Current Affairs Quiz – 27 March 2019

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1. Who is the author of the book ‘India Positive’?
   A) Chetan Bhagat
   B) Durjoy Datta
   C) Ravinder Singh
   D) Arundhati Roy
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: Author Chetan Bhagat has announced the launch of his new book titled “India Positive”. It is a non-fiction book comprises essays on a variety of subjects such as education, employment, GST, corruption and casteism.
2. Who among the following is not one of the winners of the 2018 Turing Award?
   A) Yoshua Bengio
   B) Geoffrey Hinton
   C) David Patterson
   D) Yann LeCun
   
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   Option C
   Explanation: Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun have won the 2018 Turing Award, known as the “Nobel Prize of computing”.
3. Azali Assoumani has been re elected as the President of which country?
   A) Saudi Arabia
   B) Bolivia
   C) Croatia
   D) Comoros
   
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   Option D
   Explanation: Comoros President Azali Assoumani has won a second consecutive presidential term on March 27, 2019. 
4. Name the Indian who has recently been honored with the highest civilian award of Croatia?
   A) Sushma Swaraj
   B) Ram Nath Kovind
   C) Narendra Modi
   D) Venkaiah Naidu
   
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   Option B
   Explanation: President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind was honoured with the highest civilian award of Croatia, the Grand Order of the King of Tomislav on March 26, 2019. He received the civilian order for his contribution towards the development of state relations between Croatia and India. 
5. Which among the given missions was carried out by DRDO to successfully conduct Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) missile test?
   A) Mission Safalta
   B) Mission Sahyog
   C) Mission Shakti
   D) Mission Upgreh
   
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   Option C
   Explanation: On March 27, 2019, India successfully conducted an Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) missile test, code named as ‘Mission Shakti’, from Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) carried out the testing of Ballistic Missile, Defence Interceptor Missile by shooting down a satellite parked at low earth orbit at a distance of 300 kilometres from the earth.
6. When is the World Theater Day observed?
   A) March 27
   B) March 26
   C) March 25
   D) March 24
   
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   Option A
   Explanation: The World Theater Day is observed annually on March 27. The day was created in 1962 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). The theme for 2019 WTD is “Theatre and a Culture of Peace”.
7. Zagreb is the capital of which country?
   A) Morocco
   B) Croatia
   C) Bolivia
   D) Chile
   
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   Option B
   Explanation: Currency: Croatian kuna
8. Apart from India, how many other countries have successfully conducted the Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) missile test till date?
   A) none
   B) two
   C) three
   D) one
   
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   Option C
   Explanation: India has now become the only fourth nation after US, Russia and China to have such capability.
9. The inaugural edition of the Africa-India Field Training Exercise-2019 (AFINDEX-19) was held in which city?
   A) Pune
   B) Visakhapatnam
   C) Hyderabad
   D) Guwahati
   
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   Option A
   
10. The Turing Award is given for outstanding work in which field?
    A) Science and Technology
    B) Business Management
    C) Mathematics
    D) Computer science
    
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    Option D
    

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