Civil Service Exam – General Studies 2017

1.The World Bank (WB) has signed how much amount of credit agreement with Uttarakhand to improve quality of health care services?

$100 million $200 million $300 million $250 million

2.Ashokamitran, who passed away recently, was the noted litterateur of which language?

Odia Telugu Malayalam Tamil

3.What is the theme of 2017 World Meteorological Day (WMD)?

Understanding cloud Meteorology and tourism World Weather Watch Weather, oceans and human activity

4.Which high-level committee has been formed to examine working of Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) and Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH)?

Narendra Modi committee Shashi Tharoor committee Madhukar Gupta committee Arvind Panagariya committe

5.Which state government has launched a program to provide free wifi facilities in educational institutions?

Haryana Uttar Pradesh Bihar Rajasthan

Common Quiz Questions

1.Who has been bestowed with the Life Time Achievement (LTA) award at the 6th National Photography Awards?

Raghu Rai K K Mustafah Atul Choubey Dipayan Bhar

2.Who has been honoured with the first-ever Kuldip Nayar journalism award 2017?

Rizvan Kausar Ravish Kumar Ikshula Arora Anupam Mishra

3.What is the India’s rank in the global Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) 2017?

55th 65th 87th 93rd

4.Which union minister has launched an integrated grievances redressal platform “MoPNG e Seva” for Petroleum and Gas related queries?

Faggan Singh Kulaste Ajay Tamta Arjun Ram Meghwal Dharmendra Pradhan

5.The Kane Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS) is located in which state of India?

Arunachal Pradesh Assam Andhra Pradesh Manipur

GK & Current Affairs

1.Sri Lanka has recently launched new PERU to create awareness on reconciliation among children. What does “PERU” stands for?

Peace Education and Reconciliation Union Peace Education and Reconciliation Unity Peace Education and Reconciliation Unitary Peace Education and Reconciliation Unit

2.Which country is hosting the 3rd edition of World Conference on Environment?

China Norway Sri Lanka India

3.The World Sparrow Day (WSD) is observed on which date?

March 21 March 20 March 23 March 25

4.Which country to host the 2017 World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC)?

India China Canada Australia

5.The “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” is observed on which date?

March 27 March 24 March 25 March 26

2017 Current Affairs

1.Which Indian-origin filmmaker has been honoured with the Sikh Jewel Award for 2017?

Sukhbeer Singh Sandhu Gurinder Chadha Y K Sinha Permlata Singh

2.Who has been appointed as the new Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi?

K K Sharma M C Mishra Prathap C. Reddy Randeep Guleria

3.Which Indian actor will be honoured with the Kala Ratan Award?

Anupam Kher Amitabh Bachchan Aamir Khan S Prabhakar

4.Sukant Kadam is associated with which sports?

Chess Hockey Badminton Cricket

5.India’s first vertical garden has set up in which state?

Bengaluru Chennai Pune Kochi

Current Affairs Quiz 2017

1.Which city’s police station has become the first police post in India to be linked with Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS)?

Guwahati Udaipur Shimla Indore

2.The 2017 National Theatre Festival (NTF) has started in which state?

Assam Kerala Arunachal Pradesh Sikkim

3.Who is the author of the book “So You Want to Know About the Environment”?

Bijal Vachharajani Roopa Pai Rachel Ignotofsky Sumana Roy

4.The 6th edition of the International Engineering Sourcing Show (IESS) has started in which city?

Chennai Kolkata Kochi Guwahati

5.Who is the newly appointed Chairman of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis?

Manju Diler Manhar Valji Bhai Zala Narain Dass Dalip Kallu Hathibed

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

1.Which union ministry has launched “Trade Infrastructure for Export Scheme (TIES)” for developing export-linked infrastructure?

Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ministry of Finance Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Ministry of Power

2.Dipan Sivakumar, who passed away recently, was the noted filmmaker of which language?

