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Q1. Recently, The _______ government

has relaxed the restrictions on visit of
foreign tourists to tribal areas in the
state allowing them to again trek and
learn the lifestyle of primitive tribes
living in the hilly terrain and lush
green forest areas:
a) Odisha
b) Tripura
c) Mizoram
d) Nagaland
e) None of The Above

Q5. Recently, Vice President Hamid
Ansari concluded his two - nation tour
to Thailand and ______:
a) Malaysia
b) Brunei
c) Indonesia
d) Taiwan
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Q2. Who has been named in ICC's

newly appointed Anti - Corruption
Oversight Group as part of the
recommendation from its Integrity
Working Party of the parent body,
recently?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Kapil Dev
c) Rahul Dravid
d) Sourav Ganguly
Q3. India is second country outside
the European region to be an
Associate Member State of EMBO
(European
Molecular
Biology
Conference). Which one is the first?
a) China
b) Thailand
c) Burma
d) Singapore
Q4. Recently, 12th South Asian Games
inaugurated in:
a) Guwahati, Assam
b) Ludhiana, Punjab
c) Mumbai, Maharashtra
d) Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Q6. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on

5 February 2016 dedicated the
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer
Limited (BCPL) at _____Assam to the
nation:
a) Makum
b) Hojai
c) Lapetkata
d) Bijni
Q7. The author of book namely "My
Truth" is:
a) Indira Gandhi
b) Narendra Modi
c) Mahatama Gandhi
d) Jawahar Lal Nehru
Q8. "My Master" is book written by:
a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati Ji
b) Swami Vivekanand Ji
c) Rabindra Nath Tagore
d) Mahatama Gandhi
Q9. "World's Best Boyfriend" book is
written by:
a) Durjoy Dutta
b) Chetan Bhagat
c) Sudeep Nagarkar
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d) Raj Kamal Jha

Q10. Capital
of
"Croatia"
a) Malabo
b) Prague
c) Zabreb
d) Stanley
is:
Q14. Who has been selected for the

prestigious 'Bharat Ratna Pandit
Bhimsen Joshi Classical Music Award
for 2015 - 2016?
a) Abdul Karim Khan
b) Gafffar Abdullah Ataulah Khan
c) Pandit Ram Narayan
d) Arjun Pandit Shankar
Q11. Recently, DJ Pandian has been

appointed as vice - president and chief
investment officer of the newly
created
Asian
Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB). He was
former Chief Secretary of:
a) Haryana
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Gujarat
d) Tamil Nadu
Q12. Recently, CSIR launched the
country's anti - diabetic ayurvedic
drug for type two Diabetes mellitus.
CSIR stands for:
a) Committee for Scientific and
Industrial Research
b) Council for Science Research in
India
c) Committee for Scientific Industrial
Research
d) Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research
Q13. World Cancer Day observed on:
a) 1st February
b) 3rd February
c) 4th February
d) 9th February
Q15. Pandit Ram Narayan is a:

a) Sarangi Maestro
b) Tabla Maestro
c) Flutist
d) Xylophone
Q16. Who became the first woman to
took over charge as the head of Indian
Cost Accounts Service (ICOAS)?
a) Aditi Singhal
b) Aruna Sethi
c) Archana Sharma
d) Deepika Chaudhary
Q17. "Phum Shang" won the coveted
Golden Conch Award for the best
documentary at the 14th Mumbai
International Film Festival (MIFF). It is
_______documentary film:
a) Himachali
b) Manipuri
c) Bengali
d) Kannada
Q18. Capital of 'Cuba' is:
a) Nicosia
b) Prague
c) Havana
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d) Roseau
Q19. "Budapest" is the Capital of:
a) Israel
b) Portugal
c) Hungary
d) Mali
maintain the ceasefire between Israeli

and Syrian forces?
a) Suresh Mehta
b) Dalbir Singh Suhaag
c) Jai Shanker Menon
d) Captain Amrinder Singh
Q20. The author of the book "Jyoti

Punj" is:
a) Khushwant Singh
b) L. K. Advani
c) Narendra Modi
d) Abul Pakeer Janulaabdeen Abdul
Kalaam
Q21. Recently, S.S. Tarapore passed
away. He was:
a) Former Deputy Governor of Reserve
Bank of India
b) A noted economist
c) A Professor
d) Both (a) and (b)
e) All of The Above
f) None of The Above
Q22. _____became first Indian film to
win Best First Foreign Film award by
FSCC:
a) Vividha
b) Masaan
c) Titli
d) Kala Paani
Q23. Recently, who has been
appointed as the head of a key United
Nations force stationed in Golan to
Q24. Which among the following

companies is rated as World's Most
Powerful Brand in IT services,
recently?
a) Infosys
b) TCS
c) Wipro
d) Mindtree
Q25. Recently, ZTE has inked a pact
with the Andhra Pradesh Government
to work on smart city projects in the
state. ZTE is a:
a) Japanese Technology Company
b) Chinese Technology Company
c) Russian Technology Company
d) German Technology Company
Q26. HL Samariya, a 1985 batch IAS
officer from the ______cadre, has been
given additional charge as Central
Provident Fund Commissioner (CPFC),
for three months or till the
appointment of a regular incumbent or
till further orders, recently:
a) Telangana
b) Maharashtra
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Himachal Pradesh
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Q27. Which among the following

states won the 61st National School
Athletics Championship recently?
a) Kerala
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Karnataka
d) Gujarat
a) Azerbaijaan
b) Aruba
c) Armenia
d) Belarus
Q33. The Berlin - based corruption
Q28. 'Brussels' is the capital of:

a) Burkina Faso
b) Belize
c) Brazil
d) Belgium
Q29. The currency of Belgium is:
a) Dollar
b) Pound
c) Euro
d) Dinar
Q30. 'Kingston' is the capital of:
a) Jersey
b) Jordan
c) Jamaica
d) Japan
Q31. A protocol to amend the existing
Double
Taxation
Avoidance
Convention was signed by the
Government of India and the
Government of _____recently:
a) Albania
b) Angola
c) Armenia
d) Aruba
Q32. 'Yerevan' is the capital of:
watchdog Transparency International

