Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 11 November 2018

1. The National Education Day is observed every year on which date?

1) 01 Nov

2) 05 Nov

3) 11 Nov

4) 21 Nov

5) 30 Nov

2. The UN WFP and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group have formed a strategic partnership to support efforts to eliminate hunger globally by 2030. Here, the term WFP means

1) World Forest Programme

2) World Fisheries Programme

3) World Farming Programme

4) World Food Programme

5) None of these

3. The Indian mountaineer who became the world’s first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest in 2013 has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Strathclyde. She is

1) Arunima Sinha

2) Santosh Yadav

3) Malavath Purna

4) Premlata Agarwal

5) Bachendri Pal

4. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the Indian War Memorial at Villers Guislain in which country recently?

1) Japan

2) Canada

3) Israel

4) UK

5) France

5. Under the Paris Agreement, India has made which of the following commitments to be fulfilled by 2030?

1) India will reduce greenhouse gas emission intensity of its GDP by 33-35 per cent below 2005 levels.

2) 40 per cent of India’s power capacity would be based on non-fossil fuel sources.

3) India will create an additional ‘carbon sink’ of 2.5 to 3 bn tonnes of Co2 equivalent through additional forest and tree cover.

4) All the above

5) Only 1) and 2)

6. India and which country are holding massive military drills named SIMBEX off Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal as the joint drill completes 25 years?

1) Japan

2) Sweden

3) Vietnam

4) Sri Lanka

5) Singapore

7. The Union Cabinet has approved the strategic sale of govt stake (73.44 per cent) in which of the following firms to a consortium?

1) HMT

2) Scooters India Ltd

3) EIL

4) Dredging Corporation of India

5) None of these

8. Ayodhya Deepostav 2018 entered Guinness Book of World Records for lighting 3,01,152 earthen lamps on the bank of River

1) Ganga

2) Yamuna

3) Sarayu

4) Saraswati

5) Gomti

9. Which state govt announced Rs 378-cr investment in the second phase of the state’s flagship aquaculture mission – Aqua Mission 2.0 – recently?

1) Meghalaya

2) Mizoram

3) Tripura

4) Arunachal Pradesh

5) Nagaland

10. The World Science Day for Peace and Development is observed every year on which date?

1) 01 Nov

2) 05 Nov

3) 10 Nov

4) 20 Nov

5) 30 Nov

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Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 11 November 2018