Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 24 May 2018
1. Who among the following was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka recently?
1) HD Deve Gowda
2) HD Kumaraswamy
3) DK Shivakumar
4) Siddaramaiah
5) G Parameshwara
2. Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, visited India recently. The capital of the Netherlands is
1) Helsinki
2) Copenhagen
3) Oslo
4) Amsterdam
5) Willington
3. India launched a complaint against which country recently with the World Trade Organization, WTO to challenge that country’s tariffs on Steel and Aluminium?
1) China
2) Japan
3) US
4) South Korea
5) UK
4. The US recently withdrew its invitation to which country to participate in the biennial maritime exercise called, Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC?
1) China
2) Russia
3) North Korea
4) India
5) Iran
5. AB de Villiers has retired from all forms of international cricket with immediate effect. He has been playing for
1) New Zealand
2) West Indies
3) England
4) Australia
5) South Africa
6. India’s Ankita Raina is associated with which of the following games?
1) Tennis
2) Squash
3) Badminton
4) Shooting
5) Boxing
7. Manika Batra plays which of the following games? She is a Commonwealth gold medal winner.
1) Archery
2) Discuss throw
3) Javelin
4) Table tennis
5) Fencing
8. The World Bee Day is observed every year on
1) 02 May
2) 12 May
3) 20 May
4) 24 May
5) 31 May
9. As announced by the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the family of a paramilitary soldier who dies in action will be given a minimum compensation of
1) Rs 25 lakh
2) Rs 50 lakh
3) Rs 75 lakh
4) Rs 90 lakh
5) Rs 1 cr
10. Who among the following has won the Man Booker International Prize 2018?
1) Jenny Erpenbeck (Go, Went, Gone)
2) Olga Tokarczuk (Flights)
3) Virginie Despentes (Vernon Subutex 1)
4) Javier Cercas (The Impostor)
5) Laurent Binet (The 7th Function of Language)
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