Appointments Current Affairs Quiz - May 2016

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1. ______ appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting ?

Ajay Mittal
Pradeep Kumar Sinha
Nripendra Mishra
G. Gurucharan
None of These


2. ________ elected as 34th President of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) till September 2017 ?

S. Ayyappan
Jai Priye Prakash
Anurag Thakur
Rita A Teaotia
None of These


3. _____ re-appointmented Vinod K Dasari as Managing Director(MD) for 5 years ?

Reliance
Infosys
Tata Motors
Ashok Leyland
None of These


4. Baciro Dja named as new Prime Minister of ____ (Country in West Africa) ?

France
USA
UK
Switzerlamd
Guinea Bissau


5. ________'s Mourad Laachraoui won gold in European Taekwondo Championships and will nocompete in this summer's Rio Olympics. Note that hs is brother of Paris Blasts Accused Najim Laachraoui ?

UK
Russia
Belgium
France
None of These


6. Binali Yildirim chosen as _______’s Prime Minster ?

Turkey
Finland
Serbia
Switzerland
None of These


7. Bollywood Actor ________ became goodwill ambassador of LEPRA India organization that fights against diseases like leprosy and tuberculosis ?

Aamir Khan
R Madhavan
Shahrukh Khan
Emraan Hashmi
None of These


8. Bombay High Court Advocate _________ is appointed as Additional Solicitor General ?

Atma Ram Nadkarni
Tapan Ray
J S Deepak
Nripendra Mishra
None of These


9. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research appointed _______ appointed as Director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) ?

Rakesh Kumar Mishra
Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta
Narendra Kumar Sinha
S. Christopher
None of These


10. Cricketer ______ has been re-appointed ICC (International Cricket Council) Cricket Committee chairman for second term of 3 years. Rahuil dravid has been elected as a member ?

Virat Kohli
M S Dhoni
Sachin Tendulkar
Anil Kumble
None of These


11. Cricketer ____ became Brand Ambassador of world famous Swiss luxury watch maker‚ Hublot ?

Rahul Dravid
M S Dhoni
Virat Kohli
Rohit Sharma
None of These


12. Deepak Gupta sworn-in as Chief Justice (CJ) of ________ High Court. ?

Jharkhand
Chhattisgarh
Odisha
Uttar Pradesh
None of These


13. Enda Kenny has been re-elected as _____'s Taoiseach (prime minister of Ireland) for a second term ?

USA
UK
Australia
Scotland
Ireland


14. ______ appointed as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Western Naval Command while AR Karve as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Naval Command ?

Girish Luthra
Sunil Lamba
Neeraj Kumar Gupta
M. Nair Rajeevan
None of These


15. Government approved joint issue of UN Women ____ postage stamp and a MoU has been signed between Department of Posts and United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) in for this purpose ?

HeorWe
HeForWe
HeorShe
HeForShe
None of These


16. ______ appointed as Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). ?

Arvind Mayaram
Vinod Rai
Hindupur Pradeep Rao
C Gopalachari
None of These


17. India's _______ appointed as Deputy Chairman of FIFA Governance Committee. While General Luis Miguel Maduro from Portugal was appointed as Chairman of FIFAs governance committee ?

S. Jaishankar
Mukul Mudgal
Sujata Mehta
Ashok Lavasa
None of These


18. Indian American _______ elected to newest national committee woman, a key position of Republican National Committee of USA ?

Bobby Jindal
Harmeet Kaur Dhillon
Nripendra Mishra
Bhanu Pratap Sharma
None 0f These


19. Indian Person Philip Abraham elected as Deputy Mayor of Loughton town in ______. ?

Russia
France
USA
United Kingdom
None of These


20. Indian non-fiction short film on girl child education‚ ______ has been invited for a special screening at 42nd edition of Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) 2016b (Washington DC) ?

Beti‚ 
Chiraiya
Vadhu
Jal
None of These

 

21. Indian-origin lawyer Murali Pillai from has been elected as a member of parliament of _________ ?

Singapore
USA
UK
Russia
None of These


22. Italian sports car manufacturer _________ appointed Sergio Marchionne as new CEO ?

Toyota
Ferrari
Honda
Hyundai
None of These


23. J Jayalalithaa sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for record ________ time. Her party AIADMK Party won 134 / 234 seats in State Assembly elections 2016 ?

third
seventh
fifth
sixth
fourth


24. _______ has been assigned Independent charge of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports after resignation of Sarbananda Sonowal ?

Rajnath Singh
Nitin Gadkari
Radha Mohan Singh
Sushma Swaraj
Jitendra Singh


25. _____ has been appointed as Lt. Governor of Union Territory of Puducherry. ?

Nitin Gadkari
Rajnath Singh
Kiran Bedi
Radha Mohan Singh
None of These


26. ______ appointed as Director General in Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) ?

