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376 . India’s largest waste-to-energy plant was
inaugurated in?
a) Varanasi
b) Surat
c) Delhi
d) Mumbai
The 24 megawatt (MW) Narela-Bawana waste-to-

energy plant

India’s first waste-to-energy plant,
The Timarpur Okhla Municipal Solid Waste Management
plant
377 . Which city lost its right to host the 2022
Commonwealth Games due to the inability in meeting
deadlines and financial problems?
a) Edmonton
b) Kingston
c) Durban
d) Jakarta

Football: –
FIFA Under-17 World Cup: India (2017)

FIFA Confederations Cup: Russia (2017)
(Germany beat Chile 1-0 )
FIFA Under-20 World Cup: South Korea (2017)

(England – 1st title beat venezuela)
FIFA World Cup (21st): Russia (2018) , FIFA World Cup (22nd): Qatar
(2022)
Cricket
T20 Women’s World Cup: West Indies (2018)

T20 Men’s + Women’s World Cup: Australia (2020)
ICC Cricket World Cup (12th): England + Wales (2019)

ICC Cricket World Cup (13th), India (2023)
Olympic Games: –
Olympic Games (31st): Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (2016)

Olympic Games (32nd): Tokoyo, Japan (2020)
Olympic Games (33rd): PARIS (2024)
Olympic Games (34th): LOS ANGELES(2028)
Winter Olympics & Paralympics (23rd ): Pyeongchang,

South Korea (2018)
Winter Olympics & Paralympics (24th ): Beijing , China
2022
Asian Games (18th): Jakarta, Indonesia (2018)
Asian Games (19th): Hangzhou, China (2022)
Men’s Hockey World Cup: India (2018) - Bhuwaneshwar

Women’s Hockey World Cup: England (2018)
378 Sri Lanka has decided to sell which deep-sea
port to a Chinese company ?
a) Hambantota
b) Galle
c) Oluvil
d) Trincomalee

379 As per a new resolution unanimously adopted by
Bangladesh parliament, which day has been declared as the
Genocide Day in remembrance of the atrocities carried out
by Pakistani Army in 1971?
a) March 30th
b) March 15th
c) March 25th
d) March 10th
Operation Searchlight was the planned military operation

carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb
the Bengali nationalist movement

380 Which Union minister announced Kamaladevi
Chattopadhya National Awards, a new category of
awards for women handloom weavers and women
handicraft artisans?
a) Thawar Chand Gehlot
b) Kalraj Mishra
c) Maneka Gandhi
d) Smriti Irani

381
225-year old Armoury of which 18th century warrior was
recently relocated 100 meters away from original site,
making it the first such exercise in the history of Indian
Railways?
a) Shivaji
b) Tipu Sultan
c) Nana Sahib
d) Hyder Ali

382
Radha Mohan Singh, Union Agriculture and Farmer
Welfare Minister recently laid foundation stone of a
Banana Research Centre recently in?
a) West Bengal
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Kerala
d) Bihar

Banana Research Centre in Gorole, Vaishali
It will function under Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University (RPCAU)

at Pusa in Samastipur.
It is second such in the country after the National Research Centre for Banana at
Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu.
India 2nd in fruits production in the world behind China

India holds number one position in the world in the area of banana
production.
Among the states in India, Maharashtra is the largest producer followed by

Tamil Nadu.
383 Mission Fingerling launched by Government of India with
a total expenditure of about Rs. 52000 lakh is associated
with?
a) Pink Revolution
b) Green Revolution
c) Blue Revolution
d) Black Revolution
The Blue Revolution, in its scope and reach, focuses on

creating an enabling environment for an integrated and
holistic development and management of fisheries for the
socio economic development of the fishers and fish farmers

384 For which disease did India sign WHO’s ‘call
for action’ and pledged to scale up measures to
end the disease by 2030?
a) Cholera
b) Tuberculosis
c) Hepatitis B
d) Yellow fever

385. When was World Consumer Rights Day with
theme ‘Building a Digital World Consumers can
Trust’ observed?
a) Mar 16th
b) Mar 20th
c) Mar 17th
d) Mar 15th

386 Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh announced
to link 400 out of 585 wholesale mandis nationwide, by
march-end, with the electronic trading platform called?
a) e-NAM
b) e-Agri
c) e-Mandi
d) e-Krishi

387 Sanjauli police station has become the first police post
in the country to be linked with Crime and Criminal Tracking
Network and Systems (CCTNS). It is located in which state?
a) Himachal Pradesh
b) Uttarakhand
c) Jammu & Kashmir
d) Uttar Pradesh
This will facilitate the people for lodging online/offline

complaints, police verification of job, Tenants, Character
verification and migrant labourer registration etc.
through the police post.

