1. Which of the following committees
is formed to suggest changes in the Cinematograph act?
(A) Shyam Benegal
Committee
(B) Nilesh Jha Committee
(C) Chand Kiran Salooja
committee
(D) Rastogi Committee
Answer: Shyam Benegal
Committee
2. Which of the following committees
has been set up to review wage structure of Gramin Dak Sevaks?
(A) N Gopalaswami
committee
(B) Deviprasad Mishra
committee
(C) Ramesh Bharadwaj
committee
(D) Kamlesh Chandra
Committee
Answer: Kamlesh Chandra
Committee
3. In which of the following cities
the world’s first slum museum will be set up?
(A) Indore
(B) Mumbai
(C) Lucknow
(D) Ahmedabad
Answer: Mumbai
4. Who has been honoured with the
second Harikrishna Devsare Baalsahitya Award 2015?
(A) Gangesh Gunjan
(B) Sheela Jhunjhunwala
(C) Balkrishna Garg
(D) Sherjung Garg
Answer: Balkrishna Garg
5. Jallikattu, a version of bull
fighting is popular in which of the following states?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Telangana
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: Tamil Nadu
6. Yadgar-e-Taqseem, or the Memories
of Partition museum will be opened in which of the following cities?
(A) Jalandhar
(B) Amritsar
(C) Gurdaspur
(D) Murshidabad
Answer: Amritsar
7. Who is heading the high-level
panel set up by the union government to sort out the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet
train issues with Japan?
(A) Nandan Nilekani
(B) Shankar Bajpai
(C) Arvind Panagariya
(D) Sam Pitroda
Answer: Arvind Panagariya
8. On which date, the World Hindi Day
is observed?
(A) January 10
(B) December 24
(C) March 11
(D) September 14
Answer: January 10
9. In which Indian state, the Nati
folk dance is celebrated?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Himachal Pradesh
(D) Karnataka
Answer: Himachal Pradesh
10. Which state has become the first
state to achieve 100 percent primary education status?
(A) Mizoram
(B) Manipur
(C) Kerala
(D) Assam
Answer: Kerala
11. Which of the following panels has
been set up to study 7th Pay Commission’s recommendations?
(A) N K Mittal panel
(B) M Raghuveer panel
(C) P K Sinha panel
(D) K Kishore panel
Answer: P K Sinha panel
12. Which state has become the
India’s first fully organic state?
(A) Tripura
(B) Sikkim
(C) Himachal Pradesh
(D) Haryana
Answer: Sikkim
13. Which of the following
organisations has published the 2016 World Development Report?
(A) UNCTAD
(B) World Bank
(C) IMF
(D) WTO
Answer: World Bank
14. Who has won the 2016 DSC Prize
for South Asian Literature?
(A) Anuradha Roy
(B) Akhil Sharma
(C) KR Meera
(D) Mirza Waheed
Answer: Anuradha Roy
15. Who has been elected from India
to the board of directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)?
(A) Rahul Mishra
(B) Dinesh Sharma
(C) VK Singh
(D) Arun Jaitley
Answer: Dinesh Sharma
16. The largest single-site solar
power project in the world will come up in which Indian state?
(A) Telangana
(B) Madhya Pradesh
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Gujarat
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
17. Burkina Faso, which is in news
for terrorists attack, is located in which part of the World?
(A) Central America
(B) Sothern Africa
(C) South America
(D) Western Africa
Answer: Western Africa
18. The Kosi basin project is coming
up in which state?
(A) Chattisgarh
(B) West Bengal
(C) Jharkhand
(D) Bihar
Answer: Bihar
19. Which of the following committees
has been set up on Yoga Education in Universities?
(A) Swami Atmapriyananda
committee
(B) Ishwar Bharadwaj
committee
(C) H.R. Nagendra
committee
(D) Suresh Lal Barnawal
committee
Answer: H.R. Nagendra
committee
20. Which of the following satellite
vehicles has successfully put the Satellite IRNSS-1E in orbit?
