24 - 25 July Gk Quiz

1. Narsingh Yadav, who failed a dope test and was provisionally suspended recently, plays
1) boxing
2) weightlifting
3) triple jump
4) discuss throw
5) freestyle wrestling

5) freestyle wrestling

2. Who among the following won the 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix F1 championship?
1) Kimi Raikkonen
2) Fernando Alonso
3) Sebastian Vettel
4) Nico Rosberg
5) Lewis Hamilton

5) Lewis Hamilton

3. The New Development Bank or BRICS bank announced its first round of loans worth about $900 mn recently. The bank is headquartered at
1) Shanghai
2) New Delhi
3) Moscow
4) Brasilia
5) Cape Town

1) Shanghai

4. KP Oli resigned as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries recently?
1) Nepal
2) Bhutan
3) Myanmar
4) Sri Lanka
5) Thailand

1) Nepal

5. The “iON”, which provides cloud-based solutions to examination boards, is a unit of
1) Infosys
2) TCS
3) Wipro
4) HCL
5) Tech Mahindra

2) TCS

6. The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors was held recently in
1) Brisbane, Australia
2) Antalya, Turkey
3) Hamburg, Germany
4) Buenos Aires, Argentina
5) Chengdu, China

5) Chengdu, China

7. Rising athletics star Neeraj Chopra scripted history by smashing the junior world record recently in
1) triple jump
2) pole vault
3) javelin throw
4) discuss throw
5) shot put

3) javelin throw

8. Who among the following has been appointed by the World Bank as Chief Economist to succeed Kaushik Basu?
1) Seppo Honkapohja
2) Urjit Patel
3) David Romer
4) Subir Gokarn
5) Paul Romer

5) Paul Romer

9. India is the second largest contributor of military and police personnel to the UN Peacekeeping missions. The largest contributor is
1) Pakistan
2) China
3) Egypt
4) Ethiopia
5) South Africa

4) Ethiopia

10. Keni Harrison broke a 28-year-old world record in the 100m hurdles, clocking 12.20 seconds at the London Anniversary Games. She is from
1) Bulgaria
2) Spain
3) US
4) Canada
5) Mexico 

3) US