Q.

Which Indian institution has been conferred with the World Health Organization’s 2024
Nelson Mandela Award for Health Promotion?
Answer: National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru.

Q. When was the Nelson Mandela Award for Health Promotion established by the World
Health Organisation?
Answer: 2019.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the World Health Organisation?

Answer: Geneva, Switzerland

Q. When was the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS)
established?
Answer: It was established on 27 December 1974 by merging the Mental Hospital
established by the Government of Mysore and the Government of India’s All India Institute
of Mental Health.

Q. Who is currently the director of NIMHANS, Bengaluru?

Answer: Dr. Pratima Murthy,

Q. Where was the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly of the World Health
Organisation held?
Answer: Geneva, Switzerland

Q. What was the growth rate of the Indian economy in 2023-24, according to the National
Statistical Office (NSO) released on 31 May 2024?

Answer: 8.2 percent

Q. Which sector of the Indian economy registered the highest growth rate in 2023-24?
Answer: The Secondary sector grew by 9.7 per cent, the Primary sector grew by 2.1 per
cent, and the Tertiary sector grew by 7.6 per cent in 2023-24.

Q. What was the growth rate of the Agricultural and allied sector during 2023-24?
Answer: 1.4 per cent

Q. What was the contribution of the primary sector to the Indian economy in 2023-24?
Answer: 19.6 percent.

Q. The National Statistical Organisation comes under which ministry of the government of
India?
Answer: Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).

Q. What was the contribution of the secondary sector to the Indian economy in 2023-24?
Answer: 25.7 per cent.

Q. What was the contribution of the tertiary sector to the Indian economy in 2023-24?
Answer: 54. 7 per cent.

Q. Which Indian companies have been included in the Times Magazine Global 100 Most
Influential Companies of 2024?
Answer: Reliance Industries Limited, Tata Group and Serum Institute of India.

Q. Which is the only Indian company to be included twice in the Times Magazine Global
100 Most Influential Companies of 2024?
Answer: Reliance Industries Limited is included in 2024, and Jio will be a subsidiary of
Reliance in 2021.
Q. When was the first Times Magazine Global 100 Most Influential Companies list
published?
Answer: 2021

Q. Serum Institute of India has been included in which category of the Times Magazine
Global 100 Most Influential Companies list 2024?
Answer: Pioneer category.

Q. RIL and Tata Group have been included in which category of the Times Magazine
Global 100 Most Influential Companies list in 2024?
Answer: Titan category.

Q. Which Indian company will operate Container Terminal 2 at the Dar es Salaam Port of
Tanzania?
Answer: Adani International Ports Holdings Private Limited of the Adani Group.

Q. For how many years the Adani group will operate the container 2 port at the Dar es
Salaam Port of Tanzania?

Answer: 30 years.

Q. Tanzania lies on which continent?

Answer: It is an East African country

Q. What is the longest freshwater lake in the world?

Answer: Lake Tanganyika

Q. The highest mountain of Africa, Kilimanjaro, lies in which country?

Answer: Tanzania
Q. What is the capital of Tanzania?
Answer: Dodoma

Q. What is the currency of Tanzania?

Answer: Tanzanian Shillings.

Q. Which football club has won the 2023-24 UEFA Champions League?
Answer: Real Madrid of Spain defeated Borussia Dortmund of Germany in the final.

Q. Which football team has won the UEFA Champions League title most times?
Answer: Real Madrid 15 times.

Q.Which country’s football team has won the UEFA Champions League title most times?
Answer: Spain. The Spanish club has won it 20 times.

Q. The UEFA Champions League, which was started in 1992-93, replaced which European
tournament?
Answer: The European Champion Clubs’ Cup, which started in 1955-56.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Union of European Football Association (UEFA)?

Answer: Nyon, Switzerland

Q. Borussia Dortmund, which lost the final of the 2023-24 UEFA Champions League,
belongs to which country?
Answer: Germany

Q. Where was the final of the 2023-24 UEFA Champions League played?
Answer: Wembley Stadium, England
Q. Which football club is also famous as Los Blancos?
Answer: Real Madrid of Spain.

Q. How many seats have been won by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Sikkim
Legislative Assembly election?

Answer: 46 out of 60 seats. 10 seats were won by BJP unopposed.

Q. On how many seats of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly the election was
held on 19 April 2024?
Answer: 50 seats. The election was not held on 10 seats, as the candidates were declared
unopposed.

Q. Which party has returned to power in the recently held 2024 legislative assembly
election in Sikkim?
Answer: Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM). It had won the 2019 election also.

Q. Who holds the record of being the longest-serving chief minister in India?
Answer: Pawan Kumar Chamling of Sikkim Democratic Front. He was chief minister of Sikkim
from 1994 to 2019, more than 24 years.

Q. How many seats are there in the Sikkim legislative assembly?

Answer: 32.

Q. Which legislative assembly was constituted in Sikkim by the 2024 legislative assembly
election?
Answer: 11th Legislative Assembly.
Q. Which legislative assembly was constituted in Arunachal Pradesh by the 2024
legislative assembly election?
Answer: 11th Legislative Assembly.

Q. Where was the 21st Shangri-La Dialogue held?

Answer: Singapore from 31 May to 2 June 2024.

Q. Who organises the annual Shangri-La Dialogue or the Asian Security Summit?
Answer: London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies and Government of
Singapore.

Q. Who is the United States Secretary of Defence?

Answer: Lloyd Austin

Q. When was the first Shangri-La Dialogue or the Asian Security Summit held?
Answer: 2002

Q. On which date Hyderabad became the sole capital of Telangana?

Answer: 2 June 2024. Earlier, Hyderabad was the joint capital of Andhra Pradesh and
Telangana for 10 years.

Q. Which city was proposed as the capital city for Andhra Pradesh by the Andhra Pradesh
Capital Region Development Authority Act 2014?
Answer: Amravati

Q. Who was the head of the committee set up by the government of India to suggest a
new capital for Andhra Pradesh?
Answer: K.C.Sivaramakrishnan
Q. Who has been elected as the first woman president of Mexico?
Answer: Claudia Shienbaum

Q. What is the term of the president of Mexico?

Answer: Six years.

Q. How many terms can a person be elected as the president of Mexico?

Answer: Only one term of six years.

Q. Which country has the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world?

Answer: Mexico

Q. What is the currency of Mexico?

Answer: Mexican peso.

Q. Claudia Sheinbaum, elected as the first president of Mexico, belongs to which political
party?
Answer: Morena Party

Q. Who has been elected as the President of Iceland?

Answer: Halla Tomasdottir

Q. Who was the first elected woman president in the world?

Answer: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was elected president of Iceland in 1980

Q. Who was the first female prime minister in the world?

Answer: In 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the prime minister of Sri Lanka.
Q. What is the capital of Iceland?
Answer: Reykjavik

Q. Which country’s parliament is considered to be one of the oldest national assemblies in

the world?

Answer: Iceland’s parliament Althing.

Q. What is the term of the President of Iceland?

Answer: Four years

Q.Iceland is situated in which ocean?

Answer: North Atlantic Ocean.

Q. Dinesh Karthik, who was in the news recently, belongs to which field?
Answer: Cricket.

Q. Kedar Jadhav, who recently announced his retirement, belonged to which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Q. Which type of cricketer was Dinesh Karthik?

Answer: Wicketkeeper-Batsman

Q. For which state Kedar Jadhav played in domestic cricket?

Answer: Maharashtra

Q. Which company recently became the seventh Indian company to have a market
capitalisation of more than Rs eight lakh crore?
Answer: State Bank of India.

Q. Which Indian companies have crossed the market capitalisation of over Rs eight lakh
crore capitalisation?
Answer: Reliance Industries, Tata Consultancy Services, HDFC Bank, Bharti Airtel, Infosys,
ICICI Bank and SBI.

Q. When was the name of the Imperial Bank of India changed to the State Bank of India?

Answer: 1955

Q. When did the Reserve Bank of India transfer its entire stake in SBI to the government of
India?
Answer: 2007. It transferred its entire 59.7 per cent stake to the government of India.

Q. How many farmers' families have voluntarily surrendered the Pradhan Mantri Kisan
Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme benefits during the June 2023 to May 2024 period?

Answer 116,000 farmer families.

Q. Which state tops the list of farmers who have voluntarily given up the benefits of the
PM-Kisan yojana during the June 2023 to May 2024 period?
Answer: Bihar(29176) followed by Uttar Pradesh (26.593).

Q. How many farmer families of Rajasthan voluntarily gave up the benefits of the PM -
Kisan scheme during June 2023 to May 2024 period?

Answer:10,343 farmer families.

