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[WpProQuiz 7210]1) On which date, World Obesity Day is observed annually ?
a) October 8
b) October 9
c) October 10
d) October 11
e) October 12
2) What was the theme of the World Egg Day 2019 ?
a) “Eat your egg today and every day”
b) “Eggs as the Source of Life and Egg Discoveries”
c) “The Global Egg Market: past, present, future – challenges and possibilities”
d) “Protein for Life”
e) None of these
3) The World Migratory Bird Day is observed on which among these days?
a) Second Wednesday of October
b) Second Thursday of October
c) Second Friday of October
d) Second Sunday of October
e) Second Saturday of October
4) The World Arthritis Day (WAD) is observed annually on which of these days?
a) October 8
b) October 9
c) October 10
d) October 11
e) October 12
5) How much amount of line of credit has been announced by India to Comoros for cooperation in the fields of energy and maritime defence?
a) USD 41.6 million
b) USD 51.6 million
c) USD 61.6 million
d) USD 71.6 million
e) USD 81.6 million
6) Name the mobile app launched by Railways to enable the rail passengers register criminal complaints online?
a) Utkarsh
b) TANDON
c) RailMadad
d) Sahyatri
e) Hamsafar
7) Who has recently become the most-followed world leader on Instagram?
a) Donald Trump
b) Barak Obama
c) Vladimir Putin
d) Narendra Modi
e) Angela Merkel
8) 10th National Cultural Festival under the ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ campaign is to be held at the Indian state of?
a) Maharashtra
b) Haryana
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Uttarakhand
e) Bihar
9) Life Insurance Council will launch a campaign ‘Sabse Pehle Life Insurance’ to raise awareness about the life insurance. How many companies are the members of the Life Insurance Council?
a) 24
b) 22
c) 20
d) 18
e) 16
10) Which of these asset management company has announced to merge its business with the BNP Paribas Asset Management India?
a) Baroda Asset Management India
b) HDFC Asset Management Company Limited
c) HSBC Asset Management (India)
d) IDBI Asset Management Ltd
e) None of these
11) According to World Bank report ‘South Asia Economic Focus, Making (De) Centralization Work’ which country has become the second-fastest growing economy in South Asia?
a) Bhutan
b) Bangladesh
c) India
d) Myanmmar
e) Sri Lanka
12) Who among these has been conferred the Indira Gandhi award for national integration for the year 2017-2018?
a) A. R. Rahman
b) M. S. Swaminathan
c) Ramakrishna Mission Ashram
d) Chandi Prasad Bhatt
e) None of these
13) Name the Indian – American who jointly win Nobel in Economics along with Esther Duflo & Michael Kremer?
a) Abhijit Banerjee
b) Mohan Khurishi
c) Surendra Banerjee
d) Vishawanadh Anand
e) None of these
14) Who among the following has been appointed as President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) for 2019-2021?
a) K Sivan
b) K Satish Reddy
c) MS Ananth
d) Ravi Kumar
e) Rangarajan
15) Name the joint military exercise between India and Japan, will be held at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School Vairengte in Mizoram?
a) Dharma Guardian
b) Vajra Prahar
c) Garuda Vega
d) Dharma Chakra
e) None of these
16) Along with which country Navy did Indian Navy undertook second edition of their Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) in Northern Bay of Bengal?
a) Sri Lanka
b) Nepal
c) Bangladesh
d) Bhutan
e) Vietnam
17) In the recently signed aggrements New Delhi has extended concessional lines of credit to Sierra Leone worth of how many million USD in sectors such as agriculture, water, and transmission line.
a) USD 123 million
b) USD 234 million
c) USD 345 million
d) USD 456 million
e) USD 321 million
18) World Boxing Champion Mary Kom won the bronze medal in which of these bouts in the 2019 World Women’s Boxing Championship?
a) 80 kg
b) 68 kg
c) 51 kg
d) 59 kg
e) 50 kg
19) Who among these has recently won the 2019 Dutch Open Badminton men’s singles title
a) Subhankar Dey
b) Lakshya Sen
c) Chirag Shetty
d) Sourabh Verma
e) None of these
20) Alexei Leonov passed away recently, he was a _______________ ?
