22nd April'19 | Current Affairs for SSC and Bank

Q1) National Civil Service Day was observed on ?
A. April 20
B. April 21
C. April 19
D. April 18
Q2) The Indian Navy has launched a guided missile destroyer named what at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai ?
A. Mizoram
B. Vishakhapatnam
C. Kochi
D. Imphal
Q3) India’s first Centre of Excellence for drone development to come up at which IIT ?
A. IIT Madras
B. IIT Hyderabad
C. IIT Kanpur
D. IIT Bombay
Q4) India has been ranked at which spot in the Startup Ecosystem Ranking for 2019 by StartupBlink ?
A. 18th
B. 20th
C. 17th
D. 10th
Q5) Name the Paranormal investigator and demonologist on which horror films like ‘The Conjuring’ and the ‘The Amityville Horror’ were based, passed away recently ?
A. Lorraine Warren
B. Edward Warren
C. Stephen Kaplan
D. Tony Cornell
Q6) World Creativity and Innovation Day was observed on ?
A. April 20
B. April 19
C. April 21
D. April 18
Q7) Who has been appointed to the board of directors of Paytm Payments Bank ?
A. Ashvini Yardi
B. Chiki Sarkar
C. Zarina Mehta
D. Sairee Chahal
Q8) Con de Lange, an all-rounder cricketer from which country passed away at the age of 38 years ?
A. Ireland
B. South Africa
C. Scotland
D. New Zealand
Q9) Amar Pal who passed away recently was a famous ____?
A. Politician
B. Singer
C. Doctor
D. Historian
Q10) Airtel Payments Bank has announced a two-wheeler insurance policy in partnership with which General Insurance ?
A. Bharti Axa
B. HDFC Ergo
C. Bajaj Allianz
D. Apollo Munich
Q11) H K Khan who passed away recently was a former secretary of which state ?
A. Maharashtra
B. Gujarat
C. Rajasthan
D. Jharkhand
Q12) Amazon is planning to close down online retail operations in which country ?
A. Japan
B. China
C. Germany
D. France
Q13) The world’s tallest indoor waterfall, 131-foot-tall, opened for the general public at which Airport ?
A. Jewel Changi Airport
B. Capital International Airport
C. Tokyo Haneda Airport
D. Dubai International Airport
Q14) Which country has won a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against China’s use of tariff-rate quotas (TRQ) for rice, wheat and corn ?
A. Russia
B. India
C. Japan
D. United States
Q15) Union territories and how many states have joined in a pan-India network of single emergency helpline number ‘112’ ?
A. Ten
B. Fifteen
C. Twenty
D. Twelve
Q16) Who was honoured with ‘Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award‘ for 2018-19 ?
A. Suresh Sawlani
B. Pankaj Kaushal
C. Sunil Kumar Gautam
D. Sameer Jain
Q17) Who has been appointed as a new Chairman of Export Promotion Council for Handicraft (EPCH) ?
A. Ravinder Kumar Passi
B. Tapan Singhel
C. Vasant Narasimhan
D. Salil Parekh
Q18) Which retail company has become India’s first retail company to cross the Rs.1 lakh crore annual revenue milestones ?
A. Big Bazaar
B. Reliance
C. HyperCity
D. DMart
Q19) Yusuf Hamied who was honoured in the 2019 list of new fellows of the UK’s Royal Society, is the chairman of which country ?
A. Lupin Ltd
B. Sun Pharmaceutical
C. Aurobindo Pharma
D. Cipla
Q20) Who has took over as Member (Signal & Telecom) of Railway Board ?
A. V.P. Pathak
B. Surya Reddy
C. Vishal Chaurasiya
D. N. Kashinath
Q21) The researchers from which IIT has identified a new method to detect breast, ovarian cancer ?
A. IIT Roorkee
B. IIT Madras
C. IIT Kharagpur
D. IIT Bombay
Q22) Which country, on the eve of Easter , has faced bomb explosions targeting churches and five-star hotels ?
A. Nepal
B. Srilanka
C. France
D. Italy
Q23) Who discovered the biological cells?
A) Robert Brown
B) Robert Hooke
C) Schleiden
D) Schwann
Q24) The plant cell wall is composed mainly of which substance?
A) starch
B) cellulose
C) glycogen
D) None of these
Q25) Chlamydomonas is a type of?
A) unicellular organism
B) multicellular organism
C) homosingular organism
D) multisingular organism