Q. At which place the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme was
launched in 2019?
Answer: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, by PM Modi on 24 February 2019.
Q. How much money is paid by the government of India to the eligible farmers under the
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme?
Answer: Rs 6000 per year in three installments in the bank accounts of the beneficiary.

Q. How many medals were won by the Indian athletics contingent at the 2024 Taiwan
Athletics Open?
Answer: seven medals -three golds, three silvers and one bronze.

Q. D.P. Manu who recently won a gold medal in an international event, belongs to which
sports?
Answer: Javelin

Q. Nayana James belongs to which sport?

Answer: Long Jump athlete

Q. Dev Meena, who won a silver medal at the 2024 Taiwan Athletics Open participated in
which event?
Answer: 800 meters race

Q. What is the capital of Taiwan ?

Answer: Taipei.

Q. Which campaign was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of
World Environment Day 2024?
Answer: ‘ Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’.

Q. Which tree was planted by the Prime Minister in Delhi to start the Ek Ped Maa Ke
Naam campaign on the occasion of World Environment Day 2024?
Answer: Peepal tree

Q. When is World Environment Day 2024 observed in the world?

Answer: 5 June

Q. When was the first World Environment Day observed in the world?
Answer: 5 June 1973.

Q. What is the theme of the World Environment Day 2024?

Answer: Our Land. Our Future. We are #GenerationRestoration”.

Q. When was the UN Convention to Combat Desertification signed to combat land

degradation and desertification?
Answer: At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.

Q. When did the UN Convention to Combat Desertification come into force?

Answer: It was signed in 1992 but came into force in December 1996.

Q. Where will the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification (UNCCD) be held?
Answer: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2 to 13 December 2024.

Q. Who is the first cricketer in the world to hit 600 sixes in international matches?

Answer: Indian cricket captain, Rohit Sharma

Q. Who is the third cricketer in the world to score 4000 runs in T20 International matches?
Answer: Rohit Sharma after Virat Kohli and Pakistan’s Babar Azam.
Q. Who is the most successful Indian captain in T20 Internationals?
Answer: Rohit Sharma. He has won 42 matches in 55 games, while Mahendra Singh Dhoni
has won 41 matches in 72 matches in T 20 Internationals.

Q. Who is the third batsman in the world to score more than 1000 runs in the ICC T20
World Cup?
Answer: Rohit Sharma. Virat Kohli has scored 1142 runs, and Mahela Jayawardene of Sri
Lanka 1016 runs in the T20 World Cup.

Q. Which player in the world cricket is famous as Hitman?

Answer: Indian cricket captain Rohit Sharma.

Q. Where was the 3rd Indian Analytical Congress held?

Answer: Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Q. What is the theme of the 3rd Indian Analytical Congress 2024?

Answer: Role of Science and Technology in Green Transitions.

Q. Who has organised the 3rd Indian Analytical Congres 2024?

Answer: Indian Institute of Petroleum (CSIR-IIP), Dehradun, and the Indian Society of
Analytical Scientists (ISAS-Delhi Chapter).

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Indian Institute of Petroleum?

Answer: Dehradun.
Q. Where was the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 Forum High-Level
Event 2024 held?
Answer: Geneva, Switzerland.
Q. Which technological product of the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) has
won the United Nations World Summit of Information Society (WISS) 2024?
Answer: Mobile-Enabled Disaster Resilience through Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerting of C-
DOT won the award.

Q. What is Mobile-Enabled Disaster Resilience through Cell Broadcast Emergency Alerting?

Answer: It is an end-to-end mobile-enabled text messaging system sent by mobile operators
to users in case of an emergency due to a natural disaster.

Q. Where was the first meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society held?
Answer: 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Q. Which city in India hosted the first Nakshatra Sabha, aimed at promoting astro
tourism?
Answer: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand

Q. Which city is famous as the Queen of the Hills?

Answer: Mussoorie, Uttarakhand

Q. Where is the George Everest Peak located in India?

Answer: Uttarakhand.

Q. Who organised India’s first astro-tourism Nakshatra Sabha?

Answer: Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board in association with Starscapes company.
Q. Which is the 81st wetland of India to be declared as a wetland of international
importance under the Ramsar Convention?
Answer: Nagi Bird Sanctuary in the Jamuai district of Bihar
Q. Which is the 82nd wetland of India to be declared as a wetland of international
importance under the Ramsar Convention?
Answer: Nakti Bird Sanctuary in the Jamuai district of Bihar

Q. Which was the first wetland of India to be declared as a wetland of international

importance under the Ramsar Convention?
Answer: Chilika Lake (Odisha) and Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan) in 1981.

Q. Which state has the maximum number of wetlands included under the Ramsar
Convention?
Answer: Tamil Nadu 16, followed by Uttar Pradesh 10

Q. How many wetlands in Bihar have been declared as wetlands of international

importance under the Ramsar Convention?
Answer: Three: Kanwar Lake in Begusarai district(2020) and Nagi and Nakti Bird
Sanctuary(2024) in Jamuai district.

Q. When is the World Wetland Day?

Answer: 2 February.

Q. Which countries have been elected in 2024 as non-permanent members of the United
Nations Security Council?
Answer: Pakistan, Somalia, Panama, Denmark, and Greece.

Q. What is the term of the non-permanent members of the United Nations Security
Council?

Answer: Two years.

Q. How many members are there in the United Nations Security Council?
Answer: 15. Five members are permanent: China, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and
the United States of America. Ten non-permanent members were elected for a two-year
term.

Q. How often has India been a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security
Council?
Answer: Eight times: 1950-1951, 1967-1968, 1972-1973, 1977-1978, 1984-1985, 1991-1992,
2011-2012, and 2021-2022.

Q. Where was the first Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) Clean
Economy Investor Forum meeting held?
Answer: Singapore on 5 and 6 June 2024.
Q. Where was the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) ministerial
meeting held?

Answer: Singapore on 5 and 6 June 2024.

Q. When was the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) launched?
Answer: In 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, by American President Joe Biden.

Q. How many countries are members of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for
Prosperity (IPEF)?

Answer: 14 countries: United States of America, India, Australia, Brunei, Fiji, Indonesia,
Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam.

Q. Who represented India at the first Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity
(IPEF) Clean Economy Investor Forum 2024?
Answer: Sunil Barthwal, Secretary of the Department of Commerce.

Q. Which countries have launched the Biopharmaceuticals Alliance?

Answer: India, Japan, South Korea, the European Union and the United States of America,

Q. Where was the Biopharmaceuticals Alliance launched, of which India is a member?

Answer: In San Diego, the United States of America.

Q. Where was the 2024 BIO International Convention held?

Answer: In San Diego, the United States of America.

Q. What is Biopharmaceuticals?

Answer: Biopharmaceuticals are a type of medical drug that is produced by using a living
being's organs and tissues, microorganisms, animal fluids, or genetically modified cells and
organisms by using biotechnology.

Q. Who has the first gold medal for India in the 2024 ISSF World Cup held in Munich
Germany?
Answer: Sarabjot Singh in men’s 10-meter air rifle.

Q. Sift Kaur Samra, who was in the news recently, belongs to which sport?
Answer: Shooting.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF)?

Answer: Munich, Germany.

Q. Ramoji Rao, who died recently, belonged to which field?

Answer: He was a businessman who founded Ramoji Film City and the Telugu TV channel
ETV.

Q. Eenadu newspaper, founded by Ramoji Rao, is published in which language?

Answer: Telugu language daily newspaper

Q. Where is one of the world’s largest integrated film cities, Ramoji Film City, located?
Answer: Hyderabad.

Q. When was noted filmmaker Ramoji Rao conferred Padma Vibhushan?

Answer: 2016.

Q. RBI announces its monetary policy after an interval of –?

Answer: every two months

Q. Who decides the policy Repo Rate of the Reserve Bank of India?
Answer: Six-member Monetary Policy Committee headed by RBI Governor.

Q. What is the current Policy Repo Rate?

Answer: Answer: 6.5%

Q. What is the current Cash Reserve Ratio?

Answer:4.5 %

Q. What is the current Statutory Liquidity Ratio?

Answer:18%

Q. What is the minimum amount a Scheduled Commercial Banks and Small Finance Banks
bank will accept in Bulk term deposits?
Answer: A single deposit of at least Rs 3 crore(earlier, it was Rs 2 crore).
Q. What is the minimum amount a Local Area Bank and Regional Rural Bank will accept in
Bulk term deposits?
Answer: A single deposit of at least Rs 1 crore.

Q. Who is the chairman of the committee on the Digital Payments Intelligence Platform
set up by the Reserve Bank of India?
Answer: A.P.Hota.

