Daily GK Quiz 13th March 2015

Q. : 1 Vasant Gowarikar passed away recently. He was an eminent

1) musician 

2) author

3) zoologist 

4) space scientist

5) None of these 

Q. : 2 4,000-year-old house with rare clue to Harappan habitation was found by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at Chandyan village in which of the following locations recently?

1) Baghpat, UP 

2) Rajkot, Gujarat

3) Ajmer, Rajasthan 

4) East Champaran, Bihar

5) None of these 

Q. : 3 Name the committee, formed to suggest ways and means to raise the revenue of Indian Railways, which submitted its report on 30 Dec.

1) Bibek Debroy Committee 

2) DK Mittal Committee

3) E Sreedharan Committee 

4) Arvind Panagariya Committee

5) None of these 

Q. : 4 The meteorological satellite, Fengyun-II 08, was successfully launched by which of the following countries on 31 Dec?

1) Japan 

2) South Korea

3) North Korea 

4) China

5) Malaysia 

Q. : 5 The world’s first mangrove zoo is coming up in which of the following states of India?

1) Assam 

2) Odisha

3) West Bengal 

4) Tripura

5) Jharkhand 

Q. : 6 The 24-year-old Kei Perenna, who has become the world’s youngest billionaire, replacing Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, belongs to

1) Japan 

2) South Korea

3) Singapore 

4) China

5) Malaysia 

Q. : 7 The Centre on 12 Dec appointed who among the following as the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)?

1) MYS Prasad 

2) Shailesh Nayak

3) Subbiah Arunan 

4) AS Kiran Kumar

5) None of these 

Q. : 8 India is negotiating the USD 6-bn surface-to-air missile systems project, Maitri, with which of the following countries?

1) US 

2) Russia

3) Germany 

4) Japan

5) France 

Q. : 9 Which of the following state govts has decided to implement a Potato Mission from fiscal 2015-16 to make the state self-sufficient in potato production and storage over a period of three years?

1) Uttar Pradesh 

2) Odisha

3) Bihar 

4) Haryana

5) West Bengal 

Q. : 10 Which of the following is the only country to produce the health-rich purple tea as of now?

1) Kenya 

2) Sri Lanka

3) China 

4) India

5) None of these 

Answer:-

1. (4) space scientist
2. (1) Baghpat, UP
3. (2) DK Mittal Committee
4. (4) China
5. (3) West Bengal
6. (4) China
7. (4) AS Kiran Kumar
8. (5) France
9. (2) Odisha
10. (1) Kenya