IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.India and which country have recently signed pacts for technical cooperation in the field of Railways?

Switzerland Nepal Malaysia Bhutam

2.Myanmar will sign pact with which country for the conservation of earthquake-damaged pagodas at Bagan?

Russia India South Africa China

3.Which city is hosting the annual conference Rajaswa Gyan Sangam (RGS – 2017)?

Jaipur Kochi New Delhi Pune

4.Who has been appointed as the new Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog?

Rutvak Agrawal Vijay Parasher Umesh Singhal Rajiv Kumar

5.Who has been appointed as the new Secretary in the Department of Financial Services (DFS)?

Ali Raza Rizvi Rajiv Kumar Rajesh Chaturvedi N Baijendra Kumar

GK & Current Affairs – August

1.The shortest war recorded in history between two sovereign powers was between__?

UK and France Denmark and UK UK and Zanzibar Italy and France

2.Who was the first Indian in independent India to have won a medal in an individual Olympic event ?

Dhyanchand K D Jadhav Prithipal Singh Harishchandra Birajdar

3.Who defined democracy as a “Government of the people, by the people and for the people”?

Abraham Lincoln Plato Aristotle Ruskin

4.Which of the following is the official language in Argentina?

Portuguese French Spanish Dutch

5.The dispute over Shatt-al-Arab region gave way to which of the following wars in modern world history?

Arab–Israeli conflict Iran-Iraq War Russo-Persian War Gulf War

IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.Which of the following have won the 2017 The Hindu Playwright Award?

Deepika Arwind and K. Madavane Manjima Chatterjee and Arshia Sattar Gerish Khemani and Akshat Nigam Sunil Shanbag and Keval Arora

2.Which nationwide campaign has been launched by the Union Government to protect elephants?

Gaj Kesari Yatra Gajanan Yatra Gajraj Yatra Gaj Yatra

3.Which state government has launched mobile therapy vans for elderly people?

Bihar Assam Uttar Pradesh Kerala

4.Ruth Pfau, popularly known as Pakistan’s Mother Teresa has passed away. She hailed from which country?

Italy United States Germany France

5.The Grizzled Squirrel Wildlife Sanctuary (GSWS) is located in which state?

Uttrakhand Tamil Nadu Gujarat Chhattisgarh

Civil Service Exam – General Studies 2017

1.The International Albinism Awareness Day (IAAD) is observed on which date?

June 12 

June 13 

June 14 

June 11

2.Which Indian pair have won gold in mixed team 10m air pistol event at 2017 International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Gabala World Cup?

Sanjeev Rajput and Anjali Bhagwat

Apurvi Chandela and Jitu Rai 

Anjali Bhagwat and Omkar Singh 

Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu

3.Who has won the 2017 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix tournament?

Lewis Hamilton 

Valtteri Bottas 

Daniel Ricciardo 

Sebastian Vettel

4.Which state government will start free mortuary van service for its’ citizens?

Himachal Pradesh 

Punjab 

Uttar Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

5.Which water conservation model has been selected for the national award for excellence in the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee programme (MGNREGP)?

Project Jal Sanchay 

Project Jal 

Project Jal Jyoti 

Project Jal Marg

IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.The India-Australia naval exercise ‘AUSINDEX 17’ has started in which port city?

Fremantle 

Kochi 

Geraldton 

Visakhapatnam

2.Which country has launched the world’s smallest and cheapest private jet “Vision Jet”?

United Kingdom 

Japan

United States

China

3.Which country will be co-partner country in the world’s biggest food fair “ANUGA 2017”?

Indonesia

China 

India

Switzerland

4.Which Indian state has highest number of child labourers, as per latest Child Rights and You (CRY) report 2017?

West Bengal 

Uttar Pradesh 

Maharashtra 

Bihar

5.The Valmiki National Park (VNP) is located in which state?

Bihar 

Jharkhand 

Uttar Pradesh

Gujarat

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - UPSC

1.Which city is hosting the 2017 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit?

Dushanbe Astana Beijing Tashkent

2.What is the theme of 2017 World Oceans Day (WOD)?

Protect your Ocean Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet Our Oceans, Our Future Youth: the Next Wave for Change

3.Which Indian bank will set up 100 digital villages across the country?

Punjab National Bank Dena Bank State Bank of India Vijaya Bank

4.The Anshi National Park (ANP) is loacted in which state?

Karnataka Andhra Pradesh Kerala West Bengal

5.Who have been appointed as the new Independent Directors of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)?

Girraj Sharma and Anupam Seth Vinod Saxena and Nitin Khanna K G Karmakar and Gauri Shankar Jai Singh Narvaria and Trilok Chand Gupta

Solved GK questions and answers

1.Which Indian personality has been appointed public policy fellow to Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars?

