400 Best Questions - Jul to Sept 2017

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Which F1 driver has won the Singapore Grand MHA has enhanced the financial powers of the
Prix? directors generals of armed police forces to
A) Max Verstappen execute major projects from Rs 10 crore to?
B) Lewis Hamilton A) Rs 15 crore
C) Sebastian Vettel B) Rs 20 crore
D) Daniel Ricciardo C) Rs 25 crore
D) Rs 30 crore
Wayne Rooney, who recently announced his
retirement from international football was the Which state government has joined hands with
former captain of? Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) to
A) England implement India's first Hyperloop project which
B) Italy might cut down travel time of 35 km to only five
C) Germany minutes?
D) Argentina A) Karnataka
B) Uttar Pradesh
Who has been appointed as the MD and C) Maharashtra
Chairman of Air India? D) Andhra Pradesh
A) Siraj Hussian
B) Vishwa Mohan Katoch Who has won the women’s singles event at the
C) Rajiv Bansal U.S. Open Grand Slam carrom?
D) Anil Goswami A) Tejasvi Duduka
Which football team claimed the SAFF U-15 B) Vandana Kumari
C) Stuti Narain
Championships title held in Nepal?
A) Pakistan D) Kusum Sidhu
B) Bhutan Which bank has launched its own chatbot
C) Nepal powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) for
D) India resolving queries of its customer?
Which small finance bank has been given a A) Bank of Baroda
scheduled bank status by RBI? B) Punjab National Bank
C) State Bank of India
A) ESAF Small Finance Bank
D) Canara Bank
B) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
C) Equitas Small Finance Bank
Who was recently honoured with literary award
D) AU Small Finance Bank
Saraswati Samman for 2016?
Yes Bank has signed up a charter with which A) Prabhu Dayal Meena
Indian Institute of Management (IIM) to help B) Avinash Chander
spread 'Climate Literacy'? C) Mahabaleshwar Sail
A) Lucknow D) Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta
B) Calcutta
Which state government has launched 'Gyankunj
C) Ahmedabad
Project'?
D) Bangalore
A) Gujarat
Which of the following has launched National B) Goa
C) Assam
Nutrition Strategy which aims at ensuring every
child, adolescent girl and woman attains optimal D) Bihar
nutritional status by 2022?
A) AYUSH
B) FSSAI
C) NITI Aayog
D) ICMR

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India recently handed over the off-shore patrol Which state government is going to provide skill
vessel Varuna to which country? development training to 30 thousand
A) Bangladesh surrendered militants?
B) Sri Lanka A) Jammu & Kashmir
C) Myanmar B) Jharkhand
D) Cambodia C) Chhattisgarh
D) Assam
Gauri Lankesh, who recently passed away, was a
renowned jounalist of which language? Which of the following companies is going to
A) Kannada receive Maharatna status?
B) Tamil A) National Aluminium Company
C) Malayalam B) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
D) Telugu C) Power Grid Corporation of India
D) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
DRDO has successfully tested indigenously
developed 3rd generation of which of the What is the name of the project to be initiated by
following Anti Tank Guided Missiles? the income tax department where it will use
A) Nirbhay information from social media sites to deduce
B) Shaurya
mismatches between spending pattern and
C) Astra
income declaration?
D) Nag
A) Inside Out
What was the 2017 theme of International B) Social
C) Stealth
Literacy Day observed on Sept 8th?
A) Literacy in a Digital World D) Insight
B) Literacy and Sustainable Societies Who won the US Open men's singles held at New
C) Reading the Past, Writing the Future York?
D) Literacies for the 21st Century A) Kevin Anderson
B) Roger Federer
Which of the following Chief Ministers has been C) Rafael Nadal
conferred the One World Grand Prix Award for D) Andy Murray
his contribution to organic farming?
Which of the following ships have been sent out
A) Lal Thanhawla
B) Pawan Kumar Chamling by the Indian Navy for marking the 25th
C) Prem Khandu Thungan anniversary of India-ASEAN dialogue?
D) Manik Sarkar 1. INS Satpura 2. INS Kadmatt
3. INS Tarkash 4. INS Betwa
Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has entered A) 1 & 2
into an MoA with which institute for ground B) 2 & 3
water research? C) 3 & 4
A) IIT Madras D) 4 & 1
B) IIT Bombay
C) IIT Kharagpur What is the name of the programme that the
D) IISc Bangalore government will undertake from 2018 to enrol
students who are out of schools?
ICAR has launched a Rs 1,100 crore National A) Padho Aur Badho
Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) in B) School Chalo Abhiyan
association with? C) Pathshaala Aur Hum
A) World Bank D) Aao Padhein
B) ADB
C) NDB
D) IMF

