Siddiqui 
    
    
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14. The Ministry of Urban Development has partnered with _______ to advance the Smart Cities Initiative of the Union Government.
    a) Flikpart Philanthropies
    b) Snapdeal Philanthropies
    c) Bloomberg Philanthropies
    d) Reuters Philanthropies
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    c) Bloomberg Philanthropies 
    
    
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15. RBI decided to bring back ____ rupee notes after 20 years
    a) Two
    b) One
    c) Five
    d) Ten
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    b) One 
    
    
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