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21 NOVEMBER 2016

Ques. : 1 Over 120 passengers were killed when 14 coaches of ________ derailed near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh recently?
1) Indore-Patna Express 
2) Gorakhdham Express
3) Sapt Kranti Express 
4) Gomti Express
5) Gwalior-Barauni Mail 
Answer:- 1) Indore-Patna Express

Ques. : 2 All banks have now moved to a new lending rate regime—the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) starting
1) 1 Apr 2015 
2) 1 Jun 2015
3) 1 Sep 2015 
4) 1 Apr 2016
5) 1 Oct 2016 
Answer:- 4) 1 Apr 2016

Ques. : 3 The BBC World Service, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s, has launched services in several new languages which include
1) Tigrinya 
2) Pidgin
3) Korean 
4) Igbo
5) All the above 
Answer:- 5) All the above

Ques. : 4 Which of the following Indian firms was named “Top Companies to Work For in Asia” at the third annual Asia Corporate Excellence and Sustainability Awards (ACES)?
1) RIL 
2) Vedanta Limited
3) TCS 
4) Mahindra & Mahindra
5) Bharti Airtel 
Answer:- 2) Vedanta Limited

Ques. : 5 The DIPP may get the mandate to govern the e-commerce industry soon. The term DIPP stands for
1) Department of Industrial Practices and Promotion 
2) Department of Industrial Policy and Practices
3) Department of Industrial Performance and Promotion 
4) Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion
5) None of these 
Answer:- 4) Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion

Ques. : 6 The Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge won the men’s Delhi Half Marathon 2016 recently. He hails from
1) Kenya 
2) Nigeria
3) Jamaica 
4) Uganda
5) Paraguay 
Answer:- 1) Kenya

Ques. : 7 Manavjit Singh, who clinched a gold medal in National championship recently, is associated with the game of
1) archery 
2) shooting
3) discuss throw 
4) javelin throw
5) triple jump 
Answer:- 2) shooting

Ques. : 8 The world’s first Bollywood-themed park opened recently in
1) New York 
2) London
3) Doha 
4) Port Louis
5) Dubai 
Answer:- 5) Dubai

Ques. : 9 The Universal Children’s Day is observed every year on
1) 11 Nov
2) 13 Nov
3) 16 Nov
4) 17 Nov
5) 20 Nov 
Answer:- 5) 20 Nov

Ques. : 10 Who among the following has become the first bowler ever to complete 50 wickets in two consecutive calendar years?
1) Umesh Kumar 
2) Ishant Sharma
3) Abhimanyu Mithun 
4) Ravindra Jadeja
5) Ravichandran Ashwin 
Answer:- 5) Ravichandran Ashwin

22 NOVEMBER 2016

Ques. : 1 The SBM Group has appointed Siby Sebastian as Chief Executive for its India operations. The SBM bank is based in
1) Malaysia 
2) Myanmar
3) Mauritius 
4) Maldives
5) Mongolia 
Answer:- 3) Mauritius

Ques. : 2 Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who was awarded the prestigious Mother Teresa International Award by the Mumbai-based NGO Harmony Foundation recently, is a minister in
1) Iran 
2) UAE
3) Saudi Arabia 
4) Bahrain
5) Kuwait 
Answer:- 2) UAE

Ques. : 3 The Union Govt has appointed who among the following as the new Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)?
1) Anil R Dave 
2) Jagdish Singh Khehar
3) Ranjan Gogoi 
4) Jasti Chelameswar
5) Dipak Misra 
Answer:- 2) Jagdish Singh Khehar

Ques. : 4 Which of the following space agencies has successfully launched highly advanced geostationary weather satellite Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R)?
1) ISRO 
2) JAXA
3) European Space Agency 
4) NASA
5) None of these 
Answer:- 4) NASA

Ques. : 5 India has become an Associate Member State of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) which is located in
1) London 
2) New York
3) Paris 
4) Geneva
5) Basel 
Answer:- 4) Geneva

Ques. : 6 India successfully conducted the twin trials of Prithvi-II missile recently. The missiles have a strike range of
1) 350 km 
2) 750 km
3) 1500 km 
4) 2500 km
5) 3500 km 
Answer:- 1) 350 km

Ques. : 7 Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn was conferred the first “World Sanskrit Award” for her contribution towards promotion of the language. She is a princess of
1) Philippines 
2) Thailand
3) Japan 
4) Cambodia
5) Bhutan 
Answer:- 2) Thailand

Ques. : 8 The largest-ever ‘Made-in-India’ warship INS Chennai was recently commissioned into the Indian Navy. This is a
1) helicopter carrier 
2) torpedo launch and recovery vessel
3) fast attack craft 
4) anti-submarine warfare carrier
5) guided missile destroyer 
Answer:- 5) guided missile destroyer

