1 Who was declared as the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy?
1) Yoshinori Ohsumi
2) William C. Campbell
3) Satoshi Omura
4) Tu Youyou
5) None of these
2. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states which are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. The NAM was founded in Belgrade in…
1) 1951
2) 1961
3) 1971
4) 1981
5) None
3. Which city hosted the 17th NAM summit (13-18 September, 2016)?
1) Porlamar, Venezuela
2) Shima, Japan
3) Hangzhou, China
4) Tashkent, Uzbekistan
5) Panaji, India
4. Who will be the chief guest for the 2017 Republic Day of India?
1) Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
2) Francois Hollande 3) Barack Obama
4) Shinzo Abe
5) Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
5. The World Vegetarian Day (WVD) is observed on which date?
1) May 1
2) July 1
3) October 1
4) December 1
5) None of these
6. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics?
1) David James Thouless
2) Duncan Haldane
3) John M. Kosterlitz
4) All of the above
5) None of these
7. Who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
1) Jean-Pierre Sauvage
2) Fraser Stoddart
3) Ben Feringa
4) All of the above
5) None of these
8. Find the correct statement about Nobel Prizes?
A. The Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.
B. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established by Sweden’s central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.
C. First woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded
two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911.
D.Ragnar Frisch (Norway Economist) and Jan Tinbergen (Dutch Economist) were first recipients of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.
1) only A & B
2) only B & C
3) only C & D
4) All A, B, C & D
5) None of these
9. The world’s oldest central bank?
1) Bank of England
2) Federal Reserve System
3) Sveriges Riksbank
4) People’s Bank of China
5) Reserve Bank of India
10. Which country uses Bolivar as its currency?
1) Kenya
2) Thailand
3) Malaysia
4) Venezuela
5) Turkey
11. The largest city in South Africa?
1) Johannesburg
2) Pretoria
3) Cape Town
4) Bloemfontein
5) None
12. Find the correct statement?
A. 7th BRICS summit (8-9 July 2015) was held in Ufa, Russia.
B. 8th BRICS summit (15-16 October 2016) will be held in Panaji, Goa, India.
C. 15th SCO summit (9-10 July 2015) was held in Ufa, Russia.
D. 16th SCO summit (23-24 June 2016) was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
1) only A & B
2) only B & C
3) only C & D
4) All A, B, C & D
5) None
13. Name the legislature (Parliament) of Bangladesh?
1) Jatiyo Sangsad
2) Majlis-e-Shoora
3) Knesset
4) National People’s Congress
5) Majlis
14. Who among the following is NOT a Prime Minister of a country?
1) Li Keqiang
2) Pushpa Kamal Dahal
3) Tshering Tobgay
4) Ranil Wickremesinghe
5) Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
15. Who among the following is NOT a President of a country?
1) Ashraf Ghani
2) Joko Widodo
3) Hassan Rouhani
4) Muhammadu Buhari
5) Sheikh Hasina
16. Which of the following is NOT a Capital city of a country?
1) Abu Dhabi
2) Doha
3) Riyadh
4) Muscat
5) Dubai
17. Which of the following is NOT a Currency of a country?
1) Ringgit
2) Ngultrum
3) New Shekel
4) Male
5) Kyat
18. Which of the following is NOT a Legislature of a country?
1) Diet
2) Congress
3) Reykjavík
4) Storting
5) Riksdag
19. Find the correct statement?
A. G7 summit (26-27 May) 2016 was held in Shima, Japan.
B. G7 summit (26-27 May) 2017 will be held in Taormina, Italy.
C. G20 summit (4-5 September) 2016 was held in Hangzhou, China.
D. G20 summit (7-8 July) 2017 will be held in Hamburg, Germany.
1) only A & B 2) only B & C
3) only C & D
4) All A, B, C & D
5) None
20. Who is the recipient of 2016 Nobel Peace Prize?
1) European Union
2) Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
3) Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
4) Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
5) Juan Manuel Santos
21. Who will be the new Secretary General of the United Nations?
1) Ban Ki-moon
2) Antonio Guterres
3) Jim Yong Kim
4) Roberto Azevedo
5) Takehiko Nakao
22. Match the following?
Book Author
A. Anything But (i) Pranab Mukherjee Khamosh
B. The Turbulent (ii) ShatrughanSinhaYears 1980-1996
C. The Z Factor (iii) Dr. K.P.Mathur
D. Who moved my (iv) Subhash Chandra Interest Rate?
E. The Unseen (v) D.Subbarao Indira Gandhi
A B C D E
1) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)
2) (ii) (i) (iv) (v) (iii)
3) (v) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
4) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (v)
5) (iii) (v) (i) (iii) (iv)
23. Which of the following book was awarded the 2015 Man Booker Prize?
1) A Brief History of Seven Killings
2) The Narrow Road to the Deep North
3) The Luminaries 4) Bring Up the Bodies
5) The Sense of an Ending
24. Which of the following organization releases Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)?
1) United Nations Development Programme
2) International Monetary Fund
3) World Economic Forum
4) Institute for Economics and Peace
5) None of these
25. Ecologist and conservation activist Bib huti Lahkar has won prestigious ‘Herita ge Heroes Award’ of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He belongs to…
1) Bihar
2) Assam
3) Odisha
4) Manipur
5) None of these
26. Maharashtra Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao has been given the additional charge of which state by President Pranab Mukherjee?
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Karnataka
3) Tamil Nadu
4) Telangana
5) None of these
27. India’s GDP growth rate for first quarter of current fiscal?
1) 7.1%
2) 7.3%
3) 7.6%
4) 6.2%
5) None of these
28. Who is Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw?
1) Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited
2) Chairman and Managing Director of Infosys Limited
3) Chairman and Managing Director of Wipro Limited
4) Chairman and Managing Director of Dr. Reddy’s Labs
5) None of these
29. Government today declared September 25 as ‘Antyodaya Diwas’ in memory of…..
1) Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
2) Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan
3) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
4) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
5) None of these
30. Which of the following terms is not used in Economics?
1) Balance of Trade
2) Break Even
3) Fiscal Deficit
4) Capital Account
5) Kyoto Protocol
31. NABARD is?
1) A nationalized bank
2) A government commercial bank
3) A subsidiary of SBI
4) An apex bank for agriculture
5) A private bank
32. The national income of a country divided by the total population is called?
1) Purchasing power
2) Per capita income
3) Exchange value
4) Rate of inflation
5) None of these
33. Decibel unit is used to measure?
1) Intensity of heat
2) Intensity of sound
3) Speed of light
4) Radioactive frequency
5) None of these
34. Identify the mismatched pair?
1) Anemometer– -Wind velocity
2) Seismograph– -Earthquakes
3) Hygrometer– -Humidity
4) Thermometer– -Temperature
5) Barograph– -Salinity
35) Match the following?
Book Author
A. Six Machine (i) Hamid Ansari
B. Citizen and Society (ii) Chris Gayle
C. One Indian Girl (iii) Margaret Alva
D. Courage and (iv) Chetan Bhagat Commitment
E. Harry Potter : (v) JK Rowlings The Cursed Child
A B C D E
1) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)
2) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii) (v)
3) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv) (v)
4) (v) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
5) (iv) (iii) (v) (i) (ii)
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