Civil Service Exam Syllabus for IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.Which city is the world’s most crowded cities, according to World Economic Forum (WEF) citing UN Habitat Data?

Medellin Dhaka Mumbai Lagos

2.Which country is hosting the World Street Food Congress (WSFC17)?

Israel India Philippines Singapore

3.Who has been appointed the new secretary of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)?

Krishna Maurya Himanta Sarma Anurag Tripathy Nilam Gupta

4.The Mathikettan Shola National Park is located in which state?

Kerala Tamil Nadu West Bengal Tripura

5.KPS Gill, who was known for rooting out militancy from Punjab, was belonged to which state?

Haryana Punjab Himachal Pradesh Chhattisgarh

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

1.Who has been appointed the new chairman of International Fertiliser Association (IFA)?

Kaustubh Shah Naoki Tajima Rakesh Kapoor Vinodh Bhat

2.Which Indian state to host 2017 Asian Junior Tennis Championship?

Punjab West Bengal Kerala Maharashtra

3.India’s longest bridge “Dhola-Sadia Bridge” has built over which tributary of the Brahmaputra River?

Kameng River Lohit River Subansiri River Manas River

4.Which state govenrment has launched Japanese Encephalitis (JE) vaccination drive for the people of the state?

Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Punjab

5.Who has become the new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)?

Deep Kalra Umang Bedi Rajan Anandan Kunal Shah

Solved GK Questions and Answers

1.Which city police have won the 2017 FICCI Smart Policing Award?

Kochi city police Pune city police Bhopal city police Delhi city police

2.Which state tourism has won the ‘Best Destination for Romance’ at the Lonely Planet Magazine Indian Travel Awards 2017?

Karnataka Tamil Nadu Kerala West Bengal

3.The book “Mann Ki Baat: a social revolution on radio” has been authored by whom?

Jitendra Singh Uday Mahurkar Pankaj Kumar Rajesh Jain

4.The Royal Manas National Park is located in which country?

India Bhutan Myanmar Nepal

5.The Indo Thailand HADR “Siam Bharat 17” has held in which city?

Bangkok Surat Thani Chiang Mai Pai

2017 Current Affairs

1.The Yelagiri summer festival has started in which state?

Tamil Nadu Kerala Karnataka West Bengal

2.Laura Biagiotti, the renowned fashion designer passed away. She hailed from which country?

United States Italy France Japan

3.India’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project has launched in which city?

New Delhi Kolkata Chennai Nagpur

4.Which country is hosting the 2017 G7 summit?

Japan Canada Italy Germany

5.Which is the only Indian monument to figure in the world’s top 10 TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice awards for Landmarks?

Taj Mahal Gateway of India Qutab Minar Swaminarayan Akshardham

Current Affairs Questions & Answers

1.The 2017 bilateral maritime exercise “SIMBEX-17” has started between India and which country?

Sri Lanka South Africa South Korea Singapore

2.Which union minister has given the additional charge of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC)?

Ravi Shankar Prasad Ananth kumar Harsh Vardhan J P Nadda

3.Which city to host the 2017 annual convention of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group?

Valencia Gandhinagar Lisbon Shanghai

4.Which country has topped the 2017 Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) released by Ernst and Young (EY)?

China India Germany Australia

5.Sundaram Ravi is associated with which sports?

Cricket Badminton Hockey Sprint

Civil Service Exam Syllabus for IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.Which Indian squah player has won gold at 2017 Asian Continental Women Blitz Chess Championship?

Padmini Rout Vinita Gujrathi R Vaishali Soumya Swaminathan

2.Which Indian squash player has won the 2017 Men’s Makati Open Squash tournament?

Mohd Syafiq Kamal Harinder Pal Sandhu Saurav Ghosal Abhay Singh

3.Alexander Zverev has won the 2017 Men’s singles Rome Masters tennis tournament. He hails from which country?

Germany Romania Ukraine France

4.What is the theme of 2017 World Metrology Day (WMD)?

Measurement in commerce Measurement in sport Measurements for transport Measurements and light

5.Which football team has won the 38th edition of Indian Federation Cup Football tournament-2017?

Mohun Bagan Bengaluru FC Churchill Brothers Shillong Lajong

Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1Anshu Jamsenpa has become the world’s first woman to scale Mt Everest twice within 5 days. She hails from which Indian state?

Mizoram Manipur Assam Arunachal Pradesh

2.Which of the following Indian peacekeepers to be honored posthumously with UN Dag Hammarskjold Medal for their courage and sacrifice?

Shubhkaran Yadav and Rajesh Kumar Manish Malik and Amal Deka Brijesh Thapa and Ravi Kumar Maya Ajmera and Gagan Panjabi

3.What is the 2017 theme of International Day for Biodiversity (IDB)?

Convention on Biological Diversity Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism Invasive Alien Species Biodiversity and Agriculture

4.Which state government will form “Good Morning” squad to monitor and prevent open defecation?

Maharashtra Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan

5.Who has won the 2017 Presidential election of Iran?

