Current Affairs Quiz – May 23, 2017

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ – MAY 23, 2017

Q.1) Which Union Minister inaugurates internet service facilities for passengers at 28 Konkan railway stations and Promise better facilities at Kudal and Chiplun railway stations. Konkan Railway has tied up with Syscon Joister to provide 2 Mbps peer-to-peer 24×7 free Wi-Fi?

a) Arun Jatley

b) Suresh Prabhu

c) Venkaiah Naidu

d) Harsh Vardhan

e) None of these

Q.2) Which Police station has became the first women and child friendly police station in India?

a) Jamnagar

b) Chittoor

c) Jabalpur

d) Kozhikode

e) Chandigarh

Q.3) PM Narendra Modi announced that Gujarat’s Kandla Port will be connected with _____ port. Kandla port would be renamed as Deendayal Port Trust.

a) Busan, South Korea

b) Shenzhen, China

c) Chabahar, Iran

d) Trincomalee, Srilanka

e) Keihin, Japan

Q.4) Who was awarded COAS (Chief of Army Staff) commendation for sustained efforts in counter-insurgency operations. The officer was awarded by Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat.

a) Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi

b) Major Dalbir Singh Suhag

c) General Bipul Rawat

d) General Bikram Singh

e) None of these

Q.5) The Central government has set a target to construct 12 lakh houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in ______?

a) 2016-17

b) 2017-18

c) 2018-19

d) 2017-20

e) 2017-22

Q.6) Which Country was became the sixth country to ratify the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework pact initiated by the Indian and French Governments at the climate change summit held at Paris in 2015?

a) Nauru

b) Latvia

c) Cyprus

d) Lithuania

e) Malta

Q.7) Which Country becomes the second-largest producer of stainless steel in the world, behind China, in 2016, according to data released by the International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF)?

a) Australia

b) United Kingdom

c) Germany

d) India

e) Brazil

Q.8) What is the total branches about to open in the current year by new Paytm payment bank and what is the interest rate offer for saving account?

a) 13, 3%

b) 25, 5%

c) 31, 4%

d) 52, 3%

e) 100, 7.5%

Q.9) How many unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) with Indian taxpayers signed by Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) recently?

a) One

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

e) None of these

Q.10) Who has been appointed as new CEO of Ford?

a) Mark Fields

b) Jim Rhodes

c) Jim Hackett

d) Marissa Mayer

e) Ginni Rometty

Q.11) Who has been newly appointed as group CFO by Tata group Chairman N Chandrasekaran. He will be taking charge from July?

a) Saurabh Agrawal

b) Bob Igner

c) Mark Parker

d) Jeff Immlet

e) Doug McMillion

Q.12) Who is the first women cricketer to captain 100 ODIs for Indian team?

a) Anjum Chopra

b) Mithali Raj

c) Jhulan Nishit Goswami

d) Anju Jain

e) Purnima Rau

Q.13) Gurindervir Singh (100m) and Abhishek Mathew (800m) won gold medals for India at the Asian youth athletics championship held in _____?

a) Bangkok

b) Beijing

c) New Delhi

d) Bhutan

e) Tokyo

Q.14) Which athletic won a 10K road race international debut by winning the TCS World 10k road race to reach a target at time clocked 31:51s. She belongs to Kenya?

a) Pamela Jelimo

b) Derek Pringle

c) Hilda Kibet

d) Irene Cheptai

e) Janeth Jepkosgei

Q.15) Which team clinched the 7th Hockey India sub-junior boys “National championship 2017 (‘A’ Division) title” after won against Sports Authority of India in the final at Bangalore?

a) Hockey Chandigarh

b) Hockey Jharkhand

c) Hockey Punjab

d) Kerala Hockey

e) Hockey Haryana

Q.16) Which of the following day is observed on May 23?

a) International Laugh Day

b) International Metrology Day

c) International Cholera Day

d) International Day to End Obstetric Fistula

e) International Meteorological Day

Q.17) Which artist won records 13 wins at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards beating Adele by one, at the event in Las Vegas including best artist?

a) Rapper Drake

b) Tom Johnny

c) Bruce Smith

d) James Joyce

e) None of these

Q.18) Which player became the highest-bid player ever in the brief history of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) when the 22-year-old raider was picked up for a whopping Rs.93 lakh by the new UP franchise at the Season Five auction?

a) Suraj Desai

b) Anup Kumar

c) Nitin Tomar

d) Vikash Kumar

e) Vikas Kale