Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 21 July 2017

1. Who among the following was appointed the bowling coach of the Indian cricket team recently?

1) Bharat Arun

2) Kapil Dev

3) Venkatapathy Raju

4) Javagal Srinath

5) Venkatesh Prasad

2. The NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya has said, India’s GDP could rise to about ________ over the next 15 years (with 8 per cent annual growth).

1) USD 4 tn

2) USD 6 tn

3) USD 8 tn

4) USD 10 tn

5) USD 12 tn

3. Which of the following states recently approved cash grant instead of land for war widows conceding to their long pending demand?

1) Haryana

2) Uttarakhand

3) Himachal Pradesh

4) Odisha

5) Punjab

4. Who among the following took the additional charge of Urban Development Ministry after M Venkaiah Naidu resigned following his nomination as vice-presidential candidate?

1) Anant Geete

2) Narendra Singh Tomar

3) Thawar Chand Gehlot

4) Radha Mohan Singh

5) Jual Oram

5. Who among the following resigned from the Rajya Sabha recently?

1) Rekha

2) Sachin Tendulkar

3) Manmohan Singh

4) Mayawati

5) Arun Jaitley

6. The state’s longest bridge (2.88 km), which is named after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and built over the river Kathajodi was dedicated to the nation in which state recently?

1) Jharkhand

2) Odisha

3) Karnataka

4) Uttar Pradesh

5) West Bengal

7. __________ has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lokmat Media Group for his contributions as a parliamentarian in the Lok Sabha.

1) Mallikarjun Kharge

2) Murli Manohar Joshi

3) P Ashok Gajapati Raju

4) LK Advani

5) Tariq Anwar

8. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi has topped a poll of the most powerful Arab women in govt for 2017, according to Forbes. She is the Minister of State for Tolerance in

1) UAE

2) Iran

3) Saudi Arabia

4) Kuwait

5) Bahrain

9. Australia became the 35th country to join the International Solar Alliance (ISA), an initiative launched by PM Narendra Modi in Nov 2015 in Paris. It is co-led by India and

1) Germany

2) Japan

3) France

4) US

5) China

10. According, to Asian Development Bank (ADB) supplement report, India is expected to achieve the projected growth rate of ________ in 2017.

1) 6.4 per cent

2) 6.6 per cent

3) 6.9 per cent

4) 7.1 per cent

5) 7.4 per cent

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Daily Current Affairs Quiz : 21 July 2017