Q. A J T Johnsingh, who died recently, belonged to which field?

Answer: Noted Indian wildlife conservationist and biologist.

Q. A J T Johnsingh, who died recently, belonged to which state?

Answer: Tamil Nadu

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Wildlife Institute of India?

Answer: Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Q. Who was awarded the 2005 ABN AMRO Sanctuary Lifetime Wildlife Service Award?
Answer: Asir Jawahar Thomas Johnsingh, also known as A J T Johnsingh.

Q. Who has been conferred the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2024?
Answer: Vellayan Subbiah of India.

Q. How many Indians have won the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award?

Answer: Four- Narayana Murthy, Uday Kotak, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and Vellayan Subbiah.

Q. Where was the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2024 function held?
Answer: Monaco's Salle des Etoiles.
Q. Ernst & Young Global Limited, which gives the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year
Award, is based in which country?
Answer: Great Britain

Q. Who won the only gold medal for India at the 2024 Archery Asia Cup Stage 3 event?
Answer: Kumud Saini in the individual women’s compound event.

Q. Where was the 2024 Archery Asia Cup Stage 3 event held?
Answer: Suwon, South Korea

Q. How many medals were won by the Indian archers at the 2024 Archery Asia Cup Stage
3 event?
Answer: five medals - one gold, two silvers and two bronze.

Q. Maya Bishnoi and Tejal Rajendra Salve belong to which sport?

Answer: Archery

Q. The place of Suwon, which was in the news recently, is in which country?

Answer: South Korea.

Q. Who holds the record for being the Prime Minister of India four times after the
implementation of the constitution?
Answer: Indira Gandhi. She was Prime Minister 1966-69, 1969-71, 1971-77 and in 1980-84.

Q. Apart from Narendra Modi who has been the Prime Minister of India for three
consecutive terms after the promulgation of the constitution?

Answer: Pandit Nehru.

Q. How many women have been included in Narendra Modi’s third term Council of
Ministers?
Answer: Seven women, Nirmala Sitharaman, Annapurna Devi, Savitri Thakur,Nimuben
Bambhaniya, Raksha Khadse,Shobha Karandlaje.Annupriya Patel.

Q. Which state has the highest representation in the Union Council of Ministers formed in
the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh has 11 ministers, followed by Bihar with 8 and Gujarat with 6
ministers.

Q. How many members of parliament of Rajasthan have been made the minister in the
Union Council of Ministers formed in the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
Answer: Four, Bhupendra Yadav and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat as Cabinet Minister, Arjun
Meghwal as Minister of State (Independent Charge) and Bhagirath Chaudhary as Minister of
State.

Q. How many members were sworn in as members of the Union Council of Ministers by
President Murmu on 9 June 2024?

Answer: 72 ministers, including the Prime Minister.

Q. Who administers the oath of office and secrecy to the members of the Union Council of
Ministers?
Answer: President of India.

Q. Who appoints the Prime Minister of India?

Answer: Under Article 75 of the Constitution, the President of India appoints the Prime
Minister.

Q. Who appoints the members of the Union Council of Ministers?

Answer: Under Article 75 of the constitution, the President of India appoints the members
of the Council of Ministers on the advice of the Prime Minister.
Q. Which Tennis Grand Slam tournament is also known as Roland Garros?
Answer: French Open, played in Paris.

Q. Who has won the men’s single title of the 2024 French Open tennis tournament?

Answer: Carlos Alcaraz of Spain

Q. Iga Swiatek, who won the women’s singles of the 2024 French Open tennis title,
defeated them in the finals.
Answer: Jasmine Paolini of Italy

Q. What is the name of the cup which is given to the winner of the French Open tennis
men’s singles title?
Answer: Musketeers’ Cup.

Q. What is the name of the trophy which is given to the winner of the French Open tennis
women’s singles title?
Answer: Suzanne-Lenglen cup.

Q. The French Open Tennis Grand Slam tournament is played on which type of

surface?
Answer: Clay Court.

Q. Who has won the men’s singles title of the Heilbronn Neckarcup 2024 ATP Challenger
Tennis tournament?
Answer: Indian tennis player Summit Nagpal.

Q. Who has won the men’s singles title at the 2024 Chennai Open Tennis tournament?
Answer: Sumit Nagpal
Q. Who is currently the highest-ranked Indian men's singles tennis player in the world?
Answer: Sumit Nagpal

Q. Where was the Heilbronn Neckarcup 2024 ATP Challenger tennis tournament held?
Answer: Germany.

Q. How much money has the Rajasthan government allocated for the development of the
Maharana Pratap Tourist Circuit?
Answer: Rs 100 crore.

Q. Which areas of Rajasthan will be developed as part of the Maharana Pratap Tourist
Circuit?

Answer: Places in Udaipur, Chawand, Haldighati, Gogunda, Kumbhalgarh, Dewar, Chhapli

and Chittorgarh associated with Maharana Pratap.

Q. According to the Hindu calendar, the Maharana Partap Jayanti was celebrated on which
day in 2024?
Answer: 9 June 2024. According to the Gregorian calendar, he was born on 9 May 1540.

Q. Maharana Partap of Mewar belonged to which Rajput clan?

Answer: Sidodia clan of Mewar Rajputs.

Q. When did Maharana Pratap die?
Answer: January 19, 1597 at Chavand.

Q. Where did the Rajasthan Chief Minister announce that his government will invest Rs
100 crore to develop the Maharana Pratap Tourist Circuit?
Answer: Udaipur while inaugurating Maharana Pratap Jayanti on 8 June 2024.
Q. Who has been recently appointed as the chief minister of Sikkim?
Answer: Prem Singh Tamang

Q. Prem Singh Tamang, who has been appointed as the chief minister of Sikkim, belongs
to which political party?
Answer: Sikkim Krantikari Morcha

Q. When did Sikkim join India as an associate state of India?

Answer: 1974 by 35th Constitutional Amendment Act 1974.

Q. By which constitutional amendment act Sikkim joined India as the 22nd state of India?

Answer: By the 36th Constitutional Amendment Act 1975, in 1975.

Q. What is the capital of Sikkim?

Answer: Gangtok

Q. Who is the governor of Sikkim?

Answer: Lakshman Acharya.

Q. What can be the maximum strength of the council of ministers in Sikkim by law?
Answer: 12 ministers, including the chief minister.

Q. Where was the foreign minister meeting of the BRICS countries held in June 2024?
Answer: Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.

Q. Who represented India in the BRICS foreign ministers meeting held in June 2024?

Answer: Dammu Ravi, Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs
(MEA).
Q. Which countries have joined BRICS in 2024?
Answer: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Total BRICS
members are 10 countries.

Q. Who coined the term BRIC?

Answer: British Economist Jim O'Neill in 2001. BRIC meant Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

Q. Where will the BRICS foreign ministers meeting be held in September 2024?
Answer: New York during the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Q. Which country will host the 16th BRICS summit meeting?

Answer: Russia in October 2024.

Q. Where was the 8th edition of the Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JIMEX)-24 held?
Answer: Yokosuka, Japan.

Q. Which Indian Naval Ship participated in the JIMEX-24 naval exercise between the
Indian Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force?
Answer: INS Shivalik

Q. When was the Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JIMEX) started?

Answer: 2012 in Japan

Q. The Indian Army conducts Joint military exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN with which
country’s army?
Answer: Japan. Japan’s army is called. Japan Ground Self Defence Force.
Q. With which country’s Air Force does the Indian Air Force conduct a bilateral military
exercise, Veer Guardian?
Answer: Japan Air Self-Defence Force.

Q. On which day the World Day Against Child Labour is observed?

Answer: 12 June

Q. When was the World Day Against Child Labour observed for the first time in the world?
Answer: 12 June 2002 by the International Labour Organisation.

Q. What is the theme of the 2024 World Day Against Child Labour?

Answer: Let’s act on our commitment: End Child Labour.

Q. Which commitee was set up by the government of India on Child labour in 1979?
Answer: Gurupadswamy Committee to study the issue of child labour and suggest measures
to address it

Q. Which act prohibits the employment of children below 14 years of age in all forms of
employment?

Answer: Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act 2016.

Q. Which article of the constitution prohibits the employment of children below 14 years
in mines and hazardous occupations?
Answer: Article 24 of the constitution

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International Labour Organisation?

Answer: Geneva, Switzerland.

Q. Who has been sworn in as the 18th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh?
Answer: Nara Chandrababu Naidu. he has become the chief minister for the 4th time.

Q. Chandrababu Naidu, who became the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, belongs to
which political party?
Answer: Telugu Desam Party.

Q. Who was the first chief minister of Andhra Pradesh?

Answer: Neelam Sanjiva Reddy in 1956.

