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1. Name the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India. His second daughter's marriage was conducted in December 2016 in Nagpur, Maharashtra in a grand manner.
a) Manohar Parrikar b) Arun Jaitley c) Rajnath Singh d) Nitin Gadkari
a) Thimphu
b) Dhaka c) Colombo d)
New Delhi
2. The “U” in USTTAD scheme of the National
Minorities Development & Finance Corporation (NMDFC) refers to which of the
following?
a) Urban
b) Uniform c) Utilising d)
Upgrading
3. India won the 2016 Asian Champions Trophy
hockey title in Kuantan, Malaysia defeating which of the following countries?
a) Pakistan b) Malaysia c) China
d) Japan
4. Who among the following won the Singles
title at the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals 2016?
a) Dominika
Cibulkova b) Victoria Azarenka c) Garbine Muguruza d) Angelique Kerber
5. Who among the following won the F1 Mexican
Grand Prix 2016?
a) Valtteri Bottas b) Nico Rosberg c) Jenson Button d)
Lewis Hamilton
6. Pratibha Agrawal, Anurupa Roy and Sankar
Venkateswaran were declared winners of Kalashikhar awards named after who among
the following?
a) JRD Tata
b) Ardeshir Godrej c) Dhirubhai
Ambani d) Aditya Vikram Birla
7. Who among the following won the Player of
the Series award in the 5-match India-New Zealand ODI series?
a) Ajinkya Rahane b) Virat Kohli c) James Neesham d)
Amit Mishra
8. Which of the following is the scheme,
launched by the Prime Minister in Chattisgarh recently, for providing solar
powered irrigation pumps to farmers at a subsidized price?
a) Saur
Sujala Yojana b) Saur Ujala Yojana c) Surya Sujala Yojana d) Surya Ujala Yojana
9. Who among the following resigned as Chairman
of the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) and National Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC)?
a) S. Gopalakrishnan b) N. S. Raghavan c) S.
Ramadorai d) S. D. Shibulal
10. the UN General Assembly elected several
countries including USA, UK and China to serve on the United Nations Human
Rights Council (UNHRC). They have been elected for a term of how many years?
a) One year
b) Two years c) Three years d) Four years
11. Who among the following novelists received
the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award 2016 in Odense, Denmark?
a) Umberto Eco
b) Hassan Blasim c) Judith
Hermann d) Haruki Murakami
12. Who among the following was appointed the
Chairperson of its Board by the World Federation of Exchange (WFE)?
a) Chitra
Ramkrishna b) Vijayalakshmi R. Iyer c) Arundhati Bhattacharya d) Shubhalakshmi Panse
13. Which of the following Indian cities hosted
57th AGM of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN)?
a) Chandigarh
b) Jaipur c) Hyderabad d) Bhopal
14. DRDO and which of the following industry
bodies has inked MoU to facilitate the transfer of defence technology to Indian
industry?
a) FICCI
b) ASSOCHAM c) CII
d) PHDCCI
15. What is the weight of the eight core
industries in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP)?
a) 8% b)
18% c) 28% d)
38%
16. The National Food Security Act (NFSA)
achieved total coverage of the country recently. Which of the following was
among the last two states along with Tamil Nadu to join?
a) Gujarat
b) Maharashtra c) Kerala d) Karnataka
17. Which state has topped the Agriculture
Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index 2016 launched by NITI Aayog?
a) Gujarat
b) Maharashtra c) Kerala
d) Karnataka
18. Which of the following has occupied the top
rank jointly with Andhra Pradesh in the Assessment of State Implementation of
Business Reforms 2015-16 released by the government recently?
a) Gujarat
b) Maharashtra c) Goa d)
Telangana
19. Michelle
Simmons, Maria Teresa Ruiz, Niveen Khashab, Nicola Spaldin and Zhenan Bao were
announced as the winners of the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in ……. Awards?
a) Law b) Science c) Medicine
d) Journalism
20. What was
India’s rank among 190 economies in World Bank’s ‘Doing Business 2017’ report?
a) 90th b) 110th c) 120th d)
130th
21. Who among
the following won the Miss Grand International 2016 pageant organized in Las
Vegas, USA?
