GK Current Affairs Quiz: May 15, 2017

Ans. C

Narmada is known as lifeline of Madhya Pradesh. PM Modi recently launched the Narmada Seva Mission for the conservation of Narmada River.

Ans. B

French President Emmanuel Macron has named centreright Edouard Philippe as his first Prime Minister.

Ans. C

Rafael Nadal continued his unbeaten run on clay this season after winning the Madrid Masters for the fifth time by defeating Austria’s Dominic Thiem.

Ans. A

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba’s Founder Jack Ma has surpassed real estate and entertainment tycoon, Wang Jianlin, to become China’s richest person.

Ans. C

India finished with 10 medals, including one gold, five silver and four bronze at the Asian Wrestling Championship, bettering their tally of nine medals in the last edition at Bangkok.

Ans. C

Vegetable- khichdi, rajma – rice and idli -vada will be the replacements for pizza, pastries and noodles in school canteens of Maharashtra as the State Government has imposed a ban on HFSS foods in all school canteens of the State.

Ans. B

The Manohar Lal Khattar government has decided to gather a detailed data of every resident and issue a sleek identity for every house in Haryana. During the survey, address of each house, photo, location, details of owner of the house, electricity connection, water connection, details of electronic devices, bank account numbers, IFSC code and other personal details will be collected.

Ans. A

SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali 2: The Conclusion has become the first Indian film to cross Rs 1000 crore at the box office, it is now close to collecting around 1500-crore mark at the worldwide market and its Hindi dubbed version is inching towards the 500-crore mark at the domestic box-office.

Ans. D

Sohail Mahmood, one of Pakistan’s senior-most diplomats, has been chosen as new High Commissioner to India. Mahmood, 55, currently Pakistan’s ambassador in Turkey, was granted a visa by India . He will be succeeding Abdul Basit who was the previous High commissioner of Pakistan to India.

Ans. C

It is proposed to replace the Maitri station at Antarctica in next 3-4 years, incorporating the modern energy conservation systems i.e. CHP units and integrated power generation through wind energy and solar power, a waste conservation and waste disposal strategy through appropriate redesign of wastewater treatment and disposal system capable to recycle treated water to meet Environmental Protocol,.