Q. Who is currently the Governor of Andhra Pradesh?

Answer: S Abdul Nazeer.

Q. Where is Vijayawada, which was in the news recently?

Answer: Andhra Pradesh, where the swearing-in ceremony of the Chandrababu government
took place on 12 June 2024.

Q. Who was the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh whose party lost the 2024 legislative
assembly election?

Answer: Jagan Mohan Reddy of YSR Congress Party.

Q. Who has been appointed as the 15th chief minister of Odisha?

Answer: Mohan Charan Majhi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Q. The newly appointed Odisha chief minister, Mohan Charan Majhi belongs to which
tribe?

Answer: Like President Droupadi Murmu, Mohan Charan Majhi belongs to the Santhal tribe.
Q. Who is the Governor of Odisha?
Answer: Raghubar Das.

Q. Who holds the record of being the longest-serving chief minister of Odisha?

Answer: Naveen Patnaik of Biju Janata Dal, 24 years 99 days.

Q. What is the capital of Odisha?

Answer: Bhubaneswar.

Q. Who has been appointed as the first woman deputy chief minister of Odisha?
Answer: Pravati Parida of BJP, MLA from Nimapara constituency in Puri district.

Q. The chief minister, Mohan Charan Majhi, has been elected to the Odisha assembly from
which constituency?
Answer: Keonjhar.

Q. The United Nations has declared 2024 as the International Year of –?

Answer: International Year of Camelids.

Q. The United Nations has declared 2025 as the International Year of –?

Answer: To date, the United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum
Science and Technology, Peace and Trust, Cooperatives, and Glacier Preservation.

Q. Which scientist's publication of a research paper in 1925 is considered to have laid the
foundation of Quantum mechanics?
Answer: German scientist Werner Heisenberg.
Q. Which country introduced a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly to
declare 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology?
Answer: African country Ghana.

Q. Which state government has launched Mukhya Mantri Nijut Moina scheme?
Answer: Assam Government.

Q. Which scheme has been launched by the Assam government to promote girl
education and end child marriage in the state?
Answer: Mukhya Mantri Nijut Moina scheme.

Q. What is the capital of Assam?

Answer: Dispur.

Q. What is the state festival of Assam?

Answer: Bihu.

Q. Who is the chief minister of Assam?

Answer: Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Q. Who has become the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh after the 2024 legislative
assembly election?
Answer: Pema Khandu

Q. When did Pema Khandu become the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh for the first
time?
Answer: 2016.
Q. Which state in India is also called the Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains’?
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh

Q. What is the capital of Arunachal Pradesh?

Answer: Itanagar

Q. How many seats are there in the Arunachal Pradesh legislative assembly?
Answer: 60.

Q. What was the name of Arunachal Pradesh before 1972?

Answer: North East Frontier Province(NEFA).

Q. Who has been appointed as the 30th Chief of Army Staff?

Answer: Lt General Upendra Dwivedi. He will take over from General Manoj Pande on 30
June 2024.

Q. The newly appointed Lt General Upendra Dwivedi was commissioned in which

regiment of the Indian Army?

Answer: 18th Jammu and Kashmir Rifles.

Q. Who was the first Indian to be appointed as the Chief of the Indian Army?
Answer: Field Marshal K.M.Carriappa.

Q. When is Army Day celebrated in India?

Answer: 15 January

Q. Who releases the Global Economic Prospects report?

Answer: World Bank
Q. According to the World Bank report released in June 2024, what is the likely growth
rate of the Indian economy in 2024-25?
Answer: 6.6 per cent

Q. According to the World Bank report released in June 2024, what is the likely growth
rate of the Indian economy in 2025-26?
Answer: 6.7 per cent

Q. Where is the headquarters of the World Bank?

Answer: Washington D.C, the United States of America

Q. According to the World Bank, which country is the fastest growing economy in the
world among the major economies?

Answer: India. It is expected to grow by 6.6 per cent in 2024-25.

Q. Who was the first female helicopter pilot in the Indian Navy?
Answer: Anamika B. Rajeev.

Q. Where is the Naval Helicopter Training School of the Indian Navy located?
Answer: At INS Rajali base, Arakkonam, in the Ranipet district of Tamil Nadu

Q. Who was the first woman pilot of the Indian Air Force to fly a fighter aircraft solo?
Answer: Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi flew MiG -21 Bison in 2018.

Q. Where is Asia’s longest military runway situated?

Answer: At the Indian Navy’s INS Rajali base in Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu's Ranipet district.
Q. When is the World Blood Donor Day observed?
Answer: On 14 June

Q. When was the first World Blood Donor Day observed by the World Health
Organisation?
Answer: 2004

Q. What is the theme of 2024 World Blood Donor Day?

Answer: 20 years of celebrating giving: thank you, blood donors.

Q. Which blood group is called a Universal donor?

Answer: O negative blood group

Q. Which blood group is called a Universal recipient?

Answer: AB Rh+

Q. Who has been appointed as the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister in June
2024?

Answer: Ajit Doval for the third consecutive term.

Q. What is the term of the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister?
Answer: He holds the office at the pleasure of the prime minister and can be dismissed at
any time.

Q. When was Ajit Kumar Doval appointed as the National Security Advisor to the Prime
Minister for the first time?

Answer: 30 May 2014.

Q. Who was the first prime minister to appoint a National Security Advisor to the Prime
Minister?
Answer: Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1998, and the first NSA was Brajesh Mishra.

Q. How many National Security Advisors to the Prime Minister have been appointed in
India to date?
Answer: Five: Brajesh Mishra, J.N. Dixit, Shivshankar Menon, M. K. Narayanan, and Ajit
Doval.

Q. Who has been re-appointed as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India in
June 2024?
Answer: Dr Parmod Kumar Mishra

Q. Who has been appointed as the 13th Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India?
Answer: Dr Parmod Kumar Mishra
Q. What is the term of Dr Parmod Kumar Mishra, who has been appointed as
the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India?
Answer: He has been appointed until Narendra Modi remains the prime minister of India,
but he

can be dismissed earlier.

Q. When was the post of Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India created in
India?
Answer: In 1973, by the Indira Gandhi government, P N Haksar was the first Principal
Secretary to the Prime Minister of India.

Q. When was Dr Parmod Kumar Mishra appointed as the Principal Secretary to the Prime
Minister of India for the first time?
Answer: 11 September 2019.
Q. Which state government has launched the PM Shri Tourism Air Service?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh government.

Q. Where did the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister launch the PM Shri Tourism Air Service?

Answer: Bhopal Airport.

Q. How many cities of Madhya Pradesh will be connected under the PM Shri Tourism Air
Service?
Answer Eight: Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Rewa, Ujjain, Gwalior, Singrauli, and Khajuraho.

Q. Which state government will launch the PM Shri Religious Tourism Heli Service?

Answer: Madhya Pradesh

Q. How many cities in Madhya Pradesh will be connected under the PM Shri Religious
Tourism Heli Service?
Answer: Four: Omkareshwar and Maheshwar with Bhopal and Indore.

Q. Where has India’s first civilian Helicopter training school been set up?

Answer: Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh.

Q. Which state has announced that no green tree will be cut in the state; rather, it will be
shifted to another place through transplantation?
Answer: Madhya Pradesh

Q. Which Indian player has won the 2024 FIDE World Chess Junior U-20 Girl’s Chess
Championship?

Answer: Divya Deshmukh.

Q. Who has won the 2024 FIDE World Chess Junior U-20 Boy’s Chess Championship?
Answer: Kazybek Nogerbek of Kazakhstan

Q. Where was the 2024 FIDE World Chess Junior U-20 Chess Championship held?

Answer: Gandhinagar, Gujarat, from 2 to 13 June 2024.

Q. Who was the first Indian to win the FIDE World Chess Junior U-20 Chess
Championship?
Answer: Vishwanathan Anand in 1987.

Q. Who was India's first woman chess player to win the FIDE World Chess Junior U-20
Chess Championship?
Answer: Koneru Humpy in 2001.

Q. Cyril Ramaphosa, who was in the news recently, belongs to which country?
Answer: He has been elected as the president of South Africa for the second time.

Q. Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa belongs to which political party?

Answer: African National Congress.

Q. What is the term of the President of South Africa?

Answer: Five Years.

Q. What is the currency of South Africa?

Answer: Rand

Q. What is the capital of South Africa?

Answer: It has three capitals ;.Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative), and
Bloemfontein (judicial).

Q. In which country 41 Indians died in a tragic fire incident during the month of June
2024?
Answer: Kuwait.

Q. Where is Mangaf City, which was in the news recently?

Answer: It is in Kuwait, where 41 Indians were killed in a massive fire.