(TI) has put India at rank ____out of
168 countries in its latest Corruption
Perception Index:
a) 26
b) 76
c) 96
d) 36
Q34. The World Economic Forum
(WEF) has created a new task force
with Bank of ____Governor and his
counterpart at the Reserve Bank of
India, Raghuram Rajan:
a) Australia
b) America
c) England
d) Japan
Q35. The Governor of RBI is
Raghuram Rajan. Who is the Governor
of Bank of England?
a) Sir Mervyn King
b) Mark Carney
c) Lord Cromer
d) Edward George
Q36. According to the ICC Cricket
Awards 2015 (Roll of Honor), Who
was the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year:
a) Rohit Sharma (India)
b) Virat Kohli (India)
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c) AB De Villiers (South Africa)

d) Steve Smith (Australia)
Q37. 'Dili' is the capital of which
among the following countries?
a) Lithuania
b) Honduras
c) India
d) East Timor
b) Vatican City
c) Mexico
d) Norway
Q42. Which country will host the 2021

World Aquatics Championships?
Q38. The currency of 'Sri Lanka' is:

a) Franc
b) Rufiyaa
c) Peso
d) Rupee
Q39. Who was the president of India
visited Switzerland, Upon his arrival,
Switzerland declared May 26th as
Science Day?
a) Pranab Mukherjee
b) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
c) Abul Pakeer Janulabdin Abdul
Kalam
d) Pratibha Patil
Q40. 'Oslo' is the capital of:
a) Zambia
b) Sudan
c) Rwanda
d) Norway
Q41. Recently, Muktesh Kumar
Pardeshi has been appointed as India's
envoy to which among the following
countries?
a) Zimbabwe
a) Japan
b) China
c) Germany
d) United States of America
Q43. Who has been appointed as the
Chief Commissioner for Persons with
Disabilities (CCPD) for a period of 3
years, recently?
a) Manoj Kumar Pandey
b) Kamlesh Kumar Pandey
c) Anuj Kumar Pandey
d) Vikram Kumar Pandey
Q44. Recently, Who has been taken
over as Managing Director and CEO of
Corporation Bank?
a) Sunil Mehta
b) Jai Kumar Garg
c) Adish Kumar Jain
d) Manish Gupta
Q45. Recently, The Government today
banned duty - free import of capital
goods for power generation and
transmission projects under the EPCG
Scheme.
EPCG
stands
for:
a) Export Promotion of Consumable
Goods
b) Export Promotion Capital Goods
c) Extra Promotion of Capital Goods
d) Extreme Promotion of Capital
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Goods
d) Peso
Q46. Who won the Men's Singles title

of the Syed Modi International Grand
Prix Gold Badminton Championships
recently?
a) Taufik Hidayat
b) K. Srikanth
c) Xue Song
d) Kashyap Parupalli
Q51. Who is the Champion

Australian Open 2016?
a) Andy Murray
b) Roger Federer
c) Novak Djokovic
d) Stan Wawrinka
of
Q47. Who won the 83rd Senior

National Snooker Championship?
a) Aditya Mehta
b) Ajay Soorie
c) Manan Chandra
d) Krishna Bhagat
Q48. Recently, The ____th Surajkund
International Crafts Mela is begins at
Faridabad
in
Haryana:
th
a) 34
b) 30th
c) 40th
d) 29th
Q49. Which among the following is the
capital of Uruguay?
a) Caracas
b) Harare
c) Dodoma
d) Montevideo
Q50. Currency
a) Rufiya
b) Rupee
c) Dollar
of
Uruguay
is?
Q52.
Novak
Djokovic
become
champion of Australian Open 2016
against _____:
a) Roger Federer
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Stan Wawrinka
d) Andy Murray
Q53. Novak Djokovic is Australian
Open Champion for the _____time:
a) 6th
b) 5th
c) 8th
d) 4th
Q54. Novak Djokovic belongs to which
country?
a) United States
b) Serbia
c) Spain
d) Switzerland
Q55. " Cricket" is national game of
which among the following countries?
a) Australia
b) England
c) New Zealand
d) Both Australia and England

e) Both New Zealand and England
f) None of The Above
Q56. Recently, the book titled
"Nathuram Godse - The Story of an
Assassin released. Who is the author of
this book?
a) Rajiv Bhatia
b) Barkha Dutt
c) Anup Ashok Sardesai
d) G.D. Khosla

