Hi Aspirants, here is the Current Affairs
Quiz for 20 September 2016. This quiz contains multiple choice expected
questions similar to those asked in competitive exams.
Questions for the day.
1. Who has recently (Sept-2016) assumed
charge as first woman Director Marketing of the Public sector Bharat
Electronics Ltd (BEL)?
Answer: Anandi Ramalingam
Note: It is the first time that a woman has been appointed as
the Director of the company.
2. Centre has recently notified the Bharat
Stage (BS)-VI emission standards for two-wheelers & four-wheelers from ___
throughout the country?
Answer: April 2020
Note: The govt has decided to skip the BS-V norms & move to
the BS-VI norms from BS-IV being followed now.
3. Name the Service launched by Indian
Railways recently to facilitate access to wheelchairs, battery operated cars
for elderly, differently-abled people?
Answer: Yatri Mitra Seva
4. Monika Kapil Mohta was recently
appointed as the next Ambassador of India to which country?
Answer: Sweden
5. The Harvard Foundation recently named
whom as its 2016 Humanitarian of the Year?
Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi
6. Union HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar on
20 September 2016 has launched PARAM-ISHAN supercomputing facility at which
IIT?
Answer: IIT Guwahati
Note: Param-Ishan has the power of 250 Teraflops & three
hundred tera bites capacity. It can be used in the application areas like
computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics & optimization, etc.
7. Board of Control for Cricket in India
(BCCI) on 15 September 2016 tied up with which financial services firm as an
associate sponsor?
Answer: Janalakshmi Financial Services
8. India on 20 September 2016 successfully
test-fired the most advanced surface-to-air missile 'Barak-8' off the Odisha
coast. 'Barak-8' was jointly developed by India and?
Answer: Israel
Note: The long-range nuclear capable ballistic missile,
developed jointly with Israel, was launched from a mobile launcher at the
Integrated Test Range in Chandipur in Balasore district.
9. President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia
party on 19 September 2016 won the Russian parliamentary election by securing
343 seats of the total 450 in the lower house. Name the lower house of the
parliament of Russia?
Answer: Duma
10. Which company was recently conferred
with the prestigious membership of the Asia-Pacific Aerospace Quality Group
(APAQG)?
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