Current Affairs Quiz 17th and 18th March

Current Affairs Quiz: 17 & 18th March 2017 

For All Government Competitive Exams 

Q1. Recently Trivendra Singh Rawat is elected as the new Chief Minister of which state ?

 A. Uttrakhand
 B. Andhra Pradesh

 C. Telangana

 D. Madhya Pradesh

The answer is (A)

Q2. Which Airport has topped the lists of World's Best Airport by air travellers at the 2017 World Airport Awards for the fifth consecutive year ?

 A.  Hong Kong Intl Airport

 B. Helsinki Airport

 C. Changi Airport

 D. Kuala Lumpur Airport

The answer is (C)

Q3.What is the Rank of "India" in terms of representation of women in executive government and parliament, according to a report published by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women ?

 A. 136th

 B. 148th
 C. 10th
 D. 2nd

The answer is (B)

Q4. Who will become the next chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ?

 A. Suresh Prabhu

 B. Arun Jaitley

 C. Mallikarjun Kharge

 D. Mamata Banerjee

The answer is (C)

Q5. Recently Which country has signed an agreement with "Indian Railway" to support future research and technology development related to critical infrastructure in India. ?

 A. Britain

 B. Korea
 C. Japan
 D. Australia

The answer is (D)

Q6. According to the 2017 ranking, which universities has been ranked the best Indian University and has been placed at 27th position among the universities in Asia ?

 A. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

 B. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras

 C. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
 D. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Khadagpur

The answer is (C)

Q7. Recently which Indian- American Girl has won the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search bagging the top award of 250,000 dollars ?

 A. Mayuri Singhal
 B. Indrani Das
 C. Priti Aggarwal
 D. None of these

The answer is (B)

Q8. In Which city Indias's First Airbus training centre in Asia to come up ?

 A. Pune
 B. Gujrat
 C. New Delhi
 D. Ahmedabad

The answer is (C)

Q9.  What is the name of the robot unveiled by Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) Pune & IBM to assist senior citizens ?

 A. Chintu

 B. Senior Support
 C. Backguard for Senior citizens
 D. Robot-IBM093

The answer is (A)

Q10. Recently India has signed a 'call for action' with World Health Organization (WHO) to scale up measures to end the Tuberculosis by ________ ?

 A. 2020

 B. 2030
 C. 2024
 D. 2022

The answer is (B)