Ques. : 9 The six-lane 302-km-long expressway, India’s longest expressway so far, was opened in Uttar Pradesh recently. The expressway connects
1) Agra and Lucknow 
2) Agra and Varanasi
3) Agra and Gorakhpur 
4) Lucknow and Varanasi
5) Noida and Lucknow 
Answer:- 1) Agra and Lucknow

Ques. : 10 Who among the following won the ATP World Tour Finals title in London recently?
1) Novak Djokovic 
2) Andy Murray
3) Stan Wawrinka 
4) Rafael Nadal
5) Roger Federer 
Answer:- 2) Andy Murray

23 NOVEMBER 2016

Ques. : 1 The 10-day-festival ‘Sangai Festival 2016’ was held recently in which of the following states?
1) Manipur 
2) Tripura
3) Kerala 
4) Sikkim
5) Uttarakhand 
Answer:- 1) Manipur

Ques. : 2 Who among the following was awarded the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for his book “Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India” recently?
1) Janice Pariat 
2) Mahesh Rao
3) Samanth Subramanian 
4) Akshaya Mukul
5) None of these 
Answer:- 4) Akshaya Mukul

Ques. : 3 India recently successfully test-fired indigenously built nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile from Odisha coast. The missile has a range of
1) 350 km 
2) 700 km
3) 1500 km 
4) 2500 km
5) 3500 km 
Answer:- 2) 700 km

Ques. : 4 The guided missile destroyer INS Chennai was commissioned into the India Navy recently. This is the last of the Project 15A which also include
1) INS Kolkata 
2) INS Kochi
3) INS Mumbai 
4) All the above
5) Only 1) and 2) 
Answer:- 5) Only 1) and 2)

Ques. : 5 Captain Radhika Menon was bestowed with the 2016 International Maritime Organization (IMO) Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea recently. The IMO headquarters is located in
1) London 
2) Paris
3) Geneva 
4) Basel
5) Frankfurt 
Answer:- 1) London

Ques. : 6 Ram Naresh Yadav, who passed away recently, was the former Governor of
1) Uttar Pradesh 
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Rajasthan 
4) Uttarakhand
5) Karnataka 
Answer:- 2) Madhya Pradesh

Ques. : 7 Gaganjeet Bhullar, who won the BANK BRI-JCB Indonesia Open recently, is associated with which of the following games?
1) Squash 
2) Billiards
3) Golf 
4) Tennis
5) Table tennis 
Answer:- 3) Golf

Ques. : 8 The branches of selected banks authorised by the RBI to stock rupee notes and coins are termed as
1) Prime branches 
2) Systemically important branches
3) Currency chests 
4) Bancassurance
5) None of these 
Answer:- 3) Currency chests

Ques. : 9 ________ has been honoured with “Dr Nagendra Singh International Peace Award” for his efforts in ensuring world peace.
1) Sri Sri Ravishankar 
2) Baba Ramdev
3) Mata Amritanandamayi 
4) Dadi Janki
5) None of these 
Answer:- 1) Sri Sri Ravishankar

Ques. : 10 ________ was honoured with ‘Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the year’ at the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Goa.
1) Shaan 
2) Udit Narayan
3) Sonu Nigam 
4) SP Bala Subrahmanyam
5) Shankar Mahadevan 
Answer:- 4) SP Bala Subrahmanyam

24 NOVEMBER 2016

Ques. : 1 Which of the following countries has agreed to import rice, non-basmati and basmati varieties from 17 registered mills in India? The country is the world’s largest rice importer.
1) Indonesia 
2) China
3) Malaysia 
4) Bangladesh
5) Saudi Arabia 
Answer:- 2) China

Ques. : 2 Antonio Costa will be the chief guest at the 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention to be held in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He is the Indian origin Prime Minister of
1) Portugal 
2) Sweden
3) Mauritius 
4) Spain
5) Suriname 
Answer:- 1) Portugal

Ques. : 3 Padma Vibhushan awardee M Balamuralikrishna passed away recently. He was a noted
1) classical dancer 
2) singer
3) musician 
4) painter
5) architect 
Answer:- 3) musician

Ques. : 4 The ex-Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Prof MGK Menon passed away recently. He was an acclaimed
1) biologist 
2) physicist
3) chemist 
4) economist
5) None of these 
Answer:- 2) physicist

Ques. : 5 Two officials of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) are elected as chairpersons of two committees set up by International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The IOSCO is headquartered in
1) Paris 
2) London
3) New York 
4) Madrid
5) Vienna 
Answer:- 4) Madrid

Ques. : 6 Name the Indian journalist who has been conferred with the International Press Freedom Award for her reporting from Chhattisgarh’s Naxal-infested Bastar area?
1) Anjana Om Kashyap 
2) Sweta Singh
3) Nidhi Razdan 
4) Sagarika Ghose
5) Malini Subramaniam 
Answer:- 5) Malini Subramaniam

