1) 6.3%
2) 6.1%
3) 6.5%
4) 5.7%
5) 5.9%
2. Who is the Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission? (He was appointed on November 27, 2017)
1) Shaktikanta Das
2) N.K. Singh
3) Anoop Singh
4) Ashok Lahiri
5) Ramesh Chand
3. Who has been appointed UN Environment’s Goodwill Ambassador for India?
1) Aishwarya Rai
2) Aishwarya Dhanush
3) Dia Mirza
4) Priyanka Chopra
5) Vidya Balan
4. Joao Lourenco became the President of which of the following African countries on September 26, 2017?
1) Namibia
2) Zambia
3) Uganda
4) Angola
5) Democratic Republic of Congo 5. The Rs. 200 denomination bank note has motif of which of the following on the reverse?
1) Ajanta Caves
2) Thanjavur Big Temple
3) Sanchi Stupa
4) Hampi with Chariot
5) Konark Sun Temple
6. The Government has constituted a five-member Group of Ministers (GoM) to monitor and resolve the information technology challenges faced in the implementation of Goods and Services Tax. The GoM is headed by:
1) Amar Agrawal
2) Krishna Byre Gowda
3) Sushil Kumar Modi
4) Etala Rajender
5) T.M. Thomas Isaac
7. Who is the present Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and also Minster of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship?
1) Piyush Goyal
2) Nitin Gadkari
3) Anant Kumar
4) Dharmendra Pradhan
5) Shiv Pratap Shukla
8. Which of the following Union Ministers is in the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS)?
1) Smriti Irani
2) Uma Bharati
3) Maneka Gandhi
4) Sushma Swaraj
5) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
9. Zannah Mustapha received UNHCR’s prestigious Nansen Refugee Award on October 2, 2017. He is a lawyer from:
1) Syria
2) Yemen
3) Nigeria
4) Iraq
5) None of these
10. Nungthaang Tampak became North East India’s first 100% computer literate village in August 2017. In which State is it located?
1) Manipur
2) Nagaland
3) Assam
4) Tripura
5) Sikkim
11. Who was re-elected as the President of the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) in September 2017? (IBF is the representative body of television broadcasters)
1) Punit Goenka
2) Uday Shankar
3) Rajat Sharma
4) N.P. Singh
5) K. Madhavan
12. Which Bollywood actor was honored with the Global Diversity Award 2017 in the British Parliament House?
1) Akshay Kumar
2) Salman Khan
3) Aamir Khan
4) Shah Rukh Khan
5) Hrithik Roshan
13. Who has been appointed as the first Indian woman ambassador in “Friends of Australia” advocacy panel by Tourism Australia?
1) Priyanka Chopra
2) Deepika Padukone
3) Parineeti Chopra
4) Sonam Kapoor
5) Alia Bhatt
14. Who is the Chairperson of a Task Force on Employment and Exports that was constituted on September 6, 2017?
1) Amitabh Kant
2) Rajeev Kher
3) D. Shiva Kumar
4) Rajiv Kumar
5) Dhiraj Nayyar
15. “The Golden House” was launched in September 2017. It is a novel written by:
1) Arundhati Roy
2) Salman Rushdie
3) Amitav Ghosh
4) Kiran Desai
5) Anita Desai
16. “Iron Union 5” is a joint military exercise between USA and:
1) Japan
2) Indonesia
3) South Korea
4) UAE
5) Saudi Arabia
17. Which is the first State in India to set up family welfare district committees to deal with the issue of fake and biased complaints by women against their husbands and in- laws?
1) Goa
2) Tripura
3) Kerala
4) Karnataka
5) Uttar Pradesh
18. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, consisting of 57 member States, is headquartered in which of the following cities?
1) Tehran, Iran
2) Amman, Jordan
3) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
4) Ankara, Turkey
5) Manama, Bahrain
19. Who was appointed the Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) in September 2017?
1) V. Sri Ram
2) B. Prashanth Kumar
3) Mahendra Pratap Mall
4) Dheeraj Sharma
5) None of these
20. The armies of India and USA conducted a joint military exercise in Washington State in September 2017. It is called:
1) Surya Kiran
2) Yudh Abhyas
3) Mitra Shakti
4) Garuda Shakti
5) None of these
21. Thyssen Krupp is one of the world’s largest steel producers. It is headquartered in which of the following European countries?