a) Michelle Leon b) Nicole Cordoves c) Ariska
Purti Petriwi d) Supaporn Malisorn
22. The India
Government Mint (IGM) has decided to develop the country’s first gold standard
with research and development inputs from …… and CSIR-National Physical
Laboratory (NPL).
a) Defence Research and Development
Organisation b) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
c) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research d) Nuclear Corporation of India Limited
23. The Reserve
Bank of India has said to conduct a pilot project wherein …….. of ATMs in the
country will be exclusively calibrated to dispense Rs. 100 banknotes.
a) 5 per cent
b) 10 per cent c) 15 per cent d) 20 per cent
24. S. Nihal
Singh received the Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award for his outstanding
contribution in which field?
a) Arts b)
Theatre c) Literature d)
Journalism
25. NASA has
decided to replace its famous Hubble telescope with a new telescope named after
who among the following?
a) James
Webb b) Issac Newton c) Lyman Spitzer d) Johannes Kepler
26. Which of the
following was ranked first on the World Giving Index 2016?
a) Bhutan
b) Nepal c) China d)
Myanmar
27. Who among
the following was appointed the new Prime Minister of Spain?
a) Rodrigo Rato b) Javier Arenas c) Angel Acebes d)
Marilano Rajoy
28. Who among
the following was crowned Miss Earth 2016 at the beauty pageant organized in
Manila?
a) Dianne Brown
b) Katherine Espin c) Michelle Gomez d) Bruna Zanardo
29. How many
nations are members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)?
a) 34 b) 47
c) 72 d) 119
30. Who among
the following was appointed the new Prime Minister of Lebanon?
a) Elias Murr
b) Saad Hairi c) Omar Karami d) Fouad Siniora
31. An agreement
to set up Palestine-India Techno Park at which of the following places was
signed by the two countries?
a) Bethlehem
b) Ramallah c) Hebron
d) Jericho
32. India has
decided to allow students from Nepal to compete for seats in which of the
following from 2017?
a) Indian Institutes of Information
Technology b) Indian Institutes of Technology
c) Indian Institutes of Design d) National Institute of Design
33. Who among
the following is the author of “The Keeper of Memories’ released recently?
a) Krishna Udayasankar b) Madhu
Gurung c) Ranveer Brar d) Akshay Manwani
34. What is
India’s rank on the Global Youth Development Index 2016 compiled by the
Commonwealth Secretariat?
a) 122nd b) 133rd c) 143rd d) 153rd
35. Which of the
following joint military exercises was organized by armies of India and Nepal
recently?
a) Prabha Kiran
b) Surya Kiran c) Dhruv Kiran d) Chandra Kiran
36. Which of the
following hosted the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in
November 2016?
a) Male
b) Dhaka c) Colombo
d) New Delhi
37. Who among
the following was elected by the UN General Assembly to represent India at the
International Law Commission (ILC)?
a) Vineet Khurana b) Satya Krishnan c) Yogesh Sisodia d)
Aniruddha Rajput
38. Which
country is ranked first in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Gender Gap Index
2016?
a) Singapore
b) Norway c) Iceland d) Sweden
39. Who among
the following Congress leaders is the author of ‘An Era of Darkness: The
British Empire in India’ released recently?
a) Shashi
Tharoor b) Jairam Ramesh c) Mani Shankar Aiyar d) Salman Khurshid
40. Birth
anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was observed as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas on
October 31. A souvenir on which of the following was launched by the Prime
Minister on this occasion?
a) Ek Bharat, Sabal Bharat b) Ek Bharat, Akhand Bharat c) Ek Bharat, Pratham Bharat
d) Ek
Bharat, Shresth Bharat
41. Which of the
following is the offshore security exercise conducted by the
Visakhapatnam-based Eastern Naval Command (ENC) recently?
a) Pravah
b) Prasthan c) Pratham
d) Parishram
42. The Ramnath
Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards 2016 were conferred recently. Which
newspaper group gives these annual awards?
a) The Times of India b) Hindustan Times c) Indian
Express d) Deccan Herald
43. Who among
the following was selected for the Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality
of the Year 2016 at the International Film Festival of India 2016?
a) Gulzar
b) A R Rahman c) Alka
Yagnik d) S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
44. Who among
the following is India’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO?
a) Ajit Kumar
b) Vishnu Prakash c) Vijay K.
