Current Affairs Quiz – 21 July, 2017

Q.1) Which government has released Rs 90 lakh for the constructed of ultra modern cattle pond at village Kanian Kalan in Jalandhar district?

a) Punjab

b) Rajasthan

c) Haryana

d) Himachal Pradesh

e) Gujarat

Q.2) Which government has announced to set up 60 new Primary Health Centers in the rural areas of the state?

a) Punjab

b) Rajasthan

c) Haryana

d) Himachal Pradesh

e) Gujarat

Q.3) Which state school education department issued strict guidelines to reduce the weight of school bags for children in the State?

a) Karnataka

b) Kerala

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Telangana

e) Maharashtra

Q.4) Which state continues to have the highest potential to attract investment for the second year in a row, a survey by economic policy think tank National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) revealed?

a) Punjab

b) Rajasthan

c) Haryana

d) Himachal Pradesh

e) Gujarat

Q.5) Name the scheme that is launched by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for the senior citizens. The scheme can be purchased offline as well as online through Life Insurance Corporation of India.

a) PMVSY

b) PMSVY

c) PMVVY

d) PMVYY

e) PMMVY

Q.6) India is expected to achieve the projected growth rate of _______ per cent in 2017, reported by ADB.

a) 7.6

b) 7.2

c) 7.3

d) 7.4

e) 7.5

Q.7) The Reserve Bank will shortly issue bank notes of denomination Rs ________in Mahatma Gandhi series 2005 that will be bearing inset letter ‘S’ in the number panel, the design of these banknotes to be issued similar in design to those currently in circulation.

a) 10

b) 20

c) 50

d) 100

e) 1000

Q.8) Who announced the launch of Hire, a new service that helps businesses more effectively manage their internal recruiting process?

a) Yahoo

b) Flipkart

c) Amazon

d) Snapdeal

e) Google

Q.9) Largest private sector lender ICICI Bank will be selling personal loans of up to Rs _______ lakh through its ATMs that can be availed of by select salaried customers even if they haven’t previously applied for one.

a) 5

b) 10

c) 12

d) 13

e) 15

Q.10) Ram Nath Kovind has won the presidential election after securing over two-thirds of the total electoral college votes. Mr Kovind will be sworn-in as the _________ President of India on July 25.

a) 11^th

b) 12^th

c) 13^th

d) 14^th

e) 15^th

Q.11) Who has been appointed as the envoy to Afghanistan, currently serving as the US ambassador to Turkey?

a) Reince Priebus

b) Steve Bannon

c) John R Bass

d) Jared Kushner

e) Stephen Miller

Q.12) Name Bahujan Samaj Party chief resigned from Parliament, hours after storming out of the Rajya Sabha over not being allowed time to complete her speech on alleged Dalit atrocities in Uttar Pradesh?

a) Mayawati

b) Mamata Banerjee

c) Naveen Patnaik

d) Harish Rawat

e) Vasundhara Raje

Q.13) Who has been appointed as the Tata sky brand ambassador for the Southern market?

a) Aamir Khan

b) Salman Khan

c) Shreya Ghoshal

d) Nayanthara

e) Deepika Padukone

Q.14) Robert Gene “Red” West, a long time confidant of Elvis Presley, has died in Memphis. He is a ___________.

a) Song Writer

b) Actor

c) Dancer

d) Both a and b

e) Both b and c

Q.15) Who is set to replace The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt as Chair of the UK India Business Council (UKIBC)?

a) Jared Kushner

b) Chris Liddell

c) Lord Davies

d) Ivanka Trump

e) Michael T.Flynn

Q.16) Who has been honoured with the Most Admired Leader in the field of entertainment by Herald Global and has also been listed in the 50 Most Inspirational Women list?

a) Theo Epstein

b) Divyanka Tripathi

c) Jack Ma

d) Ava DuVemay

e) LeBron James

Q.17) The Union Cabinet gave its nod to Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) for raising Rs. _________crore in bonds for extra budgetary resources in 2017-18.

a) 600

b) 620

c) 640

d) 660

e) 680

Q.18) Which country has signed an MoU with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to raise one regiment of the advanced Medium Range Surface to Air Missiles (MRSAM)?

a) Iran

b) Israel

c) Iraq

d) Palestine

e) US

Q.19) How many state got centre’s nod Proposals for climate adaptation projects that have been approved by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change?

a) 1

b) 2

c) 3

d) 4

e) 5

Q.20) Which of the following organisation has informed that they have set up an Enforcement Department (EFD)?

a) SEBI

b) RBI

c) GOI

d) PWD

e) NGT

Q.21) Which Tourism Department has received the award in the category of ‘Best Adventure Tourism Destination and Eco-Tourism Destination’ at a 3-Day event organized by Indian International Travel Mart?

a) Jammu & Kashmir

b) Rajasthan

c) Haryana

d) Himachal Pradesh

e) Gujarat

Q.22) Which of the following company got the WPC Excellence Award for its innovative and ground-breaking INDMAX technology?

a) ONGC

b) BPCL

c) Indian Oil

d) HPCL

e) BPPL

Q.23) Centre’s flagship rural connectivity project BharatNet, the Union Cabinet is learnt to have cleared the proposal for the second phase of the project, under which ____________ gram panchayats would be connected with optic fibre cable (OFC).

a) 1,00,000

b) 1,50,000

c) 1,75,000

d) 2,00,000

e) 2,50,000

Q.24) Which country has bagged two awards at the first global robotics Olympiad in the US where 157 countries participated?

a) China

b) Japan

c) India

d) Pakistan

e) Singapore

Q.25) Who clinched a silver in men’s club throw F51 competition in World Para Athletics Championships?

a) Sophie Hahn

b) Stef Reid

c) Samanth Kinghorn

d) Amit Kumar Saroha

e) Amar Kumar Singh

Q.26) Which government rapped by NGT over “inordinate delay” in demarcation of forest land in the southern Ridge and slapped a fine of 2 lakh on it?

a) Delhi

b) Rajasthan

c) Haryana

d) Himachal Pradesh

e) Gujarat

Q.27) Name the daughter of Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, who was Queen Regent of erstwhile Travancore, died at the age of 90.

a) Indira Bai

b) Nandini Bai

c) Lakshmi Bai

d) Sethu Bai

e) Vanitha Bai

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