Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 23 Nov 2017

1. The bilateral military exercise named IMBAX 2017 was held between India and which country recently at Umroi in Meghalaya?

1) Myanmar

2) Thailand

3) Bangladesh

4) Sri Lanka

5) Philippines

2. The Namami Barak festival was held recently in which state?

1) Sikkim

2) Arunachal Pradesh

3) Meghalaya

4) Assam

5) Manipur

3. The joint security exercise Sagar Kavach was conducted by which two states recently to tighten the existing coastal security mechanism?

1) Karnataka and West Bengal

2) Odisha and West Bengal

3) Karnataka and Odisha

4) Kerala and Tamil Nadu

5) Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh

4. The project launched by the Indian Railways to upgrade the skill sets of its 13 lakh-strong workforce in a time bound manner is

1) Project Parakram

2) Project Sikshan

3) Project Saksham

4) Project Sampurna

5) Project Samarpan

5. Who among the following was India’s nominee to International Court of Justice (ICJ) who was re-elected to fifth and the last seat of world court recently?

1) Neeru Chadha

2) Harish Salve

3) Atul Khare

4) Lakshmi Puri

5) Dalveer Bhandari

6. Who among the following has been appointed to the Financial Stability Institute Advisory Board (FSAB) or Bank of International Settlement (BIS)?

1) Urjit Patel

2) Viral Acharya

3) R Gandhi

4) Arundhati Bhattacharya

5) Raghuram Rajan

7. The fortnight-long Tribal Festival Aadi Mahotsav was held recently in

1) Chennai

2) Ranchi

3) Bhopal

4) Hyderabad

5) New Delhi

8. Who among the following has been conferred 2017 Tata Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award?

1) Shabana Azmi

2) Naseeruddin Shah

3) Girish Karnad

4) Shyam Benegal

5) Anant Nag

9. The 42nd World Congress of the International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM) was held recently in

1) Mumbai

2) Patna

3) Bengaluru

4) New Delhi

5) Kochi

10. What is India’s ranking on the 2017 IMD World Talent Ranking?

1) 41st

2) 51st

3) 62nd

4) 84th

5) 100th

Answers:

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