The Haryana police set up the country’s first centre for digital
investigation and training in Gurgaon in a bid to enhance cyber
policing and monitor social media content.
Digital Investigation Training and Analysis Centre (DITAC)
The First Smart Police Station of India opened in 2017 at

Nagarampalem in Amaravathi, Andhra Pardesh
Rajasthan became the first state in the country to have India's first police
station which has 100 percent lady staff , Gandhi Nagar Women Police
station (JAIPUR)
Dubai - The World's First Robot Police Officer To Fight Crime - RoboCop
388
As per the ‘Women in Politics 2017 Map’ launched by Inter-
Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, what was
India’s rank in world ranking of the number of women
parliamentarians out of the 193 countries?
a) 148
b) 89
c) 163
d) 74
Women made up 11.8% of the Lok Sabha where 64 were

elected to the 542-member house and 11 per cent of the
Rajya Sabha with 27 of the 245 members

Rwanda ranked first in the number of women
parliamentarians with 61.3 per cent in the lower house,
followed by Bolivia with 53.1 per cent and Cuba 48.9
per cent.
India ranked 88 in the number of women ministers
Bulgaria, France and Nicaragua tied for the first rank for the
number of women ministers
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

Smriti Irani
Sushma Swaraj
Nirmala Sitharaman
Uma Bharati
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
389 A Parliamentary panel has suggested merger of
state-run telecom firms BSNL and MTNL for their long-
term survival. The decision has been taken by
Committee on Petitions chaired by?
a) Ajay Tamta
b) Virendra Singh
c) Bhagat Singh Koshyari
d) B.C.Khanduri

390
Which river in New Zealand, considered to be an ancestor by
the Maori people, has become the first in the world to get
the same legal rights as a human being?
a) Waikato River
b) Oreti River
c) Mataura River
d) Whanganui River
The Ganges river, became the first non-human entity

in India to be granted the same legal rights as people.

391 Which of the following cricket legends
recently launched his autobiography titled
‘My Story’?
a) Michael Clarke
b) Shahid Afridi
c) Saurav Ganguly
d) Ricky Ponting

392 Which badminton player has recently been
named on the Governing Body of Sports
Authority of India?
a) P Sindhu
b) Saina Nehwal
c) Jwala Gutta
d) P Kashyap

Sai Praneeth - 2017 Singapore Super Series title,
Thailand Open
Kidambi Srikanth - 2017 Indonesia Super Series

2017 Australian Super Series
PV Sindhu - India Open (Women’s singles), Syed Modi

International
Sameer Verma - Syed Modi International (Men’s singles)
HS Prannoy - US Open (Men’s singles)
Saina Nehwal - Malaysia Masters (Women’s singles)

393 Ashwin Sundar, who recently passed away in
Chennai, was a famous?
a) Golfer
b) Billiards player
c) Car racer
d) Shooter

394 Derek Walcott, who recently passed away,
was a Nobel laureate in which field?
a) Economics
b) Literature
c) Medicine
d) Peace

395 What is the name of India’s first indigenously
built rake that was flagged off at Dadar Station in
Mumbai?
a) Versha
b) Medha
c) Kiran
d) Barkha

396 Anang Tadar, a class 11 student, who has
developed ‘Goggle for Blind (G4B)’ based on echo
location, hails from which state?
a) Tripura
b) Sikkim
c) Assam
d) Arunachal Pradesh

397 Pakistan is planning to declare which of the
following regions as its fifth province?
a) Balochistan
b) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
c) Gilgit-Baltistan
d) PoK
Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and

Sindh are four provinces of Pakistan.

398 As per a report presented by Union Minister for
Drinking Water and Sanitation Mahendra Singh Tomar,
which state has highest number of Arsenic affected
people in India?
a) Bihar
b) West Bengal
c) Chhattisgarh
d) Jharkhand

Bengal topped the list with more than 1.04 crore arsenic-affected persons
as on March 4, 2017.
Bihar comes second with 16.88 lakh persons
Assam in third spot with 14.48 lakh victims.
According to the WHO’s guidelines for drinking water quality (2011), the
permissible limit of Arsenic in groundwater is .01 mg per litre.
399 International Day of Happiness was observed
on Mar 20th. Which country tops the happiness
index as per the 2017 World Happiness Report
which ranks 155 countries?
a) Norway
b) Denmark
c) Iceland
d) Switzerland

India ranked at 122 out of 155 countries
400 Which country has topped the 2017
Bloomberg Global Health Index that rated 167
countries?
a) Switzerland
b) Singapore
c) Italy
d) Iceland