Nambiar d) Ruchira Kamboj
45. A UNESCO
Chair for gender equality was set up at which of the following institutions in
India?
a) Jadavpur University b) Panjab University c) University of Delhi d)
Amrita University
46. NDPS Act
refers to which of the following?
a) New Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
Act. b) Narcotic Drugs and Prohibited
c) National Drugs and Prohibited Substances
Act d) Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act
47. Which of the
following states was declared India’s first Open Defecation Free (ODF) state?
a) Sikkim b) Haryana c) Himachal Pradesh d) Kerala
48. Which Indian
infrastructure company has won its case against the Maldives government at the
international arbitration tribunal for termination of the contract for
modernization and operation of Male’s Ibrahim Nasir International Airport
(INIA) in 2012?
a) L & T
b) HCC c) GVK d)
GMR
49. Who among the
following was elected the new Chairperson of GSMA which represents interests of
mobile operators worldwide?
a) Azim Premji
b) Anand Mahindra c) Mukesh
Ambani d) Sunil Bharti Mittal
50. Which of the
following selected ‘Wonder Woman’ as the Honorary Ambassador for the
Empowerment of Women and Girls?
a) EU b) UN
c) Amnesty International d)
World Bank
51. Adhish Verma
and Arunraj Rajendran have launched India’s first magazine for startups. It has
been named :
a) Starter
b) Eureka c) Pioneer d)
Cofounder
52. Daydream is
a virtual reality headset introduced by which of the following companies :
a) Apple
b) Microsoft c) Google d) Lenovo
53. Which
e-commerce company has launched ‘Simply Indian’ campaign to promote Made in
India products?
a) Flipkart
b) Snapdeal c) Infibeam d)
ShopClues
54. The birth
anniversary of …… is observed as the World Polio Day o October 24.
a) Louis Pasteur b) Karl Landsteiner c) Jonas
Salk d) Edward Jenner
55. Which was
the first UN institution to win Nobel Prize (Peace)?
a) FAO b) UNIHCR
c) UNICEF d) UNESCO
56. What was
India’s rank on the World Giving Index 2016 by London-based Charitable Aid
Foundation (CAF)?
a) 71st b) 81st c) 91st d) 101st
57. Who among
the following was removed as its Chairman by the board of Tata Sons?
a) Ronen Sen
b) Cyrus Mistry c) Ratan Tata d) Amit Chandra
58. India’s
second green airport after Kochi was inaugurated at which of the following
places by the Prime Minister?
a) Vadodara b) Jamnagar c) Bharuch
d) Rajkot
59. Which
country is ranked first among 190 economies in World Bank’s ‘Doing Business
2017’ report?
a) Norway
b) Denmark c) Singapore d)
New Zealand
60. Misuse of
debit cards was in news in past days. PCI-DSS is Payment Card Industry-Data
Security ……… framework.
a) Setup
b) Safety c) System d)
Standard
61. RBI issued
guidelines for start-ups to access external commercial borrowing (ECB) loans in
October 2016. They can borrow up to …….. per financial year.
a) $2 million
b) $ 3 million c) $ 4 million d) $5 million
62. FICN stands
for:
a) Fair Indian Currency Note b) Fake
Indian Currency Note c) Fresh
Indian Currency Note
d) Forged Indian Currency Note
63. Who among
the following was selected for the European Union’s Sakharov Prize for Human
Rights 2016?
a) Nadia Murad
b) Lamia Haji Bashar c) Raif
Badawi d) Both a and b
64. Who among
the following won the Man Booker Prize 2016 for his novel “The Sellout”?
a) David Szalay b) Paul
Beauty c) Deborah Levy d) Madeleine Thien
65. World Day
for Audiovisual Heritage is observed on which date?
a) October 24
b) October 25 c) October 26 d)
October 27
66. The United
Nations Day was observed on October 24, 2016. The UN has how many member
states?
a) 163 b)
173 c) 183 d)
193
67. Which of the
following will host the 11th Ministerial Conference of the WTO
(MC11) in December 2017?
a) Lima
b) Havana c) Caracas d)
Buenos Aires
68. What is
India’s rank among 145 countries in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Gender Gap
Index 2016?
