Q.1) The CBDT has extended the date of filing of declaration under the PMGKY to May 10. What is “G” denotes in PMGKY?

a) Garib

b) Gram

c) Ganga

d) Grameen

e) Gramin

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a) Garib

Q.2) India had signed two agreements with which country to build artillery guns for the Army and for collaboration in shipbuilding?

a) Thailand

b) Russia

c) China

d) South Korea

e) Myanmar

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d) South Korea

Q.3) World’s longest-reigning living monarch, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated its ___Birthday.

a) 85th

b) 89th

c) 93rd

d) 91st

e) 90th

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d) 91st

Q.4) Neymar is the only football player who has been named in Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people. He is belongs to which country?

a) Colombia

b) Spain

c) Russia

d) Argentina

e) Brazil

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e) Brazil

Q.5) Which of the following company has partnered with Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala (IIITM-K) to monitor quality and presence of metals in water in real-time?

a) Accenture

b) WIPRO

c) TCS

d) IBM

e) Microsoft

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d) IBM

Q.6) Who got the UNESCO Prestigious Peace Prize for the work to save the lives of refugees and migrants and welcome them with dignity?

a) Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

b) Giuseppina Nicolini

c) Fredrik Bajer

d) Elihu Root

e) Aristide Briand

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b) Giuseppina Nicolini

Q.7) World Earth Day is celebrated every year on 22nd of April. What is the theme of 2017?

a) Environmental & Climate Literacy

b) Trees for the Earth

c) Water Wonderful World

d) Green Cities

e) The Face of Climate Change

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a) Environmental & Climate Literacy

Q.8) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced signing of an MoU with which bank for Supervisory Cooperation and Exchange of Supervisory Information?

a) People’s Bank of China

b) Bank of America

c) Royal Bank of Scotland

d) Bank of Guyana

e) Bank of International Settlement

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d) Bank of Guyana

Q.9) Which of the following Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) converted itself to Small Finance Bank, recently?

a) Sundaram Finance

b) Bajaj Finserv

c) LIC Finance limited

d) Reliance Capital

e) AU Financiers

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e) AU Financiers

Q.10) The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) will conduct its first mock exercise on forest fires in which state of India?

a) Uttarakhand

b) Odissa

c) Himachal Pradesh

d) Haryana

e) Punjab

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a) Uttarakhand

Q.11) Father of Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr died in Los Angeles at the age of 72. He is related to which field?

a) Journalist

b) Actor

c) Musician

d) Dancer

e) Singer

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e) Singer

Q.12) Which of the following person inaugurated three welfare initiatives of the Department of Justice. The services are Pro-bono legal services’, ‘Tele-law service’ and Nyaya Mitra?

a) Sushma Swaraj

b) Nitin Gadkari

c) Venkaiah Naidu

d) Ravi Shankar Prasad

e) Sadananda Gowda

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d) Ravi Shankar Prasad

Q.13) Who is the ambassador of Portugal to India?

a) Nandini Singla

b) Navtej Sarna

c) Arun Kumar Singh

d) Joao da Camara

e) Abid Hussain

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d) Joao da Camara

Q.14) India’s first water body,Ameenpur Lakedeclared as a Biodiversity Heritage Site, under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002. It is located in which state?

a) West Bengal

b) Karnataka

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Telangana

e) Rajasthan

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d) Telangana

Q.15) The Indian Navy successfully carried out the maiden test-firing of the land attack variant of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile launched in which sea?

a) Indian Ocean

b) Pacific Ocean

c) Bay of Bengal

d) Arabian Sea

e) None of these

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c) Bay of Bengal

Q.16) India and the European Union firmed up plans for holding the 14th bilateral summit to be held in India. Who is the European Union President?

a) Koen Lenaerts

b) Joseph Muscat

c) Antonio Tajani

d) Jean-Claude Juncker

e) Donald Tusk

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e) Donald Tusk

Q.17) Which of the following country launched its first satellite as a part of its efforts to make use of new technology to diversify its resource-dependent economy. It has partnership with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS)?

a) Colombia

b) South Korea

c) Russia

d) Mongolia

e) Philippines

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d) Mongolia

Q.18) Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan beat top seeds Sergey Betov and Vladyslav Manafov in ITF Futures tennis tournament. It is held in ___.

a) Afghanistan

b) Kazakhstan

c) Turkmenistan

d) Tajikistan

e) Uzbekistan

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e) Uzbekistan

Q.19) Who was appointed as the new coach of the Indian women’s team by BCCI?

a) Baiden Riju

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b) Tushar Arothe

c) Mathew Rook

d) Kiran Riju

e) Purnima Rau

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b) Tushar Arothe

Q.20) Former footballer Ugo Ehiogu died at the age of 44 in Tottenham’s training centre. He is belongs to which country?

a) Colombia

b) Argentina

c) Russia

d) England

e) Spain

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d) England