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1.

Which country has become c) 12 January


the 1st country to cease FM d) 13 January
radio broadcasting?
a) Sweden 7. The National Youth Day was
b) Japan observed on 12 January to
c) Norway mark the birth anniversary of
d) Pakistan a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
b) Swami Vivekananda
2. Which state recently c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
launched India’s first Student d) Sri Aurobindo
Startup and Innovation Policy?
a) Gujarat 8. Name the second of the
b) Tamil Nadu Scorpene class submarine that
c) Karnataka was launched at in Mumbai in
d) Maharashtra January 2017 for sea trials.
a) INS Kaveri
3. With which country India b) INS Narmada
signed a MoU on cooperation in c) INS Khanderi
agriculture and allied sectors. d) INS Kahari
a) Bhutan
b) Nepal 9. Barack Obama awards
c) Kenya _ with
d) Nigeria Presidential Medal of Freedom.
a) Hillary Clinton
4. With which country India b) Jennifer Lopez
signed a MoU on cyber security. c) Joe Biden
a) USA d) Mike Richard
b) Germany
c) Canada 10. Who was appointed as the
d) Australia Chief Executive Officer of the
Tata Consultancy Services?
5. PropTiger.com tied-up with a) Natarajan Chandrasekaran
which online portal to form b) N Ganapathy Subramaniam
largest online realty firm? c) Rajesh Gopinathan
a) OYO Rooms d) Cyrus Mistry
b) ZO Rooms
c) Housing.com 11. Who was appointed as the
d) Go Ibibo chairman of Tata Sons?
a) Natarajan Chandrasekaran
6. When is National Youth day b) Ganapathy Subramaniam
observed every year? c) Rajesh Gopinathan
a) 11 January d) Nowroji Saklatwala
b) 14 January
12. Jubilant FoodWorks
Appoints As CEO c) Akshay Kumar
a) Pratik Pota d) John Abraham
b) Rajesh Arora
c) Sachin Singh 18. 4th International Kite
d) Aniket Verma Festival begins in
a) Mumbai
13. Which country successfully c) Ahmedabad
test fires Guided Pinaka rocket? c) New Delhi
a) India d) Jaipur
b) China
c) Pakistan 19. Which state won Ranji
d) South Korea Trophy Final for the first time?
a) Gujarat
14. Which country agreed to b) Odisha
provide 1 trillion yen aid c) Mumbai
package to the Philippines. d) Tamilnadu
a) South Korea
b) China 20. The 1st edition of ABU
c) Japan International Television Dance
d) Australia Festival held in
a) Mumbai
15. Artificial Intelligence b) Bangalore
Startup Maluuba was acquired c) Pune
by which technology giant? d) Hyderabad
a) Google
b) Microsoft 21. With which country India
c) IBM past signed MoU to construct
d) Infosys 3000 rain water harvesting
systems?
16. Name the former MRF a) Nepal
director who passed away b) China
recently. c) Sri Lanka
a) KM Philip d) Japan
b) T Sreejesh
c) Mukhtar Abbas 25. In which scheme Digital
d) Jagdish Singh Dakiya scheme inaugurated?
a) Rajasthan
17. Name the Indian actor who b) Madhya Pradesh
was honoured by the US c) Kerala
Embassy to acknowledge his d) Uttar Pradesh
immense contribution to the
India-US ties on tuberculosis. 26. Which film won best film
a) Amitabh Bachchan awards in 62nd Jio filmfare
b) Shah Rukh Khan Awards 2017?
a) Sultan 32. Bioinformatics apps DPict &
b) Udta Punjab Neuron was launched by which
c) Neerja organization?
d) Dangal a) ISRO
b) BARC
27. Who of the following won c) CDAC
best actor (male) awards in d) IISER
62nd Jio filmfare Awards 2017?
a) Shahid Kapoor 33. First Ever Asia-Pacific
b) Salman Khan Broadcasting Union Dance
c) Aamir Khan Festival concluded in
d) Shahrukh Khan ?
a) Bengaluru
28. Who of the following won b) Hyderabad
best actor (female) awards in c) Mumbai
62nd Jio filmfare Awards 2017? d) Kolkata
a) Sonam Kapoor
b) Alia Bhatt 34. Which Telecom operator
c) Priyanka Chopra launches mobile TV service
d) Anushka Sharma Ditto TV?
a) Vodafone
29. What is the rank of India on b) MTNL
Global Talent Competitiveness? c) Airtel
a) 97 d) BSNL
b) 92
c) 67 35. Name the Astronaut,last
d) 81 man on the moon, who died
recetly?
30. Which country topped in a) Mark Henry
Global Talent Competitiveness b) Benson Huge
ranking? c) Eugene Cernan
a) Singapore d) Angelika Miley
b) Switzerland
c) USA 36. Who of the following
d) China appointed as Regional head of
HSBC?
31. According to oil ministry a) Rakesh Baweja
India’s fuel consumption to hit b) Sandeep Malhotra
in 2016-17. c) Sandeep Uppal
a) 700 Million Tonnes d) Vidhyavati Shimley
b) 400 Million Tonnes
c) 550 Million Tonnes 37. PM Narendra Modi
d) 200 Million Tonnes inaugurated Raisina Dialogue in
?
a) Mumbai
b) Jaisalmer 43. Who of the following has
c) Hyderabad been appointed as President of
d) New Delhi European Parliament?
a) Antonio Tajani
38. Which state govt b) Gianni Pitella
announces series of welfare c) Martin Schulz
measures for Army Personnel? d) Martin James
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana 44. Who of the following
c) Punjab inducted into Legends Club Hall
d) Madhya Pradesh of Fame recently in January
2017?
39. Who won the 2016 T S Eliot a) Sunil Gavaskar
Prize for Poetry? b) Kapil Dev
a) Vahni Capildeo c) Dilip Vengsarkar
b) Jacob Polley d) Ravi Shastri
c) Alice Oswald
d) None of the above 45. Which Indian firm tied up
with Russian petrochemical
40. Who won the 15th edition giant Sibur to set up South
of the Delhi International Chess Asia's first butyl rubber
tournament? halogenation unit at Jamnagar
a) Farrukh Amonatov in Gujarat?
b) Diptayan Ghosh a) Tata Steel
c) Dzhumaev Marat b) Reliance Industries
d) Magnus Carlsen c) Shree Cement
d) Aditya Birla Group
41. The GST Council decided to
rollout the Goods and Services 46. Union Petroleum Ministry
Tax on launches petroleum awareness
a) 1 July 2017 programme .
b) 1 August 2017 a) Saksham-2017
c) 1 September 2017 b) Sehaj-2017
d) 1 October 2017 c) Sarva-2017
d) Sampann-2017
42. India Signs Financing
Agreement of 47. The world’s biggest cricket
with World Bank for Nagaland stadium will come up in which
Health Project. state?
a) $58 million a) Delhi
b) $48 million b) Punjab
c) $68 million c) Gujarat
d) $78 million d) Maharashtra
53. Who of the following won
48. Pinakin mobile app was Favorite Dramatic TV Actress
launched by which state award at People's Choice
tourism department to boost Award 2017?
tourism? a) Taraji P. Henson
a) Karnataka b) Viola Davis
b) Tamil Nadu c) Ellen Pompeo
c) Andhra Pradesh d) Priyanka Chopra
d) Kerala
54. Who of the following won
49. Name the Indian professor Favorite Movie Actor award at
who pioneered the work on People's Choice Award 2017?
black holes and died recently. a) Kevin Hart
a) CK Venkata Ramayya b) Robert Downey Jr.
b) CV Vishveshwara c) Ryan Reynolds
c) Chintak Natrajan d) Will Smith
d) MJ Khatri
55. Who of the following won
50. How many children have Favorite Movie Actress award
been selected for the 2016 at People's Choice Award
national bravery awards? 2017?
a) 15 a) Margot Robbie
b) 20 b) Melissa McCarthy
c) 25 c) Scarlett Johansson
d) 31 d) Jennifer Lawrence

51. Who of the following is the 56. Which of the following


author of the book Khullam movie won Favorite Movie
Khulla: Rishi Kapoor award at People's Choice
Uncensored? Award 2017?
a) Rishi Kapoor a) Captain America: Civil War
b) Meena Iyer b) Deadpool
c) Rishi Kapoor and Kiran Doshi c) Finding Dory
d) Rishi Kapoor and Meena Iyer d) Suicide Squad

52. Prasar Bharti Chairman 57. Which of the following


Surya Prakash inaugurates movie won Favorite Action
Prasar Bharati House in Movie award at People's Choice
Award 2017?
a) Mumbai a) Captain America: Civil War
b) Hyderabad b) Deadpool
c) Delhi c) Suicide Squad
d) Lucknow d) X-Men: Apocalypse
58. Which of the following a) Singapore
movie won Favorite Dramatic b) USA
Movie award at People's Choice c) Germany
Award 2017? d) Sweden
a) Me Before You
b) Miracles From Heaven 64. Name the web portal that
c) Miss Peregrine’s Home for was launched by Union Ministry
Peculiar Children of Human Resources
d) Sully Development for promoting and
monitoring the Sarva Shiksha
59. Which of the following TV Abhiyan.
show won Favorite TV Show a) ShaGun
award at People's Choice b) Shiksha
Award 2017? c) SarvAbhi
a) The Big Bang Theory d) Sehpathi
b) Grey’s Anatomy
c) Outlander 65. Indian Railways recently
d) Stranger Things launched which programme to
save energy worth Rs 41000
60. Who of the following crore?
appointed as Vice President of a) Saksham 41k
MobiKwik? b) Save Enerygy 41k
a) Roman Saini c) Mission 41K
b) Gaurav Singh d) Save Earth 41K
c) Amrita Trivedi
d) Daman Soni 66. Who of the following
becomes most followed World
61. Who of the following leader on Social Media?
appointed as Franchise Head of a) Donald Trump
Coca-Cola? b) Angela Mekrel
a) Shehnaz Gill c) Vladimir Putin
b) MK Mehra d) Narendra Modi
c) Parvez Siddiqui
d) Anita Vikram 67. Karang, which has become
first cashless island of India, is
62. What is the rank of India in located in which of the
Global Passport Index? following states?
a) 77 a) Maharashtra
b) 97 b) Assam
c) 31 c) Gujarat
d) 78 d) Manipur

63. Which country topped in 68. Who of the following is the


Global Passport Index? new Navy Chief of China?
a) Lieutenant Admiral Shen c) Ganapathy Subramaniam
Jinlong d) Rajesh Gopinathan
b) Lieutenant Admiral Yen
Jinlong 74. Mawlynnong village was
c) Lieutenant Admiral Xing recently declared as cleanest
Yaman village in Asia. It is located in
d) Lieutenant Admiral Vaitun which state?
Tawang a) Arunachal Pradesh
b) Meghalaya
69. Who won Pro Wrestling c) Manipur
League Season 2 title? d) Nagaland
a) UP Dangal
b) Haryana Hammers 75. President Pranab
c) Jaipur Ninjas Mukherjee inaugurated the 8th
d) Punjab Royals Dantan Gramin Mela -2017 in
a) Punjab
70. Who of the following was b) Telangana
recently sworn-in as the c) West Bengal
President of The Gambia? d) Kerala
a) Adama Barrow
b) Yahya Jammeh 76. In which Indian city the
c) Yahya Bisak Combined Commanders
d) Yakov Bemhra Conference (CCC) was hosted?
a) Dehradun
71. Which City was chosen as b) Bangalore
the second Capital of Himachal c) Pune
Pradesh recently? d) Vishakhapatnam
a) Una
b) Hamirpur 77. Which state launched a
c) Dharamsala Nasha Mukt campaign to make
d) Kangra the state addidction-free.
a) Bihar
72. Who won the prestigious b) Punjab
The Hindu Prize 2016? c) Gujarat
a) Kiran Doshi d) Delhi
b) Mahi Verma
c) Kunal Bakshi 78. Name the aircraft carrier
d) Anil Mukherji ship that has become India’s
first warship to have ATM on-
73. Who was appointed as CEO board.
and MD of Bharti AXA General a) INS Vikramaditya
recently? b) INS Vikrant
a) Sanjeev Srinivasan c) INS Vikram
b) Natarajan Chandrasekaran d) INS Virat
has been help to India to
79. Who of the following has increase passenger train speed
been appointed as Senior Vice to 200 kmph?
President of Enginnering of A) Russia
Uber? B) Britain
a) Raj Singh C) Japan
b) Sabir Arora D) Singapore
c) Amit Singhal
d) Vikram Shamra 85. Name the state, in which
3.5 lakh people together sang
80. Which of the following the national anthem set New
country withdraw Visa-free World Record?
facility for indians? A) Punjab
a) SriLanka B) Haryana
b) HongKong C) Gujarat
c) Combodia D) Goa
d) China
86. Name the most innovative
81. Donald Trump sworn in as company, which has been
President of Unidted world’s first rank by BCG’s list?
Styates. A) Apple
a) 44th B) Tesla
b) 47th C) Toyota
c) 45th D) Sam sung
d) 41st
87. Name the tennis player,
82. Name the tennis player, who has own the ITF Juniors
who has been won Malaysian Tennis title 2017, recently?
Masters Grand Prix Gold A) Sunish
tournament, recently? B) Shiaelis
A) Saina Nehwal C) Kazakh
B) Sania Mirza D) None
C) Sharapova
D) Venus Williams 88. Name the firm, which has
signed an MoU with Bank of
83. Name the city, in which a Baroda for Rs.4,000 crore loan
special task force for women to Farmers?
safety reconstituted, recently? A) Patanjali
A) Mumbai B) Britania
B) Delhi C) Parley
C) Hyderabad D) Kwality
D) Chennai
89. Name the state, which has
84. Name the country, which inaugurated the 4 lakh square
feet latest IT building 94. Every year in India,
“Jyothirmaya” at in infopark, National’s Girl Child Day
recently? Observed on?
A) Karnataka A) 21st January
B) Kerala B) 22nd January
C) Tamil Nadu C) 23rd January
D) Assam D) 24th January

90. State the Day, Netaji 95. Name the airport, which
Subhash Chandra Bose Birth has own the Golden Peacock
Anniversary Observed on? Award for Corporate Social
A) January 23rd Responsibility (CSR) in the
B) January 24th transportation sector under the
C) January 22nd aviation category for 2016?
D) January 21st A) Delhi Airport
B) Mumbai Airport
91. Name the person, who has C) Kerala Airport
been appointed as new D) Chennai Airport
Chairman of the Institute of
Company Secretaries of India 96. Name the Steel Plant,
(ICSI)? which has been inaugurated
A) Siddhartha Murarka Rs.1200 crore Universal Rail
B) Maust Binani Mill, recently?
C) R. Sridharan A) Bhilai
D) None of these B) Durgapur
C) Rourkela
92. Name the State assembly, D) None
which has been unanimously
passed Jallikattu Bill on 23 97. Name the country, which
January, 2017? has launches a 10-year plan to
A) AP Assembly reduce depending on India for
B) TN Assembly vegetables imports, recently?
C) MP Assembly A) Bangladesh
D) UP Assembly B) Bhutan
C) Nepal
93. Name the state, which has D) China
been first state to offer online
postal ballots? 98. Name the app, which has to
A) Kerala launched by Uber in Indian
B) Gujarat Food Market, recently?
C) Goa A) Uber EATS
D) Assam B) Uber FOOD
C) Uber KHANA
D) None
company AppDynamics for
99. Who was appointed as about USD 3.7 billion?
Prime Minister of Mauritius? A) Apple
A) Navin Ramgoolam B) Cisco
B) Pravind Jugnauth C) Microsoft
C) Anerood Jugnauth D) IBM
D) Cassam Uteem
105. India celebrates its 68th
100. Wave N Pay contact less Republic Day on 26th January
card was launched by which 2017. Who was the Chief
bank? Guest?
A) State Bank of India A) Hamid Karjai
B) Central Bank of India B) Mohammed bin Zayed Al
C) Union Bank of India Nahyan
D) Punjab National Bank C) Sheikh Haseena
d) Ashraf Ghani
101. What was the theme of
2017 National Girl Child Day? 106. Which organization
A) Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao successfully test fires Guided
B) Beti padeghi. tabhi badegi PINAKA?
C) Safety and Development of A) ISRO
girl child B) DRDO
D) Adolescent Girls: Issues and C) HAL
Challenges D) BARC

102. Which country launched 107. Which state government


the first military announces total ban on
communications satellite polythene bags recently?
Kirameki-2? A) Uttar Pradesh
A) China B) Madhya Pradesh
B) India C) Andhra Pradesh
C) Japan D) Rajasthan
D) North Korea
108. What was the theme of
103. With which country India National Voter's Day 2017?
signed 14 agreements to boost A) Empowering Young Future
bilateral relations? Voters
A) United Arab Emirates B) Empowering Youth Future
B) Saudi Arabia Voters
C) Kuwait C) Empowering Young Future
D) Qatar Youth
D) Empowering Youth Future
104. Which company agreed to Young
buy US business software
109. Who of the following belonged to which country?
appointed as head of Target a) United States
Olympic Podium (TOP) b) Australia
Committee? c) China
a) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore d) England
b) Abhinav Bindra
c) Vijender Singh 115. V Shanmuganathan
d) Yogeshwar Dutt resigned as the Governor of
which State recently?
110. Which of the following a) Manipur
launches High Performance 99 b) Nagaland
Octane Fuel? c) Meghalaya
a) Bharat Petroleum d) Sikkim
b) Indian Oil
c) Hindustan Petroleum 116. Power Grid Corporation of
d) BHEL India Ltd. recently signed MoU
with which Middle East
111. Who of the following country?
appointed as CHRO of a) Dubai
Magicbricks.com? b) Oman
a) Anil Kumar Mishra c) Abu Dhabi
b) AK Jain d) Qatar
c) Sushil Trivedi
d) Ankit Shukla 117. Who was appointed as the
Chancellor of Nalanda
112. Who of the following University?
appointed as CEO of Mphasis? a) Alok Kumar Verma
a) Nitin Rakesh b) Surekha Marandi
b) Anil Mishra c) Dr Vijay Bhatkar
c) Ganesh Ayyar d) Anil Baijal
d) Rakesh Ranjan
118. Who won the Australian
113. Who was awarded with Open Women's Singles title?
the gallantry award Ashok a) Venus Williams
Chakra on the 68th Republic b) Serena Williams
Day of India? c) Victoria Azarenka
a) Neerav Modi d) Maria Sharapova
b) Harpreet Sandhu
c) Hangpan Dada 119. Who won the Australian
d) Akhil Jha Open Men's Doubles title?
a) Henri Kontinen-John Peers
114. Emmy award-winning b) Bob-Mike Bryan
actress Mary Tyler Moore, who c) Jamie Murray-Brazil Bruno
passed away recently, Soares
d) None of these b) Ajay Arora
c) AP Singh
120. Who among the following d) Pankaj Trivedi
was appointed as the acting
Governor of Meghalaya? 125. Who of the following won
a) Banwarlal Purohit Australian Open Men's Singles
b) Padmanabha Balakrishna Title?
Acharya a) Rafael Nadal
c) V Shanmuganathan b) Roger Federer
d) K Rosaiah c) Pet Sampras
d) Abigail Spears
121. What was India’s rank in
the Corruption Perceptions 126. Who of the following won
Index 2016? Australian Open Mixed Doubles
a) 76 Title?
b) 77 a) Abigail Spears & Juan
c) 78 Sebastian Cabal
d) 79 b) Sania Mirza & Ivan Dodig
c) Martina Hingis & Leander
122. Which country was Paes
declared as the most d) Abigail Spear & Martina
corruption-free nation by the Hingis
Corruption Perceptions Index
2016? 127. Who of the following won
a) Denmark Syed Modi Grand Prix Women's
b) Finland Gold Title?
c) The Netherlands a) Saina Nehwal
d) Germany b) PV Sindhu
c) Jwala Gutta
123. For How Many Countries d) Ankita Jain
Donald Trump signs executive
order to ban refugees and all 128. Who of the following won
vistors Muslim-majority Syed Modi Grand Prix Men's
countries? Gold Title?
a) 7 a) Pankaj Advani
b) 8 b) Sameer Verma
c) 9 c) Anup Sridhar
d) 11 d) Parupalli Kashyap

124. Who of the following has 129. When is National


been appointed as interim MD Immunization Day observed?
and CEO of the India Post a) 28 January
Payment Bank? b) 30 January
a) AP Shukla
c) 29 January 135. Goqii, the fitness
d) 27 January technology company and
preventive health platform
130. India's first Museum partnered with which hospital
opens in in order to bring the new heart
a) Mumbai care service to its users.
b) Kolkata a) AIIMS
c) Udaipur b) Fortis Hospital
d) Nagpur c) Max Hospital
d) Regency
131. What is the new cash ATM
withdrawal limit, which will be 136. The Annual Screen Actors
effective from 1 February Guild Awards was presented on
2017? 29th January 2017. It was
a) 21000 which edition of the award?
b) 27000 a) 29th
c) 15000 b) 27th
d) 24000 c) 23rd
d) 17th
132. Who of the following has
been appointed as new Delhi 137. Name the father of PAC-
Police commissioner? MAN, who died recently?
a) Alok Verma a) Masaya Nakamura
b) SP Bakshi b) Javaya Schumo
c) Suresh Jassi c) Shinzo Sakawao
d) Amulya Patnaik d) Anbo Makao

133. When is Anti Leprosy day 138. Who of the following


observed every year? became Miss Universe 2016?
a) 31 January a) Raquel Pelissier
b) 29 January b) Andrea Tovar
c) 30 January c) Iris Mittenaere
d) 1 February d) Andriana James