(A) PSLV-40
(B) GSLV III
(C) PSLV-31
(D) GSLV Mk II
Answer: PSLV-31
21. The 19th edition of National
Conference on e-Governance has started in which city?
(A) Jaipur
(B) Nagpur
(C) Bhopal
(D) New Delhi
Answer: Nagpur
22. Which of the following
organisations published the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2016
report?
(A) World Bank
(B) OECD
(C) United Nations
(D) WTO
Answer: United Nations
23. The first Ministerial Meeting of
the Arab-India Cooperation Forum took place in which country?
(A) Kuwait
(B) Bahrain
(C) Oman
(D) Yemen
Answer: Bahrain
24. On which date, the National
Voters’ Day is celebrated in India?
(A) January 21
(B) January 25
(C) February 10
(D) February 17
Answer: January 25
25. The headquarters of the
International Solar Alliance (ISA) will come up in which city?
(A) Chandigarh
(B) Gurgaon
(C) Mysuru
(D) Surat
Answer: Gurgaon
26. Marvin Minsky, who passed away
recently, was related to which fields?
(A) Film director
(B) Journalist
(C) Fiction writer
(D) Computer scientist
Answer: Computer scientist
27. Which of the following cities has
topped the list of the first 20 cities to be developed as Smart Cities?
(A) Pune
(B) Jaipur
(C) Surat
(D) Bhubaneswar
Answer: Bhubaneswar
28. Who of the following is the
author of the book titled ‘Jinnah Often Came to our House’?
(A) Jaswant Singh
(B) Kiran Doshi
(C) Nisid Hajari
(D) Jairam Ramesh
Answer: Kiran Doshi
29. Who has won the 2015 Lorenzo
Natali Media Prize in Asia and the Pacific amateur category?
(A) Maria Jones
(B) Ankita Anand
(C) Nikhil Jain
(D) Raj Shrivastav
Answer: Ankita Anand
30. The 2016 Sahayog-Kaijin military
exercise has been conducted between India and which country?
(A) Japan
(B) South Korea
(C) China
(D) Russia
Answer: Japan
31. Which of the following
organisations has won the National Award on e-Governance 2015-16 for launching
the Universal Account Number (UAN)?
(A) Exim Bank
(B) SIDBI
(C) Employees’ Provident
Fund Organisation
(D) NABARD
Answer: Employees’
Provident Fund Organisation
32. Operation Cold, is launched by
which of the following police forces?
(A) Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF)
(B) Indo-Tibetan Border
Police (ITBP)
(C) Border Security Force
(BSF)
(D) Sashastra Seema Bal
(SSB)
Answer: Border Security
Force (BSF)
33. The Flamingo Festival-2016 is
organised in which state?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Odisha
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Kerala
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
34. Which one of the following stock
exchanges will get its own postage stamp?
(A) Bombay Stock Exchange
(BSE)
(B) National Stock
Exchange of India Ltd
(C) MCX Stock Exchange
(D) Bangalore Stock
Exchange
Answer: Bombay Stock
Exchange (BSE)
35. Project Tango is associated with
which of the following companies?
(A) Microsoft
(B) Google
(C) Facebook
(D) Twitter
Answer: Google
36. Which of the following is the
first state in the country to make gender education compulsory at graduation
level?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Telangana
(D) Odisha
Answer: Telangana
37. Which of the following is the
India’s indigenously-built anti-submarine warfare corvette?
(A) INS Aravalli
(B) INS Kadmatt
(C) INS Savitri
(D) INS Subhadra
Answer: INS Kadmatt
38. Shakti 2016, is the joint
military exercise of India with which country?
(A) Japan
(B) France
(C) Russia
(D) USA
Answer: France
39. For what purpose, the Stand Up
India Scheme has been launched?
(A) To promote
entrepreneurship among SC/ST
(B) To promote
entrepreneurship among rural youth
(C) To promote
entrepreneurship among Woman
(D) To promote
entrepreneurship among SC/ST and Women
Answer: to promote
entrepreneurship among SC/ST and Women
40. Which of the following
organisations publishes the report titled “Global Economic Perspectives”?
