Q.1 Who has won the World Rapid Chess Championship by

defeating Vladimir Fedoseev in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?

1. Magnus Carlsen

2. Ian Nepomni

3. Bu Xiangzhi

4. Vladikir Kramnik

5. Viswanathan Anand

Ans : Viswanathan Anand

Q.2 Who has been elected as Liberia's president?

1. George Weah

2. Francis Doe

3. Anthony Laffor

4. Rahan Krangar

5. Erick Weeks Lewis

Ans : George Weah

Q.3 With Which Bank India has Signed Loan Agreement for USD 40 Million for “U.P. Pro-Poor Tourism Development Project”?

1. AIIB

2. ADB

3. IMF

4. World Bank

5. EDB

Ans: World Bank

Q.4 Which Insurance Company has bagged the Golden Peacock award for risk management for the year 2017?

1. Cholamandalam MS General Insurance

2. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

3. HDFC Standard Life Insurance

4. Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance

5. Bharti AXA Life Insurance

Ans: Cholamandalam MS General Insurance

Q.5 According to a report by CARE Ratings, India has been

ranked_____on the list of countries with highest Non-

Performing Assets (NPAs).

1. Fourth

2. Fifth

3. Third

4. Second

5. Seventh

Ans: Fifth

Q.6 In which of the following State 105th Indian Science

Congress will be held?

1. Uttar Pradesh

2. Andhra Pradesh

3. Madhya Pradesh

4. Bihar

5. Manipur

Ans: Manipur

Q.7 Who has inaugurated a modern incubation Centre,

the Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and

Learning (CEOL) in Mangaluru?

1. Nirmala Sitharaman

2. Dharmendra Pradhan

3. Piyush Goyal

4. Narendra Modi

5. Ram Nath Kovind

Ans: Nirmala Sitharaman

Q.8 Who has been named Globe Soccer’s Best Player

for the second year in a row and the fourth time

overall in his career?

1. Bruna Marquezine

2. Neymar

3. Andres Iniesta

4. Lionel Messi

5. Cristiano Ronaldo

Ans: Cristiano Ronaldo

Q.9 Which Bank has launched the ‘Udyami Mitra’ Portal

to improve accessibility of credit and handholding

services to (MSMEs)?

1. SIDBI

2. NABARD

3. EXIM

4. RBI

5. SBI

Ans: SIDBI

Q.10 What is the Name of Union Minister of Agricultureand Farmers Welfare who has launched LivestockDisease Forewarning –Mobile Application (LDF-Mobile App)?

1. Jual Oram

2. Radha Mohan Singh

3. Dharmendra Pradhan

4. Ram Vilas Paswan

5. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Ans: Radha Mohan Singh

Q.11 Who has taken over as the Director of National

Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (ni-

msme)?

1. Sanjeev Chaturvedi

2. Rakesh Singh

3. Sunil Sharma

4. Ravi Vohra

5. Suman Jain

Ans: Sanjeev Chaturvedi

Q.12 Who has been appointed as the Director General

(Investigation) in National Human Rights

Commission (NHRC)?

1. Lalit Dhakad

2. Mohan Singh

3. Gurbachan Singh

4. Harshit Goyal

5. Anshul Singh

Ans: Gurbachan Singh

Q.13 Who has been appointed as the Director General of

Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)?

1. Abhay

2. Rajat Singh

3. Bhanu Kumar

4. Sudeep Singh

5. Prashant Sharma

Ans: Abhay

Q.14 Who has won the women’s 25m Category pistol

gold in 61st National Shooting Championship

Competitions in Trivandrum?

1. Garima Ghosh

2. Vinita Singh

3. Shanu Sharma

4. Ritika Kumari

5. Anisa Sayyed

Ans: Anisa Sayyed

Q.15 Who has been selected for 2017 'Harivarasanam' award,

instituted by the Kerala government?

1. K S Chitra

2. K J Yesudas

3. M Jayachandran

4. S P Balasubramanyam

5. Gangai Amaran

Ans: K S Chitra

Q.16 Second India-Afghanistan air cargo route linkingKabul to _______ has been officially inaugurated at

Hamid Karzai international airport in Kabul.

1. Dehradun

2. Pune

3. Bhopal

4. New Delhi

5. Mumbai

Ans: Mumbai

Q.17 Who has inaugurated the Andhra Pradesh Fibre Grid

project?

1. N. Chandrababu Naidu

2. E. S. L. Narasimhan

3. Venkaiah Naidu

4. Narendra Modi

5. Ram Nath Kovind

Ans: Ram Nath Kovind

Q.18 Which Bank will provide a USD 318 million loan for

modernization of irrigation projects in Tamil Nadu?

1. World Bank

2. IMF

3. AIIB

4. EDB

5. ADB

Ans: World Bank

Q.19 ICRA has projected _______Gross Value Added

(GVA) growth in 2018-19.

1. 7.0 %

2. 7.1 %

3. 7.4 %

4. 7.6 %

5. 7.3 %

Ans: 7.0 %

Q.20 Who has inaugurated the Annual Conference of

Indian Economic Association at Acharya Nagarjuna

University campus near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh?

