1. The 2016 International Youth Day was celebrated on
a) 11 August
b) 12 August*
c) 13 August
d) 14 August
.
2. Which State Government approved 33 percent
reservation to women in urban local bodies?
a) Assam
b) Tripura
c) Nagaland*
d) Manipur
.
3. This State Government decided to make Aadhar Card mandatory for procurement of paddy from farmers?
a) Odisha*
b) Telangana
c) Karnataka
d) Rajasthan
.
4. Identify the Chinese table tennis champion who
became the fifth male player to complete the Grand Slam by winning gold medal in Rio Olympics 2016.
a) Ma Long*
b) Zhang Jike
c) Zhou Qi
d) Sun Kye
.
5. These two South American countries agreed to reopen pedestrian border that was closed in 2015 to curb smuggling.
a) Colombia and Peru
b) Venezuela and Brazil
c) Peru and Argentina
d) Venezuela and Colombia*
.
6. The 2016 World Bio-Fuel Day was celebrated on
a) 10 August*
b) 11 August
c) 12 August
d) 13 August
.
7. In which city of Andhra Pradesh, the Nasscom
launched operations of Startup Warehouse under its 10000 startup initiative by 2020.
a) Visakhapatnam*
b) Amaravati
c) Tirupati
d) Kurnool
.
8. To which country Russia delivered S-400 Triumph
missile systems?
a) Azerbaijan
b) Crimea*
c) Armenia
d) Latvia
.
9. Which of the following was documented as the oldest living vertebrate on the planet?
a) Greenland shark*
b) Blue Whale
c) Galápagos tortoise
d) African elephant
.
10. As per the CSO data, the Consumer Price Inflation for July 2016 rose to
a) 4.07%
b) 5.07%
c) 6.07% *
d) 7.07%
.
11. Antrix Corporation Limited that was in news is related to which of the following organsiations?
a) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
b) Indian Space Research Organisation*
c) Medical Council of India
d) Defence Research Development Organisation
.
12. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated a
data bank portal for which of the following enterprises?
a) Micro enterprises
b) Small enterprises
c) Medium enterprises
d) All of the above*
.
13. Who was appointed as the head of committee on FDI norms pertaining to e-commerce industry?
a) Madhav Chitale
b) Ananad Desai
c) Amitabh Kant*
d) N K Singh
.
14. Who topped the 100 Richest Tech Billionaires In The World 2016 List of Forbes?
a) Mark Zuckerberg
b) Bill Gates*
c) Azim Premji
d) Shiv Nadar
.
15. Identify India’s top squash player who won the PSA Australian Open in Melbourne.
a) Dipika Pallikal*
b) Joshna Chinappa
c) L S Settipalli
d) None of them
.
16. In which city India’s first BIO-CNG plant was
inaugurated?
a) Hyderabad
b) Pune*
c) Kolkata
d) Bengaluru
.
17. The National Committee on Trade Facilitation related to which international organisation?
a) World Trade Organisation*
b) International Monetary Fund
c) World Bank
d) World Economic Forum
.
18. Who won the gold medal in men’s singles tennis
category in Rio 2016 Olympic Games?
a) Noval Djokovic
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Andy Murray*
d) Juan Martin Del Potro
.
19. Which company inaugurated India’s facility to produce Nickel metal of LME grade from primary resource at
Ghatsila in Jharkhand?
a) Steel Authority of India Limited
b) Hindustan Copper Limited*
c) Rashtriya Ispat Nigam
d) Jindal Steel and Power
.
20. Who will head the National Committee on Trade
Facilitation that was formed by the Union Government?
a) Union Cabinet Secretary*
b) Union Commerce Secretary
c) Union Finance Secretary
d) Foreign Secretary
.
21. Which country launched the world's first quantum
satellite named Quantum Experiments at Space Scaler (QUESS) satellite in August 2016?
a) Japan
b) United States
c) China*
d) India
.
