Current Affairs Quiz –  14 July 2017

Q.1) In which places India will host the Theatre Olympics in 2018, first since the event’s inception in 1993, Ministry of Culture in association with National School of Drama (NSD)  from February 17 to April 8, the eighth edition of the international event?

a) New Delhi

b) Bengaluru

c) Mumbai

d) Kolkata

e) Hyderabad

Q.2) The revamped and expanded online user-friendly NHB RESIDEX captures upward and downward movements in the prices of residential real estate prices revealed that prices during January-March 2017. Who has released the new version of NHB RESIDEX?

a) Narendra Modi

b) Arun Jaitley

c) Rajnath Singh

d) Venkaiah Naidu

e) Radha Mohan Singh

Q.3) In a push to digital payments, state-owned lender SBI will cut charges on electronic transfer of funds through NEFT and RTGS by up to________ per cent, benefiting nearly 5.27 crore customers.

a) 25

b) 50

c) 75

d) 80

e) 90

Q.4) Who has been appointed as the Tata Sons Group Chief Digital Officer?

a) Swathi Subramanian

b) Nithya Subramanian

c) Vidhya Subramanian

d) Aarthi Subramanian

e) Amritha Subramanian

Q.5) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) recommended a slew of measures to clean up the Ganges, including a fine of Rs ___________ for dumping waste in the Haridwar-Unnao stretch of the river.

a) 25000

b) 20000

c) 30000

d) 35000

e) 50000

Q.6) US and Qatar signed an agreement on fighting terrorism financing. Who is the UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation?

a) Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan

b) Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan

c) Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum

d) Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan

e) Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Q.7) How much amount has been sanctioned to the project for setting up of an AIIMS hospital in Gorakhpur, which was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year?

a) 1,850 crore

b) 2,000 crore

c) 1,750 crore

d) 1,650 crore

e) 1,550 crore

Q.8) India has contributed an additional of ________ million dollars to a UN partnership fund launched to support sustainable development projects across the developing world.

a) One

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

e) Five

Q.9) Which Language will be taught in Karnataka all schools in the State, including private, linguistic minority and Central board schools?

a) English

b) Kannada

c) Sanskrit

d) French

e) Germany

Q.10) Name the Nobel Peace Prize laureate of China’s most prominent political prisoner, died at a hospital in the country’s northeast.

a) Mo Yan

b) Tsung-Dao Lee

c) Tu Youyou

d) Liu Xiaobo

e) Daniel C. Tsui

Q.11) Indian scientists have discovered Saraswati, a large supercluster of galaxies located in the direction of the constellation Pisces, and at a distance of __________ million light years away from Earth.

a) 1000

b) 2000

c) 3000

d) 4000

e) 5000

Q.12) Who has acquired Bangalore-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Halli Labs for an undisclosed sum?

a) Amazon

b) Apple

c) Google

d) Alphabet

e) Infosys

Q.13) Power giant BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for how many years to achieve the common goals and objectives.

a) 1 Year

b) 2 Years

c) 3 Years

d) 4 Years

e) 5 Years

Q.14) Who took charge as the Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs under the Ministry of Finance?

a) Nripendra Mishra

b) Subhash Chandra Garg

c) Sindhushree Khullar

d) Ratan Kumar Sinha

e) Ashish Bahuguna

Q.15) Who was named as the brand ambassador of the Indian Indoor Cricket Team?

a) Saurabh Tiwary

b) Murali Vijay

c) Naman Ojha

d) Sandeep Patil

e) Kedar Jadhav

Q.16) Which bank Managing Director and CEO has been conferred with the ‘Personality of the Year’ award by Skoch Consultancy Services?

a) Punjab National Bank

b) SBI

c) IDBI Bank

d) Vijaya Bank

e) Dena Bank

Q.17) Which of the following is not in the list of best-performing states in “ease of doing business”?

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Telangana

c) Gujarat

d) Kerala

e) None of these

Q.18)  Who released historical information and lavish images, a coffee-table book on Dalhousie?

a) K N Tripathi

b) S D Patil

c) S C Jamir

d) K K Paul

e) Tathagata Roy

Q.19) Who has been given full financial powers to procure critical ammunition and spares to maintain an optimum level to fight a short intense war following “critical voids” in capabilities of the Army?

a) Sarath Chand

b) General Bipin singh rawat

c) M M S Rai

d) Dalbir Singh Suhag

e) Philip Campose

Q.20) The country is all set to get its first cutting edge high-speed rail training centre in__________.

a) Uttarakhand

b) Gujarat

c) Maharashtra

d) Madhya Pradesh

e) Punjab

Q.21) The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) signed a pact with a___________ state council to set up Technology and Innovation Support Centre (TISC).

a) Uttarakhand

b) Gujarat

c) Maharashtra

d) Madhya Pradesh

e) Punjab

Q.22) Who has become the first State in the country to enact a law against social boycott from caste Panchayat?

a) Uttarakhand

b) Gujarat

c) Maharashtra

d) Madhya Pradesh

e) Punjab

Q.23) Health Minister J P Nadda launches the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination (2017-22). The Strategic Plan gives year wise elimination targets in various parts of the country depending upon the endemicity of malaria in the next__________ years.

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4

e) 5