Daily Current Affairs Quiz - 8th February 2018

Daily Current Affairs Quiz - 8th February 2018

Current Affairs section is very important for every competitive exams and you must solve Daily Current Affairs Quiz - 8th February 2018 to prepare well in this section. It consists of all important Current Affairs question for IBPS, SSC, Railway. Read Daily Current Affairs Update - 8th February 2018 carefully.

Q1. Forbes magazine has released its first-ever Crypto-Rich List, comprising 20 wealthiest people on the basis of crypto-currency space. Who has topped in the list ?

A]Joseph Lubin
B]Binance Changpeng Zhao
C]Chris Larsen
D]Bill Gates
E]None of them

Q2. Name the country that has become the first country to legalize and then abolish same-sex marriage.
A]Ghana
B]Bermuda
C]Brazil
D]Spain
E]West Indies

Q3.Name the state Government that has laid the foundation stone for Rhododendron Park .
A]Himachal Pradesh
B]Jammu and Kashmir
C]Uttarakhand
D]Arunachal Pradesh
E]Sikkim

Q4.The Fifth edition of South Asia Region Public Procurement Conference was held in New Delhi. It was hosted by which of the following ?
A]Public Procurement Division (PPD)
B]All India Management Association (AIMA)
C]NITI Aayog
D]A and B
E]All of these

Q5.Name the Ministry that has launched "Development of Solar Cities" scheme sanctioning the development of 60 Solar Cities .
A]Ministry of Science and Technology
B]Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
C]Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
D]Ministry of Power
E]None of these

Q6.Which Airport has become the world's busiest airport for international travel ?
A]Dubai International Airport
B]Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
C]Beijing Capital International Airport
D]Tokyo International Airport
E]Los Angeles International Airport

Q7.Who among the following has constituted a 13-member advisory committee to monitor and expedite capital acquisition projects for the modernization of the armed forces ?
A]Narendra Modi
B]Nirmala Sitharaman
C]Rajnath Singh
D]Vinay Sheel Oberoi
E]None of them

Q8.The first ever of its kind in the country chat-based job search mobile app named _____ has launched recently in India.
A]Search-job
B]Path-Finder
C]Quick-search
D]Empzilla
E]None of these

Q9.Hawk-i with indigenous Real Time Operating System (RTOS) has made its first flight. It was developed by ___ .
A]DRDO
B]ISRO
C]HAL
D]SAIL
E]None of these

Q10.The Reserve Bank of India would link the base rate with the MCLR from 1st of April 2018 to ensure expeditious transmission of its policy rate to borrowers. MCLR stands for _____ .
A]Minimum Cost of Funds based Lending Rates
B]Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rates
C]Maintained Cost of Funds based Lending Rates
D]Maximum Cost of Funds based Lending Rates
E]None of these

Q11.John Mahoney has recently passed away. He was a/an ___ .
A]Singer
B]Writer
C]Scientist
D]Political Personality
E]Actor

Answer with Explanation

Explanation 1. Forbes has compiled its first ever Crypto Rich List to rank the 20 wealthiest people in crypto, saying billion-dollar fortunes have been created almost overnight. Top of the list is Ripple founder Chris Larsen, with Forbes saying his net worth came close to $20bn , as a result of owning 5.2bn XRP - the token of Ripple. It has since crashed around 65 per cent, but Larsen still holds the top spot on the list.

Explanation 2. Bermuda has officially moved to abolish same-sex marriage less than a year after bringing in a law to legalise it. Just six months after legalising same-sex marriage, Bermuda announced it would be rolling back the law and replacing it with an alternative. 

Explanation 3. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prema Khandu has laid the foundation stone for Rhododendron Park in Tawang. He also carried out plantation drive of different varieties of Rhodos. The place is also home to 50+ different varieties of Rhodo flowers.

Explanation 4. The Fifth edition of South Asia Region Public Procurement Conference was held in New Delhi. It was hosted by Public Procurement Division (PPD) of Ministry of Finance and All India Management Association (AIMA).

Explanation 5. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy under its scheme "Development of Solar Cities" has approved/sanctioned 60 Cities including 13 Pilot and 5 Model Cities up to 12th Five-year Plan period. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State (IC) for Power & New and Renewable Energy, Mr. R K Singh informed that the master plans of 49 Solar Cities have been prepared.

Explanation 6. Dubai International Airport has handled 83.6 million travellers in 2016, new figures have shown, making it - still - the busiest in the world in terms of international passengers.

Explanation 7. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has constituted a 13-member advisory committee to monitor and expedite capital acquisition projects for the modernisation of the armed forces. The defence ministry said in a statement that under the terms of reference of the committee, it has to undertake an independent review and check the status of ongoing critical projects worth more than Rs 500 crore.

Explanation 8. A new chat based app called ‘Empzilla’ has been launched on Google’s Playstore. The app is free to download and is the first chat-based job search app to launch in the country. The app lets employers and job seekers chat with each other and also notifies the candidate of the current status of their application. The app would also let job seekers know how far the job location was.

Explanation 9. Defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), has claimed to have successfully completed the first flight of Hawk-i with indigenous Real Time Operating System (RTOS) developed by it.

Explanation 10. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said it will link the base rate for loans with the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) from 1 April to improve monetary policy transmission. This is likely to narrow the gap between the base rate and MCLR, and benefit borrowers who are still using the base rate, said some analysts.

Explanation 11. Actor John Mahoney, best known for playing Martin Crane on 11 seasons of "Frasier", died in Chicago while in hospice care, his manager, Paul Martino, confirmed. He was 77.