Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 61: September 01-03, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 61 : September 01-03, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. Who was crowned the Miss Diva Miss Universe India 2018? a. Nehal Chudasama b. Anindita Kakoti c. Aditi Hundia d. Elisha Mayor Q2. Asian Development Bank has approved $245 million loan for drinking water service in which Indian state? West Bengal Assam Tamil Nadu Karnataka Q3. Fourth International Ayurveda Congress (IAvC) was inaugurated in which country? Netherlands India Australia Canada Q4. Who has been conferred with the prestigious Dr B.C. Roy National Award 2018? K Usha Lakshmi N Sai Kumar Basant Kumar Misra Indira Hindhuja Q5. Who among the following were given 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award, popularly known as Asia’s Noble Prize? Tarun Khanna and Bharat Vatwani Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk Aditi Hundia and Bharat Vatwani Sonam Wangchuk and Anup Kumar Q6. The Government of India has provided first-ever financial support to which International sporting event for participation in England? Hockey Kho-Kho Kabbadi Badminton Q7. Who has been elected as the new Chairman of Indian Bank’s Association? Raghav Jain Rana Kapoor Sunil Mehta Arundhati Bhattacharya Q8. Census 2021, for first time, to collect data on _________. General Class Schedule Caste Other Backward Class Schedule Tribe Q9. Which of following Indian has won Gold in Boxing, at the 18th Asian Games 2018? Amit Panghal Akhil Kumar Satish Kumar Vijendra Singh Q10. Singphan wildlife sanctuary, which has been recently declared as 30th elephant reserve of India, is located in state of India? Assam Manipur Nagaland Mizoram Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 60: August 28-31, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 60 (India in Int'l sports events) : August 28-31, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. Which of the following is the most successful sport for India at Olympics, in which India has won eight Olympic gold medals? Kabaddi Billiards Shooting Field hockey Q2. India hosted the Asian Games how many times? Once Twice Thrice Five times Q3. In which of the following sports, India has won the gold medal ever since its inception in 1990, except in 2018 Asian Games? Hockey Kabaddi Billiards Shooting Q4. Who was the first athlete to represented India in Olympic, when he alone participated in the 1900 Olympics, winning two silver medals? Norman Pritchard Dorabji Tata G D Sondhi Harry Crowe Buck Q5. Who was first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games? Karnam Malleswari P.V. Sindhu M.C. Mary Kom Abhinav Bindra Q6. Who was the first player from India to achieve World No.1 spot in Badminton and also first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships? K. Srikanth Saina Nehwal Syed Modi Prakash Padukone Q7. Who became India's first grand-master in the year 1988? Harika Dronavalli Viswanathan Anand Veselin Topalov Parimarjan Negi Q8. Who was the first person to ever win the IBSF World Billiards Championship in both times and points format? Geet Sethi Ronnie O'Sullivan Pankaj Advani Michael Ferreira Q9. In which year, the Leander Paes-Mahesh Bhupathi duo reached the finals of the men’s doubles in all four grand slams? 1999 2000 2004 2008 Q10. Who among the following is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket? Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar Anjum Chopra Mithali Raj Charlotte Edwards Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 59: August 25-27, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 59 : August 25-27, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. India has signed $300 million agreement with which of the following organisation for Energy Efficiency Scale-Up Program? New Development Bank State Bank of India World Bank Asian Development Bank Q2. Where is the headquarters of International Energy Agency (IEA), with which India has recently signed a MoU on increasing innovation for the Clean Energy Transition? Geneva Moscow Paris Fontainebleau Q3. Which of the following cities held the MOVE: India’s First Global Mobility Summit 2018? Mumbai New Delhi Bangalore Chennai Q4. Presently, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) is in enforcement in which of states (partially or entirely)? Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya and Jammu and Kashmir Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, and Jammu and Kashmir Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and Jammu and Kashmir Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir Q5. Which country has taken over the chairmanship of the 5th Summit of BIMSTEC? Nepal Thailand India Sri Lanka Q6. Recently, Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) has been extended in the entire Assam for six more months with immediate effect. Union Home Ministry had delegated the power to impose or withdraw AFSPA in Assam to Director General of Police of Assam Chief Principal Secretary of Assam Home Minister of Assam Governor of Assam Q7. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has proposed to launch India’s first human spaceflight programme `Gaganyaan’ by which year? 2022 2024 2025 2030 Q8. Swapna Barman, who has become the first Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Games gold, belong to which state? Tripura Assam West Bengal Odisha Q9. Which European country has sanctioned €120 million loan for India’s National Clean Ganga Mission? US UK Japan Germany Q10. When is the National Sports Day (NSD) celebrated in India, to mark the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand? August 20 August 24 August 27 August 29 Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 58: August 22-24, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 58 : August 22-24, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. Where is the headquarters of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), which has launched an initiative to save cultural heritage in flood-devastated Kerala? New York Vienna Paris Brussels Q2. Which company has launched Project Navlekha to help Indian vernacular news publishing their content online? TCS Facebook Infosys Google Q3. Who is appointed new chairman of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)? Chitra Mandal Satheesh Reddy C. Mohan K. S. Chandrasekharan Q4. Which passenger airline has successfully conducted India’s first-ever test flight powered by biojet fuel between Dehradun and Delhi on August 27, 2018? Air India Jet Airways SpiceJet IndiGo Q5. The 3rd Indian Ocean Conference (IOC-2018) is being held in Colombo Chittagong Hanoi Kochi Q6. Which Indian-origin person has been selected as Asia Society’s Game Changer of the Year for 2018? Sunder Pichai Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Indra Nooyi Swati A Piramal Q7. The Personal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018 aims to eliminates which of the following disease as a ground for dissolution of marriage or divorce? Leprosy AIDS Cancer All STDs Q8. Which state govt. will organize ‘ATAL’ Youths’ Conclave in September 2018? Assam Arunachal Pradesh Rajasthan Andhra Pradesh Q9. Which international organization has recently launched the world’s first public blockchain bond “bond-i”? IFC IMF European Development Bank World Bank Q10. Recently, Union Govt. has signed a MoU with Chief Ministers of 6 Upper Yamuna basin states for the construction of Lakhwar multi-purpose project, which is to be constructed in Himahcal Pradesh Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 57: August 19-21, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 57 : August 19-21, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. The 11th World Hindi Conference 2018 (WHC) was held in which city? New Delhi Port Louis Varanasi Dhaka Q2. Which Indian sportsperson has won India’s first Gold in the 18th Jakarta Asian Games 2018 held in Indonesia? Swapna Barman Neeraj Chopra Mary Kom Bajrang Punia Q3. Recently, which former chief of Indian Army has been awarded the United States ‘Legion of Merit’? Sam Manekshaw Dalbir Singh Suhag Bipin Rawat Bikram Singh Q4. Which state/UT has decided to re-name state’s new capital city as “Atal Nagar” in memory of late Prime Minister A B Vajpayee? Andhra Pradesh Chhattisgarh Delhi Madhya Pradesh Q5. The book ‘Beyond the Lines’ is the autobiography of which renowned journalist, who died recently? R. K. Laxman Gauri Lankesh Kuldip Nayar Shujaat Bukhari Q6. Who is the new Governor of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K)? Banwarilal Purohit Kiran Bedi Satya Pal Malik Tathagata Roy Q7. Who has become the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold medal at Asian Games? Vinesh Phogat Sakshi Malik Kavita Devi Babita Kumari Q8. Where is the 2018 International Buddhist Conclave (IBC), themed “Buddha Path – The Living Heritage” being held? Bodh Gaya New Delhi Kathmandu Varanasi Q9. