CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 18TH
JUNE 2019
1.
Where was the fifth meeting of the Governing Council of the
National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog held recently?
A) Pune
B) Kolkata
C) Mumbai
D) New Delhi
E) None of
these
2.
Who has chaired the fifth meeting of the Governing Council of the
National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog?
A) Rajnath
Singh
B) NarendraModi
C) Amit Shah
D) NirmalaSitharaman
E) None of
these
3.
Which year is set as a target year to make India a five trillion
dollar economy?
A) 2030
B) 2025
C) 2024
D) 2020
E) None of
these
4.
Which state has the lowest rate of female workforce participation,
as per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data published by the National
Sample Survey Office (NSSO)?
A) Bihar
B) Meghalaya
C) Mizoram
D) Himachal
Pradesh
E) None of
these
5.
Who will chair the newly constituted committee that will work on
modalities of revising pension to over 25 lakh ex-servicemen and widows under
One Rank One Pension (OROP) Scheme?
A) AvinashDikshit
B) Sanjiv
Mittal
C) AnuradhaMitra
D) Nawalkishore
E) None of
these
6.
Which country is to release the new Banknotes of 10,000, 20,000
and 50,000 denominations for racketing hyperinflation which eroded the
currency’s value?
A) Libya
B) Russia
C) Venezuela
D) Syria
E) None of
these
7.
Name the Non-governmental organizations (NGO), which was awarded
with BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) “World Service Global Champion
Award for their mid-day meal project.
A) The
AkshayaPatra Foundation (TAPF)
B) Pratham
Education Foundation
C) Sammaan
Foundation
D) K C
Mahindra Education Trust ( Nanhi Kali )
E) None of
these
8.
Who was crowned as Miss India 2019?
A) MeenakshiChaudhary
B) VaishnaviAndhale
C) LalnunthariRualhleng
D) SumanRao
E) None of
these
9.
What is the slogan of the 2019 edition of World Blood Donor Day
(WBDD)?
A) Share
Life, Give Blood
B) Safe
blood for all
C) Blood
Connects us All
D) Every
blood donor is a hero
E) None of
these
10. Which state
government has recently launched online facility to approve building plans?
A) Karnataka
B) Andhra
Pradesh
C) Odisha
D) Chhattisgarh
E) None of
these
11. The
Government of India (GoI) has reduced the rate of contribution under the
Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Act from 6.5% to __?
A) 6.0%
B) 5.5%
C) 4.0%
D) 4.5%
E) None of
these
12. The
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has decided to confer alumni award to which
of the following union ministers?
A) Ravi
Shankar Prasad &DharmendraPradhan
B) NitinGadkari&PiyushGoyal
C) NirmalaSitharaman&
S Jaishankar
D) Ramesh
Pokhriyal&PrakashJavdekar
E) None of
these
13. Who is the
head of the committee to review existing marketing structure in LPG marketing
in India?
A) Errol
D\’souza
B) MA Pathan
C) GC
Chaturvedi
D) Kirit
Parikh
E) None of
these
14. The Union
Cabinet has recently approved two-month extension to Committee for OBC
Sub-categorization. Who is the head of theCommittee?
A) S K
Gangwar
B) Prahlad
Singh Patel
C) G Rohini
D) R L
Kataria
E) None of
these
15. Which SCO
member has been conferred Kyrgyzstan’s Highest National Award?
A) EmomaliRahmon
B) Vladimir Putin
C) NarendraModi
D) Xi
Jinping
E) None of
these
16. Which of the
following Asian countries will be guest nation at the 2020 Copa America?
A) Saudi
Arabia
B) China
C) India
D) Qatar
E) None of
these
17. What is the
India’s rank at the 2019 Global Peace Index (GPI) of Institute for Economics
and Peace (IEP)?
A) 152nd
B) 141st
C) 136th
D) 155th
E) None of
these
18. Which Indian
NGO has been awarded the 2019 BBC World Service Global Champion ?
A) Arth
India
B) Chetna
C) Save Life
Foundation
D) AkshayaPatra
E) None of
these
19. The 10th
Regional GRIHA Summit 2019 was held in which of the following cities?
A) Bangaluru
B) Nagpur
C) Pune
D) New Delhi
E) None of
these
20. Which of the
following defence PSUs has signed a pact to supply heavy weight torpedoes to
the Indian Navy?
A) Bharat
Electronics Ltd
B) Bharat
Dynamics Ltd
C) Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited
D) Garden
Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd
E) None of
these
21. Which
international organisation has released the World Investment Report 2019?
A) IMF
B) ADB
C) World
Bank
D) UNCTAD
E) None of
these
22. The world’s
highest operating weather stations has installed on which of the following
mountains?
A) Mt
Kanchenjunga
B) Mt
Everest
C) Mt Makalu
D) Mt K2
E) None of
these
