400 Best Questions - Jul to Sept 2017

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Which Japanese Historian won the Ramon Recently launched platform e-RaKAM is associated
Magsaysay Award 2017 for helping Cambodians with?
preserve the Angkor temples ? A) Road Transport
1. Yokohama Naramuzo B) Agriculture
2. Shizi Nokuta C) Money transfer
3. Yoshiaki Ishizawa D) Rural development
4. Nakamura
Which railway station in Uttar Pradesh has been
Which two swimmers broke the world records at renamed after Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay?
the recently concluded 2017 World Aquatic A) Etawa
Championship? B) Gorakhpur
1. Bob Anderson and Malia Cassey C) Bareilly
2. Adam Peaty and Kylie Masse D) Mughalsarai
3. Adam Peaty and Shania Joseph
4. Travis McMillan and Kylie Masse Which of the following mobile apps has been
developed by Indian Army for the serving
World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2017 was personnel?
observed on July 30 , What was its theme? A) Mitra
1. Let’s act now to protect and assist trafficking B) Sahayak
victims C) Sahyogi
2. Today the victim is someone else, tomorrow it D) Humraaz
can be you
3. Come together to end Human Trafficking Peter O’Neill has been elected as the Prime
4. Cooperation for achieving the common goal of Minister of?
eliminating Human Trafficking A) Indonesia
B) Tasmania
A nearly 500m (1,640ft) bridge that is said to be the C) Papua New Guinea
longest hanging pedestrian bridge in the world has D) Madagascar
been opened for public in which country ?
1. Ukraine Aadi Perukku festival was recently celebrated in?
2. Switzerland A) Karnataka
3. India B) Tamilnadu
4. China C) Kerala
D) Andhra Pradesh
Which Indian institute’s researchers have
developed a hydrophobic sorbent that can suck up A committee for review of Institutionalization of
oil and congeal it and thereby can control oceanic arbitration mechanism has recently submitted its
oil spills? report to Law Ministry. The committee was headed
1. IISER, Hyderabad by?
2. IISER , Hyderabad A) K. Radhakrishnan
3. IISER, Thiruvananthapuram B) P.S. Ahuja
4. IISER, Kolkata C) B N Srikrishna
D) S. Ayyappan
What is the typhoon that struck the east coast of SBI is going to raise how much amount through
China ? Basel-III compliant bonds?
1. Typhoon Roke A) Rs 1,000 crore
2. Typhoon Chapala B) Rs 2,000 crore
3. Typhoon Gorio C) Rs 5,000 crore
4. Typhoon Haitang D) Rs 3,000 crore

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Which bollywood actor has been appointed the Which metro has become the only completely
brand ambassador of 'Clean UP mission' by chief 'green' Metro system in the world?
minister Yogi Adityanath? A) Kochi
A) Sushant Rajput B) Delhi
B) Salman Khan C) Mumbai
C) Akshay Kumar D) Bengaluru
D) Shahrukh Khan Who has been appointed as the 45th Chief Justice
Paul Kagame has won which country's presidential of India?
elections for a third term? A) Madan Bhimarao Lokur
A) Rwanda B) Ranjan Gogoi
B) Angola C) Jasti Chelameswar
C) Zambia D) Dipak Misra
D) Chad
Which state has initiated a ₹2,000-crore project for
India recently signed an MoU with which country modernisation of the Sriram Sagar project?
for transfer of sentenced persons? A) Andhra Pradesh
A) Ethiopia B) Tamilnadu
B) Tunisia C) Karnataka
C) Djibouti D) Telangana
D) Somalia
Which state's CM flagged off mobile therapy vans
Which country has launched its first environmental for elderly people to launch "Buniyadi Sanjivani
research satellite, "Venus"? Sewa"?
A) China A) Gujarat
B) Israel B) Bihar
C) US C) Kerala
D) UK D) Chhattisgarh

World Bank recently announced that India is Who has been appointed as South-East Asia's WHO
allowed to construct which of the following Goodwill Ambassador for Physical Activity?
disputed hydroelectric power facilities? A) Milkha Singh
1. Kishanganga 2. Ratle B) Mahesh Bhupathi
3. Pakuldul 4. Miyar Nalla C) Sachin Tendulkar
A) 1 & 2 D) Rahul Dravid
B) 2 & 3 Which state has launched Smart Streets Lab, a
C) 3 & 4 road-safety and women-safety solution?
D) 4 & 1
A) Himachal Pradesh
B) Jharkhand
Who has become the first Hindu in 20 years to be C) Telangana
appointed to Pakistan's Cabinet? D) Odisha
A) Hara Krushna Das
B) Darshan Lal Three Indian companies have featured in the top
C) Ravindra Singh 100 of Forbes' World's Most Innovative Companies
D) Anil Wadhwa 2017. Which of the following is not one of them?
A) Asian Paints
Sam Shepard, who recently passed away, won the B) Hindustan Unilever
Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for? C) TCS
A) Buried Child D) Bharti Airtel
B) The Shadow Box
C) Seascape
D) Fences