22. Which Bank launched the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) based *99# Mobile Application for basic banking needs?
a) State Bank of India
b) Oriental Bank of Commerce
c) Bank of Baroda
d) Union Bank of India*
.
23. Name the eminent poet and lyricist who passed away in August 2016 and penned a novel titled Silk City in Tamil?
a) T Balumahendra
b) S K Seeman
c) Velainu Vandhutta
d) Na Muthukumar*
.
24. Who created a world record of 82.29m in women’s
hammer throw to win gold at Rio Olympics?
a) Anita Wlodarczyk*
b) Sophie Hitchon
c) Wenxiu Zhang
d) None of the above
.
25. Which state government recently launched a mobile application for its Kanyashree Prakalpa project?
a) Odisha
b) West Bengal*
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
.
26. Usain Bolt won gold in men’s 100-metre final at the Rio Olympics. He belongs to which country?
a) Anguilla
b) Barbados
c) Jamaica*
d) Puerto Rico
.
27. Name the head of Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha who died recently.
a) Yogiji Maharaj
b) Shastriji Maharaj
c) Gunatitanand Swami
d) Pramukh Swami Maharaj*
.
28. Who won gold in Men's omnium track cycling at Rio Olympics?
a) Elia Viviani*
b) Mark Cavendish
c) Lasse Norman Hansen
d) Roger Kluge
.
29. Who was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court in August 2016?
a) DH Waghela
b) Sujata Manohar
c) Manjula Chellur*
d) Sushant Rohilla
.
30. Anita Wlodarczyk who created a world record of
82.29m in women’s hammer throw to win gold at Rio
Olympics belongs to which country?
a) Denmark
b) Poland*
c) Russia
d) Germany
.
.
31. Identify the city which was not one of the 10 cities
selected under the Smart Ganga City Scheme of the Union Government.
a) Haridwar
b) Rishikesh
c) Mathura-Vrindavan
d) Kolkata*
.
32. Who headed the NGT committee to assess the damage caused by the World Culture Festival of Art of Living Foundation to the Yamuna flood plain in March 2016?
a) Shashi Shekhar*
b) Madhav Chitale
c) Arvind Subramanian
d) Anand Desai
.
33. Which city is hosting the SAARC Youth Parliamentarians Conference on Peace and Harmony for Development 2016?
a) Dhaka
b) New Delhi
c) Colombo
d) Islamabad*
.
34. The only Indian cricketer who figured in the Top 10 Test Player Rankings of the ICC?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Ajinkya Rahane*
c) R Ashwin
d) Murali Vijay
.
35. A Federal Supreme Court justice authorized corruption probe against Dilma Rousseff. She is the president of
a) Argentina
b) Brazil*
c) Chile
d) Columbia
.
36. Which city hosted the 1st National Conference of
Investigating Agencies?
a) Mumbai
b) Hyderabad
c) Bengaluru
d) New Delhi*
.
37. Name the Hollywood actress who starred as Eva in 1958 film The Gun Runners and passed away in August 2016.
a) Eddie Albert
b) Tracie May
c) Patricia Sullivan
d) Gita Hall*
.
38. Name the person who bagged the APJ Abdul Kalam Award for meritorious services in the Higher Education
Department of Tamil Nadu?
a) Hansraj Verma
b) Kalpana Chawla
c) RB Udhayakumar
d) P Shanmugam*
.
39. Unilever, the parent company of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), in August 2016 acquired which air purification company?
a) Pureit
b) AirQuick
c) Blueair*
d) Odonil
.
40. Name the Malayalam script writer who died in August 2016 and won the state film award for best screenplay in 1996 for the film Kanakkinavu?
a) T A Rasaq*
b) SR Bappu
c) Vazhayil Khadeeja
d) Pinarayi Vijayan
.
41. Name the Indian tennis doubles pair that won the
Abierto Mexicano Los Cabos title.
a) Purav Raja and Divij Sharan*
b) Vishnu Vardhan and Srinivasan Vasudevan
c) Saketh Myneni and Divij Sharan
d) Jaidip Mukerjea and Divij Sharan
.