Eshaq Jahangiri Ebrahim Raeisi Mostafa Hashemi Hassan Rouhani

Gk Questions with Answers

1.Which Indian teenager has won the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) award in the environmental engineering category?

Sairandi Sathyanarayanan Pratik Naidu Prashant Ranganathan Sahithi Pingali

2.Which state government has launched e-textbook portal for school students?

Assam Kerala Karnataka Haryana

3.Which organisation has won the 2015 Indira Gandhi Peace Prize?

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) International Court of Justice (ICJ) International Labour Organization (ILO)

4.What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Healthcare Access and Quality Index (HAQI), according to latest Lancet report “Global Burden of Disease (GBD)”?

128th 154th 166th 137th

5.R R Laxman is associated with which sports?

Badminton Table Tennis Chess Cricket

General Awareness 2017

1.Which Indian sportsperson has clinched bronze in men’s Greco-Roman 85kg category at the 2017 Asian Wrestling Championship?

Sushil Kumar Anil Kumar Joginder Singh Yogeshwar Dutt

2.Karan Singh, who passed away recently, was the minister of which Indian state?

Sikkim Punjab Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir

3.Who has been appointed as the new Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)?

Avinash Chander M Jagadesh Kumar K Kasturirangan V K Saraswat

4.Who has been appointed as the India’s new ambassador to France?

Vinay Mohan Kwatra Brajendra Navnit Rajeev Topno Neleesh Jain

5.What is the theme of 2017 International Nurse Day (IND)?

Nursing: From Evidence to Action Nurses: Care Effective, Cost Effective Nursing: A vital resource for health Nursing: A voice to lead – Achieving the sustainable development goals

Civil Service Exam Syllabus for IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.Which Indian personality has been elected as the new chairman of FIFA Governance Committee?

Mukul Mudgal Rajeev Shukla Ajay Shirke R M Lodha

2.Indian Army will re-introduce CASO as ‘permanent feature’ of counter-terror operations. What does “CASO” stands for?

Cordon and Searchlight Operations Cordon and Search Operations Cordon and Seeding Operations Cordon and Seed Operations

3.Which country is hosting the United Nations Day of Vesak – 2017?

India Bhutan Sri Lanka Myanmar

4.Which state government will conduct survey to provide affordable houses to people in urban areas?

Uttar Pradesh Manipur West Bengal Haryana

5.Which country has approved $75 mn high-tech chemical protective clothing for the Indian armed forces?

United States Russia France Japan

General Awareness 2017

1.Which city has topped the 2017 Savills Tech Cities Index?

Austin Bengaluru San Francisco New York

2.Which Indian sportsperson has clinched silver in women’s 69kg category at the 2017 Asian Wrestling Championship?

Sakshi Malik Vinesh Phogat Divya Kakran Ritu Phogat

3.Which Indian personality has been appointed WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Hepatitis in South-East Asia Region?

Shah Rukh Khan Aamir Khan Priyanka Chopra Amitabh Bachchan

4.Which country to host first-ever One Belt One Road (OBOR) Summit?

China India Nepal Maldives

5.Which state government is hosting the first-ever Videsh Sampark outreach programme?

Kerala Tamil Nadu Telangana Karnataka

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

1.Which state has become the first Indian state to introduce a logo for vehicles driven by persons with hearing impairment?

Telangana Himachal Pradesh Gujarat Maharashtra

2.Which country to host the 2017 Arctic Energy Summit (AES)?

Uruguay Finland Ireland Zambia

3.Who has been appointed as the new Secretary of Department of Telecommunications (DoT)?

PK Pujari J S Deepak Aruna Sundararajan Manju Jha

4.India’s first-ever National Basketball Association (NBA) academy has officially opened in which city?

Mumbai Greater Noida Pune Chennai

5.Which Indian cricketer has been awarded the honorary life membership of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)?

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Yuvraj Singh Anil Kumble VVS Laxman

General Studies

1.Who will represent India at the 2017 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)?

Amitabh Kant Arvind Panagariya Shaktikanta Das Mukul Rohatgi

2.The first-ever World Tuna Day (WTD) is observed by the United Nations (UN) on which date?

May 3 May 2 May 4 May 5

3.Which country is hosting the 50th annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Governors?

Japan India South Africa Sri Lanka

4.The new Index of Industrial Production (IIP) series for India will be calculated on which base year?

2006-07 2008-09 2010-11 2011-12

5.The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved how much loan amount for power project in Andhra Pradesh?

$210 million $160 million $185 million $220 million

Current Affairs Quiz 2017

1.Which state has become the first Indian state to shift to to January to December financial year?

Maharashtra Kerala Andhra Pradesh Madhya Pradesh

2.Who has been bestowed with the 2017 Avvaiyar Award?

Kirti Ghosh Sarada Menon Padma Venkataraman Mukesh Aghi

3.Who has won the 2017 World Snooker Championship?

Dennis Taylor Mark Selby Steve Davis John Higgins

4.Which Indian table tennis player has won the 2017 Men’s singles ITTF Challenge Seamaster Chile Open tournament?

