QUIZ-30

Q1. Name the oil company that has recently decided to invest over Rs 21,500 crore to develop India's deepest gas discovery by 2022-23.

 (a) GAIL

(b) IOCL

(c) Reliance Oils

(d) ONGC

(e) SAIL

Q2. Which of the following Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport by air travelers at the 2017 World Airport Awards for the fifth consecutive year?

(a) Tokyo International Airport

(b) Munich Airport

(c) Hamad International Airport

(d) London Heathrow Airport

(e) Changi Airport

Q3. Trivendra Rawat was elected as Uttarakhand Chief Minister, recently. He is  ____th CM of the State.

(a) 9

(b) 11

(c) 12

(d) 8

(e) 13

Q4. Sanjauli police station has become the first police post in the country to be linked with Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), a nationwide online tracking system. Sanjauli police station is located in ____________.

(a) Arunachal Pradesh

(b) Assam

(c) Himachal Pradesh

(d) Jammu & Kashmir

(e) Punjab

Q5. Changi Airport is located in ___________.

(a) Switzerland

(b) Indonesia

(c) Japan

(d) Singapore

(e) China

Q6. The Essar group’s township in _________ has become India’s first private sector township to go cashless.

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Gujarat

(c) Himachal Pradesh

(d) Manipur

(e) Assam

Q7. RBI has been recently authorized by Government of India to conduct field trials of plastic notes of Rs _________ in five cities across the country.

(a) 20

(b) 50

(c) 10

(d) Both (a) and (c)

(e) Both (a and (b)

Q8. Name the country that has recently initialed the text of the Social Security Agreement (SSA) with India, first of its kind between BRICS countries.

(a) Brazil

(b) Russia

(c) China

(d) South Africa

(e) None of the given options are true

Q9. ESAF small Financial Bank was launched recently for the first time in which of the following Indian State.

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Maharashtra

(c) Tripura

(d) Haryana

(e) Kerala

Q10. Name the first fully India-made train that was flagged off recently at Dadar station, Mumbai.

(a) Tejas

(b) Gatiman

(c) Chhaya

(d) Medha

(e) Anchal

                                                          Answers

S1. Ans.(d)

Sol. State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will invest over Rs 21,500 crore to develop India's deepest gas discovery by 2022-23, helping it more than double output from its prime KG basin block.

S2. Ans.(e)

Sol. Singapore's Changi Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport by air travellers at the 2017 World Airport Awards for the fifth consecutive year.

S3. Ans.(a)

Sol. The BJP named Trivendra Singh Rawat, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak as a new Uttarakhand CM after replacing of Harish Rawat. Mr.Trivendra Rawat named as the State's ninth Chief Minister.

S4. Ans.(c)

Sol. Sanjauli police station of Sanjauli the main suburb of the city of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh has become the first police post in the country to be linked with Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), a nationwide online tracking system.

S5. Ans.(d)

Sol. Changi Airport is located in Singapore.

S6. Ans.(b)

Sol. The Essar group’s township at Hazira in Surat district of Gujarat has become India’s first private sector township to go cashless.

S7. Ans.(c)

Sol. RBI has been authorized by Government of India (GOI) to conduct field trials of plastic notes of Rs 10 in five cities across the country.

S8. Ans.(a)

Sol. India and Brazil initialed the text of the Social Security Agreement (SSA) in Brazil. The SSA between India and Brazil once in force by early 2018 will be the first such agreement between the BRICS countries.

S9. Ans.(e)

Sol. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched ESAF (Evangelical Social Action Forum) Small Finance Bank, Kerala’s first private sector bank since the country’s Independence, in Thrissur, Kerala.

S10. Ans.(d)

Sol. Medha, the made-in-India rake was flagged off for the maiden run of the 12-coach train from Dadar to Borivali, at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Mumbai.