134. Who of the following has 139. Who of the following won
been appointed as head of Best female actor in a TV
Board of Control for Cricket in comedy series SAG Awards?
India (BCCI) by Supreme a) Viola Davis
Court? b) Julia Louis-Dreyfus
a) Ramchandra Guha c) Sarah Paulson
b) Vinod Rai d) Claire Foy
c) Anurag Thakur
d) Diana Edulji 140. Who of the following won
Best male actor in a TV comedy
series SAG Awards? 6. How much total expenditure is
a) John Lithgow predicted in the Union Budget
b) Bryan Cranston 2017?
c) Mahershala Ali a) Rs 18.20 lakh crore
d) William H Macy b) Rs 21.47 lakh crore
c) Rs 27.89 lakh crore
d) Rs 31.41 lakh crore
1. According to Union Budget 2017,
AIIMS to be set up in which states? 7. India’s largest start-up
a) Jharkhand & Uttar Pradesh incubator will be set up in which
b) Gujarat & Rajasthan state?
c) Odisha & Assam a) Karnataka
d) Jharkhand & Gujarat b) West Bengal
c) Andhra Pradesh
2. According to Union Budget d) Telangana
2017, what will be the service
charge On Train Tickets Booked 8. Which state tourism
On IRCTC Website? department tied up with
a) 1.2% MakeMyTrip to promote its home-
b) 2.3% stay scheme?
c) No Charge a) Odisha
d) 1.1% b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Assam
3. Who of the following Union d) Rajasthan
Minister, who passed away
recently? 9. Who of the following sworn-in
a) JK Ahmad as US secretary of state?
b) E Ahmad a) Nikki Hailey
c) RJ Singh b) Rex Tillerson
d) MN Singhal c) Mike Pompeo
d) John Kerry
4. Who was appointed as the DGP
of Karnataka recently? 10. Which operation was launched
a) V Sangmunathan by the Income Tax Department to
b) Rupak Kumar Dutta track deposits post
c) OP Reddy demonetisation?
d) MK Singhal a) Operation Track Black Money
b) Operation Clean Deposits
5. Which of the following states c) Operation Clean Money
won Excellence eGov awards 2017 d) Operation Clean Black Money
recently?
a) Bihar and Jharkhand 11. Which state is hosting the 31st
b) Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Surajkund International Crafts
Nadu Mela?
c) Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh a) Haryana
d) Rajasthan and Telangana b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Punjab 17. Who of the following remains
d) Rajasthan in top ICC T20 cricket ranking?
a) AB Devilliers
12. Which country is set to launch c) Joe Root
the world’s first and largest d) Virat Kohli
nuclear icebreaker fleet? d) Steve Smith
a) China
b) The United States 18. Tata Motors unveils new Sub-
c) Russia brand ?
d) Japan a) NAMO
b) TAMO
13. Mobile App Mission FINFIT c) TATO
was launched by which bank in d) PAMO
collaboration with Bangalore
startup Fisdom? 19. Which state Govt to launch e-
a) ICICI Bank payment system in Registration
b) Lakshmi Vilas Bank Department?
c) Yes Bank a) Tamilnadu
d) Kotak Mahindra Bank b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Kerala
14. The cab hailing firm Uber d) Odisha
launched its two-wheeler
aggregation service UberMOTO in 20. Sachin Tendulkar inaugurates
which city? sports medicine with advanced
a) Bangalore centres in ?
b) Chennai a) Tamilnadu
c) Mysuru b) Maharashtra
d) Hyderabad c) Kerala
d) Chandigarh
15. Who was appointed as the
Managing Director of BAE 21. Who of the following appointed
Systems’ India operations? as Chief Business Officer, India
a) Nik Khanna and Emerging Markets of UBER?
b) Suresh Yadav a) Sandeep Uppal
c) Nikhil Aggarwal b) Madhu Kannan
d) None of the above c) Raj Arora
d) Silky Arora
16. Which country has suspended
the issuance of visas to travellers 22. Which state government
from Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria approves policy on land
and Afghanistan? acquisition recently?
a) Kuwait a) Rajasthan
b) The United States of America b) Haryana
c) France c) Himachal Pradesh
d) India d) Maharashtra
23. India Gaming Show 2017 29. Which Indian airline service
begins in won the ‘Asia’s Greatest Brands –
a) Mumbai 2016’ award?
b) Pune a) AirAsia India
c) New Delhi b) Air India Express
d) Hyderabad c) Jet Airways
d) SpiceJet
24. When is the World Cancer Day
observed every year? 30. Who was appointed as the new
a) 5 February Chairman of the Real Estate
b) 4 February company Godrej?
c) 3 february a) Adi Godrej
d) 1 February b) Pirojsha Godrej
c) Mohit Malhotra
25. When is the World Wetlands d) Karan Bolaria
Day celebrated every year?
a) 1 February 31. Who among the following
b) 2 February become the World No.1 Junior
c) 3 February Badminton player?
d) 4 February a) Kartikey Gulshan Kumar
b) Kanishq M
26. Who of the following cricket c) Arintap DasGupta
player features in latest cover star d) Lakshya Sen
of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack?
a) AB deviliiers 32. The USA imposed new
b) MS Dhoni sanctions on which country
c) Virat Kohli following its recent ballistic
d) Joe Root missile test?
a) Iraq
27. Which of the following b) North Korea
company overtakes Apple as the c) Iran
World's most valuable Brand? d) Pakistan
a) Microsoft
b) Facebook 33. UIDAI shuts down 24
c) Google unauthorised websites, mobile
d) Reliance Jio apps. What is the abbreviation of
UIDAI?
28. Which Country will launch a) Universal Identification
World’s first and largest nuclear Authority of India
icebreaker fleet for a vast arctic b) Unique Identification
army? Development Authority of India
a) France c) Unique Identify Authority of
b) Russia India
c) China d) Unique Identification Authority
d) United States of India
34. How many bank accounts 40. Which garden to have roses
opened & activated for textile named after President Pranab
workers? Mukherjee and his wife?
a) 1186000 a) New Chand Rock Garden
b) 1786000 b) Lal Bagh
c) 1286000 c) Mughal Garden
d) 1156000 d) Mehtab Bagh

35. Who of the following named 41. Who of the following appointed
new MD & CEO of National Stock as Principal Economic Adviser?
Exchange (NSE)? a) Raghuram Rajan
a) Manoj Tiwari b) Sanjeev Sanyal
b) AP Singh c) Vikram Pandit
c) Vikram Limaye d) Amrendra Trivedi
d) Vikram Sharma
42. Who of the following will
36. Who of the following takes become chief minister of
over as director commercial at Tamilnadu?
National Thermal Power a) O Paneerselvam
Corporation (NTPC)? b) Venkaiaya Gajapati
a) Alok Kumar Verma c) VK Sasikala Natarajan
b) Anand Kumar Gupta d) MK Stalin
c) Amulya Patnaik
d) Alok Singhal 43. Which of the following
ministry to host Implementation
37. Which country to Launch and Assessment Group Meeting of
'Global' Twenty20 League? GICNT on February 8-10?
a) Australia a) Home Ministry
b) South Africa b) Ministry of HRD
c) USA c) Ministry of External Affairs
d) Bangladesh d) Ministry of Women and Child
Development
38. Who of the following
appointed as BJP national 44. Who of the following launches
secretary? Measles Rubella vaccination
a) Keshav Prasad Maurya campaign?
b) Amit Shah a) Smriti Irani
c) Tirath Singh Rawat b) Faggan Singh Kulaste
d) Anurag Thakur c) Menaka Gandhi
d) Dharmendra Pradhan
39. Who of the following
appointed as Pakistan Foreign 45. Bano Qudsia passed away
Secretary? recently. Who was she?
a) Aizaz Ahmad a) Pakistani Singer
b) Abdul Bashit b) Pakistani Author & Novelist
c) Rahil Sharij c) Pakistani Politician
d) Mushtaq Siddiqui d) Pakistani Comedian
46. Who of the following elected as 52. Which country will host FIBA
vice-president of Asia Squash Women's Asia Cup basketball
Federation? tournament?
a) N Ramachandran a) India
b) Syed Razi Nawab b) Pakistan
c) Debendranath Sarangi c) Sri Lanka
d) MJ Tripathi d) Afghanistan

47. Which of the following Airways 53. ISRO to launch record


launches world’s longest flight? on a single launch
a) British Airways next week.
b) Qatar Airways a) 101 Satellites
c) Indian Airlines b) 103 Satellites
d) Singapore Airlines c) 104 Satellites
d) 107 Satellites
48. Which of the following country
won team gold in Asian Junior 54. Cab aggregator UBER launched
Squash? it's new time-based on-demand
a) Malaysia offering service in 9 cities. Name
b) Singapore it.
c) India a) UberNamo
d) China b) UberHire
c) UberRent
49. When is International Day of d) UberTime
Zero Tolerance for Female Genital
Mutilation 2017 observed every 55. Who of the following won $1
year? million Genesis Prize "Jewish
a) 7 February Nobel" by Israel?
b) 8 February a) Animesh Singh
c) 6 February b) Anish Kapoor
d) 3 February c) Raj Mehra
d) Vishal Arora
50. Recently which country lifts
ban on US wrestler? 56. Who of the following
a) Pakistan appointed as Chairman and CEO of
b) Iran KPMG India?
c) Iraq a) Arun Sinha
d) Afghanistan b) Rakesh Baweja
c) Nitin Dungarpur
51. First Smart Police Station d) Arun M Kumar
inaugurated in ?
a) Uttar Pradesh 57. Which state government
b) Andhra Pradesh launches Chief Minister Samagra
c) Rajasthan Gramya Unnayan Yojana
d) Tamilnadu (CMSGUY)?
a) Rajasthan
b) Assam
c) Tamilnadu c) Afghanistan
d) Telangana d) Nepal

58. In which state Vijay Goel lays 64. Who of the following won
foundation stone for first ever National Badminton
training centre for differently Championship Men's Singles Title?
abled sportsmen? a) Lakshya Sen
a) Gandinagar, Gujarat b) Sourabh Verma
b) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh c) Pulkit Jaiswal
c) Jaipur, Rajasthan d) Rajesh Verma
d) Ludhiana, Punjab
65. The 81st Senior National
59. Which country successfully Badminton Championships was
tested Dongfeng-5C ballistic held in
missile? a) Patna
a) China b) Bengaluru
b) Japan c) New Delhi
c) India d) Mumbai
d) Iran
66. Who of the following won
60. Which gulf country recorded it National Badminton
lowest ever temperature in Championship Women's Singles
February 2017? Title?
a) Saudi Arabia a) Reshma Karthik
b) Qatar b) Rituparna Das
c) Kuwait c) Aparna Balan
d) Oman d) Prajakta Sawant

61. With which country India 67. Who was appointed as the MD
signed an MoU for cooperation in and CEO of the Ujjivan Small
the rail sector. Finance Bank?
a) Italy a) R Baskar Babu
b) Germany b) Samit Ghosh
c) Japan c) Manish Khera
d) France d) Shinjini Kumar

62. Who of the following has been 68. Who of the following resigned
elected as Chairman of Tata Steel? as England Test captain recently?
a) Rajesh Gopinath a) Joe Root
b) Ratan Tata b) Ben Stokes
c) Cyrus Mistry c) Alastair Cook
d) N Chandrasekaran d) Moin Ali

63. Which country hosted meet on 69. Which technology giant is


Nuclear Terrorism? planning to launch its mobile
a) China payment wallet in India?
b) India a) Motorola
b) HTC a) Jovenel Moise
c) Samsung b) James T Hill
d) Apple c) Michel Martelly
d) Ajax Porto Pinheiro
70. The Safe Internet Day was
celebrated on 76. Who was selected for the
a) 6 February 2017 prestigious 2016 Dr B C Roy
b) 8 February 2017 National Award?
c) 7 February 2017 a) Jayshree Mehta
d) 5 February 2017 b) P Raghu Ram
c) K Usha Lakshmi
71. Who of the following has been d) N Sai Kumar
appointed as chief financial officer
(CFO) of AirAsia? 77. First ever Himalayan Region
a) Manoj Pandey Games to be held in
b) Rakesh Sinha
c) Sameer Srivastava a) Jaipur
d) Deepak Mahendra b) Lucknow
c) Guwahati
72. The Indian Railway Ministry is d) Sikkim
set to approve a new ambitious
railway project. The link will be 78. Who of the following is the
the first-ever rail route in which Official Mascot of the FIFA U-17
Union Territory? World Cup India 2017?
a) Andaman and Nicobar Islands a) A dog called Striker
b) Lakshadweep b) A leopard called Sheru
c) Daman and Diu c) A cat called Billu
d) Dadra and Nagar Haveli d) A clouded leopard called Kheleo

73. Who of the following resigned 79. Who of the following Indian
as Chief Financial Officer of OLA youngsters selected for the third
recently? annual Basketball without Borders
a) Rajiv Bansal (BWB) Global Camp.
b) Raghuvesh Sarup a) Aashay Verma and Vipul
c) Pallav Singh Sangma
d) Pankaj Ahuja b) Aashay Verma and Sangeeta
Sharma
74. Which mobile manmufacturer c) Priyanka Prabhakara and Vipul
company acquired software firm Sangma
Comptel for $370 million? d) Aashay Verma and Priyanka
a) Samsung Prabhakara
b) Xiaomi
c) Nokia 80. Name the winner of the 2003
d) Apple Nobel Prize for Physiology or
Medicine who died recently.
75. Who was sworn-in as the a) Sir Peter Mansfield
President of Haiti recently? b) Pieter Zeeman
c) Wilhelm Wien system for distribution of food
d) William Henry Bragg grains?
a) Uttar Pradesh
81. Who of the following is b) Gujarat
appointed as the Managing c) Madhya Pradesh
Director of the Cushman & d) Rajasthan
Wakefield in India?
a) Ritesh Sachdev 87. Who of the following
b) Henry Baker appointed as new Somalia's
c) Jyoti Varma President?
d) None of the above a) Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo
b) Mohamed Mushtaq
82. Which state is hosting India’s c) Mushtaq Siddiqui
first National Women’s Parliament d) Mohamed Saklain Nasir
2017?
a) Karnataka 88. Who of the following
b) Andhra Pradesh appointed as new SEBI chief?
c) Kerala a) Ajay Trivedi
d) Maharashtra b) Ajay Shukla
c) UK Sinha
83.The book titled ‘Veerappan, d) Ajay Tyagi
Chasing the Brigand’ was written
by 89. Who of the following union
a) Rajiv Mehrishi minister releases Braille Atlas for
b) K Vijay Kumar visually impaired persons in New
c) Ajit Doval Delhi?
d) K Padmanabhaiah a) Smriti Irani
b) Mahesh Sharma
84. The capital of which Indian c) Dr. Harsh Wardhan
state is all set to host the country’s d) JP Nudda
first river-front Global Music and
Dance Festival? 90. When is National Deworming
a) Karnataka Day 2017 observed every year?
b) Andhra Pradesh a) 11 February
c) Maharashtra b) 13 february
d) West Bengal c) 10 February
d) 19 February
85. What is the rank of India in 5th
Annual International IP Index of 91. Who of the following becomes
USCC? number-one ranked ODI bowler in
a) 44th ICC Rankings?
b) 47th a) Ravichandran Ashwin
c) 43rd b) Dale Steyn
d) 41st c) Imran Tahir
d) Moin Ali
86. Which state becomes first
State for establishing cashless
92. Which Indian artist has broken 97. Which country has discovered
Guinness World Record with his a new species of bird?
latest sculptor? a) Nepal
a) Satish Gujral b) India
b) Sudarsan Pattnaik c) Bhutan
c) Anish Kapoor d) Bangladesh
d) Nitish Bharti
98. Hindustan Motors sells iconic
93. The Second Gateway of India Ambassador car brand to
Geo-economic Dialogue, co-hosted
by the External Affairs Ministry a) Mclaren
and Gateway House will be held in b) Tesla Motors
which Indian city? c) Peugeot
a) Mumbai d) Ford
b) New Delhi
c) Bangalore 99. Which country on 11 February
d) Hyderabad 2017 celebrated its 38th
Anniversary of Islamic
94. 36-year-old Eman Ahmed, one Revolution?
of the world’s heaviest women, a) Iran
reached Mumbai recently to get a b) Iraq
weight reduction surgery. Which c) Saudi Arabia
country does she belong to? d) Syria
a) Afghanistan
b) Iran 100. The Second National
c) Turkmenistan Conclave on Mines and Minerals
d) Egypt will be held on 15 February 2017 in
which Indian city?
95. Which city would be hosting a) New Delhi
the 11th biennial edition of the b) Raipur
International Aerospace and c) Ranchi
Defence Exhibition, ‘Aero India d) Bhopal
2017’, from 14 February 2017?
a) Chennai 101. to set up
b) Kochi country’s first School on Quality
c) Bengaluru and Reliability.
d) Mumbai a) IIT Kanpur
b) IIT Mumbai
96. Which Indian cricketer c) IIT Kharagpur
became the first batsman ever to d) IIT Delhi
score four double centuries in four
successive series? 102. 11th February is known to be
a) Karun Nair the death anniversary of which
b) Virender Sehwag Indian philosopher & economist?
c) Yuvraj Singh a) Swami Vivekananda
d) Virat Kohli b) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
c) Sri Aurobindo 109. What was the theme of World
d) Deendayal Upadhyay radio Day 2017?
a) You are Radio
103. When is International Day of b) Radio is everything
Women and Girls in Science c) Radio is You
observed every year? d) Go Radio
a) 12 February
b) 11 February 110. What was the theme of the
c) 15 February India’s National Productivity
d) 17 February Week (NPW) 2017?
a) From waste to profits-through
104. Three-day-culinary festival reduce, recycle and reuse
begins in b) Build Smart for a future ready
a) Jaipur India
b) Gurugram c) Ease of Doing Business for
c) Lucknow higher productivity
d) Hyderabad d) Lean management for
productivity enhancement
105. Who of the following player
becomes 1st Indian to sign for 111. When is the National
Foreign League? Deworming Day celebrated in
a) Virat Kohli India?
b) Virender Sehwag a) 10 February
c) Yusuf Pathan b) 11 February
d) Ajinkya Rahane c) 12 February
d) 13 February
106. is the first
woman to be appointed director of 112. What was the theme of
an IIM at Sirmaur. Pakistan’s multinational naval
a) Ankita Sharma exercise AMAN 2017?
b) Neelu Rohmetra a) Peace for World
c) Anjali Shaw b) Together for peace
c) Rupali Bhardwaj c) Bring Peace
d) live Peacefully
107. When is World Radio Day
observed every year? 113. Which of the following has
a) 14 February become the first Indian airport to
b) 15 February enter the list of top 15 airports in
c) 13 February the World?
d) 11 February a) Indira Gandhi International
Airport, New Delhi
108. When is National Women's b) Chhatrapati Shivaji
Day observed? International Airport, Mumbai
a) 14 February c) Rajiv Gandhi International
b) 13 February Airport, Hyderabad
c) 16 February d) Goa International Airport
d) 17 February
114. What was India’s rank in the c) Allahabad
2017 International Intellectual d) Bengaluru
Property Index?
a) 40 120. Which Iconic jewellery brand
b) 41 debuts in India?
c) 42 a) Fremingo
d) 43 b) Faberge
c) Flame
115. Who has been elected as the d) FYO
12th President of Germany?
a) Angela Merkel 121. Which city to host India's
b) Frank-Walter Steinmeier maiden sports lit fest?
c) Norbert Lammert a) Jaipur
d) Joachim Gauck b) Pune
c) Lucknow
116. Which movie won the best d) Hyderabad
film and best director award at the
70th British Academy Film 122. Which country Plans to build
Awards, BAFTA? floating Nuclear Plants in South
a) Arrival China Sea?
b) I a) Taiwan
c) La La Land b) USA
d) Manchester by the Sea c) Phillipines
d) China
117. Which Indian-origin actor
received best supporting actor 123. Who of the following batsman
award at the 70th British Academy creates record Of maximum T20
Film Awards? ducks?
a) Kunal Nayyar a) Gautam Gambhir
b) Dev Patel b) Umar Akmal
c) Kal Penn c) Herschelle Gibbs
d) Naveen Andrews d) Tilakaratne Dilshan

118. Which pop star took away the 124. Sachin Tendulkar adopts
top awards at the 59th annual - village in Maharashtra for
Grammy Awards? transformation under the Sansad
a) Demi Lovato Adarsh Gram Yojna.
b) Adele a) Donja
c) Rihanna b) Danga
d) Beyonce c) Balewadi
d) Baner
119. Which city is hosting the 11th
International Aerospace and 125. Which of the following India's
Defence Exhibition - Aero India newest full-service airline started
2017. its daily scheduled operations?
a) Chennai a) Vistara
b) Jaipur b) Zoom Air
c) Bing Air b) Russia
d) Air Zoom c) Croatia
d) Japan
126. ISRO successfully launched
record in a single 132. Who of the following became
mission. 29th Chief Minister of Tamil
a) 107 satellites Nadu?
b) 103 satellites a) VK Sasikala
c) 101 satellites b) MK Stalin
d) 104 satellites c) O Pannerselvam
d) Edappadi Palaniswami
127. Who of the following won
Laureus 'Sportsman of the Year' 133. , Microsoft Ink
award? Technology Collaboration Deal.
a) Rafael Nadal a) Hyundai
b) Usain Bolt b) Maruti
c) Novak Djokovic c) Tata Motors
d) Lewis Hamilton d) Bajaj Auto

128. Who of the following won 134. Global Investor Summit


Laureus 'Sportswoman of the 'Momentum Jharkhand' began in
Year' award?
a) Serena Williams a) Bokaro
b) Martina Hingis b) Dhanbad
c) Simone Biles c) Ranchi
d) Venus Williams d) Hazaribagh

129. Cobra Gold is an annual 135. Indian Panorama Film


multilateral military exercise co- Festival begins in
sponsored by a) Panji
a) Thailand and Nepal b) Jaipur
b) Thailand and USA c) Pune
c) Thailand and China d) Port Blair
d) India and Nepal
136. became first Indian
130. Airbus signs MoU for setting to be FIBA’s Technical Delegate.
up Centre of Excellence in a) AK Singhal
b) Norman Issac
a) Mumbai c) Vinod Mishra
b) Jaipur d) Raj Singh
c) Hyderabad
d) New Delhi 137. Who of the following takes
charge of Delhi and Districts
131. Which country ink pact with Cricket Association?
India to boost economic a) Justice Mukul Mudgal
cooperation? b) Vinod Rai
a) Canada
c) Justice Vikramajit Sen c) Vikas Swarup
d) Anurag Thakur d) Anjum Mehta

138. What is the rank of India in 144. Which of the following bank
the 2017 Index of Economic launches instant chat service for
Freedom Index? customers?
a) 144 a) Axis Bank
b) 147 b) Citi Bank
c) 143 c) ICICI
d) 137 d) Yes Bank

139. Which country topped in the 145. Who of the following Indian-
2017 Index of Economic Freedom Origin won UK’s Bravery Award?
Index? a) Sharad Singh
a) New Zealand b) Shand Panesar
b) USA c) Ankit verma
c) Hong Kong d) Seema Ahuja
d) Singapore
146. Which of the following
140. Who of the following to host hospital won first prize for
Hindi version of Ted Talks? Sanitation & Hygiene under
a) Hrithik Roshan Kayakalp Awards?
b) Aamir Khan a) Vedanta
c) Shah Rukh Khan b) AIIMS, New Delhi
d) Akshay Kumar c) AIIMS, Raipur
d) Fortis
141. Who of the following
appointed High Commisioner to 147. South Asian Speakers Summit
Canada? held in ?
a) Navtej Sarna a) Jaipur
b) Vikas Swarup b) Bangalore
c) Aakash Chopra c) Indore
d) Anjum Mehta d) Pune

