Daily Current Affairs MCQ - 5th September 2017

Current Affairs Quiz - 5th September 2017

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Q1.Which Tiger Reserve is selected for the Augmentation Program by the National Tiger Conservation Authority ?
A]Kanha National Park
B]Ratapani Tiger Reserve
C]Buxa Tiger Reserve
D]Sunabeda Tiger Reserve
E]None of these

Q2.Who is the new CEO of Novartis ?
A]Kulraj Singh
B]Govind Mehta
C]Suresh Savarkar
D]Vasant Narsimhan
E]None of them

Q3.Who is the Minister of Tourism of India ?
A]Mahesh Sharma
B]Alphons Kannanthanam
C]Suresh Prabhu
D]Babul Supriyo
E]None of them

Q4.Who is the Sports Minister of India (Independent Charge) ?
A]Vijay Goel
B]Jairam Ramesh
C]Nitin Gadkari
D]Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore
E]None of them

Q5.Who has won the Women's Singles of U.S Open Grand Slam Carom Tournament ?
A]Geetanjali Dutta
B]Tejasvi Duduka
C]Neerja Sahani
D]Gurpreet Singh
E]Sayani Basu

Q6.Which cricketer has made history to have 100 stumping in One-day internationals ?
A]Kumar Sangakara
B]Kamran Akhmal
C]Nayan Mongia
D]Adam Gilchrist
E]M S Dhoni

Q7.In which country the most powerful and largest X-ray laser is presented ?
A]China
B]US
C]Germany
D]Japan
E]North Korea

Q8.Who is the second woman Defense Minister of India ?
A]Sushma Swaraj
B]Nirmala Sitharaman
C]Uma Bharti
D]Nazma Heptulla
E]None of them

Q9.Who has laid the foundation stone of the second phase of Link-4 pipeline canal of SAUNI scheme in Rajkot ?
A]Narendra Modi
B]Rajnath Singh
C]M Venkiah Naidu
D]Ramnath Kovind
E]None of these

Q10.Which High court has banned the download of Blue Whale game ?
A]Madras High Court
B]Delhi High Court
C]Bombay High Court
D]Calcutta High Court
E]Allahabad High Court

Answer with Explanation

Explanation 1. Buxa Tiger Reserve is selected for the Augmentation Program by the National Tiger Conservation Authority . It is situated in the Alipurduar district of West Bengal near Bhutan border.

Explanation 2. Vasant Narasimhan is the new CEO of Novartis. He had previously served as the consultant at Mckinsey and Company.

Explanation 3. Alphons Kannanthanam is the Minister of Tourism of India after the Cabinet reshuffle of 2017. He has replaced Mahesh Sharma who is Minister of State of Culture.

Explanation 4. Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore is the Sports Minister of India (Independent Charge). He won Silver medal in 2004 Olympics. He has replaced Vijay Goel.

Explanation 5. Hyderabad girl Tejasvi Duduka has won the Women's Singles of U.S Open Grand Slam Carrom Tournament. She had won Telengana State Women's Singles Title which was held at Nizamabad.

Explanation 6. Indian Cricketer and Former skipper M S Dhoni has made history to have 100 stumping in One-day internationals. He has surpassed the record of Kumar Sangakara of having 99 stumping.

Explanation 7. The most powerful and largest X-ray laser is presented at Hamburg in Germany. The name of the laser is European X-ray Free Electron Laser. It took almost 8 years to develop it.

Explanation 8. Nirmala Sitharaman is the second woman Defense Minister of India. The first woman to head the Defense sector of India was Indira Gandhi. Sitharaman has served as the Commerce Minister of India.

Explanation 9. The President of India Ramnath Kovind has laid the foundation stone of the second phase of Link-4 pipeline canal of SAUNI(Saurashtra Narmada Avataran Irrigation) scheme in Rajkot.

Explanation 10. Madras High court has banned the download of Blue Whale game in Tamilnadu. The High Court has informed the Tamilnadu Police to block all the download links of this game.