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has lifted ban on retail sale of which of the following life saving drug with effect from 1st September 2018, on which sales was banned from July 2018? Paracetamol Oxytocin Isoprenaline Diazepam Q10. The 4th summit of Heads of State/Government of BIMSTEC 2018 was held in Bangkok Singapore Kathmandu Colombo Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 56: August 16-18, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 56 : August 16-18, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. Which Indian author has won the Hindu Playwright Award 2018? Gerish Khemani Annie Zaidi Sneh Sapru Thomas Manuel Q2. What is the theme for International Youth Day 2018? Change Our World Youth Building Peace Youth Civic Engagement Safe Spaces for Youth Q3. The ‘Tatkalsewa’ for property registration is started by which state in India? Punjab Uttar Pradesh Bihar Madhya Pradesh Q4. Which city topped the Ease of Living Index 2018, launched by Union Housing & Urban Affairs Ministry? Guwahati Pune Chennai Navi Mumbai Q5. Which among the following former Prime Minister of India’s Birthday is observed as the Good Governance Day in India? Jawahar Lal Nehru Rajiv Gandhi Indira Gandhi Atal Bihari Vajpayee Q6. Recently, which country has successfully tested its first cutting-edge waverider hypersonic aircraft named “Starry Sky-2”? Pakistan China India Japan Q7. Which Bollywood actor has become the brand ambassador for Road Safety Awareness campaign? Kangana Ranaut Amitabh Bachchan Varun Dhawan Akshay Kumar Q8. Which of the following organization/agency has recently launched a mobility pitch competition “Pitch to MOVE” for budding startups in the mobility field? BRICS NITI Aayog New Development Bank National Skill Development Agency Q9. Which is the first Indian tribal language to get a Wikipedia edition in its native script? Bodo Rathi Santhali Khashi Q10. Which company has recently started VOIP based phone service named “WINGS”? Reliance Jio Vodafone Airtel BSNL Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 55: August 13-15, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 55 : August 13-15, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. Under the ‘Digital North East Vision 2022’, where is the first Electronics Manufacturing Cluster in the Northeastern Region inauguarted? Shillong Agartala Itanagar Guwahati Q2. Under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) crop insurance scheme, what is the premium to be paid by farmers for Kharif crops, Rabi crops and commercial and horticultural crops? 2% for all crops category 5% for all crops category 2%, 3% and 5% respectively 2%, 1.5% and 5% respectively Q3. Recently which state/UT has inducted India’s first all-woman Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team for anti-terrorist operations? Tamil Nadu Police Delhi Police Maharashtra Police Pondicherry Police Q4. When is the World Elephant Day (WED) observed? August 09 June 05 May 12 August 12 Q5. Where was the India’s first genetic bank for wildlife conservation inaugurated recently? Chandigarh Hyderabad Chennai Kolkata Q6. Which is India’s first bank to introduce Iris Scan Authentication feature for Aadhaar-based transactions through its micro ATM tablets? Axis Bank HDFC Bank SBI Bank ICICI Bank Q7. Who is the author of the book ‘A House for Mr Biswas’? Arundhati Roy V S Naipaul Anita Desai Vikram Seth Q8. Who has been appointed as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights? Michelle Bachelet António Guterres Kate Gilmore Zeid Raad Al Hussein Q9. Which space agency has recently launched the Parker Solar Probe mission to probe the outer corona of the Sun? ISRO CERN NASA European Space Agency Q10. The National Handloom Day is celebrated every year in India on which date? August 1 August 7 August 10 August 17 Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 54: August 10-12, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 54 : August 10-12, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. When is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed? July 11 August 9 August 11 September 9 Q2. How many biosphere reserves from India are included in World Network of Biosphere Reserves? Four Nine Eleven Eighteen Q3. Who is chosen as the most influential woman in the recently conducted Readers of BBC History magazine poll? Marie Curie Joan of Arc Florence Nightingale Mother Teresa Q4. Who was India’s flag-bearer in the opening ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games? Hima Das Swapna Barma Dutee Chand Neeraj Chopra Q5. When is the World Biodiesel Day (WBD) observed to create awareness about the importance of non-fossil fuels as an alternative to conventional fossil fuels? August 1 August 4 August 10 August 11 Q6. Who is appointed the chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW)? Indu Malhotra Justice Manjula Chellur Rekha Sharma Gina Haspel Q7. Who has been sworn in as the first woman Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court? Justice Manjula Chellur Indu Malhotra Justice Gita Mittal Justice Tahilramani Q8. Who is appointed as the new Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)? Ajay Tyagi Ram Sewak Sharma Sethurathnam Ravi Ashok Chawla Q9. Recently, which Biosphere Reserve has been included in the UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserve (WHBR)? Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve Q10. Who has been elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha? P J Kurie B K Hariprasad Harivansh Narayan Singh M Thambidurai Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 53: August 07-09, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 53 : August 07-09, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. In which year, the National Commission for Backward Classes was created as a statutory body? 1993 1987 1991 1978 Q2. World’s first-ever facility to create thermal batteries has been recently inaugurated in which state? Andhra Pradesh Uttarakhand Maharashtra Tamil Nadu Q3. Which country hosts the “Pacific Endeavor-2018 (PE-18)” communication exercise under the Multinational Communications Interoperability Program (MCIP)? China Thailand Nepal Myanmar Q4. Which country has won the Women’s Hockey World Cup 2018? India Australia Argentina Netherlands Q5. Recently, Parliament of India has passed the 123rd Constitutional Amendment Bill, which is related to Constitutional status to LGBT Constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes Constitutional status to the National Commission for Scheduled Caste Constitutional status to the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes Q6. Which of the following institute has developed the first indigenous microprocessors named ‘RISECREEK’, first of a family of six industry-standard microprocessors under Project Shakti? IIT Delhi BITS Pilani IISER Kolkata IIT Madras Q7. Who has developed the world’s first Hindi speaking realistic humanoid robot “Rashmi”? Ramanathan V. Guha Ranjit Srivastava Avinash Kak Kanwaljeet Sethi Q8. Which government/organisation has signed pact with Tech Mahindra for setting up of the Blockchain district in Hyderabad? Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Andhra Pradesh Govt Niti Aayog Telangana Govt Q9. Union Govt has recently approved 122 new research projects of Rs 112 crore under ‘IMPRINT-2’ scheme. The ‘IMPRINT-2’ scheme is mainly related to Improving per capita income of downtrodden class of peoples of India Development in Agriculture sector Addressing the major science and engineering challenges India faces Improving literacy rate of India Q10. The joint military exercise “Maitree 2018′ is conducted between Indian Army and army of which other country? Sri Lanka Bangladesh Thailand Nepal Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 52: August 04-06, 2018 Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz – Set 52 : August 04-06, 2018 ( Daily and Monthly Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz & MCQ for APSC Exams and various Assam exams) Current Affairs Assam & GK Quiz – Home Page Q1. Which Indian-Australian mathematician has won the 2018 Fields medal? Akshay Venkatesh Manjul Bhargava C Radha krishna C.S. Seshadri Q2. Which state govt will setup a state of the art “B-Hub” for biotech and biopharma sector in Hyderabad? Andhra Pradesh Chattisgarh Telangana Karnataka Q3. Which of the following Ministry/organization/agency will host Investors’ Conference for the Holistic Development of Islands? Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Finance Ministry Niti Aayog SEBI Q4. Following the NRC exercise in Assam, which of the following North Eastern state has constituted two committees, at state and district level, to deal with a possible influx of illegal immigrants? Meghalaya Tripura Mizoram Manipur Q5. India’s position in the United Nation’s E-Government Development Index (EGDI) 2018 is 35th 101th 69th 96th Q6. Genome Valley, a high-technology business district, has developed as a cluster for Biomedical research, training and manufacturing, is located in which Indian city? Chandigarh Gurgaon Hyderabad Pune Q7. Which Indian won the 2018 Fiji International Golf title? S.S.P. Chawrasia Himmat Rai Rashid Khan Gaganjeet Bhullar Q8. CRISPR-Cas9 technology is a Technique for Editing parts of genome Technique for controlling uncontrolled cell division Artificial fertilization technique Important part of reusable rocket developed by SpaceX Q9. Mughalsarai junction, which has recently been names as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya railway station, is located in West Bengal Bihar Delhi Uttar Pradesh Q10. Scientists of which country has created world’s first single-chromosome yeast? USA UK Germany China Time is Up! Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...