19 - 20 Gk Quiz

 1. JK Rowling received the highest French civilian honour ‘Legion Of Honour’ recently. She is a(n) famous
1) actress 
2) singer
3) novelist 
4) tennis player
5) cartoonist

3) novelist

2. Sudha Singh qualified for Rio Olympics and also set a national record recently in the game of
1) steeplechase 
2) discuss throw
3) rowing 
4) pole vault
5) triple jump 

1) steeplechase

3. Name the Indian actress who was honoured with the Harvey Milk Award recently for supporting LGBT activists.
1) Priyanka Chopra 
2) Raveena Tandon
3) Celina Jaitley 
4) Shilpa Shetty
5) Karishma Kapoor 

3) Celina Jaitley

4. The World Hypertension Day is observed on
1) 11 May 
2) 12 May
3) 15 May 
4) 17 May
5) 18 May 

4) 17 May

5. The wholesale price index (WPI) inflation for Apr 2016 entered into the positive zone for the first time in 18 months to
1) 0.03 per cent 
2) 0.04 per cent
3) 0.13 per cent 
4) 0.24 per cent
5) 0.34 per cent 

5) 0.34 per cent

6. Bhuvan, which provides visualisation services and earth observation data to users in public domain, is developed by
1) HAL 
2) ISRO
3) DRDO 
4) TCS
5) Wipro

2) ISRO

7. Deepak Shodhan, who died recently, was India’s oldest
1) hockey player 
2) footballer
3) shuttler 
4) tennis player
5) Test cricketer 

5) Test cricketer

8. Which country launched Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite recently?
1) Japan 
2) South Korea
3) China 
4) Philippines
5) Ukraine 

3) China

 9. India concluded a nuclear agreement with which of the following neighbouring countries recently?
1) Myanmar 
2) Sri Lanka
3) Nepal 
4) Bhutan
5) Bangladesh 

5) Bangladesh

10. The central govt approved a proposal, recently, to set up Kalinganagar National Investment Manufacturing Zone in the state of
1) West Bengal 
2) Jharkhand
3) Assam 
4) Odisha
5) Madhya Pradesh 

4) Odisha