50 Questions
50 Questions
50 Questions
Which Indian bollywood personality has been honoured with the 2017 Parmod Mahajan Smriti
Award?
[A] Amitabh Bachchan
[B] Shatrughan Sinha
[C] Sharmila Tagore
[D] Anupam Kher
Answer: D
2. Which among the following articles of the constitution empowers Jammu and Kashmir
legislature to define permanent residents (PR) of state?
a. Article 35
b. Article 35A
c. Article 370
d. Article 34
Answer: B
3. To commemorate who among the following Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) is
celebrated on 31 October?
a. Indira Gandhi
b. Sardar Patel
c. B. R. Ambedkar
d. M.K. Gandhi
Answer: D
4. Which among the following country has launched world’s first hybrid electric tram powered by
hydrogen fuel cell?
a. Soyan
b. Canada
c. China
d. U. S. A
Answer: C
5. Which among the following country won FIFA – U – 17 world cup 2017?
a. England
b. Spain
c. France
d. Brazil
Answer: A
6. At which among the following Indian states is salt lake stadium located?
a. Mumbai
b. Hyderabad
c. Calcutta
d. Delhi
Answer: C
10. Which among the following company built “Vikram”, India’s first ever defence vessel to be
built in a private shipyard?
a. Reliance
b. L and T
c. TATA
d. Adani Group
Answer: B
11. What is India’s rank in the latest World Bank (WB)’s Ease of Doing Business ranking 2018?
[A] 111th
[B] 130th
[C] 115th
[D] 100th
Answer : D
12. Who has taken over charge as new Director-General (DG) of National Investigation Agency (NIA)?
[A] Jainam Shah
[B] Ankit Awasthi
[C] Sharad Kumar Sinha
[D] Yogesh Chander Modi
Answer : D
13. Who has been appointed as the Karnataka’s first woman Director General and Inspector General
of Police (DG-IGP)?
[A] Neelmani N. Raju
[B] Minal Reddi
[C] Pooja Chandra
[D] Deepali Murthy
Answer: A
14. Who has been elected as the 95th Prime Minister of Japan?
[A] Tadamori Oshima
[B] Shinzo Abe
[C] Hirotaka Akamatsu
[D] Junichiro Koizumi
Answer: B
15. Who has been selected for Kerala’s top literary award “Ezhuthachan Puraskaram-2017”?
[A] Puthussery Ramachandran
[B] Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri
[C] K Satchidanandan
[D] C. Radhakrishnan
Answer: C
16. Gagan Narang clinched silver in which rifle prone event at Commonwealth Shooting
Championships in Brisbane?
[A] 10m rifle prone
[B] 25m rifle prone
[C] 30m rifle prone
[D] 50m rifle prone
Answer: D
17. Who is the author of the book “Dreamnation: Uniting a Country with Handwritten Dreams”?
[A] Y.S. Rajan
[B] Srijan Pal Singh
[C] Subroto Bagchi
[D] Saji Mathew
18. Which word has been named official word of the year 2017 by Collins dictionary?
Answer: D
19. India’s first-ever conservation reserve for black buck will come up in which city?
[A] Bhopal
[B] Udaipur
[C] Allahabad
[D] New Delhi
Answer: C
20. The 2017 World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) is observed on which date?
[A] November 4
[B] November 5
[C] November 3
[D] November 6
Answer: B
Answer: C
22. Who has been chosen for the 53rd Jnanpith Award 2017?
Answer: A
23. Which city has won the Best City Bus Services Award of Government of India?
[A] Lucknow
[B] Mysuru
[C] Surat
[D] Kochi
Answer: C
24. Who has won the 2017 men’s singles National Badminton Championships?
25. Which Indian organization has developed sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’, which is successfully test
fired recently?
[A] BARC
[B] Bharat Earth Movers
[C] ISRO
[D] DRDO
Answer: D
26. Which city is hosting the 20th International Children’s Film Festival of India (ICFFI)?
[A] Hyderabad
[B] New Delhi
[C] Lucknow
[D] Chennai
Answer: A
27. Mary Kom has won gold medal in which category at 2017 Asian women’s Boxing Championships?
28. Which country hosted the 39th session of the General Conference of the UNESCO?
[A] France
[B] India
[C] Germany
[D] Italy
Answer: A
29. India’s first cartoon network theme park “Amaazia” will come up in which city?
[A] Surat
[B] Chennai
[C] Kolkata
[D] Jaipur
Answer: A
30. Audrey Azoulay has been appointed as the new chief of UNESCO. She hails from which country?
[A] Germany
[B] Italy
[C] Bulgaria
[D] France
Answer: D
31. Who will represent India in the annual summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO-2017) in
Russia?
Answer: D
32. Mirabai Chanu has become the first Indian in over two decades to win gold at the IWF World
Weightlifting Championship. She hails from which state?
[A] Mizoram
[B] Manipur
[C] Arunachal Pradesh
[D] Assam
Answer: B
33. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air India?
Answer: C
34. Under whose captaincy Indian men’s national team has won the 2017 Asian Kabaddi Championships?
Answer: C
35: Which Indian monument has officially been declared the most visited place of the world by World Book
of Records (WBR)?
36. Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters has been crowned the Miss Universe 2017. She hails from which country?
[A] Jamaica
[B] Cambodia
[C] Colombia
[D] South Africa
Answer: D
37. Gopi Thonakal has become the first Indian man to win Asian Marathon Championship. He hails from
which state?
[A] Karnataka
[B] Odisha
[C] Manipur
[D] Kerala
Answer: D
38. Which of the following will be India’s first solar mission to take off in 2019?
Answer: B
39. The scientists of which country have developed the world’s first artificial intelligence politician “SAM”?
Answer: A
[A] November 27
[B] November 26
[C] November 27
[D] November 28
Answer: B
41. Who has won the best actor award at the most prestigious 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA)?
Answer: C
Answer: B
43. Who has become the first-ever female pilot to be inducted into the Indian Navy?
Answer: D
44. What is the theme of the 2017 Universal Children’s Day (UCD)?
[A] Stop Violence Against Children!
[B] Protect Child Protect World
[C] Invest in Education
[D] Kids Take Over
45. Who has been honoured with 2017 Big Little Book Award in Bengali language category?
Answer: C
46. India has recently signed pact with which country for visa free entry of flight crew?
Answer: B
47. Atom Egoyan will be honoured with the lifetime achievement award at the International Film Festival of
India (IFFI 2017). He hails from which country?
[A] Canada
[B] Morocco
[C] New Zealand
[D] China
Answer: A
48. Who will be honoured with the 2017 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development?
Answer: C
49. Manushi Chhillar has won the coveted ‘Miss World 2017’title. She hails from which state?
Answer: C
50. Patanjali group has signed a MoU with which state government for setting up a food park in the state?