Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 18 Jan 2018

1. Who among the following is the present Attorney General of the Govt of India?

1) Manan Kumar Mishra

2) KK Venugopal

3) Prashant Bhushan

4) Soli Sorabjee

5) Mukul Rohatgi

2. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated project commencement of Barmer refinery recently. The refinery is a joint venture of the Govt of Rajasthan and

1) Indian Oil

2) BPCL

3) HPCL

4) Reliance Industries

5) Essar Oil

3. Jallikattu is a bull-taming sport played during Pongal festival in the state of

1) Karnataka

2) Assam

3) Telangana

4) Tamil Nadu

5) Odisha

4. Jayant Sinha holds which of the following ministries in the present Union Cabinet?

1) Civil Aviation (MoS)

2) Finance Ministry (MoS)

3) Ministry of Tourism (MoS)

4) Railway (MoS)

5) Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoS)

5. Which of the following banks is going to raise Rs 20,000 cr for financing affordable housing and infrastructure projects through long-term bonds?

1) Punjab National Bank

2) Canara Bank

3) Bank of Baroda

4) Central Bank of India

5) State Bank of India

6. The UIDAI now allows face recognition as an additional means of Aadhaar authentication. The present CEO of the UIDAI is

1) NS Raghavan

2) Sam Pitroda

3) Kris Gopalakrishnan

4) Ajay Bhushan Pandey

5) Nandan Nilekani

7. The Foreign Minister of Jordan, Ayman Al Safadi, visited India recently. The capital city of Jordan is

1) Damascus

2) Amman

3) Tripoli

4) Sana’a

5) Niamey

8. The former football star George Weah has been elected as the new President of

1) Liberia

2) Nigeria

3) East Timor

4) Chile

5) Rwanda

9. The eighth edition of the joint military exercise, ‘Ekuverin’, was conducted recently at Belagavi in Karnataka between India and

1) Nepal

2) Bhutan

3) Maldives

4) Sri Lanka

5) Myanmar

10. India has been ranked at what position on the list of countries with highest Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) in a recent report by CARE Ratings?

1) First

2) Second

3) Third

4) Fourth

5) Fifth

Answers:

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