CURRENT AFFAIRS
25 MAY, 2021 TO 31 MAY, 2021
1. Who
has topped the Forbes Highest paid Athletes list 2021?
(a) Lionel Messi, Soccer
(b) Roger Federer, Tennis
(c) Conor McGregor, MMA
(d) Cristiano Ronaldo, Soccer
Answer:
(c)
2. Who
has been ranked top in the Bloomberg Billionaire Index 2021?
(a) Elon Musk
(b) Feff Bezos
(c) Brenard Arnault
(d) Mukesh Ambani
Answer:
(b)
3. Which
state government has launched an anti-Covid “Sanjeevani Pariyojana” that will provide
supervised and quick medical care at home for people, with mild to moderate
symptoms of Covid 19, residing in rural areas?
(a) Haryana
(b) Punjab
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(d) Bihar
Answer:
(a)
4. Which
state government has launched the “Mission Oxygen Self-Reliance” scheme to meet
the state’s oxygen needs?
(a) Gujarat
(b) Assam
(c) West Bengal
(d) Maharashtra
Answer:
(d)
5. Which
state government has announced Chief Minister Vatsalya Yojana for orphaned children
who have lost their parents due to Covid-19?
(a) Uttarakhand
(b) Kerala
(c) Odisha
(d) Madhya Pradesh
Answer:
(a)
6. Who
has been appointed as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo?
(a) Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda
(b) Joseph Ngute
(c) Denis Sassou Nguesso
(d) Anatole Collinet Makosso
Answer:
(d)
7. Who
has been elected as the President of Syria?
(a) Bashar al-Assad
(b) Hafez al-Assad
(c) Maher al-Assad
(d) Bassel al-Assad
Answer:
(a)
8. Who
is the author of the book titled ‘Nehru, Tibet and China’?
(a) Arjun Appadurai
(b) Bina Agarwal
(c) Avtar Singh Bhasin
(d) Syed Ahmed
Answer:
(c)
9. Who
is the author of the book titled ‘‘India and Asian Geopolitics : The Past,
Present’?
(a) Shivshankar Menon
(b) Shyam Saran
(c) Nirupama Rao
(d) Brajesh Mishra
Answer:
(a)
10. Which
bank has announced the launch of a unique facility of linking a UPI (Unified
Payments Interface) ID to its digital wallet ’Pockets’, marking a departure
from the current practice that demands such IDs be linked with a savings bank account?
(a) HDFC Bank
(b) State Bank of India
(c) ICICI Bank
(d) Punjab National Bank
Answer:
(c)
11. Who
has been elected as the President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH)?
(a) Marc Coudron
(b) Thierry Weil
(c) Fumio Ogura
(d) Narinder Batra
Answer:
(d)
12. Who
has been announced as the 2021 winner of the Templeton Prize?
(a) Dian Fossey
(b) Sylvia Earle
(c) Hugo van Lawick
(d) Jane Goodall
Answer:
(d)
13. Who
has been conferred with the ‘2021 Princess of Asturias Award’ by Spain in the
social sciences category?
(a) Nabaneeta Dev Sen
(b) Abhijit Banerjee
(c) Amartya Kumar Sen
(d) John Rawls
Answer:
(c)
14. Who
has been felicitated with the International Eni Award 2020?
(a) C.N.R. Rao
(b) Ajay K. Sood
(c) Udupi Ramachandra Rao
(d) Bernard Raveau
Answer:
(a)
15. Who
has won the Monaco Grand Prix 2021?
(a) Lewis Hamilton
(b) Max Verstappen
(c) Carlos Sainz Jr.
(d) L. Norris
Answer:
(b)
16. Which
team won the 2020-21 La Liga title?
(a) Sevilla
(b) Barcelona
(c) Real Madrid
(d) Atletico Madrid
Answer:
(d)
17. Who
won the 2021 PGA Championship?
(a) Phil Mickelson
(b) Tiger Woods
(c) Jordan Spieth
(d) Rory McIlroy
Answer:
(a)
18. When
is World Turtle Day observed?
(a) 23 May
(b) 26 May
(c) 29 May
(d) 31 May
Answer:
(a)
19. When
is World Thyroid Day observed?
(a) 21 May
(b) 23 May
(c) 25 May
(d) 27 May
Answer:
(c)
20. When
is World Hunger Day observed?
(a) 21 May
(b) 24 May
(c) 25 May
(d) 28 May
Answer:
(d)
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