CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 12TH OCT 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 12^TH 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