Daily GK Update Quiz 8th January 2015

Q. : 1 Which of the following banks in India has launched the country's first contactless debit and credit cards that use the near-field communication (NFC) technology and do not need to be swiped?

1) Federal Bank 

2) HDFC Bank

3) ICICI Bank 

4) SBI

5) Axis Bank 

Q. : 2 The Indian space agency ISRO is all set to launch IRNSS 1D in Mar this year. The agency has planned to launch how many satellites in IRNSS series to start India’s own navigation system?

1) Four 

2) Five

3) Six 

4) Seven

5) Nine 

Q. : 3 The govt has announced to continue subsidy on ferlizers. The govt provides urea to farmers at a fixed subsidised maximum retail price (MRP) of ________per tonne.

1) Rs 4,120 

2) Rs 4,730

3) Rs 5,360 

4) Rs 6,100

5) None of these 

Q. : 4 Donald Ramotar was the chief guest at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2015 held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from Jan 7-9. He is the president of

1) South Africa 

2) Guyana

3) Suriname 

4) Seychelles

5) Fiji 

Q. : 5 Terrorists attacked in the offices of a satirical weekly ‘Charlie Hebdo’ killing at least 12 people on 7 Jan in which of the following cities?

1) Paris 

2) Dublin

3) Toronto 

4) Sydney

5) New York 

Q. : 6 Jan 13-17 was observed as ___________across the districts in the country.

1) Girl Child Week 

2) Water-Week

3) Environment Week 

4) Act against Corruption Week

5) Clean India Week 

Q. : 7 As per a report by the Asian Centre for Human Rights, there are over 3,00,000 internally displaced persons in which of the following Indian states, which is the highest in the world during 2014?

1) Assam 

2) Jammu & Kashmir

3) Uttar Pradesh 

4) Andhra Pradesh

5) Jharkhand 

Q. : 8 Name the winter storm impacting the West Asia region with wind speed more than 110 kmph bringing a bitter cold.

1) Huda 

2) Dolly

3) Laura 

4) Arthur

5) None of these 

Q. : 9 The RBI has signed an information sharing agreement with banking and financial regulators FRB, OCC and the FDIC. These regulators belong to

1) China 

2) Japan

3) Mauritius 

4) US

5) Switzerland

Q. : 10 Who among the following is the new Test captain of the Indian cricket team after MS Dhoni announced his retirement from Test cricket recently?

1) Ravichandran Ashwin 

2) Ravindra Jadeja

3) Shikhar Dhawan 

4) Virat Kohli

5) Suresh Raina 

Answer:-

1. (3) ICICI Bank
2. (4) Seven
3. (3) Rs 5,360
4. (2) Guyana
5. (1) Paris
6. (2) Water-Week
7. (1) Assam
8. (1) Huda
9. (4) US
10. (4) Virat Kohli