Urdu Malayalam Odia Tamil

3.Which union ministry has launched “Mission Fingerling” to achieve Blue Revolution?

Ministry of Food Processing Industries Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry of Shipping

4.Which city has topped the list in the Mercer’s 2017 Quality of Living index?

Geneva Munich Frankfurt Vienna

5.Which state government will launch “Namma Canteens” to serve cheap food?

Andhra Pradesh Kerala Tamil Nadu Karnataka

Civil Service Exam – General Studies 2017

1.Which Indian personality has become the Vice-President (VP) of the Local Organising Committee (LoC) of the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017?

Babul Supriyo Kushal Das Praful Patel Nikhil Kumar

2.The 2017 G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting has started in which country?

Italy France Germany India

3.The International Buddhist conference on “Buddhism in 2lst Century” has started in which state?

Arunachal Pradesh Bihar Sikkim West Bengal

4.Which parliamentary committee has suggested merger of state-run telecom firms BSNL and MTNL for their long-term survival?

Tarun Jaitely committee Bhagat Singh Koshyari committee Ashok Lavasa committee Arvind Sawant committee

5.Which Indian Badminton player has been appointed a new member of the governing body of Sports Authority of India (SAI)?

Prakash Padukone Pullela Gopichand Saina Nehwal Jwala Gutta

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - UPSC

1.The 2017 Agriculture Science Fair (ASF) was held in which city?

Pune Jaipur Bhopal New Delhi

2.Which bank has launched an instant digital Loan Against Securities (LAS) facility?

Axis Bank Bank of India HDFC Bank ICICI Bank

3.Which bank has recently signed MoU with CREDAI to work towards providing housing for all?

Allahabad Bank State Bank of India (SBI) Dena Bank Bank of Baroda (BoB)

4.Who is the author of the book “The Sleepwalker’s Dream: A Novel”?

Dhrubajyoti Borah Sheela Redddy Kalyan Karmakar Vikram Seth

5.What is the India’s rank in the world for the number of MPs in Parliament, as per latest UN report “Women in Politics 2017 Map”?

155th 169th 111th 148th

Current Affairs Quiz 2017

1.India has recently signed a Social Security Agreement (SSA) with which country to protect rights of detached workers?

Indonesia Brazil China South Africa

2.How much loan amount has been sanctioned by the World Bank (WB) for Gram Panchayats (GPs) development in West Bengal?

$222 million $210 million $321 million $400 million

3.Who is the author of the book “Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent”?

Hari V. Krishna John Miller Pranay Lal Valmiki Thapar

4.The SRCC Global Millennium Summit 2017 has started in which city?

Dubai London New Delhi Geneva

5.Who has become the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand?

Ramesh Pokhriya Nishank BC Khanduri Chitranjan Das Trivendra Singh Rawat

CURRENT AFFAIRS 2017

1. Which city is hosting the 15th edition of “All India Meet of State Legal Services Authorities”?

New Delhi Surat Jaipur Lucknow

2.Which institution has topped the Times Higher Education (THE)’s Asia University ranking 2017?

Peking University, China Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore National University of Singapore (NUS) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

3.Which Indian-American personality has won the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) award?

Archana Verma Arjun Srinivasan Ramani Prathik Naidu Indrani Das

4.The first-ever Haryana Sahitya Sangam has started in which city?

Faridabad Panchkula Gurgaon Karnal

5.How much loan amount has been approved by the World Bank (WB) for the National Hydrology Project of India?

$175 million $210 million $222 million $325 million

General Awareness

1.Which state government has launched web-based platform “Pratibimba” to project government achievements?

Kerala Tamil Nadu Maharashtra Karnataka

2.Which Indian cricketer has been appointed UNICEF and Cricket For Good Ambassador for the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017?

Sachin Tendulkar Saurav Ganguly Rahul Dravid M S Dhoni

3.Who is the author of the book “Age of Anger – A History of the Present”?