Q. Who is Kirti Vardhan Singh, who was in the news recently?

Answer: He is the Union Minister of State for External Affairs.

Q. What is the capital of Kuwait?

Answer: Kuwaiti city.

Q. Who is the Prime Minister of Kuwait?

Answer: Sheikh Mohammad Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah.

Q. Where was the 2024 India-IORA (Indian Ocean Rim Association) Cruise Tourism
conference held?
Answer: New Delhi.

Q. Who organised the 2024 India-IORA (Indian Ocean Rim Association) Cruise Tourism
conference?
Answer: Ministry of External Affairs, in partnership with the Indian Ocean Rim Association
Secretariat and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

Q. When was the Indian Ocean Rim Association founded?

Answer: In 1997.

Q. How many countries are members of the Indian Ocean Rim Association?
Answer: 23 countries: India, Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, France, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya,
Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Woman, Seychelles, Singapore,
Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Q. Where is the secretariat of the Indian Ocean Rim Association?

Answer: Mauritius

Q. Which country is the chairman of the Indian Ocean Rim Association?

Answer: Sri Lanka (2023-25).

Q. Who is the first Indian ever to win a three star Grand Prix title in equesterian?
Answer: 53 year old Shruti Vora of Kolkata. She won the CDI-3 event in the 2024 FEI
Dressage World Cup.

Q. Where was the 2024 FEI Dressage World Cup held?

Answer: Lipica city in Slovenia.

Q. Likith SP and Dhinidhi Desinghu belongs to which sport?

Answer: Both are Swimmer and have won bronze medal each in the recently held Singapore
National Swimming Championship 2024.

Q. Which country is hosting the 17th edition of the UEFA European Football
Championship or Euro Cup?
Answer: Germany from 15 June to 15 July 2024.

Q. After how many years is the UEFA European Football Championship or the Euro Cup
held?
Answer: Every four years.

Q. After becoming the Prime Minister for the third time, which was the first country to be
visited by Prime Minister Modi?
Answer: Italy to attend the 2024 G 7 Outreach session held in Italy.

Q. Which country hosted the 50th Summit meeting of the leaders of the Group of Seven
(G7) countries?
Answer: Italy

Q. Which country will host the 2025 Group of Seven (G7) countries summit meeting?
Answer: Canada. It will be held in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.

Q. How many times has Prime Minister Modi attended the G7 meeting?Answer: Five
times: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has also
attended five meetings of the G7.

Q. Which is the only Asian country that is a member of the G7 Group?

Answer: Japan; the other members are the United States of America, Canada, Germany,
France, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

Q. Where was the 2nd meeting of the India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging
Technology (iCET) held?

Answer: New Delhi,17 June 2024.

Q. Who chaired the 2nd meeting of the India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging
Technology (iCET) in New Delhi?
Answer: India National Security Advisor(NSA) Ajit Doval and the American NSA Jake Sullivan.
Q. When was the India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) launched?
Answer: January 2023 in Washington, the United States of America.

Q. Which country has agreed to train human astronauts of the Indian Space Research
Agency (ISRO)?

Answer: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) of the United States.

Q. The Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) will jointly develop and launch the
Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite with which country?
Answer: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) of the United States of
America

Q. Which international financial institution has invested $105 million in the non-
convertible debenture of Brookfield's Bikaner Solar Power project in Rajasthan?
Answer: International Finance Corporation.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International Finance Corporation situated?

Answer: Washington, D.C., in the United States of America.

Q. Which institution of the World Bank Group invests in the private sector?

Answer: International Finance Corporation.

Q. Who is the managing director of the International Finance Corporation?

Answer: Makhtar Diop

Q. What is the total capacity of the solar power plant being built by Brookfield in Bikaner,
Rajasthan?

Answer: 500 MW.

Q. Where was the Summit on Peace in Ukraine held in June 2024?
Answer: Burgenstock in Switzerland.

Q. Who hosted the Summit on Peace in Ukraine?

Answer: Switzerland.
Q. Which countries refused to sign the final communique issued after the Summit on
Peace in Ukraine?
Answer: India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico and the United Arab
Emirates (UAE).

Q. Who is the President of Ukraine?

Answer: Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Q. When did the Russia-Ukraine war start?

Answer: 24 February 2022.

Q. Who represented India at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine?

Answer: Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs Pavan Kapoor.

Q. Who has been conferred the 18th V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award?
Answer: Noted wildlife filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu.

Q. Which film festival is organised by the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry,
focussing on documentaries, short films and animation?
Answer: Mumbai International Film Festival.

Q. Who inaugurated the 18th Mumbai International Film Festival?

Answer: Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan.

Q. What is the prize money for the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award?
Answer: Rs 10 lakh

Q. Which Indian has been conferred with the ‘Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement
Award’ for his contribution to films?
Answer: Vinod Ganatra

Q. Vinod Ganatra, who was in the news recently, belongs to which profession?
Answer: He is a noted filmmaker and editor of documentaries, newsreels and children's
films.

Q. Which country is also called the Rainbow Nation?

Answer: South Africa.

Q. When was Nelson Mandela of South Africa conferred with India’s highest civilian
award, Bharat Ratna?
Answer: 1990.

Q. On which day is the Nelson Mandela International Day observed?

Answer: 18 July

Q. World Sickle Cell Day is observed on which date?

Answer: 19 June 2024.

Q. What is the theme of 2024 World Sickle Cell Day?

Answer: Hope Through Progress: Advancing Sickle Cell Care Globally.”
Q. What is Sickle Cell disease?
Answer: The shape of the red blood cell is not round as is normal but sickle-shaped, which
leads to a shorter lifespan of 10 to 20 days of the red blood cells. It is a genetic blood
disorder.

Q. When does the government of India intend to eliminate Sickle cell disease from india?
Answer: 2047

Q. Where was the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission launched by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi?
Answer: At Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh, on 1 July 2023.

Q. What is Miyawaki Plantation?

Answer: It is a method of growing forest quickly on degraded lands used for construction or
other purposes.

Q. The National Highway Authority of India will use which method to plant trees for
afforestation along the National Highways around Delhi NCR?
Answer: Miyawaki Method.

Q. The National Highway Authority of India is under which ministry of the government of
India?
Answer: Union Ministry of Union Ministry of Road Transport And Highways.

Q. Who is the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways?

Answer: Nitin Gadkari.
Q. What is the contribution of the National Highways in carrying the total road traffic in
the country?
Answer: National Highways constitute around 2 percent of roads in India and carry 40
percent of road traffic.

Q. What is the name of the indigenously designed and manufactured submachine gun
which has been recently inducted into the Indian Army?
Answer” ASMI.

Q. Which company has manufactured the indigenously designed and developed ASMI
submachine gun?
Answer: Hyderabad-based Lokesh Machine Limited company.

Q. Who has designed the indigenously developed ASMI submachine gun?

Answer: Armament Research & Development Establishment (ARDE), Pune of the DRDO.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Indian Army’s Northern Command?

Answer: Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir.

Q. Trent Boult, who recently announced his retirement from international cricket, belongs
to which country?
Answer: New Zealand left-arm fast bowler.

Q. Lockie Ferguson, who bowled four overs without conceding a single run against Papua
New Guinea in the 2024 T 20 World Cup, belongs to which country?
Answer: New Zealnand.

Q. Which country’s men's cricket team is also called Black Cap?

Answer: New Zealand.
Q. Who was the first bowler to bowl four overs without conceding a single run in a T20
International Match?
Answer: Canada’s Saad Bin Zafar against Panama in 2021.

Q. What was the total value of seafood exported from India in 2023-24?

Answer: Rs 60,523.89 crore or US$7.38 billion.

Q. What was the total quantity of seafood exported from India in 2023-24?
Answer: 17,81,602 Metric tonnes.

Q. Which country was the largest market for Indian seafood export in 2023-24?
Answer: The United States of America, followed by China in second place and Japan in third
place.

Q. Which was the largest commodity amongst the seafood to be exported from India in
2023-24?
Answer: Frozen shrimp its contribution to total export by value term was 66.12 per cent.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Marine Products Export Development Authority

(MPEDA)?

Answer: Kochi, Kerala

Q. What target has the government of India set for the export of seafood in 2023-24?
Answer: $9.1 billion.

Q. What is the minimum support price announced by the government of India for the
paddy common grade for the 2024-25 agricultural marketing season?

Answer : Rs 2300 per quintal

Q. Who recommends the minimum support price for mandated crops to the government
of India?
Answer: Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP) under the Union Ministry of
Agriculture.

Q. What is the agriculture marketing season in India?

Answer: July to June

Q. When was the Minimum Support Price for crops introduced in India?
Answer: 1966-67

Q. When was the Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP) set up by the
government of India?

Answer: 1965.

