Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 16 October 2018
1. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 2 aims to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by
1) 2020
2) 2022
3) 2025
4) 2027
5) 2030
2. Delhi govt recently signed a twin city agreement with the administration of which city for cooperation in various fields for a period of three years?
1) New York
2) Tokyo
3) Geneva
4) Moscow
5) None of these
3. The 13th annual convention of Central Information Commission was held recently in
1) Jaipur
2) New Delhi
3) Bhopal
4) Bengaluru
5) Chennai
4. With Ind AS 115 replacing Ind AS 18/11, the way firms account for revenue has undergone a few changes. In the term Ind AS, the letters “AS” denote
1) Assessment Standards
2) Administrative Standards
3) Accounting Standards
4) Advance Standards
5) Approved Standards
5. The deadline set by the RBI for the global payment companies to store transaction data of Indian customers within India was
1) 05 Oct
2) 10 Oct
3) 12 Oct
4) 15 Oct
5) 30 Sep
6. The wholesale price inflation (WPI) remained at what per cent in Sep 2018?
1) 4.53%
2) 5.13%
3) 5.15%
4) 5.53%
5) 5.63%
7. In which state, central govt’s health insurance scheme ‘Ayushman Bharat’ has been merged with state govt’s ‘Swasthya Sathi’?
1) Kerala
2) Punjab
3) West Bengal
4) Karnataka
5) Tamil Nadu
8. Who among the following has been appointed as the new global chief executive officer of the US-based direct selling company Amway?
1) Nikesh Arora
2) Ajaypal Singh Banga
3) Anshu Jain
4) Milind Pant
5) Rakesh Kapoor
9. The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has its headquarters located in
1) New York
2) Washington DC
3) Rome
4) London
5) Geneva
10. Storm ‘Callum’ hit which of the following countries recently?
1) UK
2) South Korea
3) Japan
4) US
5) New Zealand
Answers:
- 5
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 1