142. Who of the following has been 148. Which country passes
appointed ED of Bank of India? landmark bill to regulate
a) Neelam Damodaran marriages of minority Hindus in
b) Neelima Shukla country?
c) Ravi Pal Singh a) Indonesia
c) Animesh Gupta b) Malaysia
c) Pakistan
143. Who of the following has been d) Bhutan
appointed non-executive
Chairman of PNB? 149. Which state signs MoU with
a) Neelam Damodaran Microsoft in ‘Momentum
b) Sunil Mehta Jharkhand’?
a) Gujarat
b) Uttar Pradesh a) Assam
c) Jharkhand b) Kerala
d) Rajasthan c) Nagaland
d) Puducherry
150. Which country plans to build
the first city on Mars by 2117? 156. Who of the following won The
a) China BrandLaureate award?
b) United States a) Asha Bhosle
c) United Arab Emirates b) Arijit Singh
d) India c) Lata Mangehskar
d) Abhijeet
151. Who is the author of the book
titled ‘Hema Malini: Beyond the 157. India sanctioned
Dream Girl’? to Nepal for
a) Ram Kamal Mukherjee development programmes.
b) Soumyadipta Banerjee a) $540 million
c) Mark Bennigton b) $940 million
d) Rakesh Mahana c) $240 million
d) $340 million
152. Who of the following is
chosen for the 2017 National Yash 158. Which of the following Zone
Chopra Memorial Award? bag Syed Mushtaq Ali Inter Zonal
a) Salman Khan Trophy?
b) Shahrukh Khan a) South Zone
c) Amir Khan b) East Zone
d) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan c) West Zone
d) North Zone
153. Which country will be the
guest country at Khajuraho Dance 159. How many MoU sign between
Festival 2017? different companies in Momentum
a) Cambodia Jharkhand?
b) France a) 309
c) Bangladesh b) 311
d) Sri Lanka c) 209
d) 210
154. Who of the following was
selected for the 2016 Vyas 160. Global Investor Summit
Samman? 'Momentum Jharkhand' held in
a) Sunita Jain
b) Surendra Verma a) Bokaro
c) Kamal Kishore Goyenka b) Dhanbad
d) Vishwanath Tripathi c) Ranchi
d) Hazaribagh
155. Chief Minister TR Zeliang
stepped down from his post. He 161. Who of the following removes
was the Chief Minister of which from captaincy of IPL franchise
state? Rising Pune Supergiants?
a) Virat Kohli 167. Which state assembly passes
b) Irfan Pathan Aadhaar Bill, 2017 recently?
c) MS Dhoni a) Kerala
d) Glenn Maxwell b) Gujarat
c) Uttar Pradesh
162. Who of the following will d) Tamil Nadu
replace MS Dhoni as Captain of
IPL franchise Rising Pune 168. When is International Mother
Supergiants? Language Day observed every
a) Glenn Maxwell year?
b) Steven Smith a) 20 February
c) Parthiv Patel b) 23 February
d) Rohit Sharma c) 21 January
d) 21 February
163. Recently Altamas Kabir died.
Who was he? 169. The World Day of Social
a) Former MP Justice was observed globally on
b) Singer 20 February 2017 with the theme
c) Former Chief Justice a) A Just Transition -
d) Novelist environmentally sustainable
economies and societies
164. Havells India to buy Lloyd b) Building a solid and interactive
Electric's consumer business for bridge in the world to accelerate
. ending FGM by 2030
a) Rs. 1,750 Crore c) Preventing conflict and
b) Rs. 1,950 Crore sustaining peace through decent
c) Rs. 1,150 Crore work
d) Rs. 1,550 Crore d) Challenges and Achievements of
the Durban Declaration and
165. Which of the following Programme of Action – 15 years
airlines becomes first foreign after
airline to start operations from
Srinagar airport? 170. What was the theme for the
a) Singapore Airlines International Mother Language
b) Etihaad Airways Day that was observed across the
c) AirAsia world on 21 February 2017?
d) AirIndia a) Inclusive Education through
and with Language - Language
166. Who of the following Matters
appointed as new National b) Quality education, language(s)
Security Advisor of United States? of instruction and learning
a) Mike Pompeo outcomes
b) Michael Flynn c) Towards Sustainable Futures
c) HR McMaster through Multilingual Education
d) None of the above d) Local languages for Global
Citizenship: Spotlight on Science
171. Name the resource kit that b) M. Patanjali Sastri
was launched by the union health c) Mehr Chand Mahajan
ministry as part of the Rashtriya d) Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
Kishor Swasthya Karyakram
(RKSK) program for adolescents. 177. Who of the following won the
a) Yuva 2017 Rotterdam Open?
b) Saathiya a) Novak Djokovic
c) Yuva-Saathi b) David Goffin
d) Dosti c) Martin Klizan
d) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
172. Recently Central Government
launched Interoperable Payment 178. The Women’s World Women's
Acceptance Solution. Name it? Chess Championship 2017 is being
a) Bharat VR held in
b) Bharat QR a) Tehran
c) India QR b) London
d) Bharat CR c) Beijing
d) New Delhi
173. Who of the following became
the first Indian sportsperson to 179. Who of the following recently
strike a Rs 100-crore endorsement took over as the Chairman of the
deal with a single brand Puma? Tata Sons and Tata Consultancy
a) Yuvraj Singh Services?
b) Sachin Tendulkar a) Natarajan Chandrasekaran
c) MS Dhoni b) Ishaat Hussain
d) Virat Kohli c) Rajesh Gopinathan
d) Cyrus Mistry
174. Indian Coast Guard Ship ICGS
AYUSH commissioned in 180. Which of the following US
Presidents topped the Presidential
a) Vishakhapattnam Historians Survey 2017?
b) Navi Mumbai a) Barack Obama
c) Kochi b) Abraham Lincoln
d) Kutch c) George Washington
d) Franklin D. Roosevelt
175. Reserve Bank has enhanced
the cash withdrawal limit from 181. Name the Pakistani all-
Savings Bank Account to rounder who recently announced
a) Rs 24000 his retirement from international
b) Rs 30000 cricket.
c) Rs 44000 a) Ahmed Shehzad
d) Rs 50000 b) Shahid Afridi
c) Saeed Anwar
176. Who of the following 39th d) Misbah-ul-Haq
Chief Justice of India passed away
recently? 182. India beat in
a) Altamas Kabir final of ICC Women's World Cup
Qualifier 2017. 188. Who of the following resigned
a) Pakistan as CEO of Freecharge?
b) Sri Lanka a) Mukul Mehta
c) South Africa b) Govind Rajan
d) Australia c) Ankit Baweja
d) MK Sodhi
183. Which of the following e-
commerce firm announces 189. India held its first strategy
strategic tie-up with Microsoft? dialogue to sustain bilateral ties
a) ebay with which country?
b) Snapdeal a) Pakistan
c) Flipkart b) Nepal
d) Myntra c) China
d) Bangladesh
184. With which country India sign
MoUs in innovation, aviation and 190. Who has been appointed as
visa requirements recently? the 11th Chief Minister of
a) Kenya Nagaland?
b) Mangolia a) Shurhozelie Liezietsu
c) Rwanda b) PB Acharya
d) Zimbawe c) TR Zeliang
d) Neiphiu Rio
185. Union cabinet decided to
enhance solar power capacity from 191. Who of the following was
20,000 Mega Watt to appointed as chairman of the
Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal
a) 30,000 Mega Watt in February 2017?
b) 55,000 Mega Watt a) Justice VK Mehta
c) 65,000 Mega Watt b) Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan
d) 40,000 Mega Watt c) Justice TS Madaan
d) Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre
186. Who of the following
appointed as the Vice Chairman of 192. Sports Minister Vijay Goel
the Asian Hockey Federation? announced that 1st Gramin Khel
a) Prafull Patel Mahotsav will be held from 25
b) Narinder Dhruv Batra March to 31 March 2017 in
c) Abhijit Sarkar a) Mumbai
d) Masako Kamisuki b) Ahmedabad
c) Kolkata
187. Which country will host the d) New Delhi
2017 ASEAN Football Federation
U-18 Youth Championship? 193. FinTech startup "Seynse" was
a) Singapore acquired by?
b) Myanmar a) Reliance Jio
c) Vietnam b) Flipkart
d) Thailand c) Bharati Airtel
d) Vodafone
194. For the first time in the world, c) Delhi
Microsoft to deploy Azure Stack in d) Pune

a) Uttar Pradesh 200. Which of the following state


b) Kerala bags Technology Sabha e-
c) Andaman & Nicobar Governance Award on e-
d) Andhra Pradesh Governance?
a) Andhra Pradesh
195. introduces b) Uttar Pradesh
single page composite claim form c) Telangana
for withdrawing money. d) Kerala
a) RBI
b) EPFO 201. Who of the following won
c) CBDT maiden title of 4th leg of the Hero
d) India Post Women’s Professional Golf Tour?
a) Ankita Sharma
196. Which of the following b) Aditi Ashok
department launched mobile app c) Vani Kapoor
for goods & service tax (GST)? d) None of the above
a) Income Tax
b) Central Board of Excise and 202. Who of the following
Customs appointed leader of opposition in
b) NPCI Madhya Pradesh Assembly?
d) Central Board of Direct Taxes a) Salman Khurshid
b) Ajay Singh
197. Suresh Prabhu unveils c) Digvijay Singh
Express for common d) Pramod Tiwari
man.
a) Antyodaya 203. When is Central Excise Day
b) Mahamaya observed every year?
c) Mahanama a) 24 February
d) Humsafar b) 26 February
c) 27 February
198. Which of the following d) 21 February
country lifts ban on female army
officers wearing Islamic 204. India, Bangladesh in recent
headscarf? past signed MoU to provide
a) UK nancial assistance to Bangladesh
b) Pakistan for sustainable development of a
c) Turkey city. Name it.
d) Iran a) Dhaka
b) Barisal
199. International Shooting Sport c) Sylhet
Federation World Cup tournament d) Chittagong
begins in .
a) Jaipur 205. Union Government has
b) Lucknow approved development of Bet
Dwarka Darshan Circuit under the b) Gauthier Boccard
Central Scheme HRIDAY. Name c) Felix Denayer
the state where the Bet Dwarka d) Thomas Briels
Darshan Circuit will be developed.
a) Gujarat 211. Who of the following was
b) Uttar Pradesh named as the female Rising Star of
c) Andhra Pradesh Hockey for the year 2016?
d) Odisha a) Luciana Aymar
b) DelÒna Merino
206. Who of the following was c) Daniela Sruoga
named as Hockey Federation's d) Maria Granatto
Player of the Year 2016 in men’s
category? 212. Prime Minister Narendra
a) Sardara Singh Modi unveiled the 112-foot bust of
b) Manpreet Singh 'Adiyogi' or Lord Shiva built by an
c) John-John Dohmen NGO Isha Foundation in
d) Wayne Gretzky a) Pondicherry
b) Coimbatore
207. Who of the following was c) Bangalore
named as Hockey Federation's d) Panji
Player of the Year 2016 in
women’s category? 213. India clears Rs 17,000-crore
a) Naomi Van missile deal with
b) Ellen Hoog a) Vietnam
c) Maartje Paumen b) Phillipines
d) Kim Lammers c) Israel
d) United States
208. Name the Hockey player who
won the Hockey Stars 2016 male 214. India and ink $375
Goalkeeper of the Year award. mn loan pact for industrial
a) David Harte corridor.
b) Tim Bernhardt a) Havells
c) Steve Guenette b) Tata Steel
d) PR Sreejesh c) Reliance
d) ADB
209. Name the Hockey player who
won the Hockey Stars 2016 female 215. Centre permits Tamil Nadu to
Goalkeeper of the Year award increase number of workdays
a) Hollie Webb from existing 100 days to
b) Maddie Hinch under MGNREGA
c) Alex Danson a) 120 Days
d) Georgie Twigg b) 150 Days
c) 175 Days
210. Who of the following was d) 180 Days
named as the male Rising Star of
Hockey for the year 2016? 216. Which state has become the
a) Arthur Van Doren second largest crude oil producer
in the country? the Hamari Dharohar Scheme?
a) Uttar Pradesh a) Union Ministry of Human
b) Uttarakhand Resource Development
c) Telangana b) Union Ministry of Home AIairs
d) Rajasthan c) Union Ministry of Commerce
and Industry
217. Which of the following bank d) Union Ministry of Minority
rolls out RFID-enabled cards to Affairs
serve valued clients better?
a) SBI 3. Which of the following
b) Dena Bank multilateral agency launched the
c) Bandhan Bank Economic Survey of India 2017
d) PNB recently.
a) OECD (Organisation for
218. Central Government ropes in Economic Co-operation and
as Swachh Bharat brand Development)
ambassador. b) World Bank Group
a) Shilpa Shetty c) International Monetary Fund
b) Preity Zinta d) Asian Development Bank
c) Anushka Sharma
d) Pooja Bhatt 4. It is from the coast of this State,
India successfully test fired
219. Who of the following bags Prithivi supersonic interceptor
EY’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ missile.
award? a) West Bengal
a) Ankita Shukla b) Maharashtra
b) Vivek Sehgal c) Odisha
c) Anjana Mehta d) Kerala
d) Ravi Prakash
5. Which of the following launches
220. Who of the following 'Buyer Initiated Payments' to
appointed Finance Advisor to eliminate cheque, draft payments?
Nagaland government. a) Master Card
a) Yanthungo Patton b) Citi Bank
b) Kipili Sangtam c) American Express
c) TR Zeliang d) PayPal
d) Akito Zoha
6. What is the theme of the Zero
1. Lakshmi Vilas Bank ties with Discrimination Day 2017 that was
for its wealthy clients. observed recently?
a) BillDesk a) Express for Zero discrimination
b) PayTM b) Make Some Noise for Zero
c) Jio Money Discrimination
d) Centrum c) Stand Out
d) Open Up, Reach Out
2. Which of the following
ministries has been implementing
7. Who of the following recently a) INS Kalvari
assumed charge of the Chairman b) INS Arihant
of National Commission for c) INS Chakra
Scheduled Tribes? d) INS Vela
a) D R Doley Barman
b) Nand Kumar Sai 13. What was the theme of 2017
c) Vinay Madhav Kumar International Rare Disease Day
d) None of the above (IRDD)?
a) Research
8. Who of the following was b) Solidarity
recently appointed as the Director c) Mystery Diagnosis
of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel d) Rehabilitation
National Police Academy?
a) D R Doley Barman 14. Who won the BCCI Polly
b) Aruna M Bahuguna Umrigar Award 2015-2016?
c) Vinay Madhav Kumar a) R Ashwin
d) None of the above b) M S Dhoni
c) Virat Kohli
9. Which state is going to host the d) Ravindra Jadeja
river festival called ‘Namami
Brahmaputra’? 15. Who of the following is named
a) Assam as India's next Ambassador to the
b) Arunachal Pradesh World Trade Organisation?
c) West Bengal a) Amanpreet Singh
d) Tripura b) J S Deepak
c) Vivek Kumar
10. Who was recently appointed as d) P K Purwar
the Head Coach of the India’s U-17
team for the FIFA U-17 16. Who won the gold medal in the
World Cup? 50m men’s air pistol event at the
a) Nicolai Adam ISSF World Cup in New Delhi?
b) Bhaichung Bhutia a) Jitu Rai
c) Stephen Constantine b) Vahid Golkhandan
d) Luis Norton de Matos c) Amanpreet Singh
d) Sameer Khan
11. Who of the following becomes
First Woman to Be Honored BCCI 17. SC appointed SIT detects
Lifetime Achievement Award? rupees black money .
a) Anjum Chopra a) 90 thousand crore
b) Shanta Rangaswamy b) 65 thousand crore
c) Ankita Sharma c) 70 thousand crore
d) Aparna Mehta d) 55 thousand crore

12. It is from a submarine of this 18. Who of the following appointed


class, the Indian Navy successfully as Chairman and Managing
test fired an anti-ship missile Director of MTNL?
recently. a) Sunil Mehta
b) P K Purwar b) Indigo
c) J S Deepak c) Air India
d) Amanpreet d) Spice jet

19. Swadheen Kshatriya sworn in 25. Who of the following has been
as Chief Commissioner of Right appointed as new secretary of
to Services (RTS). Union Public Service Commission
a) Uttar Pradesh (UPSC)?
b) Maharashtra a) Ankita Verma
c) West Bengal b) T Jacob
d) Rajasthan c) Mukul Chand
d) Varun Nayar
20. Who of the following singer
receives Harvard University's 26. Swachh Shakti Saptah was
Humanitarian Award? inaugurated in which state?
a) Lady Gaga a) Gujarat
b) Jennifer Lopez b) West Bengal
c) Rihana c) Haryana
d) Britney Spears d) Assam

21. When is National Defence Day 27. Which movie won the Audience
observed every year? Award at the Glasgow Film
a) 3 March Festival 2017?
b) 4 March a) City of Joy
c) 1 March b) Bhakta Vidur
d) 6 March c) Santa Banta Pvt Ltd
d) Lipstick Under My Burkha
22. When is World Wildlife Day
observed every year? 28. Who was elected as the first
a) 5 March Prime Minister of Sudan since
b) 2 March 1989?
c) 7 March a) Omar Hassan al-Bashir
d) 3 March b) Hassan Saleh
c) Mohamed Al Hassan
23. Recently football legend d) Fadl el-Sayed Shuiab
Raymond Kopa passes away.He
belongs to which country? 29. Who of the following was
a) Argentina recently appointed as the
b) Brazil Secretary-General of the South
c) France Asian Association for Regional
d) USA Cooperation (SAARC)?
a) Arjun Bahadur Thapa
24. Which of the following airlines b) Abul Ahsan
removes operations director c) Amjad Hussain B Sial
Captain AK Kathpalia from his d) Sheel Sharma
post?
a) Vistara
30. The National Green Tribunal 2. When is World Hearing Day
has banned camping activities observed every year?
within 100 m of which prominent a) 5 March
Indian River? b) 4 March
a) Yamuna c) 7 March
b) Narmada d) 3 March
c) Saraswati
d) Ganga 3. What was the theme of 2017
World Hearing Day?
31. Vice President Hamid Ansari to a) Ear care can avoid hearing loss
attend Indian Ocean Rim b) Make listening safe
Association (IORA) Summit on 7th c) Childhood hearing loss: act now
March in d) Action for hearing loss: make a
a) Sydney, Australia sound investment
b) Islamabad, Pakistan
c) Jakarta, Indonesia 4. How much percent of hike in
d) Kathmandu, Nepal minimum wages was approved by
Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Anil
32. Senior PTI journalist wins Baijal in March 2017?
‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in a) 19 per cent
UK. Name it. b) 28 per cent
a) MK Tyagi c) 37 per cent
b) HS Rao d) 51 per cent
c) Anuj Sharma
d) Ravish Kumar 5. Bharti Airtel signed agreement
with which company to combine
33. Recently, which state operations in Ghana?
government makes Sanskrit a) Millicom International Cellular
compulsory in schools? SA
a) Gujarat b) Gateway Communications
b) Assam c) MTN Group
c) Kerala d) Telkom Mobile
d) Tamil Nadu
6. Online travel company, Yatra
34. When is National Security Day inks MoU with govt to
observed every year? promote homestays.
a) 3 March a) Assam
b) 6 March b) Rajasthan
c) 5 March c) Madhya Pradesh
d) 4 March d) Odisha

1. India foreign exchange reserves 7. Which of the following city


increases by ranks best City in Urban
a) USD 58.5 million Governance Survey?
b) USD 93.8 million a) Jaipur
c) USD 75.1 million b) Pune
d) USD 63.7 million
c) Thiruvananthapuram c) Mitchell Starc
d) Bhopal d) JR Hazlewood

8. Which of the following 13. Who of the following has been


broadcaster banned by National appointed as an international
Tiger Conservation Authority from match referee by United World
filming in all Indian tiger reserves Wrestling (UWW)?
for five years. a) Ankit Baweja
a) Network 18 b) Kripa Shankar Bishnoi
b) NDTV c) Bishan Arora
c) BBC d) Amulya Apte
d) Aajtak
14. 13th Economic Cooperation
9. Which country recently won the Organization (ECO) Summit held
Most Popular Tourism Destination in
Award at the Guangzhou a) Beijing
International Travel Fair (GITF) in b) Islamabad
China? c) New Delhi
a) India d) Kabul
b) Thailand
c) China 15. Google India on 4th March has
d) Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with the
10. Which of the following state government, with an
government announces draft aim to support the digitisation of
policy to attract $5 bn investment? efforts.
a) Uttar Pradesh a) Maharashtra
b) Gujarat b) Telangana
c) Maharashtra c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Telangana d) Kerala

11. The HDFC Life insurance 1. which country to get its own
partnered with which personal Mobile Congress in September?
finance app to launch an exclusive a) Sri Lanka
Data-Led Group Term Insurance b) Nepal
Plan? c) India
a) ET Money d) Pakistan
b) Times Money
c) Mobikwik 2. How many new internet users
d) PayTM India added since 2014?
a) 168.9 million
12. Who of the following becomes b) 268.9 million
highest Wicket-Taker for Australia c) 468.5 million
Vs India? d) 68.7 million
a) SNJ 'o' Keefe
b) Nathan Lyon 3. IIITM-K to initiate first
Blockchain Technology Academy
in a) 3 March
a) Rajasthan b) 6 March
b) Uttar Pradesh c) 5 March
c) Kerala d) 4 March
d) Telangana
10. Who of the following won
4. Which of the following movies Men's Singles Title in Dubai
won the 89th Academy Awards for Tennis Championship?
the Best Picture? a) F Verdasco
a) La La Land b) Rohan Bopanna
b) Arrival c) Andy Murray
c) Moonlight d) Roger Federer
d) Lion
1. Rabi Ray passes away. Who was
5. Who won the 2017 Hockey India he?
League title? a) Singer
a) Punjab Warriors b) Former Lok Sabha Speaker
b) Kalinga Lancers c) Novelist
c) Dabang Mumbai d) Economist
d) Delhi Waveriders
2. Who won the women’s singles
6. Which Indian city was named as title at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis
the Richest Indian city as per the Championships 2017?
New World Wealth report 2017? a) Serena Williams
a) Delhi b) Caroline Wozniacki
b) Mumbai c) Venus Williams
c) Bengaluru d) Elina Svitolina
d) Chenna
3. In which state Country’s largest
7. Senior PTI journalist wins tricolour hoisted?
‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in a) Haryana
UK. Name it. b) Punjab
a) MK Tyagi c) Telangana
b) HS Rao d) Andhra Pradesh
c) Anuj Sharma
d) Ravish Kumar 4. Who won the men’s singles title
at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis
8. Recently, which state Championships 2017?
government makes Sanskrit a) Andry Murray
compulsory in schools? b) Roger Federer
a) Gujarat c) Rafael Nadal
b) Assam d) Novak Djokovi
c) Kerala
d) Tamil Nadu 5. Which city is going to host the
three-day event, Destination North
9. When is National Security Day East 2017?
observed every year? a) Mumbai
b) Pune b) Haryana
c) Bangalore c) Himachal Pradesh
d) Chandigarh d) Odisha

6. Which of the following world’s 12. Name the Indo-Oman joint


oldest aircraft carrier was army exercise.
decommissioned on 6March 2017? a) Al-Nagah-II 2017
a) INS Vikrant b) Aj-Nagah-II 2017
b) INS Arihant c) Al-Jaj-II 2017
c) INS Viraat d) Al-Naddah-II 2017
d) INS Kalavari
13. Which of the following country
7. The Wildlife Institute of India is won the 'Most Popular Tourism
planning to use drones to monitor Destination Award' at the
the habitat of which animal Guangzhou International Travel
species? Fair (GITF) in China?
a) Tiger a) India
b) Leopard b) Sri Lanka
c) Rhinoceros c) Nepal
d) Asian elephant d) Afghanistan

8. Who won the 2017 ATP Mexican 14. Which state tops in GST
Open Men’s Singles title? registrations?
a) Bruno Soares a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Rafael Nadal b) Telangana
c) Sam Querrey c) Kerala
d) Novak Djokovic d) Maharashtra

