GK & Current Affairs Quiz

1.The constitution bench of Supreme Court has declared right to privacy as Fundamental right under constitution. The bench was headed by whom?

D Y Chandrachud A M Sapre JS Khehar R F Nariman

2.The 2017 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is observed on which date?

August 24 August 25 August 22 August 23

3.Which tech giant has launched ‘Project Brainwave’ for real time Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Infosys Microsoft Facebook Google

4.Which city will host the first-ever beauty pageant for transgenders “Miss Transqueen India”?

Gurugram Pune Kochi Chennai

5.Which state government has launched a grid-connected rooftop solar programme through net-metering system?

Odisha Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Kerala

UPSC General Studies

1.The Nalanda University has signed MoU with which country for academic linkages and colloborations?

South Korea 

Japan

Vietnam

Malaysia

2.Which expert committee has been constituted to study free movement along Myanmar border?

V. Shashank Shekhar committee 

S. Jayaraman committee 

Rina Mitra committee

Satyendra Garg committee

3.What is the theme of the 2017 World Blood Donor Day (WBDD)?

Thank you for saving my life 

Blood connects us all

Every blood donor is a hero 

Give Blood. Give Now. Give Often

4.Padmalaya Nanda has won the 2017 Little Miss Universe Internet beauty contest. She hails from which Indian state?

Assam

Odisha

West Bengal 

Jharkhand

5.Who has been bestowed with the 2017 Nanniyode Rajan Memorial Award?

Prayar Gopalakrishnan

E Sreedharan 

Vakkom B Purushothaman 

K C Joseph

General Awareness 2017

1.Which city has been designated UNESCO World Book Capital 2018?

Athens Ljubljana Conakry Alexandria

2.Which state government has signed a MoU with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for agricultural transformation?

Mizoram Odisha Manipur Assam

3.The 2017 United Nations Oceans Conference will be held in which city?

Lisbon Beijing New York Thimphu

4.Who has won the award for the 2016 Men’s Player of the Year by the Golf Industry Association (GIA)?

Shiv Chawrasia Ali Sher Aakash Ohri Anirban Lahiri

5.Nora Chopra, who passed away recently, was related to which field?

Journalism Sports Politics Science

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

General Studies - UPSC

1.Which of the following hydroxide is most basic ?

Mg (OH)2 Ba (OH)2 Ca (OH)2 Be (OH)2

2.Silver salt used in photography is

AgCl AgNO3 AgF AgBr

3.Sahitya Academy winner M.M.Kalburgi on 30 August 2015 was killed. He was

A noted Kannada epigraphist A renowned scholar of the Vachana Literature A former vice-chancellor of Kannada University All of the above

4.Who is the CEO of Google?

Alfred Mark Sundar Pichai Daniel Nichols PS Iyer

5.Find out the incorrect pair with regard to INC Session

1955 – Avadi – U.N. Dhebar 1964 – Bhuwaneshvar – K. Kamaraj 1966 – Jaipur – K. Kamaraj 1950 – Nasik – J.B. Kripalani