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Which state has tied up with Microsoft to use its AI Which of the following companies has signed a USD
based MINE platform to screen children for eye 500 million loan agreement with ADB?
problems? A) Power Grid
A) Gujarat B) NTPC
B) Haryana C) BHEL
C) Karnataka D) Reliance Energy
D) Telangana
Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of How many Indian origin individuals have been
CBFC to replace outgoing Pahlaj Nihalani? listed in the annual ranking of the most influential
A) Anupam Kher young people - Fortune's 2017 '40 Under 40'?
B) Prasoon Joshi A) Two
C) Babul Supriyo B) Eight
D) Ashok Pandit C) Five
As per the survey conducted by the Quality Council D) Ten
of India (QCI), which state has the lowest toilet Which African country released silver coin on Lord
coverage at 30%? Krishna on Janmashtami?
A) Jharkhand A) Chad
B) Madhya Pradesh B) Niger
C) Uttar Pradesh C) Egypt
D) Bihar D) Tanzania

Which of the following has become the top

NITI Aayoghas selected how many states for its commodity in terms of exports from India?
Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital A) Buffalo meat
(SATH) initiative? B) Milk
A) Four C) Tea
B) Six D) Basmati rice
C) Two
D) Eight Indian Army is going to procure how many Boeing-
made Apache attack helicopters in a deal worth
Uhuru Kenyatta, has been re-elected as President $655 million dollars?
of? A) Ten
A) Kenya B) Eight
B) Uganda C) Six
C) Tanzania D) Four
D) Burundi
Which Indian girl has created a record by becoming
Dr Bhakti Yadav, who recently passed away, was the youngest person to climb Mt Stok Kangri?
the first woman doctor of? A) Kaamya Karthikeyan
A) Haryana B) Snehlata Kumar
B) Rajasthan C) Sujatha Singh
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Anshika Lavasa
D) Madhya Pradesh
India's first ‘railways disaster management village’
is going to come up on the outskirts of?
Sohail Mahmood recently took charge as the High
A) Surat
Commissioner of which country to India?
B) Indore
A) Sri Lanka
C) Bengaluru
B) Bangladesh
D) Pune
C) Pakistan
D) Malayasia

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How many medals did Indian contingent win at the Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University, India's
7th World Dwarf Games held in Toronto? first aviation university is going to be inaugurated
A) 37 in?
B) 26 A) Uttar Pradesh
C) 48 B) Odisha
D) 15 C) Punjab
D) Telangana
S Paul, who recently passed away, was a
renowned? Under-19 cricket Asia Cup which was scheduled to
A) Athlete be held in Bengaluru has been moved to?
B) Litterateur A) Pakistan
C) Photographer B) Sri Lanka
D) Space Scientist C) Bangladesh
D) Malaysia
US recently listed which terrorist group as a
counter-designated group? Which of the following events was organized by the
A) Lashkar-e-Taiba NITI Aayog recently at the Pravasi Bharatiya
B) Al-Badr Kendra?
C) Jaish-e-Mohammed A) Champions of Change
D) Hizbul Mujahideen B) Drivers of Change
Which bank has been conferred the ‘best C) Innovators of Change
performance award’ for 2015-16 and 2016-17 by D) Leaders of Change
NABARD for its work in the field of credit-linking
joint liability groups (JLGs)? Scientists from which country have developed the
A) Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank first of its kind plant-based Zika vaccine?
B) Corporation Bank A) USA
C) Syndicate Bank B) China
D) Pragati Grameena Bank C) Canada
D) India
India is going to establish a CEO forum with which
nation to promote trade? Which country is going to join International
A) Mexico Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise (IMMSAREX)
B) Spain to be held in Nov?
C) Mauritius A) China
D) Israel B) USA
C) Russia
Which space agency has launched TDRS-M satellite D) South Korea
which would aid astronauts in communication with
earth? As per the recently released All India Elephant
A) ISRO Census, which state has the highest population of
B) NASA elephants in India?
C) JAXA A) Assam
D) CNSA B) Kerala
C) Karnataka
DoNER Minister Dr Jitendra Singh announced to set D) Tamilnadu
up a North Eastern Cultural and Information Centre
in? First regional center of the New Development Bank
A) Chandigarh has been inaugurated in?
B) New Delhi A) China
C) Gangtok B) South Africa
D) Dispur C) Brazil
D) India

