Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 22 August 2018

1. Which of the following states has decided to rename the new capital city Naya Raipur as Atal Nagar?

1) Jharkhand

2) Chhattisgarh

3) Uttarakhand

4) Himachal Pradesh

5) Odisha

2. Saurabh Chaudhary won a gold medal at the Asian Games in which of the following games?

1) Shooting

2) Boxing

3) Weightlifting

4) Archery

5) Wrestling

3. Naorem Roshibini Devi and Santosh Kumar are associated with which of the following games? They are part of India’s contingent sent to Indonesia for Asian Games.

1) Javelin throw

2) Discuss throw

3) Luge

4) Pole vault

5) Wushu

4. Gurudas Kamat passed away recently. He was the former Union Minister of State for

1) External Affairs

2) Corporate Affairs

3) Finance

4) Home Affairs

5) Health

5. The NPPA is empowered to fix a ceiling on the rates of certain medicines. The full form of the term NPPA is

1) National Pharmaceutical Promotion Authority

2) National Pharmaceutical Protection Authority

3) National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority

4) National Pharmaceutical Procurement Authority

5) None of these

6. Itsunori Onodera visited New Delhi recently. He is the present Defence Minister of which of the following countries?

1) South Korea

2) Japan

3) Vietnam

4) Myanmar

5) Philippines

7. Chris Daniels met Minister for Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, in New Delhi recently. He is the present Chief Executive Officer of which of the following firms?

1) Hike

2) Reddit

3) Twitter

4) WhatsApp

5) Uber

8. The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) army exercises are scheduled to be held in Sep 2018 in

1) Pune

2) Jaipur

3) Agartala

4) Chennai

5) Vishakhapatnam

9. Who among the following has been appointed as the new governor of Jammu & Kashmir?

1) Kaptan Singh Solanki

2) Tathagata Roy

3) Ganga Prasad

4) Baby Rani Maurya

5) Satya Pal Malik

10. Lalji Tandon has been appointed as the new governor of which of the following states?

1) Uttar Pradesh

2) Rajasthan

3) Bihar

4) Haryana

5) Madhya Pradesh

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Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 22 August 2018