a) 87th b) 97th c) 107th d) 117th
69. India
captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has recently become the …….. Indian to complete
9000 runs in One-day International (ODI) cricket.
a) 2nd b) 3rd c) 4th d) 5th
70. NSDL is
National …… Depository Limited.
a) Systems
b) Services c) Solutions d)
Securities
71. Which animal
was chosen as mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Russia?
a) Cat b) Wolf c) Otter
d) Seal
72. India won
the Men’s Kabaddi World Cup 2016 by beating which of the following in the final
played at Ahmedabad?
a) Iran b) Nepal c) China
d) Canada
73. Who among
the following won the Hoogeveen International Chess 2016 organised in the
Netherlands?
a) Parimarjan Negi b) Abhijeet
Gupta c) M.R. Lalith Babu d) Sandipan Chanda
74. Which of the
following states has decided to observe to observe 2017 as ‘Garib Kalyan
Varsh’?
a) Goa b) Haryana c) Himachal Pradesh d) Uttarakhand
75. Which former
India cricket Test captain was named the ‘Stroke Ambassador for India’?
a) Rahul Dravid b) Sachin Tendulkar c) Dilip Vengsarkar d)
Sunil Gavaskar
76. Which of the
following has partnered with banks to retail the Indian Gold Coin across the
country?
a) MMTC b) RINL c) Hindustan Zinc d) SAIL
77. Gambia has
announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. Consider the
following about Gambia.
I. Capital :
Banjul II. Currency: Gambian
dalasi III. President : Yahya Jammeh
Which of the
above is/are correct?
a) I only
b) I and II only c) II and III
only d) I, II & III
78. Which of the
following pairs of capitals and countries is matched correctly?
a) Minsk-Ukraine b) Vinius-Latvia c) Tallinn-Estonia d) Riga-Lithuania
79. Which of the
following is the India-Sri Lanka military exercise organized in Ambepussa in
October-November 2016?
a) Ashwa Shakti b) Mitra
Shakti c) Prabal Shakti d) Varaha Shakti
80. Who among
the following is the King of Bahrain?
a) Hassanal Bolkiah b) Qaboos bin Said al Said c) Hamad
bin Isa Al Khalifa
d) Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
81. India and
New Zealand on October 26, 2016 signed three agreements in the areas of double
taxation avoidance, food security and sports following talks between visiting
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New
Delhi. Who among the following is the Prime Minister of New Zealand?
a) Helen Clark
b) Bill English c) Don
Brash d) John Key
82. Who among
the following was appointed the Director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED)?
a) Karnal
Singh b) Gopal Bhushan c) Mukhesh Chand Joshi d) Hardeep Srivastava
83. Former judge
M. M. Kumar has been appointed the first President of NCLT. NCLT is:
a) National
Company Law Tribunal b) National Corporate Law Tribunal
c) National Competitive Law Tribunal d) National Chartered Law Tribunal
84. Who among
the following was appointed the new Vice President of the Asia-Pacific
Broadcasting Union?
a) Uma Guha
b) Supriya Sahu c) Jawhar Sircar d) Leeladhar Mandloi
85. Who among
the following is the author of ‘The Ethical Doctor’ released recently?
a) Nidhi Dalmia b) Maya Kalyanpur c) Kamal Mahawar d) Harshika Daryanani
86. Which of the
following hosted the 10th World Stroke Congress (WSC) 2016?
a) Chandigarh
b) Jaipur c) Hyderabad d) Bhopal
87. Which of the
following hosted the 19th World Congress on ‘Peace Education for
Good Governance and Non-Violence’ organized by the International Association of
Educators for World Peace (IAEWP)?
a) Tirupati
b) Amristar c) Agra d)
Nashik
88. India was
ranked 66th among 113 countries on the Rule of Law Index in October
2016. It is an initiative of which of the following?
a) Human Rights Watch b) Amnesty International c) World
Justice Project
d) Transparency International
89. The one-man
judicial committee on One Rank One Pension (OROP) has submitted its report to
the Defence Minister. The committee comprised who among the following?
a) L.