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Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu recently laid Government has decided to issue Rs 100 and Rs 5
foundation stone for the first and only greenfield coins to commemorate the birth centenary of?
smart city project in? A) Indira Gandhi
A) Raipur B) M.S. Subbulakshmi
B) Patna C) Deendayal Upadhyaya
C) Ranchi D) M.G. Ramachandran
D) Jamshedpur

Which Indian wrestler has won gold medal at the In a first, which state is going to open clinics
World Cadet Wrestling Championship being held exclusively for the transgender community?
in Greece? A) Nagaland
A) Sonam Malik B) Maharashtra
B) Preeti Sangwan C) Goa
C) Rashmi Chaudhary D) Kerala
D) Kavita Devi
Which city is going to host Junior Asian Wrestling
Which Indian player recently won the Malaysia Championship 2018?
Squash Tour held in Kuala Lumpur? A) New Delhi
A) Saurav Ghosal B) Gandhinagar
B) Siddharth Suchde C) Lucknow
C) Harinder Pal Sandhu D) Bhopal
D) Ritwik Bhattacharya
Who has been awarded the Balzan Prize for her
Prince Charles has become the longest-serving work in the gender studies category?
Prince of Wales with 59 years, one month and 15 A) Kavery Banerjee
days. The previous record was held by? B) Sindhushree Khullar
A) George VI C) Bina Agarwal
B) Philip D) Vijayalakshmy K. Gupta
C) Edward VII
D) Albert Which Indian company has been recognised in
Fortune's annual list of the Top 50 companies
Joint training exercise 'Shaheen VI', is being held that are changing the world?
between the armed forces of which countries? A) HUL
A) South Korea and Pakistan B) Reliance
B) Pakistan and China C) Mahindra
C) China and Iran D) TCS
D) Iran and South Korea
What was India's rank on the medal tally at the
Moscow Shotgun World Championship?
The upper age limit for joining the National A) Fifth
Pension System (NPS) has been raised from the B) Second
current 60 to? C) Ninth
A) 68 years D) Seventh
B) 70 years
As per Fitch Ratings, Indian Banks will require
C) 62 years
how much in additional capital to meet the Basel
D) 65 years
III capital adequacy norms by March 2019?
A) USD 120 billion
B) USD 65 billion
C) USD 35 billion
D) USD 90 billion

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Who has been chosen by Badminton Association Who has been appointed as the Principal Deputy
of India for its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Press Secretary by POTUS Donald Trump?
Award? A) Rakesh Saxena
A) Chetan Anand B) Vinay Chauhan
B) Prakash Padukone C) Shailesh Verma
C) Arvind Bhat D) Raj Shah
D) Pullela Gopichand
What is India's rank out of 130 countries on
What was the theme of 2nd edition of World Global Human Capital Index 2017 released by
Congress of Optometry which was held at World Economic Forum?
Hyderabad? A) 69
A) Eye care for all B) 87
B) Universal Eye Health C) 124
C) Accessible, quality vision and eye health D) 103
D) No more Avoidable Blindness
AYUSH ministry has launched India's first virology
September 14 is celebrated every year across laboratory to develop homoeopathy drugs in?
India as? A) Raipur
A) English Day B) Kolkata
B) Bangla Dina C) Jaipur
C) Hindi Diwas D) Bhopal
D) Marathi Divasa

