We are sharing list of selected MCQs for readers to allow them to asses their general knowledge and current affair preparation.
CDS 2 2017 Exam Important Current Affair MCQs
Who has been appointed as the New Chairman for Airport Authority of India?
- a) K R Krishnan
- b) S K Muhammad Sayed Khan
- c) R K Srivatsava
- d) Sudheer Raheja
The ATP World Tennis Championship was won by
- a) Roger Federer
- b) Novaj Djokvik
- c) Andy Murray
- d) Leander Paes
Who is the Minister of Communications & Information Technology and Law & Justice?
- a) Arun Jaitely
- b) Ravi Shankar Prasad
- c) Murali Manohar Joshi
- d) Kalyan Singh
Who has been awarded as the Business Person of the year 2014?
- a) Larry Page
- b) Alibaba
- c) Tim Cook
- d) Bill Gates
Who has been selected for the Sardar Valllabhai Patel Vishwa Pratibha Award?
- a) Meghnad Desai
- b) Arvind Pargariya
- c) A K Pillay
- d) Kumara Tilakarathna
President Pranab Mukherjee has signed an ordinance to amend the Citizenship Act
- a) 1951
- b) 1953
- c) 1955
- d) 1957
Maitree Express runs between
- a) Delhi and Dhaka
- b) Kolkata and Dhaka
- c) Gauhati and Dhaka
- d) NOTA
The spacecraft discovered more than 1000 exo-planets is
- a) Goefen
- b) Kepler
- c) Ruben
- d) Hitachi – 34 G
Sri Lankan Presidential Election 2015 is won by
- a) Mahinda Rajapaksha
- b) Ranil Vikramasinga
- c) Kumara Ranathunga
- d) Maithripala Sirisena
Who is the Union Railway Minister of India?
- a) Gajapathy Raju
- b) Mahesh Prabhu
- c) Suresh Prabhu
- d) K N Mittal
The Chennai Open Tennis Singles 2015 title was won by
- a) Aljaz benede
- b) Stanislas Wawrinka
- c) Jonathan Murray
- d) Yisika Kishimori
The Chennai Open Tennis Doubles 2015 title was won by
- a) Lu Yen-hsun and Jonathan Marray
- b) Yen-Hsun Lu and Aljaz benede
- c) Jonathan Murray and Aljas Benede
- d) Stanislas Wawrinka and Jonathan Murray
Who has been appointed as the ISRO’s new Secretary and Chief?
- a) A K Mittal
- b) V S Brahma
- c) A S Kiran Kumar
- d) K N Gopala Krishnan
The 2015 Space Pioneer Award was won by
- a) NASA
- b) ISRO
- c) ESA
- d) RSA
Who has been conferred for Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award?
- a) G K Kumaran
- b) Arul Kirubakaran
- c) M Y S Prasad
- d) M K Narasimhan
Who is the recipient for Vyas Samman award 2014?
- a) Premchand
- b) Kamal Kishore Goyanka
- c) Karthikeyan Jayaprasad
- d) Jayakanthan
Indian Army Day is celebrated on
- a) January 14
- b) January 15
- c) January 13
- d) January 12
Who has been appointed as the New Chief Election Commissioner?
- a) V S Sampath
- b) H R Khan
- c) R Gandhi
- d) Hari Shankar Brahma
Japan has pledged $2.5 Billion in Non-Military Assistance to
- a) India
- b) Pakistan
- c) Middle East
- d) Vietnam
The Japanese Foreign Minister who recently visited India was
- a) Kim Xing
- b) Chim Ke Abe
- c) Fumio Kishida
- d) NOTA
Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Haryana?
- a) Hema Malini
- b) Jayapradha
- c) Baba Ramdev
- d) Kishore Kapoor
What is the name of the Spacecraft which was found recently in Mars after 11 years?
- a) Beagle – 1
- b) Beagle – 2
- c) Mangalyaan
- d) Curiosity
The Sydney Doubles title 2015 was won by
- a) Sania Mirza and Abigail Spears
- b) Raquel kops Jones and Abigail Spears
- c) Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands
- d) Serena Williams and Bethanie Mattek-Sands
World Polio Day is observed on
- a) October 23
- b) October 24
- c) October 25
- d) October 26
India is planning joint tourism promotion campaign with
- a) Bhutan
- b) Cambodia
- c) Bangladesh
- d) Nepal
What is the name of the Aircraft which was recently handed over to the Indian Air Force?
- a) Bazz
- b) Tejas
- c) Astra
- d) Mig-28G
The Bennett Coleman & Co ltd is also called
- a) The Euro Group
- b) Al Jazeera
- c) The Reuters Group
- d) The Times Group
Who won the VII National Billiards Title?
- a) Anirban Lahiri
- b) Pankaj Advani
- c) Dhruv Sitwala
- d) Kishore Kumar
Who has been conferred with the Martin Luther King Award?
- a) Lakshmi Mittal
- b) Lord Raj Loomba
- c) Frank Islam
- d) Bill Gates
The name of PM Modi’s Education Project is
- a) NIAN
- b) GAIN
- c) GIAN
- d) CEDI
The number of Tiger Reserves in India governed by Project Tiger is
- a) 42
- b) 44
- c) 45
- d) 47
The committee related with IPL spot fixing is
- a) Agarwal Committee
- b) Ganguly Committee
- c) Mudgal Committee
- d) Akbar Committee
khurshid mahmud kasuri has authored the book called Neither a Hawk – Nor a Dove. He belongs to
- a) Bangladesh
- b) Saudi Arabia
- c) Pakistan
- d) Dubai
The Syed Modi Gran Prix Championship is related to which sports?
