Latest Current Affairs Quiz for Exam: 18 March 2019

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1. Name the Second Scorpene Class Submarine which is set to be inducted into the Indian Navy by May 2019?
a) INS Khanderi
b) INS Kalvari
c) INS Karanj
d) INS Vela

2. Which country will host the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2020?
a) France
b) India
c) South Korea
d) Japan

3. Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar passed away on March 17, 2019 after battling with pancreatic cancer. He was an alumnus of which IIT branch?
a) IIT Roorkee
b) IIT Lucknow
c) IIT Bombay
d) IIT Delhi

4. Joint Field Training Exercise AFINDEX-19 began on March 18, 2019, between India and which group of nations?
a) ASEAN
b) UAE
c) BRICS
d) Africa

5. Which city will host the International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure 2019?
a) New Delhi
b) Mumbai
c) Pune
d) Gurugram

6. India signed an agreement on exemption from visa requirement for holders of diplomatic and official passports with which nation?
a) Maldives
b) Mauritius
c) Argentina
d) Armenia

7. Cyclone IDAI has affected over 1.5 million people in which among the following continents?
a) Oceania
b) Australia
c) Africa
d) South America

8. Which nation piloted two resolutions on single-use plastics and sustainable nitrogen management at the fourth session of United Nations Environment Assembly?
a) France
b) India
c) US
d) Japan

9. Which regulatory body has directed the Central Pollution Control Board to prepare noise pollution maps?
a) Supreme Court
b) Delhi HC
c) National Green Tribunal
d) Uttarakhand HC

10. Indian athlete Irfan KT has qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in which category?
a) Race walking
b) Heptathlon
c) High Jump
d) 400m

ANSWERS

1. (a) INS Khanderi
INS Khanderi, the second of the 6 Scorpene Class Submarines, will soon be inducted into the Indian Navy by May 2019. INS Khanderi was launched at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in Mumbai on January 12, 2017 and since then it has been undergoing trials and tests.

2. (b) India
Gianni Infantino, the President of International Football Federation (FIFA), on March 15, 2019 announced that India will host the U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020. The 2020 World Cup will be the seventh edition of the U-17 Women’s tournament.

3. (c) IIT Bombay
Manohar Parrikar was the first Indian Institute of Technology alumnus (IIT Bombay) to serve as the Chief Minister of Goa in 2000. He became Goa Chief Minister for four times, but could not complete a single full term in office.

4. (b) Africa
Africa-India Joint Field Training Exercise AFINDEX-19 will be conducted in Pune from March 18 to 27, 2019 between the Indian Army and 16 African nations. The purpose of the exercise is to train the participating contingents in Humanitarian Mine Assistance (HMA) and Peace Keeping Operations (PKO) under the United Nations Charter.

5. (a) New Delhi
The International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (IWDRI) will be inaugurated in Delhi. The two-day workshop will be organised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and in partnership with the Global Commission on Adaptation, United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank.

6. (a) Maldives
India and Maldives signed three agreements on March 17, 2019 after extensive talks between Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Foreign Affairs Minister of Maldives, Abdulla Shahid during the former’s visit to the tropical island nation from March 17-18, 2019. The agreements included a pact on exemption from visa requirement for holders of diplomatic and official passports.

7. (c) Africa
In Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi have been hit by a vicious cyclone, Cyclone IDAI, which has killed nearly 150 people, left hundreds more missing and stranded more than thousands. According to the UN, the cyclone has affected more than 1.5 million people in the three southern African countries.

8. (b) India
India piloted resolutions on two key global environmental issues, single-use plastics and sustainable nitrogen management, at the fourth session of United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) that was held in Nairobi from March 11-15, 2019. The UN Environment adopted both the resolutions with consensus.

9. (c) National Green Tribunal
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to prepare a noise pollution map and remedial action plan to solve the issue across the country. The green bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directed the CPCB to identify noise pollution hotspots and categorise cities with specified hotspots and propose a remedial action plan within three months.

10. (a) Race walking
Indian athlete Irfan KT on March 17, 2019 qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He made the cut after finishing fourth at the Asian Race Walking Championship at Nomi in Japan. Irfan clocked 1 hour 20 minutes and 57 seconds in the 20-kilometre walk to attain the standard qualifying mark for the Olympics. This will be Irfan’s second Olympics having represented the country in 2012 London Games.

Latest Current Affairs Quiz for Exam: 18 March 2019

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