Monthly Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2017

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1. Ueli Steck, a renowned mountain climber has passed away. He hailed from which country?

[A] France
[B] Russia
[C] Switzerland
[D] Germany

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2. Who of the following has won the 2017 Men’s Doubles Tallahassee Challenger title?

[A] Leander Paes and Adil Shamasdin
[B] Leander Paes and Ramkumar Ramanathan
[C] Leander Paes and Blaz Rola
[D] Leander Paes and Scott Lipsky

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3. Which union minister has launched a nationwide “Vidya – Veerta Abhiyan” to honour war warriors?

[A] Narendra Modi
[B] Rajnath Singh
[C] Arun Jaitley
[D] Prakash Javadekar

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4. Which of the following has become the first city in the world to have its own Microsoft font?

[A] Paris
[B] New York
[C] Berlin
[D] Dubai

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5. The new Index of Industrial Production (IIP) series for India will be calculated on which base year?

[A] 2006-07
[B] 2008-09
[C] 2010-11
[D] 2011-12

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6. What is the India’s GDP growth forecast for FY 18, according to Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s latest report “Asian Development Outlook 2017”?

[A] 7.4%
[B] 7.6%
[C] 7.7%
[D] 7.1%

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7. Recently, Sualgiri and Swalgiri communities have been notified as Scheduled Castes in the Indian constitution. The communities are associated with which state?

[A] Manipur
[B] Odisha
[C] Assam
[D] West Bengal

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8. The world’s highest railway bridge will come up over which Indian River?

[A] Narmada
[B] Godavari
[C] Ganga
[D] Chenab

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9. Who has been appointed the new chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament?

[A] KV Thomas
[B] Subhash Chandra Baheria
[C] Janardan Singh Sigriwal
[D] Mallikarjun Kharge

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10. The world’s biggest-ever X- ray laser “European XFEL” has generated its first X-ray laser light from which country?

[A] France
[B] Germany
[C] Italy
[D] Belgium

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