Q. Which central scheme has been launched by the government of India to strengthen the
forensic science infrastructure in the country?
Answer: National Forensic Infrastructure Enhancement Scheme (NFIES).

Q. Which ministry is going to administer the central government’s National Forensic

Infrastructure Enhancement Scheme (NFIES)?
Answer: Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

Q. What is the duration of the central government’s National Forensic Infrastructure

Enhancement Scheme (NFIES)?
Answer: five years, from 2024-25 to 2028-29.
Q. What is the outlay for the central scheme National Forensic Infrastructure
Enhancement Scheme (NFIES)?
Answer: Rs Rs 2254.43 crore.

Q. Where is the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) main campus?

Answer: Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Q. What does F stand for in the recently launched central government scheme NFIES?
Answer: Forensic, National Forensic Infrastructure Enhancement Scheme (NFIES).

Q. Where is India’s largest deep draft port to be constructed?

Answer: Vadhavan Port, in Vadhavan in the Palghar district of Maharashtra.

Q. The Maharashtra Maritime Board is going to build the Vadhavan port in Maharashtra
in a joint venture with which company?
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority that operates the Nhava Sheva port in Navi
Mumbai.

Q. What is the total cost of the Vadhavan Port to be built in Maharashtra?

Answer: Rs.76,220 crore.

Q. Where is Dahanu, which was in the news recently?

Answer: Palghar district, Maharashtra.

Q. Who publishes the annual Global Energy Transition Index?

Answer: World Economic Forum.

Q. Who issues the annual report ‘Fostering Effective Energy Transition’?

Answer: World Economic Forum in partnership with Accenture.
Q. Which country has topped the 2024 Global Energy Transition Index?
Answer: Sweden

Q. What is the rank of India in the 2024 Global Energy Transition Index?
Answer: 63rd out of 120 countries. In 2023, India was ranked 67th.

Q. Who is the founder of the Switzerland-based non-profit organisation World Economic

Forum?
Answer: German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab.

Q. Copa America Cup is related to which sports?

Answer: Men’s football where the team mainly from the American Continent plays.

Q. Which is the only country outside South America to host the Copa America football
tournament?
Answer: The United States of America hosted it in 2016 and 2024.

Q. Which country has won the Copa America football tournament maximum times?
Answer: Argentina and Uruguay 15 times each.

Q. How many teams are participating in the 2024 Copa America Football tournament
being hosted by the United States of America?
Answer: 16 teams.

Q. Which country is hosting the 48th edition of the Copa America football tournament?
Answer: United States of America
Q. When is the International Day of Yoga celebrated in the world?
Answer: 21 June.

Q. Which country introduced a resolution in the United Nations to observe 21 June as

International Yoga Day?
Answer: India. It was passed by the United Nations in January 2015.

Q. When was the first International Yoga Day observed?

Answer: 21 June 2015.

Q. What is the theme of the 10th International Yoga Day?

Answer: Yoga for Self and Society.

Q. Who is considered to be the father of Yoga?

Answer: Maharishi Patanjali, who compiled Yoga Sutras.

Q. On which date the Day of the Celebration of the Solstice is observed in the world?
Answer: 21 June

Q. At which place did Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrate the 10th International Yoga
Day 2024?
Answer: Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

Q. Who has been appointed as the Pro-Tem speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha?
Answer: Bhartruhari Mahtab of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Q. Who recommends the name of the pro-tem speakers to the President?

Answer: Union Parliamentary Affairs Ministry or the Prime Minister.
Q. What is the function of the pro-tem speaker of the Lok Sabha?
Answer: To administer the oath to the newly elected member of the Lok Sabha and election
of new Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the newly elected Lok Sabha.

Q. Bhartruhari Mahtab represents which Lok Sabha constituency?

Answer: Cuttack, Odisha. He has been elected seven times from Cuttack.

Q. Who is the Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister?

Answer: Kiren Rijiju.

Q. Which article of the constitution mentions the post of the pro-tem speaker?
Answer: The constitution doesn't mention pro tem speaker. It is a parliamentary
convention.

Q. Who releases the annual World Investment Report?

Answer: United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Q. According to the World Investment Report 2024 report of the UNCTAD, how much
foreign direct investment was received by India in 2023?

Answer: $28 billion

Q. According to the World Investment Report 2024 report of the UNCTAD ,what was the
rank of India in the world for receiving FDI in 2023?
Answer: 15th. In 2022, it was ranked 8th in the world.

Q. According to the World Investment Report 2024 report of the UNCTAD, which country
was the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2023?
Answer: United States of America, followed by China, Singapore, Hong Kong (China) and
Brazil.
Q. Where is the headquarters of the United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD)?
Answer: Geneva, Switzerland

Q. Which law has been enacted by the parliament to prevent the menace of malpractices
and irregularities in competitive exams?

Answer: Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024.

Q. What is the maximum jail provision for a person convicted of malpractice and
irregularities in competitive exams under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair
Means) Act, 2024?
Answer: Three years in jail, which can be extended to five years, and a monetary fine of up
to Rs 10 lakhs.

Q. Who can investigate the cases of malpractice and irregularities in competitive exams
under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024?
Answer: Officer not below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police or Assistant
Commissioner of Police.

Q. What is the penalty provision for service providers convicted of malpractices in

competitive exams under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act,
2024?
Answer: Fine of up to one crore rupees and a ban from conducting any public examination
for a period of four years.

Q. Who is the director of the documentary film Golden Thread, which won the Best
Documentary Film award at the 18th Mumbai International Film Festival 2024?
Answer: Nistha Jain.

Q. Golden Conch Award is associated with which field?

Answer: It is given to the best documentary film at the Mumbai International Film Festival.

Q. Who organises the Mumbai International Film Festival?

Answer: Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and executed by National Film
Development Corporation.

Q. After how many years is the Mumbai International Film Festival held?
Answer: every two years. It started in 1990.

Q. Which film won the Best International Short Fiction Film award at the 18th Mumbai
International Film Festival 2024?
Answer: Sour Milk, directed by Vera Pirogova of Estonia.

Q. Which day is observed as an Olympic Day in the world?

Answer: 23 June.

Q. When was the first Olympic Day celebrated in the world?

Answer: 23 June 1948.

Q. When was the International Olympic Committee set up?

Answer: 23 June 1894 in Paris, France.

Q. What is the motto of the Olympics?

Answer: In the Latin language, "Citius, Altius, Fortius – Commuter” or “Faster, Higher,
Stronger
– Together” in English.
Q. What are the values of the Olympic movement?
Answer: excellence, respect, and friendship.

Q.What are the colours of the Olympics rings?

Answer: Blue, yellow, black, green and red on a white background represent the five
inhabited

continents of the Earth- Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and Oceania.

Q. Who is considered to be the father of the Modern Olympics?

Answer: Pierre de Coubertin of France was instrumental in establishing the International
Olympic Committee.

Q. What is the theme of the 2024 Olympic Day?

Answer: Let’s Move and Celebrate.

Q. Who is the chairman of the seven-member committee set up by the government of

India to review and suggest reform in the examination process and of the National Testing
Agency?
Answer: Koppillil Radhakrishnan

Q. When was the National Testing Agency set up by the government of India?
Answer: 2017

Q. The National Testing Agency comes under which Ministry of the Government of India?

Answer: Union Ministry of Education

Q. Who has been recently appointed as the chairman of the National Testing Agency?
Answer: Pradeep Singh Kharola
Q. Who is the Union Minister for Education?
Answer: Dharmendra Pradhan
Q.Which institution has been set up by the government of India for conducting admission
tests for admission/fellowship in the central government’s various higher educational
institutions?
Answer: National Testing Agency.

Q. Who was the first foreign leader to visit India after the swearing-in of the Narendra
Modi-led government for the third time?
Answer: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Q. India has launched the Muktijoddha Scheme for medical patients of which country?
Answer: Bangladesh. 100 descendants of Bangladesh who participated in the Liberation War
against Pakistan are provided free medical facilities up to Rs 8 lakh per year.

Q. How much electricity from Nepal will be sold to Bangladesh through the Indian
electricity grid?

Answer: 40 MW of electricity.

Q. India has agreed to build and launch a small satellite of which country in the month of
June 2024?
Answer: Bangladesh

Q. India has agreed to set up a new Assistant High Commission office at which place
in Bangladesh?

Answer: Rangpur

Q. What is the currency of Bangladesh?

Answer: Taka

Q. India shares the Teesta River with which country?

Answer: Bangladesh. Originates near Chunthang in Sikkim and flows through West Bengal
to Bangladesh. It is a tributary of the Brahmaputra River.

