Current Affairs Quiz – 18 July, 2017

Q.1) Which of the following automobile manufacturers recently unveiled country’s first Bio-CNG (Bio-methane) bus at ‘Urga Utsav’?

a) Ashok Leyland

b) Mahindra & Mahindra

c) Tata Motors

d) Corona Manufacturers

e) Hero Motor Corp

Q.2) What was the theme of Kargil International Marathon event of 800 participants, started and finished at Tourist Facilitation Centre, Kargil in Jammu & Kashmir?

a) Run for Sarhad

b) Run for Sanjan

c) Run for Kargil

d) Run towards Sarhad

e) Run towards Kargil

Q.3) President Pranab Mukherjee received first copy of the book ‘Future of Indian Universities: Comparative and International Perspectives’ written by _________.

a) Arundhati Roy

b) Vikram Seth

c) Amartya Sen

d) Anita Desai

e) Kiran Desai

Q.4) Which of the following Ministers Inaugurated the IX Phase of prestigious Science Express exhibition train referred as ‘Science Express Climate Action Special (SECAS)’ which reached Sindhudurg in Maharashtra on 17^th July 2017?

a) Arun Jaitley

b) Rajnath Singh

c) Venkaiah Naidu

d) Suresh Prabhu

e) Dharmendra Pradhan

Q.5) Which state will be launching the first set of 100 Uber bike taxis, a new scheme for unemployed youths?

a) Haryana

b) Assam

c) Odisha

d) Andhra Pradesh

e) Punjab

Q.6) In which country, Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has called for a State Of Emergency for education that has 10.5 million children out of school?

a) Pakistan

b) Afghanistan

c) Zambia

d) Nigeria

e) Somalia

Q.7) Who has been appointed as Nepal’s Supreme Court Chief Justice by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari?

a) Sushila Karki

b) Damodar Prasad Sharma

c) Kalyan Shreshtha

d) Gopal Prasad Parajuli

e) Ram Kumar Prasad Shah

Q.8) Who along with former J&K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has taken oath as Lok Sabha Member?

a) Pandula Ravindra Babu

b) P.K. Kunhalikutty

c) P. Venugopal

d) Suman Balka

e) Nalin Kumar Kateel

Q.9) Which Union Minister will take the additional charge of Information and Broadcasting Minister Venkaiah Naidu’s resignation after he was named as the government’s nominee for Vice President of India.

a) Smriti Irani

b) Uma Bharati

c) Rajnath Singh

d) Ashok Gajapathi Raju

e) Anand Geethe

Q.10) Who won the first National Snooker Tournament Title in Chennai?

a) Aditya Mehta

b) I.H. Manudev

c) Pankaj Advani

d) Geet Sethi

e) Subhash Agarwal

Q.11) Who won the gold in Asian Cadet Judo Championship held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in which India clinched three medals?

a) Simran

b) Garima Chaudhary

c) Shushila Likmabam

d) Akram Shah

e) Thangjam Tababi Devi

Q.12) Which golf player has won U.S. Women’s Open Championship with the decisive birdies?

a) Alok Kumar

b) Arjun Atwal

c) Sung Hyun Park

d) Jeev Milkha Singh

e) Shiv Kapur

Q.13) Name the director who was named ‘Father of Zombie Movie’ created the genre with his film “Night of the Living Dead (1968)” died recently?

a) Peter Jackson

b) Kevin Tenney

c) Brian Yuzna

d) Neelay Lawson

e) George A. Romero

Q.14) Which of the following Oscar-winning performer whose versatile screen turn as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood, died recently?

a) Andrew Garfield

b) Natalie Portman

c) Denzel Washington

d) Martin Landau

e) Casey Affleck