Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 07 Jan 2018

1. ______ lifted the inaugural Tata Open Maharashtra Tennis trophy in Pune. The tournament is India’s only ATP event.

1) Marin Cilic

2) Roberto Bautista Agut

3) Kevin Anderson

4) Gilles Simon

5) Richard Gasquet

2. The Growth in GDP during 2017-18 has been estimated at what per cent by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in 2017-18?

1) 6.2 per cent

2) 6.5 per cent

3) 6.8 per cent

4) 7.1 per cent

5) 7.3 per cent

3. PM Narendra Modi held discussions on specific security and policing issues at the annual conference of DGPs and IGPs at the BSF Academy in Tekanpur in the state of

1) Haryana

2) Uttar Pradesh

3) Madhya Pradesh

4) Rajasthan

5) Gujarat

4. Which of the following countries recently approved a new attempt to find the wreckage of Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean?

1) Indonesia

2) Thailand

3) Ukraine

4) Vietnam

5) Malaysia

5. The United Nations has set up a special investigation of the attack that killed 15 UN peacekeepers recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The capital of DR Congo is

1) Kinshasa

2) Baku

3) Yerevan

4) Luanda

5) Tirana

6. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is payment service which has been developed by

1) BIS

2) NPCI

3) SWIFT

4) IBA

5) Word Bank

7. The number of students enrolling for higher education in India saw a marginal increase of what per cent in 2016-17, according to a the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE)?

1) 0.3 per cent

2) 0.5 per cent

3) 0.7 per cent

4) 0.9 per cent

5) 1.1 per cent

8. The US space agency NASA is to launch two missions GOLD and ICON to explore

1) Mercury

2) Pluto

3) Sun

4) ionosphere

5) another inhabitable planet

9. The Atal Pension Yojana (APY) has reached a subscriber base of 80 lakh. Under the scheme, a subscriber would receive a minimum guaranteed monthly pension of

1) Rs 7,500

2) Rs 7,000

3) Rs 6,000

4) Rs 5,500

5) Rs 1,000 to Rs 5,000 depending on the contribution

10. In which of the following gulf countries 11 princes were arrested for staging a protest against the kingdom’s austerity measures recently?

1) Kuwait

2) Iran

3) Saudi Arabia

4) UAE

5) Bahrain

Answers:

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