Ques. : 7 The Govt has allowed NABARD to disburse what amount to cash-starved farmers, helping them sow winter crops like wheat ahead of the sowing season?
1) Rs 11,000 cr 
2) Rs 21,000 cr
3) Rs 25,000 cr 
4) Rs 31,000 cr
5) Rs 35,000 cr 
Answer:- 2) Rs 21,000 cr

Ques. : 8 India and which country signed a Joint Declaration for implementation of Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) recently? Both countries will start collecting data in accordance with the global standards in 2018.
1) US 
2) Mauritius
3) Singapore 
4) China
5) Switzerland 
Answer:- 5) Switzerland

Ques. : 9 Which of the following firms has rolled out a pilot of its banking services in Rajasthan, the first payments bank of the country?
1) Aditya Birla Nuvo 
2) National Securities Depository
3) Bharti Airtel 
4) Tech Mahindra
5) Fino Paytech 
Answer:- 3) Bharti Airtel

Ques. : 10 Who among the following has been elected as the new President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) for the year 2017?
1) Keshav Bansal 
2) Pankaj R Patel
3) Harshavardhan Neotia 
4) Sanjiv Goenka
5) CP Gurnani 

Answer:- 2) Pankaj R Patel

25 NOVEMBER 2016

Ques. : 1 Which of the following was the focus country at the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in Goa recently?
1) Republic of Korea 
2) Mongolia
3) Cambodia 
4) Spain
5) Sweden 
Answer:- 1) Republic of Korea

Ques. : 2 US President-elect Donald Trump has named Indian-American Governor of South Carolina State, Nikki Haley for the post of US ambassador to
1) India 
2) Australia
3) UK 
4) China
5) United Nations 
Answer:- 5) United Nations

Ques. : 3 Airtel Payments Bank Ltd became the first payments bank in the country to launch live banking services. It started its pilot phase recently in the state of
1) Gujarat 
2) Maharashtra
3) Bihar 
4) West Bengal
5) Rajasthan 
Answer:- 5) Rajasthan

Ques. : 4 PM Narendra Modi released two books “New Version of Constitution of India” and “Making of the Constitution” on the eve of the Constitution Day held recently on
1) 19 Nov 
2) 20 Nov
3) 21 Nov 
4) 25 Nov
5) 26 Nov 
Answer:- 5) 26 Nov

Ques. : 5 The Colombian Govt signed a revised peace agreement with the country’s largest rebel movement FARC recently. The capital city of Colombia is
1) Nassau 
2) Bogota
3) Yerevan 
4) Luanda
5) Tirana 
Answer:- 2) Bogota

Ques. : 6 The state-run power equipment maker BHEL has commissioned a 93 MW steam turbine-based captive power plant (CPP) at Hazira in the state of
1) Karnataka 
2) Kerala
3) Andhra Pradesh 
4) Gujarat
5) Telangana 
Answer:- 4) Gujarat

Ques. : 7 The government has appointed who among the following as the Chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)?
1) Raghav Chandra 
2) Yudhvir Singh Malik
3) B Ashok 
4) BC Tripathi
5) Prakash Kumar Singh 
Answer:- 2) Yudhvir Singh Malik

Ques. : 8 Which country successfully launched the Tianlian I-04 satellite recently?
1) Japan 
2) South Korea
3) Germany 
4) China
5) France 
Answer:- 4) China

Ques. : 9 Which country will chair the Energy Club of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in 2017?
1) Russia 
2) India
3) Turkey 
4) Pakistan
5) Kazakhstan 
Answer:- 3) Turkey

Ques. : 10 For the second time in a row, ________ has been named the top university in India in terms of jobs and placements, by QS Employability Ranking of top 200 universities across the world.
1) Delhi University 
2) IIT Kharagpur
3) IIT Delhi 
4) IIT Madras
5) IIT Bombay
Answer:- 2) IIT Kharagpur

26 NOVEMBER 2016

Ques. : 1 The govt has constituted a committee to enable cent-per-cent conversion of Govt-Citizen Transactions to the digital platform. The panel will work under the leadership of
1) Nripendra Misra 
2) Pradeep Kumar Sinha
3) Bibek Debroy 
4) Arvind Panagariya
5) Amitabh Kant 
Answer:- 5) Amitabh Kant

Ques. : 2 What is the currency of Colombia?
1) Peso 
2) Dollar
3) Pound 
4) Euro
5) Krona 
Answer:- 1) Peso

Ques. : 3 Who among the following will receive the “Legends Award” from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) on its 70th anniversary on Dec 20?
1) Vikas Krishan Yadav 
2) Shiva Thapa
3) Mary Kom 
4) Laishram Sarita Devi
5) Vijender Singh 
Answer:- 3) Mary Kom

