Current Affairs Quiz – May 18, 2017

Q.1) Which of the following film won the best feature film in 64^th National award winning films festival 2017 held in Panaji, Goa?

a) Kassav

b) Mother India

c) Madhumati

d) Karigar

e) Anari

Q.2) Union Minister Arun Jaitley chaired the 14^th Goods and Services Tax (GST) council held at ______

a) Punjab

b) New Delhi

c) Mumbai

d) Jammu & Kashmir

e) Bangalore

Q.3) The Army has got its first artillery guns “Ultra light howitzers (ULH)” test fired at Pokhran in Rajasthan. The artillery guns was bought from _______

a) United States

b) United Kingdom

c) Israel

d) China

e) UAE

Q.4) How many communication satellites will be launch by ISRO in the next 18 months to boost internet speed?

a) 1

b) 3

c) 4

d) 7

e) 8

Q.5) The First anti-tobacco film festival held at ______

a) New Delhi

b) Goa

c) Mumbai

d) Kerala

e) Karnataka

Q.6) Which of the following entity organised the first “Samavesh” meeting in New Delhi?

a) NITI AYOG

b) Bank Board Bureau

c) ISRO

d) SEBI

e) RBI

Q.7) Recently, which bank has reduced the home loan rates interest from 8.65% to 8.35%?

a) ICICI

b) Yes Bank

c) CITI Bank

d) Axis Bank

e) City Union Bank

Q.8) How much fine was levied by the European Union to Facebook over misleading information over its purchase of Whatsapp in 2014?

a) €110 million

b) €120 million

c) €130 million

d) €140 million

e) €150 million

Q.9) Which of the following entity joins with Microsoft to provide global IoT services?

a) IBM

b) TCS

c) Paytm

d) Ericsson

e) Google

Q.10) Who has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of Pune University?

a) Nitin karmalkar

b) Wasudev Gade

c) Nithin Kumar

d) Aravind Kumar

e) None of these

Q.11) Who was awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Honour, recently?

a) David Letterman

b) Richard Pryor

c) Carl Reiner

d) Lily Tomlin

e) Steve Martin

Q.12) Who has won the Dan David prize for his contribution in the field of astronomy for the future category?

a) Warburg Library

b) Shrinivas Kulkarni

c) John Bahcall

d) Tony Blair

e) Ramakrishna Rao

Q.13) Which Indian umpires was selected for on-field umpires in champion trophy cricket 2017 in England?

a) Alim Dar

b) Sundaram Ravi

c) L. Ramakrishna

d) Jawakar Srinath

e) None of these

Q.14) Who was named as captain of India Hockey Team for 3 Nations invitational tournament in Germany?

a) P R Sreejesh

b) Rahul Triwathi

c) Manpreet Singh

d) Suresh Rana

e) None of these

Q.15) May 18^th is celebrated as ________?

a) International Nurse Day

b) International Museum Day

c) International Hyper Tension Day

d) International Bird Day

e) International Tiger Day

Q.16) Union Minister Anil Madhav Dave passed away at New Delhi. He was belongs to which independent charge of ministry?

a) Environment

b) Textile

c) Urban Development

d) Human Resource Development

e) Water Resources