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1. Who is the new President of Singapore?
1) Doris Leuthard
2) Michelle Bachelet
3) Irina Bokova
4) Halimah Yacob
5) None of the above

2. Which Ministry has started Operation Insaniyat to provided assistance to Bangladesh in response to humanitarian crisis being faced by it due to large in flux of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar?
1) Ministry of Defence
2) Ministry of External Affairs
3) Ministry of Home Affairs
4) Ministry of Finance
5) None of the above

3. Which of the following statements is correct regarding Global Human Capital Index (GHCI) 2017?
A. GHCI released by World Economic Forum (WEF). 
B. India ranked at 103rd out of 130 countries.
C. Norway occupies first rank.
Which of the above sentence(s) is/are true?
1) A & B only
2) B & C only
3) C & A only
4) All A, B & C
5) None of the above

4. The National Hindi Divas, an annual literary day is observed every year on….
1) 14 September
2) 15 September
3) 16 September
4) 17 September
5) None of these

5. The 21st Meeting of GST Council held on 9th September, 2017 in…..
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Hyderabad
4) Kolkata
5) None of these

6. Which of the following company got Maharatna Status by the Government of India recently?
1) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
2) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
3) Shipping Corporation of India
4) National Aluminium Company (NALCO)
5) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

7. As on 12 September 2017, the number of Maharatna Companies?
1) 6
2) 7
3) 8
4) 9
5) None of these

8. Who is the winner of Men’s singles title at 2017 Korea Open Super Series Badminton Tournament?
1) Anthony Sinisuka Ginting
2) Jonatan Christie
3) B.Sai Praneeth
4) Sourabh Varma
5) None of the above

9. The International Day for Preservation of Ozone Layer (or World Ozone Day) is observed every year on…
1) September 5
2) September 15
3) September 16
4) September 27
5) None of these

10. Aditya Mehta is associated with which of the following games?
1) Chess
2) Hockey
3) Snooker
4) Badminton
5) None of these

11. The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has inaugurated the new Head Quarters building of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), Ministry of Home Affairs on 8th of September 2017 in……
1) Chennai
2) Mumbai
3) Bengaluru
4) Kolkata
5) New Delhi

12. Who is the first sportsperson to become the Union Minister of Sports?
1) Abhinav Bindra
2) Sushil Kumar
3) Gagan Narang
4) P.Gopichand
5) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

13. When was South Africa invited to join by BRIC and expanded to include 5 countries with changed acronym of BRICS?
1) 2009
2) 2010
3) 2011
4) 2012
5) 2013

14. Which of the following is NOT a National Party in India at present?
1) All India Trinamool Congress
2) Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3) Nationalist Congress Party
4) All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
5) Bahujan Samaj Party

15. Which country conducted its sixth nuclear test on 3 September 2017, stating it was its first test of a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb)?
1) South Korea
2) Iran
3) Cuba
4) China
5) None of these

16. The winners of Men’s Singles and Women’s Singles title in US Open Tennis 2017?
1) Roger Federer and Serena Williams
2) Rafael Nadal and Jelena Ostapenko
3) Roger Federer and Garbine Muguruza
4) Rafael Nadal and Sloane Stephens
5) None of the above

17. The Currency of South Africa?
1) Real
2) Riyal
3) Rial
4) Rand
5) Ringgit

18. The repayment of a loan is done by paying EMI to the bank. The alphabet ‘E’ in the abbreviation ‘EMI’ stands for……
1) Equal
2) Equated
3) Equivalent
4) Equity
5) None of these

19. The constituency represented by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in the  16th Lok Sabha?
1) Varanasi
2) Lucknow
3) Vidisha
4) Pilibhit
5) Nagpur

20. The ‘Kanha National Park’ is situated in the state of:
1) Jammu and Kashmir
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Chhattisgarh
4) Assam
5) West Bengal

21. Sardar Sarovar Dam is situated on the Narmada River in the state of…..
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Punjab 4) Haryana
5) Gujarat

22. The prestigious G7 summit 2018 shall be hosted by…
1) Italy
2) Canada
3) France
4) USA
5) UK

23. September 27, is observed across the world every year as the…….
1) World Health Day
2) World Press Freedom Day
3) World Environment Day
4) World Population Day
5) World Tourism Day

24. G-4 is a group of four countries which want United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reforms. The group does not include …….
1) India
2) Brazil
3) Germany
4) China
5) Japan

25. Stan Wawrinka is associated with the sport of…..
1) Golf
2) Football
3) Tennis
4) Cricket
5) Formula One Driver

26. Who is the new Ambassador of Russia to India?
1) Kenneth Juster
2) Nikolay Kudashev
3) Navtej Sarna
4) Pankaj Saran
5) None of the above

27. Match the following:
Grand Slam 2017 Women’s Singles Winner
A. Australia Open       (i) Sloane Stephens
B. French Open          (ii) Garbine Muguruza
C. Wimbledon            (iii) Jelena ostapenko
D. US Open                (iv) Serena Williams
1) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
2) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
3) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
4) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
5) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

28. The Headquarters of SIDBI is located in …
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) Lucknow
4) Indore
5) None of these

29. Which of the following hurricanes hit the US state of Florida recently?
1) Hurricane Harvey
2) Hurricane Gert
3) Hurricane Jose
4) Hurricane Irma
5) None of the above

30. RBI recently included HDFC Bank in the list of D-SIBs (‘too big to fail’). In DSIBs, the letter ‘S’ stands for……
1) Systemically
2) Structurally
3) Substantially
4) Sectorally
5) None of these

31. India’s first bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. would cost around Rs 1.10 lakh crore. Japan is giving a loan of Rs. 88,000 crore for the project at a minimal interest of…..
1) 0.1%
2) 0.5%
3) 1%
4) 1.5%
5) None of these

32. Who is the author of the book “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”?
1) Salman Rushdie
2) Arundhati Roy
3) Kiran Desai
4) Aravind Adiga
5) None of the above

33. Which of the following is located in Thiruvananthapuram?
1) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
2) Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)
3) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
4) Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR
5) None of the above

34. Which of the statements are correct regarding Man Booker International Prize?
1) First awarded in 2005.
2) First recipient is Albania Novelist Ismail Kadare.
3) Latest (2017) recipient is David Gross man for his novel “A Horse Walks Into a Bar”.
4) All of the above
5) None of the above

35. FIDE ratings are related to …..
1) Football
2) Field Hockey
3) Badminton
4) Cricket
5) Chess

36. Which of the following Cup/Trophy is associated with Badminton?
1) Aga khan Cup
2) Deodhar Trophy
3) Santosh Trophy
4) Davis Cup
5) Sudirman Cup

Answers : 
1) 4         2) 2       3) 4       4) 1      5) 3       6) 1       7) 3        8) 1       9) 3 
10) 3     11) 5     12) 5     13) 1     14) 4     15) 5     16) 4     17) 4     18) 2 
19) 2     20) 2     21) 5     22) 2     23) 5     24) 4     25) 3     26) 2     27) 5 
28) 3     29) 4     30) 1     31) 1     32) 2     33) 2     34) 4     35) 5     36) 5

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