Daily Current Affairs Quiz-3
1. Viktor Korchnoi, who passed away recently, was regarded as one of the greatest
1) chess players
2) tennis players
3) squash players
4) football players
5) None of these
Answer:- 1) chess players
2. The Union Home Ministry has decided to form a new reserve battalion named after who among the following on the occasion of his 475th birth anniversary?
1) Shivaji
2) Maharana Pratap
3) Nana Sahib
4) Rani Lakshmibai
5) Kunwar Singh
Answer:- 2) Maharana Pratap
3. Russia awarded the Order of Friendship to who among the following recently?
1) Bashar al-Assad
2) Xi Jinping
3) Ban Ki-moon
4) Hassan Rouhani
5) Narendra Modi
Answer:- 3) Ban Ki-moon
4. Which of the following countries topped the Global Peace Index 2016?
1) Bhutan
2) Austria
3) Denmark
4) Iceland
5) Japan
Answer:- 4) Iceland
5. The Forbes ‘100 Most Powerful Women’ in the world list 2016 is topped by
1) Angela Merkel
2) Indra Nooyi
3) Dilma Rousseff
4) Hillary Clinton
5) Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Answer:- 1) Angela Merkel
6. The Asian Development Bank has approved a USD 100-mn loan to strengthen an irrigation system and improve water management in the Vennar sub-basin of Cauvery Delta in
1) Tamil Nadu
2) Karnataka
3) Kerala
4) Andhra Pradesh
5) Telangana
Answer:- 1) Tamil Nadu
7. According to recently released BP Statistical Review of World Energy, India has become the world’s _________ oil consumer.
1) largest
2) second-largest
3) third-largest
4) fourth-largest
5) fifth-largest
Answer:- 3) third-largest
8. The International Monetary Fund has approved a $1.5-bn loan to which country recently to support its economy, which is showing “signs of strain”?
1) Pakistan
2) Afghanistan
3) Nepal
4) Sri Lanka
5) Myanmar
Answer:- 4) Sri Lanka
9. Which country has topped the 2016 Malware Infection Index (MII) in the Asia-Pacific region?
1) Philippines
2) Nepal
3) Bangladesh
4) Indonesia
5) Pakistan
Answer:- 5) Pakistan
10. The World Bank Group has slashed the global growth forecast for 2016 to
1) 3.1 per cent
2) 2.9 per cent
3) 2.6 per cent
4) 2.4 per cent
5) 2.2 per cent
Answer:- 4) 2.4 per cent