1.

Who among the following will be presented the Dilip Sardesai Award at the Board of
Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) annual awards on Mar 8?

1) Virat Kohli

2) Ravichandran Ashwin

3) Rohit Sharma

4) Ravindra Jadeja

5) MS Dhoni

Ans.) 2

2. The Shahpur Kandi Dam project is situated in which state? A renewed agreement between
this state and Jammu and Kashmir was sealed recently.

1) Haryana

2) Himachal Pradesh

3) Punjab

4) Rajasthan

5) None of these

Ans.) 3

3. Syed Shahabuddin, who passed away recently, was a former

1) IFS Officer

2) Member of Parliament

3) Governor

4) All the above

5) Only 1) and 2)

Ans.) 5

4. The Abdul Kalam Island is situated off the coast of

1) Odisha

2) West Bengal

3) Andhra Pradesh

4) Tamil Nadu
5) Gujarat

Ans.) 1

5. The World Wildlife Day is observed every year on

1) 01 Mar

2) 03 Mar

3) 05 Mar

4) 06 Mar

5) 09 Mar

Ans.) 2

6. _________ on 01 Mar 2017 assumed office as the new Secretary General of the South
Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).

1) Arjun Bahadur Thapa (Napal)

2) QAMA Rahim (Bangladesh)

3) Amjad Hussain B Sial (Pakistan)

4) Sheel Kant Sharma (India)

5) Ahmed Saleem (Maldives)

Ans.) 3

7. After a gap of five years, which of the following banks has decided to reintroduce penalty
on non-maintenance of minimum balance in accounts from Apr 1, 2017?

1) PNB

2) BoB

3) ICICI Bank

4) SBI

5) HDFC Bank

Ans.) 4

8. With an aim to free India from which disease by 2022, the govt has approved a Rs 756-cr
scheme to treat over 700 lakh patients in the next five years?

1) Tuberculosis
2) AIDS

3) Polio

4) Japanese Encephalitis

5) Cataract

Ans.) 5

9. The women cricketer Sarah Coyte announced her retirement from all forms of the game
recently. She has been playing for

1) West Indies

2) England

3) South Africa

4) New Zealand

5) Australia

Ans.) 5

10. __________ has been honoured with the 2017 Harvard Humanitarian of the Year award.

1) Jennifer Lopez

2) Selena Gomez

3) Taylor Swift

4) Rihanna

5) Beyonce Knowles

Ans.) 4