42. Name the American artistic gymnast who won gold in the Floor Exercise event at Rio Olympics.
a) Amy Tinkler
b) Simone Biles*
c) Alexandra Raisman
d) Ecaterina Szabo
.
43. Name the former FIFA president and IOC member who died recently.
a) Sepp Blatter
b) Stanley Rous
c) Joao Havelange*
d) None of the above
.
44. Name the Indian music composer who was recently honoured with the Tamil Ratna Award.
a) Yuvan Shankar Raja
b) Santhosh Narayanan
c) Anirudh Ravichander
d) A R Rahman*
.
45. Name the renowned Punjabi writer and Jnanpith
awardee who passed away recently.
a) Gurdial Singh*
b) Kartar Singh Duggal
c) Komail Singh Somal
d) None of the above
.
46. Which of the following entity was incorporated as the first PSU under the Department of Posts?
a) India Post Payments Bank Limited*
b) India Small Finance Bank Limited
c) India Post and Telegraph Limited
d) India Remittance Bank Limited
.
47. Union Government launched the TARANG mobile
application to
a) Track power transmission projects*
b) Receive complaints from telecom users
c) Monitor central sector schemes
d) Facilitate business to business services
.
48. Which international quasi-judicial body recently banned wrestler Narsingh Yadav for four years following an appeal
by World Anti-Doping Agency?
a) United States Merit Systems Protection Board
b) Court of Arbitration for Sport*
c) International Narcotics Control Board
d) None of the above
.
49. The State Bank of India Board approved merger of this bank with itself
a) Kotak Mahindra Bank
b) Yes Bank
c) Bharatiya Mahila Bank*
d) Canara Bank
.
50. Who won the men’s 200m gold in the 2016 Rio
Olympics?
a) Adam Gemili
b) Michael Johnson
c) Colin Jackson
d) Usain Bolt*
.
51. Who among the following became the first Indian
badminton player to enter the women’s singles finals in Olympics?
a) Saina Nehwal
b) P V Sindhu*
c) Jwala Gutta
d) Shruti Kurien
.
52. With which country India signed a short-term route
agreement for petroleum products?
a) Nepal
b) Afghanistan
c) Bangladesh*
d) Bhutan
.
53. Union Ministry of Power launched the e-Trans web portal to
a) Track power availability for farmers
b) Facilitate e-bidding of projects*
c) Develop green energy corridors
d) Facilitate monitoring of thermal power plants
.
54. Who was selected for 2016 Sangeet Martand Ustad Chand Khan Lifetime Achievement Award?
a) Satish Vyas
b) Tarun Bhattacharya
c) Shiv Kumar Sharma*
d) Bhajan Sopori
.
55. What was the theme of the World Humanitarian Day that was observed on 19 August 2016?
a) The World You’d Rather
b) Inspiring the World's Humanity
c) Shared Humanity
d) One Humanity*
.
56. Name the world’s largest airship that recently made its maiden voyage in England.
a) Airlander 5
b) Airlander 11
c) Airlander 10*
d) Airlander 8
.
57. Name the Indian female wrestler who won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category at the Olympic Games in Rio.
a) Geeta Phogat
b) Sakshi Malik*
c) Geetika Jakhar
d) Geeta Singh
.
58. The Court of Arbitration for Sport recently banned
wrestler Narsingh Yadav for four years following an appeal by World Anti-Doping Agency. Identify the country in which the Court of Arbitration for Sport is located.
a) Lausanne, Switzerland*
b) Paris, France
c) Zurich, Switzerland
d) Hague, The Netherlands
.
59. Which state government will confer Indian wrestler
Sakshi Malik with Rani Laxmi Bai Award for winning a
medal in Rio Olympics?
a) Uttar Pradesh*
b) Haryana
c) Maharashtra
d) Punjab
.
60. The Union Ministry of Power launched the e-bidding portal DEEP for
a) Medium term purchase of power*
b) Long term purchase of power
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
.
