1). India signed six Agreements with which country including in the fields of tourism, agriculture and food industry?
a) Tajikistan
b) Kyrgyzstan
c) Singapore
d) Nepal
e) Bangladesh
2). The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), lowers interest rate on EPF to ______ percent for FY17.
a) 8.8%
b) 8.7%
c) 8.6%
d) 8.65%
e) 8.5%
3). Who among the following wins record 3rd BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
a) Rodger Federer
b) Andy Murray
c) MS Dhoni
d) Lionel Messi
e) Nico Rosberg
4). Which bank has bagged the SKOCH silver award for attaining the position of number1 channel partner of LIC of India?
a) Dena Bank
b) Vijaya Bank
c) Corporation Bank
d) Punjab and Sindh Bank
e) Oriental Bank of Commerce
5). Which among the following teams won the Hero Indian Super League 2016?
a) Kerala Blasters
b) Atletico de Kolkata
c) Chennaiyin FC
d) Pune City
e) Mumbai City
6). Union Health Minister JP Nadda laid the foundation of super specialty health centre at Moti Lal Nehru Medical college in Allahabad. The new super specialty block will be built under the _____scheme.
a) Rashtiya Swasthiya Bima Yojana
b) Pradhanmantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
c) Aam Admi Bhima Yojana
d) Vidyanjali Yojana
e) None of these
7). Name the Minister who released the first issue of a National Newspaper dedicated to Senior Citizen, ‘Saanjhi Saanjh’.
a) Jagat Prakash Nadda
b) Ram Vilas Paswan
c) Thaawarchand Gehlot
d) Ashok Gajapathi Raju
e) Prakash Javadekar
8). In Assam, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, BSNL will soon launch a mobile app with which among the following banks to facilitate cashless transaction.
a) Corporation Bank
b) Indian Bank
c) State Bank of India
d) Central Bank of India
e) None of these
9). India has been ranked 4th in the Global Wind Power Installed Capacity index. Which among the following countries tops the Index?
a) China
b) USA
c) Germany
d) Australia
e) Russia
10). India ranks ______ in Global Economic Growth Index.
a) 3rd
b) 4th
c) 5th
d) 6th
e) 7th
13). Who among the following appointed as the CEO of Noida Authority?
a) Deepak Agarwal
b) Satish Agarwal
c) Mahesh Agarwal
d) Dinesh Agarwal
e) Praneeth Agarwal
14). Which union ministry has won gold medal in the Web Ratna category of 2016 Digital India Awards?
a) Ministry of Rural Development
b) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
c) Ministry of Human Resource Development
d) Ministry of Tourism
e) None of these
15). Which among the following countries scientists have developed a vaccine for chikungunya fever made from an insect-specific virus?
a) China
b) India
c) Russia
d) Australia
e) USA
16). Famous Renowned actor K. N. Jagannatha Varma passed away recently. He belongs to which film industry?
a) Telugu
b) Malayalam
c) Tamil
d) Kannada
e) Gujarati
17). Which state govt. has issued “petro cards” to drivers working with the state government for cashless payments of fuel?
a) Bihar
b) Haryana
c) Uttarakhand
d) Assam
e) Andhra Pradesh
18). National Mathematics Day in India is celebrated on December 22. It commemorates the birth anniversary of
a) Aryabhata
b) Bhramagupta
c) C R Rao
d) Bhaskara II
e) Srinivasa Ramanujan
19). GoodGovernance Day will be observed on ____, the birthday of Former Prime Minister AtalBihari Vajpayee.
a) December 24th
b) December 25th
c) December 22nd
d) December 26th
e) December 21st
20). Creating history, Aizawl became the first free Wi-Fi city in the North-East region recently. Aizwal city is in which among the following states?
a) Manipur
b) Meghalaya
c) Mizoram
d) Madhya Pradesh
e) Maharashtra
21). Which among the following state government has announced Aerospace and Defence Policy-2016 to attract investment into fields of aerospace and defence design, development and manufacturing in the state?
a) Gujarat
b) Haryana
c) Himachal Pradesh
d) Delhi
e) Punjab
22). Which among the following countries has banned internet users from posting user-generated audio or video, reportedly one of few sources of information outside state-controlled media?
a) India
b) Bangladesh
c) China
d) Sri Lanka
e) Pakistan
23). Praful Patel was re-elected unopposed as the president of which among the following associations for a four-year term.
a) Indian Olympic Association
b) All India Football Federation
c) All India Badminton Federation
d) All India Wrestling Federation
e) All India Hockey Federation
24). In Tamil Nadu, senior IAS Officer GirijaVaidyanathan has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary. She replaces _____.
a) P. Rama Mohan Rao
b) P Sham Mohan Rao
c) P. Vijay Mohan Rao
d) P. Surya Mohan Rao
e) None of these
25). Who has become the first Indian to be appointed as the global ambassador of the hair care brand ‘Pantene’?
a) DeepikaPadukone
b) Sunny Leone
c) Priyanka Chopra
d) AnushkaShetty
e) Anushka Sharma
26). Name the persons who have been jointly won the 2016 SASTRA-Ramanujan award for
mathematics.
