GENERAL AWARENESS-CURRENT AFFAIRS 1.Which of the Following Is
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GENERAL AWARENESS-CURRENT AFFAIRS 1.Which of the following is the focus country in the New Delhi World Book Fair 2018? (a) European Union (b) United States (c) United Kingdom (d) Egypt 2.The 2018 Annual Conference of DGPs and IGPs has started in which state? (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Gujarat (d) Assam 3.Who has been appointed the Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)? (a) MukeshAgnihotri (b) JanardanDwivedi (c) T S Tirumurti (d) Narayanan Chandrakumar 4.Who has won the 2018 men’s singles Tata Open Maharashtra Tennis tournament? (a) Roberto Bautista Agut (b) Benoit Paire (c) Yuki Bhambri (d) Gilles Simon 5.Which city is hosting the Himalayan Hydro Expo 2018? (a) Kathmandu (b) Shimla (c) Gangtok (d) Itanagar 6.Which country has become the world’s first country to enforce equal pay for women and men? (a) Finland (b) France (c) Iceland (d) Sweden 7.Who has been named as the best central bank governor in Asia-Pacific for 2018? (a) Ravi Menon (b) Pramod Jain (c) UshaVisvas (d) Nirmal Kumar 8.The 2018 International Kite Festival (Uttarayan) has been launched in which city of Gujarat? (a) Surat (b) Ahmedabad (c) Gandhinagar (d) Vadodara 9.Which city is to host World Sweet Festival (WSF-2018)? (a) New Delhi (b) Lucknow (c) Hyderabad (d) Chennai 10.The Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) is located in which state? (a) Kerala (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Assam (d) Manipur 11.Which union minister will inaugurate the 2018 ASEAN-India PravasiBharatiya Divas (PBD)? (a) Rajnath Singh (b) Prakash Javadekar (c) Nitin Gadkari(d) SushmaSwaraj 12.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated PCA against Allahabad Bank over its high bad loans. What does “PCA” stands for? (a) Prompt Control Action (b) Principal Complaints Action (c) Principal Component Action (d) Prompt Corrective Action 13.Who has been appointed as the Editor of the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW)? (a) Gopal Guru (b) ParanjoyGuhaThakurta (c) Geetanjali Das (d) Priyank Kumar 14.Which union ministry has launched India’s first digital online oncology tutorial series? (a) Ministry of Human Resource Development (b)Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (c) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (d) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 15.Which state to host the 3rd edition of the Science Film Festival of India (SCI-FFI 2018)? (a) Maharashtra (b)Goa (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Jammu & Kashmir 16.Which state to host the 39th National Games in 2022? (a) Meghalaya (b)Nagaland (c) Mizoram (d) Assam 17.The Border Security Force (BSF) has launched which operation on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) International Border to curb infiltration? (a) Operation Border (b)Operation Control (c) Operation Alert (d) Operation Star 18.Vasant Shankar Davkhare, who passed away recently, was the noted politician of which party? (a) Communist Party of India (b)Indian National Congress (c) Nationalist Congress Party (d) Bharatiya Janata Party 19.Which city is hosting the Conference on Transformation of Aspirational Districts? (a) New Delhi (b)Kochi (c) Chennai (d) Bengaluru 20.The BasavaSagar Dam is located in which state? (a) Kerala (b)Karnataka (c) Odisha (d) Tamil Nadu 21.Which city to host the 2018 Karnataka International Travel Expo (KITE)? (a) Bengaluru (b)Bijapur (c) Mysuru (d) Hubli 22.Which of the following countries has formally joined as the new non-permanent members of UNSC? (a) Poland (b)Japan (c) India (d) Egypt 23.Endangered ‘bird language’ has entered the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is belong to which country? (a) Senegal (b)Turkey (c) India (d) Uruguay 24.The Rajasthan Government has tied up with which bank to promote and nurture startups in the state? (a) SBI (b)HDFC Bank (c) ICICI Bank (d) PNB 25.NABARD has signed pact with which bank to promote Joint Liability Groups (JLGs) in Bengal? (a) Punjab National Bank (b)Bank of India (c) State Bank of India (d) Dena Bank 26.The 2018 Mylapore festival has started in which state? (a) Karnataka (b)Kerala (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu 27.Who has taken charge as the new chief of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)? (a) R RBhatnagar (b)RinaMitra (c) Abhay (d) Om Prajapati 28.Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Real Estate Appellate Tribunal (REAT) for Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands? (a) Indira Banerjee (b)V Rajamani (c) N Swaminathan (d) B Rajendran 29.The Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) has signed MoU with which Payments Bank to provide training on payment banking? (a) Paytm Payments Bank (b)Airtel Payments Bank (c) India Post Payments Bank [D] Fino Payments Bank 30.The Khadakwasla Dam is located in which state? (a) Punjab (b)Maharashtra (c) Odisha (d) Karnataka 31.Which Indian golfer has won the Royal Cup tournament 2017? (a) Jyoti Randhawa (b)Gaganjeet Bhullar (c) Khalin Joshi (d) Shiv Kapur 32.After Sikkim, which North-East state has been officially declared Open Defecation Free (ODF)? (a) Manipur (b)Arunachal Pradesh (c) Nagaland (d) Mizoram 33.Which country to host the mini-ministerial meeting of WTO members in Feb 2018 to revitalize the multi-lateral trade body? (a) Israel (b)Argentina (c) India (d) United States 34.KKR & Co. has become the India’s first Foreign-Owned Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC). It is associated to which country? (a) United States (b)France (c) Germany (d) New Zealand 35.Which country has launched the world’s largest human genome research project? (a) China (b)Japan (c) Brazil (d) Russia 36.Which union minister has launched a new start-up incubation centre “Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Learning (CEOL)” in Mangaluru? (a) Arun Jaitley (b)Prakash Javadekar (c) NirmalaSitharaman [D] Ravi Shankar Prasad 37.Which company has bagged the broadcast rights of 2018 Khelo India School Games (KISG)? (a) Sahara (b)Star Sports (c) Adidas (d) Reebok 38.Which cricket team has won the 2017 Ranji Trophy tournament? (a) Hyderabad (b)Gujarat (c) Chhattisgarh (d) Vidarbha 39.The Chamera Dam is located in which state/UT? (a) Puducherry (b)Uttar Pradesh (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Jharkhand 40.Which state will be the theme state for the 32nd Surajkund International Crafts fair? (a) Madhya Pradesh (b)Uttar Pradesh (c) Rajasthan (d) Haryana 41.Which union minister has launched an online portal NARI for the empowerment of women? (a) Maneka Gandhi (b)Narendra Modi (c) Uma Bharti (d) SmritiIrani 42.Anwar Jalalpuri, the noted Urdu poet has passed away. He hailed from which state? (a) Arunachal Pradesh (b)Rajasthan (c) Telangana (d) Uttar Pradesh 43.The 171st Araadhanai Music Festival (AMF) has started in which state? (a) Kerala (b)Tamil Nadu (c) Odisha (d) Tripura 44.Who has taken charge as the new CEO and MD of Infosys? (a) Michael Pesch (b)NandanNilekani[ (c) Salil Parekh (d) Pravin Rao 45.Which state government has recently received the approval for purchase of electric vehicles under Central government’s FAME-India scheme? (a) Karnataka (b)Assam (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Gujarat 46.Who has been appointed the new Foreign Secretary of India? (a) V.Rajamani (b)Vijay KeshavGokhale (c) MadhukarBhave (d) Husain Dalwai 47.Who has become the India’s highest-ranked player in latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rankings? (a) Sharath Kamal (b)Soumyajit Ghosh (c) G Sathiyan (d) Anthony Amalraj 48.R .Margabandu, the noted politician passed away. He hailed from which state? (a) Gujarat (b)Odisha (c) Chattisgarh (d) Tamil Nadu 49.Rajneesh Gurbani is associated with which sports? (a) Cricket (b)Chess (c) Boxing (d) Table Tennis 50.The Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) is located in which state? (a) Uttarakhand (b)Andhra Pradesh (c) Kerala (d) Punjab 51.Which one film is declared as the best film in 62nd filmfare awards ? (a) Dangal (b) Sultan (c) Nil battery Sannata (d) Ae Dil Hai Mushkil 52.Who is named as the world's best player for 2016 by FIFA ? (a) Neymar (b) Lionel Messi (c) Cristiance Ronaldo (d) Luis Suarez 53. The 14th pravasibhartiya divas held by which city ? (a)Delhi (b) Kolkata (c) Bengaluru (d) Gandhi Nagar 54. World Braille day is observed on ? (a) 2nd January ( b) 4th January (c) 10th January (d) 18th January 55.Which country become the first to ban FM radio broadcasting ? (a) south America (b) Brazil (c) Ecuador (d) Norway 56. Which team wins the Ranji trophy final this year ? (a) Gujarat (b) railway (c) Mumbai (d) Delhi 57. National girl child day is observed on ? (a) 3rd January (b) 8th January (c) 12th January (d) 24th January 58. ViratKohli completes 1000 runs as ODI Captain in the ______ innings, which is quickest in the world ? (a) 16th (b) 17th (c)18th (d) 19th 59. The bull- taming sport Jallikattu is typically practiced in ? (a) Karnataka ( b) Andhra Pradesh ( c) Tami Nadu (d) Kerala 60.Which internet web portal change it's name to AltabaInc ? (a) Google (b) Yahoo (c) MSN (d) Twitter 61.Which one is the first city in India to have WIFI connectivity in public places? (a) Mumbai (b) New Delhi (c) Kolkata (d) Chennai 62.Which Indian American is appointed as the US ambassador to the United Nations ? (a) Bobby Jindal (b) Kamala Harris (c) Nikki Haley (d) Kumar P. Barve 63. Who wins the 2017 Australian open women's single title ? (a) Serena Williams (b) Venus Williams (c) Coco vandeweghe (d ) kiristinamladenovic 64. Who was the chief guest of the official ceremony in the republic day in 2017 ? (a) President of China (b) President of France ( c) King of Qatar (d) crown prince of Abu Dhabi 65.Which city is declared as the capital of Himachal Pradesh ? (a) Shimla (b) Manali (c) Dharamsala (d) kasauli 66.Who is appointed as the head of the committee formed by supreme Court to run BCCI ? (a) Vinod Rai (b) Ramachandra Guha (c) VikramLimaye (d) Diana Edulji 67.