1. Ram Nath Kovind

2. Narendra Modi

3. Venkaiah Naidu

4. Arvind Subramanian

5. Hasmukh Adhiya

Ans: Ram Nath Kovind

Q.21 What is Name of Legendary South African Musician who has passed away recently?

1. DJ Spoko

2. Fantasma

3. Phoebe Lou

4. Robbie Malinga

5. John Wizards

Ans: Robbie Malinga

Q.22 As per a joint study conducted by Assocham and

Deloitte, Digital commerce market of the country

will cross $50 billion by________.

1. 2019

2. 2018

3. 2020

4. 2024

5. 2027

Ans: 2018

Q.23 According to a report titled 2018 World EconomicLeague Table, By which year India is set toovertake the United Kingdom and France tobecome the world’s fifth largest economy?

1. 2019

2. 2018

3. 2020

4. 2024

5. 2027

Ans: 2018

Q.24 Which Actress has been named Person of the Year by animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)?

1. Aishwarya Rai

2. Sonam Kapoor

3. Sonakshi Sinha

4. Deepika Padukone

5. Anushka Sharma

Ans: Anushka Sharma

Q.25 In which of the following country ASEAN-India

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas will be held?

1. Bhutan

2. Nepal

3. Japan

4. Russia

5. Singapore

Ans: Singapore

Q.26 Which State Government has launched a free

household power connection scheme 'Prakash hai

to vikas hai' for the poor in the state?

1. Kerala

2. Tamilnadu

3. Rajasthan

4. Bihar

5. Uttar Pradesh

Ans: Uttar Pradesh

Q.27 Who is the governor of Gujarat?

1. Om Prakash Kohli

2. Ram Naik

3. Jagdish Mukhi

4. Satya Pal Malik

5. Kalyan Singh

Ans: Om Prakash Kohli

Q.28 In which of the following city annual meeting of

World Economic Forum (WEF) will be held?

1. Moscow, Russia

2. New Delhi, India

3. Geneva, Switzerland

4. Davos, Switzerland

5. Beijing, China

Ans: Davos, Switzerland

Q.29 Who has launched an electronic-Human Resource

Management System (e-HRMS)?

1. Jitendra Singh

2. Smriti Irani

3. Narendra Modi

4. Dharmendra Pradhan

5. Piyush Goyal

Ans: Jitendra Singh

Q.30 With which Bank Sohan Lal Commodity Management

(SLCM) has tied up for Post-harvest credit?

1. HSBC Bank and ICICI Bank

2. Axis Bank and ICICI Bank

3. IndusInd Bank and ICICI Bank

4. HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank

5. HDFC Bank and IndusInd Bank

Ans: HDFC Bank and IndusInd Bank

Q.31 According to Reserve Bank data, NPA of Publicsector banks (PSBs) stood at _________by the endof second quarter this fiscal.

1. Rs 9.34 lakh crore

2. Rs 8.34 lakh crore

3. Rs 5.34 lakh crore

4. Rs 7.34 lakh crore

5. Rs 6.34 lakh crore

Ans: Rs 7.34 lakh crore

Q.32 Which State has been recognized by Centre

Government as a ‘Champion State’ for recording

the highest growth in exports during 2016-17?

1. Odisha

2. Karnataka

3. Tamilnadu

4. Maharashtra

5. Uttar Pradesh

Ans: Odisha

Q.33 Who has taken charge as the Director General ofNational Cadet Corps (NCC)?

1. B. S. Sahrawat

2. K.K. Sharma

3. O.P. Singh

4. Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar

5. Dharmendra Kumar

Ans: B. S. Sahrawat

Q.34 Who has launched DARPAN – “Digital Advancement of

Rural Post Office for A New India” Project to improve the

quality of service, add value to services and achieve

“financial inclusion” of un-banked rural population?

1. Dharmendra Pradhan

2. Dinesh Singh

3. Chetan Chauhan

4. Ravi Shankar Prasad

5. Manoj Sinha

Ans: Manoj Sinha

Q.35 Who has been elected as the New Chief Minister of

Himachal Pradesh?

1. Mukesh Agnihotri

2. Anil Sharma

3. Jairam Thakur

4. Sudhir Sharma

5. Karan Singh

Ans: Jairam Thakur

Q.36 By defeating which team Bangladesh has won the

SAFF Under-15 Women's Championships?

1. Pakistan

2. Sri Lanka

3. Bhutan

4. India

5. Nepal

Ans: India

Q.37 What is the Name of Veteran Bengali Actor who has

passed away recently?

1. Abdur Razzak

2. Partha Mukhopadhyay

3. Soumitra Kumar

4. Seema Mukerji

5. Uttam Singh

Ans: Partha Mukhopadhyay

Q.38 Which city has become the first Indian city to have

its own logo?

1. Jaipur

2. Bhopal

3. New Delhi

4. Agra

5. Bengaluru

Ans: Bengaluru

Q.39 Who has been appointed as the General Manager

of BCCI?

1. Sourav Ganguly

2. Kapil Dev

3. Sunil Gavaskar

4. Sachin Tendulkar

5. Saba Karim

Ans: Saba Karim

Q.40 Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador

of India to the Republic of Peru?

1. Vikram Misri

2. Jaideep Sarkar

3. Manjeev Singh

4. M. Subbarayudu

5. Navtej Singh

Ans: M. Subbarayudu