Italy has been ranked first in the latest 2017 Bloomberg Global Health
Index of 163 countries. India doesn't feature in the top 50 spots
According to the study, the average life expectancy in the country is 80-
89 years. Iceland stood at 2nd position followed by Switzerland,
Singapore and Australia.
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) published in the
medical journal The Lancet, it has finished a dismal 154th among 195
countries on the healthcare index.
India ranks 154 in global healthcare rankings for 2015, Switzerland tops list
India ranked a lowly 154th on Healthcare Access and Quality Index, making
it among the biggest underachievers in Asia, in a list that was topped by
Switzerland
401 Which township in Surat district of Gujarat
became India’s first private sector township to go
cashless?
a) Satya Sai, KP Group
b) Green Residency
c) Reliance Township
d) Nand Niketan, Essar Group

402 Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved
Reliance Communications’ proposed merger with which
telecom service provider?
a) Vodafone
b) Tata Tele
c) Idea
d) Aircel
merged company will be called Aircom

Idea – Vodafone
Bharti - Telenor
403 In his marathon innings, which cricket player
became the first Indian batsman to face 500 balls
in an innings?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Kannur Lokesh Rahul
c) Ajinkya Rahane
d) Cheteshwar Pujara
Record – 847 balls – L Hutton

404 In which state the economic blockade, called by a
political party, finally came to an end after 139 days?
a) Nagaland
b) Tripura
c) Manipur
d) Mizoram
Biren Singh
United Naga Council (UNC)

405 World Bank Group announced a record $57 billion
in financing over the next three years for?
a) South East Asia
b) Sub Saharan countries
c) Middle Eastern countries
d) South Asia

406 Which state has announced to set up a cashew
development board to promote development of good
quality cashew orchards over the next 5 years?
a) Karnataka
b) Maharashtra
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Odisha

407 Railways has announced to establish a museum to
commemorate the visit of Swami Vivekananda at which
station in Tamil Nadu?
a) Katpadi
b) Jolarpettai
c) Salem
d) Kumbakonam

408 Madhukar Gupta committee, which recently
submitted its report, was constituted for which of the
following issues?
a) Environmental protection
b) Cyber threats
c) Educational reforms
d) Border security

409 ISRO has commissioned the world’s third largest
Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and Shock Tunnel at which facility?
a) ISRO Propulsion Complex
b) Space Applications Centre
c) Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
d) Satish Dhawan Space Centre
These facilities are the third largest in terms of size and

simulation capability in the world next only to the ones in
the United States (US) and Russia.

410 What was the theme of UN’s International Day of
Forests 2017 observed on Mar 21st?
a) Forests and Food
b) Forests and Energy
c) Forests and Life
d) Forests and Water

411 Which team won the 2017 Vijay Hazare Trophy
beating Bengal in the final?
a) Jharkhand
b) Karnataka
c) Punjab
d) Tamil Nadu
With this win, they become the only team to win the
tournament five times

412 Maggie McDonnell, who won the Global
Teacher Prize 2017 for $1 mn, teaches a small
Innuit village in which country?
a) US
b) Greenland
c) Canada
d) Russia

413. Human Fertilisation and Embryology
Authority (HEFA) has granted the first-ever
permission to carry out a new “three-parent baby”
fertility technique. HEFA is the fertility clinics
regulator in?
a) Germany
b) United Kingdom
c) France
d) Unites States

414 What was the theme for 2017 World Water
Day observed on March 22nd?
a) One Drop At A Time
b) Water is Life
d) Slow the Flow
d) Why Waste Water?

415 Which IIT has become the first academic
institution to get a supercomputing facility under the
National Supercomputing Mission (NSM)?
a) Delhi
b) Madras
c) Kharagpur
d) Kanpur

416 When was the 86th Martyr’s Day observed to
mark the death anniversary of Bhagat Singh,
Sukhdev and Rajguru?
a) Mar 24th
b) Mar 22nd
c) Mar 23rd
d) Mar 21st

417 Which Indian shooter won the Gold medal in Men’s
double trap at the International Shooting Sport
Federation (ISSF) Shotgun World Cup being held in
Mexico?
a) Amanpreet Singh
b) Gagan Narang
c) Jitu Rai
d) Ankur Mittal

418 What was India’s rank on Global Energy Architecture
Performance Index 2017 report released by World Economic
Forum that ranked 127 countries?
a) 87 Index Component Rank
b) 95 PM 2.5 levels
Environmental Sustainability
123
109
c) 102 Economic Growth and Development 64

Energy Access and Security 95
d) 76
Top 5 Countries: Switzerland (1), Norway (2), Sweden (3),

Denmark (4) and France (5).
419 Who was awarded the 2017 Abel Prize, by the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, for his work
on wavelets?
a) Srinivasa Varadhan
b) Yakov Sinai
c) Yves Meyer
d) Andrew Wiles

420 Which of the following regiments, raised by the
British as the Fatehgarh Levy, celebrated their
bicentenary?
a) Rajput Regiment
b) Dogra Regiment
c) 9 Gorkha Rifles
d) Garhwal Rifles

