Day 4-Expected Current affairs quiz for IBPS PO mains 2017

Q.1) Which of the following aircraft has made history by, setting a new world altitude record for gliding 52,000 feet over the Patagonia region of Argentina, without the support of an engine?

a) Perlan 1

b) Kamov Ka-31

c) Tupolev Tu-22M

d) Tupolev Tu-95

e) Perlan 2

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e) Perlan 2

Q.2) Who has been appointed as the Peru‘s new prime minister recently?

a) Pedro Cateriano

b) Fernando Zavala Lombardi

c) Mercedes Araoz

d) Ana Jara

e) César Villanueva

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c) Mercedes Araoz

Q.3) Which of the state run Petroleum Corporation is all set to become a Maharatna company recently?

a) IOCL

b) BPCL

c) HPCL

d) GPCL

e) JPCL

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b) BPCL

Q.4) Name the world’s oldest living person who died recently in Jamaica.

a) Violet Mosse-Brown

b) Tsunahei Ogawa

c) Generosa Sales Ferreres

d) Daisy Driss

e) Adma Tura

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a) Violet Mosse-Brown

Q.5) Name the former Indian Cricketer who launched Mission 24 for Mumbai’s M east ward which is known to have one of highest slum population’s in the city.

a) Yuvraj Singh

b) MS Dhoni

c) Virat Kohli

d) Sachin Tendulkar

e) Sourav Ganguly

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d) Sachin Tendulkar

Q.6) The upper age limit for joining the National Pension System (NPS) has been raised to ______ years from the current 60, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) announced.

a) 61

b) 62

c) 63

d) 64

e) 65

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e) 65

Q.7) Which of the following bank will provide a USD 152 million to Nepal for the implementation and enhancement of its power transmission and distribution?

a) World Bank

b) International Monetary Fund

C) Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

d) Asian Development Bank

e) New Development Bank

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d) Asian Development Bank

Q.8) Which of the following bank surpassed Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to become the country’s second most valued firm on BSE in terms of market valuation?

a) State Bank of India

b) ICICI Bank

c) HDFC Bank

d) AXIS Bank

e) Punjab National Bank

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c) HDFC Bank

Q.9) Which of the following bank launched a unique Womens’ centric savings bank account,” All Bank Shakti”?

a) Andhra Bank

b) Allahabad Bank

c) Dena Bank

d) Indian Bank

e) Vijaya Bank

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b) Allahabad Bank

Q.10) Who has been appointment as the brand ambassador of the Swachh Bharat Mission in the state of Uttarakhand?

a) Akshay Kumar

b) Salman Khan

c) Aamir Khan

d) Hrithik Roshan

e) Ranbir Kapoor

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a) Akshay Kumar

Q.11) Which of the following Indian entrepreneurial legends have been included in Forbes’s special list of the world’s ‘100 Greatest Living Business Minds’?

A) Vinod Khosla

B) Ratan Tata

C) Lakshmi Mittal

a) Only A

b) Only B

c) Both B and C

d) Both A and B

e) All A, B and C

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e) All A, B and C

Q.12) Who was re-appointed as President of The Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) for a second consecutive year at the 18th Annual General Meeting held in New Delhi?

a) Prakash Goenka

b) Manik Goenka

c) Sujit Goenka

d) Punit Goenka

e) Nirmal Goenka

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d) Punit Goenka

Q.13) Who conferred NHPC with Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar scheme for commendable work in implementation of Rajbhasha amongst Public Sector Undertakings located in Region ‘A’?

a) Rajnath Singh

b) Narendra Modi

c) Ram Nath Kovind

d) Venkaiah Naidu

e) Arun Jaitley

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c) Ram Nath Kovind

Q.14) Who became only Indian to get the UN’s Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards from Priyanka Chopra?

a) Laxmi Agarwal

b) Ria Sharma

c) Konstantina Kouneva

d) Hibari Misora

e) Ameneh Bahrami

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b) Ria Sharma

Q.15) Name the CMD of HUDCO who received ‘Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar’ 2017’, from the Hon’ble President of India, on Hindi Diwas?

a) M Ravi Kanth

b) N L Manjoka

c) Rakesh Kumar Arora

d) Rajiv Ranjan Mishra

e) Jhanja Tripathy

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a) M Ravi Kanth

Q.16) Name the Indian player who won S R Subramaniam Memorial ITF Futures Men’s tennis championship recently.

a) Sanam Singh

b) Somdev Devvarman

c) Sumit Nagal

d) Vishnu Vardhan

e) Yuki Bhambri

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c) Sumit Nagal

Q.17) Which of the following state will be the first big state where the coming Assembly elections will be conducted with Electronic Voting Machine equipped with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)?

a) Maharashtra

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Gujarat

d) West Bengal

e) Jharkhand

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c) Gujarat

Q.18) How many billion will be increased by Asian Development Bank to India for increasing annual lending between 2018 and 2022 to help fasten inclusive economic transformation towards upper middle income status?

a) One billion

b) Two billion

c) Three billion

d) Four billion

e) Five billion

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d) Four billion

Q.19) Interpol has admitted the ______territories as a new member, despite opposition from Israel.

a) Palestinian

b) Iran

c) Iraq

d) Jordan

e) Syria

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a) Palestinian

Q.20) Which of the following countries have agreed to co-operate on a NASA-led project to build the first lunar space station, part of a long-term project to explore deep space and send humans to Mars?

A) USA

B) UK

C) Japan

a) Only A

b) Only B

c) Only C

d) Both A and B

e) All A, B and C

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e) All A, B and C


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