Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2019

1. Which IIT has tied up with Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy to develop training module?
[A] IIT Bombay
[B] IIT Kharagpur
[C] IIT Delhi
[D] IIT Madras

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2. Which country has successfully launched second generation data relay Tianlian II-01 satellite?
[A] China
[B] Japan
[C] South Korea
[D] India

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3. Who has won the 2019 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix tournament?
[A] Valtteri Bottas
[B] Sebastian Vettel
[C] Charles Leclerc
[D] Lewis Hamilton

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4. India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) will be set up in which of the following countries?
[A] Seychelles
[B] Malawi
[C] South Africa
[D] Djibouti

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5. Which Indian psychiatrist has won the 2019 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award?
[A] Shekhar Saxena
[B] Anirudh Kala
[C] Vikram Patel
[D] P B Buckshey

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6. Café Scientifique, sometimes seen in news, is a public science initiative of which state?
[A] Kerala
[B] Andhra Pradesh
[C] Tamil Nadu
[D] Karnataka

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7. What is the current repo rate, as per RBI’s first bi-monthly policy of FY20?
[A] 6.50%
[B] 6.00%
[C] 6.25%
[D] 7.2%

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8. Which Southeast Asian country has recently introduced harsh new sharia laws that make adultery and homsexuality punishable by stoning to death?
[A] Indonesia
[B] Cambodia
[C] Brunei
[D] Malaysia

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9. Which country’s space agency has successfully dropped an explosive on asteroid Ryugu to make crater?
[A] China
[B] India
[C] South Korea
[D] Japan

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10. The scientists of which country have discovered a possible “death switch” mechanism in plant’s immune system?
[A] China
[B] India
[C] Japan
[D] South Korea

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