421 Which eminent journalist was honoured
with the first Kuldip Nayar journalism award by
the Gandhi Peace Foundation?
a) Ravish Kumar
b) Arnab Goswami
c) Rajdeep Sardesai
d) Sudhir Chaudhary

422 What was the theme of the World
Meteorological Day 2017 observed on 23rd
March?
a) Hotter, Drier, Wetter - Face the Future
b) Understanding Clouds
b) Weather, climate and Health
c) Climate for You

423 WHO has dedicated 24th March every year to
commemorate the finding of which disease’s
cause by Dr Robert Koch in 1882?
a) Tuberculosis
b) Malaria
c) Jaundice
d) Hepatitis B

424 Which Indian city has become the first to have
a vertical garden?
a) Trivandrum
b) Mumbai
c) New Delhi
d) Bangalore

Muntra, country's first unmanned tank, made by DRDO
Chandigarh became the first city to provide water connections to all the
households (AMRUT scheme)
Delhi Metro named as world’s first and only 100% ‘green’ metro system
First Indian to Complete the World’s Toughest Cycling Race – 4,900 Km

Col Srinivas Gokulnath
Nagpur became the first city in India to have an electric mass mobility system.
It will now have a fleet of 200 new electric vehicles
Indore becomes first Indian city to install a 'Robocop' for traffic

management
Taj Palace becomes first Indian building to get trademark
First India-born woman to be elected as a councillor to a ward

in the UK – Rehana Ameer
Mother Teresa blue-stripe sari trade marked, first ever

uniform to be protected under intellectual property rights
425 Which Padma Shree awardee photojournalist was
conferred with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the I&B
Ministry at the 6th National Photography Awards in New
Delhi?
a) Raghu Rai
b) Sudharak Olwe
c) Rajan Devadas
d) Nila Madhab Panda

426 Which of the following Indian women leaders
have featured in top 30 of World’s Greatest Leaders
by Fortune?
a) Chanda Kocchar
b) Nita Ambani
c) Arundhati Bhattacharya
d) Chitra Ramkrishna
Rank Winner Designation
1 Theo Epstein President, Baseball Chicago Cubs
2 Jack Ma Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group
3 Pope Francis First Latin American pope

427 Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh
recently launched a coffee table book celebrating
50 years of?
a) Lentils Revolution
b) Milk Revolution
c) Jute Revolution
d) Cotton Revolution

428 What is the name of grievance redressal platform
launched by Minister of State for Petroleum and
Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan?
a) MoPNG e-Nivaran
b) MoPNG e-Seva
c) MoPNG e-Samadhan
d) MoPNG e-Shikayat

429 Who has become the first woman combat officer to
be commissioned in the 51-year history of the BSF?
a) Priyadarshini Ray
b) Shruti Sudhakar
c) Tanushree Pareek
d) Arpita Chauhan

USHA KIRAN
CRPF's first woman officer to be posted in
the insurgency-impacted Bastar region of
Chhattisgarh
430 Who has been appointed as the new Director
of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)?
a) Randeep Guleria
b) Rajender Singh
c) MC Mishra
d) Gautam Sagar

431 Who has been honoured with the Sikh Jewel
Award, 2017 organised by the British Sikh
Association?
a) Shay Grewal
b) Gurinder Chaddha
c) Valarie Kaur
d) Manjit K Gill

Preet Kaur Gill, Britain's
first Sikh woman MP
432 ‘Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana”, a ‘Scheme for
providing Physical Aids and Assisted-living Devices to
whom belonging to BPL category ?
a) Scheduled Tribes
b) Senior Citizens
c) Children
d) Women
Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment

433 Which film actor was honoured with Kala
Ratan award 2017 by the Vice President Hamid
Ansari?
a) Shabana Azmi
b) Nasseruddin Shah
c) Deepti Naval
d) Anupam Kher

434 Which e-commerce company has become the first
to be a member of Advertising Standards Council of
India (ASCI)?
a) Snapdeal
b) Flipkart
d) Amazon India
d) PayTm

435 Defence minister Arun Jaitley recently
approved 90 out of 120 recommendations on
military reforms given by the committee set up
last year under the chairmanship of?
a) Abhijit Guha
b) AK Bhatt
c) Anil Malik
d) DB Shekatkar

436 Government is set to change the 40-year-
old definition of which disability to bring it in
line with the WHO criteria?
a) Mobility Impairment
b) Muteness
c) Deafness
d) Blindness

The new definition suggests that a person who is unable to
count fingers from a stipulated distance of three metres would
be regarded as ‘blind’
The earlier definition of blindness, adopted in 1976, had a

prerequisite of six metres. With the implementation of the new
definition, the number of blind people would reduce from 1.20
crore to 80 lakh, according to the National Blindness survey
2007.
437 Which state recently celebrated Sarhul, the
tribal festival dedicated to mother nature?
a) Chhattisgarh
b) Nagaland
c) Jharkhand
d) Mizoram