9. Who of the following is the 1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi


author of the book Rekha: The recently released a special
Untold Story? commemorative postage stamp on
a) Yasser Usman 100 years of Yogoda Satsang Math.
b) Ram Kamal Mukherjee The Math is located at
c) K Vijay Kumar a) Kozhikode, Kerala
d) Meena Iyer b) Dwarahat, Uttarakhand
c) Dakshineswar, Kolkata, West
10. Which of the following State Bengal
announces Tirtha Darshan d) Ranchi, Jharkhand
scheme?
a) Uttar Pradesh 2. Who was the founder of Yogoda
b) Rajasthan Satsang Society of India?
c) Haryana a) Ram Krishna Paramhans
d) Uttrakhand b) Swami Vivekanand
c) Paramhansa Yogananda
11. Indo-Oman joint army exercise d) Yogi Adityanath
begins in
a) Gujarat
3. US President Donald Trump’s c) Ecole Normale Superrieure
new executive order spared which d) Scuola Normale Superiore di
Muslim majority country from the Pisa
immigration ban?
a) Iran 9. Tata Motors unveild First Sports
b) Iraq Car Under TAMO Sub-
c) Sudan Brand.Name it.
d) Yemen a) YAMO
b) TACTAMO
4. Syed Shahabuddin, who died C) RACEMO
recently, belonged to which ⢫eld? D) RACETAMO
a) Science
b) Politics 10. Which of the following mobile
c) Journalism manufacturer copmany won
d) Education sponsorship of BCCI for 5 years?
a) Samsung
5. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated b) OnePlus
India’s longest cable bridge in c) Oppo
Bharuch. Where it is located? d) Xiaomi
a) Odisha
b) Gujarat 11. Indian Ocean Rim Association
c) Madhya Pradesh (IORA) Summit concluded
d) Tamil Nadu in
a) Beijing, China
6. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated b) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Asia’s largest petrochemicals plant c) Jakarta, Indonesia
in Dahej.Where it is located? d) Kabul, Afghanistan
a) Maharashtra
b) Rajasthan 12. Who of the following became
c) Odisha brand ambassador of OnePlus?
d) Gujarat a) Shahrukh Khan
b) Amitabh Bachhan
7. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) c) Virat Kohli
Ranks in World's Best d) Priayanka Chopra
Small Universities Rankings.
a) 8th 13. Delhi’s IGI Airport ranks
b) 7th second best in world. Which
c) 2nd airport topped in the list?
d) 11th a) Dubai International Airport
b) Incheon International Airport
8. Which institute topped in c) Heathrow International Airport
World's Best Small Universities d) Sydney Airport
Ranking?
a) Pohang University of Science 14. Who of the following appointed
and Technology as adviser to the Odisha
b) California Institute of Government?
Technology a) Karan David
b) K Srinath Reddy 5. Which Oscar winner was
c) Omni Sekhar honoured by the Harvard
d) Amit Jangle foundation with the ‘Artist of the
Year’ 2017 award?
15. Who of the followin wins Men's a) Viola Davis
Singles 2017 Brasil Open? b) Emma Stone
a) Albert Ramos-Vinolas c) Casey Aõeck
b) Pablo Cuevas d) Mahershala Ali
c) R Dutra Silva
d) M Daniell 6. Who of the following has been
appointed as brand ambassador of
1. When is International Women's ICC Women's World Cup 2017?
Day observed every year? a) Virat Kohli
a) 9 March b) MS Dhoni
b) 7 March c) Sachin Tendulkar
c) 8 March d) Anjum Chopra
d) 11 March
7. Recentl which examination
2. What is the theme of the 2017 board introduces Exam Locator
International Women's Day? app to help students?
a) Step It Up for Gender Equality a) ICSE
b) Be Bold For Change b) MP Board
c) Equality for Women is Progress c) CBSE
for All d) UP Board
d) Women in the Changing World
of Work 8. Recently which of the following
PSU bank launches "Work From
Home" facility?
3. Which city hosted the two-day a) PNB
International Yoga festival, b) Bank of Baroda
organised by Morarji Desai c) SBI
National Institute of Yoga in d) Vijaya Bank
association?
a) Mumbai 9. Who of the following wins best
b) New Delhi actress award at the International
c) Bangalore Film Festival and Awards of
d) Pune Australia (IFFAA)?
a) Sonam Kapoor
4. The Indo-Nepal Joint Military b) Priyanka Chopra
Exercise Surya Kiran-XI c) Aishwarya Rai Bachhan
commenced recently at which of d) Deepika Padukone
the following places?
a) Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand 10. Who of the folowing
b) Saljhandi, Nepal reappointed chairman of Somnath
c) Almora, Uttarakhand temple trust?
d) None of the above a) Narendra Modi
b) Vijay Roopani
c) Anandi Ben Patel 5. The Swachh Shakti 2017 – A
d) Keshubhai Patel Convention of Women Sarpanches
was held in which state?
11. NTPC commissions 45 MW a) Gujarat
capacity Solar Power Plant at b) Maharashtra
c) West Bengal
a) Jamnagar, Gujarat d) Punjab
b) Dewas, Madhya Pradesh
c) Bhadla, Rajasthan 6. The 11th edition of North-East
d) Khargone, Madhya Pardesh Business Summit (NEBS) started
in which city?
1. Which country is hosting the a) New Delhi
inaugural commonwealth summit b) Imphal
2017, which is largely focused on c) Guwahati
stimulating trade within the d) Shillong
group?
a) The United Kingdom 7. Name the sportsperson who is
b) India named as the new ambassador of
c) New Zealand the Chinese Super League.
d) South Africa a) Lionel Messi
b) Mesut Ozil
2. Researchers have found c) Sergio Aguero
molecular evidence conrming the d) Diego Maradona
presence of which bird species in
India more than 25000 years ago? 8. Who of the following was
a) Turkey recently re-elected as the
b) Ostrich President of the European
c) Emu Council?
d) Kiwi a) Jean-Claude Juncker
b) Tony Blair
3. Which sector has been allocated c) Donald Tusk
the highest funds in the Delhi d) José Manuel Barroso
budget for the year 2017- 18?
a) Health 9. The National Skill Development
b) Public Sector Corporation (NSDC) and the
c) Social Security & Welfare National Skill Development Fund
d) Education (NSDF) signed a MoU with this
Central Armed Police Force for
4. Sentinel-2B satellite in the execution of skill development
series of Sentinel satellite was programmes.
launched by whom? a) Sashastra Seema Bal
a) The United States b) Central Industrial Security
b) European Union Force
c) North America c) Central Reserve Police Force
d) Middle East d) Indo Tibetan Border Police
10. India successfully test-fired b) Kerala
this supersonic cruise missile c) Gujarat
recently. d) Karnataka
a) Agni
b) Trishul 16. Which State Government
c) Prithvi announced KCR Kit Scheme to
d) BrahMos distribute 16 essential things
needed
11. The World Kidney Day was for a new born baby?
observed on 9 March 2017 with the a) Karnataka
theme b) Telangana
a) Kidney Health for All c) Andhra Pradesh
b) Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) d) Kerala
and aging
c) Kidney Disease and Obesity 17. Who was appointed as the
d) Kidneys for Life – Stop Kidney chairman of the Central Water
Attack! Commission?
a) Narendra Kumar
12. Who was selected for the b) Seema Verma
Saraswati Samman 2016? c) K Srinath Reddy
a) M Veerappa Moily d) P K Purwar
b) Mahabaleshwar Sail
c) Padma Sachdev 18. Which country celebrates
d) S L Bhyrappa National Elephant Day on 13
March?
13. Which university developed a) India
India’s first genetically modified b) Indonesia
cotton variety F1861. c) Thailand
a) Punjab Agriculture University d) Malaysia
b) Tamil Nadu Agriculture
University 19. Which popular cab service has
c) Birsa Agriculture University launched ‘realtime ID check’ in
d) Kerala Agriculture University India to ensure rider safety?
a) Meru Cabs
14. Which institute won the 2017 b) Ola
IEEE Spectrum Technology in the c) Easy Cabs
Service of Society Award? d) Uber
a) IIT-Madras
b) IIT-Delhi 20. Who of the following was given
c) IIT-Kanpur the additional charge of defence
d) IIT-Hyderabad ministry after Manohar Parrikar
resigned from the post?
15. In Which State the NTPC has a) Kalraj Mishra
recently installed India’s largest b) Subramanian Swamy
Floating Solar PV Plant at RGCCPP c) Arun Jaitley
Kayamkulam. d) Yogi Adityanath
a) Maharashtra
21. George A. Olah, the Nobel a) International Olympic
laureate who passed away, won Committee (IOC)
the Nobel Prize in which field? b) International Hockey
a) Physics Federation (FIH)
b) Chemistry c) International Cricket Council
c) Economics (ICC)
d) Medicine d) International Association of
Athletics Federations (IAAF)
22. Noted film director Diphan,
who died recently, was well known 27. Which Indian city hosted the
for making films in which three-day international conference
language? on Vision Zero and its relevance to
a) Hindi Occupational Safety and Health?
b) Bengali a) Mumbai
c) Malayalam b) Pune
d) Marathi c) Bangalore
d) Delhi
23. Who won the All England Open
Men's Singles title? 28. Volkswagen Group signed a
a) Lee Chong Wei MoU with this Indian automobile
b) Shi Yuqi company for exploring joint
c) Lin Dan development projects.
d) Rashid Shadiq a) Tata Motors
b) Hero MotoCorp
24. World Consumer Rights Day c) Mahindra & Mahindra
was observed on 15 March 2017 d) Ashok Leyland
with theme
a) The right to be heard 29. It is in this city the Krishi
b) Building a Digital World Unnati Mela 2017 was
Consumers can Trust inaugurated.
c) The right to the satisfaction of a) Hyderabad
basic needs b) Patna
d) The right to be informed c) New Delhi
d) Mumbai
25. Radha Mohan Singh, Union
Agriculture and Farmer's Welfare 30. Shri Arvind Padmanabhan has
Minister, recently laid the died recently of cardiac arrest. He
foundation stone of the Banana was famous .
Research Centre at a) Politician
a) Bhagalpur, Bihar b) Nuclear Scientist
b) Munger, Bihar c) Journalist
c) Patna, Bihar d) Kathak Dancer
d) Vaishali, Bihar
31. Name the country, which has
26. Shashank Manohar resigned as topped the Bribery Rate Index of
the Chairman of which Asia-Pacific countries, recently.
international sports body? a) Pakistan
b) Japan c) Ahmedabad
c) China d) Mumbai
d) India
37. The International Conference
32. Name the mega cultural on Theory and Practice of
festival of India that started in Electronic Governance (ICEGOV
Egypt, recently. 2017) was held in New Delhi,
a) India by the Nile recently (March 2017). It was
b) Fest of India edition of ICEGOV.
c) Colors of India a) 16th
d) India at a glance b) 8th
c) 6th
33. Which of the following banks d) 10th
launched “Aadhaar Pay”, the
country’s first Aadhaar-linked 38. Which of the following state
cashless merchant solution has launched 24*7 helpline
recently following successful pilots number 181 to assist women in
across 16 states? distress on the occasion of
a) HDFC Bank International Women’s Day?
b) ICICI Bank a) Assam
c) IDFC Bank b) Odisha
d) Axis Bank c) Manipur
d) Uttarakhand
34. Which one of the following 39. Name the Water Jet Fast
companies has agreed to buy Opel Attack Craft (WJFAC) that was
brand from General Motors in a commissioned recently in Indian
deal valuing the business at $2.3 Navy at Karwar, Karnataka.
billion, recently? a) INS Viraat
a) Volkswagen b) INS Arihant
b) PSA Group c) INS Tillanchang
c) BMW d) INS Vishal
d) TATA Motors
40. A famous automaker company
35. Name the bank that has Ford Foundation has recently
recently launched three appointed Pradeep Nair as
technology services named regional director for India, Nepal,
FASTag, UPI and BBPS. and Sri Lanka. Ford Foundation is
a) SBI based
b) Kotak Mahindra company.
c) Karur Vysya Bank a) Japan
d) City Bank b) Australian
c) Hungary
36. 'BCCI Annual Awards for 2015- d) American
16' was held recently in
. 41. Name the state that has
a) Bengaluru recently launched mobile app and
b) New Delhi website titled ‘My Talent’ to help
skilled and semi-skilled workers c) S S Mundra
find jobs. d) Harun R Khan
a) Punjab
b) Himachal Pradesh 46. Name the person who has been
c) Arunachal Pradesh appointed as the chairman of
d) Bihar Europe's biggest bank named
HSBC Holdings Plc.
42. Name the company that has a) Johnny Banzo
recently created the world’s b) Mark Tucker
smallest magnet using a single c) Sushan Mark
atom which can store one bit of d) Anni Tesla
data on it.
a) Infosys 47. Airtel Payments Bank, offered
b) TCS by telecom major Bharti Airtel has
c) IBM recently announced that over one
d) WIPRO lakh savings accounts were opened
in 100 villages in which of the
43. Name the person who has following state?
inaugurated the two-day 12th CII- a) Tamil Nadu
EXIM Bank Conclave on India- b) Andhra Pradesh
Africa Project Partnership held c) Uttar Pradesh
recently in New Delhi. d) Maharashtra
a) Narendra Modi
b) Pranab Mukherjee 48. Norway has become first
c) Rajnath Singh country to cease FM Radio
d) Sushma Swaraj broadcasting. The capital of
Norway is .
44. As per recent notification of a) Bergen
RBI, Non-Banking Finance b) Trondheim
Companies (NBFCs) cannot lend c) Stavanger
more than in cash d) Oslo
against gold, earlier limit was Rs1
lakh. 49. The minimum pension of
a) Rs 25,000 central government employees has
b) Rs 35,000 been increased to per
c) Rs 45,000 person per month.
d) Rs 50,000 a) Rs 5,000
b) Rs 7,000
45. B P Kanungo was recently c) Rs 9,000
appointed as the Deputy Governor d) Rs 10,000
in Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for
three years. He has been 50. Name the country that is set to
appointed in place of conduct its first national census in
. 19 years which will begin with the
a) R Gandhi assistance of over 200,000 troops.
b) V Acharya a) Azerbaijan
b) Pakistan
c) Iran .
d) Sri Lanka a) Ammanita Vihu
b) Jayanit Rama
51. Which of the following Indian c) Ammavin Aran
state government has recently d) Lalitan Linga
launched a new scheme 'Adarsh
Gram Yojana' that is in accordance 56. Smartphone Company OnePlus
with the basic philosophy of the has recently roped in Bollywood
Prime Minister 'Sabka Saath star Amitabh Bachchan as its new
Sabka Vikaas'. brand ambassador for India.
a) Himachal Pradesh OnePlus is based
b) Jharkhand company.
c) Arunachal Pradesh a) Japan
d) Haryana b) China
c) Finland
52. Name the famous motor d) Korea
company that has signed a deal
worth USD 3.2 billion with an 57. Name the Public lender, which
Iranian investment fund to invest has been awarded first prize in the
in a major Iranian oil project. implementation of Official
a) TATA Language Policy in the western
b) Ford region for the year 2015-2016,
c) Skoda recently.
d) Hyundai a) State Bank of India
b) Cooperative Bank
53. Name the Bank that has topped c) Bank of India
the list that witnessed most d) Central Bank of India
number of frauds during April to
December period of 2016. 58. Name the first solar power
a) Axis Bank project in the country to receive a
b) ICICI Bank loan by World Bank under Clean
c) Canara Bank Technology Fund (CTF).
d) SBI a) Kochhipalli Mega Solar Project
b) Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Project
54. Name the State, which has c) Shahdara Super Solar Project
announced an Idea2POC fund of d) TATA Solar Power Project
Rs10 crore for women
entrepreneurs, recently. 59. Name the Bank that has
a) Karnataka entered into an agreement with
b) Maharashtra Infrastructure Leasing and
c) Kerala Financial Services Ltd (IL& FS) to
d) Tamil Nadu acquire 100% stake in IL & FS
Securities Services Ltd (ISSL).
55. The AIADMK IT Wing has a) IDBI Bank
launched the first-of-its-kind b) HDFC Bank
women safety application in Tamil c) IDFC Bank
Nadu. The app is called d) IndusInd Bank
60. As per the Women in Politics 65. Name the person who
Map 2017 launched by the UN, introduced Pakistan State Sponsor
India stands at which number? of Terrorism Act of 2017 in its the
a) 142 US House of Representatives.
b) 149 a) John Culberson
c) 144 b) Gene Green
d) 148 c) Joe Barton
d) Ted Poe
61. Snapdeal partnered with which
of the following trade 66. Name the bank that announced
organisations to sell Japanese a one-time farm loan settlement
products? scheme worth Rs 6000 crore
a) JETRO primarily for tractors.
b) METRO a) State Bank of India
c) JATRO b) Punjab National Bank
d) MATRO c) Allahabad Bank
d) Axis Bank
62. The Cabinet Committee on
Economic Affairs gave its approval 67. Who was sworn in as the Chief
to permit Indian Oil to sale this Minister of Manipur recently?
much per cent of the equity in a) Manohar Parrikar
Lubrizol India to Lubrizol b) Laxmikant Parsekar
Corporation. c) M Venkaiah Naidu
a) 14 per cent d) N Biren Singh
b) 24 per cent
c) 34 per cent 68. What was the theme of the
d) 44 per cent 2017 Commonwealth Day?
a) A peace-building
63. Which State government Commonwealth
proposed to set up a Cashew b) Team Commonwealth
Development Board for developing c) An Inclusive Commonwealth
10,000 hectares of good quality of d) A Young Commonwealth
cashew orchards?
a) Tamil Nadu 69. Union government launched
b) Andhra Pradesh the Blue Revolution programme at
c) Assam a total expenditure of what
d) Karnataka amount?
a) Rs 48000 lakh
64. The Union Cabinet apprised of b) Rs 52000 lakh
MoUs for cooperation in youth and c) Rs 55000 lakh
sports matters with these two d) Rs 62000 lakh
countries recently.
a) Indonesia & Kyrgyzstan 70. Name the Private-sector bank
b) Tajikistan & Vietnam who recently signed a pact with
c) Indonesia & Malaysia Avenues India to enhance
d) Malaysia & Kyrgyzstan customer support.
a) Catholic Syrian Bank
b) Yes Bank c) Brazil
c) IndusInd Bank d) Greece
d) Bandhan Bank
76. Which state government
71. Scientists recently discovered a officially launched women safety
pair of 1.6 billion-year-old fossils application Ammavin Aran?
that appear to contain red algae. a) Andhra Pradesh
Where were these fossils b) Kerala
discovered? c) Tamil Nadu
a) Banda d) Karnataka
b) Bahraich
c) Chitrakoot 1. The first-ever fully made-in-
d) Shravasti India train was launched in which
state?
72. Name the Indian badminton a) Gujarat
player who was recently included b) Maharashtra
as a member of the governing body c) Uttar Pradesh
of the Sports Authority of India. d) Andhra Pradesh
a) Chetan Anand
b) Jwala Gutta 2. This state’s five-month-long
c) Saina Nehwal economic blockade came to an end
d) Prakash Padukone in third week of March 2017.
a) Assam
73. Identify the Indian-American b) Kerala
teen who recently won the 2017 c) Manipur
Regeneron Science Talent Search d) Jammu and Kashmir
bagging the top award of USD
250000. 3. Which of the following state/city
a) Indrani Das lost its permanent voting status in
b) Arjun Srinivasan Ramani the Board of Control for Cricket in
c) Vinay Kataria India (BCCI)?
d) Bob Patel a) Mumbai
b) Bangalore
74. India has signed a social c) Delhi
security agreement with which d) Bihar
country?
a) Brazil 4. Who was sworn-in as the Chief
b) United Kingdom Minister of Uttar Pradesh
c) Sri Lanka recently?
d) Malaysia a) Siddharth Nath Singh
b) Shrikant Sharma
75. Which country’s river has been c) Yogi Adityanath
granted same legal rights as that of d) Rita Bahuguna Joshi
a person?
a) India 5. Chuck Berry, the guitarist and
b) New Zealand songwriter recognised as one of
the fathers of rock 'n' roll, has died
recently. He belonged to Services Limited with itself.
a) USA a) Idea Cellular
b) UK b) Bharti Airtel
c) Canada c) Reliance Jio
d) France d) Aircel

6. It is with this country, India 11. Name the Indian cricketer who
signed two agreements related to in March 2017 came in news for
Su-30 MKI aircraft. facing most number of balls in a
a) Russia test-match.
b) Germany a) Ajinkya Rahane
c) Israel b) KL Rahul
d) The USA c) Cheteshwar Pujara
d) Murali Vijay
7. The Union Cabinet approved
four GST related bill recently. 12. World Sparrow Day 2017 was
Identify which of the following is observed globally on
not one of them. a) 18 March
a) The Central Goods and Services b) 19 March
Tax Bill 2017 c) 20 March
b) The Integrated Goods and d) 21 March
Services Tax Bill 2017
c) The Union Territory Goods and 13. Name the Indian who won the
Services Tax Bill 2017 bronze medal in Asian 20km Race
d) The States Goods and Services Walk Championships in Japan in
Tax Bill 2017 March 2017.
a) Khusbir Kaur
8. It is with this country, the India b) KT Irfan
Army concluded the joint army c) Gurmeet Singh
exercise Al Nagah-II recently. d) Sandeep Kumar
a) Oman
b) Qatar 14. Which of the following team
c) Yemen won the 2017 Vijay Hazare Trophy
d) Iran of Cricket?
a) Jharkhand
9. Which day is celebrated on 20 b) Tamil Nadu
March? c) Bengal
a) International Day of Refugees d) Mumbai
b) World Laughter Day
c) World Disabled Day 15. Who of the following won the
d) International Day of Happiness 2017 ATP Indian Wells Masters
title?
10. Name the telecom giant that a) Novak Djokovic
announced that its board has b) Stan Wawrinka
approved the merger of Vodafone c) Roger Federer
India and its wholly-owned d) Rafael Nadal
subsidiary Vodafone Mobile
16. Who of the following is the 22. Which Indian personality
author of the book Contemporary recently launched the world’s first
Reflections: A Collection of Verses mobile app on breast health?
That Inspire? a) Amitabh Bachchan
a) Yasser Usman b) Aamir Khan
b) Alka Vasudeva c) Narendra Modi
c) Anand Neelakanthan d) Sachin Tendulkar
d) K Vijay Kumar
23. Who was appointed as the
17. Who was appointed as the brand ambassador for 2018 ODI
Managing Director & CEO of IDBI Blind Cricket World Cup?
Bank? a) Rahul Dravid
a) Mahesh Kumar Jain b) Shahid Afridi
b) Rakesh Sharma c) Sachin Tendulkar
c) Jatinder Bir Singh d) Saurav Ganguly
d) Rajeev Rishi
24. Which Indian personality was
18. Who was appointed as the selected to newly formed United
Managing Director & CEO of Nations (UN) group on
Indian Bank? antimicrobial resistance?
a) Animesh Chauhan a) Meghnad Saha
b) Kishore Piraji Kharat b) KK Josh
c) Arun Shrivastava c) Soumya Swaminathan
d) Kishore Kumar Sansi d) Abhish Shivam

19. The World Poetry Day 2017 was 25. Maggie MacDonnell, who was
celebrated on awarded the Global Teacher Prize
a) 18 March 2017 2017, belonged to which country?
b) 19 March 2017 a) Canada
c) 20 March 2017 b) Switzerland
d) 21 March 2017 c) UK
d) France
20. What was India’s rank in the
recently released World 26. Name the Bank that has
Happiness Report 2017? recently signed an agreement with
a) 119 Avenues India Pvt Ltd, a payment
b) 120 solution provider to provide
c) 121 merchants with seamless access to
d) 122 point-of-sales (POS) and payment
gateway products.
21. Who topped the Forbes a) IDBI Bank
World's Billionaires List 2017? b) HDFC Bank
a) Warren BuIett c) Yes Bank
b) Jeff Bezos d) Bandhan Bank
c) Mark Zuckerberg
d) Bill Gates 27. Name the Indian-American
high school student who has won
the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent located in which of the following
Search bagging the top award of states?
250,000 dollars. a) Arunachal Pradesh
a) Indrani Das b) West Bengal
b) Aaron Yeiser c) Assam
c) Arjun Srinivasan Ramani d) Sikkim
d) Richa Roy
33. Name the player who was recently
28. Name the only Institute of ranked No. 1 in the ICC Test Bowling
India that has been placed in top Rankings?
30 position in recent Asia a) Ravichandran Ashwin
University Rankings 2017 of the b) Ravindra Jadeja
Times Higher Education. c) Rangana Herath
(a) IIM-Ahmedabad d) Josh Hazlewood
(b) BITS-Pilani
(c) IISC-Bengaluru 34. The 2017 World Down Syndrome
(d) VIT-Vellore Day that was observed on 21 March
focuses on
29. The 2017 World Water Day a) #MyVoiceMyCommunity
(WWD) was observed on 22 March b) #OurCommunityOur Voice
with theme c)
a) Water and Jobs #DownSyndromeNeedsConnectivity
b) Water and Energy d) None of the above
c) Why Wastewater?
d) Water and Jobs 35. What was the theme of 2017
International Day of Forests?
30. Who of the following was a) Forests and Energy
appointed as Full Time Interim b) Forests and Greenery
Director General of International c) Forests and Life
Solar Alliance (ISA) in March 2017? d) Forests and Animals
a) Upendra Tripathy
b) Ghanshyam Singh 36. According to the Forbes 2017
c) Ankur Khanna World Billionaire Report, who is the
d) Madhabi Puri Buch world’s youngest self-made
billionaire?
31. Who of the following was recently a) Diane Kemper
elected as the Speaker of Goa b) John Collison
Assembly? c) Jane Goldman
a) Francisco Sardinha d) Amy Goldman Fowler
b) Pratapsingh Rane
c) Anant Shet 37. Who became the first woman
d) Pramod Sawant belonging to private sector to be
appointed as the Full-Time Member
32. Majuli is soon to become India’s of Securities and Exchange Board of
first carbon neutral district and India (SEBI)?
biodiversity heritage site. The place is a) Madhabi Puri Buch
b) Sara Blakely
c) Kalpana Morparia b) Madras Regiment
d) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw c) The Garhwal Ri⁴es
d) Naga Regiment
38. According to the Forbes World
Billionaire Report 2017, who was 44. What was the theme of World
ranked as the wealthiest Indian? Meteorological Day 2017?
a) Lakshmi Mittal a) Climate Change
b) Azim Premji b) Disaster Risk Management
c) Anil Ambani c) Understanding Clouds
d) Mukesh Ambani d) Our future climate

