CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 12TH OCT 2019
1.
Which of the
following State/UT is among the top five states/UTs which performed well as per
the National Health Mission performance index 2019 by Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare (MOHFW)?
A) West Bengal
B) Haryana
C) Uttarakhand
D) Bihar
E) None of these
2.
Where was the 13th
Conference of Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHWF) for 2019
held?
A) Guwahati, Assam
B) Kolkata, West Bengal
C) New Delhi, Delhi
D) Mumbai, Maharashtra
E) None of these
3.
By which year,
government has set a goal of spending the 2.5% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
to National Health Policy (NHP) 2017?
A) 2025
B) 2020
C) 2022
D) 2030
E) None of these
4.
Name the new
initiative launched by Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh
Vardhan for Zero Preventable Maternal and Newborn Deaths?
A) e-Sahaj
B) Mahila – E Haat
C) Least Available Depth Information System(LADIS)
D) Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN)
E) None of these
5.
Name the late
Indian Air Marshall, who was honoured with commemorative stamp for his
exemplary service?
A) Jagjit Singh Aurora
B) Arjan Singh
C) K. M. Cariappa
D) Subroto Mukerjee
E) None of these
6.
What is the time
scale of WHO India Country Cooperation Strategy that was launched by Union
Minister for Health & Family
Welfare(MOHFW) Dr Harsh Vardhan?
A) 2020–2024
B) 2021–2025
C) 2019–2023
D) 2022–2026
E) None of these
7.
Which country has
delivered the first set(36) Rafale aircrafts to India?
A) Germany
B) United States
C) Russia
D) France
E) None of these
8.
Which countries
topped in the Passport Index 2019 released by the Henley & Partners on
October 9, 2019?
A) Spain and Sweden
B) Italy and Luxembourg
C) Japan and Singapore
D) South Korea and Germany
E) None of these
9.
What is the rank of
India in the Henley Passport Index 2019?
A) 82
B) 81
C) 80
D) 86
E) None of these
10. Which country has become the first country to ban ads for
unhealthy sugary drinks?
A) Indonesia
B) Singapore
C) United States
D) Malaysia
E) None of these
11. Merger of which two entities were denied by Reserve Bank of
India (RBI)?
A) Indiabulls Housing Finance and Lakshmi Vilas Bank
B) Indiabulls Housing Finance and Canara Bank
C) Indiabulls Housing Finance and State Bank of India
D) Indiabulls Housing Finance and HDFC Bank
E) None of these
12. Who won the 2018 Nobel Prize of Literature for a narrative
imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of
boundaries as a form of life?
A) Peter Handke
B) Joanna Bator
C) Olga Tokarczuk
D) Jennifer Croft
E) None of these
13. Where did researchers have discovered two ‘plastic-eating’
bacterial strains namely Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain DR11 and
Exiguobacterium undae strain DR14?
A) Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
B) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
C) New Delhi, Delhi
D) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
E) None of these
14. Name the first satellite-servicing spacecraft launched from
Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome(launching site for spacecraft) in Kazakhstan?
A) Mariner 1
B) Voyager 1
C) Mission Extension Vehicle-1(“MEV-1”)
D) Sputnik 1
E) None of these
15. On which date, World Sight Day is observed annually?
A) October 10
B) October 9
C) October 8
D) October 7
E) None of these
16. What was the theme of the World Mental Health Day (WMHD)
2019?
A) Theme – “Universal Health Coverage: everyone, everywhere”
B) Theme – “Young people and mental health in a changing world”
C) Theme – “Mental Health Promotion and suicide prevention”
D) Theme – “Suicide Prevention”
E) None of these