438 Who has become the first girl to swim 36 km route
from Bandra-Worli sea link to the Gateway of India in a
record time of 6 hours and 30 minutes?
a) Shravani George
b) Gauri Singh
b) Aarti Gautam
c) Swapna Singha

439 What is the name of online film certification system
launched by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
and to come into effect from April 1st?
a) e-Cinepramaan
b) e-Certification
c) e-Cinecertification
d) e-Pramaan

440 US Senate has approved which Balkan
nation’s accession to NATO as the alliance’s 29th
member?
a) Macedonia
b) Kosovo
c) Montenegro
d) Bulgaria

441 Which team won the 2017 Deodhar Trophy?
a) Tamil Nadu
b) India-A
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) India-B
winners of Vijay Hazare Trophy playing two teams

India A and India B selected by the BCCI
North Zone has won the tournament a record 13
times.

442 Which chess player became India’s 46th
Grandmaster on defeating Spanish GM David Anton
Guijarro at the ongoing Sharjah Masters 2017 chess
tournament?
a) Akshat Khamparia
b) Siva Mahadevan
c) Praggnanandhaa R
d) Srinath Narayanan

443 In which district of Haryana, a Centre of
Excellence for Flowers will be set up with the
assistance of Netherlands, to encourage the
farmers to take up floriculture?
a) Jhajjar
b) Faridabad
c) Jind
d) Hisar

444 Which are the two mobile apps that have been
launched by the government to enable citizens to
report any traffic violation or road accident?
1. e-Challan 2. e-Traffic
3. m-Vehicle 4. m-Parivahan
a) 1 & 4
b) 2 & 3
c) 3 & 4
d) 1 & 2

445 Who has been named the Asian Hockey Federation
(AHF) Player of the Year for 2016?
a) PR Shreejesh
b) Ramandeep Singh
c) SV Sunil
d) Harmanpreet Singh
John John Dohmen – Belgium – FIH Player of the year

446 Scientists at IIT Roorkee have created
inexpensive and more efficient solar cells using
which fruit?
a) Strawberry
b) Lemon
c) Jamun
d) Orange

447 Which team has become the first from the
north-east to win the title at the Hero I-League?
a) Shillong Lajong FC
b) United Sikkim FC
c) Kohima FC
d) Aizawl FC

448 World’s highest railway bridge is being built on
which river?
a) Nubra
b) Jhelum
c) Chenab
d) Rawi
between Bakkal and

Kauri in the Reasi district
of Jammu and Kashmir in India
449 May 2 has been dedicated by the United
Nations to which fish?
a) Tuna
b) Salmon
c) Herring
d) Sardine

450. Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah has been appointed as the
first Non-IAS Chairman of?
a Tea Board of India
b) National Dairy Development Board
c) Coffee Board of India
d) Animal welfare board of India
The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) will now be

permanently chaired by a senior MoEF official, according
to a notification made public earlier this month.
In its 55-year history the organisation has always been
chaired by somebody outside government, such as
veterinarians, animal welfare activists or retired judges.

451. Which variety of mangoes in Andhra Pradesh has
received a Geographical Indication (GI) tag?
a) Banganapalli
b) Suvarnarekha
c) Neelum
d) Totapuri

452. Which city is likely to get India's first-ever
Blind Football Academy (BFA)?
a) Kochi
b) Jaipur
c) Shimla
d) Patna

453. Gujarat recently celebrated its Foundation
Day. The state was formed on May 1 in which
year?
a) 1963
b) 1954
c) 1958
d) 1960

454 What is the name of world's largest
telescope which passed its final test at NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center and slated to
launch in 2018?
a) Cox
b) Hall
c) Webb
d) Mill

455 What is the name of blind Indian immigrant, who
was chosen as one of the 14 people to light the torch
at Israel’s 69th Independence Day celebrations?
a) Piyainu Khomdram
b) Dina Simata
c) Yachanglokpi Salai
d) Tomba Meitei
From Manipur

456 Which state government has tied up with
World Health Organisation (WHO) for eradication
of Rubella measles?
a) Maharashtra
b) Bihar
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Rajasthan

457 UP government has announced to celebrate
'UP Diwas' each year on?
a) July 21
b) Jan 24
c) Mar 16
d) May 10

458 Which space agencies are planning to collaborate
on building the first 'Moon Village'?
1. CNSA 2. ISRO
3. NASA 4. ESA
a) 3 & 4
b) 1 & 2
c) 1 & 4
d) 2 & 3

