Daily GK Quiz 9th April 2015

Q. : 1 The National Green Tribunal ordered to take off the road all diesel vehicles more than 10 years old and petrol vehicles more than 15 years old recently. The present chairperson of NGT is

1) Altamas Kabir 

2) HL Dattu

3) Swatanter Kumar 

4) Rajendra Mal Lodha

5) Asok Kumar Ganguly 

Q. : 2 Which of the following banks promoted by the govt is supposed to offer loan products named 'Shishu', 'Kishor' and 'Tarun' to small/micro entrepreneurs?

1) SIDBI 

2) SBI

3) PNB 

4) MUDRA

5) IDBI 

Q. : 3 The PJ Nayak Committee is associated with

1) Governance of Boards of Banks in India 

2) Customer service in banks

3) Dealing with NPAs 

4) Setting up Small and Payment banks

5) None of these 

Q. : 4 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched MUDRA Bank on 8 Apr. Which of the following is NOT true about the MUDRA bank?

1) It will provide credit of up to Rs 10 lakh to small entrepreneurs. 

2) It will act as a regulator for 'Micro-Finance Institutions' (MFIs).

3) It will have a corpus of Rs 20,000 cr. 

4) It will have a credit guarantee corpus of Rs 3,000 cr.

5) None of these 

Q. : 5 The 11-member committee set by the govt to work out single framework for govt clearances is headed by who among the following?

1) Chandrajeet Banerjee 

2) Manoj Kohli

3) Shaktikanta Das 

4) Ajay Shankar

5) None of these 

Q. : 6 Which of the following teams won the Syed Mushtaq Ali T-20 cricket tournament in Bhubaneswar recently?

1) Punjab 

2) Gujarat

3) Goa 

4) Haryana

5) West Bengal 

Q. : 7 The UN Security Council has slapped sanctions on Mullah Fazlullah for perpetrating and financing terror acts. He is the chief of

1) Pakistan Taliban 

2) ISIS

3) Al-Qaeda 

4) Houthi rebel

5) None of these 

Q. : 8 The 5th meeting of the Health Ministers of SAARC countries was held in which of the following cities on 8 Mar?

1) New Delhi 

2) Colombo

3) Kathmandu 

4) Islamabad

5) Kabul 

Q. : 9 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed that a single number can be used for all emergency phone-calls across the country including for police, fire and ambulance. The proposed number is

1) 112 

2) 111

3) 911 

4) 333

5) 119 

Q. : 10 PM Narendra Modi on 8 Apr announced farmers will now be eligible for input subsidy if __________of their crop has been damaged.

1) 50 per cent 

2) 40 per cent

3) 33 per cent 

4) 25 per cent

5) None of these 

Answer:-

1. (3) Swatanter Kumar
2. (4) MUDRA
3. (1) Governance of Boards of Banks in India
4. (5) None of these
5. (4) Ajay Shankar
6. (2) Gujarat
7. (1) Pakistan Taliban
8. (1) New Delhi
9. (1) 112
10. (3) 33 per cent