Soumyajit Ghosh Sharath Kamal Anthony Amalraj Subhajit Saha

5.Which country is hosting the 2017 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize Ceremony?

Finland Thailand Canada Indonesia

UPSC Civil Services Examination 2017

1.Which country is hosting the 27th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)?

Switzerland Singapore South Africa Seychelles

2.What is the theme of 2017 World Asthma Day (WAD)?

Reduce the asthma burden Better air better breathing You Can Control Your Asthma Unite to overcome asthma

3.Who has been appointed the new chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament?

KV Thomas Subhash Chandra Baheria Janardan Singh Sigriwal Mallikarjun Kharge

4.Which Indian personality has been conferred with the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit Sungnye Medal of the South Korea?

Arun Thakur Rajive Kaul Rajesh Shukla Sonali Mishra

5.Which city has become the India’s cleanest city, according to the Swachh Bharat survey 2017?

Indore Tiruchirapally Mysuru Visakhapatnam

Prelims GS 2017

1.What is the India’s GDP growth forecast for FY 18, according to Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s latest report “Asian Development Outlook 2017”?

7.4% 7.6% 7.7% 7.1%

2.What is the India’s real GDP growth forecast for FY 18, according to latest rating review by Fitch Ratings?

7.4% 7.6% 7.7% 7.5%

3.Recently, Sualgiri and Swalgiri communities have been notified as Scheduled Castes in the Indian constitution. The communities are associated with which state?

Manipur Odisha Assam West Bengal

4.The world’s highest railway bridge will come up over which Indian River?

Narmada Godavari Ganga Chenab

5.Which Indian footballer has won the 2017 Hero of the league 2017 award?

Debjit Majumder Anas Edathodika Sunil Chhetri Alfred Kemah Jaryan

Gk Questions with Answers

1.The International Firefighters’ Day (IFFD) is observed on which date?

May 3 May 4 May 5 May 6

2.Who has been appointed the new chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)?

Ashok Modak Braj Bihari Kumar Jitendra Mohan S K Thorat

3.Where is the headquarters of the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA)?

Indore Visakhapatnam Dehradun Pune

4.The Vansda National Park (VNP) is located in which state?

Rajasthan Punjab Assam Gujarat

5.Vikas Krishan Yadav is associated with which sports?

Boxing Wrestling Table Tennis Wushu

GK & Current Affairs Quiz

1.India’s first private sector small arms manufacturing plant has set up in which state?

Assam Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra

2.Who has been appointed the new chairman of the Tea Board of India?

Prabhat Kamal Bezboruah M G K V Bhanu Santosh Sarangi M S Boje Gowda

3.Which social networking site has officially launched “Express Wi-Fi” internet services in India?

YouTube Facebook Twitter Instagram

4.Which state government has recently become the registered proprietor of the GI tag for Banganapalle mangoes?

Uttar Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Andhra Pradesh

5.The 2017 National Standards Conclave (NSC) was held in which city?

New Delhi Jaipur Lucknow Indore

Civil Service Exam – General Studies 2017

1.Who has been shortlisted to represent India at the FIFA Football for Friendship (F4F) global social programme?

Rudro Sen Sujal Kahar Chhagan Chauhan Sandeep Kumar

2.Who has been appointed as the new Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP)?

Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar Sudeep Lakhtakia RK Pachnanda Sugan Chaudhary

3.Which country to host 18th edition of World Road Meeting (WRM)?

Brazil India China South Africa

4.Who has been crowned Miss Teen Universe 2017?

Xirelle Agustin Nicole Obando Nieveles Gonzalez Srishti Kaur

5.Which country has become the first country to open an honorary consulate office in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City)?

Germany Belgium Singapore South Africa

General Knowledge and Current Affairs

1.Which of the following security forces is / are the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) of India?

Special Frontier Force (SFF) Assam Rifles Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) All of the above

2.Who has won the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Foundation Kerala State award for the year 2016-17?

Prabhat Kumar Ajay Pandey Neelam Juneja Dileep K Nair

3.Which state government has recently signed a MoU with Bharat Broadband Network Ltd (BBNL) to implement BharatNet?

Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh Assam Manipur

4.The International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day (ICDRD) is observed on which date?

April 25 April 26 April 27 April 28

5.Jonathan Demme, the Oscar-winning filmmaker has passed away. He hailed from which country?

United States France Germany Russia

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - UPSC

1.Vinu Chakravarthy, who passed away recently, was the renowned personality of which field?

Politics Journalism Film Industry Sports

2.What is the India’s rank in the 2017 World Press Freedom Index (WPFI)?

133rd 144th 131st 136th

3.What is the theme of the 2017 World Immunization Week?

Vaccines Work Close the immunization gap Are you up-to-date? Immunization vaccine for you

4.Which international organisation has observed the 2017 World Day on Safety and Health at Work?

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) International Court of Justice (ICJ) World Health Organization (WHO) International Labour Organization (ILO)

5.Which Indian short film will be screened by UNESCO as part of 2017 World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) in Indonesia?

Gutthi Azaad Little terrorist Roadside Ambanis