Current Affairs Quiz May – 4 

Q.1) Which of the following city is the India’s cleanest city, according to a “Swacch Survekshan 2017” list of 25 Indian cities announced by Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu?

a) Mysuru, Karnataka

b) Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

c) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

d) Surat, Gujarat

e) Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Q.2) The 13^th edition of International PermaCulture Meet to be held in which city from November 27 to December 2, 2017 with the theme ‘Towards Healthy Societies’.

a) Jaipur

b) New Delhi

c) Hyderabad

d) Bangalore

e) Mumbai

Q.3) Which of the following minister launched a ‘Tarang Sanchar’ web portal that will allow people to track radiation emitted from mobile towers within a locality and check their compliance with the stipulated norms?

a) Shripad Yesso Naik

b) Manoj Sinha

c) Dharmendra Pradhan

d) Dr. Mahesh Sharma

e) Anil Madhav Dave

Q.4) As per the data released by Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Indian economy will grow ____ per cent this fiscal year.

a) 7.0%

b) 7.2%

c) 7.6%

d) 7.5%

e) 7.4%

Q.5) India’s most expensive limestone block is located in which state of India?

a) Gujarat

b) Odissa

c) Karnataka

d) Maharashtra

e) Chhattisgarh

Q.6) Energy giant Adani signed a 74 million dollar landmark deal with which Australian company to buy steel for a 400-km rail line for its controversial Carmichael coal mine project?

a) AGL Energy

b) Arrium

c) Atlassian

d) Ansell

e) Alumina Limited

Q.7) Which of the following minister inaugurated the exhibitions – ‘The Highway Saga’ are the part of the three-day India Integrated Transport and Logistics Summit (IITLS), recently?

a) Raj Nath Singh

b) Arun Jaitley

c) M. Venkaiah Naidu

d) Nitin Jairam Gadkari

e) Kalraj Mishra

Q.8) Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Public Accounts Committee of parliament?

a) Kiren Kumar

b) K V Thomas

c) Mallikarjun Kharge

d) Prem Kumar

e) Shivakumar Kharge

Q.9) Who has been appointed as the chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), succeeding noted economist S K Thorat, for a period of three years?

a) Kiren Kumar

b) Malik Sagar

c) Anukur Patel

d) Braj Bihari Kumar

e) Malikarjun Bihari

Q.10) Dronacharya award winning coach Captain Chand Roop passed away in Delhi. He was a coacher of which game?

a) Badminton

b) Tennis

c) Boxing

d) Swimming

e) Wrestler