Current Affairs Quiz - May 2025

1. Which is the nodal ministry for the National Medical Register (NMR), a centralized digital database?
[A] Ministry of Education
[B] Ministry of Science and Technology
[C] Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
[D] Ministry of Social Justice

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2. Natural hydrogen is formed through which geological process?
[A] Mass wasting
[B] Serpentinisation
[C] Liquefaction
[D] Carbon capture

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3. The European Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) was recently spotted in which Indian state?
[A] Uttarakhand
[B] Uttar Pradesh
[C] Himachal Pradesh
[D] Punjab

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4. Shahid Rajaee Port, that was recently seen in news, is located in which country?
[A] Iran
[B] Iraq
[C] Kuwait
[D] Qatar

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5. NAMASTE Scheme was jointly launched by which two ministries?
[A] Ministry of Health and Ministry of Rural Development
[B] Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Labour
[C] Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
[D] Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of Skill Development

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6. Which institute has developed a 3D computational model to study thermoregulation in space?
[A] Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur
[B] Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
[C] Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST)
[D] Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi

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7. Which two countries jointly developed a new non-contact wearable device that monitors skin molecular flux without direct contact?
[A] India and Japan
[B] China and Germany
[C] United States and South Korea
[D] United Kingdom and France

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8. Where is the headquarters of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) located?
[A] Mumbai
[B] Chennai
[C] Hyderabad
[D] New Delhi

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9. Which institution has recently reported the first-ever experimental observation of a two-dimensional layered room-temperature altermagnet?
[A] Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
[B] University of Tokyo
[C] Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru
[D] None of the Above

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10. Campi Flegrei is an active volcano located in which country?
[A] Indonesia
[B] Italy
[C] Japan
[D] Philippines

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