Current Affairs Quiz for 30 January, 2016

Q1. Recently, Railway Ministry has announced a new rule for booking of online tickets through the IRCTC website, further reducing the maximum number of ticket bookings allowed by an individual user to ______from the current 10:

a) 6

b) 5

c) 8

d) 7

e) None of The Above

Q2. _____won the 2016 William E. Colby Award?

a) TN Ninan

b) Poonam Surie 

c) Javier Moro 

d) Nisid Hajari 

e) None of The Above

Q3. Nisid Hajari won the 2016 William E. Colby Award for his book:

a) Flood of Fire

b) Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition 

c) India a Risk
d) India First 

e) None of The Above

Q4. Who has been appointed as the Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh recently?

a) Abhinav Mishra

b) Sanjay Mishra

c) Ajay Mishra

d) Dilip Mishra

e) None of The Above

Q5. Sanjay Mishra was former judge of the:

a) Shimla High Court 

b) Allahabad High Court 

c) Delhi High Court 

d) Kolkata High Court 

e) None of The Above

Q6. ADB (Asian Development Bank) has sanctioned an $ 50 mn loan to help continue improving infrastructure in the two North Eastern cities of ______ and ______:

a) Tezpur and Zorhut 

b) Shillong and Imphal 

c) Agartala and Aizawl 

d) Dibrugarh and Guwahati 

e) None of The Above

Q7. "Unhappy India" is book written by:

a) M. K. Gandhi

b) L K Advani

c) Indira Gandhi

d) Lala Lajpat Rai 

e) None of The Above

Q8. ___ is the capital of Columbia:a) Roseau
b) Santiago
c) Bogota
d) Banjul
e) None of The Above

Q9. The currency of Columbia is:

a) Shilling 

b) Dinar

c) Pound 

d) Dollar 

e) None of The Above

Q10. "Doha" is the capital of:

a) Syria 

b) Uganda
c) Qatar

d) Dubai

e) None of The Above

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Solution

1. 6

2. Nisid Hajari

3. Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition 

4. Sanjay Mishra

5. Allahabad High Court

6. Agartala and Aizawl 

7.  Lala Lajpat Rai 

8. Bogota 

9. Dollar 

10. Qatar