Daily gk Doze : 1st May 2016

1. Singapore’s DBS bank on 26 April 2016 launched a mobile-only bank in India. What is the name of the bank?

a) Mobibank b) Digibank c) Both (a) and (b) d) None of the above 

2. The Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare 2016 was observed on which date?

a) 5 February

b) 20 January

c) 16 March

d) 29 April 

3. Name the Indian academician who was on 28 April 2016  appointed to the United Nations' University Council?

a) Shashikala Prasad

b) Radha Kumar

c) Krishnamurthy Iyer

d) Renu Rana 

4. Name the material with which China developed a new electronic paper of its kind that was in news in the last of April 2016.

a) Boron Nitride

b) Graphene

c) Carbyne

d) None of these 

5. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on 28 April 2016 inaugurated 100 piped water supply projects for rural areas. The projects were inaugurated on the birth anniversary of –

a) Sarala Das b) Kavisurya Baladev Rath

c) Utkal Gaurab Madhusudan Das

d) Gangadhar Meher 

6. Name the global information services company that in the last week of April 2016 launched a fraud detection mechanism named ‘the Hunter Fraud Score’.

a) Auriga b) Sapient c) Intetics d) Experian 

7. Which of the following paper currencies on 25 April 2016 won the IBNS Banknote of the Year Award for 2015?

a) New Zealand’s 5 dollar note

b) Sweden’s 20 Kronor note

c) Russia’s 100 Ruble note

d) Kazakhstan’s 20000 Tenge note 

8. Identify the design of the speed breakers which will be introduced on few highways to act as virtual speed breakers by the Union Road & transport Ministry.

a) Square design

b) Rhombus design

c) Three-dimensional (3D) design

d) None of these...................

9. What is the name of the initiative in which the people of Kozhikode, Kerala are silently funding to feed anyone who is hungry for free, with utmost dignity?

a) Operation No Hunger b) Operation Sulaimani

c) Feed Ur Fellow d) None of these 

10. Which of the following days is celebrated on 3lst May worldwide?

a) International Mount Everest Day 

b) World Meteorology Day 

e) World Thyroid Day 

d) World No Tobacco Day