SOUTH INDIAN BANK PO CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – SET 5

South Indian Bank PO 2018 is happening in few days and one needs to prepare more to crack the exam as the vacancies are meager when compared to the others. So if you need to crack the South Indian Bank PO 2018 , you should score more in the Online Prelims Exam , so prepare with this questions which are collated from the May 11- May 20 Current Affairs and Static Gk to enhance your preparation to the next level.

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1) Which of the following state govt has launched India’s first cloud-based Integrated Control and Command Centre (ICCC) powered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Universal IoT Platform?

a) Maharashtra

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Bihar

d) Karnataka

e) Andhra Pradesh

2) National Technology Day is celebrated on _______.

a) 12th May

b) 10th May

c) 15th May

d) 9th May

e) 11th May

3) Who has inaugurated 6th US-India Aviation Summit in Mumbai 2018?

a) Suresh Prabhu

b) Nitin Gadkari

c) Rajnath Singh

d) Venkaiah Naidu

e) Piyush Goyel

4) Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated the state’s biggest solar power plant at Energy Awareness Park at _______.

a) Itanagar

b) Guwahati

c) Tawang

d) Changlang

e) Siang

5) Name the country that has launched Gaofen-5 (GF-5), a remote sensing satellite meant to conduct scientific research on the earth’s atmosphere.

a) Japan

b) Hong Kong

c) China

d) North Korea

e) USA

6) Who attended the conference on behalf of India conducted by Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Wuhan, China?

a) Suresh Prabu

b) K. J. Alphons

c) Mahesh Sharma

d) Shripad Naik

e) Uma Bharati

7) Brahmapuram Power Station is located in ________ state.

a) Karnataka

b) Kerala

c) Gujarat

d) Jharkhand

e) Haryana

Q.8) Sathyamangalam tiger Reserve is located in __________ State.

a) Bihar

b) Tamil Nadu

c) Telangana

d) Karnataka

e) Maharashtra

Q.9) 71st Cannes Film Festival 2018 was held in which country?

a) France

b) Mexico

c) Russia

d) New York

e) California

Q.10) Kayamkulam Power Station is located in ________ state.

a) Karnataka

b) Jharkhand

c) Gujarat

d) Kerala

e) Haryana

Q.11) Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Tamil Nadu

b) Maharashtra

c) Madhya Pradesh

d) Odisha

e) Rajasthan

Q.12) Sant Singaji Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Madhya Pradesh

b) Maharashtra

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Odisha

e) Rajasthan

Q.13) Name the India’s longest road and railway bridge connecting Dibrugarh in Assam to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh, that links between Sweden and Denmark?

a) Godavari Bridge

b) Munger Ganga Bridge

c) Pasibel Bridge

d) Bogibeel Bridge

e) Bihibel Bridge

Q.14) Who won the 11th KISS Humanitarian Award 2018 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha?

a) Moithin Yunus

b) Momin Yunus

c) Muhammad Yunus

d) Maroof Yunus

e) Mabood Yunus

Q.15) Name the Indian cricket player became the highest scoring (128) Indian in the history of the Indian Premier League, recently?

a) Suresh Raina

b) Virat Kohli

c) Murali Vijay

d) M S Dhoni

e) Rishabh Pant

Q.16) Which of the following private sector bank has set to roll out a capacity building project with farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan under its ‘Livelihood and Water Security’ CSR initiative, recently?

a) ICICI Bank

b) Federal Bank

c) YES Bank

d) HDFC Bank

e) Axis Bank

Q.17) Which of the following state government has started K-FON initiative to provide free internet over 20 lakh poor families in the state?

a) Kerala

b) Karnataka

c) Maharashtra

d) Telangana

e) Andhra Pradesh

Q.18) Who is the head of the committee to review/study the recovery of black money and performance of public sector banks among a host of subjects, recently?

a) Mirthan Manohar Joshi

b) Mirthula Manohar Joshi

c) Murnan Manohar Joshi

d) Murali Manohar Joshi

e) Mukesh Manohar Joshi

Q.19) Who has been appointed as the ambassador of India to the sultanate of Oman?

a) Munu Mahawar

b) Indra Mani Pandey

c) Alkesh Joshi

d) J S Mukul

e) Mukul Manohar

Q.20) International Nurses Day is celebrated on ________.

a) May 8th

b) May 12th

c) May 11th

d) May 10th

e) May 5th

Q.21) Satpura Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Rajasthan

b) Maharashtra

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Odisha

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.22) Which State Electricity Board has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Thermal Power Corporation for increasing solar power generation in the state?

a) Maharashtra

b) Telangana

c) Madhya Pradesh

d) Andhra Pradesh

e) Kerala

Q.23) India signed an agreement with which of the following country in the field of Renewable Energy, recently?

a) Peru

b) Nepal

c) Vietnam

d) Azerbaijan

e) United Kingdom

Q.24) Tirora Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Rajasthan

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Odisha

e) Maharashtra

Q.25) Talcher Super Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Rajasthan

b) Maharashtra

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Odisha

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.26) Chhabra Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Odisha

b) Maharashtra

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Rajasthan

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.27) Which of the following country has cancelled the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Programme of NASA, which cost $10 million per year to track carbon and methane?

a) France

b) USA

c) UK

d) Russia

e) India

Q.28) Which of the following state government has signed a MoU with the Centres Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) Council to train state PWD officials to rate government buildings, recently?