- a) Hockey
- b) Badminton
- c) Tennis
- d) Squash
Which of the following is the Highest Award among the National Bravery Awards?
- a) Sanjay Chopra Award
- b) Bharat Award
- c) Geet Chopra Award
- d) Babu Ghaidhani Award
Who is the Author of “When God is a Traveller“?
- a) Aruna Roy
- b) Salman Rushdie
- c) Arundhathi Subramaniyam
- d) Suhel Seth
What was the name of the Cartoon Character created by RK Laxman?
- a) The Common Citizen
- b) The Common Man
- c) The Common Person
- d) The Common Indian
What is the Second Highest Civilian Award in India?
- a) Bharat Ratna
- b) Padma Bhoosan
- c) Padma Vibhusan
- d) Padma Shri
India celebrated ____ Republic day on January 26’2015?
- a) 62nd
- b) 63rd
- c) 66th
- d) 67th
What was the theme for the 2015 Republic Day?
- a) Ladki Sakthi
- b) Nari Shakthi
- c) Navjawan Shakthi
- d) Yuva Shakthi
The first Indian Woman Officer to lead the Ceremonial Guard of Honour at Rashtrapathi Bhavan was
- a) Guru Sindhuja
- b) Amrutha Anand
- c) Nisha Subramaniyam
- d) Pooja Thakur
The CRPF’s theme song was penned by
- a) RK Laxman
- b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
- c) Javed Akthar
- d) Shoaib Malik
Who has been appointed as the Foreign Secretary of India?
- a) Karthikeyan Venkatraman
- b) Baranidharan Sundaram
- c) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
- d) Velayutham Sabari
According to the ICC’s announcement, the 2019 World Cup will be hosted by
- a) Australia and New Zealand
- b) India and Sri Lanka
- c) West Indies
- d) England
What is the Range of Agni-V?
- a) 3500 to 4000 Km
- b) 4000 to 4500 Km
- c) 4500 to 5000 Km
- d) 5000 to 8000 Km
India to build missile launch testing facility for DRDO in
- a) Karnataka
- b) Andhra Pradesh
- c) Odisha
- d) West Bengal
The 18th National Conference on e-Governance was concluded in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. What is its Theme?
- a) E-Governance – The Future
- b) Digital Governance-New Frontier
- c) Digital India
- d) E-Governance – Way to go
Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited?
- a) Suvarna Raju
- b) Hindol Sengupta
- c) Kasi Karamraj
- d) Dravid Kulkarni
Leander Paes and _________ won the Australian Open Mixed doubles title 2015?
- a) Martina Navarathinova
- b) Kristina Mladenovic
- c) Martina Hings
- d) Daniel Nestor
Pakistan has successfully test fired the Air-Launched Cruise Missile called
- a) Babur
- b) Ra’ad
- c) Khani
- d) Durug
IRCTC has authorized _________ for their Cash on Delivery initiative?
- a) Distinct Technologies
- b) Credible Tech and Co
- c) Anduril Technologies
- d) Effective Del Pvt Ltd
Indian Journalist-writer Hindol Sengupta’s book has been shortlisted for Hayek Prize. This prize is awarded by
- a) Germany
- b) United Kingdom
- c) United States
- d) France
Who is the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks?
- a) Rahul Gupta
- b) Siva Rama Krishnan
- c) Chaitanya Prasad
- d) Shanmuganathan
India’s first Wi-Fi metro city is
- a) Kolkata
- b) New Delhi
- c) Chennai
- d) Mumbai
Bhalchandra Nemade has been chosen for Jnanpith Award. He is a
- a) Bengali Writer
- b) Hindi Writer
- c) Marathi Writer
- d) Kannada Writer
Which state govt Government to provide tablets to all girls student under Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya scheme?
- a) Bihar
- b) Uttar Pradesh
- c) Jharkhand
- d) Haryana
The Annual Grammy awards is given for
- a) Classical movies
- b) Music
- c) Art Movies
- d) Documentary Films
Who has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Vodofone?
- a) Uday Kapoor
- b) Naveen Chopra
- c) Sujatha Singh
- d) Kalyanraman
Facebook and ____________ have partnered together to bring Internet.org to India?
- a) Tata Communications
- b) Airtel
- c) Reliance Communications
- d) IBM
Sarbananda Sonowal is the current Minister of
- a) Information and Communication Technology
- b) Environment
- c) Sports and Youth Affairs
- d) None of the above
In India, which award is the Highest Award in sports?
- a) Arjuna Award
- b) Dhronacharya Award
- c) Param Award
- d) Rajeev Gandhi Ghel Ratna Award
India and Israel developed a surface to air missile called
- a) BrahMos
- b) Raad
- c) Barak 8
- d) Pratik
The Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Exercise was conducted by Indian Navy on
- a) Andaman Island
- b) Nicobar Island
- c) Lakshadweep
- d) None of the Above
The Spacex Falcon Rocket 9 was launched by
- a) European Space Agency
- b) Russian Space Agency
- c) NASA
- d) Japanese Space Agency
The First National Tribal Festival is named as
- a) Haati
- b) Vanaj
- c) Kaadu
- d) Kushank
The committee associated with corporate bankruptcy legal framework in India is
- a) Jai Shankar Committee
- b) M G Ramachandran Committee
- c) T K Viswanathan Committee
- d) Ajith Kumar Committee
India successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from
- a) INS Vikrant
- b) INS Kolkata
- c) INS Arihant
- d) INS Sathyan
Comment.
second highest civilian award is padam vibhooshan . your answer is wrong.sir.
Yes suraj u r right