Current Affairs Questions and Answers – May 17 & 18, 2015

Current Affairs Questions and Answers – May 17 & 18, 2015

Q1. Name the present Prime Minister of Mongolia?

A. Chimediin Saikhanbileg

B. Dendeviin Terbishdagva

C. Norovyn Altankhuyag 

D. Sükhbaataryn Batbold 

ANSWER: A. Chimediin Saikhanbileg

Q2. On 17th May’15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a line of credit of one billion US Dollars to support expansion of Mongolia's ______.

A. Increasing Control of Pollution

B. Military Expansion

C. Economic Capacity and Infrastructure

D. All of these

ANSWER: C. Economic Capacity and Infrastructure

Q3. At what percent of GDP the government has contained the fiscal deficit against its own target of 4.1 per cent for the financial year 2014-15?

A. 4.3%

B. 5.2%

C. 3.2%

D. 4%

ANSWER: D. 4%

Q4. Which country Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit on the last leg of his three nation visit during 18-19th May’15?

A. North Korea

B. South Korea

C. Vietnam

D. Japan

ANSWER: B. South Korea

Q5. Which two countries accounted for 54 percent of the total global gold consumer demand in the first quarter of the year 2015?

A. Dubai and Saudi Arabia

B. Oman and Afghanistan

C. China and Pakistan

D. India and China

ANSWER: D. India and China

Q6. Which country’s president played in an exhibition ice hockey game with retired NHL players on 16th May’15 and scored eight goals?

A. India

B. Russia

C. China

D. Mongolia

ANSWER: B. Russia

Q7. Name the world’s first fully warm-blooded fish species discovered by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?

A. Opah

B. Bony

C. Opera

D. Ray

ANSWER: A. Opah

Q8. Constitution Day of Norway was observed on ____.

A. 16th May

B. 18th May

C. 17th May

D. 19th May

ANSWER: C. 17th May

Q9. In which country, the 68th Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) is scheduled to held from 18th May’15?

A. Britain

B. South Africa

C. Brazil

D. Geneva

ANSWER: D. Geneva

Q10. Name the shooter who won the bronze medal in the 50m Rifle Prone Event of the ISSF World Cup at Fort Benning in USA?

A. Gagan Narang

B. Abhinav Bindra

C. Naveen Jindal

D. Souren Choudhary

ANSWER: A. Gagan Narang

Q11. Name the three Indian cities that will have Sister Cities in China as proposed in the 24 agreements signed between India and China on 15 May 2015? 

A. Jhansi, Bhopal and Nagpur

B. Chennai, Hyderabad and Aurangabad

C. Hissar, Chandauli and Siliguri

D. Pune, Bengaluru and Hyderabad

ANSWER: B. Chennai, Hyderabad and Aurangabad

Q12. Which state will have province ties with Sichuan province of China as proposed in the 24 agreements signed between India and China on 15 May 2015?

A. Andhra Pradesh

B. Maharashtra

C. Goa

D. Karnataka

ANSWER: D. Karnataka

Q13. Name the poet of the ‘Gandhi Mala Bethala’ – a Marathi Poem?

A. Devidas Ramachandra Tuljapurkar 

B. Vasant Dattatray Gurjar 

C. Bhalachandra Nemade 

D. None of these

ANSWER: B. Vasant Dattatray Gurjar 

Q14. Which country’s Prime Minister has married his gay partner, becoming the first leader in the European Union to enter into a same-sex union in a symbol of growing social change across the continent?

A. Seychelles 

B. Canada

C. Luxembourg

D. Thailand

ANSWER: C. Luxembourg