APPSC Group 2 Screening Test Question Paper & Key (Held on 26.02.2017 Sunday) - 3

61. The proposed gravitational-wave observation project in India would be run by the consortium of research institutions known under the English acronym
(1) IndiGO
(2) ILIGO
(3) IndLIGO
(4) InIGO

62. National National Research Laboratory is located is near
(1) Thiruvananthapuram
(2) Chandigarh
(3) Tirupati
(4) Bengaluru

63. The theme of the Nobel Prize winning book, "Secondhand Time" is
(1) concept of time in Science
(2) Society and Politics of Soviet Union
(3) Management of time
(4) History of different times

64. The 104th Indian Science Congress was held at
(1) Chennai
(2) Tirupati
(3) Mysore
(4) Kolkata

65. Which of the following is not counted in Human Development Index (HDI)
(1) Per capita income
(2) Number of years of schooling
(3) Ownership of basic assets
(4) Life expectancy at birth

66. T.M. Krishna was awarded Magsaysay Award, 2016 for
(1) Excellence in music
(2) Public service
(3) working for world peace
(4) Ensuring social inclusiveness in culture

67. Out of the persons mentioned below, who is one of the founders of "Safai Andolan"
(1) Kailash Satyarthi
(2) Bezwada Wilson
(3) Bindeshwar Pathak
(4) Kamla ben Gurjar

68. Dilma Rousseff was in news because
(1) She won the second term as the President of Brazil
(2) She won an international award for peace
(3) She was impeached from office by the Senate
(4) She was ousted from power in a coup

69. After Brexit referendum results, the following did not happen in UK
(1) There was a change of Prime Minister
(2) The opposition party came to power
(3) The new Prime Minister is a lady
(4) The Home Secretary became the new Conservative leader

70. The referendum in Greece in June, 2015 was to decide on whether
(1) Currency should be devalued
(2) To curtail powers of the Parliament or not
(3) To leave EU or not
(4) To accept bail out conditions by EU and IMF or not

71. After leaving India, Vijay Mallya is hiding in a / an
(1) English village
(2) French villa
(3) Cruise ship
(4) US resort

72. The prize considered equivalent to Nobel Prize for Mathematics is
(1) Fields Medal
(2) Newton Medal
(3) Ramanujan Medal
(4) Pythagoras Medal

73. Obama Care is the
(1) Law for affordable health care
(2) Law for education for everyone
(3) Law for protection against racial violence
(4) Law for care of the shelterless

74. Who is the present Secretary General of the UNO
(1) Ban Ki-Moon
(2) Kofi Annan
(3) Antonio Guterres
(4) Irina Bokova

75. who is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
(1) Christine Lagarde
(2) Joseph Stiglitz
(3) Kristalina Georgieva
(4) Jim Yong Kim

76. The present Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is
(1) P.J Kurien
(2) Arun Jaitley
(3) Hamid Ansari
(4) Selja Kumari

77. The book titled "Half Lion" is about
(1) Sitaram Kesri
(2) Rajiv Gandhi
(3) P V. Narasimha Rao
(4) Manmohan Singh

78. India's first digital village is
1) Ibrahimpur
(2) Akodara
(3) Dhasai
(4) Khan dalavadi

79. The mobile app BHIM CBharat Interface for Money is based on
(1) Central Payment Interface
(2) Local Payment Interface
(3) Unified Payment Interface
(4) World Payment Interface

80. The foundation stone for Indian Institute of Skills was laid by the Prime Minister in
(1) Allahabad
(2) Lucknow
(3) Patna
(4) Kanpur

81. Fifth India-Arab Partnership Conference was held at
(1) Dubai
(2) Muscat
(3) Qatar
(4) Riyadh

82. "UJALA" scheme launched by the Centre aims
(1) Providing electricity connection to all houses.
(2) Promoting efficient lighting by providing LED bulbs
(3) Promoting solar energy devices
(4) Providing open access for sale of power

83. Who is the Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister?
(1) S. Christopher
(2) R. Chidambaram
(3) V. K. Saraswat
(4) G. Satheesh Reddy

84. The bronze medal of Yogeshwar Dutt in wrestling in 2012, London Olympics was upgraded to silver because the following wrestler failed the dope test
(1) Togrul Asgarov
(2) Sharif Sharifov
(3) Jake Varner
(4) Besik Kuduk hov

85. Who is the new Chief of Air Force of India 
(1) Bipin Rawat
(2) B. S. Dhanoa
(3) Sunil Lamba
(4) Arup Raha

86. The 77th session of the Indian History Congress was held at
(1) Chennai
(2) Bengaluru
(3) Thiruvananthapuram
(4) New Delhi

87. For which project, did Andhra Pradesh win the Gold award in the category of "Out standing Performance in Citizen-Centric Service Delivery" in the 20th National Conference on e-Governance held in January, 2017
(1) Aadhar-enabled PDS
(2) Loan Module
(3) State Pension Portal
(4) CORE

88. Which of the following towns in Andhra Pradesh is part of HRIDAY scheme of the Ministry of Urban Development of the Government of India
(1) Tirupati
(2) Srisailam
(3) Vijayawada
(4) Amaravati

89. The Lodha Committee report on working of BCCI
(1) Proposes ban on betting
(2) Does not deal with betting
(3) Proposes legalization of betting
(4) Proposes jail sentence for betting

90. The Badminton world Federation Most Improved Player of the Year Award for 2016 was given to
(1) P.V. Sindhu
(2) Carolina Marina
(3) Sun Yu
(4) Ayaka Takahashi

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