Q.How many memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed during the Bangladeshi
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India in June 2024?

Answer: Ten.

Q. Sreeja Akula, who was in the news recently, belongs to which field?
Answer: Indian women's table tennis player.

Q. Who is the first Indian to win a WTT Contender singles title in table tennis?
Answer: Sreeja Akula won the WTT Contender Lagos 2024 women’s single title.

Q. Where is Lagos city which was in the news recently?

Answer: Nigeria.

Q. Harmeet Desai and Manav Thakkar belong to which sports?

Answer: Table tennis. They won the men’s doubles title at the WTT Contender Lagos 2024
tournament.

Q. Where was the Archery World Cup 2024 stage 3 held?

Answer: Antalya, Turkiyee.

Q. Which country’s women's team was defeated by the Indian women compound archery
team to win a third consecutive gold medal in the Archery World Cup 2024 season?
Answer: Estonia.
Q. Dhiraj Bommadevara who was in news recently belongs to which sports?
Answer” Archery

Q. Priyansh who was in the news recently belongs to which sports?

Answer: Archery

Q. How many medals were won by the Indian archers at theArchery World Cup 2024 stage
3 held in Antalya, Turkiyee?
Answer: Four medals-one gold,one silver and two bronze.

Q. Where was the 43rd World Medical and Health Games held?
Answer: Saint-Tropez, France, from 16 to 23rd June 2024.

Q. After how many years are the World Medical and Health Games for health
professionals held?
Answer: Every year since the first game in 1978.

Q. How many medals were won by the four officers of the Armed Forces Medical Services
at the 43rd World Medical and Health Games?
Answer: 32 medals- 19 Gold Medals, 09 Silver Medals and 04 Bronze Medals.

Q. When was the Armed Forces Medical Services set up in India?

Answer: 1948 by the government of India on the recommendation of the Dr B.C.Roy
Committee on Armed Forces Medical Services and Research Integration.

Q. Who is the current Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services?

Answer: Lt Gen Daljit Singh
Q. How many branches or Banking outlets does the State Bank of India plan to open in
2024-25?
Answer: 400 branches, according to SBI chairman Dinesh Khara.

Q. How many rural branches were opened by SBI in 2023-24?

Answer: 59 branches. It opened a total of 137 branches in 2023-24.

Q. Which bank has signed an agreement to integrate its payment gateway with the
Ministry of External Affairs eMigrant Portal in June 2024?

Answer: SBIePay of SBI.

Q. Who is the chairman of the SBI?

Answer: Dinesh Kumar Khara

Q. Where is the headquarters of SBI?

Answer: Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Q. Which company has launched a pilot project for underground coal gasification in India?
Answer: Eastern Coalfield limited at Kasta coal block in Jamtara District, Jharkhand.

Q. What is the duration of the pilot project launched in India for underground coal
gasification?
Answer: Two years duration. It was launched on 22 June 2024.
Q.Where is the headquarters of Eastern Coalfield Limited?
Answer: Sanctoria, Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal.

Q. Which gasses will be produced during the gasification of the underground coal project

of the Eastern Coalfield Limited?

Answer: methane, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide.

Q. What will be the use of the gasses produced during the gasification of underground
coal by the Eastern Coalfield limited?
Answer: The methane, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide gas produced
through gasification will be used to produce synthetic natural gas, chemical feedstocks for
fuels, fertilisers, explosives, and other industrial applications.

Q. The Kerala legislative assembly has passed a resolution to change the name of the state
to –?
Answer: Keralam

Q. Who is the chief minister of Kerala?

Answer: Pinarayi Vijayan
Q. Who has the power to change the name of a state in India?
Answer: Parliament under Article 3 of the Constitution.

Q.Which type of majority is needed to pass a resolution in parliament ,which seeks to

change the name of the state in India ?
Answer: Simple majority

Q. When was the name of Madras State changed to Tamil Nadu?

Answer: 14 January 1969
Q.When was the name of Madhya Bharat changed to Madhya Pradesh?
Answer: November 1, 1956.

Q.When was the name of Uttaranchal changed to Uttarakhand?

Answer: 1 January 2007.

Q. When was the name of Orissa changed to Odisha?

Answer: 1 November 2011

Q. Where was the 64th International Sugar Organisation Council meeting held?
Answer: New Delhi from 25-27 June 2024.

Q. Which country is the chairman of the International Sugar Organisation for 2024?
Answer: India

Q. Where is the headquarters of the International Sugar Organisation?

Answer: London, the United Kingdom

Q. How many countries are the members of the International Sugar Organisation?

Answer: 87 countries, including India.

Q. Which country is the largest producer of sugar in the world?

Answer: Brazil, followed by India, the European Union, China and the United States of
America.

Q. Which is the largest sugar-consuming country in the world?

Answer: India.
Q. Who chaired the 64th International Sugar Organisation Council meeting?
Answer: Sanjeev Chopra, Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of
Consumer Affairs, Government of India.

Q. Where was the Under17 & Under 23 Asian Wrestling Championship 2024 held?

Answer: Amman, Jordan.

Q. How many medals were won by the Indian wrestling team in the under-17 Asian
Wrestling Championship 2024?
Answer: 11 medals-our gold, two silver, and five bronze.

Q. Who won the gold medal for India at the under-17 Asian Wrestling Championship
2024?
Answer: Dipanshi in 46 kg, Muskan in 53 kg, Rajnita in 61 kg, and Mansi Lather in 69 kg.

Q. Where was the Under 17 & Under 23 Asian Wrestling Championship 2023 held?
Answer: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Q. The government of India has extended the tenure of Tapan Kumar Deka as the Director
General of the Intelligence Bureau till—?
Answer: One year till 30 June 2025.

Q. How many members are there in the Appointment Committee of the Union Cabinet?
Answer: Prime Minister and the Home Minister only.

Q.Who was the first Indian to be appointed as the Director General of the Intelligence
Bureau?
Answer: T.G.Sanjeevi Pillai
Q. The Intelligence Bureau comes under which ministry of the government of India?
Answer: Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

Q. Which Union Territory has recently achieved full functional literacy under the ULLAS-
Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram?
Answer: Union Territory of Ladakh.

Q. What is the aim of the ULLAS-Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram?

Answer: To provide foundational literacy and numeracy to five crore illiterate persons of 15
years and above during 2022-2027.

Q. When did the Union Territory of Ladakh come into existence?

Answer: 31 October 2019

Q. What is the capital of the Union Territory of Ladakh?

Answer: Leh

Q. What is the share of the central government in the total expenditure on the centrally
sponsored ULLAS-Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram?

Answer: Total outlay on scheme Rs.1037.90 crore from 2022-23 to 2026-27. The central
government's share is Rs.700 crore, and the state's share is Rs.337.90 crore.

Q. Who is considered as illiterate in India?

Answer: A person who is 7 years old and above cannot read or write in any language.

Q. Who has been elected as the Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha?

Answer: Om Birla of the Bhartaiya Janata Party?

Q. How many people have been elected as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha twice?
Answer: Five people: Dr Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Gurdial Singh Dhillon, Balram Jakhar, G.M.C
Balayogi, and Om Birla.

Q. Who was the first opposition candidate to be elected as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha?
Answer: P.A. Sangma. He was a member of the Congress party during the 11th Lok Sabha
when the United Front government was in Power.

Q. Who is the only Lok Sabha Speaker who resigned from his political party after being
elected the Speaker of the Lok Sabha?
Answer: Neelam Sanjiva Reddy in 1977. He belonged to the Janata Party.

Q. Who was the opposition candidate against Om Birla for the election of the Lok Sabha
Speaker post?
Answer: K.Suresh of the Congress Party, who represents the Mavelikara constituency in
Kerala.

Q. Who is the youngest and the first Dalit Lok Sabha Speaker?

Answer: G.M.C Balayogi of the Telugu Desam Party. He was Speaker of the 12th and 13th
Lok Sabha.

Q. Who was the first Lok Sabha Speaker to be elected unopposed?

Answer: Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar.

Q. Which state government has recently decided that the state ministers will pay income
tax on their salaries and allowances received as ministers?

Answer: Madhya Pradesh

Q. Who is the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh?

Answer: Mohan Yadav

Q. How many Sainik schools are in Madhya Pradesh?

Answer: Only one at Rewa.

Q. What is the state sport of Madhya Pradesh?

Answer: Malkhamb

Q. What is the capital of Madhya Pradesh?

Answer: Bhopal.

Q. When was the Income Tax Act enacted in India?

Answer: 1961.

Q. On which day is the MSME day observed worldwide?

Answer: 27 June 2024

Q. What is the theme of the 2024 MSME Day?

Answer: MSMEs and the SDG.

