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1) When is the Coal Miners Day celebrated?
a) May 2
b) May 3
c) May 5
d) May 4
e) May 6
2) When is World Laughter Day celebrated?
a) May 04
b) May 05
c) May 06
d) May First Saturday
e) May First Sunday
3) Which of these countries currency has been awarded with the best bank note for 2018 by the International Bank Note Society (IBNS) ?
a) Canada
b) India
c) Singapore
d) Germany
e) Russia
4) Which country is set to become the site of the world’s first crypto city, where cash will be shunned in favor of a new cryptocurrency called DMI?
a) Singapore
b) Malaysia
c) Taiwan
d) South Korea
e) Germany
5) Which e-commerce company announces Virat Kohli & Anushka Sharma as first official brand ambassadors?
a) Jobang
b) Myntra
c) Amazon
d) Koovs
e) Limeroad
6) Who among the following has been recently inducted as the member in the Advisory Council of the Fifteenth Finance Commission?
a) Raghuram Rajan
b) Krishnamurthy Subramanian
c) Luigi Zingales
d) Arvind Subramanian
e) None of these
7) Bhushan Patil has stepped from the post of the President of which company?
a) Paytm
b) Amazon India
c) Red Bus
d) BSNL
e) Just Dail
8) Who has been named as the acting President of the Archery Association of India (AAI)?
a) Sunil Sharma
b) Niketan Srivastava
c) Arun Chaudhary
d) Vikas Verma
e) None of these
9) IMF economist Reza Baqir has been appointed as the Governor of the State Bank of which country?
a) Russia
b) Pakistan
c) Afghanistan
d) China
e) Nepal
10) Nepal based Bandana Nepal has recently created Guinness World Records in which of the following fields?
a) Mountain Climbing
b) Singing
c) Cycling
d) Dancing
e) Weightlifting
11) With which IT company did the India’s largest telecom operator Vodafone Idea Ltd announced a five-year multi-million-dollar IT outsourcing deal?
a) TCS
b) Infosys
c) IBM
d) Apple
e) Dell
12) Indian Navy is set to receive 10 ‘Kamov Ka-31’ Airborne Early Warning and Control Helicopter from which country?
a) United States
b) Russia
c) Scotland
d) Germany
e) Canada
13) Indian sports person Saurav Ghoshal is related to which sport?
a) Tennis
b) Table Tennis
c) Badminton
d) Squash
e) Running
14) Xavi Hernandez announces his retirement. He plays football for which team?
a) Liverpool FC
b) Juventus FC
c) FC Barcelona
d) Manchester United FC
e) Celta Vigo
15) Maramraju Satyanarayana Rao who passed away recently was a renowned ___________
a) Judge
b) Journalist
c) Writer
d) Scientist
e) Politician
Answers :
1) Answer: D)
Coal Miners Day was observed on may 4th of every year to highlight the toughest profession and the people working in coal mines. Several communities raise awareness and funds on this day for other organizations in the coal mining area and workers.This day was established to show the appreciation for the sacrifices, honour the accomplishments and remember the tragedies that these hardworking individuals experience. The annual celebration of Coal Miners Day began in 1975.
2) Answer: E)
World Laughter Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of May of every year. The first celebration was on May 10, 1998, in Mumbai, India. The celebration of World Laughter Day was meant to be a positive manifestation for world peace and to build up a global consciousness of brotherhood and friendship through laughter and run-on sentences.
3) Answer: A)
Canada’s redesigned $10 bill has earned the Bank of Canada a Bank Note of the Year Award from the International Bank Note Society (IBNS).The competition came from Mexico’s 500-peso note, Russia’s 100-ruble note, Norway’s 500-krone note and China’s 50-yuan note, among many others.
4) Answer: B)
Malaysia is set to become the site of the world’s first crypto city, where cash will be shunned in favor of a new cryptocurrency called DMI.DMI is a company that provides mobile enterprise, business intelligence and cybersecurity services and it has collaborated with the Melaka Straits City on this project. Visitors will be able to exchange normal money for DMI coins when they arrive in the city.
