Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 30 Dec 2017

1. The Hamid Karzai international airport is situated in

1) Pakistan

2) Bangladesh

3) Afghanistan

4) Maldives

5) Malaysia

2. The 25th edition of National Children Science Congress (NCSC-2017) was held recently in

1) Gandhinagar

2) New Delhi

3) Mumbai

4) Chennai

5) Bengaluru

3. The senior IPS officer Abhay has been appointed as the new Director General of

1) Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)

2) Border Security Force (BSF)

3) Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)

4) National Cadet Corps (NCC)

5) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)

4. The ISRO is developing a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite called NISAR in associated with

1) JAXA

2) ESA

3) CNSA

4) NASA

5) Roscosmos

5. The headquarters of the World Bank’s lending arm International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is located in

1) New York

2) Washington DC

3) Paris

4) London

5) Geneva

6. The govt has launched a pilot project named ‘Blue Flag’ for

1) drains clean-up

2) ponds clean-up

3) beach clean-up

4) deserts clean-up

5) forests clean-up

7. Sumita Misra has been appointed as joint secretary in the PM’s Economic Advisory Council which is headed by

1) Amitabh Kant

2) Arvind Subramanian

3) VK Saraswat

4) Arvind Panagariya

5) Bibek Debroy

8. Who among the following has been appointed as the director, Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs?

1) Amit Mehta

2) Ashish Upadhyay

3) Mukhmeet Singh Bhatia

4) Amardeep Singh Bhatia

5) Sudhir Garg

9. The Minorities Rights Day is observed in India every year on

1) 18 Dec

2) 19 Dec

3) 20 Dec

4) 30 Dec

5) 31 Dec

10. India has signed a loan agreement worth $40 mn with the World Bank for the“Pro-Poor Tourism Development Project” of

1) Rajasthan

2) Uttar Pradesh

3) Madhya Pradesh

4) Kerala

5) Jharkhand

Answers:

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