459 Which university recently conferred Degree of
Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) on Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
a) Aligarh Muslim University
b) Jadavpur University
c) University of Allahabad
d) Jamia Millia Islamia

460 Who won the World Snooker Championship
2017 held in England?
a) Mark Selby
b) John Higgins
c) Neil Robertson
d) Judd Trump

461 E-Nasika and OTL-300 devices that were
handed over to the forces recently, have been
developed by?
a) ISRO
b) DRDO
c) BEL
d) HAL

'E-Nasika', a hand-held equipment which is capable of
rapid detection of chemical agents well below their toxic
limits.
'OTL-300’, It can instantly detect partially camouflaged

optical elements, such as telescopes, binoculars and
night vision devices.
462. What is the name of campaign launched by HRD
Ministry to inculcate patriotism in the students?
a) Vidya Veerta Abhiyan
b) Veero ka Samman
c) Veer Vidya Naman
d) Bharat ke Veer
Wall of valour will be built in colleges and

universities across the country and will depict the
portraits of all the 21 Paramveer Chakra recipients.

463 Who was conferred on with the Grand Collar of
the Order of Makarios III, the highest civilian honour
of Cyprus?
a) Narendra Modi
b) Arun Jaitley
c) Sushma Swaraj
d) Pranab Mukherjee

464 India is going to give scholarships worth
Rs 35 crore to children of freedom fighters of
which country under the Muktijoddha Scheme?
a) Pakistan
b) Nepal
c) Bangladesh
d) Sri Lanka

465 Who has been appointed as the new
President for the year 2017-18 of Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII)?
a) Dr Naushad Forbes
b) Rakesh Bharti Mittal
c) Shobana Kamineni
d) Uday Kotak

466 Who has become the first Indian to clinch the title
at the 19th Asian Squash Championships held in
Chennai?
a) Sneha Kurian
b) Dipika Pallikal
c) Joshna Chinappa
d) Roshny Safeena

467 What is the name of web portal launched by
Department of Telecom (DoT) that allows people to
track radiation emitted from mobile towers within their
locality?
a) Tarang Sanchar
b) Sanchar Soochna
c) Tarang Soochna
d) None of the Above

468 When was Ganga Swachhta Sankalp Divas
celebrated by National Mission on Clean Ganga
(NMCG)?
a) May 3rd
b) May 2nd
c) May 5th
d) May 6th

469 Scientists in which country have developed
world's fastest camera that can film at a rate of
five trillion images per second?
a) China
b) Sweden
c) Belgium
d) Germany

470 Cabinet has given its nod to international status
for which airport?
a) Vijayawada airport
b) Rajahmundry Airport
c) Mysore Airport
d) Begumpet Airport

471 Exhibition 'SRISHTI' was recently inaugurated by
which union ministry?
a) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate
Change
b) Ministry Of Earth Sciences
c) Ministry of Shipping
d) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

472 Madhya Pradesh Cabinet recently gave an in-
principle nod to granting the status of "living human
entity" to which river?
a) Tawa
b) Shipra
c) Tapti
d) Narmada

473 When is National Anti-Child Labour Day
observed in India?
a) May 4
b) May 2
c) May 1
d) April 30

474 What will be the base year of the new series of
Index of Industrial Production and WPI which was
launched recently from replacing the 2004-05 base
years?
a) 2010-11
b) 2015-16
c) 2011-12
d) 2008-09
GDP base year to be changed to 2017-18 replacing

the 2011-12 base years
475 NTPC NETRA Installs Photogrammetry System
of Solar Thermal Lab and Drop Tube ReactorIt has
been commissioned in cooperation with which
country?
a) France
b) Germany
c) Japan
d) United States

476 Who has been elected the new
president of France?
a) Jacques Cheminade
b) François Bayrou
c) Marine Le Pen
d) Emmanuel Macron

477 What is the acronym coined by Home Minister
Rajnath Singh of the new strategy against the
Maoist terror?
a) SAMASYA
b) SANYOG
c) SAMADHAN
d) UPAAY

S-smart leadership
A-aggressive strategy
M-motivation and training
A-actionable intelligence
D-dashboard-based KPIs (key performance indicators) and
KRAs (key result areas)
H-harnessing technology
A-action plan for each theatre
N-no access to financing
478 United Nations (UN) has decided to set up a
Technology Innovation Laboratory at?
a) Ranchi
b) Navi Mumbai
c) Amravati
d) Naya Raipur

479 Sakewa festival was recently celebrated by
the Rai community of which state?
a) Tripura
b) Meghalaya
c) Sikkim
d) Assam
tribute to Mother Earth

480 Centre has setup which committee to rework the
baseline for paying MGNREGA wages and end variation
among states?
a) Nagesh Singh
b) Chiranjeet Ganguly
c) Bibhu Biswal
d) Hemant Bhargava

