Current Affairs Quiz – June 1, 2017

Q.1) Shri M Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences announced that India is all set to launch “Deep Ocean Mission” by____

a) 2017

b) 2018

c) 2019

d) 2020

e) 2021

Q.2) Minister for Statistics & Programme Implementation Shri D.V.Sadananda Gowda inaugurated the new office building of NSSO, Sankhyiki Bhawan in New Delhi. What is NSSO?

a) National Sample Survey Office

b) National Survey Sample Office

c) Nation Sample Survey Organization

d) Nation Survey Sample Office

e) National Survey Sample Organization

Q.3) Which of the following country bid is rejected by India to join this year Malabar naval exercise which involves India, Japan and the US is usually held in the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean or West Pacific maritime regions?

a) China

b) Pakistan

c) Australia

d) Srilanka

e) North Korea

Q.4) Which country became the partner country with International Economic Forum for the first time, held in Russia?

a) Srilanka

b) Afghanistan

c) Nepal

d) Iran

e) India

Q.5) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced the launch of its spacecraft to fly near the sun atmosphere in 2018. Name of the Spacecraft is _____.

a) Solar Probe Plus

b) Sonar Power Plus

c) Solar Power Plus

d) Solar Plus Probe

e) Sonar Probe Plus

Q.6) Who was inaugurated the first 660-MW unit of the Sahiwal coal power project in Punjab province. With a total expected capacity of 1320 MW, the plant is considered an early harvest project under the $46-billion CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor)?

a) Asif Ali Zardari

b) Noor Alam khan

c) Nawaz Sharif

d) Li Keqiang

e) Zhang Gaoli

Q.7) Which country host the 70^th World Health Assembly held from 22^nd to 31^st may 2017?

a) Italy

b) Switzerland

c) Japan

d) Philippines

e) None of these

Q.8) Which country has launched a cyber security law?

a) India

b) Srilanka

c) China

d) United States

e) United Kingdom

Q.9) What is the current Foreign Portfolio Investment in March 2017 which was double the investment compared to last year?

a) $3 billion

b) $3.8 billion

c) $5 billion

d) $7.4 billion

e) $9 billion

Q.10) Who was the head of the committee established to select CEOs for four financial institutions?

a) R Gandhi

b) Vinod Rai

c) Ramachandra Guha

d) Anjuly Chib Duggal

e) S S Mundra

Q.11) Which Credit Rating agency has downgraded the bonds of state-run lender Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) following the weak financial performance in 2016-17 as bad loans surged?

a) CIBIL

b) SIRIL

c) ICRA

d) Standard & Poor

e) Moody’s

Q.12) How much loan agreement was signed between Asian Development Bank and Punjab National Back is backed by a guarantee from the central government for installation of rooftop solar systems in India?

a) $1 Billion

b) $500 Million

c) $100 Million

d) $1.2 Billion

e) $600 Million

Q.13) Mumbai, Delhi and 7 other Indian Cities have featured in the list of top 300 global cities which are the focus of commercial activity and interest. This list was released by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).What is the rank of Mumbai in the list?

a) 2^nd

b) 5^th

c) 8^th

d) 13^th

e) 17^th

Q.14) How much loan was provide by Asian Development Bank to Bangladesh for help the south Asian nation meet its goal of providing 100% access to electricity to its citizens by 2021?

a) $120 million

b) $240 million

c) $410 million

d) $616 million

e) $650 million

Q.15) Who was resigned from BCCI’s panel of administrators?

a) Sankar Manohar

b) Ramachandra Guha

c) Vinod Rai

d) Vikram Limaye

e) Diana Edulji

Q.16) Which former Indian Ambassador to US has been appointed as public policy fellow to a Washington-based think-tank?

a) Nirupama Rao

b) Aravind Swamy

c) Niranjan Raj

d) G Mohan Kumar

e) Anu Kaur

Q.17) Which of the following cricketer is not in the list of ESPN world fame 100 lists?

a) Virat Kohli

b) Yuvraj Singh

c) MS Dhoni

d) Suresh Raina

e) Ravichandran Ashwin

Q.18) Every year on June 1^st is celebrated across globe as __________

a) World Toilet Day

b) World Children Day

c) World Parents Day

d) World Doctor Day

e) International Women Health Day

Q.19) Which of the following city launched a Bicycle patrols for better policing. It was flagged off by Union Minister of State for Home affair “Hansraj Gangaram Ahir”?

a) Haryana

b) Punjab

c) Uttar Pradesh

d) New Delhi

e) Uttar Pradesh

Q.20) Defence and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated a grid-connected solar power plant of 16 MW capacities at the Ordinance Factory in Telangana’s Medak. It was set up at a cost of Rs.____

a) 50 crore

b) 85 crore

c) 100 crore

d) 105 crore

e) 132 crore

Q.21) Delhi will host the 3-day Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) in ________

a) March 2017

b) April 2017

c) May 2018

d) September 2017

e) July 2017

Q.22) Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL) plans to spend 2,500 crore on R&D to develop and enhance indigenous products and technologies for the military by _____

a) 2017

b) 2018

c) 2019

d) 2020

e) 2021

Q.23) Which of the following country signed 7 MoU with India for deepen their business activist in various sectors and vowed “Zero tolerance” to combat the terrorism?

a) United Kingdom

b) Spain

c) France

d) Russia

e) Italy

Q.24) Which company was awarded ‘HR Innovation of the Year’, for its significant contribution to skill development in the automotive sector at the Asia-Pacific Excellence Awards held in Hong Kong recently?

a) Tata Motors

b) Reliance Industries

c) TCS

d) Mahendra

e) None of these

Q.25) Which of the following College researchers developed the new technology to manufacture biofuel which is cheaper and pollution free?

a) IIT Delhi

b) IIT Bangalore

c) IIT Kharagpur

d) IIT Chennai

e) IIT Kanpur

Q.26) Who was sworn in as Serbian President?

a) Alex Jones

b) Aleksandar Vucic

c) Tomislav Nikolic

d) Slobodan Milosevic

e) None of these

Q.27) Who has been appointed as CEO of Jet Airways?

a) Vinay Dube

b) Amit Agarwal

c) Naresh Goyal

d) Buzz Aldrin

e) None of these

Q.28) Who has been awarded 2017 PEN/Malamud Award?

a) Twinkle Khanna

b) Ramachandra Guha

c) Jhumpa Lahiri

d) Helen Oyeyemi

e) Joe Noc