Current Affairs Quiz : June 12, 2017

Q.1) The 22^nd European Union Film Festival (EUFF) premiered at Siri Fort auditorium held in _________.

a) New Delhi

b) Mumbai

c) Kolkata

d) Jaipur

e) Gandhinagar

Q.2) India agreed to participate in Astana EXPO-2017. The theme of the Expo is_________

a) Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life

b) Flowers and Children

c) Financial Inclusion: A Better Future for Africa Starts here

d) MONEY—Make More. Keep More. Learn How

e) Future Energy

Q.3) Name the Lead Bank for Thiruvananthapuram district that has launched the Retail Mart, a retail lending concept, in Kerala’s capital city?

a) IOB

b) IB

c) SBI

d) KVB

e) DCB

Q.4) State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is keen to acquire India’s third-biggest fuel retailer HPCL in a Rs ________crore deal.

a) 42224

b) 45224

c) 45254

d) 42254

e) 42524

Q.5) The GST Council announced a sharp cut in GST rates on the merchant services at ________per cent from 18 per cent.

a) 3

b) 4

c) 5

d) 6

e) 8

Q.6) The book “Indira Gandhi – A life in Nature”, was launched by

a) Sonia Gandhi

b) Jairam Ramesh

c) Manmohan Singh

d) Raghul Gandhi

e) Priyanka Gandhi

Q.7) Name the transgender who has been appointed as social development officer in Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS).

a) Rudrani Chhetri

b) Kalki Subramaniam

c) Padmini Prakash

d) Sadhana Mishra

e) Madhu Kinnar

Q.8) Name the e-commerce company which has appointed the Amit Sinha as the Chief Operating Officer (COO).

a) Mobikwik

b) Paytm

c) Amazon

d) Flipkart

e) Alibaba

Q.9) Who dismantles Swiss Wawrinka’s challenge in straight sets to claim an unprecedented 10th singles title at Roland Garros?

a) Roger Federer

b) Rafael Nadal

c) Novak Djokovic

d) Andy Murray

e) Andre Agassi

Q.10) Who won his second successive singles title in a fortnight when he tamed Nicholas S. Hu of the US in the final of the ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament?

a) Leander Paes

b) Somdev Devvarman

c) Rohan Bopanna

d) Ramesh Krishnan

e) Ramkumar Ramanathan

Q.11) Laimwon Narzary broke a 25-year-old girls’ high jump record at the 15th Federation Cup National Junior Athletics Championships. Narzary belongs to which state?

a) Arunachal Pradesh

b) Mizoram

c) Meghalaya

d) Assam

e) Manipur

Q.12) Name the Players who clinched the women’s doubles title in the French Open tennis championships?

a) Chris Evert & Kim Clijsters

b) Svetlana Kuznetsova & Elena Vesnina

c) Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Lucie Safarova

d) Ashleigh Barty & Casey Dellacqua

e) Pam Shriver & Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

Q.13) Padre Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann is the Chancellor of Peace and Dignity, died at the age of 84. He is the chancellor of which country?

a) Costa Rica

b) Panama

c) Guatemala

d) Nicaragua

e) El salvador

Q.14) Adam West, star of the popular and campy 1960s “Batman” TV show, died at 88, belongs to which country?

a) America

b) Russia

c) Australia

d) Africa

e) Germany

Q.15) Who has launched a swarm of 119 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, breaking the previous record of a swarm of 67 drones?

a) China

b) Japan

c) Germany

d) Russia

e) USA

Q.16)  Name the Place where Scientists have for the first time discovered two dimensional magnets that are formed by a single layer of atoms and may pave the way for more compact and efficient devices.

a) California

b) Texas

c) Chicago

d) San Francisco

e) Washington