a) KaisaMatomaki and MaksymRadziwill
b) Antonio Garvy and MillindaMicholi
c) KrotiyaKillisa and Meholin Mustafa
d) MadrinaMillan and Kwitova Jokey
e) None of these
27). Who among the following has been named as the ICC Cricketer of the Year and the ICC Test cricketer of the Year at ICC awards in Dubai?
a) MS Dhoni
b) RavichandranAshwin
c) RavindraJadeja
d) ViratKohli
e) Quenton De Kock
28). Name the Indian movies which make it to Oscars long list?
a) MS Dhoni: The Untold Story
b) Sarbjit
c) Sultan
d) Both A and C
e) Both A and B
29). SahityaAkademi announced the SahityaAkademi Awards in how many languages for
the year 2016?
a) 21 languages
b) 22 languages
c) 23 languages
d) 24 languages
e) 25 languages
30). What amount fine on aircrafts that empty human waste in air by the National Green Tribunal?
a) Rs 10000
b) Rs 70000
c) Rs 50000
d) Rs 30000
e) Rs 55000
31). Government of India has sanctioned ___ additional troops to CISF in order to bolster security at critical infrastructures like airports and metros.
a) 35000
b) 36000
c) 36500
d) 37000
e) 37500
32). Name the minister who launched the ‘Google Toilet Locator’ mobile application as part of the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ to help people locate the nearest toilet.
a) Narendra Modi
b) Venkiah Naidu
c) Arun Jaitely
d) Sushma Swaraj
e) Prakash Javadekar
33). German-based Deutsche Bank has agreed to _____ billion settlement with the US Department of Justice for mis-selling mortgage-backed securities.
a) Rs.52 crore
b) Rs.51 crore
c) Rs.50 crore
d) Rs.49 crore
e) Rs.48 crore
34). The world’s first solar road made with 30,000 square feet of solar panels has been opened in which among the following countries?
a) Germany
b) France
c) Russia
d) USA
e) China
35). Shiva Keshavan is related to which of the following sports?
a) Volley Ball
b) Luge
c) Badminton
d) Table Tennis
e) Hockey
36). In the recently announced squad for 2017 Davis Cup Indian Team is led by whom among the following persons?
a) Anand Amritraj
b) Adil Kalyanpur
c) Nitin Kumar Sinha
d) Mahesh Bhupathi
e) None of these
37). Which among the following countries government has banned the use of Indiaโs new notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 2,000, terming them โunauthorised and illegalโ?
a) Bangladesh
b) Pakistan
c) Sri Lanka
d) Nepal
e) Bhutan
38). Which country recently won the Asian Cricket Council Under-19 Asia Cup title?
a) India
b) Sri Lanka
c) West Indies
d) Bangladesh
e) Australia
39). Pankaj Advanin is related to which among the following sports/games?
a) Snooker
b) Badminton
c) Archery
d) Chess
e) Table Tennis
40). Name the Veteran Kannada actor who passes away recently?
a) Chetan Ramarao
b) Malesh Gauda
c) Subramanya Sharma
d) Anand Kumar Gauda
e) None of these
41). India’s first cashless vegetable market is introduced in
a) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
b) Dharmasala, Himachal Pradesh
c) Hyderabad, Telangana
d) Mumbai, Maharashtra
e) Jalandhar, Punjab
42). The Assam government has decided to cover all the people belonging to the tea tribe communities under a government-sponsored insurance scheme worth ____ lakh rupees per person.
a) 0.5 lakh
b) 1 lakh
c) 1.5 lakh
d) 1.75 lakh
e) 2 lakh
43). Which country scientists developed 1st functional pacemaker cells made from human stem cells?
a) China
b) Russia
c) Canada
d) India
e) USA
44). Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of APIS India
a) Saina Nehwal
b) Virat Kohli
c) Mary Kom
d) PV Sindhu
e) None of these
45). Which state has launched โBiju Sishu Surakshya Yojanaโ for care and protection of HIV positive orphan children in the state.
a) Bihar
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Odisha
d) Karnataka
e) Andhra Pradesh
46). The Union Water Resources Ministry has reconstituted a committee that was tasked with
assisting the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB). Who is the head of committee?
a) R.P. Pandey
b) Gopala Krishnan
c) Pradeep Kumar Shukla
d) A.K. Bajaj
e) None of these
47). Name the application ,that has launched by the Ministry of Coal for facilitate flexibility in utilization of domestic coal
a) Coal Sewa
b) GARV-II
c) E-government
d) Coal Mitra
e) None of these
48). Which of the following dairy cooperative is planning to invest Rs 200 Cr in a Centralised Milk Processing Plant in West Bengal
a) Kwality Limited
b) AAVIN
c) Mother Dairy
d) Amul
e) None of these
49). Pratikar-I, the first-ever joint military exercise will be held between Nepal and which of the following countries?
a) India
b) Japan
c) United States
d) China
e) Sri Lanka
50). Nation observed Good Governance Day (GGD) on which day in India?
a) December 23rd
b) December 24th
c) December 25th
d) December 26th
e) December 27th
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