Current Affairs Quiz – May 30, 2017

Q.1) Name the sector in which Exim Bank extends $500 m LoC for the purpose of financing its participation through Redeemable Preference Shares in public sector entities?

a) Financial sector

b) Renewable energy sector

c) Infrastructure sector

d) Agricultural sector

e) None of these

Q.2) Name the cyclone which recently hits Bangladesh?

a) Helen

b) Hudhud

c) Madi

d) Mora

e) Nada

Q.3) The Central government will not bring back its proposal to decrease the rate of deduction from salary towards provident fund (PF) savings from 12% to____.

a) 11%

b) 8%

c) 10%

d) 7%

e) 6%

Q.4) The capital market regulator has proposed levying a regulatory fee of ________ will have to pay once every three years on every foreign portfolio investor (FPI) that issues ODIs or PNs?

a) $ 5,000

b) $ 2,000

c) $ 1,000

d) $ 4,000

e) None of these

Q.5) Solar panel equipment will attract the lowest tax rate of ______under the GST regime?

a) 4%

b) 5%

c) 6%

d) 7%

e) 8%

Q.6) LGPA volvik championship 2017 held in ______

a) Chicago, USA

b) Michigan, USA

c) Las Vegas, USA

d) Orlando, Florida

e) None of these

Q.7) Dougie Brown has been appointed as the head coach of UAE Cricket team belongs to which country?

a) Poland

b) Ireland

c) England

d) Greenland

e) None of these

Q.8) India’s leading women golfer Aditi Ashok belongs to which state?

a) Jaipur, Rajasthan

b) Ludhiana, Punjab

c) Bangalore, Karnataka

d) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

e) None of these

Q.9) Who is the president of Bangladesh?

a) Ziaur Rahman

b) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

c) Zillur Rahman

d) Abdul Hamid

e) Shahabuddin Ahmed

Q.10) Tapan Jyoti Banerjee, a right arm medium pacer recently passed away belongs to _______?

a) Assam

b) Arunachal Pradesh

c) Odisha

d) Bengal

e) Chhattisgarh

Q.11) Who among the following received the first copy of medical book named as “Colour Atlas of Oral Implantology” authored by Dr.Prafulbali & Lanka Mahesh & “Conservative Dentistry – Basics” authored by Dr. Rk bali & Dr. Deepika Chandhok at Rashtrapati Bhavan?

a) Arun Jaitley

b) Pranab Mukherjee

c) Narendra Modi

d) Prakash Javadekar

e) Harsh Vardhan

Q.12) Which state became the first totally electrified state in the country?

a) Tamil Nadu

b) Karnataka

c) Uttarakhand

d) Punjab

e) Kerala

Q.13) Which among the following introduced the Anti-Ragging Mobile App, launched by Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar. It will help student register complaints to counter the menace of ragging?

a) University Grants Commission

b) Ministry of Human resource development

c) Ministry of Telecommunication

d) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

e) Ministry of Environment

Q.14) Which Indian Navy Ship about to retire after 32 years of service and put into non-operational category followed by decommissions?

a) INS Vikramaditya

b) INS Viraat

c) INS Shivalik

d) INS Ganga

e) INS Delhi

Q.15) Which Country becomes first country to prevent paedophiles from travelling abroad?

a) New Zealand

b) Australia

c) United States

d) Philippines

e) Ireland

Q.16) Which of the following Country signed an agreement with India to stepping up defence and security ties including in defence production and military training, recently?

a) Mauritius

b) Finland

c) Spain

d) Fiji

e) Brazil

Q.17) Which of the following central bank fined Credit Suisse and United Overseas Bank (UOB) a total of S$1.6 million ($1.15 million) for breaches of anti-money laundering rules for transactions related to Malaysia’s scandal-ridden state fund 1MDB?

a) China

b) Singapore

c) U.S.A

d) Australia

e) United Kingdom

Q.18) What is the rank of India in the women workforce index released by world bank?

a) 100^th

b) 91^st

c) 120^th

d) 131^st

e) 141^st

Q.19) What is the growth rate projected for Indian economy in 2017-18 and 2019-20 by World Bank?

a) 7.1% & 7.6%

b) 7.2% & 7.7%

c) 6.8% & 7.1%

d) 7.2% & 7.4%

e) 7.4% & 7.7%

Q.20) Which government entity signed an agreement with Morocco’s Societe Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Television (SNRT) to step up a cooperation in the broadcasting sector?

a) Doordarshan National

b) Censor Board of India

c) All India Radio

d) Prasar Bharati

e) None of these

Q.21) Which film won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes film festival directed by Swedish Ruben Ostlund?

a) The Square

b) The Beguiled

c) 120 Beats per Minute

d) In the Fade

e) Loveless

Q.22) Which football team appointed Ernesto Valverde as coach of the team?

a) Chelsea

b) Manchester United

c) Arsenal

d) Ajax

e) Barcelona

Q.23) Who among the following won the Monaco Grand Prix at Circuit de Monaco, La Condamine and Monte Carlo, Monaco?

a) Sebastian Vettel

b) Lewis Hamilton

c) Valtteri Bottas

d) Daniel Ricciardo

e) Kimi Raikkonen

Q.24) Name the former Panama dictator passes away recently?

a) Horacio F.Alfaro

b) Mario de Diego

c) Manuel Noriega

d) Carlos N.Brin

e) Alberto A.Boyd

Q.25) Name the ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Morocco?

a) Dr. Kheya Bhattacharya

b) Ajay Malhotra

c) Meera Shankar

d) TP Sreenivasan

e) Richard R Verma