21 May Gk Quiz

1. The World Forestry Day is observed every year on
1) 12 Mar
2) 15 Mar
3) 20 Mar
4) 21 Mar
5) 22 Mar

4) 21 Mar

2. A special goodwill train loaded with High Speed Diesel rolled down from India to which country recently starting a new era of petroleum trade?
1) Bhutan
2) Nepal
3) Bangladesh
4) Myanmar
5) Pakistan

3) Bangladesh

3. Vedanta Group's USD 10-bn LCD screen plant, which is billed as the country's first, will start production in 2018 in the state of
1) Gujarat
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Kerala
4) Maharashtra
5) West Bengal

4) Maharashtra

4. Anupam Shrivastava will continue as CMD of which of the following PSUs for another four years as decided by the govt recently?
1) BSNL
2) MTNL
3) BHEL
4) ONGC
5) OIC

1) BSNL

5. The goct has announced to open its one-time retro tax settlement scheme from
1) 1 Apr
2) 1 Jun
3) 1 Sep
4) 1 Oct
5) 1 Dec 

2) 1 Jun

6. Yogeshwar Dutt, who bagged a gold medal in Asian Olympic Qualification tournament recently, is associated with
1) boxing
2) wrestling
3) weight lifting
4) discuss throw
5) bowling

2) wrestling

7. Who won the Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament in Basel, Switzerland recently?
1) Marc Zwiebler
2) Srikanth Kidambi
3) HS Prannoy
4) Parupalli Kashyap
5) Tommy Sugiarto

3) HS Prannoy

8.The US President Barack Obama embarked on a historic 3-day visit to Cuba recently. The capital city of Cuba is
1) Porto-Novo
2) Sarajevo
3) Havana
4) Sofia
5) Phnom Penh

3) Havana

9. The govt has prepared BAPU-Preparedness Index, using Aadhaar penetration and Point of Sale machines as indicators, for each state. Here, letter ‘B’ in the term BAPU stands for
1) Biometrically
2) Bilaterally
3) Biannually
4) Basically
5) Broadly

1) Biometrically

10. The fisheries sector constitutes 5.08 per cent of agriculture GDP and about what per cent of the GDP of the country?
1) 4 per cent
2) 3 per cent
3) 2.5 per cent
4) 2 per cent
5) 1 per cent

5) 1 per cent