Which film won the coveted Golden Lion award at Sivalingam Sathish Kumar and Ragala Venkat
the Venice film festival? Rahul, who have qualified for 2018
A) The Devil’s Backbone Commonwealth Games, are associated with
B) In Bruges which sport?
C) The Shape of Water A) Weightlifting
D) Pan’s Labyrinth B) Shotput
Who has been appointed as the Chairman and C) Shooting
MD of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism D) Wrestling
Corporation Limited (IRCTC) ?
A) Vishwa Mohan Finance minister Arun Jaitley has constituted a
B) Mahendra Pratap Mall Group of Ministers (GoM) to resolve IT issues
C) Navtej Singh Sarna faced in the implementation of the GST. Who will
D) Pankaj Jain be heading the GoM?
A) TM Thomas Isaac
Which state government has approved ‘Electric B) Krishna Byregowda
Vehicle and Energy Storage Policy 2017’? C) Sushil Kumar Modi
A) Madhya Pradesh D) Amar Agarwal
B) Karnataka
C) Chhattisgarh Who has been appointed as the president of All
D) Tripura India Mahila Congress?
A) Sushmita Dev
Who has been announced to be the first woman B) Nita Shukla
President of Singapore? C) Shobha Oza
A) Nurul Izzah D) Anita Agnihotri
B) Shahrizat Abdul
C) Halima Yacob
D) Rafidah Aziz

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A high-speed rail training centre, worth Rs 600- International Coastal Cleanup Day was conducted
crore, for the first bullet train project will be set across the world under the aegis of UNEP, on?
up in? A) Sept 16
A) Gandhinagar B) Sept 17
B) Vadodara C) Sept 19
C) Nagpur D) Sept 15
D) Nashik

Which port was awarded Container Terminal of Mahant Chandnath, who recently passed away,
the Year" Award for the above 0.6 million TEUs was the BJP MP from?
category at The Gateway Awards 2017 held at A) Alwar
Mumbai? B) Jaisalmer
A) Haldia Port C) Bikaner
B) Visakhapatnam Port D) Jodhpur
C) Port of Chennai
D) Jawaharlal Nehru Port As per HSBC, India is likely to overtake Japan and
Germany to become the third largest and a $7
Which university has established India’s first trillion economy by?
Centre for Animal Law dedicated to the study of A) 2025
animal issues? B) 2021
A) University of Delhi C) 2030
B) NALSAR University of Law D) 2028
C) KIIT Law School
Engineers day was celebrated on Sept 15th. It is
D) University of Mumbai
the birth anniversary of?
When was International Day of Peace observed A) Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
with the 2017 theme “Together for Peace: B) Jagadish Chandra Bose
Respect, Safety and Dignity for All”? C) Mylswamy Annadurai
A) Sept 15 D) Paul Ratnasamy
B) Sept 18 Which state has passed PRANAM Act that seeks
C) Sept 17 to deduct 10-15% of the salary of government
D) Sept 21
employees who do not take care of their parents
As per the ‘Trade and Development Report, and disabled sibling?
A) Punjab
2017’, world economy's growth is expected to
B) Jharkhand
reach 2.6%. The report has been issued by?
C) Assam
A) WEF
D) Goa
B) IMF
C) World Bank
D) UNCTAD Who is India’s first ever foreign coach for women
boxers, who recently submitted his resignation to
With which country has India inked an agreement the Boxing Federation of India ?
to implement the commercial arrangement of A) Roberto Durán
"Cool EMS" service? B) Max Baer
A) Japan C) Pernell Whitaker
B) Canada D) Stephane Cottalorda
C) South Korea
D) USA

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International Union of Concerned Scientists Which country hosted the multinational military
(IUCN) has changed the status of Snow Leopard exercise 'Aurora 17' with participation from NATO
to? members?
A) Near Threatened A) USA
B) Endangered B) Sweden
C) Vulnerable C) Denmark
D) Critically Endangered D) Norway

PV Sindhu became the first Indian badminton Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh, who
player to lift the title in Korea Superseries, after recently passed away, led the Air force during
beating? which of the following wars?
A) Nozomi Okuhara A) 1971 Indo Pakistan
B) Tai Tzu-ying B) 1965 Indo Pakistan
C) Carolina Marin C) 1962 Indo Sino
D) Ratchanok Intanon D) 1999 Kargil War