a) Politician
b) Scientist
c) Poet
d) Astronaut
e) Journalist
21) Where was the 2nd edition of Indian Navy(IN) –Bangladesh Navy(BN) Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) 2019 held ?
a) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
b) Dhaka, Bangladesh
c) Khulna, Bangladesh
d) Northern Bay of Bengal
e) None of these
22) Where was the India’s 1st ‘Garbage Cafe’ inaugurated ?
a) Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh
b) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
c) Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh
d) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
e) Hyderabad, Telangana
23) Where was the 2nd edition of the joint military exercise ‘Dharma Guardian-2019’ to promote military cooperation between India and Japan held ?
a) Tokyo, Japan
b) Meghalaya, India
c) Osaka, Japan
d) Mizoram, India
e) None of these
24) Which organization has released the report titled “South Asia Economic Focus, Fall 2019 : Making (De)centralization Work” ?
a) World Trade Organization(WTO)
b) United Nation(UN)
c) Reserve Bank of India(RBI)
d) World Bank(WB)
e) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
25) Who has conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award at TiECON Chennai 2019?
a) K Sivan
b) Satheesh Reddy
c) MS Ananth
d) Ravi Kumar
e) Rangarajan
26) Government has launched a satellite based device to help fishermen in receiving seamless and effective emergency information on disaster warnings, Potential Fishing Zones (PFZ) and Ocean States Forecasts (OSF) to deal with situations like tsunami or cyclones. What is the name of the device?
a) SAPPHIRE
b) GEMINI
c) MERCURY
d) GAGAN
e) None of these
27) The Typhoon Hagibis has recently hit which country?
a) Japan
b) United Kingdom
c) Malaysia
d) China
e) Vietnam
28) The mobile app mHariyali has been launched by which ministry to encourage Public engagement in planting trees ?
a) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
b) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
c) Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
d) Ministry of Human Resource Development
e) None of these
29) The 10th edition of Vajra Prahar- 2019 is being held in which place?
a) Seattle
b) Visakhatpatnam
c) Vancouver
d) Chicago
e) Kakinada
30) Name the Olympic champion and world record holder, who became the first person to run a marathon under 2 hours ?
a) Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich
b) Dennis Kipruto Kimetto
c) Eliud Kipchoge
d) Kenenisa Bekele
e) None of these
31) ADB recently, granted $______ Million for a 47.5 MW Floating Solar Project in Vietnam.
a) 23
b) 30
c) 37
d) 43
e) 47
32) Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s long-running border conflict with Eritrea. He is a Prime Minister of _____________.
a) Nigeria
b) Ghana
c) Kenya
d) Ethiopia
e) Tanzania
33) Eliud Kipchoge has become the first person to run the marathon under two hours. He belongs to which country?
a) Norway
b) South Korea
c) Spain
d) Kenya
e) Sweden
34) RBI has introduced a new reporting system called CISBI for all cooperative banks. What does second ‘I’ mean in CISBI?
a) Information
b) Interest
c) Index
d) Infrastructure
e) Improvement
35) When is the World Standards Day celebrated internationally?
a) October 10
b) November 28
c) September 25
d) November 9
e) October 14
36) Which city is hosting the Sale of Articles of Rural Artisan Society (SARAS) Aajeevika Mela 2019 ?
a) Guwahati, Assam
b) Bengaluru, Karnataka
c) New Delhi, Delhi
d) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
e) None of these
37) The first ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) has started in which city?
a) Chennai
b) New Delhi
c) Bangaluru
d) Pune
e) Hyderabad
38) The first-ever National Hindi Science writers conference has started in which city?
a) Jabalpur
b) New Delhi
c) Shimla
d) Lucknow
e) Ahemadabad
39) Pangio bhujia, which is in news recently, is associated to which kind of animal?
a) Fish
b) Tortoise
c) Frog
d) Tiger
e) Lion
40) As per latest data on the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), which state’s most cancer patients availed treatment under the scheme?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Chhattisgarh
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Gujarat
e) Andhra Pradesh
Answers :
1) Answer: D)
The World Obesity Day is observed annually on October 11, organized by the World Obesity Federation, a non-profit body which is in official relations with the World Health Organization(WHO). The day which was first established in 2015, aims to raise awareness on obesity and ways to prevent them and also maintaining a healthy weight and reverse the obesity crisis.
