IAS/OAS DAILY QUIZ No.413 (11.06.2019)

1. What is the ’s rank in the 2019 edition of the IMD World Competitiveness Rankings? (a) 41st (b) 43rd (c) 44th (d) 42nd 2. Which site of Madhya Pradesh has been included in the tentative list of UNESCO World heritage sites? (a) Maheswar (b) Orchha (c) Ujjain (d) Khandwa 3. Where is the headquarters of United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)? (a) Nairobi (b) Paris (c) New York (d) Berlin 4. When is World No Tobacco Day observed? (a) May 31st (b) May 30th (c) May 29th (d) May 28th 5. Which state/UT govt has recently announced to build a water museum? (a) Maharashtra (b) Kerala (c) Delhi (d) Puducherry 6. How many women cabinet ministers (apart from State ministers) are included in newly formed Indian Government? (a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6 7. In which state has scientists recently identified a new type of wasp of Kudkremia family? (a) Goa (b) Punjab (c) Jharkhand (d) Tamil Nadu 8. The United States has signed a defense agreement with which among the following gulf nations? (a) Qatar (b) UAE (c) Saudi Arabia (d) Bahrain 9. Which state government has unveiled its Healthcare Investment Policy-2019? (a) Gujarat (b) Jammu and Kashmir (c) Kerala (d) 10. The World Health Organisation officially labelled which addictive disorder? (a) Excessive gaming (b) Excessive sleeping (c) Excessive eating (d) Excessive laughing 11. Which nation has been elected to the Executive Board of first UN-Habitat Assembly? (a) Sri Lanka (b) France (c) India (d) Malaysia 12. What is the name of farthest place in universe where NASA’s spacecraft has recently found evidence of water? (a) Webar Galaxy (b) Giant Gracia (c) Wire Gross (d) Ultima Thule 13. The Indian Navy recently began the IMCOR exercise with which country? (a) Russia (b) Malaysia (c) Myanmar (d) South Carolina

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IAS/OAS DAILY QUIZ No.413 (11.06.2019)

14. A High-Level Committee on Digital Payments recently submitted its report to the RBI. The Committee is headed by whom? (a) Nandan Nilekani (b) Kishore Sansi (c) Sanjay Jain (d) Aruna Sharma 15. Which state’s 26 reservoirs have hit ‘zero water’ storage level? (a) Karnataka (b) Maharashtra (c) West Bengal (d) Telangana 16. When is World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development observed? (a) 20th May (b) 19th May (c) 21st May (d) 22nd May 17. With which country naval exercise SIMBEX-2019 is scheduled from May 16 to May 22, 2019? (a) Saudi Arabia (b) Sri-Lanka (c) Spain (d) Singapore 18. How many missions have been announced by ISRO to be conducted in next 10 years? (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 9 19. Who was awarded with the prestigious Sasakawa Award 2019? (a) (b) Venkaiah Naidu (c) (d) Pramod Kumar Mishra 20. Which country has become the first in Asia to approve same-sex marriage? (a) Indonesia (b) Singapore (c) Malaysia (d) Taiwan

ANSWER KEYS 01 b 02 b 03 a 04 a 05 c 06 c 07 a 08 b 09 b 10 a 11 c 12 d 13 c 14 a 15 b 16 c 17 d 18 b 19 d 20 d

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