CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 18TH JUNE 2019

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – 18^TH 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) 155^th

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