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.
61. Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin recently became the first
Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal. She won the
bronze medal in which sport?
a) Taekwondo*
b) Badminton
c) Tennis
d) Swimming
.
62. Who won gold in the taekwondo event in the 57kg
category at the Rio Olympics?
a) Nikita Glasnovic
b) Eva Calvo Gomez
c) Jade Jones*
d) None of the above
.
63. Which country won the gold medal in women's football event at the Rio Olympics?
a) Germany*
b) Great Britain
c) France
d) Sweden
.
64. P V Sindhu recently secured a silver medal for India at the Rio Olympics. She is associated with which of the following sports?
a) Tennis
b) Squash
c) Badminton*
d) Wrestling
.
65. India ranks at which spot in the 9th edition Global
Innovation Index that released recently?
a) 25th
b) 66th*
c) 67th
d) 84th
.
66. The Union Ministry of Mines launched a web portal for star rating of major mineral mines. The system was developed with the help of which of the following companies?
a) NASSCOM
b) IBM
c) Wipro
d) National Institute of Smart Governance*
.
67. Badminton player P V Sindhu recently won historic
silver medal in women’s singles badminton event at Rio Olympics. Who won gold in the event?
a) Wang Yihan
b) Sain Nehwal
c) Carolina Marin*
d) Dolores Marco
.
68. Which Indian cricketer was recently made an honorary member of the esteemed Marylebone Cricket Club?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Virat Kohli
c) M S Dhoni
d) Virender Sehwag*
.
69. Which educational institute adopted five villages under the Namami Gange Programme to deploy its expertise to limit the flow of sewage into River Ganga?
a) IIT-Kanpur*
b) IIT-Patna
c) IIT-Mandi
d) None of the above
.
70. A two-day meeting of BRICS Women
Parliamentarian's Forum will be held in which city?
a) Lucknow
b) Udaipur
c) Jaipur*
d) Varanasi
.
71. The United States of America recently advised its
citizen to not to travel in certain areas of which country?
a) Afghanistan
b) Ethiopia*
c) Egypt
d) China
.
72. Which country topped the 9th edition Global
Innovation Index (GII) 2016 that was released recently?
a) The United States of America
b) Finland
c) Germany
d) Switzerland*
.
73. Identify the athlete who became the first Iranian
woman to win an Olympic medal recently.
a) Mahsa Javar
b) Najmeh Khedmati
c) Leila Rajabi
d) Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin*
.
74. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma will be conferred upon
with the annual Sangeet Martand Ustad Chand Khan
Lifetime Achievement. He is associated with which of the following musical instruments?
a) Santoor*
b) Tabla
c) Sarod
d) Sitar
.
75. India’s first comprehensive Crime Criminal Tracking Network System was recently launched by which state government?
a) Chhattisgarh
b) Punjab
c) Odisha
d) Maharashtra*
.
76. Pink Bollworm pest that has been in news affects
a) Cotton
b) Tobacco
c) Both (a) & (b)*
d) None of them
.
77. Who authored the book Life In Diplomacy?
a) Natwar Singh
b) M K Rasgotra*
c) Shashi Tharoor
d) Karan Singh
.
78. Which country accounted for the highest share of
tourist arrivals in India?
a) Sri Lanka
b) Nepal
c) Bhutan
d) Bangladesh*
.
79. 1000 MW Turga hydel project that was approved by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) will be located in
a) Karnataka
b) West Bengal*
c) Punjab
d) Telangana
.
80. Name the author who was awarded with the
prestigious Vyas Samman 2015?
a) K N Tripathi
b) Sunita Jain*
c) Vishwanath Tiwari
d) Mrinal Pande
.
81. Who was appointed as India's Ambassador to Georgia in August 2016?
a) Yogeshwar Sangwan*
b) VK Duggal
c) VP Singh Badnore
d) Najma Heptulla
.