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Where did Pakistan unfurl its largest national flag

on the 70th Independence Day celebrated on Aug
14th?
A) Karachi
B) Islamabad
C) Lahore
Which state government recently launched ‘Indira D) Attari
Canteen’ scheme?
A) Himachal Pradesh
Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) is going to
B) Telangana enter into agreement with which nation for
C) Punjab
replicating UJALA scheme?
D) Karnataka
A) Malaysia
B) SIngapore
Which state government recently launched "Namo
C) Mauritius
Yuva Rojgar Kendra"? D) Indonesia
A) Haryana
B) Maharashtra Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has been awarded
C) Uttar Pradesh a seat at which university for studying philosophy,
D) Gujarat
politics and economics?
A) Harvard
Which Indian player won the men's singles title at
B) Oxford
the Bulgaria Open International Series held in
C) Cambridge
Sofia?
D) Stanford
A) Kidambi Srikanth
B) B Sai Praneeth
A mobile app "Meghshala" has been launched for
C) HS Prannoy
teachers in which state?
D) Lakshya Sen A) Madhya Pradesh
Which IIT has fabricated a 3D cardiac tissue patch
B) Andhra Pradesh
using silk protein membranes seeded with heart C) Karnataka
muscle cells? D) Odisha
A) Kharagpur
B) Guwahati
Which actress has topped the list of Forbes' World's
C) Delhi
Highest-Paid Actresses 2017?
D) Kanpur
A) Emma Stone
B) Jennifer Aniston
Where has the first museum in India based on
C) Jennifer Lawrence
India-Pakistan partition been opened? D) Mila Kunis
A) Chandigarh
B) Amritsar Union Cabinet recently gave its approval for a new
C) New Delhi bridge on the India-Nepal border over which river?
D) Srinagar
A) Mechi
B) Seti Gandaki
Union Cabinet has approved completion of which
C) Trishuli
project which had been stalled for years with a
D) Koshi
capital allocation of Rs 1,622 crore?
A) Kanva Reservoir
B) Kherkatta Reservoir
C) North Koel Reservoir
D) Harangi Reservoir

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Supreme Court of India has held that right to Supreme Court of India has declared the practice of
privacy is a Fundamental Right protected under Triple Talaq as unconstitutional by 3:2 majority.
which Article of the Constitution of India? Which of the following judges dissented from the
A) Article 24 judgement?
B) Article 21 A) Justice Kurian Joseph
C) Article 23 B) Justice UU Lalit
D) Article 22 C) Chief Justice J S Khehar
D) Justice RF Nariman
Which Indian won the only medal at the ISSF Junior
Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Shotgun World Cup held at Porpetto in Italy ?
Railway Board to replace Ashok Mittal? A) Anantjeet Singh Naruka
A) Anup Pujari B) Abinash Pratap Singh
B) Amit Singhal C) Gurnihal Singh Garcha
C) Arvind Mayaram D) Shapath Bharadwaj
D) Ashwani Lohani

Sadbhavana Diwas is celebrated on Aug 20th every Who is the Chairman of the 29-member panel
year to commemorate the birth anniversary of mandated to review the National Mineral Policy,
which leader? 2008?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru A) Ratan P. Watal
B) Rajiv Gandhi B) K Rajeswara Rao
C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad C) R. Vijaykumar
D) Indira Gandhi D) G. Mohan Kumar

Rishang Keishing, who recently passed away, was Book ‘I am HIV positive, so what?’ which is written
the former Chief Minister of? by Jayanta Kalita, is an account of?
A) Manipur A) Madhav Lal
B) Assam B) P.K. Malhotra
C) Nagaland C) Sanjay Singh
D) Mizoram D) Pradip Kumar Singh
Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj recently Which oil giant has announced to invest Rs 52,000
inaugurated India's first Videsh Bhavan in? in Paradip refinery?
A) Bengaluru A) Indian Oil
B) Kochi B) Hindustan Petroleum
C) Mumbai C) Bharat Petroleum
D) New Delhi D) ONGC