(A) OECD
(B) WTO
(C) IMF
(D) World Bank
Answer: World Bank
41. The NABARD has signed a
Memorandum of Understanding with which of the following organisations for
web-based monitoring of watershed projects?
(A) National Remote
Sensing Center (NRSC)
(B) Geological Survey of
India (GSI)
(C) ISRO
(D) DRDO
Answer: National Remote
Sensing Center (NRSC)
42. Which of the following countries
is the guest of honour country at the 2016 New Delhi World Book Fair?
(A) France
(B) Australia
(C) China
(D) Germany
Answer: China
43. Who has been conferred with the
2016 Global and Asia-Pacific Central Bank Governor of the Year?
(A) Janet Yellen
(B) Mark Carney
(C) Raghuram Rajan
(D) Haruhiko Kuroda
Answer: Raghuram Rajan
44. Which of the following Indian
cities have made it to a top 30 list of the world’s most powerful, productive
and connected cities?
(A) Kolkata and Mumbai
(B) Bengaluru and Mumbai
(C) Delhi and Mumbai
(D) Delhi and Bengaluru
Answer: Delhi and Mumbai
45. Who of the following has become
the first batsman to score more than a 1,000 runs in an innings in any form of
cricket?
(A) Ravindra Wade
(B) Pranav Dhanawade
(C) Prithvi Shaw
(D) Mobin Sheikh
Answer: Pranav Dhanawade
46. Which of the following committees
has submitted report to Supreme Court for reforms in BCCI?
(A) H L Dattu committee
(B) R M Lodha committee
(C) P Sathasivam
committee
(D) Chandra committee
Answer: R M Lodha
committee
47. Which of the following states
became the first state in the country to sign MoU for UDAY scheme?
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Gujarat
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Jharkhand
Answer: Jharkhand
48. Which of the following countries
has won the SAFF Suzuki Cup 2015?
(A) Afghanistan
(B) India
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) Bangladesh
Answer: India
49. Which of the following states
became the first state in the country to accept electronic motor insurance
policies?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) West Bengal
(C) Gujarat
(D) Telangana
Answer: Telangana
50. Who of the following has been
conferred with 2015 Sangita Kalanidhi award?
(A) Sudha Ragunathan
(B) Trichur Ramachandran
(C) Sanjay Subrahmanyam
(D) T V Gopalakrishnan
Answer: Sanjay
Subrahmanyam
51. Which of the following cities is
the host for the 103rd Indian Science Congress (ISC)?
(A) Vishakhapatnam
(B) Allahabad
(C) Mysuru
(D) Ahmedabad
Answer: Mysuru
52. On which date, the World Braille
Day is observed?
(A) January 4
(B) December 30
(C) November 9
(D) April 11
Answer: January 4
53. Who of the following has been
appointed as new chief of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)?
(A) Helle Thorning
(B) Jeffry Sachs
(C) Filippo Grandi
(D) Achim Steiner
Answer: Filippo Grandi
54. In which of the following states
the Ganga Gram Yojana has been launched?
(A) Uttarakhand
(B) Bihar
(C) West Bengal
(D) Uttar Pradesh
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
55. In which of the following states
minimum educational qualification is required for candidates contesting local
panchayat polls?
(A) Bihar and Haryana
(B) Rajasthan and Haryana
(C) Rajasthan and Bihar
(D) Bihar and Gujarat
Answer: Rajasthan and
Haryana
56. Who has been appointed as
Registrar General and Census Commissioner?
(A) Pavan Kumar
(B) Nitin Choube
(C) Abhijeet Gupta
(D) Sailesh
Answer: Sailesh
57. The Kohala Hydropower Project
will be developed in which of the following countries?
(A) Pakistan
(B) India
(C) Bangladesh
(D) Afghanistan
Answer: Pakistan
58. The IFSC Banking Units are
allowed to open which of the following types of bank accounts?