Gopalaswami Parthasarathy Rakesh Sood Srinivas Kumar Sinha Nirupama Rao

2.Which country to host 2017 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)?

Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan

3.The World Milk Day (WMD) is observed on which date?

June 3 June 1 June 4 June 5

4.Who has become the first Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest from China side?

Radhika GR Anshu Jamsenpa Anita Kundu Arunima Sinha

5.The Sri Venkateswara National Park is located in which state?

Kerala Karnataka Himachal Pradesh Andhra Pradesh

IAS Preliminary Exam – General Studies

1.India has signed how much amount of loan agreement with the World Bank (WB) for Himachal Pradesh Public Financial Management Capacity Building Programme?

$68 million $56 million $36 million $45 million

2.Who has been appointed as the new Economic Affairs Secretary?

Arvind Mayaram Shaktikanta Das Vijay Kelkar Tapan Ray

3.Which country to host 2017 board of governors meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?

South Korea China India South Africa

4.Who has been appointed as the new chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)?

Keshav Prasad Maurya Ram Shankar Katheria P M Kamalamma PL Poonia

5.India’s first freight village will be set up in which of the following cities?

New Delhi Udaipur Varanasi Chennai

2017 Current Affairs

1.Which Indian organisation has won the 2017 Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) Award?

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

2. Who has been sworn-in as the new President of Serbia?

Ivica Dacic Tomislav Nikolic Dragan Sutanovac Aleksandar Vucic

3.Which state government has launched digital wallet “T-Wallet” for people with and without mobile phones?

Karnataka Odisha Telangana Manipur

4.What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Global Peace Index, as per global think tank Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)?

141st 133rd 155th 137th

5.Who is the newly appointed Executive Director (ED) of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

Chandan Sinha Arvind Mayaram S Ganesh Kumar Rajiv Mehrishi

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

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

Prelims GS 2017

1.Which country’s honorary citizenship has been received by Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai?

Norway Canada Switzerland South Africa

2.Who has been named as the new administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)?

Kemal Dervis Helen Clark Segolene Royal Achim Steiner

3.The International Day of Human Space Flight is observed on which date?

April 12 April 10 April 13 April 14

4.Which state government will launch a unique programme “Ammaku Vandaman” in schools to pay tribute to mothers?

Karnataka Andhra Pradesh Kerala Tamil Nadu

5.The National Safe Motherhood Day (NSMD) is observed on which date in India?

April 14 April 13 April 12 April 11

UPSC General Studies

1.Who has been appointed the new executive director of the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP)?

David Beasley Nikki Haley Josette Sheeran James Morris

2.Truecaller has partnered with which bank to launch its UPI-based mobile payment service “Truecaller Pay”?

HDFC Bank ICICI Bank State Bank of India Axis Bank

3.Which bank has been adjudged the “Best Small Bank” award for 2016?

Bandhan Bank IDBI Bank Karur Vysya Bank Dena Bank

4.Who will become the first woman Chief Executive (CE) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region?

Woo Kwok-hing Leung Chun-ying Eric Cheung Carrie Lam

5.Who has been declared the Man of the Series in the 2017 Border Gavaskar Trophy?

Ravichandran Ashwin Ajinkya Rahane Ravindra Jadeja Murali Vijay

Solved General Science Q&A

1.Which of the following will become the first e-commerce company to take membership of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI)?

FreeCharge Amazon Paytm Clear trip

2.Which Indian bank has launched a unique credit card “Unnati” to spread credit inclusion?

ICICI Bank Punjab National bank Bank of India State Bank of India

3.Which country hosted the 3rd edition of World Conference on Environment?

Sri Lanka India Australia China

4.The tribal festival of nature worshipping “Sarhul” has started in which state?

Jharkhand Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Odisha

5.The Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary (KWLS) is located in which state?

Kerala Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu Odisha

2017 Current Affairs

1.Which Indian personality will lead Indian Parliamentary delegation in the 136th Assembly Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)-2017?

Narendra Modi Sumitra Mahajan Sushma Swaraj Rajnath Singh

2.Which country has become the world’s first country to ban metal mining nation wide?

Angola El Salvador Morocco Sudan

3.Which Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has signed MoU with Indian Army to strengthen critical technological areas in the armed forces?

IIT Madras IIT Bombay IIT Indore IIT Roorkee

4.Indian Navy has recently launched Integrated Automatic Aviation Meteorological System (IAAMS) in which state?

Kerala Karnataka Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh

5.Who has been named the Asian Player of the Year 2016 in the senior men’s category by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF)?

P R Sreejesh Dilip Tirkey Harmanpreet Singh SV Sunil

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