5) Answer: B)
Myntra has announced the launch of ‘Go Myntra-la-la’ with an ad film starring Myntra’s first official brand ambassadors, cricketer Virat Kohli and actor Anushka Sharma.
6) Answer: B)
The Chief Economic Advisor to Central government, Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian has been included as the member of the Advisory Council of the Fifteenth Finance Commission.Fifteenth Finance Commission had constituted an Advisory Council with the following Members– Dr. D.K. Srivastava, Dr. Indira Rajaraman, Dr. Arvind Virmani, Dr. Surjit S. Bhalla, Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, Prof. Pinaki Chakraborty, Sajjid Chinoy, Neelkanth Mishra, Prachi Mishra, Dr M. Govinda Rao, and Dr. Omkar Goswami. Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian will be the twelfth Member of the Council.
7) Answer: A)
Paytm, India’s mobile payment and commerce platform’s President, Bhushan Patil, has quit the company. He had joined Paytm in March 2016 after serving five years at the Chinese company Alibaba.com.
8) Answer: A)
Archery Association of India named its senior vice president Sunil Sharma as its acting president. This comes after AAI President B.V.P. Rao resigned.
9) Answer: B)
Reza Baqir, an economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been appointed as Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for three years. Dr Baqir earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in Economics and has worked with the IMF for the last 16 years. He has been the chief of the IMF’s Debt Policy Division and worked on IMF policies on external debt sustainability and restructuring of member countries. Before the IMF, Dr Baqir worked at the World Bank, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Union Bank of Switzerland. Baqir will be the second IMF staffer to head the SBP. Before him, Mohammad Yaqub was also brought in from the IMF to head the State Bank from 1993 to 1999.
10) Answer: D)
A Nepali teenager danced continuously for 126 hours to set a Guinness World Records on ‘Longest Dancing Marathon by an Individual.Bandana beat the record set by Kalamandalam Hemlatha, who danced continuously for 123 hours and 15 minutes in 2011.
11) Answer: C)
India’s largest telecom operator Vodafone Idea Ltd announced a five-year multi-million-dollar IT outsourcing deal with tech giant IBM.Vodafone Idea is collaborating with leading global technology partners including IBM to deploy new age technologies with built-in customisations and novel innovations. This five-year collaboration with IBM, opens new opportunities for us to partner together in domains like cloud, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things). We will also be able to leverage collateral from the cloud partnership already announced between Vodafone and IBM in Europe.
12) Answer: B)
Defence ministry has approved the procurement of 10 Kamov Ka-31 Airborne Early Warning and Control helicopters for the Indian Navy.The cost of the deal would be around Rs 3,600 crore and the 10 helicopters would be deployed on the aircraft carriers and warships of the Navy including the INS Vikrant and Grigorovich-class frigates. The aim of the choppers is to sanitise the air space around the battle groups led by the aircraft carriers while carrying out operations in the sea or anti-submarine warfare operations.
13) Answer: D)
Ace Indian squash players Saurav Ghoshal and Joshna Chinappa won their respective Asian Individual Squash Championship titles in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Saurav Ghoshal defeated Leo Au Chun Ming of Hong Kong. Joshna Chinappa on the other hand retained her title as she beat top seed Annie Au of Hong Kong. Ghoshal who had become the first Indian male player to reach top ten of the world rankings
14) Answer: C)
FC Barcelona legend midfielder Xavi Hernandez has announced that he will retire at the end of the season to move into coaching.Xavi went on to win 25 titles, including the treble seasons of 2008-09 and 2014-15. In total he holds eight La Liga, three Copa del Rey, four UEFA Champions League, two FIFA Club World Cup, six Spanish Super Cup, and two UEFA Super Cup. Xavi is a six-time Copa Catalunya and one-time Catalunya Super Cup winner.
15) Answer: C)
Prominent writer and academician, Maramraju Satyanarayana Rao passed away, following a cardiac arrest. He was 84, he had worked as professor of political science and registrar of Ambedkar Open University.
