Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 10 Apr 2018

1. The World Homeopathy Day is observed every year on

1) 01 Apr

2) 10 Apr

3) 15 Apr

4) 20 Apr

5) 30 Apr

2. Shikha Sharma, the longest serving woman CEO in the financial sector, will step down in Dec 2018 as the MD and CEO of

1) ICICI Bank

2) HDFC Bank

3) Axis Bank

4) YES Bank

5) IDBI Bank

3. President Ram Nath Kovind, on his recent three-nation Africa visit, held delegation-level talks with Mswati III who is the king of

1) Swaziland

2) Zimbabwe

3) Namibia

4) Botswana

5) Zambia

4. Ankita Raina recently became only the third Indian woman player to breach the top-200 rankings in singles in the game of

1) badminton

2) table tennis

3) squash

4) tennis

5) snooker

5. Who won 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix F1 Championship?

1) Valtteri Bottas

2) Daniel Ricciardo

3) Kimi Räikkönen

4) Lewis Hamilton

5) Sebastian Vettel

6. The RBI has switched back to gross domestic product (GDP) model from the GVA methodology for estimating economic activities. Here, term GVA means

1) Gross Value Accredited

2) Gross Value Acquired

3) Gross Volume Acquired

4) Gross Volume Accumulated

5) Gross Value Added

7. The Indian Navy recently conducted multi-agency humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) exercise named ‘Chakravat’ with

1) West Bengal

2) Kerala

3) Maharashtra

4) Odisha

5) Tamil Nadu

8. The RBI has hiked the foreign portfolio investors investment limit in Central govt securities from 5 per cent of outstanding stock now to what per cent in FY 2019?

1) 5.5 per cent

2) 6 per cent

3) 6.5 per cent

4) 7 per cent

5) 7.5 per cent

9. The PMUY is a central govt scheme to distribute new LPG connections to families belonging to below poverty line category. Letter ‘U’ in the term PMUY means

1) Ujala

2) Urja

3) Udan

4) Ujjwala

5) Unnatti

10. Indian men’s table tennis team won gold medal in the final at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Gold Coast. The team defeated

1) Singapore

2) Bangladesh

3) Nigeria

4) Australia

5) Canada

Answers:

1. 2
2. 3
3. 1
4. 4
5. 5
6. 5
7. 2
8. 1
9. 4
10. 3