Current Affairs 30 May 2016
Current Affairs is an important part of competitive exam. WBCS STUDY gives current affairs as MCQ. So the candidates can easily remember the Current Affairs. In banking exam IBPS generally asked very recent current Affairs and in SSC exams the commission generally asked the current Affairs related to the Nation and Sports.
Ques. : 1 The winner of the 2016 Indian Premier League is
1) Sunrisers Hyderabad
2) Royal Challengers Bangalore
3) Kolkata Knight Riders
4) Kings XI Punjab
5) Delhi Daredevils
Answer:- 1) Sunrisers Hyderabad
Ques. : 2 Pakke Tiger Reserve has won the ‘India Biodiversity Award 2016’. The tiger reserve is situated in
1) Himachal Pradesh
2) Arunachal Pradesh
3) Assam
4) West Bengal
5) Maharashtra
Answer:- 2) Arunachal Pradesh
Ques. : 3 Name the author who won the ‘Scholastic Asian Book Award’ for a 32,000-word manuscript of “Codex: The Lost Treasure of the Indus” in Singapore recently.
1) Anita Desai
2) Kiran Desai
3) Aditi Krishnakumar
4) Jhumpa Lahiri
5) Arundhati Roy
Answer:- 3) Aditi Krishnakumar
Ques. : 4 Who won the 2016 Monacco Grand Prix F1 championship?
1) Lewis Hamilton
2) Kimi Raikkonen
3) Fernando Alonso
4) Sebastian Vettel
5) Nico Rosberg
Answer:- 1) Lewis Hamilton
Ques. : 5 Which of the following has became first Union Territory (UT) to sign 24x7 Power for All document recently?
1) Puducherry
2) Daman and Diu
3) Chandigarh
4) Lakshadweep
5) Andaman and Nicobar
Answer:- 4) Lakshadweep
Ques. : 6 Which north-eastern states were brought on broad gauge rail map with the launch of passenger trains between Silchar-Jiribam and Silchar-Bhairabi recently?
1) Manipur and Mizoram
2) Mizoram and Meghalaya
3) Meghalaya and Manipur
4) Meghalaya and Tripura
5) Tripura and Mizoram
Answer:- 1) Manipur and Mizoram
Ques. : 7 President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Malti Gyan Peeth Puraskars for the year 2016 recently. Every year, the award is given to five
1) students
2) poets
3) teachers
4) artists
5) authors
Answer:- 3) teachers
Ques. : 8 _________ will lead a yoga session at the UN on the occasion of the second International Yoga Day on 21 Jun.
1) Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
2) Ramdev
3) Swami Nithyananda
4) Mooji
5) Ravi Shankar
Answer:- 1) Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Ques. : 9 Which of the following firms forayed into e-commerce sector with the launch of CliQ, an online and app-based platform, recently?
1) Tata Group
2) RIL
3) Essel Group
4) Essar Group
5) Future Group
Answer:- 1) Tata Group
Ques. : 10 Which state govt has entered the Limca Book of Records for conducting the most intensive household survey by a state in the country?
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Telangana
3) Jharkhand
4) Karnataka
5) Odisha
Answer:- 2) Telangana