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Manipur

c) Madhya Pradesh

d) Maharashtra

e) Kerala

Q.29) Reserve Bank has initiated prompt corrective action against which public sector lender, due to widening of its net loss to Rs 1,225.42 crore in the March quarter on mounting bad loans and higher provisioning to cover them?

a) Canara Bank

b) Punjab National Bank

c) UCO Bank

d) Dena Bank

e) Indian Overseas Bank

Q.30) Who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)?

a) Pawan Kumar Agarwal

b) Prakash Kumar Agarwal

c) Pradeep Kumar Agarwal

d) Yuvan Kumar Agarwal

e) Naresh Kumar Agarwal

Q.31) Name the Bollywood singer nominated as the Green Ambassador of the Sikkim state?

a) Mohan Chauhan

b) Mohjit Chauhan

c) Mohit Chauhan

d) Mankit Chauhan

e) Mano Chauhan

Q.32) Chhabra Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Odisha

b) Maharashtra

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Rajasthan

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.33) Who released the book ‘Across the Bench – Insight into the Indian Military Judicial System’ by Lt Gen Gyan Bhushan in Lucknow?

a) Gen S Roy Chowdhury

b) Gen Bipin Rawat

c) Gen V K Singh

d) Gen Bikram Singh

e) Gen Dalbir Singh

Q.34) Army has finalised a mega _______ crore rupees project under which a range of ammunition for its critical weapons and tanks will be produced indigenously.

a) 15000

b) 14000

c) 11000

d) 12000

e) 10000

Q.35) Who was the First Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army ?

a) P.N Thapar

b) SM Srinagesh

c) Rob Lockhart

d) Roy Bucher

e) KM Cariappa

Q.36) Who is the present Army Staff of Indian Army?

a) VK Rawat

b) JK Singh

c) Dalbir Singh

d) Bikram Singh

e) Bipin Rawat

Q.37) Neyveli Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Odisha

b) Maharashtra

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Rajasthan

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.38) Palatana Thermal Power Plant is located in ________ state.

a) Uttarakhand

b) Tripura

c) Uttar Pradesh

d) West Bengal

e) Madhya Pradesh

Q.39) Who is the head of UNDP?

a) Irina Bokova

b) Audrey Azoulay

c) Siachin Steiner

d) Achim Steiner

e) Harsh Kumar Banwala

Q.40) Mukandra Hills tiger Reserve is located in __________ State.

a) Assam

b) Chattisgarh

c) Tamilnadu

d) Karnataka

e) Rajasthan

Q.41) Amrabad tiger Reserve is located in __________ State.

a) Telangana

b) Chattisgarh

c) Tamilnadu

d) Karnataka

e) Rajasthan

Q.42) Nawegaon- Nagzira tiger Reserve is located in __________ State.

a) Bihar

b) Tamil Nadu

c) Telangana

d) Karnataka

e) Maharashtra

Q.43) Which of the following Country indigenously built aircraft carrier ‘Shandong’ starts sea trials?

a) Nepal

b) China

c) Australia

d) Austria

e) Nigeria

Q.44) What is the capital of North Korea?

a) Nassau

b) Phnom Penh

c) Pyongyang

d) Bogota

e) Prague

Q.45) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Rs 68 billion strategic tunnel in which of the following state?

a) Gujarat

b) Himachal Pradesh

c) Jammu and Kashmir

d) Maharashtra

e) Kerala

Q.46) Name the Indian charity that won charity award in UK?

a) World Vision India

b) Jagriti Yatra

c) M.S.N. Charities

d) Sankurathri Foundation

e) Pallium India

Q.47) Nagarjunsagar tiger Reserve is located in __________ State.

a) Maharashtra

b) West Bengal

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Rajasthan

e) Odisha

Q.48) Who has been appointed as the head of U.S India Business Council?

a) Shelia Mehta

b) Ambika Sharma

c) Wendy Kopp

d) Anita Roddick

e) Clara Barton

Q.49) Who is the first female director of the CIA, Central Intelligence Agency?

a) Gina Haspel

b) Rashmi Sinha

c) Anuradha Krishnan

d) Uma Bharti

e) Venu Priya

Q.50) The Asia’s longest bi-directional Zojila tunnel is located in which of the following state?

a) Rajasthan

b) Odisha

c) Kerala

d) Jammu Kashmir

e) Chhattisgarh


Answer Key

1) b) Madhya Pradesh

2) e) 11th May

3) a) Suresh Prabhu

4) a) Itanagar

5) c) China

6) b) K. J. Alphons

7) b) Kerala

8) b) Tamil Nadu

9) a) France

10) d) Kerala

11) c) Madhya Pradesh

12) a) Madhya Pradesh

13) d) Bogibeel Bridge

14) c) Muhammad Yunus

15) e) Rishabh Pant

16) c) YES Bank

17) a) Kerala

18) d) Murali Manohar Joshi

19) a) Munu Mahawar

20) b) May 12th

21) e) Madhya Pradesh

22) e) Kerala

23) a) Peru

24) e) Maharashtra

25) d) Odisha

26) d) Rajasthan

27) b) USA

28) d) Maharashtra

29) d) Dena Bank

30) a) Pawan Kumar Agarwal

31) c) Mohit Chauhan

32) d) Rajasthan

33) b) Gen Bipin Rawat

34) a) 15000

35) e) KM Cariappa

36) e) Bipin Rawat

37) c) Tamil Nadu

38) b) Tripura

39) d) Achim Steiner

40) e) Rajasthan

41) a) Telangana

42) e) Maharashtra

43) b) China

44) c) Pyongyang

45) c) Jammu and Kashmir

46) b) Jagriti Yatra

47) c) Andhra Pradesh

48) b) Ambika Sharma

49) a) Gina Haspel

50) d) Jammu Kashmir


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