What is the name of the operation launched by Who has been elected as the new Chair of the
India to provide humanitarian assistance to IOC Ethics Commission?
Bangladesh to cope with the influx of Rohingya A) Ban Ki-moon
refugees? B) Samuel Schmid
A) Operation Refugee C) Youssoupha Ndiaye
B) Operation Insaniyat D) Hanqin Xue
C) Operation Helping Hand
D) Operation Sharanaarthi World's oldest person Violet Mosse-Brown, who
recently passed away, hailed from?
What is the name of the digital payment app A) Kenya
launched by Google in India? B) Ethiopia
A) Google Speed C) Ghana
B) Google Gati D) Jamaica
C) Google Quick Centre has decided to grant citizenship to one
D) Google Tez lakh refugees of which of the following tribes
living in the north-eastern states?
International Day for the Preservation of the 1. Marmas 2. Tanchangya
Ozone Layer was observed on Sept 16. This year 3. Chakma 4. Hajong
marks the 30th anniversary of? A) 1 & 2
A) Geneva Protocol B) 2 & 3
B) Kyoto Protocol C) 3 & 4
C) Montreal Protocol D) 4 & 1
D) Catragena Protocol

Centre has devised three offence categories to Which bollywood actor has been honoured with
put passengers on a 'No-Fly List'. Which of the the Global Diversity Award 2017 in the British
following is not one of them? Parliament House?
A) Loud & angry display in public A) Akshay Kumar
B) Physically abusive behaviour B) Ajay Devgn
C) Unruly physical gestures, verbal harassment C) Salman Khan
and unruly inebriation D) Aamir Khan
D) Life threatening behaviour and assault

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Which beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile is Who broke the Guinness World Record for the
now set for production and induction into the fastest circumnavigation of Earth on a bicycle, by
armed forces after its successful trials? completing the ride in 78 days?
A) Ghatak A) Mark Beaumont
B) Astra B) Allen Ginsberg
C) Prahaar C) Andrew Nicholson
D) Dhanush D) Ryan Newell

Which bank has signed a loan of up to $200 Zannah Mustapha, who has been named the
million with ADB to provide finance to low- 2017 winner of UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award,
income women borrowers in rural India? hails from?
A) Karnataka Bank A) Cameroon
B) IndusInd Bank B) Nigeria
C) Axis Bank C) Ghana
D) IDFC Bank D) Burkina Faso

Who has become the first batsman to complete a Who has been awarded the president's medal for
century of sixes in Twenty20 Internationals? meritorious services?
A) Virat Kohli A) D Roopa
B) AB de Villiers B) Neetha S
C) Chris Gayle C) Priya Sinha
D) Aaron Finch D) Amita Paul

Which state has become the first in India to set

Jharkhand has launched the Shaheed Gram Vikas up family welfare district committees to deal with
Yojana which aims at developing villages of the issue of fake and biased complaints by
freedom fighters. The initiative was launched women against their husbands and in-laws?
from Ulihatu Village, which is the birth place of? A) Mizoram
A) Sido Murmu B) Tripura
B) Dhananjay Mahato C) Manipur
C) Birsa Munda D) Assam
D) Kanhu Murmu
Who has been appointed as the new chief of the
Which of the following became the first online Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)?
series to win the 'Best Drama Series' award at the A) Rajni Kant Mishra
69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards? B) Sudhir Kumar
A) House of Cards C) Archana Ramasundaram
B) The Handmaid’s Tale D) R.S. Sharma
C) Stranger Things
D) Better Call Saul Three states were awarded at the first ever
National Conference on "Mission Mode to
Who has been appointed as the Director-General address Under-Nutrition" which was held at New
of the National Investigation Agency (NIA)? Delhi. Which of the following is not one of them?
A) S.B. Agnihotri A) Arunachal Pradesh
B) Ajit Kumar B) Chattisgarh
C) YC Modi C) Telangana
D) Anup Sanyal D) Gujarat