82. Name the Odia actor and director who died in August 2016 and began his career with the movie Kedar Gouri in 1954?
a) Raja Pattnaik
b) Tatwa Prakash Satapathy
c) Subhakanta Sahu
d) Gobind Tej*
.
83. Name the former international umpire who passed
away in August 2016?
a) Hillel Awaskar
b) Amiesh Saheba
c) Shyam Bansal
d) Subrata Banerjee*
.
84. Who of the following was appointed as the 24th
governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
a) Arvind Subramanian
b) Arvind Panagariya
c) Arundhati Bhattacharya
d) Urjit R Patel*
.
85. BRICS women parliamentarians’ forum was held in
which city of India?
a) Delhi
b) Jaipur*
c) Hyderabad
d) Chennai
.
86. A group of researchers discovered a new species of eel, Gymnothorax indicus, from which of the following bays?
a) Bay of Bengal*
b) Manila Bay
c) Ago Bay
d) Mappila Bay
.
87. Name the all-in-one virtual reality solution launched by Intel to create merged reality.
a) Bixon
b) Alloy*
c) Steel
d) Graphite
.
88. The 2016 Summer Olympics recently concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Which country topped the medal table?
a) China
b) Canada
c) The United States*
d) Great Britain
.
89. Which Indian actor is chosen for the prestigious
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight in the
National Order Arts and Letters)?
a) Amitabh Bachchan
b) Rajinikanth
c) Ranveer Singh
d) Kamal Haasan*
.
90. The President of Indian Olympic Association was
recently awarded the Olympic Order for his outstanding services to the Olympic movement. What is his name?
a) N. Ramachandran*
b) Vijay Kumar Malhotra
c) Abhay Singh Chautala
d) None of the above
.
.
91. Which of the following cities will host the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup?
a) Ahmedabad*
b) Pune
c) Mumbai
d) Sri Muktsar Sahib
.
92. Who was recently appointed the Vice Chancellor of the Homi Bhabha National Institute?
a) Ravi Grover
b) P D Gupta*
c) Ravi Juneja
d) None of the above
.
93. Name the Belgian jazz musician, mostly known for harmonica playing, who died recently.
a) Sidney Bechet
b) Max Roach
c) Toots Thielemans*
d) Miles Davis
.
94. Name the journalist, considered the ‘dean of black press columnists’, who passed away recently.
a) William Raspberry
b) John H. Johnson
c) Robert C. Maynard
d) George E. Curry*
.
95. Who was recently sworn in as the Governor of Assam?
a) Banwarilal Purohit*
b) V P Singh Badnore
c) Kaptan Singh Solanki
d) Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya
.
96. Who was recently sworn in as the Governor of Punjab?
a) Banwarilal Purohit
b) V P Singh Badnore*
c) Kaptan Singh Solanki
d) Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya
.
97. India in August 2016 signed agreement with which country to foster conditions that will help create and improve workplace-based vocational training in India's industrial clusters?
a) Japan
b) Germany*
c) China
d) Taiwan
.
98. Who was sworn in as the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in August 2016?
a) Girish Chandra Gupta
b) Banwarilal Purohit
c) V P Singh Badnore
d) Jagdish Mukhi*
.
99. Name the Indian-origin President of Singapore who died in August 2016 and was the sixth and longest-serving President of Singapore.
a) S R Nathan*
b) Puan Nganapandithan
c) Gurdip Singh
d) Virinder K. Moudgil
.
100. Who of the following was not elected for the 2016 Dronacharya Awards that will be conferred by the President Pranab Mukherjee on National Sports Day?
a) Sagar Mal Dhayal
b) Nagapuri Ramesh
c) Bishweshwar Nandi
d) Pullela Gopichand*
.
101. Who of the following was not selected for 2016 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna?
a) PV Sindhu
b) Dipa Karmakar
c) Jitu Rai
d) Shiva Thapa*
.
102. Who of the following was not selected for 2016 Arjuna Awards?
a) Rajat Chauhan
b) Dipa Karmakar*
c) Lalita Babar
d) Ajinkya Rahane
.
