Current Affairs Day Specific

Current Affairs Day Specific

-Compiled by Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia*

One Liner Questions

Q1. Name the Eminent Hindi poet and Jnanpith awardee who passed away recently in New Delhi.

Answer: Kunwar Narayan

Q2. Name the country that will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup to stage one of the world’s best attended and lucrative sporting events.

Answer: France

Q3. Kevin Lilliana was recently crowned Miss International 2017 by Verzosa in Tokyo, beating 68 candidates from across the globe. She is from which country?

Answer: Indonesia

Q4. Name the state that scripted history when it became the first State in the Northeast to launch Point of Sale (POS) facility for electricity bill payment.

Answer: Nagaland

Q5. International rating agency Moody's Analytics Headquarters in ______.

Answer: The USA

Q6. Name the Ecobliss India managing director who has been appointed as the ambassador of World Packaging Organization.

Answer: AVPS Chakravarthi

Q7. As per the Spanish government, Nicaraguan author and former politician _________ has won the 2017 Cervantes Prize.

Answer: Sergio Ramirez Mercado

Q8. The government has given the go-ahead for setting up India’s first mega coastal economic zone (CEZ) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in _____________.

Answer: Maharashtra

Q9. Which bank has collaborated with Paytm to announce an all-new initiative where users can get interest-free short-term digital credit?

Answer: ICICI Bank

Q10. Name the Private sector lender who has recently signed an MoU with Innovation Centre Denmark India (ICDK India).

Answer: Yes Bank

Q11. Name the India's tennis star who has clinched his first title of the 2017 season on the ATP Challenger Tour.

Answer: Yuki Bhambri

Q12. In a bid to help break taboos around toilets and make sanitation for all a global development priority, the United Nations General Assembly designated _________ as World Toilet Day.

Answer: 19 November

Q13. Birhanu Legese and Almaz Ayana won the Delhi Half Marathon, 2017. The both are from which country?

Answer: Ethiopia

Q14. Dr Manmohan Singh was India’s ________ Prime Minister.

Answer: 14th

Q15. In 2000 an Indian beauty pageant has won the coveted Miss World crown. Who was she?

Answer: Priyanka Chopra