GK & Current Affairs Quiz

1.India’s first private sector small arms manufacturing plant has set up in which state?

Assam Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra

2.Who has been appointed the new chairman of the Tea Board of India?

Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah M G K V Bhanu Santosh Sarangi M S Boje Gowda

3.Which social networking site has officially launched “Express Wi-Fi” internet services in India?

YouTube Facebook Twitter Instagram

4.Which state government has recently become the registered proprietor of the GI tag for Banganapalle mangoes?

Uttar Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Andhra Pradesh

5.The 2017 National Standards Conclave (NSC) was held in which city?

New Delhi Jaipur Lucknow Indore

GK 2016

• Master Gaurav Menon has won the award for Best Child Artist at the 63rd National film awards 2015 for Malayalam movie Ben.
• Leicester City football club has won the 2016 English Premier League (EPL) title . With this win, Leicester City has become the champions for the first time in their 132-year history. The Football Writers’ Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year 2016 has been awarded to Jamie Vardy, footballer of Leicester City.
• The book “Politics of the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations” has been authored by Yeshi Choedon. This book investigate deep into military personnel and financial management by the United Nations in its peacekeeping efforts around the world, which the author claims to be the most important and evident method to control conflicts around the world.
• The United Nations’World Press Freedom Day is observed every year on May 3 to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press. The 2016 Theme is “Access to Information and Fundamental Freedoms – This Is Your Right!”. On this day, the 2016 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize has been honoured to Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist from Azerbaijan, in Helsinki, Finland.
• Nico Rosberg, a German Formula One driver for Mercedes Formula One team, has won the 2016 Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix in Sochi, Russia.

GK Facts

1. Dinosaurs didn’t eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs. 

2. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour). 

3. A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc. 

4. Sharks are immune to disease i.e. they do not suffer from any Disease. 

5. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog. 

6. Paris, France has more dogs than people. 

7. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people. 

8. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average. 

9. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water. 

10. There are 6 to 14 frog?s species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.

GK Facts

1.Turtles have no teeth.

2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.

3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.

4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they’re crying.

5. Helium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.

6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.

7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.

8. Camels can spit.

9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).

10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.