30 June Gk Quiz

1. The UN General Assembly recently elected five nations as non-permanent members of the Security Council for a two-year period beginning in Jan, 2017. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
1) Sweden 
2) Bolivia
3) Ethiopia 
4) Japan
5) None of these 

4) Japan

2. What is India’s ranking on the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) 2016 released by the United Nations?
1) 19th 
2) 25th
3) 35th 
4) 54th
5) 63rd 

3) 35th

3. Shashi Kant Sharma was conferred honorary professorship by the Nanjing Audit University in China recently. He is the present
1) Comptroller and Auditor General 
2) Chief Information Commissioner
3) Central Vigilance Commissioner 
4) Chief Election Commissioner
5) None of these 

1) Comptroller and Auditor General

4. Xerxes Sapur Desai, who died recently, was the founder of
1) HMT 
2) Titan
3) Maxima 
4) Timex
5) Citizen 

2) Titan

5. Which of the following firms named Ulf Mark Schneider as its new Chief Executive Officer recently?
1) Unilever 
2) GlaxoSmithKline
3) Nestle 
4) Reckitt Benckiser
5) Procter & Gamble 

3) Nestle

6, Which of the following state govts has decided to grant district status to Majuli, making it India’s first river island district?
1) West Bengal 
2) Sikkim
3) Odisha 
4) Assam
5) Manipur 

4) Assam

7. Which of the following countries recently inaugurated the world’s first electric road?
1) Russia 
2) China
3) Japan 
4) Germany
5) Sweden 

5) Sweden

8. The World Bank has approved $63-mn for “Tejaswini Project” in which of the following states?
1) Mizoram 
2) Telangana
3) Uttarakhand 
4) Chhattisgarh
5) Jharkhand 

5) Jharkhand

9. _________ has signed up as the official sponsor for the Indian contingent to the Rio Olympics 2016.
1) Micromax 
2) Mahindra & Mahindra
3) Amul 
4) Patanjali
5) Reliance Jio 

3) Amul

10. The exercise “Jalrahat” for flood relief was held recently in
1) Assam 
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Gujarat 
4) Maharashtra
5) Uttarakhand 

1) Assam