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Which renowned chef is going to be the brand Which state government has launched People
ambassador of the Government's 'Food Street' at First, a mobile application that will enable citizens
the global food fair to be held in New Delhi in to register their grievances?
November? A) Andhra Pradesh
A) Sanjeev Kapoor B) Himachal Pradesh
B) Ranveer Brar C) Madhya Pradesh
C) Vikas Khanna D) Arunachal Pradesh
D) Kunal Kapur
Three Indian businessmen have been named in
Which NGO has won 2017 Equator Prize working Forbes' special list of the world's '100 Greatest
among women farmers? Living Business Minds'. Which of the following is
A) Plan India not one of them?
B) Teach for India A) Ratan Tata
C) Deepalaya B) Mukesh Ambani
D) Swayam Shikshan Prayog C) Vinod Khosla
D) Lakshmi Mittal
Who has won the goldn medal in Women's
Pentathlon at the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances &
Arts Games being held in Ashgabat? Pensions Jitendra Singh, recently inaugurated the
A) Unnikrishnan Palakeezh first ‘Pension Adalat’ at?
B) Neha Solanki A) Pune
C) Neena Varakil B) Chandigarh
D) Purnima Hembram C) New Delhi
D) Chennai
Which Payments Bank has launched its mobile
banking app called BPay? India has replaced which country as the top retail
A) Paytm Payments Bank destination in 2017 as part of the global retail
B) Airtel Payments Bank development index?
C) Fino Payments Bank A) Germany
D) India Post Payments Bank B) China
C) Brazil
Dr KS Chugh, who recently passed away, is known D) USA
in India as the father of?
A) Hematology Which bank has launched a management institute
B) Nephrology in Kolkata?
C) Pediatrics A) State Bank of India
D) Cardiology B) Punjab National Bank
C) Central Bank of India
Legendary American boxer Jake LaMotta recently
D) Bank of Baroda
passed away. He was the inspiration behind
which hollywood classic? As per OECD's Interim Economic Outlook report,
A) Rocky India's economy will grow at what percent this
B) The Fighter year?
C) Raging Bull A) 6.5%
D) When We Were Kings B) 6.3%
C) 6.9%
D) 6.7%

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Who has become the youngest cricketer to take "The Shershah of Kargil" penned by Deepak
100 T20 wickets? Surana, is the biography of which Kargil war
A) Jasprit Bumrah hero?
B) Danny Briggs A) Subedar Yogendra Singh Yadav
C) Rashid Khan B) Captain Vikram Batra
D) Kuldip Yadav C) Lieutenant Manoj Kumar Pandey
D) Captain Saurabh Kalia
Which state is going to be the first to create a
DNA fingerprinting database of offenders? ADB recently sanctioned a USD 300 million loan
A) Maharashtra facility for carrying forward fiscal reforms in?
B) Gujarat A) Assam
C) Andhra Pradesh B) Telangana
D) Kerala C) West Bengal
D) Rajasthan
Three districts have been chosen for initiating the
'Zero Hunger' programme. Which of the following
is not one of them? Who has become the first Asian to be chosen for
A) Gorakhpur the prestigious Von Hippel Award by the
B) Koraput Materials Research Society?
C) Arrah A) Anant Kakodkar
D) Thane B) C.N.R Rao
C) Jayant Narlikar
Who has been elected as the president of News D) Ashoke Sen
Broadcasters Association (NBA)?
A) Rajat Sharma Which of the following is the indigenously built
B) Arnab Goswami Scorpene-class submarine that has recently been
C) Aroon Purie handed over to the Indian Navy?
D) Prannoy Roy A) INS Karanj
B) INS Kalvari
Department of Biotechnology is going to launch a
C) INS Chakra
'Boat Lab’ to study hydrology and water quality in
D) INS Khanderi
which river?
A) Brahmaputra
Who is going to head the steering committee,
B) Ganga
formed by IRDAI, to help implement by March
C) Godavari
2021 the new risk-based capital (RBC) regime?
D) Cauvery
A) Promila Choudhary
India’s recently announced to set up its first B) Kusum Sharma
atomic energy venture abroad. It is collaborating C) Stuti Narain
with Russia to build the Rooppur nuclear power D) Pournima Gupte
plant in?
Liliane Bettencourt, who recently passed away,
A) Bangladesh
was the world's _______ woman?
B) Myanmar
A) Richest
C) Nepal
B) Tallest
D) Sri Lanka
C) Oldest
D) Heaviest
Who has become the third Indian to take a hat-
trick in One-day Internationals?
A) Ravindra Jadeja
B) Bhuvneshwar Kumar
C) Jasprit Bumrah
D) Kuldeep Yadav