481 When was International Nurses Day 2017
observed, to mark the birth anniversary of
Florence Nightingale?
a) May 9
b) May 10
c) May 11
d) May 12

482 Who has become the first Indian woman to be
conferred with the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award
for Global Corporate Citizenship?
a) Chanda Kochhar
b) Usha Ananthasubramanian
c) Shikha Sharma
d) Arundhati Bhattacharya

483 Ustad Rais Khan, who recently passed away,
played which musical instrument?
a) Shehnai
b) Tabla
c) Sitar
d) Bansuri

484 Which state has become the second to adopt
Jan-Dec financial year?
a) Madhya Pardesh
b) Jharkhand
c) Uttarakhand
d) Gujarat

485 Union minister of state, skill development and
entrepreneurship (I/C) Rajiv Pratap Rudy, launched
Mukhyamantri Koshal Samvardhan and Koshailya
Yojana in which state?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Punjab
d) Rajasthan

486 Who is going to replace Abdul Basit as
Pakistan's next High Commissioner to India?
a) Tehmina Janjua
b) Sohail Mahmood
c) Salman Bashir
d) Mohsin Razi

487 India's first government-run women drug de-
addiction centre is going to be operational in which
state?
a) Punjab
b) Goa
c) Delhi
d) Maharashtra

488 What is the name of online interface launched by
Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister to
provide direct and effective solutions to the problems
faced by stakeholders in the agriculture sector?
a) e-Krishi Samvad
b) e-Krishi Sanchar
c) e-Krishi Soochna
d) e-Krishi Saral

489 Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee
(GEAC) has approved which genetically modified
(GM) crop for commercial cultivation?
a) Legume
b) Maize
c) Soybean
d) Mustard

490 In a first, which launched a logo for
identifying vehicles driven by persons with
hearing impairment?
a) Rajasthan
b) Kerala
c) Jharkhand
d) Telangana

491 What is the name of the invisible laser walls
technology, developed by CRON Systems, which India
is going to use to seal the 198 km border with
Pakistan in J&K?
a) Dhaal
b) Suraksha
c) Kavach
d) Shastra
Kanpur-based MKU Limited

492 India has climbed up to which rank in World
Bank’s electricity accessibility ranking in 2017
from 99th spot in 2014?
a) 41th
b) 32nd
c) 10th
d) 26th

493 What is the name of ransomware which recently
attacked the cyber world?
a) CryptoLocker
b) Reveton
c) WannaCry
d) CryptoWall
Petya – Europe , Middle east

This Petya variant was not ransomware, but instead a
wiper disguised as ransomware. Unlike ransomware,
wiper malware is designed to destroy systems and
data; the attacker offers no option for recovery

494 What is the name of committee formed by UP
government to check mid-day meal quality in state-run
primary schools?
a) Aahar
b) Gunn
c) Maa
d) Bhojan

495 Who has become the first Indian driver to
win a GP3 race, at the sprint race held in
Barcelona?
a) Jehan Daruwala
b) Anubhav Gogoi
c) Karun Chandhok
d) Arjun Maini

496 Which committee in its recently submitted report
to MoWR,RD&GR has recommended creation of sand
registry for de-silting of the Ganga?
a) Pathak Committee
b) Bhosle Committee
c) Shamkuwar Committee
d) Chitale Committee

497 BSF has started operation 'Garam Hawa',
along the international border with Pakistan, in
which state?
a) Rajasthan
b) Punjab
c) Jammu and Kashmir
d) Gujarat

498 What is the name of the world's smallest
satellite, created by an Indian teen Riftah Sharook,
for NASA?
a) IndiaSat
b) TinySat
c) BharatSat
d) KalamSat
64 grams
499
May 16 is dedicated to which disease by the
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)?
a) Influenza
b) Malaria
c) Dengue
d) Diabetes
World malaria day – 25 april, theme "A push for

prevention"
SOME BONUS QUESTIONS
500 Who has been appointed by WHO as its goodwill
ambassador for hepatitis in South-East Asia region?
a) Amitabh Bachchan
b) Sunidhi Chauhan
c) Aamir Khan
d) Vidya Balan

Lhakpa Sherpa broke her own record of scaling
Mt Everest for most number of times by a
female. How many times has she summited the
peak?
a) Six
b) Nine
c) Seven
d) Eight

Which nation has joined India's 'UJALA - Affordable
LEDs for All' programme?
a) United States
b) Japan
c) Singapore
d) United Kingdom

Union Cabinet recently approved setting up of Indian
Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) at?
a) Punjab
b) Gujarat
c) Assam
d) Karnataka

Aquatic Rainbow Technology Park (ARTP), which is
India’s first ornamental fish park, is going to be set up
in?
a) Mangalore
b) Chennai
c) Vishakhapatnam
d) Kochi