Kalyan Karmakar Pankaj Mishra Bhim Chandra Nag Meraj Bhat

4.Arvind Padmanabhan, the noted journalist of IANS has recently passed away. What does IANS stands for?

Indo-ASEAN News Service Indo-Asiatic News Service Indo-Asian News Service Indo-African News Service

5.Who is the newly appointed chairman of the Central Water Commission (CWC)?

Masood Husain Narendra Kumar T K Sivarajan A S P Sinha

Civil Service Exam Syllabus for IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.Who has been bestowed with the 2016 Saraswati Samman?

Naiyer Masud Sugatha Kumari Surjit Paatar Mahabaleshwar Sail

2.Who is the newly elected President of the European Council (EC)?

Andrej Plenkovic Christian Kern Donald Tusk Charles Michel

3.According to the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill 2016, the maternity leave has been extended from 12 weeks to how many weeks?

22 weeks 26 weeks 23 weeks 24 weeks

4.Which company has become the first Indian power utility to successfully deploy tele-protection service using Line-Differential Relay (LDR) over an IP/MPLS network?

Tata Power-DDL Adani Power Jindal Steel and Power Reliance Power

5.Which Indian institute has won the 2017 IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award?

IIT Bombay IIT Madras IIT Indore IIT Kolkata

National Current Affairs

1.Who has been appointed as the new Ambassador of India to Nepal?

Anita Karwal U Venkateswarlu Manjeev Singh Puri Ruby Srivastava

2.Who is the author of the book “‘The Travelling Belly: Eating Through India’s By-Lanes”?

Mandaar Sukhtankar Saransh Goila Anoothi Vishal Kalyan Karmakar

3.Ronald Drever, the co-founder of Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO), has recently passed away. He hailed from which country?

United Kingdom United States Germany France

4.George A. Olah, the Nobel laureate has passed away. He won the Nobel prize in which field?

Physics Economics Chemistry Medicine

5.Which state government has launched mobile App “Mera Hunar” for job aspirants?

Andhra Pradesh Assam Himachal Pradesh Kerala

Questions & Answers - GK

1.Which union minister has inaugurated India’s largest waste-to-power plant in New Delhi?

Raj Nath Singh Narendra Modi Venkaiah Naidu Arun Jaitley

2.Which country has successfully test fired naval strike ballistic missile “Hormuz 2”?

Iran Israel Pakistan India

3.Which state government has launched a 24X7 toll free helpline number “181” for distressed women?

Assam Odisha West Bengal Haryana

4.Who has been appointed the new Deputy Governor in Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

Manoj Pingua Dilip S Shanghvi Chandrakar Bharti BP Kanungo

5.The 12th CII EXIM Bank Conclave on India Africa Project Partnership was held in which city?

New Delhi Chennai Pune Kolkata

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

1.Who is the author of the book “Mr and Mrs Jinnah: The Marriage that Shook India”?

Teesta Setalvad Bertil Falk Sheela Redddy Audrey Truschke

2.Which state government has made Sanskrit compulsory up to class VIII in all classes?

Tamil Nadu Assam Manipur Kerala

3.How much penalty will be imposed on banks if they refuse to exchange soiled or scribed currency notes from people, according to Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

Rs. 10,000 Rs. 15,000 Rs. 5,000 Rs. 20,000

4.Which country to build its’ first national under water observatory in disputed South China Sea?

China Vietnam Malaysia Brunei

5.Which state government has signed MoU with Invest India to encourage start ups?

Kerala Assam Tamil Nadu Odisha

UPSC Civil Services Examination 2017

1.What is the theme of 2017 World Hearing Day (WHD)?

Ear care can avoid hearing loss Make listening safe Childhood hearing loss: act now, here is how! Action for hearing loss: make a sound investment

2.Which Indian grandmaster has won bronze at 2017 Women’s World Chess Championship?

Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi Padmini Rout Harika Dronavalli Koneru Humpy

3.Who has won the 2017 Polly Umrigar Award for International Cricketer of the Year?

Ajinkya Rahane Virat Kohli Mahendra Singh Dhoni Ravichandran Ashwin

4.Which university has bagged Visitors’ Award for ‘Best University 2017’?

Central University of Himachal Pradesh Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Tezpur University

5.Which committee has submitted its’ report to the Union Government to protect the interests of the migrants?

Partha Mukhopadhay committee N K Singh committee R.V. Easwar committee Madhukar Gupta committee

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - UPSC

1.The nationwide “Swachh Shakti Saptah” has been launched from which city?

Gandhinagar Gurugram Ahmedabad Noida

2. The Permanent Indus Commission (PIC) meeting will held in which of the following cities?

New Delhi Rawalpindi Lahore Agra

3.Which country to host the 2017 Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) summit?

Malaysia Indonesia Tanzania Seychelles

4.Who is the author of the book “When Crime Pays – Money and Muscle in Indian Politics”?

Milan Vaishnav Pankaj Mishra Parthasarathi Shome Vappala Balachandran

5.The annual tribal festival ‘Bhagoria’ will start in which of the following states?

Himachal Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh

Current Affairs Questions & Answers

1.What is the theme of 2017 World Wildlife Day (WWD)?

Stop wildlife crime Listen to the young voices The future of wildlife is in our hands It’s time to get serious about wildlife crime

2.Raymond Kopa, the football legend has recently passed away. He hails from which country?

Germany Brazil France Russia

3.Yumnam Yaima Singh, who passed away recently, was related to which field?

Politics Sports Journalism Marine Science

4.Which country to host 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)?

Brazil Germany France India

5.Who is the newly appointed Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)?

Ashok Mittal Rakesh Nangia Nikhil Arora P K Purwar

Computer GK Questions

1.Standard deviation of 1,4,5,7, and 8 is 2.45. If 10 is added to each term, what is the new standard deviation?

2.45 24.5 0.245 12.45

2.Which supercomputer is developed by the Indian Scientists?

Param Super 301 Compaq Presario CRAY YMP

3.Which of the following refers to a small, single-site network?

LAN WAN MAN MESH

4.Convert the Decimal number 300 into its hexadecimal equivalent.

(12C)16 (12B)16 (11C)16 (1211)16

5.Free of cost repair of software bug available at Internet is called …

Version Ad-on Tutorial Patch

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - UPSC

1.Who has taken charge as the Whole Time Member (WTM) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)?

Neha Sharma Suman Saxena Vasant Kumar Niranjan Tyagi

2.Which country to host the 2019 Combined World Cup for shooting?

India Japan Germany Brazil

3.India’s first dedicated Heliport will be set up in which city?

Kochi Kolkata New Delhi Chandigarh

4.Which union ministery has launched the Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre (BCMAC) for analysis of malware and botnets that affect networks and systems?

Ministry of Science and Technology Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Ministry of Earth Sciences

5.Who is the author of the book “Feroze: the Forgotten Gandhi”?

John Nicolsen Bertil Falk Shashi Tharoor William Dalrymple

Civil Service Exam - IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.Which city to host the first edition of Gramin Khel Mahotsav (GKM)?

New Delhi Chennai Mumbai Kolkata

2. The Government of India (GoI) has recently approved investment proposal for generation component of Arun-3 Hydro Electric Project in which country?

Myanmar Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh

3. Who has been appointed the new chairman of Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT)?

N P Singh B S Chauhan J S Khehar Abhay Manohar Sapre

4.What is the India’s GDP forecast for FY 17, as per latest report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?

7.2% 6.8% 6.6% 7.0%

5. Which country has launched nationwide military operation ‘Radd-ul-Fasaad’ to eliminate terrorists?

Afghanistan India Bangladesh Pakistan