Monthly Current Affairs Quiz - June, 2017

1. Which Indian-origin British sculptor has won the 2017 Genesis Prize?
[A] Ram Sutar
[B] Srihari Bholekar
[C] Dhruva Mistry
[D] Anish Kapoor

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2. Which sports outreach programme has been launched by the Union Government to promote football among school children?
[A] Mission-XI-Million
[B] Mission-XIV-Million
[C] Mission-XII-Million
[D] Mission-XV-Million

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3. Who has been appointed the new chief of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)?
[A] D R Mehta
[B] Brijesh Mukherjee
[C] Saurav Patra
[D] Ajay Tyagi

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4. Which Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to set up India’s first school on Quality and Reliability (Q&R)?
[A] IIT Bombay
[B] IIT Indore
[C] IIT Kharagpur
[D] IIT Madras

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5. Dravid Bowie, who passed away recently, was the well-known actor from which country?
[A] United States
[B] Japan
[C] England
[D] China

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6. Who has been selected for the 2016 Vyas Samman?
[A] Vishwanath Tripathi
[B] Padma Sachdev
[C] Surendra Verma
[D] Sunita Jain

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7. V K Srinivasan, who passed away recently, was the noted personality from which field?
[A] Economics
[B] Film Industry
[C] Poetry
[D] Poltics

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8. The Andhra Pradesh government has signed MoU with which payment network company to transform Vishakhapatnam into India’s first ‘less cash’ city?
[A] MasterCard
[B] National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
[C] American Express
[D] Visa

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9. Tarak Mehta, who recently passed away, was the noted play writer of which language?
[A] Urdu
[B] Gujarati
[C] Marathi
[D] Odia

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10. Which city hosted the 4th India-CLMV Business Conclave-2017?
[A] Pune
[B] Chennai
[C] Jaipur
[D] New Delhi

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