Daily Current Affairs Quiz - 16th February 2018

Daily Current Affairs Quiz - 16th February 2018

Solve the Daily Current Affairs Quiz - 16th February 2018 question set if you want to enhance your preparation level for the IBPS, SSC, Railway exams. Current Affairs is very important part of these exams. Read Daily Current Affairs Update - 16th February 2018 before solving the quiz set.

Q1.Jacob Juma is recently in news. He is the former President of _____ .

A]Kenya
B]Ghana
C]South Africa
D]West Indies
E]None of these

Q2.Name the state that has recently won the Senior Women's National Football Championship for the first time .
A]Keral
B]Tamilnadu
C]Maharashtra
D]Uttar Pradesh
E]Goa


Q3.Name the Indian PSU that has bagged an order worth Rs 560 crore from NTPC for setting up a system for emission control.
A]SAIL
B]MMTC
C]HAL
D]BHEL
E]None of these


Q4.Name the city in which the first Radio Festival of India is held .
A]Mumbai
B]New Delhi
C]Kolkata
D]Noida
E]Bengaluru


Q5.Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has launched 3 Key projects in __ .
A]Assam
B]Manipur
C]Arunachal Pradesh
D]Nagaland
E]Tripura


Q6.Name the country that would host the 8th Theatre Olympic .
A]India
B]Sri Lanka
C]Russia
D]Japan
E]China


Q7.President Ramnath Kovind has hosted the LPG Panchayat at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. It was organized by which of the following ?
A]Ministry of Home Affairs
B]Ministry of Environment
C]Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
D]A and B
E]All of these


Q8.The Private Sector lender ___ has announced the listing of the Bank’s debut US  Dollar 600 million bond issue under its maiden US Dollar 1 billion medium-term note (MTN) bond on country’s first international exchange BSE’s IndiaINX at the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in _____.
A]Axis Bank, Mumbai
B]ICICI Bank, Pune
C]HDFC Bank, New Delhi
D]Yes Bank, Gandhinagar
E]None of these


Q9.Name Indian App that was named the winner of the Best M-Government Service award in the Accessible Government category at the recently concluded World Government Summit 2018 in Dubai .
A]Umeed
B]Umang
C]Ajay
D]Ashayein
E]None of these


Q10.What is the theme of India's biggest Global Conference on Pharma Industry and Medical Devices began in Bengaluru ?
A]A New Pharma Era
B]Pharmaceuticals in India and its Future
C]Driving NextGen Pharmaceuticals
D]Scope of Pharmaceuticals
E]None of these


Q11.Hailemariam Desalegn is recently in news. He was the Prime Minister of ____ .
A]Ireland
B]Ethiopia
C]Germany
D]South Africa
E]Kenya


Q12.China would host 2018 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit at ____in June 2018 .
A]Beijing
B]Shanghai
C]Tianjin
D]Qingdao
E]None of these


Q13.Who is appointed as the Governor of the Bank of Japan ?
A]Masazumi Wakatabe
B]Shikonaki Tazube
C]Haruhiko Kuroda
D]Shenchui Nohara
E]None of them


Q14.Supreme Court has informed Karnataka to provide 177 tmcft water of  ____ river to Tamil Nadu.
A]Tunga
B]Kaveri
C]Tunga
D]Krishna
E]Bhadra


Q15.Name the Football Player who has become the first one in the Champions Leugue history to score 100 goals for one club .
A]Lionel Messi
B]Neymar
C]Christiano Ronaldo
D]Arturo Vidal
E]None of them


Answer with Explanation

Explanation 1. South Africa's parliament will confirm Cyril Ramaphosa as the country's new president. It marks a dramatic turnaround as South Africans woke up to a nation without Jacob Zuma at its helm for the first time in nine years. He was the former President of South Africa.

Explanation 2. Tamil Nadu has won the Senior Women's National Football Championship for the first time. Tamil Nadu, which was playing its first-ever final, defeated Manipur, 2-1 at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, Odisha.

Explanation 3. Power equipment maker BHEL has bagged an order worth Rs 560 crore for supply and installation of the flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) system from NTPC for 2x490 MW National Capital Power Station (NCPS) at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh. The notification calls for installation of equipment to control various harmful emissions, both in existing as well as new thermal power plants.

Explanation 4. India’s first radio festival will be held in New Delhi to mark World Radio Day. The Radio Festival has been organised by the International Association of Women in Radio and Television in partnership with UNESCO.

Explanation 5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched several projects in Arunachal Pradesh. He inaugurated the Dorjee Khandu state convention centre at a function in Itanagar.

Explanation 6. India, for the first time, will be host to the Theatre Olympics since the event's inception in 1993, the Ministry of Culture in association with National School of Drama (NSD) announced .

Explanation 7. President Ram Nath Kovindhas hosted the LPG Panchayat at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The LPG Panchayat was organised by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas with an aim to provide a platform for LPG consumers to interact with each other, promote mutual learning and share experiences.

Explanation 8. Private sector lender, Yes Bank has announced the listing of the Bank’s debut US Dollar 600 million bond issue under its maiden US Dollar 1 billion medium-term note (MTN) bond on country’s first international exchange BSE’s IndiaINX at the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at GIFT City. The Yes Bank’s MTN programme — a debt note that matures or has a payback period of 5 years — on Global Securities Market (GSM) became the country’s first capital raising platform for international investors in any currency.

Explanation 9. Indian App Umang was named the winner of the Best M-Government Service award in the Accessible Government category at the recently concluded World Government Summit 2018 in Dubai.

Explanation 10. An international exhibition and conference on Pharmaceutical & Medical Device sector ‘India Pharma & India Medical Device 2018’ began today in Bengaluru. With the theme, ‘Driving NextGen Pharmaceuticals’, the event would be a positive step towards the development of Future Drugs i e Biologics and will catalyse the overall growth of the Pharmaceuticals Sector in India.

Explanation 11. The Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn has submitted a letter of resignation to the country's parliament, saying he was standing down as both the country's leader and chairman of the ruling coalition over a long period of deadly protests.

Explanation 12. East China's Qingdao City will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in June this year, the provincial governor of Shandong .

Explanation 13. Japan's government has reappointed Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda for another term and chose an advocate of bolder monetary easing as one of his deputies, a sign the central bank will be in no rush to dial back its massive stimulus program.

xplanation 14. Spelling out the verdict in the 122-year old Cauvery water dispute case, the Supreme Court cut Tamil Nadu’s quota of water by 14.75 tmcft and increased Karnataka’s share to meet Bengaluru’s drinking water needs. Tamil Nadu will get 404.25 tmcft, which will be 14.75 tmcft less than what was allotted by the tribunal in 2007.

Explanation 15. Cristiano Ronaldo has reached the century mark in goals scored in the Champions League with Real Madrid, becoming the first player ever to accomplish that feat with a single team.