39. As per an announcement by the 45. Who was appointed as Chief


Union Government, India’s nuclear Financial Ocer (CFO) of International
power generation capacity will be Cricket Council (ICC)?
tripled by a) Ankur Khanna
a) 2021 b) Nithiin Reddy
b) 2022 c) Rekha Bhardwaj
c) 2023 d) Vishal Krishna
d) 2024
46. ISRO commissioned world’s
40. Which of the following countries third-largest hypersonic wind tunnel
is hosting the 2017 Special Olympics in the capital of which state?
World Winter Games? a) Kerala
a) United Kingdom b) Tamil Nadu
b) Russia c) Karnataka
c) Germany d) Andhra Pradesh
d) Austria
47. Who won the 2017 Abel Prize?
41. Which country topped the World a) Yves Meyer
Happiness report 2017? b) Andrew J. Wiles
a) Norway c) Louis Nirenberg
b) Denmark d) John F. Nash
c) Iceland
d) Switzerland 48. What is the theme of 2017 World
Tuberculosis Day (WTD)?
42. Which among these SAARC a) End Tuberculosis
nations did not gure in the World b) Unite to End TB
Happiness Report 2017? c) Gear up to end TB
a) Pakistan d) Stop TB in my lifetime
b) Bhutan
c) Afghanistan 49. The central sector scheme
d) Maldives Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana (RVY) will
be launched from which state?
43. This regiment of Indian Army a) Uttar Pradesh
celebrated 200-years of their b) Madhya Pradesh
regiment in March 2017. c) Andhra Pradesh
a) Ninth Gorkhas d) Tamil Nadu
55. Trivendra Rawat was elected as
50. The International Day of Uttarakhand Chief Minister, recently.
Solidarity with Detained and Missing He is th CM of the State.
StaI Members was observed recently. a) 9
The day commemorates the b) 11
anniversary of the abduction of which c) 12
of the following UN staI members? d) 8
a) Alex Matthews
b) Charles Chad 56. Sanjauli police station has become
c) Alec Collett the first police post in the country to
d) None of the above be linked with Crime and Criminal
Tracking Network and Systems
51. Identify the veteran photographer (CCTNS), a nationwide online
who was recently conferred with the tracking system. Sanjauli police
Lifetime Achievement Award at the station is located in .
6th National Photography Awards. a) Arunachal Pradesh
a) Raghu Rai b) Assam
b) Pablo Bartholomew c) Himachal Pradesh
c) Dilip Mehta d) Jammu & Kashmir
d) Altaf Qadri
57. Changi Airport is located in
52. Pawan Hans is going to start .
chopper rides for visitors in which a) Switzerland
Indian city? b) Indonesia
a) Delhi c) Japan
b) Mumbai d) Singapore
c) Lucknow
d) Agra 58. The Essar group’s township in
has become India’s first
53. Which Indian state is soon going private sector township to go
to have a football stadium with world- cashless.
class facility as per FIFA norms? a) Maharashtra
a) Punjab b) Gujarat
b) Jammu & Kashmir c) Himachal Pradesh
c) Kerala d) Manipur
d) West Bengal
59. ESAF small Financial Bank was
54. Which of the following Airport has launched recently for the first time in
been voted the World's Best Airport which of the following Indian State.
by air travelers at the 2017 World a) Tamil Nadu
Airport Awards for the fifth b) Maharashtra
consecutive year? c) Tripura
a) Tokyo International Airport d) Kerala
b) Changi Airport
c) Hamad International Airport 60. The three days 'International
d) London Heathrow Airport Buddhist Conference' was organized
recently by the Ministry of Culture in b) Meghalaya
which of the following Indian States? c) Assam
a) Uttar Pradesh d) Himachal Pradesh
b) Jharkhand
c) Bihar 66. Finance Minister of India has
d) Telangana recently announced to change the
name of Central Board of Excise and
61. Name the person who has been Customs (CBEC) to for
appointed as the Chief Executive the implementation of the Goods and
Officer of digital payment platform Services Tax (GST) regime.
FreeCharge. a) CBIC
a) Jason Kothari b) CNBC
b) Arun Sangmitra c) CBAC
c) B B Mohan d) CBOC
d) Sandeep Mahajan
67. Name the state government that
62. International Day of Forest is has recently signed two MoUs with
observed globally on . State Bank of India (SBI) to provide
a) 23 April housing loan and education loan for
b) 22 April its employees.
c) 21 March a) Uttarakhand
d) 22 March b) Jharkhand
c) Telangana
63. Name the Indian Soldier, who was d) Assam
presented the second highest
peacetime gallantry award Kirti 68. Who won the 2016-17 Santosh
Chakra by President Pranab Trophy?
Mukherjee, recently. a) Goa
a) Capt. Gursevak Singh b) Services
b) Maj. Vinay Singh c) West Bengal
c) Lance Naik Amrinder Singh d) Kerala
d) Maj. Rohit Suri
69. Who of the following was recently
64. The World Meteorological Day is appointed the Director of the All India
observed globally on . Institute of Medical Sciences?
(a) 25 March a) Randeep Guleria
(b) 21 April b) M C Mishra
(c) 23 March c) P K Dhondhiyal
(d) 20 February d) None of the above

65. The World Bank has recently 70. Which Indian got ranked in the
signed a 100 million US dollar credit 2017 Best CEOs List of Barron's?
agreement with the Centre and which a) Mukesh Ambani
one of the following state government b) Anil Ambani
to improve the quality of health care c) Ratan Tata
services? d) Aditya Puri
a) Uttarakhand
71. Jagadisa Thyagarajan, famously a) ShinMaywa US-2
known as Ashokamitran, who died b) TU142M
recently, belonged to which field? c) Ilyushin Il-38
a) Literature d) Pipistrel Virus SW 80
b) Politics
c) Acting 77. The 105th session of Indian
d) Singing Science Congress (ISC) will be hosted
by Osmania University, Hyderabad in
72. Which Indian political leader has January, 2018. The theme of the 105th
been named among the probable session of Indian Science Congress is
contenders for Times 100 most .
in⁴uential people in the world list a) Science and Technology - Reaching
2017? the Unreached
a) Narenda Modi b) Science and Technology - Beyond
b) Arun Jaitley the Dreams
c) Sushma Swaraj c) Science and Technology - Exploring
d) Sonia Gandhi the ways
d) Science and Technology - Believe
73. India has become the third largest and Succeed
market in the world in terms of
domestic passenger traôc in 78. Name the country that has
which segment of transport? recently (26th March) celebrated its
a) Railways 46th Independence Day.
b) Aviation a) Myanmar
c) Waterways b) Bangladesh
d) Roadways c) Nepal
d) Sri Lanka
74. How many number of medals
India won in the 2017 Special 79. Who of the following won the
Olympics World Winter Games? Australian Grand Prix?
a) 70 a) Sebastian Vettel
b) 71 b) Lewis Hamilton
c) 72 c) Nico Rosberg
d) 73 d) Max Verstappen

75. The 2-day long World Conference 80. World Theatre Day is observed
on Environment 2017 was held in globally on .
a) Hyderabad a) 21 March
b) New Delhi b) 26 July
c) Kolkata c) 27 March
d) Chandigarh d) 24 July

76. The Indian Navy is preparing for 81. Name the lender that has recently
de-induction of a Long Range launched the ‘MoneyPlant RuPay
Maritime Patrol aircraft after 29 International Platinum Debit Card’ to
years of dedicated service to the provide more privileges to its
nation. Name it.
premium and HNI (high net worth 3. Which bank launched the
individual) customers. Unnati Credit Card to spread
a) SBI credit inclusion recently?
b) Karnataka Bank a) ICICI Bank
c) Andhra Bank b) State Bank of India
d) IDFC Bank c) Andhra Bank
d) Bank of Baroda
82. A first-ever India conference on
'Make in India' was held in 4. As per a report of the
for bringing together NASSCOM, by 2020, the number
various constituencies that have an of internet users in India will
interest in doing business in India reach
and discussing the latest a) 430 million
developments. b) 530 million
a) Mexico c) 630 million
b) Washington D. C. d) 730 million
c) New York
d) Houston 5. Which of the following countries
was recently approved by the US
83. Name the woman who became the Senate as the 29th member
first woman combat officer to be of the NATO?
commissioned in the 51-year history a) Yugoslavia
of the Border Security Forces (BSF) of b) Bulgaria
India. c) Macedonia
a) Divyanka Pandey d) Montenegro
b) Tanushree Pareek
c) Suchitra Mahajan 6. The INLCU L51 was recently
d) Asha Parrikh commissioned into the Indian
Navy. The ship is commanded by
a) Bimal Verma
1. The Integrated Automatic b) Ramesh Bajpai
Aviation Meteorological Systems c) Vishwesh S Nadkarni
was inaugurated at d) None of the above
a) INS Rajali
b) INS Baaz 7. Name the former South Carolina
c) INS Dega Governor who was recently
d) INS Shikra appointed by the United Nations
to run the World Food
2. The book ‘Home of the Brave’ Programme.
traces the history of a) David Beasley
a) Border Security Force b) Etharin Cousin
b) Rashtriya Rifles c) Ivan Simonovic
c) National Security Guards d) None of the above
d) Central Industrial Security
Force 8. Who was bestowed with the
Hari Om Ashram Alembic
Research Award for 2016?
a) Neena Srivastava police battalion to check crimes
b) Rakesh Kumar against women and children?
c) P Sundaresan a) MP
d) S Rajasekaran b) Assam
c) Kerala
9. Souq.com was acquired by d) UP
which e-commerce firm?
a) Flipkart 4. Name the Indian city that will be
b) Amazon the venue of the final of the FIFA
c) Alibaba Under 17 World Cup to be held in
d) SnapDeal 2017.
a) Chandigarh
10. becomes first b) Jaipur
woman to lead a major Pakistani c) Lucknow
bank. d) Kolkata
a) Hina Khan
b) Sima Kamil 5. Name the Veteran actor who
c) Wajahat Hussain was honored with the Kala Ratan
d) Faarooq Siddiqui Award by Vice President Hamid
Ansari at Chandigarh.
11. Which of the following state a) Amitabh Bacchan
won Deodhar Trophy 2017? b) Naseeruddin Shah
a) Kerala c) Anupam Kher
b) Uttar Pradesh d) K K Menon
c) Tamilnadu
d) Gujarat 6. Name the lender that has been
recently adjudged the ‘Best Small
1. Govt imposes Bank for 2016’.
import duty on wheat, tur dal. a) Karur Vysya Bank
a) 25 % b) Bandhan Bank
b) 10 % c) Lakshmi Vilas Bank
c) 13 % d) Dena Bank
d) 17 %
7. Which of the following
2. The two-day Houston India technology giant launched World's
Conference was hosted by Asia Fastest SD Card?
Society Texas Center in Houston a) Huawei
recently (March 2017). The theme b) Sony
of the Conference was c) Kingston
. d) Strontium
a) Make in India - Lets Make it
b) Make in India - Untold Story 8. Name the bank that has digitally
c) Make in India - Making together inaugurated 40 ‘Ananya’
d) Make in India - The Inside Story transformed branches under
Project Ananya.
3. Which state government has a) IDFC Bank
directed to set up a special women b) UCO Bank
c) Syndicate Bank 13. Which of the following lender
d) IDBI Bank launched "Unnati Credit Card"?
a) PNB
9. Name the public lender that has b) Allahabad Bank
recently entered into an MoU with c) SBI
Piaggio Vehicles for providing d) Bank of Baroda
financial support for the purchase
of vehicles under Small Road
Transport Operators (SRTO) 14. Which of the following state
scheme. becomes the first state to bring
a) PNB banking to remote areas?
b) SBI a) Assam
c) Vijaya Bank b) Odisha
d) Bank of India c) Arunanchal Pradesh
d) Kerala
10. Indian-American
has been 15. Indian-origin British Director
appointed as president and CEO of has been honored with
‘The Leadership Conference on the Sikh Jewel Award for 2017.
Civil and Human Rights’, a) Ankit Verma
becoming the first woman to head b) Gurinder Chadha
the prestigious organization. c) Anjali George
a) Sumitra Pant d) Nitin Khurana
b) Vanita Gupta
c) Aruna Mahajan 1. What amount of loan agreement
d) Aparna J. D'Suza was signed between India and New
Development Bank for major
11. Honda Motorcycle and Scooter district roads project in Madhya
India Pvt Ltd (HMSI) has recently Pradesh?
appointed as a) $300 million
president and chief executive b) $350 million
officer of the company. c) $400 million
a) Kuno un Mong d) $450 million
b) San Ki Yan
c) Peter Adams 2. Which Indian personality was
d) Minoru Kato inducted into the international
advisory board of Atlantic
12. Name the lender that has Council?
recently announced a partnership a) A R Rahman
with mobile app firm Truecaller b) Laxmi Mittal
for a new UPI-based mobile c) Anil Ambani
payment service. d) Sachin Tendulkar
a) State Bank of India
b) ICICI Bank 3. Which of the following tiger
c) HDFC Bank reserve became the first in India to
d) UCO Bank officially introduce a mascot
named Bhoorsingh the
Barasingha? c) Tamil Nadu
a) Corbett Tiger Reserve d) Madhya Pradesh
b) Manas Tiger Reserve
c) Sunderbans 9. Who of the following wrote the
d) Kanha Tiger Reserve book ‘Indian Railway-The weaving
of a National Tapestry’.
4. Who of the following recently a) Bibek Debroy
became the first Muslim to join the b) Anand Neelakanthan
Emergency Service Unit of the c) Kiran Doshi
New York City Police Department? d) K Vijay Kumar
a) Sergeant Zeber Ahmad
b) Sergeant Ali Javed 10. What is the theme of the 2017
c) Sergeant Ali M Khan World Autism Awareness Day?
d) None of the above a) Autism and the 2030 Agenda:
Inclusion and Neurodiversity
5. Who of the following was b) Respect, Acceptance, Inclusion
honoured with the Asian Player of c) Employment: The Autism
the Year 2016 by the Asian Hockey Advantage
Federation? d) Toward Autonomy and Self-
a) S V Sunil Determination
b) Harmanpreet Singh
c) P R Shreejesh 11. Namami Brahmaputra, India’s
d) Akashdeep Singh biggest river festival, starts in

6. Which Indian cricketer was a) Madhya Pradesh


conferred with the Padma Shri by b) Arunachal Pradesh
the President of India in 2017? c) Uttrakhand
a) Mahendra Singh Dhoni d) Assam
b) Ravichandran Ashwin
c) Virat Kohli 12. India's first Biogas bus
d) Yuvraj Singh launched in
a) Jaipur
7. Union Minister for Transport, b) Lucknow
Nitin Gadkari inaugurated a new c) Pune
centre for child cancer patients in d) Kolkata
which city?
a) Delhi 1. Which of the following lender
b) Pune joined the list of Top 50 banks in
c) Bangalore the World?
d) Mumbai a) Bank of Baroda
b) PNB
8. In which of the following State, c) SBI
the BHEL commissioned a 800 d) Allahabad Bank
MW supercritical thermal power
plant recently. 2. SBI gets loan
a) Maharashtra from European Investment Bank.
b) Karnataka a) Rs 1,700 crore
b) Rs 1,800 crore 8. The book – Master on Masters -
c) Rs 1,100 crore was written by
d) Rs 1,400 crore a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
3. Which of the following state c) Ustad Zakir Hussain
agreed to pay power bill subsidy to d) M S Dhoni
consumers recently?
a) Maharashtra 9. Which State Legislative
b) Bihar Assembly passed a Bill to prevent
c) Telangana cow slaughter recently.
d) Kerala a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Uttarakhand
4. The Centre on Integrated Rural c) Gujarat
Development for Asia and the d) Punjab
Pacific (CIRDAP) will be
established in 10. India Open Super Series
a) Bengaluru badminton tournament is being
b) Chennai held in
c) Hyderabad a) Hyderabad
d) New Delhi b) New Delhi
c) Bengaluru
5. Which of the following became d) Pune
the world’s first country to ban
metal mining? 11. The second unit of Kudankulam
a) El Salvador Nuclear Power plant, which
b) Germany started commercial generation of
c) Australia power recently, is located in
d) Nigeria a) Karnataka
b) Uttar Pradesh
6. The Indian Railways declared c) Maharashtra
the Barmer-Munawab and Pipad d) Tamil Nadu
Road-Bilara routes as Green
Corridors recently. Both of these 12. Asia's largest Tulip Garden
rail routes are located in opens for tourists. Where it is
a) Bihar located?
b) Madya Pradesh a) Assam
c) Gujarat b) Kerala
d) Rajasthan c) Sikkim
d) Jammu & Kashmir
7. Hridaya Narain Dixit was
elected as the Speaker of Which 13. Which of the following
State’s Legislative Assembly. automobile manufacturer
a) Uttarakhand launches The World's First Car
b) Uttar Pradesh delivery service by Drone?
c) Punjab a) Tata Motors
d) Goa b) Ford
c) BMW b) Ajmer
d) Hyundai c) Hyderabad
d) Ranchi
14. Who of the following appointed
as CBEC's new chairman? 6. Who has been appointed as the
a) Vidya Sharma new Vice-Chancellor of Nalanda
b) Praksah Kattana University?
c) Vanaja Sarna a) David Beasley
d) M K Rohit b) George Yeo
c) Vanaja Sarna
1. When is World Autism Day d) Sunaina Singh
observed every year?
a) 3 April 7. Who of the following becomes
b) 2 April Womens singles champion of
c) 4 April India Super Series tournament?
d) 31 March a) Saina Nehwal
b) Carolina Marin
2. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated c) Jwala Gutta
Asia's longest tunnel Chenani- d) P V Sindhu
Nashri. Where it is located?
a) Bihar 8. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated
b) Arunachal Pradesh Asia's longest Chenani- Nashri
c) Telangana tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir.Who
d) Jammu & Kasmhir is the Minister for Road Transport
and Highways and Shipping?
3. 2nd Annual Meeting of New a) Jitendra Pratap
Development Bank concluded in b) Dharmendra Pradhan
c) Santosh Gangwar
a) Jaipur d) Nitin Gadkari
b) Varanasi
c) New Delhi 1. As per the NIRF 2017 Ranking of
d) Lucknow HRD Ministry, Which of the
following University got no. 1
4. Which among the following two rank?
banks have launched co-branded a) JNU
credit cards for the customers b) BHU
recently? c) AMU
a) PNB and South Indian Bank d) IISC
b) CITI Bank & HSBC
c) ICICI and Indian Overseas Bank 2. As per the NIRF 2017 Ranking of
d) SBI and Karnataka Bank HRD Ministry, Which of the
following College got no. 1 rank?
5. President Mukherjee lays a) Loyola College
foundation stones of Rabindra b) DAV College
Bhavan, Haj House in c) Shri Ram College of Commerce
d) Miranda House
a) Lucknow
3. Which country became the new 8. Who won the 2017 Miami Open
member of South Asia Sub- Men's Singles title?
regional Economic Cooperation a) Stan Wawrinka
(SASEC) program? b) Rafael Nadal
a) Myanmar c) Roger Federer
b) Bhutan d) Milos Raonic
c) Pakistan
d) Iran 9. Who of the following appointed
as new Chief Justice of Madras
4. Which of the following state High Court?
became the 27th state to sign a a) Navin Sinha
Memorandum of Understanding b) Indira Banerjee
(MOU) under the scheme Ujwal c) AK Singh
DISCOM Assurance Yojana d) Manjula Chellur
(UDAY).
a) Manipur 10. Name the American singer and
b) Mizoram songwriter, who has finally
c) Bihar accepted his Nobel Prize for
d) Assam literature 2016, more than three
months after the awards
5. Who of the following won the ceremony.
Leon Challenger Tour tennis a) Yoshinori Ohsumi
tournament's Men's Doubles b) Juan Manuel Santos
trophy? c) Bob Dylan
a) Luca Margaroli and Caro d) Sveriges Riksbank
Zampieri
b) Leander Paes and Adil 1. When is International Day of
Shamasdin Mine Awareness and Assistance in
c) Santiago González and Mate Mine Action observed every year?
Pavić a) 5 April
d) Leander Paes and Sam Groth b) 31 March
c) 4 April
6. Vipul, an Indian Foreign Service d) 11 April
Officer has been appointed as the
new Indian consul-general in 2. What is the theme of the 2017
which popular Arab city? International Day of Mine
a) Abu Dhabi Awareness and Assistance in Mine
b) Dubai Action that was observed recently?
c) Riyadh a) Mine Action is Humanitarian
d) Baghdad Action
b) Peace without mine action is
7. Who won the 2017 Miami Open incomplete peace
Women’s Singles title? c) Needs driven. People Centred
a) Angelique Kerber d) More than Mines
b) Karolína Plískova
c) Simona Halep 3. Name the state that in April 2017
d) Johanna Konta imposed a blanket ban on the use
of polyethene bags manufactured c) Geeta Johri
below fifty (50) microns. d) A K Singhal
a) Himachal Pradesh
b) Jammu & Kashmir 9. Kishori Amonkar passes
c) Punjab away.Who was he?
d) Bihar a) Politician
b) Singer
4. Name the child rights campaign c) classical vocalist
launched by Nobel Laureate d) Social Activist
Kailash Satyarthi in Dhaka
recently. 10. Name the person who was
a) 100 Million for 100 Million nominated as the chairman of the
b) Stop Violence Against Children Amateur Circle Kabaddi
c) End child marriage Federation of India for the next
d) Children are our treasure four years.
a) Ram Bilas Sharma
5. Identify the former President of b) OP Dhankar
Guatemalan Football Association c) Captain Abhimanyu
who was banned for lifetime by d) Om Prakash Kohli
FIFA.
a) Adela de Torrebiarte 1, Who of the following to become
b) Brayan Jimenez the youngest person to address
c) Gustavo Machaín Canadian Parliament?
d) None of the above a) Malala Yousafzai
b) Kailash Satyarthi
6. Who of the following recently c) Amartya Sen
took over as the Deputy Governor d) AK Verma
of the Reserve Bank of India?
a) BP Kanungo 2. In which of the following state
b) Vishal Gupta Jhargram becomes 22nd district?
c) Surekha Marandi a) Uttar Pradesh
d) None of the above b) Madhya Pradesh
c) West Bengal
7. The Madhya Pradesh d) Kerala
government has launched an app
named to provide 3. The Centre has constituted
various municipal services online. National Board of Electric Mobility
a) MP i-Seva (NBEM) to promote electric
b) MP e-Safai mobility and manufacturing of
c) MP i-Safai electric vehicles and their
d) MP e-nagarpalika components. The Board will be
chaired by .
8. Who of the following appointed a) Shri Harish Bhagwat
as DGP of Gujarat? b) Shri Prakash Javedkar
a) PP Pandey c) Shri Rajyavardhan Rathore
b) Javid Ahmad d) Shri Girish Shankar
4. South Asia Subregional decision. The committee will be
Economic Cooperation (SASEC) headed by
Finance Ministers meeting held in a) Rahul Bhatnagar
b) AK Bansal
a) Ahmedabad c) Umesh Maurya
b) Jaipur d) Anil Tiwari
c) New Delhi
d) Mumbai 1. PM Modi lays foundation stone
of multi-modal terminal on River
5. Union Finance Minister Arun Ganga in
Jaitley chaired the South Asia a) Bihar
Subregional Economic b) Maharashtra
Cooperation (SASEC) Finance c) Jharkhand
Ministers meeting in New Delhi. d) Madhya Pradesh
Name the country that has joined
the SASEC program as its seventh 2. Indian Navy deploys
member. for surveillance in
a) Bangladesh the Indian Ocean
b) Bhutan a) INS Shardul
c) Myanmar b) INS Vikrant
d) Maldives c) INS Kaveri
d) INS Kalavari
5. Gionee India ties up with Royal
Challengers Bangalore for IPL 10. 3. Who will become the Chairman
Name the other team who has of the newly constituted National
Gionee Sponsor also. Board for Electric Mobility
a) Sun Risers Hyderabad (NBEM)?
b) Mumbai Indians a) Girish Shankar
c) Kolkata Night Riders b) Vikram Kirloskar
d) Delhi Daredevills c) Vinod Dasari
d) Pawan Goenka
6. Berhampur Thakurani Yatra
fetival begins in 4. Gilbert Baker, who passed away
a) Uttar Pradesh recently, was the creator of:
b) Maharashtra a) Euro Currency Symbol
c) Odisha b) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
d) Madhya Pradesh Transgender (LGBT) Rainbow Flag
c) Canadian National Flag
7. Who of the following named d) Logo of National Aeronautics
CEO of Gulf Oil for 1 day? and Space Administration (NASA)
a) Virat Kohli
b) Sachin Tendulkar 5. Union Cabinet recently
c) Rahul Dravid approved closure of which
d) MS Dhoni scheme?
a) Pradhan Mantri Atal Pension
8. UP Govt forms committee to Yojana
implement farm loan waiver b) Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
c) Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi c) 6 April 2017
Suraksha Yojana d) 7 April 2017
d) Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
11. When is International Day of
6. Which state’s government is Sport for Development and Peace
planning on setting up 6 AIIMS observed every year?
like institutes and 25 medical a) 4 April
colleges in the next 5 years? b) 5 April
a) Uttar Pradesh c) 6 April
b) Rajasthan d) 8 April
c) Gujarat
d) Bihar 12. Between Which countries first
Air services agreement approved
7. Who of the following was by Union Cabinet?
recently appointed as the a) India and Myanmar
Chairman of the National b) India and Ukrain
Association of Software and c) India and Sri Lanka
Services Companies? d) India and Georgia
a) C P Gurnani
b) Rishad Premji 13. Who of the following named
c) Raman Roy Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in the
d) None of the above World for 2016?
a) David Warner
8. Which of the following b) Steve Smith
countries recently oôcially c) Virat Kohli
recognized bitcoin as legal money? d) AB Deviliers
a) South Korea
b) Taiwan 1. Name the authority that in April
c) Japan 2017 ordered Reliance Jio
d) Canada Infocomm to withdraw its
Summer Surprise plan.
9. A three-member committee a) Competition Commission of
points out gross abuse of power by India
AAP government in terms of b) Telecom Regulatory Authority
appointment and land allocation. of India
Who of the following headed the c) Department of Revenue
committee? d) SEBI
a) VK Shunglu
b) Madhukar Gupta 2. Venkaiah Naidu has
c) Vinod Rai inaugurated the 3day National
d) Amitabh Kant Children’s Film Festival in
a) Vishakhapatnam
10. National Maritime Day was b) Hyderabad
observed in India on c) New Delhi
a) 4 April 2017 d) Panaji
b) 5 April 2017
3. Which of the following movies b) Depression: Let's Talk
won the 64th National Film c) Halt the Rise: Beat Diabetes
Awards for the Best Feature Film? d) Kidney Disease and Obesity
a) Kasaav
b) Alifa 9. King Maha Vajiralongkorn in
c) Neerja April 2017 signed a military-
d) Pink backed Constitution for his
country into a law. He is the King
4. Which of the following movies of this country.
won the 64th National Film a) Thailand
Awards for the Best Hindi Feature b) Mangolia
Film? c) Myanmar
a) Airlift d) UAE
b) Madaari
c) Neerja 10. India & sign
d) Pink defence deals worth over 2 billion
dollar recently.
5. Who of the following won the a) Israel
64th National Film Awards for the b) Ukraine
Best Actor? c) Indonesia
a) Aamir Khan d) Sri Lanka
b) Salman Khan
c) Akshay Kumar 11. Who of the following appointed
d) Ranveer Singh as CEO of L&T?
a) Vijay Kumar
6. Who of the following won the b) Subrahmanyan
64th National Film Awards for the c) AM Naik
Best Actress? d) Ankita Johri
a) Sonam Kapoor
b) Surabhi C M 12. Who of the following appointed
c) Priyanka Chopra as Non-Executive Chairman of
d) Alia Bhatt L&T?
a) Vijay Kumar
7. Name the Pakistani cricketer b) Subrahmanyan
who recently announced his c) AM Naik
retirement from the international d) Ankita Johri
cricket.
a) Misbah-ul-Haq 1. Which web portal and mobile
b) Yasir Hameed application was inaugurated by
c) Younis Khan Union Home Minister Rajnath
d) Mohammad Yousuf Singh, to enable the willing donors
to contribute towards the family of
8. The World Health Day was soldiers who sacrificed life in line
observed on 7 April 2017 with the on duty?
year’s theme a) Veer Jawan
a) From farm to plate, make food b) Veer Sipahi
safe
c) Bharat ke Veer 7. Who of the following won the
d) Sainik Rahat Kosh 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award?
a) Larry Page
2. Which country became the b) Sergey Brin
world’s first country to allow c) Ken Thompson
legalized production, sale and d) Tim Berners-Lee
consumption of marijuana?
a) Norway 8. Astronomers have discovered a
b) Uruguay possible twin of which planet in
c) Portugal our solar system?
d) China a) Earth
b) Venus
3. Mukta Dutta Tomar was c) Mars
appointed as the Ambassador of d) Jupiter
India to which country?
a) Malaysia 9. Which state’s government has
b) Germany decided to hold People’s Day on
c) Singapore the 15th of every month?
d) New Zealand a) Manipur
b) Assam
4. Which of the following c) Uttar Pradesh
countries topped the 2017 edition d) Goa
of the Travel and Tourism
Competitive Index, which was 10. The month-long exhibition
released recently by the World commemorating 100 years of
Economic Forum? Champaran Satyagraha held
a) India in which state?
b) Switzerland a) Maharashtra
c) Norway b) Odisha
d) Spain c) New Delhi
d) Bihar
5. India is placed on which
position in the 2017 edition of the 11. Which renowned Indian sand
Travel and Tourism Competitive artist has been selected to
Index, which was released recently represent India in the Moscow
by the World Economic Forum? Sand Art Championship 2017?
a) 39th a) Nitish Bharti
b) 40th b) Sudarsan Pattnaik
c) 41st c) Rahul Arya
d) 42nd d) Ashok Kumar

