Current Affairs Quiz: 30th May 2017

30 May 2017: The Current Affairs Quizzes section of Jagranjosh.com wants to help every aspirant of competitive exams to revise the day at an ease. These quizzes will help you in answering questions which can/may be asked in the next exam that will be faced by you. The day’s updated quizzes cover the topics like Swachh Bharat Mission campaign ‘Darwaza Band’, a country’s first-ever women’s only television channel and mobile app that aims to protect the university students among others.

1. Who of the following is the lead the Union Government’s campaign called Darwaza Band that was launched on 30 May 2017?
a) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
b) Amitabh Bachchan
c) Gautam Gambhir
d) Akshay Kumar

2. Who of the following is the feature in the Union Government’s campaign called Darwaza Band that was launched on 30 May 2017?
a) Sunny Leone
b) Priyanka Chopra
c) Deepika Padukone
d) Anushka Sharma

3. Which country has witnessed the launch of its first-ever women’s only television channel?
a) Germany
b) Italy
c) Afghanistan
d) India

4. Name the country whose president in May 2017 approved a contentious new bill that regulates non-governmental organisations (NGO).
a) Egypt
b) Greece
c) India
d) China

5. India has signed a MoU on Defence Cooperation with which country?
a) Mauritius
b) Fiji
c) Russia
d) Germany

6. US researchers have identified a new method to slow down the development of which life-threatening disease?
a) Tuberculosis
b) Cancer
c) Diabetes
d) HIV/Aids

7. Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar launched a mobile app that aims to protect the university students from which ill-practice?
a) Sexual Harassment
b) Caste-based discrimination
c) Ragging
d) Drug Abuse

8. Which of the following football clubs recently won the Coupe de France for the record 11th time?
a) Angers
b) Marseille
c) Monaco
d) Paris Saint-Germain

9. Dailong village was recently declared Biodiversity Heritage Site. The village falls in which of the following states?
a) Nagaland
b) Mizoram
c) Manipur
d) Assam

10. Where was a new glass frog species, Hyalinobatrachium yaku, with transparent skin and visible beating heart found?
a) Argentina
b) Ecuador
c) Colombia
d) Aruba

11. By which year India's own Global Positioning System NavIC will become operational?
a) 2017
b) 2018
c) 2019
d) 2020

12. Which country was ranked as the most complex tax jurisdiction in Asia-Pacific, as per 2017 Asia Pacific Tax Complexity Survey conducted by Deloitte?
a) Australia
b) Japan
c) China
d) India

13. Name the former Panama dictator who passed away recently.
a) Manuel Noriega
b) Constantine Mitsotakis
c) Eddy Merckx
d) Morgan Schneiderlin

14. Gregg Allaman, the renowned musician passed away. He hailed from which country?
a) South Africa
b) United States
c) Belgium
d) China Hide

15. Name the former Greek Prime Minister who passed away recently.
a) Constantine Mitsotakis
b) S Cleisthenes
c) Alexis Tsipras
d) Prokopis Pavlopoulos

ANSWER
1. (b) Amitabh Bachchan
2. (d) Anushka Sharma
3. (c) Afghanistan
4. (a) Egypt
5. (b) Fiji
6. (b) Cancer
7. (c) Ragging
8. (d) Paris Saint-Germain
9. (c) Manipur
10. (b) Ecuador
11. (a) 2017
12. (c) China
13. (a) Manuel Noriega
14. (b) United States
15. (a) Constantine Mitsotakis