Current Affairs Quiz - March, 2019

1. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of National Book Trust (NBT)?
[A] Govind Prasad Sharma
[B] Mrinal Mitra
[C] Jagdish Joshi
[D] Suddhasattwa Basu

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2. Who has become the first Indian cricketer to cross 8,000 runs in T20s?
[A] Rohit Sharma
[B] Virat Kohli
[C] Suresh Raina
[D] MS Dhoni

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3. The National Institutes of Design (NID) has recently inaugurated in which of the following cities?
[A] Lucknow & Bhubaneshwar
[B] Bhopal & Jorhat
[C] Jaipur & Shimla
[D] Raipur & Hyderabad

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4. Which state government has launched ‘Banglar Shiksha’ portal to provide real-time data on schools?
[A] West Bengal
[B] Karnataka
[C] Tripura
[D] Nagaland

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5. Which state government has declared 2019 as the ‘Year of Water’?
[A] Karnataka
[B] Rajasthan
[C] Haryana
[D] Maharashtra

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6. Which country is the venue of the 7th RCEP Inter-Sessional Ministerial Meeting?
[A] India
[B] Singapore
[C] Cambodia
[D] Indonesia

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7. Which Indian sprinter has won the 10 km race of Nepal’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Open Marathon and Run for Fun held in Kathmandu?
[A] Shashank Shekhar
[B] Anand Shetty
[C] Dharambir Singh
[D] RD Murgan

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8. What is the theme of the 2019 Zero Discrimination Day (ZDD)?
[A] Live Up
[B] Speak loud for justice
[C] Act to change laws that Discriminate
[D] A society free of discrimination

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9. The Ministry of Textile has launched a programme for developing knitwear sector under which scheme?
[A] PowerJet India
[B] PowerMax India
[C] PowerTex India
[D] PowerMat India

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10. Which Indian cricketer has been appointed as the new Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee?
[A] Rahul Dravid
[B] Anil Kumble
[C] Saurav Ganguly
[D] VVS Laxman

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