6. Who of the following won the 12. This e-commerce company of


2017 Chinese Grand Prix? India in April 2017 launched its
a) Lewis Hamilton new feature QR code
b) Max Verstappen a) Paytm
c) Sebastian Vettel b) FreeCharge
d) Nico Rosberg
c) MobiKwik b) Manipur
d) Flipkart c) Kerala
d) Telangana
1. On 100th anniversary of
Champaran Satyagraha, PM 7. When is World Homeopathy day
inaugurates Swachhagraha observed every year?
exhibition in a) 11 April
a) Jaipur b) 13 April
b) Mumbai c) 10 April
c) New Delhi d) 12 April
d) Ahmedabad
8. Deendayal Rasoi Yojna
2. Who of the following becomes launched in
first non-white judge at London a) Uttar Pradesh
Court? b) Madhya Pradesh
a) Anuja Ravindra Dhir c) Kerala
b) Ankit Khurana d) Assam
c) Pahal Trivedi
d) Yograj Singh 9. Who of the following won
Chinese Grand Prix?
3. Who of the following appointed a) Sebastian Vettel
as India's Ambassador to b) Lewis Hamilton
Germany? c) Kimi Raikonen
a) Navtej Sarna d) Max Verstappen
b) Vikas Swarup
c) Giriraj Singh 1. Who of the following appointed
d) Mukta Tomar as Executive Director of RBI?
a) BP Kanungo
4. Who of the following appointed b) Malvika Sinha
MD of Saraswat Bank? c) Jayant Patel
a) Ankit Shukla d) Vindo Rai
b) Smita Sandhane
c) Pankaj Singh 2. Who of the following becomes
d) Neha Vidyarthi first Naga cop to receive ‘Shaurya
Chakra’ award?
5. Who of the following named a) MK Nagpal
‘Asian Businesswoman of the b) Ajit Kumar
Year'? c) Atu Zumvu
a) Asha Khemka d) MM Nicole
b) Jyoti Trivedi
c) Ekta Vishnoi 3. Who of the following appointed
d) Aayush Srivastava UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador?
a) Jacob Moorey
6. Which state government b) Kristin Davis
decided to hold People's Day on c) Ankita Verma
15th of every month? d) James Steward
a) Assam
4. Colson Whitehead won the 2017 b) Haryana
Pulitzer Prize for ĭction. Name the c) Maharashtra
book/novel for which he was d) Karnataka
chosen for the award.
a) Zone One 10. The Union Minister for Science
b) The Underground Railroad & Technology and Earth Sciences,
c) The Intuitionist Harsh Vardhan has launched a
d) The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef new web portal in New Delhi on
Jerky, and Death the occasion of Survey of India’s
250th anniversary. What is the
5. India’s first ever micro-drama name of the portal?
festival, named Thespis, was held a) Geoid
in which city? b) Nakshe
a) Mumbai c) Geospatial
b) Chandigarh d) Open Series Maps
c) New Delhi
d) Kolkata 11. Who of the following won the
2017 Pulitzer Prize in investigative
6. Who of the following was reporting section?
recently appointed as a UN a) Eric Eyre
Messenger of Peace? b) Du Yun
a) Kailash Satyarthi c) Jim Morin
b) Malala Yousafzai d) Lynn Nottage
c) Angelina Jolie
d) Sunitha Krishnan 12. Name the communications and
information technology company
7. Name the Indian national and who in April 2017 signed an
navy veteran who was sentenced to MoU with Airtel and BSNL to bring
death by a military court of 5G services in India.
Pakistan. a) Nokia
a) Ravindra Kaushik b) One Plus
b) RN Kao c) Apple
c) Kashmir Singh d) Xiaomi
d) Kulbhushan Jadhav
13. Name the author of the book
8. Two-day National Convention Gandhi in Champaran.
on World Homoeopathy Day a) Anand Neelakanthan
concluded in which city? b) Vidya Krishnamurthi
a) Delhi c) DG Tendulkar
b) Mumbai d) Nitin A Gokhale
c) Hyderabad
d) Shimla 1. What will be the theme of the
Civil Services Day 2017?
9. Which state’s government has a) Clean India
decided to increase the number of b) Minimum Governance
Science Clubs in its schools? c) Making New India
a) Uttar Pradesh d) Nation First
2. As per the Amnesty 7. Which Indian-origin personality
International, it is in this country, became the ñrst non-white judge
most executions took place in at the Old Bailey Court of London?
2016. a) Osa Nawab
a) Iran b) Anuja Ravindra Dhir
b) Iraq c) Kirti Solanki
c) Pakistan d) Tayeb Salih
d) China
8. Name the British DJ who has
3. It is in this North Eastern State, reached Mount Everest’s base
India-Mongolia joint military camp and has plans to host the
training exercise Nomadic highest party on the earth.
Elephant – XII has begun recently. a) Armin van Buuren
a) Mizoram b) Paul van Dyk
b) Nagaland c) Paul Oakenfold
c) Assam d) David Guetta
d) Bihar
9. Carme Chacon, who passed
4. Name the two states that in away recently, was the Defence
second week of April 2017 Minister of which European
announced that it will impose country?
liquor ban in the state in near a) France
future. b) Germany
a) Chhattisgarh and Madhya c) Spain
Pradesh d) Switzerland
b) Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh
c) Uttar Pradesh and Madhya 10. Nearly four crore members of
Pradesh which of the following
d) Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand organizations will soon be able to
settle their claims through the
5. Who of the following was mobile application UMANG?
recently honoured with a Living a) EPFO
Legend Lifetime Award from the b) RBI
Punjab Association? c) IRDAI
a) Dharmendra d) SIDBI
b) Shashi Kapoor
c) Dilip Kumar 1. Who of the following appointed
d) Manoj Kumar as the new administrator of the
United Nations Development
6. Who is the author of the book Programme (UNDP) by the UN
titled Hope in a Challenged chief Antonio Guterres.
Democracy– An Indian Narrative,
which released recently?
a) Paranjoy Guha Thakurta a) Segolene Royal
b) Ashwani Kumar b) Timothy Ball
c) Romesh Thapar c) Achim Steiner
d) Shashi Tharoor d) Erik Solheim
2. President Pranab Mukherjee Award of the National Geoscience
confers Padma awards to eminent Awards 2016?
personalities. Who of the a) Dr. Pratima Mohan Kessarkar
following spiritual leader were b) Prof. Javed Husain N. Malik
given Padma Vibhushan award? c) Aradhi Keshava Krishna
a) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar d) Dr. Abhishek Saha
b) Dalai Lama
c) Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev 8. Which world leader has become
d) BK Shivani the most followed head of the state
on Instagram with 7 million
3. Which state government followers?
launches campaign against H1N1? a) Narendra Modi
a) Uttar Pradesh b) Donald Trump
b) Madhya Pradesh c) Justin Trudeau
c) Karnataka d) Queen Elizabeth II
d) Telangana
1. Which of the following
4. Which state’s government has Government Department to get
decided to increase the new online system to deal with
reservations of backward Muslim black money cases?
population and STs in the state? a) SEBI
a) Telangana b) Income Tax
b) Andhra Pradesh c) CBI
c) Gujarat d) CBDT
d) Uttar Pradesh
2. Which state assembly passes bill
5. The Union Cabinet gave its to hike Muslim quota to 12%?
approval for setting up of Indian a) Kerala
Institute of Petroleum and Energy. b) Telangana
The institute will be set up in c) Odisha
which of the following cities? d) Maharashtra
a) Visakhapatnam
b) Vijayawada 3. MoU signed between Indian
c) Kakinada Academy of Highway Engineers &
d) Guntur University of New South
Wales.Where is this university
6. Youngest Nobel Peace laureate located?
Malala Yousafzai became the sixth a) France
person to receive honorary b) USA
citizenship of this country. c) Australia
a) Canada d) UK
b) Britain
c) Germany 4. The Income Tax department has
d) Egypt launched the second phase of
'OCM' to investigate over 60,000
7. Who of the following was individuals with an aim to detect
honoured with Young Scientist black money generation post
demonetization, recently. What is 9. Who of the following won Men's
the full form of 'OCM'? singles Singapore open Badminton
a) Operation Cheat Money Championship?
b) On Collection Money a) Kidambi Srikanth
c) Operation Clean Money b) Sai Praneeth
d) Operation Clear Monetory c) Chetan Anand
d) Parupalli Kashyap
5. Nepal and China will hold the
first-ever joint military exercise 1. Who of the following won 2017
from 17 April 2017 with a special Bahrain Formula 1 Grand Prix?
focus on combating terror and a) Max Verstappen
disaster management. Name the b) Valteeri Bottas
exercise. c) Sebastian Vettel
a) Sagarmatha Maitri- 2017 d) Lewis Hamilton
b) Sagarmatha Dosti- 2017
c) Sagarmatha Friendship- 2017 2. Who of the following won Time
d) Sagarmatha Mitrta-2017 Magazine's Most Influential
Person poll 2017?
6. Which of the following Digital a) Bill Gates
wallet firm partners with Genesis b) Donald Trump
Luxury for payment gateways in c) Angela Mekrel
India? d) Rodrigo Duterte
a) MobiKwik
b) Freecharge 3. Name the progressive rock and
c) Jio Money jazz fusion guitar pioneer who
d) Paytm passed away recently.
a) Allan Holdsworth
7. Name the Former J&K b) Eric Clapton
governor, who has passed away c) B.B. King
recently due to illness. d) George Harrison
a) JJ Sinha
b) Amrit Pal 4. Which country hosted the first-
c) Girish Chandra Saxena ever G20 Digital Ministerial
d) Ashok Punetha Meeting on Digital Economy?
a) Japan
8. Mukulita Vijayawargiya took b) France
charge as whole time Member of c) Germany
the Insolvency and Bankruptcy d) Russia
Board of India (IBBI) recently. The
present chairman of IBBI is 5. Nepal President arrives in Delhi
. on five-day visit. Who is the
a) Madhusudan Sahoo President of Nepal
b) U K Sinha a) Ram Baran Yadav
c) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala b) Bidya Devi Bhandari
d) Harish Baweja c) Khadga Prasad Oli
d) Nanda Kishor Pun
6. Which of the following State beneficiary schemes?
Government has launched a) Odisha
Advanced Farming – Enriched b) West Bengal
Farmer scheme for helping the c) Telangana
farmers to increase their income? d) Uttar Pradesh
a) Telangana
b) Bihar 2. The largest Indian missile
c) Maharashtra destroyer ship has been dedicated
d) Madhya Pradesh to which Indian port city?
a) Chennai
7. Recently Patanjali opened its b) Vishakhapatnam
first restaurant in Chandigarh. c) Kochi
Name it. d) Mumbai
a) Aahar
b) Khana Khazana 3. Which former Indian cricketer
c) Postik has been named as one of the
d) Swadisht commentators for the upcoming
Champions trophy?
8. Name the internet pioneer who a) Rahul Dravid
passed away recently. b) Sachin Tendulkar
a) Johnson Willey c) Saurav Ganguly
b) Robert Taylor d) VVS Laxman
c) B.B. King
d) George Harrison 4. Which country is hosting the
3rd Edition of Global Exhibition
9. Recently HRD Ministry on Services (GES – 2017)?
launches RUSA App & Website. a) India
Full form of RUSA. b) Bangladesh
a) Rajkiya Uchchatar Shiksha c) Nepal
Abhiyan d) China
b) Rashtriya Uchch Shiksha
Abhiyan 5. UN is going to issue special
c) Rashtriya Uchchatar Sarvajanik stamps to commemorate which
Abhiyan International Day?
d) Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha a) World Environment Day
Abhiyan b) World Day Against Child
Labour
10. Who is the Current HRD c) World Refugee Day
Minister? d) International Day of Yoga
a) Smriti Irani
b) JP Nudda 6. Name the cinema at Lal Chowk
c) Dr. Harshwardhan of Srinagar whose site will be used
d) Prakash Javdekar for development of a heritage
museum soon.
1. Which state government has a) Palladium Cinema
introduced the Social Security b) Neelam cinema
Yojana combining five separate
c) Regal Cinema 12. UP Government renames Agra
d) Naaz Cinema Airport. Agra Airport was
renamed after RSS ideologue
7. TAL Manufacturing Solutions ?
recently unveiled India’s first a) Eknath Ranade
conceptualized, designed and b) Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay
manufactured articulated c) Keshav Baliram Hedgewar
industrial robot. The robot is d) MS Golwalkar
called as
a) ROBBO 1. Finance Ministry approves
b) BROBO interest rate on EPF
c) BRABO for 2016-17.
d) BROBA a) 8.65%
b) 8.75%
8. Who has recently taken over as c) 8.70%
the Financial Commissioner of d) 8.50%
Railways?
a) S Mahajan 2. Which city will host the main
b) B N Mohapatra event of the International Day of
c) B B Verma Yoga (IDY) celebrations in June
d) AK Singhal 2017?
a) Karnal
9. Who of the following was b) Bhopal
recently awarded with Dr Paduru c) Lucknow
Gururaja Bhat Award 2017? d) Bengaluru
a) A V Narasimha Murthy
b) Romila Thapar 3. Which country abolished its 457
c) Irfan Habib Visa programme which is used
d) Satish Chandra largely by Indians?
a) Canada
10. Govt bans red beacons on all b) Australia
VIP vehicles from c) New Zealand
a) 1 July 2017 d) UAE
b) 1 August 2017
c) 15 August 2017 4. Which state government, DMRC
d) 1 May 2017 inked pact to supply power from
Rewa project?
11. Who of the following becomes a) Bihar
India’s first visually impaired b) Uttarakhand
runner to complete Boston c) Telangana
Marathon? d) Madhya Pradesh
a) Anuj Shukla
b) Sagar Baheti 5. Which e-tailer has acquired
c) Vishal Arora logistics start-up InLogg to smooth
d) Sidhharth Pant its delivery process?
a) Jabong
b) Myntra
c) Flipkart a) Malala Yusufzai
d) Snapdeal b) Giuseppina Nicolini
c) Rodrigo Duterte
6. Identify the English d) Kailash Sattyarthi
businesswoman and fashion
designer who was recently 1. Indian Navy test-fires land
appointed the Officer of the Order attack version of which supersonic
of the British Empire. cruise missile?
a) Samantha Cameron a) Prithvi- V
b) Victoria Beckham b) Agni-II
c) Michelle Dewberry c) Brahmos
d) None of the above d) Prithvi-III

7. Which state has been chosen for 2. Minister of State for Railway
the Krishi Karman Awards 2015-16 inaugurates all new Inland
in medium category (1 to 10 Container Depot at Sachana in
million tonnes)? Viramgam of Ahmedabad. Who is
a) Telangana the current Minister of State for
b) Uttarakhand Railway?
c) Chhattisgarh a) Dr. Harshwardhan
d) Himachal Pradesh b) Kiren Rijiju
c) Dharmendra Pradhan
8. How much has India d) Manoj Sinha
contributed recently to the United
Nations Election Assistance 3. Which of the following Indian
Programme? health care services to acquire
a) USD 240000 Panacea arm for Rs 180 cr?
b) USD 260000 a) Sun Pharma
c) USD 250000 b) Narayana Hrudayalaya
d) USD 270000 c) Prime India
d) Apollo Hospitals
9. Which country to host BRICS
Film Festival in June, 2017? 4. inks pact for
a) India electricity distribution in Ajmer.
b) South Africa a) Reliance Power
c) Brazil b) Torrent Power
d) China c) Tata power
d) BHEL
10. When is United Nations
Chinese Day observed every year? 5. Which Indian made it to the
a) 20 April Times 100 Influential People list of
b) 21 April 2017?
c) 23 April a) Mukesh Ambani
d) 19 April b) Anil Ambani
c) Narendra Modi
11. Who of the following wins d) Dilip Sanghvi
UNESCO Peace Prize?
6. Which airline became the 4. Which State Government
world’s first airline to adopt new announced the establishment of
satellite-based airplane tracking 40 yoga wellness centres recently?
system? a) Madhya Pradesh
a) Malaysia Airlines b) Maharashtra
b) Japan Airlines c) Rajasthan
c) Singapore Airlines d) Uttar Pradesh
d) Asiana Airlines
5. As per an estimate of the IMF,
7. Which state government is the projected global economic
planning to set up “Book Banks” in growth for 2017 is
schools to provide old books to a) 1.5%
needy students? b) 2.5%
a) Punjab c) 3.5%
b) Gujarat d) 4.5%
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Rajasthan 6. Who will be honoured with the
75th Master Dinanath Mangeshkar
8. Which Food delivery and home Award?
services app was launched by a) Sachin Tendulkar
Google for Indian market? b) Sunil Gavaskar
a) Ambrosia c) Kapil Dev
b) Delicay d) Sourav Ganguly
c) G-kitchen
d) Areo 7. It is with this country India
signed a MoU to cooperate in the
1. When is World Earth day field of defence shipbuilding.
observed every year? a) China
a) 21 April b) Japan
b) 22 April c) South Korea
c) 23 April d) Poland
d) 24 April
8. Who of the following has been
2. The 11th Civil Services Day was appointed as DGP of Uttar
celebrated on Pradesh?
a) 18 April 2017 a) Javeed Ahmad
b) 19 April 2017 b) Rajiv Mishra
c) 20 April 2017 c) Sulkhan Singh
d) 21 April 2017 d) OP Shukla

