Current Affairs Quiz – July 1, 2017

Q.1) Who took oath as the 29th ITBP chief, who is succeeding Krishna Chaudhary?

a) S.K. Pachnanda

b) V.K. Pachnanda

c) R.K. Pachnanda

d) G.K. Pachnanda

e) J.K. Pachnanda

Q.2) Who had taken charge as the CEO and Managing Director of Larsen & Toubro?

a) NN Subrahmanyan

b) MN Subrahmanyan

c) RN Subrahmanyan

d) SN Subrahmanyan

e) KN Subrahmanyan

Q.3) Who will succeed Mukul Rohatgi as the Attorney General of India?

a) K K Venugopal

b) N K Venugopal

c) R K Venugopal

d) S K Venugopal

e) M K Venugopal

Q.4) Which of the following is the only state which failed to meet the June 30 timeline for the GST rollout?

a) Jammu & Kashmir

b) Haryana

c) Chattisgarh

d) Tamil Nadu

e) Sikkim

Q.5) Who will get this year’s Mohun Bagan Ratna award?

a) Samar Banerjee

b) Jarnail Singh

c) Balaidas Chatterjee

d) Syed Nayeemudin

e) Subrata Bhattacharya

Q.6) Which country recently legalise same sex marriage?

a) Italy

b) France

c) Germany

d) Russia

e) Japan

Q.7) Which country signed a official order, extending the counter-sanctions until the end of 2018. The decree extends a ban on Western food imports for another 18 months?

a) Italy

b) France

c) Germany

d) Russia

e) Japan

Q.8) India has expressed willingness to further partner _________Northern Provincial administration in development initiatives, emphasising the need for a clear economic programme identifying specific areas.

a) Srilanka

b) Malaysia

c) Indonesia

d) Singapore

e) China

Q.9) How many books has been handed over to Jaffna public library by Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu?

a) 15,000

b) 16,000

c) 17,000

d) 18,000

e) 19,000

Q.10) Who is the former Controller of Printing of The Hindu Group, passed away recently?

a) M. Nandakumar

b) K. Nandakumar

c) R. Nandakumar

d) S. Nandakumar

e) A. Nandakumar

Q.11) Simone Veil, who survived the Holocaust and led campaigns for the legalisation of abortion in France in the 1970s, died recently. She is a_______.

a) Politician

b) Magician

c) Historian

d) Mathematician

e) Physician

Q.12) According to the RBI report, India’s economic growth rate at _____% in terms of Gross Value Added (GVA) in 2017-18.

a) 7.1

b) 7.2

c) 7.3

d) 7.4

e) 7.5

Q.13) National Doctor’s Day in India is celebrated on _________.

a) July 1^st

b) August 1^st

c) June 30^th

d) July 2^nd

e) July 3^rd

Q.14) Indian origin boy ________aces Mensa test, scores 162 points, beats Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking in IQ belongs to which state in india?

a) Pranav Sharma

b) Arnav Sharma

c) Manav Sharma

d) Rakesh Sharma

e) Sarvesh Sharma

Q.15) Indigenously developed mobile application for digitising vaccine logistics, ___________, has won the prestigious GSMA Asia Mobile Award 2017 (AMO) for outstanding contribution to the UN’s sustainable development goals in Asia.

a) eVIN

b) eNIV

c) eVNI

d) eINV

e) eIVN

Q.16) Senior diplomat Shamma Jain was appointed as the India’s ambassador to ______.

a) Greece

b) Italy

c) Norway

d) Germany

e) Rome

Q.17) Mizoram celebrates its _________ anniversary of Mizo peace accord on June 30^th.

a) 29^th

b) 30^th

c) 31^st

d) 32^nd

e) 33^rd

Q.18) Who launches AAE-1, world’s longest 100Gbps submarine cable system, recently?

a) Airtel

b) Aircel

c) Vodafone

d) Reliance

e) BSNL

Q.19) Who launched the rocket that Creates Colourful Clouds Seen Across the East Coast?

a) ISRO

b) NASA

c) DRDO

d) Skylab

e) ISS

Q.20) The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated an exhibition of art works at Academy of Fine Arts is located at__________.

a) Mumbai

b) Hyderabad

c) Kolkata

d) Chennai

e) New Delhi

Q.21) Former Puducherry CPI legislator and veteran freedom fighter _______died at the age of 95.

a) S Gurusamy

b) N Gurusamy

c) K Gurusamy

d) M Gurusamy

e) R Gurusamy

Q.22) Who won a gold medal in the 400 metres at the Olympic Games in 2016 and has continued his rapid form into this year and breaks 300m Worlds best and Bolt’s Meet record at Ostrava?

a) Paul Tergat

 b) Emil Zatopek

c) Van Niekrek

d) Usain Bolt

e) Ed Whitlock

Q.23) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend _______ Chartered Accountants Day function and GST event in New Delhi.

a) 67^th

b) 68^th

c) 69^th

d) 70^th

e) 71^st

Q.24) Who attended the centenary celebrations of Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad?

a) Narendra Modi

b) Hamid Ansari

c) Pranab Mukherjee

d) Arun Jaitley

e) Rajnath Singh

Q.25) What is the currency of Russia?

a) Peso

b) Euro

c) Pound

d) Shilling

e) Ruble