Q60. "Jakarta" is the capital of which
a) Serbia
b) Syria
c) Indonesia
d) Israel
Q57. Recently, Pietro Fittipaldi won

the MRF Challenge Formula 2000 at
Madras Motor Racing Track in
Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. Pietro
belongs to which among the following
countries?
a) Spain
b) Brazil
c) Germany
d) Russia
Q58. The book namely "Turing Points"
is authored by:
a) Sardar Manmohan Singh
b) Pranab Mukharjee
c) Abul Pakeer Janualaabdeen Abdul
Kalam
d) Lal Krishan Advani
Q59. The author of book "Playing To
Win" is:
a) Mahesh Bhupati
b) Sachin Tendulkar
c) Saina Nehwal
d) Sania Mirza
Q61. Recently, Railway Ministry has

announced a new rule for booking of
online tickets through the IRCTC
website,
further
reducing
the
maximum number of ticket bookings
allowed by an individual user to
______from the current 10:
a) 6
b) 5
c) 8
d) 7
Q62. _____won the 2016 William E.
Colby Award?
a) TN Ninan
b) Poonam Surie
c) Javier Moro
d) Nisid Hajari
Q63. Nisid Hajari won the 2016
William E. Colby Award for his book:
a) Flood of Fire
b) Midnight's Furies: The Deadly
Legacy of India's Partition
c) India a Risk
d) India First
Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh recently?
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a) Abhinav Mishra
b) Sanjay Mishra
c) Ajay Mishra
d) Dilip Mishra
b) Dinar
c) Pound
d) Dollar
Q70. "Doha" is the capital of:

a) Syria
Q65. Sanjay Mishra was former judge

of the:
a) Shimla High Court
b) Allahabad High Court
c) Delhi High Court
d) Kolkata High Court
Q66. ADB (Asian Development Bank)

has sanctioned an $ 50 mn loan to help
continue improving infrastructure in
the two North Eastern cities of ______
and ______:
a) Tezpur and Zorhut
b) Shillong and Imphal
c) Agartala and Aizawl
d) Dibrugarh and Guwahati
Q67. "Unhappy India" is book written
by:
a) M. K. Gandhi
b) L K Advani
c) Indira Gandhi
d) Lala Lajpat Rai
Q68. ___ is the capital of Columbia:
a) Roseau
b) Santiago
c) Bogota
d) Banjul
Q69. The currency of Columbia is:
a) Shilling
b) Uganda
c) Qatar
d) Dubai
Q71. Recently, The "Turbulent Years"
has been launched. The book is
biography
is:
a) Narendra Modi
b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
c) Pranab Mukherjee
d) Dr. Abul Pakir Janualaabdin Abdul
Kalam
Q72. Recently, Australian batsman
_______ on 27 January, 2016 defeated
captain Steve Smith for the prestigious
Allan Border Medal for 2016:
a) Michael Clarke
b) Ricky Ponting
c) Adam Gilchrist
d) David Warner
Q73. Indian lawyer and human rights
defender ______ on 26 January 2016
was selected for the 8th Human Rights
Award by Amnesty International
Germany:
a) Steve Henri Tiphagne
b) Henri Tiphagne
c) Micheal Tiphagne
d) Henri Fayol Tiphagne
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Q74. Which State Government along

with its power distribution companies
(DISCOMS) has signed a MoU to join
UDAY (Ujwal Discom Assurance
Yojana) Scheme:
a) Rajasthan
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Andhra Pradesh
c) Harbhajan Singh
d) Virat Kohli
Q79. "My Journey: Transforming
Dreams into Actions" book is written
by:
a) Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
b) Dr. Abul Pakir Janulaabdin Abdul
Kalaam
c) Dr. Manmohan Singh
d) Narendra Modi
Q75. The Union Ministry of Social

Justice
and
Empowerment
Thaawarchand Gehlot on 27 January
2016 launched the National level job
portal for:
a) SC
b) Persons with Disabilities
c) ST
d) All of The Above
Q76. "Cairo" is the capital of:
a) Fiji
b) Ethiopia
c) Egypt
d) Georgia
Q77. The currency of Egypt is:
a) Euro
b) Dollar
c) Pound
d) Shilling
Q78. The author of the book "The Test

of My Life" is:
a) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
b) Yuvraj Singh
Q80.
"Unbreakable"
is
the
autobiography of which among the
following
players?
a) Yogeshwar Dutt
b) Sania Mirza
c) Sachin Tendulkar
d) M.C. Mary Kom
Q81. A protocol to amend the existing
Double
Taxation
Avoidance
Convention was signed by the
Government of India and the
Government of _____recently:
a) Albania
b) Angola
c) Armenia
d) Aruba
Q82. 'Yerevan' is the capital of:
a) Azerbaijaan
b) Aruba
c) Armenia
d) Belarus
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Q83. The Berlin - based corruption

watchdog Transparency International
(TI) has put India at rank ____out of
168 countries in its latest Corruption
Perception Index:
a) 26
b) 76
c) 96
d) 36
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a) Lithuania
b) Honduras
c) India
d) East Timor
Q88. The currency of 'Sri Lanka' is:
Q84. The World Economic Forum

