General Knowledge 2017

General Knowledge - General Awareness Quiz - Questions and Answers, GK 2017

1. Shirish Pai, who passed away in 2017, was the noted poet of which language?

2. Which high-level committee has been formed to examine working of Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) and Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH)?

a. Narendra Modi committee

b. Shashi Tharoor committee

c. Madhukar Gupta committee

d. Arvind Panagariya committee

3. Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air India?

c. Pradeep Singh Kharola

4. Which state chief minister has been honoured with the Golden Peacock Award under the category ‘Global Leadership in Public Service and Economic Transformation’?

5. Which film has won the best motion picture award at the 2017 Golden Globes awards?

c. Hell or High Water

6. “Nasha Mukt campaign” has been launched by which state government to make state addiction-free?

7. Which Indian sportsperson has been honoured with the Maruti Suzuki Living Legend of the Year award 2017?

8. Which union minister has launched the nation-wide hackathon #OpenGovDataHack?

a. D V Sadananda Gowda

b. Prakash Javadekar

c. Ravi Shankar Prasad

d. Nirmala Sitharaman

9. Which GST committee on exports has been constituted by the Union Finance Ministry?

a. Rita Teaotia committee

b. Etela Rajender committee

c. Hasmukh Adhia committee

d. Sushil Modi committee

10. The Indo-Nepal folk crafts festival has started in which city?

Astounding Facts about the human body

Astounding Facts 31

Our nose is our personal air conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.