Which World heritage site has been declared as the
most polluted place in the world?
a) Henderson Island
b) Portobelo/San Lorenzo
c) Galápagos Islands
d) Kathmandu Valley

Which railway station has been adjudged the cleanest
in the busiest stations category by the Quality Council
of India?
a) Vishakhapatnam
b) Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
c) Anand Vihar
d) Secunderabad
Cleanest port - Haldia

In a first, which state's police has formally introduced
a course in 'emotional intelligence' (EI) for its
personnel?
a) Bihar
b) Punjab
c) Telangana
d) Maharashtra

Which union minister recently launched
Citizens’ Charter 2017 and e-court
management system?
a) Bandaru Dattareya
b) Ravi Shankar Prasad
c) Venkaiah Naidu
d) Arun Jaitley

Which country's Supreme Court upheld a ruling that the
country's Sikh community cannot carry religious knives
in public?
a) Norway
b) Malaysia
c) Canada
d) Italy

'Nasofilters', the cheapest respiratory filter has
been developed by which IIT?
a) Kharagpur
b) Bombay
c) Madras
d) Delhi

Which state has launched the scheme 'She Pad'
for school students to ensure menstrual
hygiene?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Kerala
c) Haryana
d) Rajasthan

8-14 May 2017 was observed by UN as?
a) Global Road Safety Week
b) World Immunization Week
c) Global Soil Week
d) World Space Week

Two-part book series "The Quest for a world without
hunger" has been written by?
a) B. R. Barwale
b) M. S. Swaminathan
c) Modadugu Vijay Gupta
d) Sanjaya Rajaram

ISRO and NASA are jointly working to co-develop and
launch a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar
satellite. The satellite has been named as?
a) NISAR
b) ROSA
c) NASRO
d) ISA

Japan is going to build a war museum in which Indian
state where a Japanese camp was located during World
War II?
a) Andaman & Nicobar
b) Nagaland
c) Manipur
d) Arunachal Pradesh

Which team won the gold medal in the 2017 IIHF Ice
Hockey World Championship?
a) Norway
b) Russia
c) Sweden
d) Canada

Who is the new chairperson of the National
Commission for Minorities (NCM)?
a) Gayarul Hasan
b) Sulekha Kumbhare
c) Sunil Singhi
d) George Kurian

Which of the following country’s archery team won the
gold medal in the men’s category in the World Cup
held in Shanghai?
a) USA
b) Iran
c) China
d) India
India were represented by Abhishek Verma, Chinna

Raju Srither and Amanjeet Singh.

Who has become the first transgender in Pakistan to
be officially appointed by the government as a
lecturer?
a) Faiyazi Baloch
b) Aisha Mughal
c) Amreen Ayeza
d) Sanam Qamar

Anti Terrorism Day was observed in India on May 21 to
commemorate the?
a) Parliament Attack
b) Martyrdom of former PM Rajiv Gandhi
c) Operation Blue Star
d) Bombay Blasts

Mumbai Indians defeated which team to lift the
cup of IPL 2017, in the final held in Hyderabad?
a) Kolkata Knight Riders
b) Rising Pune Supergiant
c) Sunrisers Hyderabad
d) Chennai Superkings

Pampa Declaration, a seven-point action plan for
conservation of the river Pampa was chalked out
recently. The river is located in which state?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Kerala
c) Tamilnadu
d) Karnataka

Which state is going to form 'Good Morning'
squads to dissuade people from defecating in the
open?
a) Gujarat
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Maharashtra
d) Bihar

A first of its kind, environment-friendly toilet
made of plastic bottles, has been set up in?
a) Jharkhand
b) Punjab
c) Assam
d) Kerala

The committee set up on Scouts and Guides has
submitted its report to the Ministry of Youth Affairs &
Sports. The committee was headed by?
a) Arpit Gambhir
b) Harsh Malhotra
c) Ravi Narain
d) Nitin Sikka

What is India's rank in the internal displacement
as per the Global Report on Internal Displacement
(GRID) 2016?
a) 12th
b) 1st
c) 9th
d) 3rd
CHINA > Ph >India

MEA, MeitY and MHRD recently launched the integration
of “eSanad” with CBSE’s digital academic repository
called?
a) Patra Manjusha
b) Parinam Manjusha
c) Pramaan Manjusha
d) Pariksha Manjusha
eSanad is aimed at online verification of the

documents
'Parinam Manjusha' - enables students view mark
sheets online
Which city has been ranked the world’s most densely
populated by World Economic Forum (WEF)?
a) Medellin
b) Dhaka
c) Mumbai
d) Manila
KOTA – 7th

Which state has launched e-plant clinics to
provide guidance to the farmers?
a) Maharashtra
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Jammu & Kashmir
d) Tamil Nadu

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