(WEF) has created a new task force
with Bank of ____Governor and his
counterpart at the Reserve Bank of
India, Raghuram Rajan:
a) Australia
b) America
c) England
d) Japan
Q85. The Governor of RBI is
Raghuram Rajan. Who is the Governor
of Bank of England?
a) Sir Mervyn King
b) Mark Carney
c) Lord Cromer
d) Edward George
Q86. According to the ICC Cricket
Awards 2015 (Roll of Honor), Who
was the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year:
a) Rohit Sharma (India)
b) Virat Kohli (India)
c) AB De Villiers (South Africa)
d) Steve Smith (Australia)
Q87. 'Dili' is the capital of which
a) Franc
b) Rufiyaa
c) Peso
d) Rupee
Q89. Who was the president of India
visited Switzerland, Upon his arrival,
Switzerland declared May 26th as
Science Day?
a) Pranab Mukherjee
b) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
c)Abul Pakeer Janulabdin Abdul Kalam
d) Pratibha Patil
Q90. 'Oslo' is the capital of:
a) Zambia
b) Sudan
c) Rwanda
d) Norway
Q91. Recently, which Bollywood
Actress has been conferred with the
Yash Chopra Memorial Award:
a) Rekha
b) Jaya Bachchan
c) Hema Malini
d) Zeenat Amaan
Q92. The capital of Germany is:
a) Athens
b) Berlin
c) Conakry
d) Budapest
Q93. The current Vice President of
NITI Aayog is:
a) Narendar Modi
b) Sindhu Shree Khullar
c) Arvind Panagariya
d) Arvind Kejriwal
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Q97. International Customs Days is

observed on:
a) 22 January
b) 24 January
c) 26 January
d) 25 January
Q94. India s first blind Friendly train

flagged off _______ made its maiden
journey on Tueday:
a) From Mysuru to Varanasi
b) From Mysuru to Lucknow
c) From Lucknow to Bareli
d) From Goa to Varanasi
Q95. In 67th Republican day of India,
Army dogs march after ____years:
a) 24 years
b) 25 years
c) 26 years
d) 30 years
Q96. Which country s Army soldiers
created history by marching down the
Rajpath during the Republic Day
parade, becoming the first foreign
military contingent to take part in the
celebrations:
a) British
b) French
c) Japanese
d) Chinese
Q98. Which soft drink manufacturing

company announced to launch milk
based beverages under the brand
name Vio :
a) Minute Maid
b) Red Bull
c) Pepsi
d) Coca Cola
Q99. Which among the following is the
currency of Pakistan:
a) Dinar
b) Rufiyaa
c) Peso
d) Rupee
Q100. Seoul is the capital of:
a) West Indies
b) North Korea
c) South Korea
d) Indonesia
Q101. Who is the current Chairperson

of Institute of Company Secretary of
India:
a) Atul Mehta
b) R. Sridharan
c) S. Sridharan
d) Mamta Binani
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Q102. Who among the following is the
current Chairperson of India Bank
Association?
a) T M Bhasin
b) Chanda Kochhar
c) Arun Kaul
d) Arundhati Bhattacharya
Q107. State Language of Nagaland is:

a) Mundari
b) English
c) Hindi
d) Marathi
Q103. Current
Chairperson
NABARD is:
a) Balwinder Kumar Bhanwala
b) Vikas Kumar Bhanwala
c) Tulsi Kumar Bhanwala
d) Harsha Kumar Bhanwala
of
Q104. Who was the Chief Guest for 26

January, 2015 parade:
a) Yingluck Shinawatra
b) Shinzo Abe
c) Barack Obama
d) Vladimir Putin
Q105. AS Kiran Kumar
Chairperson of:
a) NHRC
b) ISRO
c) NCC
d) UGC
is
the
Q106. Today, we are celebrating

______Republic day:
a) 66th
b) 67th
c) 68th
d) 69th
Q108. ______is the world's second

largest English Speaking country:
a) India
b) France
c) America
d) Japan
Q109. The capital of 'Bulgaria' is:
a) Prague
b) Bujumbura
c) Sofia
d) Amman
Q110. The currency of 'Bulgaria' is:
a) Birr
b) Franc
c) Lev
d) Rufiyaa
Q111. Who has won the 2016
Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold
Badminton Title?
a) Prajakta Sawant
b) Saina Nehwal
c) K Maneesha
d) P.V. Sindhu
Q112. Recently, in which state Union
Cabinet clears President Rule:
a) Mizoram
b) Nagaland
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Assam
Q113. Recently, Pandit Shankar Ghosh
passed away in Kolkata. He was
eminent:
a) Tabla Player
b) Banjo
c) Flautist
d) Veena
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Q117. Deposits in accounts opened
under the government's flagship
financial inclusion program Pradhan
Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) have
crossed the Rs. _______ mark:
a) 20,000 crore
b) 30,000 crore
c) 45,000 crore
d) 79,000 crore
Q114. Recently, India's digital

payment startup company TranServ
has launched country's first Social
Mobile Walled named _________:
a) Xpect
b) Wiser Earth
c) Zooma
d) Udio
Q115. The first Ministerial Meeting of
Arab - India Cooperation Forum was
held at:
a) Ankara, Capital city of Turkey
b) Abu Dhabi, Capital city of Dubai
c) Doha, Capital city of Qatar
d) Manama, Capital city of Bahrain
Q116. Recently, State owned Oil and
Natural Gas Corporation Limited
(ONGC) has received environmental
clearance for a project in the
_______basin in Andhra Pradesh:
a) Krishna - Ganga
b) Godavari - Ganga
c) Krishna - Kaveri
d) Krishna - Godavari
Q118. Recently, Nirmala Gajwani