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Who has become the first Indian to be picked as Who has been chosen for the prestigious
the International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) Bharatratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi award for year
representative for the IOC Athletes’ Forum? 2017-18?
A) Mary Kom A) Pt Keshav Ginde
B) Shiva Thapa B) Kamlabai Bhonde
C) Laishram Sarita Devi C) Shubha Mudgal
D) Manoj Kumar D) Manik Bhide

Which state government has launched 'Vision- World's smallest squirrel Bormean pigmy has
2025' project aimed at evolving a draft policy for been found in which country?
development in next seven years by seeking the A) Indonesia
opinion of the public? B) Peru
A) Manipur C) Chile
B) Bihar D) India
C) Tamil Nadu
D) Karnataka What is India's rank on the Global
Competitiveness Report 2017-18 by World
Which state's chief minister declared 2017-18 as Economic Forum?
e-Pragati year? A) 40th
A) Assam B) 27th
B) Punjab C) 55th
C) Andhra Pradesh D) 71st
D) Chhattisgarh
Who has been selected to receive 2017 SASTRA
Ramanujan Prize for her contribution to number
Spacecraft Osiris-REX of NASA swung past Earth
theory?
recently. It is on a mission to collect samples from
A) Winfried Kohnen
which asteroid?
B) Andrea Granville
A) Interamnia
C) Gisbert Wustholz
B) Hektor
D) Maryna Viazovska
C) Toutatis
D) Bennu Which country has recently allowed its women to
drive and to enter sports stadiums for the first
57th National Open Athletics Championships
time?
2017 was recently held at?
A) Oman
A) Chennai
B) Qatar
B) Bhopal
C) Saudi Arabia
C) Bhubaneswar
D) UAE
D) Chandigarh

Which country is going to give a boost to 'White What is Priyanka Chopra's rank on Forbes' list of
Revolution' in Haryana? the world's highest-paid TV actresses in 2017?
A) Russia A) 8th
B) Israel B) 14th
C) Spain C) 2nd
D) Brazil D) 23rd

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Which Odia poet is going to be honoured with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has
38th Sarala award for her short story compilation provisionally suspended which country's main
Kathapua? anti-doping laboratory?
A) Bidyut Prabha Devi A) Ukraine
B) Pratibha Satpathy B) India
C) Banaj Devi C) Russia
D) Aparna Mohanty D) France

Special forces of which countries' armies began a Which state government has constituted a
two-week long joint exercise 'DRUZBA 2017'? steering committee to monitor and coordinate
1. China 2. Pakistan the drug de-addiction and rehabilitation
3. Russia 4. India programme in a mission mode?
A) 1 & 2 A) Goa
B) 2 & 3 B) Uttar Pradesh
C) 3 & 4 C) Punjab
D) 4 & 1 D) Maharashtra

Who headed the committee on online abuse,

India will be hosting the South Asian boxing which recently submitted its recommendations to
Championship for the first time in? Home Ministry?
A) Lucknow A) TK Viswanathan
B) Guwahati B) Vijay Chhibber
C) Hyderabad C) T.C. Anant
D) Kochi D) Sunil Arora

Which team registered a record-extending eighth What was the 2017 theme of World Tourism Day
consecutive title win in the Calcutta Football celebrated on Sept 27th?
League (CFL)? A) One billion tourist’s one billion opportunities
A) Calcutta B) Tourism Linking Cultures
B) Mohun Bagan C) Tourism for all – promoting universal
C) East Bengal accessibility
D) Mohammedan D) Sustainable Tourism – a tool for development

Hugh Hefner, who recently passed away, was the India has signed a pact on technical cooperation
founder of which lifestyle and entertainment in the field of police training and development
magazine? with which country?
A) Maxim A) Afghanistan
B) GQ B) Nepal
C) Playboy C) Bangladesh
D) Esquire D) Myanmar

