Current Affairs 27 May 2024
01. Which team was the runner-up in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024?
(a) Kolkata Knight Riders
(b) Chennai Super Kings
(c) Sunrisers Hyderabad
(d) Rajasthan Royals
02. Name the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival 2024.
(a) Payal Kapadia
(b) Chidananda S Naik
(c) Anasuya Sengupta
(d) Mrinal Sen
03. Who recently assumed the appointment of Commandant at the National Defence Academy in May 2024?
(a) Vice Admiral Ajay Kocchar
(b) Vice Admiral Gurcharan Singh
(c) Major General G.D. Bakshi
(d) Major General Thakur Mahadeo Singh
04. In which event has Simran Sharma won a gold medal at World Para Athletics Championship 2024?
(a) Women’s 400m T13
(b) Women’s 200m T12
(c) Women’s 100m T11
(d) Women’s 800m T54
05. Who won India’s first-ever gold medal at the Asian Championships in Gymnastics?
(a) Meghana Gundlapally Reddy
(b) Pranati Nayak
(c) Aruna Reddy
(d) Dipa Karmakar
06. Who won the re-election in the final round of Lithuania’s presidential elections in 2024?
(a) Gitanas Nauseda
(b) Ingrida Simonyte
(c) Dalia Grybauskaitė
(d) Vytenis Andriukaitis
07. Who is the Most Valuable Player in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024?
(a) Pat Cummins
(b) Abhishek Sharma
(c) Sunil Narine
(d) Travis Head
08. Emblica chakrabartyi, the new plant species, was discovered from which forest range of Kerala?
(a) Edamalayar Forest Range
(b) Periyar Forest Range
(c) Silent Valley Forest Range
(d) Shendurney Forest Range
09. Who became the second leading run-scorer in T20Is, overtaking Rohit Sharma?
(a) Virat Kohli
(b) Jos Buttler
(c) Babar Azam
(d) David Warner
10. At which stadium was the final match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 played?
(a) Eden Garden, Kolkata
(b) Chepauk Stadium, Chennai
(c) Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
(d) Narendra Modi Stadium, Gujrat
| ANSWER KEY | |||
| 01 | C | 06 | A |
| 02 | B | 07 | C |
| 03 | B | 08 | A |
| 04 | B | 09 | C |
| 05 | D | 10 | B |