Ques. : 4 Harjeet Singh is associated with which of the following games? He will lead the Indian team in the Junior World Cup to be held in Lucknow in Dec 2016.
1) Cricket 
2) Hockey
3) Football 
4) Volleyball
5) Basketball 
Answer:- 2) Hockey

Ques. : 5 The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is observed across the world on
1) 11 Nov 
2) 16 Nov
3) 21 Nov 
4) 25 Nov
5) 26 Nov 
Answer:- 4) 25 Nov

Ques. : 6 Name the Indian actor who has won the best performance award by an actor at the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards held in Brisbane recently.
1) Nawazuddin Siddiqui 
2) Manoj Bajpayee
3) Ranveer Singh 
4) Aamir Khan
5) Irrfan Khan
Answer:- 2) Manoj Bajpayee

Ques. : 7 The upgraded Jaguar DARIN III twin-seat aircraft recently received the Initial Operation Clearance (IOC). India had bought these aircrafts from
1) France 
2) Germany
3) UK 
4) Russia
5) Sweden 
Answer:- 1) France

Ques. : 8 The Garo tribal people of which state celebrated the harvest festival of ‘Wangala’ recently?
1) Jharkhand 
2) Chhattisgarh
3) Andhra Pradesh 
4) Meghalaya
5) Himachal Pradesh 
Answer:- 4) Meghalaya

Ques. : 9 Karen Rolton has been inducted into the ICC’s Hall of Fame. She is the former women’s cricket team captain of
1) Australia 
2) New Zealand
3) West Indies 
4) England
5) South Africa 
Answer:- 1) Australia

Ques. : 10 Every year 26 Nov is observed as
1) National Statistics Day 
2) National Integration Day
3) National Sparrow Day 
4) National Girl Child Day
5) National Milk Day 
Answer:- 5) National Milk Day

28 NOVEMBER 2016

Ques. : 1 The Indian Railways will soon introduce a system on its trains to reduce train accidents. The system is named
1) Tri-Netra 
2) E-Eye
3) Sense 
4) Meghadoot
5) None of these 
Answer:- 1) Tri-Netra

Ques. : 2 Indian Navy’s seventh landing craft utility (LCU) L-57 was launched by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) recently in
1) Mumbai 
2) Kandla
3) Vishakhapatnam 
4) Kolkata
5) Kochi 
Answer:- 4) Kolkata

Ques. : 3 The state assembly of which state passed ‘Nizi Niyozan Abhikaran and Gharelu Kamgar (Viniyam) Vidheyak 2016’ recently against placement agencies to rein in those involved in exploiting people?
1) Jharkhand 
2) Gujarat
3) Madhya Pradesh 
4) Rajasthan
5) Uttar Pradesh 
Answer:- 1) Jharkhand

Ques. : 4 The hill station Haflong will host the three-day ‘Judima Festival’ in Dec 2016 in the state of
1) Arunachal Pradesh 
2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Uttarakhand 
4) Sikkim
5) Assam 
Answer:- 5) Assam

Ques. : 5 The RBI released fresh guidelines related to increase in NDTL for banks. What is the full form of the term NDTL?
1) New Demand and Time Liabilities 
2) New Dividend and Time Liabilities
3) Net Demand and Time Liabilities 
4) Net Demand and Tenure Liabilities
5) None of these 
Answer:- 3) Net Demand and Time Liabilities

Ques. : 6 Ivan Mikoyan, who died recently, was a Russian aircraft designer and one of the minds behind the fighter jet
1) MiG-29 
2) Sukhoi 30 MKI
3) Beriev Be-12 
4) Tupolev Tu-95
5) Kamov Ka-27 
Answer:- 1) MiG-29

Ques. : 7 The South Indian Bank has launched contactless debit card which is based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. The bank is headquartered in Thrissur City in the state of
1) Karnataka 
2) Kerala
3) Tamil Nadu 
4) Andhra Pradesh
5) Telangana 
Answer:- 2) Kerala

Ques. : 8 An armed group broke into Nabha jail and took along six inmates in which of the following states recently?
1) Punjab 
2) Madhya Pradesh
3) Uttar Pradesh 
4) Uttarakhand
5) Himachal Pradesh 
Answer:- 1) Punjab

Ques. : 9 The World Fisheries Day is observed every year on
1) 19 Nov 
2) 20 Nov
3) 21 Nov 
4) 25 Nov
5) 29 Nov 
Answer:- 3) 21 Nov

Ques. : 10 Sachin Singh, who won a gold medal at the Youth World Championships in St Peterburg, Russia recently, is an Indian
1) wrestler 
2) archer
3) boxer 
4) triple jumper
5) javelin thrower 
Answer:- 3) boxer

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