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

Common Quiz Questions

1.Which state government will set up “Book Banks” in schools to provide old books to needy students?

Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Punjab Uttar Pradesh

2.Devineni Rajshekhar, the former Minister of Andhra Pradesh has passed away. He was associated with which political party?

Indian National Congress (INC) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Communist Party of India (CPI) Telugu Desam Party (TDP)

3.Who has been appointed the new Financial Commissioner (FC) of Indian Railways?

B N Mohapatra S K Bhagat Anand Mathur Akhil Agrawal

4.Who will be the new chairman of the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB)?

Aagam Modi Devendra Kumar Sharma Cheteshwar Mangalam P V Singhal

5.Which airline will become the world’s first airline to adopt new satellite-based airplane tracking system?

Japan Airlines Singapore Airlines Asiana Airlines Malaysia Airlines

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - UPSC

1.Who has been named for the prestigious Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement (LTA) award?

Vikram Gokhale Arun Nalawade Saira Banu Jackie Shroff

2.The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has conducted its first-ever mock exercise on forest fire in which state?

Madhya Pradesh Uttarakhand Jharkhand Odisha

3.What is the India’s rank in the 2017 A.T. Kearney Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index?

12th 8th 10th 5th

4.Who is the newly appointed MD and CEO of the LIC Housing Finance?

Sunita Sharma Pooja Bansal Nikhil Kumar Vinay Sah

5.Which of the following has become the India’s first CII-IGBC Platinum rated project?

ICICI Bank Data Centre HDFC Bank Data Centre Axis Bank Data Centre SBI Data Centre

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - UPSC

1.What is the current reverse repo rate, as per first bi-monthly monetary policy review for 2017-18 of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

6.0% 6.25% 6.5% 5.75%

2.Which state government will start a one-year diploma course on “Hindu Purohityam”?

Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Jharkhand Rajasthan

3.Which digital campaign has launched for 2017 International Day of Sports for Development and Peace (IDSDP)?

#PlayForPeace #PlayForSustainableDevelopmentGoals #WePlayTogether #EndViolence

4.India and the United Kingdom (UK) will set up how much amount of Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF) to finance clean energy projects?

£255 million £340 million £555 million £240 million

5.What is the India’s rank in the world’s largest tourism economy in terms of GDP, according to the latest report of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)?

9th 7th 4th 11th

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