Current Affairs Quiz – June 11,2017

Q.1) The Supreme Court confirms the government’s decision to link Aadhaar with the Permanent Account Number (PAN) for the filing of income tax returns. The existing PAN can be declared void if the taxpayer does not link it with Aadhaar by_________.

a) July 15th

b) July 31st

c) June 15th

d) June 30th

e) July 30th

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b) July 31st

Q.2) Which state government that has raised the insurance cover by 1 lakh to 6 lakh for farmers who avail crop loan from cooperative banks in the State, as it aims to bring around 25 lakh peasants under the insurance scheme?

a) Punjab

b) Haryana

c) Rajasthan

d) Gujarat

e) Uttarakhand

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c) Rajasthan 

Q.3) Name the ministry that launched awareness drive to increase popularity of Yoga through life-size Mascots (YogMob)?

a) Ministry of Health and family welfare

b) Ministry of AYUSH

c) Ministry of Water and sanitation

d) Ministry of Environment

e) Ministry of Science &Technology

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b) Ministry of AYUSH

Q.4) Greater Noida, Noida and Yamuna Expressway Authorities boards have allocated a total of Rs _________crore this fiscal for the development of the tri- cities.

a) 18,070

b) 16,443

c) 16,156

d) 18,669

e) 18,779

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d) 18,669

Q.5) Who is the prime minister of Mauritius?

a) Anerood Jugnauth

b) Pravind Jugnauth

c) Sorin Grindeanu

d) Justin Trudeau

e) Sher Bahadur Deuba

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b) Pravind Jugnauth

Q.6) India and Mauritius signed a pact to institutionalize cooperation between Parliaments of the two countries the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by whom from India?

a) Narendra Modi

b) Rajnath Singh

c) Hamid Ansari

d) Sumitra Mahajan

e) Pranab Mukherjee

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d) Sumitra Mahajan

Q.7) Name the country that fires multiple ground-to-ship cruise missiles that flew about 125 miles, recently.

a) North Korea

b) South Korea

c) Japan

d) China

e) Germany

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a) North Korea

Q.8) Retirement fund body Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will park about Rs ________ crore in the exchange traded funds this fiscal following the approval of its trustees to enhance investments in equity.

a) 30000

b) 27500

c) 20000

d) 25000

e) 22500

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e) 22500

Q.9) HDFC Ltd will raise how many crore through issuance of bonds on a private placement basis. The proceeds would be utilised for financing and refinancing the housing finance business requirements of the corporation?

a) 1000

b) 1500

c) 2000

d) 2500

e) 3000

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b) 1500

Q.10) Name the person who is being conferred with France’s highest civilian award, the coveted Legion of Honour.

a) Dr. M Balamuralikrishna

b) Kamal Haasan

c) Pandit Ravi Shankar

d) Soumitra Chatterjee

e) Y C Deveshwar

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d) Soumitra Chatterjee

Q.11) Jelena Ostapenko won her first Grand Slam title by defeating Whom in just under two hours in the women’s final of the French Open?

a) Maria Sharapova

b) Serena Williams

c) Simona Halep

d) Angelique Kerber

e) Agnieszka Radwańska

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c) Simona Halep

Q.12) Name the person who won the French Open boys title?

a) Roger Federer

b) Rafael Nadal

c) Alexei Popyrin

d) Stan Wawrinka

e) Novak Djokovic

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c) Alexei Popyrin

Q.13) 17th World Individual Chess Championship for differently-abled held in _______.

a) Saudi Arabia

b) Sofia

c) Slovakia

d) Slovenia

e) Sana

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c) Slovakia

Q.14) Name the Cinematographer won an Oscar for the 1974 disaster picture ‘The Towering Inferno’, has died recently?

a) Leon Shamroy

b) Joseph Ruttenberg

c) Roger Deakins

d) George J. Folsey

e) Fred Koenekamp

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e) Fred Koenekamp

Q.15) Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Palvai Govardhan Reddy died on suffering a cardiac arrest while travelling in Kullu in Himachal Pradesh. He belongs to which state?

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Telengana

c) Maharashtra

d) Madhya Pradesh

e) Odisha

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b) Telengana

Q.16) Name the person who won gold at world chess championship for differently-abled held in Slovakia.

a) Veselin Topalov

b) Ruslan Ponomariov

c) Anatoly Karpov

d) Garry Kasparov

e) Shashikant Kutwal

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e) Shashikant Kutwal

Q.17) Soumitra Chatterjee being conferred France’s highest civilian award, the coveted Legion of Honour. She belongs to which state?

a) Odisha

b) West Bengal

c) Bihar

d) Chhattisgarh

e) Jharkhand

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b) West Bengal

Q.18) India and Mauritius signed a pact to institutionalize cooperation between ________ of the two countries.

a) Military

b) Infrastructure

c) Parliaments

d) Defence

e) Agriculture

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c) Parliaments

Q.19) The Rajasthan government has raised the insurance amount by ______ lakh in the present fiscal year in the ‘Raj Sahakar Personal Accident Insurance Scheme’ targeted to cover more than 25 lakh farmers.

a) 1

b) 1.5

c) 2

d) 2.5

e) 3

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a) 1

Q.20) Name the bank that has received shareholder approval to raise up to 2,500 crore this year to support its growth.

a) Axis

b) HDFC

c) Yes

d) ICICI

e) Federal

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e) Federal

Q.21) Jelena Ostapenko won her first Grand Slam title in the women’s final of the French Open. She belongs to which country?

a) Latvia

b) Lithuania

c) Estonia

d) Russia

e) Sweden

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a) Latvia

Q.22) Alexei Popyrin winner of the French Open boys’ title belongs to which country?

a) Germany

b) Japan

c) Russia

d) America

e) Australia

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e) Australia

Q.23) The International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board announced it will add a new event which of the event is not the one in the event list?

a) 1500m Swimming

b) 3-on-3 basketball

c) BMX Freestyle cycling

d) Track cycling

e) 2000m Swimming

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e) 2000m Swimming

Q.24) Olympic 2020 is going to held in________

a) Beijing

b) Brussels

c) Tokyo

d) Athens

e) Seoul

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c) Tokyo