Kumar Rajesh Chandra
Anoop Kumar Srivastav
Girish Shankar
Nripendra Mishra
None of These


27. Mamata Banerjee sworn-in as Chief Minister of West Bengal for _____ successive five-year term. ?

Third
Second
Fourth
Fifth
None of These


28. Manohar Kumar appointd as Director (Engineering) of __________ ?

SAIL
NTPC
National Projects Construction Corporation Limited
BEL
BHEL


29. Mexican diplomat _________ is appointed as executive secretary of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) ?

Jim Yong Kim
Ban Ki Moon
Lee Keqiang
Christina Lagrade
Patricia Espinosa


30. Michel Temer appointed as president of _______ after 6-months Suspension of Dilma Rouseff. ?

Russia
France
Brazil
Spain
None of These


31. ________ appointed as managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) ?

R Rajan
T. S. Vijayan
Upendra Kumar Sinha
Mrugank Paranjape
None of These


32. Naveen Sinha appointed as 31st Chief Justice of _______ High Court. ?

Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
Gujarat
None of These


33. Noted scientist ________ appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) ?

S K Sharma
C R Rao
Avinash Chander
V K Saraswat
None of These


34. ______ assumed charge as Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance ?

Bikram Singh
Sunil Lamba
Vimal Kumar
Arup Raha
PP Khandekar


35. President Pranab Mukherjee approved appointment of 4 judges to Supreme Court - AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan, and L Nageshwar Rao. With this, judicial strength of Supreme Court moved up to 28, Max permitted strength is ___________ ?

32
31
30
28
29


36. _______ is appointed as Chairperson of National Statistical Commission ?

Radha Binod Barman
Nandita Chartterjee
Shankar Agarwa
Balvender Kumar
None of These


37. _______ appointed as Principle Adviser for social sector in NITI Aayog. ?

Anil Kumar Agarwal‚ 
Rakesh Garg
Upendra Tripathy
S Jaishankar
Ratan P Watal


38. Rodrigo Digong Duterte won Presidential Elections of ________ ?

Philippines
Serbia
Spain
Russia
None of These


39. ________ appointed as new commandant of Indian Military Academy (IMA) ?

Sunil Lamba
S K Saini
Jitendra Shankar Mathur‚ 
Chirravuri Viswanath
None of These


40. Sadiq Khan of British Labour party became first Muslim to be elected as Mayor of ________ ?

Manchester
Liverpool‚ 
Los Angles
New York
London


41. Sameer Chadha appointed as partner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ______ ?

Google
KPMG India
Microsoft
Infosys
None of These


42. _______ is appointed as National Stock Exchange (NSE)'s new Chairman ?

Pradeep Kumar Pujari‚ 
Ashok Chawla
Ashutosh Sharma
Rajive Kumar
None of These


43. ________'s UN diplomat Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura named First Female as Secretary General of FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) Council. ?

Senegal
Chad
Niger
Nigeria
None of These


44. ________ elected as ICC’s (International Cricket Council) first independent Chairman for 2 years ?

Ravi Shastri
Anurag Thakur
S K Sinha
Sunil Gavaskar
Shashank Manohar


45. Somnath Ghosh is appointed as next Ambassador of India to _________. ?

Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkenistan
Uzbekistan
None of These


46. _______ appointed as 23rd Chief of Indian Navy while Karambir Singh appointed as Vice Chief of Indian Navy. ?

Sunil Lamba
Bikram Singh
Vinay Kumar
Arup Raha
None of These


47. Surajit Kar Purkayastha appointed as Director General of ________ Police ?

Assam
Uttaranchal
Uttar Pradesh
Mizoram
West Bengal


48. Tech Firm _______ appointed Sanjay Kaul as Head for its India Operations?

Apple
Google
Microsoft
Adobe
None of These


49. Three Indians selected in list of 50 scientists elected as Fellows of Royal Society of ________ - Sriram Ramaswamy, Ramanujan Hegde and Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan ?

USA
UK
Russia
Spain
France


50. Tinlianthang Vaiphei appointed as acting Chief Justice of _____ High Court ?

Assam
Nagaland
Mizoram
Meghalaya
Tripura


51. Tsai Ing-wen appointed as first female President of ______ ?

Taiwan
China
Vietnam
Nepal
None of These


52. United Nations (UN) appointed Mary Robinson and ________ as UNs Special Envoys for El Nino and Climate. ?

Peter Tomka‚ 
Ban Ki Moon
Macharia Kamau
Babatunde Osotimehin
None of These


53. United States (US) President Barack Obama appointed Indian-American engineer __________ as member of President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (PACFBNF) ?

Nripendra Misra
S K Sinha
Bobby Jindal
Manjit Singh
None of These


54. V Narayanaswamy elected as Congress Legislature Party leader, to become Chief Minister of _______ . ?

Daman and Diu
Goa
Lakshadweep
Tamilnadu
Puducherry



55. ______ is appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation and Girish Shankar appointed as Secretary in Department of Public Enterprises (Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises). ?

R Rajan
Arvind Mayaram
Vijay Shankar Madan
C Gopalachari
None of These


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