Q.1 The World Day For Animals In Laboratories (WDAIL) is marked annually on which date?
a. 21 April
b. 24 April
c. 22 April
d. 23 April
Q.2 Name the Indian bureaucrat who has recently been appointed as the external auditor of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)?
a. Rajiv Mehrishi
b. Manoj Sinha
c. GC Murmu
d. K. K. Venugopal
Q.3 Who has become the first Indian-American Associate Attorney General of the United States?
a. Neera Tanden
b. Vivek Murthy
c. Nikki Haily
d. Vanita Gupta
Q.4 Indian Mountaineer Priyanka Mohite has become the first Indian woman to scale which peak?
a. Kangchenjunga
b. K2
c. Mount Everest
d. Mt Annapurna
Q.5 Which state reiterated the commitment to achieve the ‘Har Ghar Jal’ target by 2022?
a. Punjab
b. Bihar
c. UP
d. Haryana
Q.6 Miguel Díaz-Canel to be appointed as new president of which country?
a. Cuba
b. Vietnam
c. Kenya
d. Seychelles
Q.7 Recently Dilhara Lokuhettige was banned from cricket.He belongs to which nation?
a. England
b. Zimbabwe
c. India
d. SriLanka
Q.8 Recently which Islamic scholar and Padma Bhushan-awardee passed away?
a. Shakib Al Hasan
b. Maulana Shamir Khan
c. Sheikh Al Usmani
d. Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Q.9 Which state government has launched YSR Zero Interest Crop Loan Scheme?
a. Andhra Pradesh
b. Karnataka
c. Himachal Pradesh
d. Punjab
Q.10 Which country is going to build its space station by 2030?
a. China
b. Russia
c. UAE
d. Japan
Answers –
Q.1 b) The World Day For Animals In Laboratories (WDAIL); also known as World Lab Animal Day or World Day for Laboratory Animals, is observed every year on 24 April.
Q.2 c) India’s Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) GC Murmu has been chosen as the external auditor of the Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). GC Murmu has been appointed as the external auditor of OPCW for a period of three-year starting 2021.
Q.3 d)
Q.4 d) Mountaineer Priyanka Mohite on April 16, 2021, became the first woman from India to scale the tenth highest mountain in the world, Mt Annapurna.
Q.5 a) Punjab State reiterated the commitment of the State to achieve ‘Har Ghar Jal’ target by 2022 as planned. Punjab has 34.73 lakh rural households, out of which 25.88 lakh (74.5%) have tap water supply.
Q.6 a)
Q.7 d) Former Sri Lanka cricketer Dilhara Lokuhettige was banned from all cricket for eight years after being found guilty of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.
Q.8 d) Islamic scholar and Padma Bhushan-awardee Maulana Wahiduddin Khan passed away.
Q.9 a)
Q.10 b)