103. Who of the following was not selected for 2015 Dhyan Chand Award?
a) Apurvi Chandela*
b) Satti Geetha
c) Sylvanus Dung Dung
d) Rajendra Pralhad Shelke
.
104. Who of the following was adjudged as the man of the series of four-match Test Series between India and West Indies?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Ravichandran Ashwin*
c) Roston Chase
d) Shikhar Dhawan
.
105. Name the typhoon that made landfall near Tateyama City in Chiba Prefecture south of Tokyo in August 2016.
a) Haiyan
b) Ophelia
c) Mindulle*
d) Mike
.
106. United States has announced 138 million dollar new aid to a country. Name it.
a) South Sudan*
b) Kenya
c) Uganda
d) Sudan
.
107. Identify the State that issued a draft notification for creation of 17 new districts.
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana*
c) Karnataka
d) Tamil Nadu
.
108. Identify the Indian tennis player who topped the WTA women’s doubles ranking.
a) Sania Mirza*
b) Rushmi Chakravarthi
c) Tara Iyer
d) Prarthana Thombare
.
109. Identify the company that acquired the cement
business of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd?
a) UltraTech Cement
b) Ambuja Cements
c) Ramco Cements
d) Birla Corporation Limited*
.
110. Who was appointed as the head of the task force by the Union Government to study the structure of organised Group A Central services?
a) Vijay Kelkar
b) T Jacob*
c) Justice A P Shah
d) T K Prasad
.
111. Which state launched the DNA Index System for DNA profiling of criminals in August 2016?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Rajasthan
c) Andhra Pradesh*
d) Haryana
.
112. India is ranked at which place in the W10 report 2016 released by New World Wealth?
a) Second
b) Fourth
c) Seventh*
d) Ninth
.
113. When the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition was observed globally?
a) 20 August
b) 21 August
c) 22 August
d) 23 August*
.
114. The Airport Authority of India signed a MoU with which state for successful launch of the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) of the Union Government?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Odisha
c) Maharashtra*
d) Rajasthan
.
115. Name the two states that signed MoU to build three barrages for water utilization of Godavari River and its tributaries.
a) Telangana and Goa
b) Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
c) Telangana and Maharashtra*
d) Maharashtra and Goa
.
116. Indian-origin politician Sellapan Ramanathan who
died in the recent past was the former president of which nation?
a) Singapore*
b) Malaysia
c) Indonesia
d) Thailand
.
117. Union Government launched ‘Sugamaya Pustakalaya’ online library to serve
a) Persons with print disabilities*
b) Persons with dyslexia
c) Persons with physical disabilities
d) Persons with visual disabilities
.
118. Which country launched the KN-11 ballistic missile
from a submarine in Sea of Japan?
a) Japan
b) North Korea*
c) China
d) South Korea
.
119. Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) recently banned a country from competing at September’s Paralympics in Rio. Name it.
a) China
b) Russia*
c) North Korea
d) Pakistan
.
120. Two-day SAARC Finance Ministers’ Conference began in
a) New Delhi
b) Colombo
c) Dhaka
d) Islamabad*
.
Note: * indicates right answer.
a) 11 August
b) 12 August*
c) 13 August
d) 14 August
.
2. Which State Government approved 33 percent
reservation to women in urban local bodies?
a) Assam
b) Tripura
c) Nagaland*
d) Manipur
.
3. This State Government decided to make Aadhar Card mandatory for procurement of paddy from farmers?
a) Odisha*
b) Telangana
c) Karnataka
d) Rajasthan
.
4. Identify the Chinese table tennis champion who
became the fifth male player to complete the Grand Slam by winning gold medal in Rio Olympics 2016.
a) Ma Long*
b) Zhang Jike
c) Zhou Qi
d) Sun Kye
.
5. These two South American countries agreed to reopen pedestrian border that was closed in 2015 to curb smuggling.
a) Colombia and Peru
b) Venezuela and Brazil
c) Peru and Argentina
d) Venezuela and Colombia*
.
