Current Affairs August 2019 - Online Quiz

Q 1 - National Payments Corporation of India announced that Aadhaar enabled Payment System (AePS) crossed ___________transactions count during July 2019.

A - 100 million

B - 200 billion

C - 200 million

D - 20 billion

Q 2 - World Biofuel Day is observed annually on ________.

A - 6^th of August

B - 15^th of August

C - 9^th of August

D - 10^th of August

Q 3 - Rating agency Crisil Ltd has cut down India’s growth estimate for 2019-20 to _________.

A - 7.2%

B - 7%

C - 6.9%

D - 6.2%

Q 4 - Which of the following countries recently honoured Prime Minister Narendra Modi with its highest civilian honour?

A - United Arab Emirates

B - Bahrain

C - U.S.A

D - Both a and b

Q 5 - Which of the following universities received Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Puruskar 2019?

A - Punjabi University in Amritsar

B - Punjabi University in Patiala

C - Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

D - Panjab University, Chandigarh

Q 6 - Which of the following has become India’s first private sector firm to manufacture cutting-edge software defined radios in multiple variants?

A - OEM manufacturers

B - Astra Rafael Communication System

C - FM Radio manufacturers

D - Portable Radio manufacturers

Q 7 - Which of the following became the first state to adopt Automated Multi-modal Biometric Identification System (or AMBIS) to aid police investigations?

A - Maharashtra

B - Delhi

C - Gujarat

D - Odisha

Q 8 - National Tribal Festival “Aadi Mahotsav” was celebrated in ________.

A - Jammu & Kashmir

B - Leh-Ladakh

C - Telangana

D - Madhya Pradesh

Q 9 - Which of the following states launched “School Fagadaba” (Make education bettter) scheme?

A - Karnataka

B - Kerala

C - Assam

D - Manipur

Q 10 - Who among the following received Arjuna Award 2019?

A - S. Bhaskaran

B - Sandeep Gupta

C - Sanjay Bhardwaj

D - Rambir Singh Khokhar