3. The first India-Indonesia 9. The Reserve Bank of India


Energy Forum was held in signed an MoU on “Supervisory
a) Jakarta Cooperation and Exchange of
b) New Delhi Supervisory Information” with
c) Mumbai
d) Bali a) Royal Bank of Scotland
b) Bank of Guyana
c) CITI Bank 6. Who of the following was
d) HSBC recently honoured with the P C
Chandra Puraskaar 2017?
1. Who of the following was a) Kailash Satyarthi
recently honoured with the Golden b) Phalguni Vittal Rao
Environmental Award (Green c) Sridhar Reddy
Nobel) 2017 for the Asia-Pacific d) Sindhutai Sapkal
region?
a) Kailash Satyarthi 7. What is the theme of the 2017
b) Malala Yusufzai World Earth Day?
c) Prafulla Samantra a) Trees for the Earth
d) AK Malhotra b) It's Our Turn to Lead
c) Green Cities
2. When is National Panchayati d) Environmental & Climate
Raj Day observed every year? Literacy
a) 25 April
b) 27 April 8. India’s first ever “village of
c) 24 April books” will open in which state to
d) 28 April promote tourism?
a) Punjab
3. Which of the folowing bank inks b) Himachal Pradesh
MoU with CREDAI for c) Maharashtra
concessional loan for housing d) Tamil Nadu
projects?
a) Yes Bank 9. Which All India Radio (AIR)
b) SBI station was honoured with the
c) HDFC prestigious ‘Lelte Award’?
d) Bank of Baroda a) AIR Rohtak
b) AIR Delhi
4. Who won the Monte Carlo c) AIR Aizawl
Masters Men’s Doubles title? d) AIR Chennai
a) Pierre-Hugues Herbert and
Nicolas Mahut 10. Who of the following veteran
b) Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan actress gets Bengal Film
c) Julien Benneteau and Nenad Journalists' Association (BFJA)
Zimonjić lifetime achievement award?
d) Rohan Bopanna and Pablo a) Hema Malini
Cuevas b) Shabana Azmi
c) Moushumi Chatterjee
5. Who won the Monte Carlo d) Sri Devi
Masters Men’s Singles title?
a) Roger Federer 11. Which of the following state
b) Rafael Nadal government launches mobile app
c) Albert Ramos-Vinolas 'Kilkari' to create awareness
d) None of the above among pregnant women?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Haryana
c) Maharashtra Day 2017 observed every year?
d) Punjab a) 27 April
b) 28 April
1. Who of the following appointed c) 30 April
as new Central Reserve Police d) 26 April
Force (CRPF) chief?
a) Vijay Kumar 7. England all-rounder
b) Rajiv Bhatnagar quits cricket at 25.
c) RK Pachnanda a) Ben Stokes
d) MK Shauri b) Mark Wood
c) Zafar Ansari
2. Which country recently became d) Joe Root
the first time importer of Indian
mangoes? 8. Who was appointed as the new
a) Canada Director of US Secret Service by
b) New Zealand Donald Trump Administration?
c) Spain a) Randolph Alles
d) Australia b) Joseph Clancy
c) William Callahan
3. Who of the following appointed d) Julia Pierson
as new DG of Indo Tibet Border
Police (ITBP)? 9. Name the Indian professional
a) Vijay Kumar shot putter who recently won a
b) Rajiv Bhatnagar gold medal in the first leg of the
c) RK Pachnanda Asian Grand Prix Athletics Meet in
d) MK Shauri Jinhua, China.
a) Deepa Malik
4. When is World Intellectual b) Harwant Kaur
Property Day 2017 observed every c) Manpreet Kaur
year? d) None of the above
a) 27 April
b) 28 April 10. What is the theme of the 2017
c) 30 April World Intellectual Property Day?
d) 26 April a) Digital Creativity: Culture
Reimagined
5. Which country is the world’s b) Innovation – Improving Lives
fifth largest military spender, as c) Get Up, Stand Up. For Music
per latest report by the Stockholm d) Movies – a Global Passion
International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI)? 11. Who of the following NASA
a) China astronaut recently set a new US
b) United States record for most cumulative days
c) India spent in space?
d) Russia a) Peggy Whitson
b) Sunita Williams
6. When is International c) JeI Williams
Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance d) None of the above
12. Which country has banned 3. PM flags off the first regional
more than a dozen Muslim names? flights under the Ude Desh ka Aam
a) United Kingdom Nagrik (UDAN) scheme from
b) North Korea
c) China a) Bengaluru Airport
d) The United States of America b) Indira Gandhi International
Airport
13. The Central University for c) Shimla Airport
Divyangs will be set up in which d) Pune Airport
state?
a) Uttar Pradesh 4. When is the World Lab Animal
b) Haryana Day (WLAD) observed globally?
c) Gujarat a) 22 April
d) Jharkhand b) 23 April
c) 24 April
14. Who of the following became d) 25 April
the first Pakistani cricketer to
score 10000 Test runs? 5. NASA recently successfully
a) Wahab Riaz launched its heavy-lift super
b) Umar Akmal pressure balloon (SPB) from
c) Sohail Khan which country?
d) Younis Khan a) Maldives
b) Australia
15. Unocoin partners with c) New Zealand
for simple buying of d) Fiji
bitcoins.
a) Oxigen 6. Name the Tennis player who in
b) PayPal April 2017 made a winning
c) PayU Biz comeback to the sports after her
d) Paytm 15-month ban from the sport due
to doping.
1. Who of the following was a) Maximilian Abel
crowned the Miss Teen Universe b) Maria Sharapova
2017? c) Kristina Antoniychuk
a) Srishti Kaur d) Mariano Puerta
b) Nieveles Gonzalez
c) Nicole Obando 7. Famous personality Vinod
d) Xirelle Agustin Khanna died recently. Who was
he?
2. Which country appointed Hana a) Veteran Cricketer
Khatib as írst female judge in its b) Astrologer
Muslim Sharia Court system? c) Veteran Actor
a) Israel d) Guitarist
b) Iran
c) Palestine 8. Which country to host 18th
d) Iraq World Road Meeting?
a) China
b) Singapore Work?
c) India a) Optimize the collection and use
d) Japan of OSH data
b) Workplace Stress: a collective
1. B S Sandhu was appointed as the challenge
new Director General of Police of c) Join in building a culture for
which state? prevention on OSH
a) Uttar Pradesh d) Safety and health in the use of
b) Punjab chemicals at work
c) Haryana
d) Himachal Pradesh 7. Kazakhstan recently opened its
honorary consulate in which of the
2. Who of the following was following cities?
recently appointed as the a) Thiruvananthapuram
President of Coca-Cola India? b) Bengaluru
a) T K K Krishnakumar c) Chennai
b) Venkatesh Kini d) Kolkata
c) Vamsi Mohan
d) None of the above 8. When is World Day for Safety
and Health at Work observed
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi every year?
recently unveiled translated a) 30 April
volumes of Vachana in New Delhi. b) 29 April
The Vachana was penned by c) 21 April
a) Ramanuja d) 28 April
b) Nathamuni
c) Allama Prabu 9. Which of the following country
d) Basavanna becomes 1st country in world to
ban metals mining?
4. Who of the following became a) Australia
the first Indian actor to deliver a b) El Salvador
speech at the TED Talks? c) Ukraine
a) Shahrukh Khan d) Kazakhstan
b) Amir Khan
c) Rajnikanth 10. Which of the following city
d) Amitabh Bachchan becomes 1st Indian city to win
Pierre L'Enfant Awards-2017?
5. What is the theme of the 2017 a) Jaipur
World Immunization Week? b) Pune
a) Close the immunization gap c) Bhubaneshwar
b) Vaccines Work d) Bangalore
c) Are you up-to-date?
d) Protect your world – get 1. Who of the following won
vaccinated Russian Grand Prix 2017?
a) Lewis Hamilton
6. What is the theme of the 2017 b) Max Verstappen
World Day for Safety and Health at
c) Valtteri Bottas b) 29 April
d) Kimi Raikonen c) 30 April
d) 2 May
2. Which of the following state got
it's first Shatabdi Train? 8. Who of the following becomes
a) Manipur world’s oldest person to complete
b) Arunachal Pradesh Auckland Sky Walk?
c) Assam a) Mann Kaur
d) None of These b) Ankit Ahuja
c) Tintu Lukka
3. Who of the following appointed d) Dutee Chand
as Bowling Coach of Sri Lanka for
interim period? 9. Who of the following sand
a) Shaun Pollock artists won gold medal in Moscow
b) Glenn McGrath competition?
c) Allan Donald a) Ashok Kumar
d) Courtney Walsh b) Sudarsan Pattnaik
c) Rahul Arya
4. Who of the following won 10th d) None of These
Barcelona Open Title?
a) Roger Federer 10. Two Indian-Americans
b) Rafael Nadal selected for
c) Stan Wawrinka American Council on Education
d) Novak Djokovic (ACE) fellowship.
a) Ritu Raju & Sundeep R Muppidi
5. India to give to b) Ritu Raju & Aakriti Verma
Bangladesh freedom fighters c) Ashok Nene & Sundeep R
children under 'Muktijodha Muppidi
scholarship' scheme. d) Harshita Tripathi & Ritesh
a) Rs 135 cr Shrivastava
b) Rs 85 cr
c) Rs 35 cr 1. When is International Labour
d) Rs 15 cr Day observed every year?
a) 2 May
6. Janalakshmi Financial Services b) 7 May
gets final small finance bank c) 1 May
licence from RBI. Where is it's d) 3 May
headquarter?
a) Jaipur 2. 2017 Global Mobile Internet
b) Varanasi Conference has begun in which
c) Bangalore city?
d) Ahmedabad a) Delhi
b) Tokyo
7. When is Day of Remembrance c) Beijing
for all Victims of Chemical d) Shanghai
Warfare observed every year?
a) 28 April
3. The National Mission for Clean c) Russia
Ganga has selected which date to d) India
be observed as ‘Ganga Cleanliness
Pledge Day’? 9. Who has become the first Indian
a) May 1 woman to drive Formula E racing
b) May 2 car?
c) May 3 a) Neelu Jha
d) May 4 b) Minisha Lamba
c) Gul Panag
4. Maharashtra’s first automatic d) Vaishali Kapoor
weather station has come up at
which place? 10. Who of the following has been
a) Mumbai selected by Japan for this year's
b) Pune Spring Imperial Decorations?
c) Nagpur a) Ashwani Kumar
d) Thane b) Prafull Patel
c) Shashi Tharoor
5. A commemorative stamp has d) Maneka Gandhi
been released on the birth
anniversary of Saint 11. Which of the following ward
Ramanujacharya. becomes Country's First Digitised
a) 100 Panchayat ward?
b) 500 a) Pudukad
c) 750 b) Payyanur
d) 1000 c) Thrissur
d) Aymanam
6. Who has become the first Indian
to win Asian Squash women title? 12. Who of the following appointed
a) Joshna Chinappa as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
b) Dipika Pallikal recently?
c) Janet Vidhi a) Abhishek Bacchan
d) Ritika Bhattacharya b) Jennifer Lopez
c) Yusra Mardini
7. SpaceX has launched a spy d) Malala Yusufzai
satellite named NROL-76 for
which country? 1. Who of the following was
a) USA recently appointed as the
b) South Korea Chairman of the Public Accounts
c) North Korea Committee?
d) Japan a) K.V. Thomas
b) Ghulam Nabi Azad
8. Aircraft AG600 that recently c) Mallikarjun Kharge
completed its first glide test d) Shankarsinh Vaghela
belongs to which country?
a) China 2. Which city became the first in
b) Japan the world to have its own
Microsoft font?
a) Dubai 8. Which of the following football
b) Paris clubs recently won the I-League
c) New York title?
d) Berlin a) Mohun Bagan A.C.
b) East Bengal F.C.
3. Which of the following became c) Aizawl F.C.
the first state in India to switch to d) Shillong Lajong F.C
the January-December financial
year from existing April-March 9. Which state bestowed Padma
cycle? Venkataraman, the daughter of
a) Gujarat former Indian President, the late
b) Chhattisgarh R Venkataraman, with the
c) Madhya Pradesh Avvaiyar award?
d) Uttar Pradesh a) Kerala
b) Tamil Nadu
4. World Press Freedom Day was c) Andhra Pradesh
observed globally on which date? d) Karnataka
a) 1 May
b) 3 May 10. India's first book village is
c) 2 May going to come up in which state’s
d) 30 April hamlet?
a) Gujarat
5. Which foundation bagged the b) Karnataka
‘FICCI-India Sanitation Coalition’ c) Maharashtra
prize? d) Odisha
a) Sampark Foundation
b) Aga Khan Foundation 1. Which airport becomes as
c) Dream Girl Foundationn International Airport recently?
d) Smile Foundation a) Chennai
b) Vijayawada
6. Which financial service received c) Patna
the final license from RBI for d) Kolkata
Small Finance Bank?
a) Bajaj Holdings 2. With which country has Union
b) Arihant Capital Cabinet approved the signing of
c) Asirvad Microfinance Private MoU on a development of a urea
Ltd and ammonia manufacturing
d) Janalakshmi Financial Services plant in the southeast Asian
Ltd country?
a) Singapore
7. Who was recently honoured b) Sri Lanka
with the 2017 INSA Medal for c) Singapore
Young Scientist? d) Malaysia
a) Nitin Saxena
b) P. Anbarasan 3. Which country going to
c) Athi N. Naganathan introduce its own Encyclopaedia
d) Sanjay Pratihar by 2018?
a) Singapore a) Telangana
b) Japan b) Maharashtra
c) China c) Karnataka
d) India d) Andhra Pradesh

4. Who is the new chairman of 10. World’s first quantum


Indian Council of Social Science computing machine has been
Research(ICSSR)? developed by which country?
a) Sunish Singh a) US
b) Braj Bihari Kumar b) Japan
c) Anrish Menon c) China
d) Sanjay Singh d) Germany

5. Which policy approved by Union 11. Hollywood movie named The


government recently? Black Prince recently won the
a) National pension scheme Special Jury Remi Award at the
b) National steel policy 50th annual Worldfest-Houston
c) National goods policy International Film Festival. Which
d) National adhaar policy Indian actress has acted in this
movie?
6. How much million loan AIIB a) Deepika Padukone
granted for Andhra Pradesh b) Priyanka Chopra
Power Project? c) Juhi Chawla
a) $10 million d) Shabana Azmi
b) $150 million
c) $160 million 12. Which web portal was
d) $120 million launched by Department of
Telecom for information sharing
7. What growth rate has Asian on Mobile Towers?
Development Bank (ADB) a) Tarang Sanchar
predicted for India in 2018-19? b) Mobile Seva
a) 7.4% c) Bharat Sanchar
b) 7.6% d) m-Seva
c) 7.8%
d) 7.9% 13. Who of the following won the
World Snooker Championship
8. Who approves SAMPADA title?
project recently? a) Pankaj Advani
a) Cabinet committee of Economic b) Ronnie O’Sullivan
affairs c) Mark Selby
b) Cabinet of Finance d) John Higgins
c) Cabinet of sports
d) Cabinet of Income tax 14. Who of the following was
recently honoured with the Dada
9. Which Indian state will sign Saheb Phalke Award?
sister state agreement with a) Kasinadhuni Viswanath
California, Iowa, and Illinois? b) Kamalakara Kameswara Rao
c) Gundamma Katha 5. Which Hollywood film,
d) None of the above featuring actress Shabana Azmi,
was awarded the Special Jury
15. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Remi Award at the 50th annual
inaugurated two exhibitions, ‘The Worldfest-Houston International
Highway Saga’ and SRISHTI in Film Festival?
which city? a) Prince Caspian
a) Delhi b) The Black Prince
b) Mumbai c) A hundred foot journey
c) Bangalore d) Politics of Love
d) Chennai
6. What is the theme of 2017 World
1. The Union government has Asthma Day (WAD)?
appointed Braj Bihari Kumar as a) Better air better breathing
the Chairman of which Indian b) Reduce the asthma burden
research body? c) You Can Control Your Asthma
a) ICHR d) Unite to overcome asthma
b) ISRO
c) CSIR 7. Who was appointed as
d) IISER Chairman of the Tea Board of
India?
2. Which country is hosting the a) M G K V Bhanu
27th session of the Universal b) Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah
Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN c) Santosh Sarangi
Human Rights Council (UNHRC)? d) M S Boje Gowda
a) India
b) Switzerland 8. Which social networking site
c) South Africa officially launched “Express Wi-
d) Seychelles Fi” internet services in India?
a) YouTube
3. Who of the following was b) Twitter
recently appointed the Vice c) Facebook
Chancellor of Ashoka University? d) Instagram
a) Rudrangshu Mukherjee
b) Pratap Bhanu Mehta 9. When is the International
c) Andre Beteille Firefighters’ Day (IFFD) observed
d) None of the above every year?
a) 1 May
4. Which of the following b) 2 May
countries lead the FIFA World c) 3 May
Ranking, which was released d) 4 May
recently?
a) Brazil 10. Who is the author of the set of
b) Argentina books titled 'Swachh Jungle ki
c) Germany kahani – Dadi ki Zubani'?
d) France a) Anita Desai
b) Madhu Pant
c) Anant Pai 2. Who of the following indian
d) Neelam Saxena actress won top honours at New
York Indian Film Festival?
11. Online classifieds company a) Priyanka Chopra
Quikr India Pvt. Ltd acquired b) Aishwarya Rai Bachhan
which start-up for about USD 10 c) Konkona Sen Sharma
million? d) Katrina Kaif
a) UrbanClay
b) OLX 3. Which of the following film
c) NimBus becomes first Indian film to collect
d) Zimmber 1000 Crore Rs world wide?
a) Dangal
12. Who of the following appointed b) Rushtom
as head of Allahabad Bank? c) Bahubali 2
a) Sunil Mehta d) Bajrangi Bhaijaan
b) Usha Ananthasubramanian
c) R A Sankara Narayan 4. Name the Japan's men-only
d) Dinabandhu Mohapatra island that was recommended by
UNESCO for World Heritage
13. Who of the following appointed status.
as head of Vijaya Bank? a) Hashima Island
a) Sunil Mehta b) Sakhalin Island
b) Usha Ananthasubramanian c) Tashirojima Island
c) R A Sankara Narayan d) Okinoshima Island
d) Dinabandhu Mohapatra
5. Which Indian actor was
14. Who of the following appointed conferred the award for
as head of Bank Of India? outstanding achievement in
a) Sunil Mehta Cinema posthumously at the 7th
b) Usha Ananthasubramanian annual Asian Awards held in the
c) R A Sankara Narayan United Kingdom?
d) Dinabandhu Mohapatra a) Om Puri
b) Kader Khan
15. Who of the following appointed c) Naseeruddin Shah
as head of Punjab National Bank? d) Imran Khan
a) Sunil Mehta
b) Usha Ananthasubramanian 6. Justice Leila Seth, the renowned
c) R A Sankara Narayan jurist who passed away, was the
d) Dinabandhu Mohapatra first woman chief justice of which
high court?
1. Who of the following was elected a) Himachal Pradesh high court
as the youngest President of b) Madhya Pradesh high court
France? c) Andhra Pradesh high court
a) Emmanuel Macron d) Kerala high court
b) Manuel Valls
c) Marine Le Pen 7. Who won the 2016 Wisden-MCC
d) Benoit Hamon (Melbourne Cricket Council)
Cricket Photograph of the Year? poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
a) Paul Miller a) Israel
b) Saqib Majeed b) Sri Lanka
c) Adrian Murrell c) Egypt
d) Nigel Davies d) Afghanistan

8. Name the Indian boxer who 14. Which country successfully test
qualied for the World flight its indigenously developed
Championships in the 52 kilogram C919 passenger jet plane?
category after getting a walkover a) USA
against Malaysia's boxer at the b) Australia
Asian Championships in Tashkent, c) China
Uzbekistan. d) India
a) Kavinder Singh Bisht
b) Salam Abdul Kasim 1. Who of the following appointed
c) Satish Kumar as the president of South Korea?
d) Manoj Kumar a) Hwang Kyo-ahn
b) Park Geun-hye
10. Which Hollywood c) Moon Jae-in
actor/actress bagged the first-ever d) Lee Myung-bak
MTV genderless award?
a) Emma Watson 2. When is the World Migratory
b) Hugh Jackman Bird Day observed?
c) Taraji P Henson a) 11 May
d) Jessica Chastain b) 9 May
c) 12 May
11. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari d) 10 May
inaugurated India’s first bio
renery in which Indian city? 3. Who of the following appointed
a) Bengaluru as Country Director for Twitter
b) Pune India?
c) Bhopal a) Karan Sharma
d) Jamshedpur b) Taranjeet Singh
c) Sunil Sharma
12. Which country’s space plane d) Ashwini Mehta
recently returned after completing
its two-year-long secret space 4. Which of the following is the
mission? name of the strategy against
a) USA Maoists as announced by Union
b) Russia Home Minister Rajnath Singh?
c) Japan a) SANRAKSHAN
d) China b) SAMVAAD
c) SURAKSHA
13. This is the country where a d) SAMADHAN
cultural festival is being organised
by India to mark the 156th birth
anniversary of the famous Indian
5. Which of the following c) Jhulan Goswami
technology is being acquired by d) Ankita Verma
Indian Railways to run trains
without guards? 1. Recently which State govt
a) EoFT announces 4% hike in Dearness
b) FoET Allowance to it's employees?
c) EoTT a) Uttar Pradesh
d) FoTT b) Kerala
c) Gujarat
6. Who has been named as the new d) Bihar
Defence Secretary and will take
office from 24 May, 2017? 2. Which of the following city to
a) G. Mohan Kumar host biggest ever International
b) Karan Sharma Yoga Day event on June 21?
c) Sanjay Mitra a) Lucknow
d) Sunil Patil b) Ahmedabad
c) Rajkot
7. For the first time in history a d) Pune
sitting high court judge has been
convicted for contempt of court. 3. Who of the following appointed
Name this judge. as new Defence Secretary?
a) Justice C S Karnan a) G Mohan Kumar
b) Justice Arun Tandon b) Brajesh Varshney
c) Justice Tarun Agarwala c) Sanjay Mitra
d) Justice B M Thakur d) Amit Badal

8. Who has been named as the 4. When is National Technology


Footballer of the Year by the Day observed every year?
Football Writers’ Association? a) 12 May
a) N’Golo Kante b) 11 May
b) Eden Hazard c) 13 May
c) Dele Alli d) 18 May
d) Ben Foster
5. Which of the following
9. Asian Wrestling Championship department launches new facility
begins in to link Aadhaar with PAN?
a) Beijing a) SEBI
b) Kathmandu b) CBDT
c) New Delhi c) Income Tax
d) Islamabad d) RBI

