Current Affairs Quiz – 25, June 2017
Q.1) Who won the Australian open super series title by defeating Olympic champion Chen Long?
a) Prakash Padukone
b) Pullela Gopichand
c) Chetan Anand
d) Vimal Kumar
e) Kidambi Srikanth
Q.2) Which of the following organisations designed Satellite-based chip systems to alert the road users at unmanned level crossings about approaching trains and also help in tracking train movement on a real-time basis?
a) DRDO
b) ISRO
c) VSSC
d) IIT
e) IISER
Q.3) In which city Germany Visa Application centre is opened?
a) Kochi
b) Chennai
c) Bengaluru
d) Jaipur
e) Kolkata
Q.4) Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Col Rajyavardhan Rathore inaugurated a Kendriya Vidyalaya in CISF campus at _____.
a) Kochi
b) Jaipur
c) Bengaluru
d) Delhi
e) Kolkata
Q.5) In which state the annual event of Sao Joao or the feast of St. John the Baptist, was celebrated?
a) Maharashtra
b) Madhya pradesh
c) Goa
d) Jharkhand
e) Punjab
Q.6) Which of the following government will construct 9 thousand kilometre of roads under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana in the next one year?
a) Maharashtra
b) Madhya pradesh
c) Jharkhand
d) Assam
e) Arunachal Pradesh
Q.7) Which country ratified a controversial treaty that transfers two largely uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia?
a) Turkey
b) Egypt
c) Yemen
d) Oman
e) Saudi Arabia
Q.8) Who launches the book titled ‘The Emergency-Indian Democracy’s Darkest Hour’ written by A Surya Prakash?
a) Arun Jaitley
b) Venkaiah Naidu
c) Narendra Modi
d) Pranab Mukherjee
e) Hamid Ansari
Q.9) Name the Franco-Swiss journalist who died in Paris after being wounded in an explosion in Mosul.
a) Susan Ormiston
b) Véronique Robert
c) Nahlah Ayed
d) Paul Wood
e) Sasa Petric
Q.10) Graham Ford has stepped down as _______coach, ending his second tenure with the side after 15 months.
a) West Indies
b) Srilanka
c) Pakistan
d) Afghanistan
e) UAE
Q.11) Which country won over higher-rated Ukraine in the seventh round of the World team chess championship?
a) West Indies
b) Srilanka
c) India
d) Afghanistan
e) UAE
Q.12) Which of the following organisation launched the sounding rocket CHESS to study vast interstellar clouds and know about the earliest stages of star formation?
a) DRDO
b) ISRO
c) VSSC
d) NASA
e) IISER
Q.13) Which of the following country developed the world’s most powerful submarine detector to find the hidden metallic objects, including minerals and submarines?
a) Japan
b) China
c) Russia
d) Germany
e) Italy
Q.14) Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) have successfully developed a novel cancer drug delivery system using graphene oxide nanoparticles. IISER is located in ___________.
a) Maharashtra
b) Madhya pradesh
c) Jharkhand
d) Assam
e) Arunachal Pradesh
Q.15) Which country’s scientists working toward the world’s biggest telescope Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)?
a) West Indies
b) Srilanka
c) India
d) Afghanistan
e) UAE
Q.16) Name the Infosys chairman who is going to retire in May, 2018.
a) R. Seshasayee
b) S. Seshasayee
c) M. Seshasayee
d) N. Seshasayee
e) K. Seshasayee
Q.17) Who is appointed as the ICC deputy chairman?
a) David Peever
b) David Richardson
c) Shashank Manohar
d) Imran Khawaja
e) Nazmul Hassan
Q.18) How many workshops on Goods and Services Tax (GST) is going to be conducted by the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) across India to educate traders about the new tax regime?
a) 50
b) 75
c) 100
d) 25
e) 125
Q.19) Which of the following bank has bagged nine Skoch Awards held at Mumbai?
a) Dena Bank
b) SBI
c) Vijaya Bank
d) Punjab National Bank
e) IDBI
Q.20) Kanyashree Scheme for Girls won the United Nations Public Service Award at The Hague. This scheme is launched by which state?
a) West Bengal
b) Madhya pradesh
c) Jharkhand
d) Assam
e) Arunachal Pradesh
Q.21) Jewar airport is located at_____________.
a) Raipur
b) Greater Noida
c) Varanasi
d) Lucknow
e) Ahmedabad
Q.22) In which state Rath Yatra is celebrated?
a) Odisha
b) Madhya pradesh
c) Jharkhand
d) Assam
e) Arunachal Pradesh
Q.23) A fresh Incredible India 2.0 campaign, backed by an interactive new website on India’s tourism hotspots are in the works and expected to be launched on___________.
a) June 27, 2017
b) July 27, 2017
c) August 27, 2017
d) September 27, 2017
e) October 27, 2017
