Hi Aspirants, here is the Current Affairs Quiz
Questions for 18 August 2016 useful for all upcoming competitive exams.
1. Who won India’s first medal at the 2016
Rio Olympic Games by clinching the bronze in the wrestling 58kg category?
Answer: Sakshi Malik
Note: Sakshi Malik created history by
becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal. It was
India’s overall 25th medal in Olympic Games. She defeated Aisuluu Tynybekova of
Kyrgyzstan by 8-5 points. With this she becomes only the fourth woman athlete
from India to win an Olympic medal. Weight-lifter Karnam Malleshwari was the
first Indian to win an Olympic medal.
2.Name the world’s largest (longest)
aircraft which has recently embarked its maiden flight at an airfield in
Cardington in central England?
Answer: Airlander 10
Note: Airlander 10 is hybrid ship i.e. it
is a partly plane and partly airship filled with helium gas. It is
92-metre-long and 43.5m wide.
3. Indian cricket team has secured world
No.1 ranking in the latest ICC Test rankings. Which team is at second position?
Answer: Pakistan
4. Which state has become the 3rd State to
ratify the Goods and Services Tax on 18 August 2016?
Answer: Jharkhand
5. PM Modi laid the foundation stone of new
BJP HQ building at ____ on August 18, 2016?
Answer: New Delhi
6. The government has recently launched new
initiatives including setting up of a water purification plant under Namami
Gange at?
Answer: Mathura, UP
7. Name the three apps launched by Power
Ministry to enhance transparency in the power transmission sector?
Answer: TARANG,e-Trans &
DEEP
8. PV Sindhu made history on 18 August 2016
for Indian badminton when she reached the final of the women’s singles event
after beating Nozomi Okuhara of which country?
Answer: Japan
9. Who was on 17 August 2016 appointed as
the Administrator of Lakshadweep?
Answer: Farooq Khan
10. Name the Indian-American who was
recently named co-chair of the transition team of Hillary Clinton?
Answer: Neera Tanden
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