Which state government has launched a cloud

"Project Brainwave" has been launched by which seeding project, called "Varshadhari"?
company? A) Karnataka
A) Apple B) West Bengal
B) Microsoft C) Andhra Pradesh
C) Facebook D) Maharashtra
D) Google
In which state, the state-owned distribution
companies have become the first to accept
payments on Bharat QR?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Odisha
C) Telangana
D) Maharashtra

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Which of the following Chief Ministers has been Which of the following has become the first fully
selected for Agriculture Leadership Award 2017? computer literate village of North-East India?
A) Devendra Fadnavis A) Seyochung
B) Chandrababu Naidu B) Nungthaang Tampak
C) Virbhadra Singh C) Chumukedima
D) K Chandrashekhar Rao D) Ongpangkong

Who has become the youngest person to International Atomic Energy Agency has announced
circumnavigate the world solo by motorcycle? to open a uranium bank in?
A) Jorge Fox A) Canada
B) Matthew Holloway B) Russia
C) Kane Avellano C) Kazakhstan
D) Josh Garcia D) Uzbekistan

Which Indian student has been recognised by Scientists from which IITs have jointly developed a
World Records of India for developing a nano biosensor which detects kidney disorders in less
missile? than 8 minutes?
A) Shanmugam Tirumala Rao 1. Kharagpur 2. Bombay
B) Kannan Ramchandran 3. Indore 4. Roorkee
C) Dacharla Panduranga Rohith A) 1 & 2
D) Rifath Sharook B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
Union Cabinet has increased the ‘creamy layer’ D) 4 & 1
ceiling for central government jobs for the OBC
category from the existing Rs 6 lakh to? Which space agency is going to create night-time
A) Rs 9 lakh per annum white artificial clouds under its WINDY mission?
B) Rs 10 lakh per annum A) Roscosmos
C) Rs 8 lakh per annum B) NASA
D) Rs 7 lakh per annum C) ESA
D) ISRO
As per a report released by UNWTO, which country
is the least-visited destination of 2016?
A) Montserrat Whose term as the MD & CEO of Bombay Stock
B) Djibouti Exchange has been extended by 5 years?
C) Kiribati A) Ashish Chauhan
D) Tuvalu B) Shailesh Nayak
C) Pankaj Jain
Which country is going to introduce 'X' gender
D) R.K. Mathur
passports?
A) Canada Department of Posts has signed an MoU with which
B) Germany country to jointly issue a set of two
C) Spain Commemorative Postage Stamps on the theme
D) Israel "Diwali"?
A) Canada
Who won a silver medal in the women’s 10,000
B) USA
metres at the World University Games in Taipei?
C) Japan
A) Rashi Sinha
D) Israel
B) Anita Joshi
C) Sanjivani Jadhav
D) Sukriti Singh

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Assam Forest department has begun an eviction What is the name of the database of all Insurance
drive to remove encroachers from which wildlife Sales Persons in India being launched by IRDAI?
sanctuary? A) Cluster
A) Chakrashila B) Pack
B) Porbitora C) Batch
C) Nambor D) Envoy
D) Amchang

Who won the gold medal in Women's Singles at the Who has been awarded the Biju Patnaik Award for
BWF World Championships held in Glasgow? Scientific Excellence 2016?
A) Nozomi Okuhara A) Prof Swapna Mahapatra
B) Saina Nehwal B) Prof Sukumar Mishra
C) Carolina Marin C) Prof Banshidhar Majhi
D) PV Sindhu D) Prof Digambar Behera

National Sports Day, which was celebrated on Aug

Who has been crowned the UEFA Women’s Player 29, is the birth anniversary of?
of the Year? A) Kapil Dev
A) Ada Hegerberg B) Sachin Tendulkar
B) Melanie Behringer C) Major Dhyan Chand
C) Lieke Martens D) Milkha Singh
D) Hedvig Lindahl
Who has been crowned India's first Miss Trans
Arun Jaitley recently inaugurated ASTRA Queen at an event held in Gurugram?
Manufacturing Unit at Bhanur in Telangana. ASTRA A) Nitasha Biswas
is which type of missile system ? B) Loiloi Haorongbam
A) Air-to-Air C) Ragasiya
B) Surface-to-Air D) Veenita Sridhar
C) Air-to-Surface
D) Surface-to-Surface CII has conferred National Award for ‘Excellence’ in
Energy Management on which airport?
Who has been appointed as the next CEO of Uber? A) IGIA - Delhi
A) Dara Khosrowshahi B) CSIA - Mumbai
B) Shalin Amin C) RGIA - Hyderabad
C) Jeff Holden D) KIA - Bengaluru
D) Yoav Amiel
World’s most powerful X-ray laser, called European
X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), has been unveiled
What is the name of the app through which NADA in a facility in?
and NPPA will help athletes understand the A) Hamburg
medicines that could contain prohibited B) Brussels
substances? C) Geneva
A) e-Med D) Lisbon
B) Pharma Jan Samadhan
C) Khiladi Swasthya Sampada Sultan Ahmed, who recently passed away, was an
D) e-Pharma MP from which political party?
A) TDP
B) TMC
C) CPI
D) SP

