Current Affairs 13th March 2025 : Daily GK Update in English
1. The Adelaide Fringe is which country's biggest arts festival?
A) United Kingdom
B) Canada
C) Australia
D) New Zealand
Answer: C) Australia
2. Which Shakespeare comedy inspired the Candle Wasters' web series "Nothing Much to Do"?
A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
B) Much Ado About Nothing
C) Twelfth Night
D) The Tempest
Answer: B) Much Ado About Nothing
3. In Edward Lear's poem, which couple "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat"?
A) The Cat and the Fiddle
B) The Owl and the Pussy-cat
C) The Duck and the Kangaroo
D) The Pelican and the Crane
Answer: B) The Owl and the Pussy-cat
4. Which South African-born billionaire businessman heads the US government's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)?
A) Elon Musk
B) Mark Shuttleworth
C) Patrick Soon-Shiong
D) Ivan Glasenberg
Answer: A) Elon Musk
5. Harold Acton was an inspiration for Anthony Blanche, a character in which Evelyn Waugh novel?
A) Decline and Fall
B) Scoop
C) Brideshead Revisited
D) A Handful of Dust
Answer: C) Brideshead Revisited
6. Firefly Aerospace recently achieved a milestone by becoming the first commercial company to:
A) Launch a reusable rocket
B) Successfully land on the Moon without technical issues
C) Develop a space tourism program
D) Send a mission to Mars
Answer: B) Successfully land on the Moon without technical issues
7. What was the theme of World Wildlife Day 2025?
A) Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet
B) Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration
C) Wildlife Conservation Finance: Investing in People and Planet
D) Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation
Answer: C) Wildlife Conservation Finance: Investing in People and Planet
8. Which elusive wild cat species was recently spotted through camera traps at Dehing Patkai National Park in Assam, India?
A) Clouded leopard
B) Marbled cat
C) Fishing cat
D) Rusty-spotted cat
Answer: B) Marbled cat
9. The Kuki tribe is primarily found in which region of India?
A) Northeastern India
B) South India
C) Western Ghats
D) Ladakh
Answer: A) Northeastern India
10. 'Diyaslai' is the autobiography of which Nobel Peace Prize laureate?
A) Malala Yousafzai
B) Kailash Satyarthi
C) S. Chandrasekhar
D) Mother Teresa
Answer: B) Kailash Satyarthi