6. The 2016 World Bio-Fuel Day was celebrated on
a) 10 August*
b) 11 August
c) 12 August
d) 13 August
.
7. In which city of Andhra Pradesh, the Nasscom
launched operations of Startup Warehouse under its 10000 startup initiative by 2020.
a) Visakhapatnam*
b) Amaravati
c) Tirupati
d) Kurnool
.
8. To which country Russia delivered S-400 Triumph
missile systems?
a) Azerbaijan
b) Crimea*
c) Armenia
d) Latvia
.
9. Which of the following was documented as the oldest living vertebrate on the planet?
a) Greenland shark*
b) Blue Whale
c) Galápagos tortoise
d) African elephant
.
10. As per the CSO data, the Consumer Price Inflation for July 2016 rose to
a) 4.07%
b) 5.07%
c) 6.07% *
d) 7.07%
.
11. Antrix Corporation Limited that was in news is related to which of the following organsiations?
a) Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
b) Indian Space Research Organisation*
c) Medical Council of India
d) Defence Research Development Organisation
.
12. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated a
data bank portal for which of the following enterprises?
a) Micro enterprises
b) Small enterprises
c) Medium enterprises
d) All of the above*
.
13. Who was appointed as the head of committee on FDI norms pertaining to e-commerce industry?
a) Madhav Chitale
b) Ananad Desai
c) Amitabh Kant*
d) N K Singh
.
14. Who topped the 100 Richest Tech Billionaires In The World 2016 List of Forbes?
a) Mark Zuckerberg
b) Bill Gates*
c) Azim Premji
d) Shiv Nadar
.
15. Identify India’s top squash player who won the PSA Australian Open in Melbourne.
a) Dipika Pallikal*
b) Joshna Chinappa
c) L S Settipalli
d) None of them
.
16. In which city India’s first BIO-CNG plant was
inaugurated?
a) Hyderabad
b) Pune*
c) Kolkata
d) Bengaluru
.
17. The National Committee on Trade Facilitation related to which international organisation?
a) World Trade Organisation*
b) International Monetary Fund
c) World Bank
d) World Economic Forum
.
18. Who won the gold medal in men’s singles tennis
category in Rio 2016 Olympic Games?
a) Noval Djokovic
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Andy Murray*
d) Juan Martin Del Potro
.
19. Which company inaugurated India’s facility to produce Nickel metal of LME grade from primary resource at
Ghatsila in Jharkhand?
a) Steel Authority of India Limited
b) Hindustan Copper Limited*
c) Rashtriya Ispat Nigam
d) Jindal Steel and Power
.
20. Who will head the National Committee on Trade
Facilitation that was formed by the Union Government?
a) Union Cabinet Secretary*
b) Union Commerce Secretary
c) Union Finance Secretary
d) Foreign Secretary
.
21. Which country launched the world's first quantum
satellite named Quantum Experiments at Space Scaler (QUESS) satellite in August 2016?
a) Japan
b) United States
c) China*
d) India
.
22. Which Bank launched the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) based *99# Mobile Application for basic banking needs?
a) State Bank of India
b) Oriental Bank of Commerce
c) Bank of Baroda
d) Union Bank of India*
.
23. Name the eminent poet and lyricist who passed away in August 2016 and penned a novel titled Silk City in Tamil?
a) T Balumahendra
b) S K Seeman
c) Velainu Vandhutta
d) Na Muthukumar*
.
24. Who created a world record of 82.29m in women’s
hammer throw to win gold at Rio Olympics?
a) Anita Wlodarczyk*
b) Sophie Hitchon
c) Wenxiu Zhang
d) None of the above
.
25. Which state government recently launched a mobile application for its Kanyashree Prakalpa project?
a) Odisha
b) West Bengal*
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Maharashtra
.
26. Usain Bolt won gold in men’s 100-metre final at the Rio Olympics. He belongs to which country?
a) Anguilla
b) Barbados
c) Jamaica*
d) Puerto Rico
.
