18-05-2015
QUESTION OF THE DAY (18-MAY-2016)
Ques. : 1 JK Rowling received the highest French civilian honour ‘Legion Of Honour’ recently. She is a(n) famous
1) actress 2) singer
3) novelist 4) tennis player
5) cartoonist
Ques. : 2 Sudha Singh qualified for Rio Olympics and also set a national record recently in the game of
1) steeplechase 2) discuss throw
3) rowing 4) pole vault
5) triple jump
Ques. : 3 Name the Indian actress who was honoured with the Harvey Milk Award recently for supporting LGBT activists.
1) Priyanka Chopra 2) Raveena Tandon
3) Celina Jaitley 4) Shilpa Shetty
5) Karishma Kapoor
Ques. : 4 The World Hypertension Day is observed on
1) 11 May 2) 12 May
3) 15 May 4) 17 May
5) 18 May
Ques. : 5 The wholesale price index (WPI) inflation for Apr 2016 entered into the positive zone for the first time in 18 months to
1) 0.03 per cent 2) 0.04 per cent
3) 0.13 per cent 4) 0.24 per cent
5) 0.34 per cent
Ques. : 6 Bhuvan, which provides visualisation services and earth observation data to users in public domain, is developed by
1) HAL 2) ISRO
3) DRDO 4) TCS
5) Wipro
Ques. : 7 Deepak Shodhan, who died recently, was India’s oldest
1) hockey player 2) footballer
3) shuttler 4) tennis player
5) Test cricketer
Ques. : 8 Which country launched Yaogan-30 remote sensing satellite recently?
1) Japan 2) South Korea
3) China 4) Philippines
5) Ukraine
Ques. : 9 India concluded a nuclear agreement with which of the following neighbouring countries recently?
1) Myanmar 2) Sri Lanka
3) Nepal 4) Bhutan
5) Bangladesh
Ques. : 10 The central govt approved a proposal, recently, to set up Kalinganagar National Investment Manufacturing Zone in the state of
1) West Bengal 2) Jharkhand
3) Assam 4) Odisha
5) Madhya Pradesh
S.NO. ANSWERS
1. Answer:- 3) novelist
2. Answer:- 1) steeplechase
3. Answer:- 3) Celina Jaitley
4. Answer:- 4) 17 May
5. Answer:- 5) 0.34 per cent
6. Answer:- 2) ISRO
7. Answer:- 5) Test cricketer
8. Answer:- 3) China
9. Answer:- 5) Bangladesh
10. Answer:- 4) Odisha
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