10. Who of the following becomes 6. Union Minister Ravi Shankar


world's highest wicket-taker in Prasad inaugurates Business
Women's ODIs? Process Service (BPS) centre in
a) Cathryn Fitzpatrick set up by TCS.
b) Anjum Chopra a) Bihar
b) Maharashtra
c) Goa 4. Which among the following was
d) Uttar Pradesh ranked world’s most affordable
tech city as per Savills Tech Cities
7. Which of the following country 2017 rankings?
launches First Clean-Up Campaign a) Bengaluru, India
Across Mount Everest Region? b) Buenos Aeries, Argentina
a) Nepal c) Coepnhagen, Denmark
b) India d) Cape Town, South Africa
c) China
d) Bhutan 5. When is the International Nurse
day observed every year?
8. National Basketball Association a) 9 May
(NBA) inaugurated its first ever b) 10 May
academy in c) 11 May
a) Greater Noida d) 12 May
b) Lucknow
c) Pune 6. What was the 2017 theme of
d) Hyderabad ‘International Nurses Day’?
a) Nurses: A Force for Change:
1. India will be signing a MoU with Improving health system’s
which country to increase bilateral resilience
cooperation in urban transport b) Nursing: A voice to lead-
policy? Achieving the Sustainable
a) UK Development Goals
b) US c) Ensuring Safety of Nurses in
c) France War ZONE
d) Germany d) Nurses: A Force for Change:
Care EIective, Cost EIective
2. Tejas successfully test fired
Derby Air-to-Air BVR missile in 7. Who was appointed as the
RADAR guided mode. What kind Chancellor of JNU recently?
of aircraft is Tejas? a) Sandeep Tomar
a) Heavy Combat Aircraft b) Harpreet Singh
b) Light Combat Aircraft c) V K Saraswat
c) Sukhoi Su d) Yogeshwar Dutt
d) Mikoyan MiG
8. Karan Singh, who passed away
3. Which state’s government is recently, was the Cabinet minister
planning to declare "no school bag of which Indian state?
day" on Saturdays in all the state- a) Goa
run schools? b) Haryana
a) Uttar Pradesh c) Punjab
b) Jharkhand d) Himachal Pradesh
c) Maharashtra
d) Kerala 9. Which state’s CM launched the
implementation of Pradhan
Mantri Gramin Awas Yojna in the
state? c) India
a) Gujarat d) New Zealand
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Madhya Pradesh 4. Recently ‘Adiyogi bust’ was
d) Uttarakhand declared world’s largest by
Guinness Book of World Records.
10. The World Health In which state is this ‘Adiyogi’ Lord
Organization (WHO) has declared Shiv statue located?
an Ebola outbreak in which a) Kerala
African nation? b) Andhra Pradesh
a) Congo c) Tamil Nadu
b) Zambia d) Karnataka
c) Zimbabwe
d) Mozambique 5. Which state government will
form ‘Maa’ committee to check
11. Which Bollywood celebrity has mid-day meal quality in the state-
been appointed by the World run primary schools?
Health Organisation as its a) Uttar Pradesh
goodwill ambassador for hepatitis b) Haryana
in South-East Asia region? c) Punjab
a) Amitabh Bachchan d) Bihar
b) Salman Khan
c) Shahrukh Khan 6. What was the theme of World
d) Aamir Khan Fair Trade Day 2017?
a) Towards a Global World to
1. Who of the following won the Support Fair Trade
Spanish F1 Grand Prix 2017? b) Fair Trade a Necessity as
a) Sebastian Vettel Demand Grows
b) Lewis Hamilton c) Human Chains for Fair Trade
c) Valtteri Bottas and the Planet
d) Kimi Raikonen d) Fair Trade to support the
planet.
2. What is India’s rank in the
World Bank’s electricity 7. What was the theme of
accessibility ranking 2017? International Mothers’ Day 2017?
a) 73 a) Know your Mother
b) 99 b) Mother the Kind Hearted
c) 26 c) Brave Mothers
d) 24 d) Every Mother knows

3. Indian dairy cooperative Amul 8. Pilot ‘e-Sanad’ project was


will sponsor which cricket team in launched in which state?
the upcoming Champions trophy a) Andhra Pradesh
of cricket? b) Telangana
a) Australia c) Kerala
b) South Africa d) Tamil Nadu
1. Name the health worker in 6. Name the malicious software
Ganjam district of Odisha, who that aIected various computers
bagged the prestigious Florence recently and restricted users'
Nightingale award 2017. access to it until a ransom is paid
a) Savita Lenka to unlock it?
b) Vibhuti Das a) Bitcoinware
c) Debashree Panda b) Captiveware
d) Krishna Kumari c) Ransomware
d) Pay-oIware
2. Which Indian airport has
become the busiest single-runway 7. Who of the following won the
airport in the world with 1 flight in men’s singles title of the Madrid
65 seconds? Open of Tennis.
a) Indira Gandhi International a) Novak Djokovic
Airport b) Roger Federer
b) Chhatrapati Shivaji c) Dominic Thiem
International Airport d) Rafael Nadal
c) Kempegowda International
Airport 8. International Day of Families
d) Chennai International Airport was observed on 15 May 2017 with
this theme for the year.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi a) Ensuring work family balance
launched river conservation b) Families, healthy lives and
project ‘Narmada Seva Mission’ in sustainable future
which state? c) Families, education and well-
a) Gujarat being
b) Madhya Pradesh d) Changing Families: Challenges
c) Uttar Pradesh and Opportunities
d) Maharashtra
1. Who of the following created
4. Home Minister Rajnath Singh record by scoring second highest
inaugurated the second meeting of score in women's One Day
National Platform for Disaster International?
Risk Reduction (NPDRR) in which a) Jhulan Goswami
city? b) Deepti Sharma
a) Bengaluru c) Belinda Clarke
b) Pune d) Anjum Chopra
c) New Delhi
d) Lucknow 2. When is International Day of
Faimilies observed every year?
5. Which city topped the 2017 a) 16 May
Savills Tech Cities Index? b) 17 May
a) Mumbai c) 18 MaY
b) Austin D) 15 May
c) San Francisco
d) New York 3. What is the theme of
International Day of Families?
a) “Families, country and well- sport did he win it in?
being” a) Lawn Tennis
b) “Families, world and well- b) Squash
being” c) Table Tennis
c) “Families, education and well- d) Golf
being”
d) “Families, learning and well- 9. Which state topped the 2017
being” Public AIairs Index (PAI) in
governance?
4. Who of the following was a) Kerala
recently named as the Prime b) Gujarat
Minister of France? c) Karnataka
a) Alain Juppé d) Maharashtra
b) Emmanuel Macron
c) Marine Le Pen 10. Which of the following IIT
d) Edouard Philippe collaborated with the British
Geological Survey to turn Varanasi
5. Which country recently declared into a smart city?
a state of emergency over cholera a) IIT Mumbai
outbreak? b) IIT Kanpur
a) Syria c) IIT Kharagpur
b) Yemen d) IIT Delhi
c) South Sudan
d) Nigeria 1. The National Green Tribunal
(NGT) in May 2017 banned open
6. Who of the following was defecation and dumping of waste
recently appointed as the Deputy on the foodplains of this river.
Executive Secretary of the United a) Krishna
Nations Framework Convention b) Yamuna
on Climate Change? c) Ganga
a) Ovais Sarmad d) Tapti
b) Richard Kinley
c) Stephen Williams 2. Cabinet of this country has
d) Jennifer Clarke approved a bill that will allow its
emperor to abdicate this thrown to
7. Which Indian cricketer has allow the prince crown to take
launched a foundation dedicated charge of the same.
to empowering underprivileged a) Japan
mothers and children? b) UAE
a) MS Dhoni c) North Korea
b) Rohit Sharma d) Myanmar
c) Virat Kohli
d) Suresh Raina 3. As per a new report of the
UNICEF, how many
8. US-based Indian player Ramit unaccompanied and separated
Tandon won his first professional children moving
title on 14 May 2017. In Which
across borders were registered in d) Har Gobind Khorana
80 countries in 2015–16?
a) 300000 9. Which Indian-American student
b) 250000 won the 2017 National Geographic
c) 66000 Bee contest?
d) 98000 a) Veda Bhattaram
b) George Sudarshan
4. Who of the following won the All c) Jayant Narlikar
India Open Rapid FIDE Rating d) Pranay Varada
Chess Tournament?
a) Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury 10. Which HADR Exercise of
b) Somak Palit Indian Navy began recently?
c) Prantik Roy a) Jalrahat
d) R R Laxman b) Prakampana
c) Sahayata
5. President Pranab Mukherjee d) Karavali Karunya
recently received the Ârst copy of
book ‘Metaphysics, Morals and 11. Simbex-17 that recently
Politics.’ Who is the author of the commenced is a bilateral naval
book? exercise between India and which
a) Shirin M Rai other country?
b) Baldav Raj Nayar a) Japan
c) Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay b) Republic of Singapore
d) Sumantra Bose c) Vietnam
d) Indonesia
6. Which Indian wildlife activist
won the 2017 Whitley Awards? 12. Union Heavy Industries &
a) Sanjay Gubbi Public Enterprises Minister Anant
b) Naresh Kadyan Geete recently inaugurated the
c) Aruna Sabhane Test Track Facility in Chennai. The
d) Shahriar Kabir Facility is developed by?
a) Global Automotive Research
7. Anil Madhav Dave, who passed Centre
away recently, was the Union b) Automotive Research Centre of
Minister of which department? India
a) Labour and Employment c) DYPDC Center for Automotive
b) Environment, Forest and Research and Studies
Climate Change d) None of the above
c) Petroleum and Natural Gas
d) Health & Family Welfare 13. Indian Army in May 2017
received the first two M-777 A-2
8. Which Indian scientist won the ultra-light howitzers (ULH) from
2017 Dan David prize in the the US. Name the company from
“Future” category? which the howitzers were
a) Dronamraju Krishna Rao received.
b) Biman Bagchi a) Finmeccanica
c) Shrinivas Kulkarni
b) United Technologies famine. Which of the following is
Corporation not part of the four African nation
c) General Dynamics that is on the brink of famine?
d) BAE systems a) Nigeria
b) Somalia
1. A committee that was c) South Sudan
constituted to prepare guidelines d) Zimbabwe
for desiltation of river Ganga from
Bhimgauda (Uttarakhand) to 5. Name the former coal secretary
Farakka (West Bengal) has who was convicted in a coal scam
submitted its report to Ministry of case by the special CBI court.
Water Resources. Who of the a) K S Kropha
following was the chairperson of b) K C Samaria
the committee? c) HC Gupta
a) Madhav Chitale d) Pawan Kumar Ahluwalia
b) AK Sinha
c) Justice (Retd) Girdhar Malviya 6. Union Home Minister Rajnath
d) VK Bhasin Singh chaired the first meeting of
the Chief Ministers of five States
2. India in May 2017 imposed anti- on India-China Border in
dumping duty on a chemical used a) New Delhi
in pharma industry and b) Agartala
aluminium foil to protect domestic c) Gangtok
industry from cheap imports. The d) Guwahati
duty was issued on the import of
these materials from this country. 7. India in May 2017 pledged its
a) China commitment to eliminate
b) Iran tuberculosis by
c) Israel a) 2020
d) Vietnam b) 2025
c) 2030
3. This organisation was presented d) 2032
with the Indira Gandhi Prize for
Peace, Disarmament and 8. What is India’s rank in
Development for 2014 at a international tourist arrivals (ITA)
function in New Delhi. in both 2014 and 2015 in the latest
a) BHEL UNWTO’s World Tourism
b) SAIL Barometer, as of March 2017?
c) ISRO a) 12
d) Space Application Center b) 19
c) 24
4. According to senior staIers at d) 46
the UN Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) and the World 9. Name the state that in May 2017
Food Programme (WFP) twenty launched an e-textbook portal for
million people in four African school students.
countries are on the brink of a) Haryana
b) Bihar d) N S Rathore
c) Jharkhand
d) Assam 6. Which Bollywood actress was
awarded the UK International
1. Name the institute/organisation Humanitarian Award for her
that has developed a technique philanthropic work in India and
that types Braille in real time and worldwide?
helps deaf-blind people "watch" a) Deepika Padukone
television without intermediaries. b) Madhuri Dixit
a) Universidad Carlos III de c) Twinkle Khanna
Madrid d) Jacqueline Fernandez
b) University of Cambridge
c) Stanford University 7. Donald Trump, during his
d) University of Pennsylvania speech at the Arab Islamic-
American Summit, called for the
2. A school in this city has decided international isolation of which
to set up an environment-friendly Muslim country?
toilet made of plastic bottles and a) Iran
other materials. b) Sudan
a) Kochi c) Yemen
b) Jamshedpur d) Syria
c) Jaipur
d) Nainital 8. What is the theme of UN’s
International Day for Biological
3. Who was re-elected as the Diversity 2017?
President of Iran? a) Biodiversity and Sustainable
a) Ebrahim Raisi Tourism
b) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad b) Sustaining People and their
c) Hassan Rouhani Livelihoods
d) Mohammad Khatami c) Water and Biodiversity
d) Convention on Biological
4. Which Indian won the 2017 Intel Diversity
International Science and
Engineering Fair (ISEF) award in 9. Which Union Minister has been
the Environmental Engineering handed over the additional charge
category? of the environment ministry after
a) Prashant Ranganathan the passing of Anil Madhav Dave?
b) Sairandi Sathyanarayanan a) Uma Bharati
c) Pratik Naidu b) Harsh Vardhan
d) Sahithi Pingali c) Smriti Irani
d) Nitin Gadkari
5. Who was appointed as Deputy
Chief of Integrated Defence Sta 10. Who of the following was
(Operations)? named the Premier League Player
a) Satish Dua of the Season?
b) PN Pradhan a) Cristiano Ronaldo
c) Subhash Bhamre b) Eden Hazard
c) Harry Kane a) Rohan Chakravarty
d) N'Golo Kante b) Sunita Narain
c) Chnadi Prasad Bhatt
11. Who of the following won the d) Anadish Pal
2017 Federation Cup?
a) Mohun Bagan 5. Which state’s government has
b) Aizawl ordered an indenite ban on sand
c) Bengaluru FC mining in Narmada River?
d) East Bengal a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Maharashtra
12. Who of the following won the c) Gujarat
Italian Open Men’s Singles title? d) Rajasthan
a) Novak Djokovic
b) Alexander Zverev 6. The two-day ‘Start up India
c) Andy Murray Summit’ was convened in which
d) Rafael Nadal country?
a) United Kingdom
1. The 70th World Health b) United Arab Emirates
Assembly recently commenced at c) Japan
which of the following places? d) Germany
a) Interlaken
b) Bern 7. The United States has issued a
c) Zurich travel advisory, cautioning its
d) Geneva citizens from travelling to which
Muslim nation?
2. Who of the following won the a) Iran
women's title at the Asian b) Yemen
Continental Blitz Chess c) Pakistan
Championship in Chengdu, China? d) Israel
a) Tan Zhongyi
b) Harika Dronavalli 8. Which state signed an MoU with
c) R Vaishali IIT Kharagpur to devise Happiness
d) Elina Danielian Index?
a) Madhya Pradesh
3. India recently became the b) Chhattisgarh
second largest steel producer in c) West Bengal
the world. Which country is the d) Kerala
largest steel producer in the
world? 9. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu
a) Japan flagged India’s first high-speed
b) China and feature rich train ‘Tejas
c) Mexico Express’ that will run between
d) United States which places?
a) Mumbai and New Delhi
4. Who of the following won the b) Mumbai and Goa
2017 WWF International c) New Delhi and Varanasi
President’s Award? d) New Delhi and Chennai
4. Who of the following was
10. Which online payment app recently appointed as the Director-
recently announced to offer 4% General of the World Health
interest on savings? Organisation?
a) Freecharge a) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
b) Mobikwik b) Margaret Chan
c) Paytm c) David Nabarro
d) PayPal d) Sania Nishtar

11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi 5. Name the world's smallest


inaugurated the 52nd Annual nation which ratified the
Meeting of African Development International Solar Alliance Pact
Bank (AfDB). The meeting is being recently.
held in this city of India. a) Nauru
a) Ahmadabad b) San Marino
b) Gandhinagar c) Tuvalu
c) Hyderabad d) Saint Kitts and Nevis
d) New Delhi
6. Which country recently
1. Which of the following football recruited robot police officer
clubs won the La Liga title for the Robocop in its police force?
record 33rd time? a) The United States
a) Barcelona b) Dubai
b) Athletic Bilbao c) Japan
c) Valencia d) England
d) Real Madrid
7. When is the World Turtle Day
2. Controversial godman observed every year?
Chandraswami recently passed a) 21 May
away in New Delhi. He was said to b) 22 May
be the spiritual advisor of which of c) 23 May
the following former Prime d) 24 May
Ministers of India?
a) Rajiv Gandhi 8. Which state government made
b) Indira Gandhi speed governors mandatory for all
c) P V Narasimha Rao taxis and cabs operating in the
d) Morarji Desai state?
a) Haryana
3. Who is the author of the book b) Punjab
titled Confessions of a dying mind: c) Bengaluru
The blind faith of atheism? d) Delhi
a) Kiren Rijiju
b) Haulianlal Guite 9. The Environment Ministry
c) Vijay Kumar Mantri organised Ozone2Climate
d) None of the above Technology Roadshow in this city.
a) Ranchi
b) Agra
c) Ahmadabad Forum (ISSF), India was ranked at
d) Panji what position in terms of stainless
steel producing countries in the
10. Which Indian cricketer has world?
won the CEAT International a) First largest
Cricketer of the Year 2017 award? b) Second largest
a) Virat Kohli c) Third largest
b) Ajinkya Rahane d) Fourth largest
c) Yuvraj Singh
d) Ravichandran Ashwin 6. Who was elected as the
President of Ecuador recently?
1. Kashish Queer Film Festival a) Guillermo Lasso
recently started in which of the b) Jorge Glas
following cities? c) Rafael Correa
a) Hyderabad d) Lenin Moreno
b) Kolkata
c) Jaipur 7. Which Arab nation has blocked
d) Mumbai 21 media websites?
a) Saudi Arabia
2. Who of the following was b) Egypt
recently inducted in the c) UAE
Badminton World Federation d) Qatar
(BWF) Athletes' Commission?
a) Jwala Gutta 8. Which renowned news channel
b) Parupalli Kashyap has been blocked by Saudi Arabia,
c) P V Sindhu UAE and Egypt?
d) Chetan Anand a) Al Arabiya
b) CNN
3. Name the Prime Minister of c) Al Jazeera
Nepal who resigned recently? d) Sky News
a) Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda
b) Sher Bahadur Deuba 9. The centre has appointed five
c) Girija Prasad Koirala members to the Minority Panel.
d) Bidhya Devi Bhandari Which community is getting
representation in the panel for the
4. Which Union Ministry launched very first time?
the Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay a) Sikh
Telecom Skill Excellence Awards? b) Buddhist
a) Ministry of Skill and c) Parsi
Development d) Jain
b) Ministry of Telecommunication
c) Ministry of Human Resource 1. Which country became the first
Development Asian country to recognize same
d) Ministry of Culture sex marriage?
a) Taiwan
5. According to data released by b) Lebanon
the International Stainless Steel c) Timor-Leste
d) Jordan c) Qutub Minar
d) Victoria Memorial
2. The construction of India’s first
underwater rail tunnel completed 8. Which Indian city was ranked
on which river? second in the world’s most
a) Kaveri River crowded cities list released by
b) Hooghly River World Economic Forum?
c) Godavari River a) New Delhi
d) Krishna River b) Mumbai
c) Bangalore
3. Which country hosted the 2017 d) Kolkata
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)? 1. PM Narendra Modi recently
a) Romania inaugurated India's longest
b) Italy bridge- Dhola-Sadiya. Where is the
c) Belgium bridge located?
d) Latvia a) Kolkata
b) Assam
4. Who was appointed as c) Mandi
Chairman of IAMAI recently? d) Uttarakhand
a) Deep Kalra
b) Rajan Anandan 2. Which mission of NASA recently
c) Subho Ray revealed the deep secrets of planet
d) Kunal Shah Jupiter?
a) Apollo-Soyuz Mission
5. Who is the winner of the 2016– b) Juno Mission
17 UEFA Europa League? c) Psyche Mission
a) Manchester United d) Apollo Mission
b) Ajax
c) Sevilla 3. Who was appointed as the
d) Southampton Secretary of CBSE recently?
a) Anurag Tripathy
6. Who is the second Indian- b) Rajan Anandan
American to have been confirmed c) Subho Ray
by the US Senate to serve in the US d) Kunal Shah
Circuit Court of Appeals?
a) Ajit Pai 4. Name the former Director
b) Amul Thapar General of Police for the state of
c) Srnivasan Punjab who passed away recently.
d) Uttam Dhillon a) Suresh Arora
b) Mohammad Mustafa
7. Which Indian monument has c) Kuldeep Singh
made it to the world’s top ten d) Kanwar Pal Singh Gill
landmarks list?
a) Taj Mahal 5. Who of the following was
b) Red Fort recently appointed as the
Chairman of International a) Ravindra Jadeja
Fertiliser Association? b) Ravichandran Ashwin
a) Esin Mete c) Virat Kohli
b) Rakesh Kapur d) Rohit Sharma
c) Ajay S. Shriram
d) None of the above 11. Construction for the world's
largest optical telescope recently
6. Which State Government began in which of the following
recently launched Japanese countries?
Encephalitis vaccination drive for a) Peru
the people of the state? b) USA
a) Kerala c) Chile
b) Telangana d) Bolivia
c) Bihar
d) Uttar Pradesh 12. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
recently laid the foundation stone
7. Which of the following cities is for All India Institute of Medical
declared as the world's most Sciences (AIIMS) at Changsari in
densely populated city by the UN the Kamrup District. The district
Habitat? falls in which state?
a) Mumbai a) West Bengal
b) Tokyo b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Dhaka c) Assam
d) Jakarta d) Maharashtra

8. Which Indian state hosted the 13. Who of the following recently
2017 Asian Junior Tennis became the most followed world
Championship? leader on Facebook?
a) Maharashtra a) Donald Trump
b) Uttar Pradesh b) Justin Trudeau
c) Assam c) Narendra Modi
d) Tamil Nadu d) Vladimir Putin

9. India’s longest bridge Dhola- 1. Who is the winner of the 2016-17


Sadia has been built over which DFB-Pokal also known as German
tributary of the Brahmaputra Cup?
River? a) Rot-Weiss Essen
a) Teesta River b) Bayern Munich
b) Subansiri River c) Eintracht Frankfurt
c) Manas River d) Borussia Dortmund
d) Lohit River
2. What is the theme of the 2017
10. Who of the following was International Day of United
presented with the CEAT Nations Peacekeepers?
International Cricketer of the Year a) Honouring Our Heroes
Award? b) Together for Peace
c) Investing in Peace around the What is the launch vehicle
world popularly called?
d) Together for Peace: Respect, a) Short man
Safety and Dignity for All b) Fat Boy
c) Little Boy
3. Who is the winner of the 2017 d) Tall man
Monaco Grand Prix?
a) Lewis Hamilton 9. Which football club has won the
b) Sebastian Vettel FA Cup title the maximum number
c) Kimi Raikkonen of times?
d) Daniel Ricciardo a) Manchester United
b) Chelsea
4. Who is the winner of the 2017 c) Manchester City
Sudirman Cup? d) Arsenal
a) South Korea
b) China 10. When is International Day of
c) Australia United Nations Peacekeepers
d) Indonesia observed every year?
a) 30 May
5. India’s first multi-modal electric b) 29 May
vehicle project was launched in c) 26 May
which city? d) 31 May
a) Nagpur
b) New Delhi 11. Supreme Court allows
c) Kolkata liquor firms to
d) Lucknow dispose stock outside state.
a) Uttar Pradesh
6. Which country hosted the 2017 b) Kerala
G7 summit? c) Bihar
a) Japan d) Madhya Pradesh
b) Canada
c) Italy 12. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley
d) Germany inaugurates Aeronautical Test
Range at Chitradurga. Where it is?
7. Which English football team a) Kerala
won the FA Cup title of 2017? b) Telangana
a) Arsenal c) Karnataka
b) Chelsea d) Assam
c) Manchester United
d) Manchester City 13. Who of the following appointed
as Chancellor of Jamia Milia
8. The Indian Space Research Islamia University?
Organisation (ISRO) will be a) Talat Ahmad
launching the heaviest rocket ever b) Nazma Heptulla
made by India, GSLV Mk- III. c) MA Siddiqui
d) MA Zaki

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