QUIZ OF DAY-14/07/2017 GK & CURRENT AFFIRS

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Ques. : 1 The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) expanded 1.7 per cent in May 2017. The IIP is an index which details out the growth of various sectors in the economy including

1) manufacturing
2) electricity
3) mineral mining
4) All the above
5) Only 1) and 3)

Ans. 4) All the above

Ques. : 2 The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) committee, which recommended keeping budgetary deficit at 3 per cent of the GDP in three years to Mar 2020, is headed by

1) Arvind Mayaram
2) NK Singh
3) Arvind Subramanian
4) Rajiv Mehrishi
5) Hasmukh Adhia

Ans.  2) NK Singh

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Ques. : 3 India’s Pentala Harikrishna is associated with which of the following games?

1) Chess
2) Shooting
3) Snooker
4) Table tennis
5) Squash

Ans. 1) Chess

Ques. : 4 Who among the following is the present secretary of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP)?

1) Ajay Mittal
2) Durga Shanker Mishra
3) Aruna Sundararajan
4) Rajiv Gauba
5) Ramesh Abhishek

Ans. 5) Ramesh Abhishek

Ques. : 5 The SBI has cut NEFT and RTGS charges by up to 75%. All the new charges (as a service provided by a bank) will attract the GST rate of

1) zero per cent
2) 05 per cent
3) 12 per cent
4) 18 per cent
5) 28 per cent

Ans. 4) 18 per cent

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Ques. : 6 The Union Finance Ministry recently reiterated that services provided by an educational institution to students, faculty and staff will attract GST at the rate of

1) zero per cent
2) 05 per cent
3) 12 per cent
4) 18 per cent
5) 28 per cent

Ans. 1) zero per cent

Ques. : 7 The ride-hailing firm Uber recently handed over its business in which of the following countries to Yandex with $3.7-bn merger deal?

1) China
2) Canada
3) Russia
4) Indonesia
5) Brazil

Ans. 3) Russia

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Ques. : 8 What is India’s ranking out of 157 nations on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) index that assesses the performance of countries towards achieving the ambitious goals?

1) 122nd
2) 42nd
3) 62nd
4) 71st
5) 116th

Ans. 5) 116th

Ques. : 9 Which of the following countries has topped the sustainable development goals (SDGs) index released recently?

1) France
2) Sweden
3) Germany
4) Finland
5) Denmark

Ans. 2) Sweden

Ques. : 10 China’s Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo passed away in custody recently. He was awarded in 2010 with the

1) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2) Nobel Prize in Chemistry
3) Nobel Prize in Physics
4) Nobel Peace Prize
5) None of these

Ans. 4) Nobel Peace Prize