passed away, She was former Deputy
Speaker of :
a) Gujarat Assembly
b) Haryana Assembly
c) Punjab Assembly
d) Uttar Pradesh Assembly
e) None of The Abvoe
Q119. Government mobilizes _______kg
of Gold Under Monetization scheme:
a) 700
b) 1200
c) 1000
d) 900
Q120. Capital of Hong Kong is:
a) Dublin
b) Budapest
c) Hong Kong
d) Kingston
Q121. ______will be the fastest growing

big economy in the world in 2016 as
per recently released United Nations
World Economics Situation and
Prospects 2016 report:
a) Japan
b) Pakistan
c) India
d) Nepal
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Q126. Which country offered transfer

of bio - farming technology to the India
enhanced
cooperation
in
the
healthcare sector:
a) Japan
b) Mauritius
c) America
d) Qatar
e) None of The
Q122. 19th National Conference on e Governance begins in:

a) Aurangabad
b) Nagpur
c) Lucknow
d) Kanpur
Q123. Who has been appointed as
Prime
Minister
by
Moldovan
Parliament:
a) Filip Swither
b) Pavel Filip
c) Filip Kotler
d) Adolf Pavel
Q124. Who has took charge as the
Executive Director of Greenpeace
India:
a) Shashi Chellam
b) Ravi Chellam
c) Raghvir Chellam
d) Rao K. Chellan
chairman of Central Board of Direct
Taxes (CBDT)?
a) Atulesh Jindal
b) Atul Jindal
c) Ajay Jindal
d) Ajinkya Jindal
Q127. In which state, 'Nai Manzil'

scheme has been launched first time?
a) Jammu & Kashmir
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
Q128. Google has entered into
partnership with _____to provide high
speed public WiFi service:
a) Indian Post
b) Indian Railways
c) Indian Airways
d) Indian Transport
Q129. Which country is the best
country in the world for women to live
in, according to a survey conducted by
American Media Company US News
and World Report:
a) Japan
b) Denmark
c) Hungary
d) Burma
Q130. Recently, Ravindra Reddy
passed away. He was founder
Chairman of MTAR. MTAR supplies:
a) Indigenously developed radio

systems
b) Indigenously developed systems for
weapons manufacturing for Indian
Army
c) Indigenously developed systems for
India's space nuclear programs
d)
Indigenously
developed
IT
technology programs
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b) Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka

Chopra
c) Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor
d) Saif Ali Khan and Parineeti Chopra
Q135. Who will b presented with the
Q131. India signed a $ 250 million

loan agreement with the _____for Bihar
Kosi Basin Development project,
aimed at enhancing resilience to floods
and increase agriculture productivity:
a) IMF
b) World Bank
c) BIS
d) International Investment Bank
Q132. According to travel website
TripAdvisor, Umaid Bhawan Palace in
____is the world's best hotel of 2016:
a) Kangra, Himachal Pradesh
b) Jodhpur, Rajasthan
c) Mumbai, Maharashtra
d) Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat
Q133. Which team won the Mushtaq
Ali T20 Trophy recently?
a) Gujarat
b) Punjab
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Kerala
Q134. _____replace Aamir Khan as
'Incredible India' brand ambassadors:
a) Ajay Devgan and Kangna Ranaut
Technical Achievement Award for his

contribution to cinema through
"groundbreaking
design",
as
announced on the Official Oscar
Awards website?
a) Neha Thakkar
b) Rahul Thakkar
c) Aneem Thakkar
d) Brijesh K Thakkar
Q136. Recently, Prime Minister Modi
released a book titled 'The Z Factor:
My Journey as the Wrong Man at the
Right Time in New Delhi". The book is
the autobiography of the promoter of:
a) Sony Group
b) Star Group
c) Essel/Zee Group
d) Fashion Group
Q137. The Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) and ______ signed a
Memorandum
of
Understanding
(MoU) on cooperation in the
exploration and use of outer space for
peaceful purposes:
a) Iran Institute of Scientific Research
b) Kuwait Institute of Scientific
Research
c) Iraq Institute of Scientific Research
d) Afghanistan Institute of Scientific
Research
Q138. Recently, Mrinalini Sarabhai,

wife of the late Dr Vikram Sarabhai
passed away. She was eminent:
a) Doctor
b) Dancer
c) Scientist
d) Actress
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c) Tata
d) Sun
Q143. Recently, Aroon Tikekar passed
away in Mumbai, He was:
a) Senior Journalist
b) Editor
c) Author
d) All of The Above
Q139. Capital of
a) Rabat
b) Bern
c) Doha
d) Lisbon
Portugal
Q140. Currency of
a) Shilling
b) Euro
c) Pound
d) Dollar
Portugal
is:
is:
Q141. Recently, _____Government has

formally
approved
35
percent
reservation for women in government
jobs in the state:
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Bihar
d) Haryana
Q142. Maharashtra Government has
signed
a
memorandum
of
understanding (MoU) with _____Trust
for a skill training program for the
youth in the state in order to make
them employable:
a) Birla
b) Reliance
Q144. ____has become India's first

fully organic state after it successfully
implemented
organic
farming
practices on around 75,000 hectares of
agricultural land:
a) Jammu & Kashmir
b) Uttarakhand
c) Sikkim
d) Assam
Q145. Recently, which country
declared economic emergency to
redefine its economic and social
model:
a) Russia
b) U.S.A.
c) Austria
d) France
Q146. Recently, ______ satellite is
launched by ISRO which will provide
navigation, tracking and mapping
services to the Indian sub continent:
a) IRNSS 2 - K
b) IRNSS 1 - F
c) IRNSS 1- E
d) IRNSS 1 - D
Q147. IRNSS stands for:

a) Indian Regional Navigational Solar
Satellite
b)Indian Recordable Navigational
Satellite Specification
c)Indian Reliable Navigational Satellite
System
d)Indian
Regional
Navigational
Satellite
System
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b) Paypal
c) Paytm
d) Paysa
Q152. On 17 January 2016, Who won

his sixth Snooker Master title after
Q148. Recently, The Union Ministry of

Shipping started Project _____:
a) Green Harbor
b) Green Ports
c) Green Sea
d) Green Oceans
Q149. Sahara Force Indian Academy
racer _____won one of the New
Zealand's most prestigious events, the
Lady Wigram Trophy recently:
a) Amitek S Daruvala
b) Steve K Daruvala
c) Jehan Daruvala
d) Farukh Daruvala
Q150. The capital of 'Finland' is:
a) Douglas
b) Banjul
c) Stanley
d) Helsinki
Q151. _____ , one of the world's largest
payment service platforms, announced
the appointment of Laurent Le Moal as
its new global CEO:
a) PayU
defeating Barry Hawkins in the final at

the Alexandra Palace in London:
a) Ronnie O' Sullivan
b) Mark Selby
c) Neil Robertson
d) Stuart Bingham
Q153. Recently, who had inaugurated
the"Hall of Nuclear Power" in Delhi:
a) Jitendra Singh
b) Pranab Mukharjee
c) Nikesh Kumar
d) Himmat Bisth
Q154. Who won the
Badminton League title:
a) Hyderabad Hunters
b) Mumbai Rockets
c) Delhi Acers
d) Awadhe Worriors
Premier
Q155. ______Temple is all set to

deposit its idle gold in the Gold
Monetization Scheme as Prime
Minister Modi have given their nod to
invest the yellow metal reserves in the
schemes:
a) The Jagannath Temple
b) The Maa Vaishno Devi Temple
c) The Somnath Temple
d) The Golden Temple
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Q156. EXIM Bank of India and the
Government of _____have entered into
a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) for promotion of exports from
the state:
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Gujarat
c) Punjab
d) Kerala
Q160. National Aeronautics and Space

Administration
(NASA)
has
successfully launched the _____rocket
carrying Jason - 3 Ocean monitoring
satellite:
a) SpaceG Falcon 7
b) SpaceS Falcon 10
c) SpaceX Falcon 9
d) SpaceZ Falcon 9
Q157. _____ has appointed Rostow

Ravanan as the CEO and managing
director,
and
Krishna
Kumar
Natarajan as the executive chairman of
the company recently:
a) Mindtree
b) Mindfree
c) Mindplant
d) Mindsteps
Q158. _______Bank has teamed up with
the Kerala State Electricity Board
(KSEP) to provide customers of the
state utility online facility for
remittance of electricity charges:
a) State Bank of India
b) State Bank of Travancore
c) Axis Bank
d) Punjab National Bank
Q159. ____has appointed Guenter
Butschek as chief executive officer
(CEO) and managing director (MD) of
the company:
a) Reliance Motors Ltd.
b) Tata Motors Ltd.
c) Bajaj Motors Ltd.
d) Hero Motor Corp.
Q161. Who among the following has

been elected to the board of directors
of the China - sponsored Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank:
a) Vijay Chauhan
b) Vinesh Verma
c) Dinesh Sharma
d) Aditi Singhal
Q162. _____ is the designated governor
of the AIIB from India:
a) Arun Jaitley
b) Narendra Modi
c) Rajnath Singh
d) VK Singh
Q163. Recently, who passed away in
Hyderabad who was one of the
founders of Jana Sangh (Later became
BJP) in Andhra Pradesh:
a) Raj Rao
b) Ventrapragada Rama Rao
c) Trichur Raj Rao
d) Sundram Venketaraman Rao
Q164. Anuradha Roy has been

announced the winner of the
prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian
Literature 2016 for her novel _______at
the Fairway Galle Literary Festival in
Sri Lanka:
a) Sleeping on Saturn
b) Sleeping on Venus
c) Sleeping on Jupiter
d) Sleeping on Earth
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Q168. What is the capital city of Dadra

and Nagar Haveli:
a) Indira Point
b) Port Blair
c) Agartala
d) Silvassa
Q165. Who became the fastest man to

score 7000 one day international
(ODI) runs and the fastest to reach 24
centuries:
a) Rohit Sharma
b) Sachin Tendulkar
c) Virat Kohli
d) AB De Villiers
Q166. The _______government has
inked a pact with IFC, member of the
World Bank Group, to set up the
world's largest solar energy plant with
a capacity of 750 MW:
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Uttar Pradesh
Q167. Who is the current CM of
Himachal Pradesh:
a) Thakur Ram Lal
b) Shanta Kumar
c) Virbhadra Singh
d) Prem Kumar Dhumal
Q169. Who is the current CM of Goa:

a) Shivraj Singh Chauhan
b) Tarun Gogoi
c) Raman Singh
d) Laxmikant Parsekar
Q170. What is the capital of Chile:
a) Conakry
b) Budapest
c) Santiago
d) Banjul
Q171. Marat Safin belonged to which
sport game for which he has been
inducted in the International Hall of
Fame:
a) Baseball
b) Football
c) Volleyball
d) Tennis
Q172. ____ is poised to become the self
- governing island's first female
president:
a) Lasey Ing wen
b) Tasi Ing wen
c) Chaisen Ing wen
d) Marvo Ing wen
Q173. Who have won the 2016 WTA