Asian Development Bank has lowered its 2017 Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, once the world’s
growth forecast for India to? heaviest woman at 500 kg, recently passed away.
A) 7% She hailed from?
B) 6.8% A) Egypt
C) 7.2% B) Afghanistan
D) 6.6% C) Pakistan
D) UAE

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Which port has been rechristened as Deendayal What is the name of the app, launched by Social
Port? Justice and Empowerment Minister
A) Kandla Port Thaawarchand Gehlot, for easy dissemination of
B) Karwar Port information to differently - abled?
C) Haldia Port A) Divyang Prasaran
D) Vizag Port B) Sugamya Soochna
C) Divyang Sarathi
Joao Lourenco has become the first new D) Sulabh Soochna
president, after a period of 38 years, of which
country? Security provided by Central Industrial Security
A) DR Congo Force (CISF) at which airport has been adjudged
B) Angola the best by World Quality Congress (WQC)?
C) Zambia A) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
D) Botswana B) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
C) Indira Gandhi International Airport
Political novelist and journalist Arun Sadhu, who
D) Kempegowda International Airport
recently passed away, primarily wrote in which
language? State Bank of India has opened its new branch in?
A) Odia A) Singapore
B) Konkani B) Thailand
C) Marathi C) Indonesia
D) Gujarati D) Malaysia
Which Indian Human RIghts lawyer won the Right
Livelihood Award, also known as ‘Alternative Which airport has launched wheelchair lift or
Nobel’, by the Prize Foundation? Verti-lift for senior citizens and passengers?
A) Alok Kurian A) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
B) K. Vijayraghavan B) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
C) Colin Gonsalves C) Kempegowda International Airport
D) Deepak Nambiar D) Indira Gandhi International Airport
Which university has signed an MoU with Indian Which state government has signed an MoU with
Army for offering graduate and post-graduate South Korea for increased co-operation in
programmes for Army personnel? infrastructure projects?
A) Banaras Hindu University A) Rajasthan
B) Jamia Millia Islamia B) Uttarakhand
C) Jawaharlal Nehru University C) Maharashtra
D) Aligarh Muslim University D) Chhattisgarh

Vice President, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu When was World Maritime Day celebrated with
inaugurated the "Shouchalayakkagi Samara" (A the 2017 theme "Connecting Ships, Ports and
Crusade For Toilets) Programme in? People"?
A) Karnataka A) Last Thursday of September
B) Andhra Pradesh B) Last Friday of September
C) Telangana C) Last Wednesday of September
D) Kerala D) Last Saturday of September

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 400 Best Questions - Jul to Sept 2017

World Heart Day was recently observed on? Who has been selected to receive the Living
A) Sept 29 Legend Award of the International Union of
B) Sept 27 Nutritional Sciences ((IUNS)?
C) Sept 30 A) Gauri Julka
D) Sept 26 B) Kusumjit Singh
C) Vandana Kothari
D) Mahtab Bamji
Which state has topped in a study titled
‘Manufacturing excellence and emergence in Who has been appointed as the chairman of the
India: The State-level analysis’, conducted by reconstituted Economic Advisory Council (EAC) by
Assocham? Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
A) Maharashtra A) Ratan Watal
B) Andhra Pradesh B) Surjit Bhalla
C) Odisha C) Bibek Debroy
D) Telangana D) Rathin Roy

What is the name of the newly launched

cleanliness campaign for rural areas?
A) Gram Swachhta Aur Gram Sulabhata
B) Gram Swachhta Aur Desh Kushalata
C) Gram Samridhi Evam Swachhta
D) Gram Swachhta Aur Desh Samridhi

Sept 28 is celebrated annually to raise awareness

about which disease?
A) AIDS
B) Rabies
C) Malaria
D) Cancer

First-ever International Translation Day was

observed on?
A) Sept 30
B) Sept 28
C) Sept 26
D) Sept 27

What is the name of the portal which Union

Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated
recently to combat child labour, trafficking and
sexual abuse?
A) NOTEBOOK
B) SCALE
C) ERASER
D) PENCIL

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