(A) Savings accounts
(B) Current accounts
(C) Foreign currency
current accounts
(D) All the above
Answer: Foreign currency
current accounts
59. Which of the following states is
the host for the National Youth Festival 2016?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Bihar
(C) Chhattisgarh
(D) Assam
Answer: Chhattisgarh
60. Who has received the World Peace
and Prosperity Foundation Award for the year 2016?
(A) Mamata Banerjee
(B) Devendra Fadnavis
(C) Mohammed Mahmood Ali
(D) N N Vohra
Answer: Mohammed Mahmood
Ali
61. Which of the following countries
rated number one in A T Kearney’s 2016 Global Services Location Index (GSLI)?
(A) China
(B) India
(C) Brazil
(D) Japan
Answer: India
62. Which bank has launched India’s
first start-up focussed bank branch?
(A) Punjab National Bank
(B) Canara Bank
(C) State Bank of India
(D) Bank of Baroda
Answer: State Bank of
India
63. Which of the following
organisations is providing loan for implementation of Neeranchal National
Watershed Project?
(A) World Bank
(B) Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank
(C) BRICS Bank
(D) Asian Development
Bank
Answer: World Bank
64. The NITI Aayog has collaborated
with which organisation for conducting a survey of manufacturing firms?
(A) State Bank of India
(B) Punjab National Bank
(C) IDFC Bank
(D) ICICI bank
Answer: IDFC Bank
65. The Global Risks Report 2016 is
published by which one of the following organisations?
(A) UNCTAD
(B) IMF
(C) World Economic Forum
(WEF)
(D) World Bank
Answer: World Economic
Forum (WEF)
66. The Machia Biological Park is
located in which state?
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Sikkim
(C) Nagaland
(D) Manipur
Answer: Rajasthan
67. Which of the following countries
will host Exercise Force Eighteen?
(A) Indonesia
(B) China
(C) India
(D) France
Answer: India
68. The 2016 World Economic Forum
(WEF) annual conference has been started in which city?
(A) Berlin
(B) New York
(C) Davos
(D) Paris
Answer: Davos
69. Which state has granted 180 days
of maternity leave for women government employees in surrogacy cases?
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Gujarat
(D) Tamil Nadu
Answer: Maharashtra
70. Which company has launched
India’s first social mobile wallet ‘Udio’?
(A) Oxigen
(B) Twitter
(C) TranServ
(D) Facebook
Answer: TranServ
71. Giriputrika Kalyana Pathakam
Scheme is launched by which state?
(A) Telangana
(B) Karnataka
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Odisha
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
72. The headquarters of the
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) are located
at which city?
(A) Paris
(B) New York
(C) Geneva
(D) London
Answer: Geneva
73. The Feni is a popular drink of
which state?
(A) Mizoram
(B) Goa
(C) Odisha
(D) West Bengal
Answer: Goa
74. On which date, the National Girl
Child Day is celebrated in India?
(A) April 21
(B) January 24
(C) March 23
(D) February 11
Answer: January 24
75. Who has been honoured with the
2016 National Yash Chopra Memorial Award?
(A) Amitabh Bachchan
(B) Simi Garewal
(C) Lata Mangeshkar
(D) Rekha
Answer: Rekha
76. Which of the following countries
soldiers created history by participating in the Republic Day parade?
(A) Australia
(B) South Korea
(C) Japan
(D) France
Answer: France
77. Who has joined a task force of
the World Economic Forum (WEF) to study the future of global financial system?
(A) Bibek Debroy
(B) Arvind Subramanian
(C) Raghuram Rajan
(D) Duvvuri Subbarao
Answer: Raghuram Rajan
78. Which of the following states has
been celebrating the Red Panda Winter Festival 2016?
(A) Nagaland
(B) Meghalaya
(C) Sikkim
(D) Assam
Answer: Sikkim
79. What is the position of India in
the Corruption Perceptions Index 2015?
(A) 55th
(B) 76th
(C) 87th
(D) 95th
Answer: 76th
80. What is the name of the 24 hour classical
music audio channel launched by the All India Radio (AIR)?