Apia International title in the women's
doubles category:
a) Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
b) Martina Hingis and Flavia Penetta
c) Abigail Spears and Martina Hingis
d) Chan Hao Ching and Abigail Spears
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d) South Korea
Q178. "Shilling" is the currency of
which among the following country?
a) Zambia
b) Niger
c) Morocco
d) Kenya
Q174. The ______would be the anchor

investor in the new Railway
Development Fund for India:
a) BIS
b) WTO
c) World Bank
d) IMF
Q175. Indian - American professor Dr.
_____ and 16 other scientists, engineers,
mathematicians and innovators will
receive the National Medals of Science
and Technology and Innovation from
President Barack Obama next Friday
a) Smridham K. Jain
b) Rakesh K. Jain
c) Hargobind Jain
d) Anil Jain
Q176. Which among the following is
capital of Angola:
a) Tirana
b) Rabat
c) Luanda
d) Bridgetown
Q177. "Pyongyang" is the capital of:
a) Zambia
b) North Korea
c) Rwanda
Q179.
Who
was
the
brand
ambassador for Premier Badminton
League 2016?
a) Ajay Devgan
b) Akshay Kumar
c) Salman Khan
d) Amitabh Bachchan
Q180. Who is the current Prime
Minister of Japan?
a) Yasuo Fukuda
b) Taro Aso
c) Naoto Kan
d) Shinzo Abe
Q181. The ______edition of bilateral

exercise by the Indian Coast Guard and
its Japanese counterpart has begun off
the coast of Chennai recently:
a) 11th
b) 13th
c) 15th
d) 19th
Q182. The title of bilateral exercise by
the Indian Coast Guard and its
Japanese counterpart is:
a) Kalyan - Kaijin 2016

b) Sahayog - Kaijin 2016
c) Maitri - Kaijin 2016
d) Himmat - Kaijin 2016
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a)
Improvement
Initiative
for
Scientific Education & Research
b) Indian Initiative for Science
Education & Research
c) International Institute of Scientific
Educational Research
d) Indian Institute of Science
Q183. What is the name of Anti - Tank

Missile recently successfully test fired
in Rajasthan?
a) Akash
b) Sarp
c) Brahamastra
d) Nag
Q184. Indian Army Day is being
observed every year on ______in India:
a) 14 January
b) 15 January
c) 16 January
d) 20 January
Q185. This year it will be the
_____Indian Army Day:
a) 66th
b) 67th
c) 69th
d) 68th
Q186. Recently Union Government
has inaugurated the first phase of
permanent campus of the IISER at
_______ in Kerala:
a) Thrissur
b) Nilambur
c) Vithura
d) Allapuzha
Q187. IISER stands for:
Q188. Who is the Current C.M. of

Kerala?
a) K. Karunakaran
b) Oommen Chandy
c) V.S. Achuthanandan
d) A.K. Antony
Q189. Who is the Current C.M. of
Maharashtra?
a) Prithviraj Chavan
b) Devendra Fadnavis
c) Ashok Chavan
d) Vilasrao Deshmukh
Q190. Currency of Spain is:
a) Yen
b) Pound
c) Dollar
d) Euro
Q191. Recently India has decided to
become member country of IEA - OES.
IEA - OES stands for:
a) International Energy Agency Ocean Eco Systems
b) International Environment Agency Ocean Eco Systems
c) International Energy Agency Ocean Energy Systems
d) International Environment Agency Other Energy Standards

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c) Ludhiana
d) Amritsar
Q196.
______has
linked
MOU
(Memorandum of Understanding)
with Andhra Pradesh Government to
set up a world class naval facility in
the state.
a) Tata Defense Ltd.
b) Bajaj Defense Ltd.
c) SYK Defense Ltd.
d) Reliance Defense Ltd.
Q192. Recently, The Union Cabinet

has approved , ________ a new crop
insurance to boost farming sector in
the country:
a) Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sewa Yojana
b) Pradhan Mantri Krishi Varsha
Yojana
c) Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
d) Pradhan Mantri Ann Bima Yojana
Q193. The Employees' Provident Fund

Organization (EPFO) has won the
National Award on e - Governance
2015 - 16 for launching the:
a) Universal Account Number
b) Universal Index Number
c) Universal Identification Number
d)
Universal
Support
Number
Q194. Recently, President Pranab
Mukherjee has given assent to the
________:
a) Rubber Cess (Amendment) Bill
2015
b) Tea Cess (Amendment) Bill 2015
c) Sugar Cess (Amendment) Bill 2015
d) Jute Cess (Amendment) Bill 2015
Q195. Recently, BSNL has launched
the high speed 4G telecom services at
______ in Punjab:
a) Bhatinda
b) Chandigarh
Q197. Current Chief Minister of

Andhra Pradesh is:
a) Shirvraj Patil
b) Akhilesh Yadav
c) N. Chandrababu Naidu
d) C. Venketraman Naidu
Q198. Recently Union Government
has constituted a committee to fast
track the _______High - Speed Rail
Corridor, meant for connecting two
cities with bullet trains:
a) Mumbai - Goa
b) Mumbai - Hyderabad
c) Mumbai - Ahmedabad
d) Mumbai - Secundrabad
Q199. Capital of Afghanistan is:
a) Abu Dhabi
b) Kandhar
c) Instabul
d) Kabul
Q200. Currency of Japan is:
a) Yen
b) Yuan
c) Rubal
d) Pound
Answers
36. AB De Villiers (South Africa)