Q. When was the first MSME day observed in the world?

Answer: 27 June 2017

Q. Which act defines Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in India?

Answer: Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act 2006 as
amended in

2020.
Q. Who is the Union Minister for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises?
Answer: Jitan Ram Manjhi

Q. The DRDO has developed the Medium Range-Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket (MR-
MOCR) for which wing of the Indian armed forces?

Answer: Indian Navy

Q. Which laboratory of the DRDO has developed the Medium Range-Microwave

Obscurant Chaff Rocket (MR-MOCR)?
Answer: Jodhpur laboratory of the DRDO.

Q.. When was the Jodhpur laboratory of the DRDO set up?

Answer: May 1959.

Q. Who is the head of the Jodhpur laboratory of the DRDO?

Answer: RV Hara Prasad

Q. Who is the head of the Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)?

Answer: Dr Samir V Kamat

Q. Who has been appointed as the new Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation (NATO)?
Answer: Mark Rutte. He is currently the Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

Q. Jens Stoltenberg, who will retire as the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation (NATO) in 2024, belongs to which country?
Answer: He is the former Prime Minister of Norway.
Q. Who was the first Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)?
Answer: Lord Hastings Lionel Ismay of the United Kingdom (1952-57).
Q. What is the term of the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

(NATO) ?
Answer: Four years

Q. Where is the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)?

Answer: Brussels, Belgium

Q. Which is the 32nd country to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)?
Answer: Sweden joined in March 2024.

Q. Which is the second military station in the country to have a road made of plastic
waste?
Answer: Jaipur Military Station.

Q. Which was the first military station in the country to have a road made of plastic
waste?
Answer: Narangi Military Station, Guwahati, Assam in 2019.

Q. Who is considered to be the pioneer of developing a technique to use plastic waste in

the construction of roads?
Answer: Professor Rajagopalan Vasudevan. He is also famous as the plastic man of India.

Q. How much percentage of plastic waste is allowed to be mixed with bitumen for the
construction of roads in India?
Answer: 10 per cent.
Q. What is the length of the road made by using plastic waste in Jaipur Military Station?
Answer: 100 meters.

Q. Who has been elected President of the Professional Golf Tour of India(PGTI)?
Answer: Former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev.

Q. Which cricketer is also as popular as Haryana Hurricane?

Answer: Kapil Dev

Q. Which body governs Men’s professional golf in India?

Answer: Professional Golf Tour of India(PGTI)?

Q. Which English batsman has scored 43 runs in an over in English first-class cricket?

Answer: Louis Kimber of Lancashire scored 43 runs against Ollie Robinson of Surrey in a
Division Two championship match.

Q. Who holds the record for scoring the highest run in an over in a Test Match?
Answer: Jasprit Bumrah scored 35 runs in an over bowled by English bowler Stuart Broad.

Q. Who has been chosen for the 2024 PEN Pinter Award?
Answer: Arundhati Roy of India.

Q.Which field is the PEN PInter Award related to?

Answer: Literature.

Q. PEN Pinter Award has been instituted in the memory of which writer?
Answer: Playwright Harold Pinter of Great Britain. He was honoured with the 2005 Nobel
Prize for Literature.

Q. Who was the first Indian to win the Booker Prize for Literature?
Answer: Arundhati Roy for her novel The God of Small Things in 1997.

Q. Who is the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”?

Answer: Arundhati Roy

Q. PEN Pinter literary award is given to a writer of which language?

Answer: English language and to a writer who is a resident of the United Kingdom, Republic
of Ireland or Commonwealth.

Q. Who releases the Migration and Development Brief report?

Answer: World Bank

Q. According to the World Bank Migration and Development Brief report published in
June 2024, what was the total amount of remittances received by India in 2023?
Answer: $ 120 billion

Q. What is the frequency of the Migration and Development Brief report published by the
World Bank?
Answer: Twice a year.

Q. Who is the President of the World Bank?

Answer: Ajay Banga of the United States of America

Q. What is ABHYAS, which was recently tested by the Defence Research and Development
Organisation?
Answer: It is a drone which has been developed for the armed forces for aerial target
practice.

Q. Which laboratory of the DRDO has designed the ABHYAS?

Answer: Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bengaluru.

Q. Which agency will manufacture the ABHYAS system developed by the DRDO?
Answer: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and private sector company Larsen & Toubro.
Q. Where is the DRDO’s Integrated Test Range where weapons under development are
tested?
Answer: Chandipur on Sea in the Balasore district of Odisha.

Q. Who is the Chairman of DRDO?

Answer: Dr. Samir.V.Kamath.

Q. At which place Uttar Pradesh’s first bioplastic park will be set up?
Answer: Kumbhi village, Gola Gokarnnath tehsil, Lakhimpur Kheri district.

Q. Which company will construct Uttar Pradesh’s first bioplastic park?

Answer: Balrampur Chini Mill and the Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development
will be the nodal agency for the development of the park.

Q. On how much area will the first bioplastic park of Uttar Pradesh be built?
Answer: 1000 hectares of land. It will be built in the Lakhimpur Kheri district with an
investment of Rs 2000 crore.

Q. What is the raw material of bioplastic?

Answer: It is a biodegradable material made from agricultural crops, cellulose or potato and
corn starch waste.
Q. Who is the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh?
Answer: Yogi Adityanath.

Q. The Statistics Day is observed in India on which date?

Answer: 29 June

Q. When was the first Statistics Day observed in India?

Answer: 29 June 2007.

Q. What is the theme of the 18th Statistics Day 2024?

Answer: Use of data for decision-making.

Q. Why is Statistics Day observed on 29 June in India?

Answer: It is the birthday of Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, who is considered to

be the father of Statistics in india.

Q. Which Five-year plan of India is based on Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis's

model?
Answer: Second five-year plan (1956-61).

Q. Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata?

Answer: Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis on 17 December 1931.

Q. On which day is the World Statistics Day celebrated?

Answer: 20 October.

Q. Where was the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting held in June 2024?
Answer: Singapore
Q. In which category India has been put by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)?
Answer: Regular follow-up category. It also includes Russia, France, Italy and the United
Kingdom.

Q. Where is the headquarters of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)?

Answer: Paris, France

Q. When did India join the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)?
Answer: 2010. FATF has 39 member countries.

Q. Which is the top global body against anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist
financing?

Answer: Financial Action Task Force

Q. When was the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) set up?
Answer: 1989.

Q. Who has been appointed as the 35th foreign secretary of India?

Answer: Vikram Misri

Q. Before being appointed as the foreign secretary of India, what post was held by
Virkram Misri?
Answer: Deputy National Security Adviser in the National Security Council Secretariat.

Q. Before Vikram Misri, who was India's foreign secretary?

Answer: Vinay Mohan Kwatra
Q. Who was India's first foreign secretary?
Answer: K.P.S Menon

Q. Who was India's first female foreign secretary?

Answer: Chokila Iyer (March 2001 to June 2002).

Q. What is the name of the river in which five army personnel died after the tank they
were in got stuck?
Answer: Shyok River in Ladakh.

Q. Where is the origin of the Shyok River?

Answer: Rimo Glacier. It is part of the Siachen glacier in Ladakh.

Q. What is the name of the tank of the Indian Army which got stuck in a river in Ladakh,
and five army personnel travelling in the tank died?
Answer: T-72 tank.

Q. Where is Nyoma-Chushul, which was in the news recently?

Answer: In Ladakh, five army personnel died when their tank got stuck in the Shyok River.

Q.What is the length of the Shyok River?

Answer: Around 550 Km.

Q. What is Operation Rhino of the Union Ministry of Defence?

Answer: It was launched in 2001 to modernise the T-72 Ajeya tanks of the Indian Army.

Q. Shyok River is the tributary of which river?

Answer: Indus River
Q. Who has been elected as the President of the European Council of the European
Union?
Answer: Former Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Costa

Q. Who has been appointed the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security
Policy of the European Union?
Answer: Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas

Q. Where is the headquarters of the European Union?

Answer: Brussels, Belgium

Q. What is the term of the President of the European Council?

Answer: 2.5 years and can have a maximum of two terms.

Q. How many countries are members of the European Union?

Answer: 27 countries.

Q. On which day is the International Asteroid Day observed worldwide?

Answer: 30 June

Q. When was the first International Asteroid Day observed worldwide?

Answer: 30 June 2017.

Q. What are asteroids?

Answer: They are heavenly bodies that are small in size, made of rocks, and mainly found in
a belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Q. What is a comet?
Answer: It is a heavenly body made of ice and dust and originates in the Kuiper belt and the
Oort Clouds.