Current Affairs Quiz December 2017 – Set 7

Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here is the Seventh and final set of Current Affairs Quiz December 2017 series. This quiz covers all the important financial news comprehensively.

  1. How much amount of loan agreement did India sign with World Bank for ‘U.P. Pro-Poor Tourism Development Project’?

(1) USD 40 million

(2) USD 30 million

(3) USD 25 million

(4) USD 50 million

(5) USD 55 million

Answer

Option: 1

 

 

  1. Name the first foreign investor to fully own an asset reconstruction company (ARC) in India as it received approval from the Reserve Bank of India.

(1) Pegasus

(2) Alchemist

(3) Edelweiss

(4) KKR

(5) Phoenix

Answer

Option: 4

 

 

  1. In which group was the Indian banking sector classified by rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) on the basis of their economy and industry risk criteria?

(1) Group 3

(2) Group 5

(3) Group 4

(4) Group 6

(5) Group 7

Answer

Option: 2

 

 

  1. Name the first Indian state to give farmers 24-hour free electricity.

(1) Andhra Pradesh

(2) Maharashtra

(3) Telangana

(4) Karnataka

(5) Chhattisgarh

Answer

Option: 3

 

 

  1. Name the newly launched India’s first bitcoin trading app.

(1) Pluto Exchange

(2) Coinbase Exchange

(3) Bitstamp Exchange

(4) Kraken Exchange

(5) Coinsecure Exchange

Answer

Option: 1

 

 

  1. With which of the following company did Delhi Government sign MoU to set up 12 automated driving test tracks?

(1) Honda

(2) Maruti Suzuki

(3) Hyundai

(4) Mercedes Benz

(5) Tata Motors

Answer

Option: 2

 

 

  1. Orange Festival of Music and Adventure is held annually in which state?

(1) Himachal Pradesh

(2) Assam

(3) Sikkim

(4) Arunachal Pradesh

(5) Uttarakhand

Answer

Option: 4

 

 

  1. 78th session of Indian History Congress was held in _________.

(1) New Delhi

(2) Kolkata

(3) Mumbai

(4) Bengaluru

(5) Hyderabad

Answer

Option: 2

 

 

  1. Which of the following state launched mobile museum ‘Adi Shankara Sandesh Vahini’?

(1) Maharashtra

(2) Uttar Pradesh

(3) Madhya Pradesh

(4) Bihar

(5) Jharkhand

Answer

Option: 3

 

 

  1. President Ram Nath Kovind recently inaugurated Fiber Grid Project in which state?

(1) Telangana

(2) Andhra Pradesh

(3) Maharashtra

(4) Odisha

(5) Karnataka

Answer

Option: 2

 

 

  1. What was the rank of India in the list of countries with highest NPA levels by CARE Ratings agency?

(1) 5th

(2) 4th

(3) 1st

(4) 3rd

(5) 7th

Answer

Option: 1

 

 

  1. What is the capital city of Liberia?

(1) Abuja

(2) Asmara

(3) Malabo

(4) Monrovia

(5) Luanda

Answer

Option: 4

 

 

  1. Vishwanathan Anand won the 2017 World Rapid Chess Championship after defeating __________.

(1) Magnus Carlsen

(2) Veselin Topalov

(3) Vladimir Fedoseev

(4)  Hikaru Nakamura

(5) Peter Svidler

Answer

Option: 3

 

  1. Which of the following company has been awarded the prestigious “Golden Peacock Award for Risk Management” for the year 2017?

(1) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance

(2) Cholamandalam MS General Insurance

(3) Bharti AXA General Insurance

(4) Reliance General Insurance

(5) National Insurance Co. Ltd.

Answer

Option: 2

 

 

  1. According to the government data, how much amount been raised through its BHARAT 22 Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)?

(1) ₹14,500 crore

(2) ₹15,500 crore

(3) ₹14,000 crore

(4) ₹15,000 crore

(5) ₹13,500 crore

Answer

Option: 1

 

 

  1. How much amount of financial assistant did the central government sanction for overall development of inland water transport of Assam?

(1) ₹1,450 crore

(2) ₹1,350 crore

(3) ₹1,250 crore

(4) ₹1,200 crore

(5) ₹1,300 crore

Answer

Option: 3

 

 

  1. Which of the following bank did recently sign an agreement with state-run National e-Governance Services Limited (NeSL) for utilizing the latter’s Information Utility Services envisaged under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016?

(1) Bank of Baroda

(2) Syndicate Bank

(3) Punjab National Bank

(4) Allahabad Bank

(5) Canara Bank

Answer

Option: 4

 

 

  1. Which of the following bank has recently signed an agreement to acquire 51% stake in two JVs from UniCredit?

(1) Bank of Baroda

(2) Canara Bank

(3) Axis Bank

(4) Bank of Maharashtra

(5) Syndicate Bank

Answer

Option: 1

 

 

  1. Name the first state in the country to provide “secured price” of vegetable crops to its farmers.

(1) Uttar Pradesh

(2) Haryana

(3) Chhattisgarh

(4) Jharkhand

(5) Tamil Nadu

Answer

Option: 2

 

 

  1. India’s first ‘Robocop’, capable of performing police duties, has been launched in which city?

(1) Bengaluru

(2) Mumbai

(3) Hyderabad

(4) Chennai

(5) Lucknow

Answer

Option: 3

 

 

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the 85th annual Sivagiri pilgrimage celebrations in ___________.

(1) Kerala

(2) Telangana

(3) Karnataka

(4) Tamil Nadu

(5) Andhra Pradesh

Answer

Option: 1

 

 

  1. M Malakondaiah was recently appointed Director General of Police of _____________.

(1) Gujarat

(2) Telangana

(3) Andhra Pradesh

(4) Himachal Pradesh

(5) Rajasthan

Answer

Option: 3

 

  1. Om Prakash Singh was recently appointed Director General of Police of _____________.

(1) Himachal Pradesh

(2) Maharashtra

(3) Madhya Pradesh

(4) Uttar Pradesh

(5) Rajasthan

Answer

Option: 4

 

 

  1. Nihal Chand Goel was recently appointed as the new chief secretary of ________.

(1) Gujarat

(2) Rajasthan

(3) Himachal Pradesh

(4) Jharkhand

(5) Arunachal Pradesh

Answer

Option: 2

 

 

  1. Ashok Sharma was recently appointed as the Advocate General of _________.

(1) Himachal Pradesh

(2) Rajasthan

(3) Kerala

(4) Gujarat

(5) Madhya Pradesh

Answer

Option: 1

 

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