37. East Timor
38. Rupee
39. Abul Pakeer Janulabdin Abdul
Kalam
40. Norway
41. Mexico
42. Japan
43. Kamlesh Kumar Pandey
44. Jai Kumar Garg
45. Export Promotion Capital Goods
46. K. Srikanth
47. Aditya Mehta
48. 30th
49. Montevideo
50. Peso
51. Novak Djokovic
52. Andy Murray
53. 6th
54. Serbia
55. Both Australia and England
56. Anup Ashok Sardesai
57. Brazil
58. Abul Pakeer Janualaabdeen Abdul
Kalam
59. Saina Nehwal
60. Indonesia
61. 6
62. Nisid Hajari
63. Midnight's Furies: The Deadly
Legacy of India's Partition
64. Sanjay Mishra
65. Allahabad High Court
66. Agartala and Aizawl
67. Lala Lajpat Rai
68. Bogota
69. Dollar
70. Qatar
71. Pranab Mukherjee
72. David Warner
73. Henri Tiphagne
74. Rajasthan
1. Odisha
2. Rahul Dravid
3. Singapore
4. Guwahati, Assam
5. Brunei
6. Lapetkata
7. Indira Gandhi
8. Swami Vivekanand Ji
9. Durjoy Dutta
10. Zabreb
11. Gujarat
12. Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research
13. 4th February
14. Pandit Ram Narayan
15. Sarangi Maestro
16. Aruna Sethi
17. Manipuri
18. Havana
19. Hungary
20. Narendra Modi
21. Both (a) and (b)
22. Titli
23. Jai Shanker Menon
24. TCS
25. Chinese Technology Company
26. Telangana
27. Kerala
28. Belgium
29. Euro
30. Jamaica
31. Armenia
32. Armenia
33. 76
34. England
35. Mark Carney
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75. Persons with Disabilities

76. Egypt
77. Pound
78. Yuvraj Singh
79. Dr. Abul Pakir Janulaabdin Abdul
Kalaam
80. M.C. Mary Kom
81. Armenia
82. Armenia
83. 76
84. England
85. Mark Carney
86. AB De Villiers (South Africa)
87. East Timor
88. Rupee
89. Abul Pakeer Janulabdin Abdul
Kalam
90. Norway
91. Rekha
92. Berlin
93. Arvind Panagariya
94. From Mysuru to Varanasi
95. 26 years
96. French
97. 26 January
98. Coca Cola
99. Rupee
100. South Korea
101. S. Sridharan
102. T M Bhasin
103. Harsha Kumar Bhanwala
104. Barack Obama
105. ISRO
106. 67th
107. English
108. India
109. Sofia
110. Lev
111. P.V. Sindhu
112. Arunachal Pradesh
113. Tabla Player
114. Udio
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115. Manama, Capital city of Bahrain

116. Krishna - Godavari
117. 30,000 crore
118. Gujarat Assembly
119. 900
120. Hong Kong
121. India
122. Nagpur
123. Pavel Filip
124. Ravi Chellam
125. Atulesh Jindal
126. Mauritius
127. Jammu & Kashmir
128. Indian Railways
129. Denmark
130. Indigenously developed systems
for India's space nuclear programs
131. World Bank
132. Jodhpur, Rajasthan
133. Uttar Pradesh
134. Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka
Chopra
135. Rahul Thakkar
136. Essel/Zee Group
137. Kuwait Institute of Scientific
Research
138. Dancer
139. Lisbon
140. Euro
141. Bihar
142. Tata
143. All of The Above
144. Sikkim
145. France
146. IRNSS 1- E
147. Indian Regional Navigational
Satellite System
148. Green Ports
149. Jehan Daruvala
150. Helsinki
151. PayU
152. Ronnie O' Sullivan
153. Jitendra Singh

154. Delhi Acers
155. The Somnath Temple
156. Andhra Pradesh
157. Mindtree
158. State Bank of Travancore
159. Tata Motors Ltd.
160. SpaceX Falcon 9
161. Dinesh Sharma
162. Arun Jaitley
163. Ventrapragada Rama Rao
164. Sleeping on Jupiter
165. Virat Kohli
166. Madhya Pradesh
167. Virbhadra Singh
168. Silvassa
169. Laxmikant Parsekar
170. Santiago
171. Tennis
172. Tasi Ing wen
173. Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
174. World Bank
175. Rakesh K. Jain
176. Luanda
177. North Korea
178. Kenya
179. Akshay Kumar
180. Shinzo Abe
181. 15th
182. Sahayog - Kaijin 2016
183. Nag
184. 15 January
185. 68th
186. Vithura
187. Indian Institute of Science
188. Oommen Chandy
189. Devendra Fadnavis
190. Euro
191. International Energy Agency
Ocean Energy Systems
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192. Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima

Yojana
193. Universal Account Number
194. Sugar Cess (Amendment) Bill
2015
195. Chandigarh
196. Reliance Defense Limited
197. N. Chandrababu Naidu
198. Mumbai Ahmemdabad
199. Kabul
200. Yen

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Q65. Sanjay Mishra was former judge

Q66. ADB (Asian Development Bank)

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Q75. The Union Ministry of Social

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Q107. State Language of Nagaland is:

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