1) Germany
2) France
3) Netherlands
4) Spain
5) Ireland
22. Which Indian steel company announced a plan to form an equal joint venture with Thyssen Krupp in September 2017?
1) Essar Steel
2) Tata Steel
3) SAIL
4) JSW Steel
5) VISA Steel
23. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off which of the following superfast trains on September 22, 2017 that connects Varanasi with Vadodara?
1) Shatabdi Express
2) Gatiman Express
3) Mahamana Express
4) Rajdhani Express
5) Duronto Express
24. India’s first electric bus commenced commercial operations in which of the following States in September 2017?
1) Gujarat
2) Assam
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Himachal Pradesh
5) West Bengal
25. VASTRA-An International Textile and Apparel Fair 2017 was held in which of the following cities?
1) Ahmadabad
2) Hyderabad
3) New Delhi
4) Gandhinagar
5) Jaipur
26. Which private bank has secured $200 million from Asian Development Bank (ADB) to serve
low-income women borrowers in rural areas?
1) ICICI Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) IndusInd Bank
4) Axis Bank
5) Yes Bank
27. What is India’s rank out of 130 countries in the Global Human Capital Index 2017? (The list is compiled by World Economic
Forum)
1) 101
2) 103
3) 118
4) 122
5) 121
28. Which country topped the Global Human Capital Index 2017?
1) Norway
2) Finland
3) Switzerland
4) USA
5) Denmark
29. Which city hosted the 12th IndiaJapan Annual Summit in September 2017?
1) New Delhi
2) Tokyo
3) Gandhinagar
4) Nagoya
5) Kyoto
30. Who was appointed new Election Commissioner on August 31, 2017?
1) Y.C. Modi
2) Inder Jit Singh
3) Sunil Arora
4) N. Baijendra Kumar
5) Rajiv Kumar
31. Who was selected for the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the Badminton Association of India (BAI)?
1) P. Gopichand
2) U. Vimal Kumar
3) Prakash Padukone
4) Rajeev Bagga
5) Chetan Anand
32. Which great chess player is the author of the book “Deep Thinking”?
1) Bobby Fischer
2) Garry Kasparov
3) Anatoly Karpov
4) Judith Polgar
5) Viswanathan Anand
33. Who won the Japan Open badminton men’s singles title in September 2017?
1) Lee Chong Wei
2) Chen Long
3) Viktor Axelsen
4) Kidambi Srikanth
5) None of these
34. Who won the women’s singles title at the 2017 Japan Open badminton tournament?
1) Carolina Marin
2) Nozomi Okuhara
3) Tai Tzu Ying
4) P.V. Sindhu
5) None of these
35. Who is the first batsman to hit 100 sixes in T20 Internationals?
1) Virat Kohli
2) David Warner
3) Chris Gayle
4) Brendon McCullum
5) None of these
36. Who among the following female tennis players did not win a Grand Slam singles title in 2017?
1) Serena Williams
2) Jelena Ostapenko
3) Garbine Muguruza
4) Simona Halep
5) Sloane Stephens
37. Jake LaMotta of USA died on September 19, 2017 at the age of 95. He excelled in which of the following sports?
1) Golf
2) Boxing
3) Basketball
4) Baseball
5) Cycling
38. Which Indian cricketer completed the coveted landmark of 100 international half-centuries across all three formats in September 2017?
1) Virat Kohli
2) Cheteshwar Pujara
3) Shikhar Dhawan
4) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
5) Rohit Sharma
39. Who became the third Indian to take a hat-trick in a One Day International match in September 2017? (The other two Indian bowlers are Chetan Sharma and Kapil Dev)
1) Umesh Yadav
2) Ravindra Jadeja
3) Kuldeep Yadav
4) Ravichandran Ashwin
5) Bhuvneshwar Kumar
40. Which city hosted the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in September 2017?
1) Astana, Kazakhstan
2) Incheon, South Korea
3) Kyoto, Japan
4) Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
5) Guangzhou, China
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