2) Answer: A)
The World Egg Day which is celebrated annually on the second Friday of October, was observed on October 11, 2019. The day is celebrated globally to raise awareness of the benefits of eggs and their nutritional importance. It was first established at the 1996 International Egg Commission’s (IEC) conference in Vienna, Austria where it was decided to celebrate this day on the second Friday of October. The theme for the year 2019 is “Eat your egg today and every day.”
3) Answer: E)
The World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is celebrated twice in a year, firstly on Second Saturday of May and again on Second Saturday of October, so as to follow the seasonal migrations of birds, which peak in those months. In 2019, the WMBBD is being held on May 11, 2019 and October 12, 2019 to spread awareness for the need to conserve migratory birds and their habitats The theme for 2019 WMBD is “Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution.”
4) Answer: E)
World Arthritis Day (WAD) is held annually on October 12 to raise global awareness about the symptoms connected to arthritis and the importance of early diagnosis of the disease to gain access to the proper medical treatment as soon as possible. The World Arthritis Day theme 2019 is Time2Work.
5) Answer: A)
India has announced to extend a Line of Credit of US $ 61.6 million for cooperation in the fields of energy and maritime defence. These includes: Line of Credit of USD 41.6 million for setting up of 18 MW Power Plant in Moroni and Line of Credit for USD 20 million for procurement of High Speed Interceptor Boats
6) Answer: D)
Indian railways has launched a new website, www.railways.delhipolice.gov.in and a mobile app named SAHYATRI, which will facilitate the passengers and railway police to file and address complaints online across India, as well as in crime detection by integrating the criminal database online.
7) Answer: D)
Narendra Modi has become the most-followed world leader on Instagram with over 30 million followers. Modi is the only world leader to reach the 30 million followers’ milestone on Instagram. He is also among the most-followed leaders on Twitter. Modi has his own YouTube channel as well.
8) Answer: C)
10th edition of the Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav-National Cultural Festival will take place in Madhya Pradesh. Union Ministry of Culture will organize the event & it will be held from October 14th to 21st under the ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ campaign. The concept of the festival was conceived in the year 2015.
9) Answer: B)
The Life Insurance Council launches an equivalent of ‘Mutual Funds Sahi Hai’ announced a mass media campaign with the slogan ‘Sabse Pehle Life Insurance’ with an aim to increase life insurance awareness and helping the masses understand the product’s true purpose. Insurance penetration in India in continues to be at 3.69%, one of the lowest across the world, according to the annual report by Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai). Between FY 2014-15 to 2016-17, life insurance penetration in the country was at a flat 2.7%.
10) Answer: A)
BOB’s asset management arm Baroda Asset Management & BNP Paribas Asset Management(BPAM) India, a wholly-owned unit of BNP Paribas AMC Asia have agreed to merge. BPAM was assisted by BNP Paribas Investment Banking as its transaction advisor.
11) Answer: B)
According to World Bank report ‘South Asia Economic Focus, Making (De) Centralization Work’ Bangladesh has become the second-fastest growing economy in South Asia after Bhutan. World bank projected GDP growth rate from moderate to 7.2 per cent this fiscal year and 7.3 per cent in 2020 in Bangladesh.
12) Answer: D)
Noted environmentalist and social activist Chandi Prasad Bhatt has been awarded the Indira Gandhi award for national integration for the years 2017 and 2018. The award was instituted by the Congress in the memory of the former prime minister and it would be presented on October 31 in a function at Jawahar Bhawan.
13) Answer: A)
Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Banerjee and French-American Duflo both work at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology while Kremer is at Harvard University.
