HPAS 2017 Current Affairs Topic-Wise Solutions
Question 21
Who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2017?
- (a) Joachim Frank
- (b) Jacques Dubochet
- (c) Richard Henderson
- (d) All of the above
Correct Answer: (d) All of the above
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Question 22
Who won the Women’s Single Wimbledon tournament in 2017?
- (a) Garbine Muguruza
- (b) Ekaterina Makarova
- (c) Elena Vesnina
- (d) Serna Williams
Correct Answer: (a) Garbine Muguruza
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Question 23
Who became first female President of Singapore?
- (a) Carrie Lam
- (b) Halimah Yacob
- (c) Jacindra Ardern
- (d) Angela Merkel
Correct Answer: (b) Halimah Yacob
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Question 24
Why Jagmeet Singh is in news?
- (a) He is elected leader of Canada’s New Democratic party
- (b) He represents South Hall in British House of Commons
- (c) He is appointed as one of the advisor to President Doanld Trump
- (d) He is advisor to UN Commission on Human Rights
Correct Answer: (a) He is elected leader of Canada’s New Democratic party
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Question 25
Why Hambantota Port has been in news in 2017?
- (a) Its majority stakes are sold to China
- (b) It straddles world’s busiest east-west shipping route
- (c) Chinese move here created worries for India
- (d) All of the above
Correct Answer: (d) All of the above
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Question 26
Who was awarded best actress in the 64th National Film awards function?
- (a) C.M. Surabhi
- (b) Zaira Wasim
- (c) Iman Chakraborty
- (d) Sonam Kapoor
Correct Answer: (a) C.M. Surabhi
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Question 27
Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List-I:
1. Sachidanand
2. Aryabhatta
3. Ayyankali
4. M. Fatima Beevi
List-II:
1. Vatsyayan Judge
2. Harijan leader
3. Hindi Poet
4. Astronomer
- (a) 4 3 1 2
- (b) 3 4 2 1
- (c) 3 1 2 4
- (d) 2 1 3 4
Correct Answer: (b) 3 4 2 1
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Question 28
Name the sportsperson who has been honoured with ‘Bharat Ratna’?
- (a) Major Dhyan Chand
- (b) Sunil Gavaskar
- (c) Sachin Tendulkar
- (d) P.T. Usha
Correct Answer: (c) Sachin Tendulkar
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Question 29
Who is appointed as New Chairman of ISRO?
- (a) M.G.K. Menon
- (b) Roddam Narsimhan
- (c) U.R. Rao
- (d) K. Sivan
Correct Answer: (d) K. Sivan
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Question 30
Who is the first women advocate whose name has been recommended by the collegiums to become the Judge of Supreme Court of India?
- (a) Indu Malhotra
- (b) Neeru Chadha
- (c) Sujata V. Manohar
- (d) Gyan Sudha Mishra
Correct Answer: (a) Indu Malhotra
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