CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 21ST – 22ND APRIL 2019
1.
Name the international organization,
which has released the guidelines on the usage of digital health technology to
boost health of the people.
A) Union of
International Associations
B) United
Nations
C) UNESCO
D) World
Health Organization (WHO)
E) None of
these
2.
Which country’s peacekeepers were
honoured with UN Medal for their service in UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)?
A) South
Sudan Peacekeepers
B) US
Peacekeepers
C) Indian
Peacekeepers
D) Bangladesh
Peacekeepers
E) None of
these
3.
Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga is the Prime
Minister of which country, who has resigned along with his entire government
after Ogossagou massacre?
A) Mali
B) Senegal
C) Nigeria
D) Ghana
E) None of
these
4.
What is the name of the book containing
English translation of the 100 year old classic Punjabi poem about Jallianwala
Bagh massacre?
A) Drummer
Hodge
B) Poets of
the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
C) Poems
about war
D) Khooni
Vaisakhi
E) None of
these
5.
World Liver Day is observed annually on
___________?
A) April 19
B) April 18
C) April 17
D) April 16
E) None of
these
6.
When was Good Friday also known as Holy
Friday or Black Friday observed?
A) April 18
B) April 17
C) April 16
D) April 19
E) None of
these
7.
Find the Metro rail corporation which
has kick started an initiative to become the world’s first 100% solar-powered
metro.
A) Jaipur
Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.
B) Delhi
Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
C) Gujarat
Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC)
D) Chennai
Metro Rail Limited (CMRL)
E) None of
these
8.
Saudi Arabia increases Haj Quota of
Indian Pilgrims to ___________ lakh ?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five
E) None of
these
9.
Which department has proposed change in
the methodology for taxing multinational companies, including digital firms?
A) Income tax
department
B) Department
of Information Technology
C) Department
of Consumer Affairs
D) Department
of Revenue
E) None of
these
10. Where was the
Asian Tea Alliance, a union of five tea-growing and consuming countries(India,Indonesia,China,Japan,Sri
lanka) launched?
A) Jakarta,
Indonesia
B) Guizhou,
China
C) New Delhi,
India
D) Tokyo,
Japan
E) None of
these
11. Which has
became India’s first retail company to cross Rs.1 lakh crore annual revenue milestones?
A) Reliance
Retail
B) Future
Group
C) Aditya
Birla Retail
D) Avenue
Supermarts Ltd
E) None of
these
12. Name the
Indigenously designed and constructed guided missile destroyer launched by Navy
chief Admiral Sunil Lamba recently.
A) INS
Chennai
B) INS Imphal
C) INS Kochi
D) INS
Kolkata
E) None of
these
13. Which country
has launched its first satellite ‘Raavana-1’ into space?
A) Maldives
B) Indonesia
C) Nepal
D) Sri Lanka
E) None of
these
14. Nepal has
successfully launched its first satellite NepaliSat-1 into space under BIRDS
project of which country?
A) Japan
B) India
C) China
D) United
Kingdom
E) None of
these
15. Who has been
named as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian team for the Street Child
Cricket World Cup?
A) Virat
Kohli
B) M S Dhoni
C) Harmanpreet
Kaur
D) Mithali
Raj
E) None of
these
16. Learning
Coin, which is in news recently, is launched by which of the following
international organisations?
A) IMF
B) AIIB
C) ADB
D) UN
E) None of
these
17. TESS Mission
of which space agency has discovered its first Earth-size planet – HD 21749c?
A) Roscosmos
B) JAXA
C) NASA
D) ISRO
E) None of
these
18. Who has been
honoured with the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in fiction category?
A) Rebecca
Makkai
B) Richard
Powers
C) Clare
Barron
D) Tommy
Orange
E) None of
these
19. Christina
Koch, who will set a new record for longest spaceflight by a woman, is the
astronaut of which space agency?
A) JAXA
B) Roscosmos
C) NASA
D) CNES
E) None of
these
20. On which
date, the 2019 National Civil Services Day is celebrated in India recently?
A) April 21
B) April 20
C) April 22
D) April 23
E) None of
these