14) Answer: B)
K Satish Reddy, Chairman of Dr Reddy’s has been appointed as President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) for 2019-2021. Rajesh Jain, Managing Director of Panacea Biotec Limited, will continue as the Vice President. He was a past president of IPA (2013-2015)
15) Answer: A)
Dharma Guardian, the joint military exercise between India and Japan, will be held at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School Vairengte in Mizoram from October 19 to November 2. A Defence Ministry said that Indian Army and Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF) contingents comprising 25 soldiers each will participate in the exercise with an aim to share experience gained during various counter-terrorism operations.
16) Answer: C)
The 2nd edition of Indian Navy(IN) –Bangladesh Navy(BN) Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) 2019 has been held in Northern Bay of Bengal from October 10-11, 2019 with the participation of INS (Indian Naval Ship ) Ranvijay, a guided-missile destroyer and INS Kuthar, an indigenously built missile as well as BNS (Bangladesh Naval Ship) Ali Haider, a Type 053 frigate and BNS Shadinota, a Type 056 stealth guided missile corvette.
17) Answer: A)
India and Sierra Leone signed six agreements including extending a credit line of 30 million US Dollars for rice cultivation. New Delhi has extended concessional lines of credit to Sierra Leone worth USD 123 million in sectors such as agriculture, water, and transmission line.In addition, Sierra Leone has also availed lines of credit worth USD 49.45 million from ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) for projects in solar and telecom sector out of Lines of Credit extended by India to EBID
18) Answer: C)
Six-time champion M C Mary Kom settled for a bronze medal in the World Women’s Boxing Championships after losing to Turkey’s Busenaz Cakiroglu in an intense semifinal bout at Ulan Ude in Russia. Third-seeded Mary Kom lost to second seed Cakiroglu, who is the reigning European Championships and European Games gold-medalist.
19) Answer: B)
Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched his maiden BWF World Tour title by winning the Dutch Open men’s singles title after beating Yusuke Onodera of Japan in the summit clash in Almere, Netherlands
20) Answer: D)
Russian astronaut Alexei Leonov,who walked for the first time in 1965, died in Moscow, Russia after a long illness.He was 85. Born on 30 May 1934, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia , Leonov was a close friend of Yury Gagarin, the first person reached space in 1961. Four years later, in March 1965, Leonov and his other partner Pavel Belyayev flew to space under the Voskhod 2 mission. During this mission, on 18 March 1965, Leonov exited the spacecraft and walked for 12 minutes and nine seconds.He was awarded the country’s highest honor ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’.
21) Answer: D)
The 2nd edition of Indian Navy(IN) –Bangladesh Navy(BN) Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) 2019 has been held in Northern Bay of Bengal from October 10-11, 2019 with the participation of INS (Indian Naval Ship ) Ranvijay, a guided-missile destroyer and INS Kuthar, an indigenously built missile as well as BNS (Bangladesh Naval Ship) Ali Haider, a Type 053 frigate and BNS Shadinota, a Type 056 stealth guided missile corvette.
22) Answer: A)
Chhattisgarh state Health Minister T S Singhdeo has inaugurated India’s 1st ‘Garbage Cafe’ situated in Ambikapur of Surguja district .The concept of this cafe is that ragpickers and the homeless will collect plastic waste, and in return, the municipal corporation will offer them food.
23) Answer: D)
The 2nd joint military exercise ‘Dharma Guardian-2019’ to promote military cooperation between India and Japan will be held in Mizoram. The event is being held from 19, October- 2, November 2019 at Counter Insurgency Warfare School located in Vairengte, Mizoram.
24) Answer: D)
World Bank in its report, “South Asia Economic Focus, Fall 2019 : Making (De)centralization Work”, has lowered India’s growth forecast to 6% for 2019 (down from 7.5 %) for the second consecutive year ,after a wide decline in the initial quarters. In 2018, India’s GDP (Gross domestic product) growth stood at 6.8 %, down from 7.2 % in 2017.
25) Answer: C)
MS Ananth was conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the TiECON Chennai 2019 event. The award was given for his contributions to higher education in India, and for committed research and excellence in Chemical engineering.
26) Answer: B)
The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) along with Airports Authority of India (AAI) has launched the Gagan Enabled Mariner’s Instrument for Navigation and Information (GEMINI) device to provide seamless and effective dissemination of emergency information and communication on disaster warnings, Potential Fishing Zones (PFZ) and Ocean States Forecasts (OSF) to fishermen far away from coastal areas.