Narasimha Reddy b) Rajendra Mal Lodha c) Mukul Mudgal d) Dalveer Bhandari
90. Which of the
following is the 2540-km-long gas pipeline project for supply of eco-friendly
fuel to at least seven major cities – Varanasi, Patna, Jamshedpur, Kolkata,
Ranchi, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack?
a) Urja Betwa
b) Urja Gomti c) Urja Ganga d) Urja Yamuna
91. Which state
has the highest life expectancy ages 1, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70,
according to data disclosed by the Registar General of India (RGI)?
a) Gujarat
b) Kerala c) Goa
d) Karnataka
92. Which
paramilitary force was in news recently for deploying women personnel on border
posts along the Sino-India frontier for the first time?
a) BSF b)
CRPF c) CISF d)
ITBP
93. Home
Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stone of the building for Pt. Deen
Dayal Upadhyaya Institute of ……. In October 2016 in Greater Noida.
a) Aviation
b) Astronomy c) Archaeology d) Ayurveda
94. The Centre
approved construction of around 84,500 more affordable houses for the urban
poor in five states in October 2016 under the Pradhan Mantri Awa Yojana
(Urban). What is the per house central assistance provided under “Subsidy for
Beneficiary-led Individual House Construction or Enhancement”?
a) 50,000
b) 75,000 c) 1 lakh d)
1.5 lakh
95. A separate
Ministry of Tribal Affairs was set up during whose tenure as Prime Minister?
a) Lal Bahadur Shastri b) Vishwanath Pratap Singh c) Atal
Behari Vajpayee d) Indira Gandhi
96. Which of the
following is the welfare scheme that seeks to make tribal communities
stakeholders in the development process by involving them in conservation of
forests?
a) Eklavya Kalyan Yojana b) Vanmitra Kalyan Yojana c) Vanbandhu
Kalyan Yojana
d) Vanrakshak Kalyan Yojana
97. The Prime
Minister has urged states to quickly make the required changes in the APMC Act,
so that e-NAM (e-National Agriculture Market) could be enable across the
country. APMC is:
a) Agricultural
Produce Marketing Committee b) Agricultural Produce Marketing
Cooperative
c) Agricultural Produce Management
Committee d) Agricultural Planning
Marketing Cooperative
98. CDSL is
Central Depository ………. (India) Limited.
a) Systems
b) Services c) Solutions d)
Securities
99. The first
National Ayurveda Day was celebrated by the AYUSH Ministry on :
a) October 24
b) October 25 c) October 26 d)
October 28
100. The
Government has reconstituted the Inter State Council (ISC). Who among the
following is the Chairperson of the ISC?
a) President
b) Prime Minister c) Rajya Sabha Speaker d) Lok Sabha Speaker
ANSWERS
1.(d) 2.(d) 3.(a) 4.(a) 5.(d) 6.(d) 7.(d) 8.(a) 9.(c) 10.(c) 11.(d) 12.(a) 13.(c)
14.(b) 15.(d) 16.(c) 17.(b) 18.(d) 19.(b) 20.(d) 21.(c) 22.(b) 23.(b) 24.(d) 25.(a) 26.(d)
27.(d) 28.(b) 29.(b) 30.(b) 31.(b) 32.(b) 33.(b) 34.(b) 35.(b) 36.(d) 37.(d) 38.(c) 39.(a)
40.(d) 41.(b) 42.(c) 43.(d) 44.(d) 45.(d) 46.(d) 47.(a) 48.(d) 49.(d) 50.(b) 51.(d) 52.(c)
53.(d) 54.(c) 55.(c) 56.(c) 57.(b) 58.(a) 59.(d) 60.(d) 61.(b) 62.(b) 63.(d) 64.(b) 65.(d)
66.(d) 67.(d) 68.(a) 69.(d) 70.(d) 71.(b) 72.(a) 73.(b) 74.(b)
75.(d) 76.(a) 77.(d) 78.(c)
79.(b) 80.(c) 81.(d) 82.(a) 83.(a) 84.(b) 85.(c) 86.(c) 87.(d) 88.(c) 89.(a) 90.(c) 91.(b)
92.(d) 93.(c) 94.(d) 95.(c) 96.(c) 97.(a) 98.(b) 99.(d) 100.(b)
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