Current Affairs Quiz - 29th May 2017

1. India’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project was inaugurated in which city recently? The pilot project includes electric cars, buses and e-rickshaws owned by Ola.

1) Chennai

2) Nagpur

3) Hyderabad

4) Ahmedabad

5) Bengaluru

2. Apple recently opened its first store in Southeast Asia in

1) Malaysia

2) India

3) Philippines

4) Singapore

5) Thailand

3. PM Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation stone of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Gogamukh in Dhemaji district of

1) Assam

2) Sikkim

3) Tripura

4) Manipur

5) Mizoram

4. The DIPP has been given back the power to grant licenses for defence manufacturing. The term DIPP stands for

1) Department of Industrial Policy and Production

2) Department of Industrial Policy and Preference

3) Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

4) Department of Industrial Policy and Participation

5) None of these

5. Which of the following NASA’s spacecrafts recently discovered Earth-sized cyclones at the poles of the Jupiter?

1) Gemini

2) Apollo

3) Pioneer

4) Curiosity

5) Juno

6. The former IPS officer KPS Gill passed away recently. He is often credited with rooting out militancy from

1) Assam

2) Punjab

3) Jammu and Kashmir

4) West Bengal

5) Nagaland

7. The Indian city of Kota (Rajasthan) is known for which of the following?

1) Saris

2) Fine-grained limestone

3) Coaching hub for competitive examinations

4) World’s seventh most densely populated city

5) All of these

8. ________ has overtaken Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) to become India’s most profitable state-owned company.

1) Indian Oil Corp

2) BHEL

3) NTPC

4) GAIL

5) Coal India

9. The navigation system named NavIC is prepared by which of the following countries? It is scheduled to be launched in early 2018 for public.

1) Japan

2) China

3) India

4) South Korea

5) Malaysia

10. _________ has retained the crown of being India’s most profitable company for the third year in a row, posting a net Rs 29,901 cr in financial year 2016-17.

1) TCS

2) ONGC

3) IOC

4) Tata Motors

5) RIL

Answers:

1. 2
2. 4
3. 1
4. 3
5. 5
6. 2
7. 5
8. 1
9. 3
10. 5