Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 08 September 2017
1. The name of Peggy Whitson was in news recently. She is a(n)
1) astronaut
2) philosopher
3) biologist
4) author
5) journalist
2. President Ram Nath Kovind laid the foundation stone of the second phase of link IV pipeline canal of SAUNI in which state
1) Rajasthan
2) Maharashtra
3) Gujarat
4) Karnataka
5) Assam
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the mazar of Bahadur Shah Zafar and the 2,500-year-old Shwedagon pagoda in which country recently?
1) Vietnam
2) Japan
3) Sri Lanka
4) Thailand
5) Myanmar
4. Which of the following banks has been declared a domestic-systemically important bank (D-SIB) by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
1) Axis Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) Kotak Mahindra Bank
4) YES Bank
5) Punjab National Bank
5. The UNESCO’s King Sejong prize has been given to the We Love Reading programme from
1) Australia
2) Canada
3) New Zealand
4) Jordan
5) China
6. The Los Angeles-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has signed an MoU with which state to develop a transport facility there?
1) Karnataka
2) Maharashtra
3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Telangana
5) Kerala
7. Which general insurance company has got capital markets regulator SEBI’s approval for its estimated Rs 6,000-cr initial public offer?
1) L&T GI
2) HDFC ERGO GI
3) Bharti AXA GI
4) Bajaj Allianz GI
5) ICICI Lombard GI
8. The directors or authorised signatories of deregistered companies trying to siphon off money from the firms’ bank accounts can face imprisonment up to
1) 02 yrs
2) 05 yrs
3) 08 yrs
4) 10 yrs
5) 12 yrs
9. The book How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century is authored by
1) Shyam Saran
2) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
3) Sushma Swaraj
4) Natwar Singh
5) Sanjaya Baru
10. Duleep Trophy is associated with which of the following games?
1) Hockey
2) Cricket
3) Football
4) Basketball
5) Badminton
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