(A) Classic Country
(B) Raagam
(C) Ganam
(D) Classic Tunes
Answer: Raagam
81. Which of the following cities is
hosting the ‘Bharat Parv’ festival?
(A) Mumbai
(B) New Delhi
(C) Chennai
(D) Kolkata
Answer: New Delhi
82. Justice Sanjay Mishra is
appointed as the Lokayukta of which state?
(A) Tripura
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Haryana
(D) Nagaland
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
83. Who is heading the one-man
judicial commission to investigate Rohith Vemula suicide case?
(A) V Eswaraiah
(B) V V Subba Rao
(C) Ashok Kumar Roopanwal
(D) Sengupta
Answer: Ashok Kumar
Roopanwal
84. Which of the following space
agencies has suspended the 2016 InSight Mars mission?
(A) Roscosmos
(B) NASA
(C) CNSA
(D) JAXA
Answer: NASA
85. Which of the following state
celebrate the Raja Rani Music Festival?
(A) Mizoram
(B) Nagaland
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Odisha
Answer: Odisha
86. Which of the following
organisations has launched Jeevan Labh scheme?
(A) New India Insurance
Ltd
(B) National Insurance
Company Ltd
(C) State Bank of India
(D) Life Insurance
Corporation of India
Answer: Life Insurance
Corporation of India
87. The India International Kite
Festival is celebrated in which Indian state every year?
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Gujarat
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Karnataka
Answer: Gujarat
88. On which date, the Indian Army
Day is celebrated?
(A) January 15
(B) January 21
(C) February 11
(D) March 19
Answer: January 15
89. Who has been honoured with Neerja
Bhanot Bravery award?
(A) Arunima
(B) Harinie Jeevitha
(C) Subhashini Vasanth
(D) Saroja Rathod
Answer: Subhashini
Vasanth
90. Mabh Bihu festival is celebrated
in which of the following states?
(A) Manipur
(B) Assam
(C) Kerala
(D) Gujarat
Answer: Assam
91. The theater festival ‘Nandi
Natakotsavam’ is celebrated in which state?
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Andhra Pradesh
(C) Karnataka
(D) Tamil Nadu
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
92. What is India’s rank in the
Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2015-16?
(A) 89
(B) 93
(C) 102
(D) 115
Answer: 89
93. Who has been appointed as the new
executive director of Green peace India?
(A) Ashok Sagar
(B) Divya Raghunandan
(C) Samit Aich
(D) Ravi Chellam
Answer: Ravi Chellam
94. Which of the following countries
has won the first Blind T20 Asia Cricket Cup?
(A) Bangladesh
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) India
(D) Pakistan
Answer: India
95. Which is the focal theme country
for the 2016 International Kolkata book fair?
(A) France
(B) Russia
(C) Afghanistan
(D) Bolivia
Answer: Bolivia
96. Which of the following states has
launched Mukhyamantri Jal Swavalamban Abhiyan scheme?
(A) Madhya Pradesh
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Chattisgarh
(D) Odisha
Answer: Rajasthan
97. Who has become the India’s first
civil servant to successfully scale Mount Vinson Massif?
(A) Pankaj Chauhan
(B) Aniket Darra
(C) Aparna Kumar
(D) Sudha Gupta
Answer: Aparna Kumar
98. Who has won the 2016 William E.
Colby Award for best military book?
(A) Logan Beirne
(B) Nisid Hajari
(C) Douglas V. Mastriano
(D) Thomas P. McKenna
Answer: Nisid Hajari
99. The 21st INCOFYRA (International
Conference on Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications) is hosted by
which of the following cities?
(A) Bengaluru
(B) Surat
(C) Varanasi
(D) Dehradun
Answer: Bengaluru
100. Which of the following companies
publishes Purchasing Managers’ Index?
(A) National Stock
Exchange of India Limited
(B) BSE Institute Limited
(C) Markit
(D) HSBC Analytics
Answer: Markit
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