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1. ______________ founder and CEO Jeff Bezos became World’s second richest person with his net worth increased to $ 75.6 billion, second only to Microsoft Co- founder Bill Gates' net worth of $ 86 billion ?

Amazon
Facebook
Google
Microsoft
None of These


2. __________ Minister for Resources, Matthew Canavan Visited India ?

Russian
American
Australian
Polish
None of These


3. Cricketer __________ launched his mobile app called‚ 100 MB (MB standing for Master Blaster). ?

M S Dhoni
Ravichandran Ashwin
Virat Kohli
Sachin Tendulkar
None of These


4. Denis Manturov, ___________ Trade & Industry Minister visited India to attend 6th International Engineering Sourcing Show(IESS) held at Chennai and Joint Military Industrial Conference with India ?

Swiss
German
Spanish
American
Russian


5. Famous ________ Footballer Raymond Kopa passe away. ?

American
German
French
Russian
None of These


6. Fayez Al-Tarawneh, Chief Justice of __________ Visited India ?

Jordan
Russia
Iran
Afghanistan
None of These


7. Finance Minister ____________ visited United Kingdom, particularly to represent India at royal event of 2017 UK-India Year of Culture. He also visited Nepal, to attend Nepal Investment Summit 2017 ?

Prakash Javedkar
Arun Jaitley
J P Nadda
Piyush Goyal
None of These


8. Former Lok Sabha speaker _________ passed away. ?

Rabi Ray
President
Prime Minister
Chief Justice of India
None of These


9. Gauri Singh from __________ became first Indian girl swim from Sea Link near Worli Koliwada to Gateway of India in the Arabia Sea (36 KM). ?

Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh
Maharashtra
Gujarat
None of These


10. King of ______________, Mswati-III visited India.‚  ?

Thailand
Malaysia
Nigeria
Swaziland
None of These


11.____________ 's Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bimalendra Nidhi visited India. ?

Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
Nepal
None of These


12. Nicolas Sarkozy, former President of __________ visited India ?

Germany
France
Spain
Poland
None of These


13. Nobel Prize winner ___________ Chemist George Olah passed away ?

British
Bulgarian
Bolivian
Russian
Hungarian


14. Noted _________ Rock and roll Musician Chuck Berry passed away ?

American
British
Spanish
Danish
None of These


15. Noted ____________ surgeon Thomas E Starzl passed away. He performed first successful human liver transplant in 1967 ?

Swiss
Spanish
Russian
American‚ 
None of These


16. Noted ____________ folk singer Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya passed away ?

Marathi
Gujrati
Bengali
Hindi
None of These


17. Noted ____________ film director Diphan passed away. ?

Tamil
Malayalam
Telugu
Gujrati
None of These


18. Noted ___________ Dev Raj Sikka passed away. ?

Actor
Meteorologist
Singer
Musician
None of These


19. Noted __________________ physicist Ronald Drever passed away. He was among co-founders of Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors that detected gravitational waves emitted by merger of a binary black hole pair ?

French
Russian
Danish
Scottish
None of These


20. Noted __________ writer Ashokamitran passed away. ?

Tamil
Telugu
Malayalam
Konkani
None of These


21. Noted ____________ Arvind Padmanabhan passed away ?

Journalist
Actor
Scientist
Politician
None of These


22. __________ Astranaut Peggy Whitson created new record for most spacewalks by surpassing Indian American Sumita Williams's record of 7 spacewalks. ?

Russian
American
French
German
None of These


23. Playback singer ______________ recently has set a new world record by playing maximum number of songs in the shortest time on a single string musical instrument. She played songs on Gayatri Veena Continuously for over 5 hours. ?

Alka Yagnik
Lata Mangeshkar
Kavita Krishnamurthi
Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
None of These


24. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat conferred with honorary degree of “Doctor of Science” by __________ Animal and Fishery Sciences University. ?

Gujarat
Rajasthan
Punjab
Haryana
Maharashtra


25. Ruhakana Rugunda, Prime Minister of ________ visited India ?

Italy
Rwanda
Uganda
Russia
None of These


26. _____________ resigned as Chairman of International Cricket Council, although he withdrew His resignation later and will now continue as ICC Chairman till 2018 ?

Shashank Manohar
N Sribnivasan
Anurag Thakur
Adam Gilchrist
None of These


27. Showkutally Soodhun, Vice-Prime Minister of _______________visited India. During this visit, MoU was signed to execute USD 20 million social housing project in _________ ?

Thailand
Mauritius
Indonesia
Malaysia
None of These


28. __________ resigned as Chief of Reliance Capital, after long stint of 9 years. While, Devang Mody is appointed as CEO of Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd (a subsidiary of Reliance Capital) ?

Uday Kotak
Ratan Tata
Soumen Ghosh
Cyrus Mistry
None of These


29. __________ sailor Chris Bertish became first to cross Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddleboard, completing 4050 mile voyage alone ?

British
Nigerian
Russian
American
South African


30. ______________’s revered Indian-origin anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada passed away ?

USA
Spain
South Africa
Sri Lanka
None of These


31. University of Mumbai conferred Conferred Honorary D.Litt on Noted Indian Geneticist ____________ ?

R Rajan
C Rajgopalachari
M S Sahoo
MS Swaminathan
None of These


32. Werner Hoyer, President of _______________ visited India. ?

Asian Development Bank
European Investment Bank
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
None of These




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