27) Answer: A)
Typhoon Hagibis ripped through Japan including Tokyo’s metropolitan area, causing multiple rivers to overflow, deaths, injuries & power blackouts. It is the biggest typhoon hit in last 60 years. Most train services resumed operations due to floodwaters. Kanogawa Typhoon in 1958 was the strongest typhoon till today.
28) Answer: C)
Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has launched a mobile app named “mHariyali” which aims to encourage Public engagement in planting trees and other such Green drives.
29) Answer: A)
The 10th edition of ‘Vajra Prahar’ the joint military exercise between India and the US has started at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Seattle, the US from October 13, 2019 and will continue upto October 28, 2019.
30) Answer: C)
An Olympic champion and world record holder from Kenya Eliud Kipchoge, aged 34, became the first person to run a marathon in under 2 hours by finishing the INEOS 1:59 Challenge in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 40.2 seconds in Vienna’s Prater Park, Austria. He covered the distance of 26.2miles.
31) Answer: C)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $37 million loan agreement that would finance the installation of a 47.5 MW floating solar project in Vietnam. ADB has signed the agreement with Da Nhim–Ham Thuan–Da Mi Hydro Power Joint Stock Company (DHD).
32) Answer: D)
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s long-running border conflict with Eritrea. Last year Abiy & Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki formally restored relations.
33) Answer: D)
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge has completed the first-ever marathon under two hours in the Austrian capital of Vienna, two years since he fell 25 seconds short. He ran forty-two kilometres in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds at Vienna’s Prater-Hauptallee.
34) Answer: D)
RBI has introduced a new reporting system Central Information System for Banking Infrastructure (CISBI) for all co-operative banks. CISBI replaces the legacy master office file system. Banks can use the facility to access/download the data related to them.
35) Answer: E)
World Standards Day is celebrated internationally each year on 14 October. The aim of the day is to raise awareness among regulators, industry and consumers as to the importance of standardization to the global economy. ISO was formed in 1947. Day honours the experts who develop voluntary standards.
36) Answer: C)
The Sale of Articles of Rural Artisan Society (SARAS) Aajeevika Mela 2019 is underway at India Gate Lawns in New Delhi. It had begun on October 10 and will conclude on October 23, 2019. The mela is an initiative by the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) and was inaugurated by Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar.
37) Answer: B)
The first-ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) has started at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on 11th October 2019. The 3-day fair is a major platform to promote export of Indian cooperative produce which will lead to enhanced rural and farm prosperity. The event is also packed with exhibitions, B2B/C2C meetings, conferences, cultural programmes etc. The organizations from 36 countries are participating in the Fair.
38) Answer: D)
In Uttar Pradesh, the first -ever National Hindi Science writers conference has started on 11th of October in Lucknow with an aim to release science writing from the clutches of English and to promote use of Hindi and other Vernacular languages. More than one thousand science writers from across the country are participating in this conference which is aimed to bring all Hindi and vernacular language science writers at one platform and to promote Hindi in the field of science writing.
39) Answer: A)
A research team led by Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) has discovered a unique species of miniature well-dwelling subterranean fish ‘Pangio bhujia’ from Kozhikode. It is the first species of eel-loach in the world that has been discovered to be living in subterranean environments. Eel-loaches are generally found in fast-flowing streams in the south and the south-east Asia. The Pangio bhujia is approximately 3 centimetres long & pinkish-red in colour, and resides in the purest waters of deep subterranean aquifers.
40) Answer: A)
The Union Health Ministry has recently released data on the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), which is the tertiary care arm of Ayushman Bharat. According to report, Tamil Nadu (with 40,056 cases) tops the state where the most cancer patients availed treatment under PMJAY, followed by Kerala (22,000), Madhya Pradesh (19,455), Chhattisgarh (15,997) and Gujarat (14,380). The report revealed that there are 11.57 lakh new cancer patients and 7.84 lakh cancer deaths every year in India. At any given point of time, there are 22.5 lakh Indians living with cancer.