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Who has been sacked from the post of head coach As per a list released by Forbes, which country is
by Hockey India? the most corrupt in Asia?
A) Maximiliano Caldas A) India
B) Frédéric Soyez B) Vietnam
C) Valentin Altenburg C) Thailand
D) Roelant Oltmans D) Pakistan

Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth after What are the names of two contraceptives that
spending how many days in space on this mission? have been launched under the government’s
A) 288 days Mission Parivar Vikas?
B) 192 days 1. Antara 2. Chhaya
C) 243 days 3. Raksha 4. Aashray
D) 312 days A) 1 & 2
B) 2 & 3
C) 3 & 4
Which state government has launched a health D) 4 & 1
scheme called 'Arogya Bhagya' by merging existing
7 schemes? Which state has announced to make education free
A) Punjab for all girls from Class 1 to graduation level in all
B) Madhya Pradesh public and aided private schools?
C) Jharkhand A) Rajasthan
D) Karnataka B) Assam
C) Karnataka
A 16.68 metres tall sandcastle, officially recognised D) Haryana
by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest,
has recently been built in? September 1st to 7th is observed as?
A) Australia A) National Vitamins Week
B) Russia B) National Food Week
C) Dubai C) National Fruits Week
D) Germany D) National Nutrition Week
Who has been named the next ambassador of US
to India? Doris Leuthard, who was on a 3-day visit to India, is
A) Kenneth I. Juster the President of which country?
B) Woody Johnson A) Switzerland
C) John F. Tefft B) Austria
D) Nikki Haley C) Portugal
D) Ukraine
How many new ministers have been appointed in
the 3rd reshuffle of PM Narendra Modi's cabinet? Teachers Day was recently celebrated on Sept 5th.
A) 9 It is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of?
B) 5 A) CV Raman
C) 7 B) C. Rajagopalachari
D) 10 C) Dr S Radhakrishnan
D) None of the Above

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The first indigenously made sniper rifle was Who has become the fastest player to score 15,000
unveiled recently at the Rifle Factory, Ishapore in? runs in the international cricket?
A) Andhra Pradesh A) Virat Kohli
B) Karnataka B) Hashim Amla
C) West Bengal C) Joe Root
D) Uttar Pradesh D) AB De Villiers

Who has been appointed as the Chairman and MD

Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of of Press Trust of India?
CBSE? A) Viveck Goenka
A) Nita Chowdhury B) Riyad Mathew
B) Anita Karwal C) N. Ravi
C) Sujata Mehta D) Bimal Julka
D) Aradhana Johr
As part of labour law reforms, the government is
Government has planned to set up a cloud-service going to rationalise how many Labour Acts by
for providing solutions to the agriculture related framing four labour codes?
problems. It will be called? A) 45
A) IrriZone B) 38
B) CropZone C) 21
C) AgriZone D) 17
D) FarmerZone
Researchers at which IIT have successfully created
Who has become the first from India to be signed an implantable bioartificial pancreas model grown
up by the National Basketball League of Australia? within a 3D silk scaffold?
A) Vishesh Bhriguvanshi A) Kanpur
B) Amritpal Singh B) Guwahati
C) Yadwinder Singh C) Roorkee
D) Amjyot Singh D) Kharagpur

Which country will host the 2019 edition of the

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu recently launched a Commonwealth (Youth, Junior and Senior)
portal which is a national digital infrastructure for Weightlifting Championships?
teachers. It is called? A) Iran
A) SHIKSHA B) India
B) VIDYA C) Khazakhstan
C) SHIKSHAK D) Germany
D) DIKSHA

Which company has acquired the Indian Premier

League global and digital rights for five years at Rs
16,347.50 crore ?
A) SET India
B) Zee Entertainment
C) Star India
D) Viacom18

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