27. Name the head of Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha who died recently.
a) Yogiji Maharaj
b) Shastriji Maharaj
c) Gunatitanand Swami
d) Pramukh Swami Maharaj*
.
28. Who won gold in Men's omnium track cycling at Rio Olympics?
a) Elia Viviani*
b) Mark Cavendish
c) Lasse Norman Hansen
d) Roger Kluge
.
29. Who was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court in August 2016?
a) DH Waghela
b) Sujata Manohar
c) Manjula Chellur*
d) Sushant Rohilla
.
30. Anita Wlodarczyk who created a world record of
82.29m in women’s hammer throw to win gold at Rio
Olympics belongs to which country?
a) Denmark
b) Poland*
c) Russia
d) Germany
.
.
31. Identify the city which was not one of the 10 cities
selected under the Smart Ganga City Scheme of the Union Government.
a) Haridwar
b) Rishikesh
c) Mathura-Vrindavan
d) Kolkata*
.
32. Who headed the NGT committee to assess the damage caused by the World Culture Festival of Art of Living Foundation to the Yamuna flood plain in March 2016?
a) Shashi Shekhar*
b) Madhav Chitale
c) Arvind Subramanian
d) Anand Desai
.
33. Which city is hosting the SAARC Youth Parliamentarians Conference on Peace and Harmony for Development 2016?
a) Dhaka
b) New Delhi
c) Colombo
d) Islamabad*
.
34. The only Indian cricketer who figured in the Top 10 Test Player Rankings of the ICC?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Ajinkya Rahane*
c) R Ashwin
d) Murali Vijay
.
35. A Federal Supreme Court justice authorized corruption probe against Dilma Rousseff. She is the president of
a) Argentina
b) Brazil*
c) Chile
d) Columbia
.
36. Which city hosted the 1st National Conference of
Investigating Agencies?
a) Mumbai
b) Hyderabad
c) Bengaluru
d) New Delhi*
.
37. Name the Hollywood actress who starred as Eva in 1958 film The Gun Runners and passed away in August 2016.
a) Eddie Albert
b) Tracie May
c) Patricia Sullivan
d) Gita Hall*
.
38. Name the person who bagged the APJ Abdul Kalam Award for meritorious services in the Higher Education
Department of Tamil Nadu?
a) Hansraj Verma
b) Kalpana Chawla
c) RB Udhayakumar
d) P Shanmugam*
.
39. Unilever, the parent company of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), in August 2016 acquired which air purification company?
a) Pureit
b) AirQuick
c) Blueair*
d) Odonil
.
40. Name the Malayalam script writer who died in August 2016 and won the state film award for best screenplay in 1996 for the film Kanakkinavu?
a) T A Rasaq*
b) SR Bappu
c) Vazhayil Khadeeja
d) Pinarayi Vijayan
.
41. Name the Indian tennis doubles pair that won the
Abierto Mexicano Los Cabos title.
a) Purav Raja and Divij Sharan*
b) Vishnu Vardhan and Srinivasan Vasudevan
c) Saketh Myneni and Divij Sharan
d) Jaidip Mukerjea and Divij Sharan
.
42. Name the American artistic gymnast who won gold in the Floor Exercise event at Rio Olympics.
a) Amy Tinkler
b) Simone Biles*
c) Alexandra Raisman
d) Ecaterina Szabo
.
43. Name the former FIFA president and IOC member who died recently.
a) Sepp Blatter
b) Stanley Rous
c) Joao Havelange*
d) None of the above
.
44. Name the Indian music composer who was recently honoured with the Tamil Ratna Award.
a) Yuvan Shankar Raja
b) Santhosh Narayanan
c) Anirudh Ravichander
d) A R Rahman*
.
45. Name the renowned Punjabi writer and Jnanpith
awardee who passed away recently.
a) Gurdial Singh*
b) Kartar Singh Duggal
c) Komail Singh Somal
d) None of the above
.
46. Which of the following entity was incorporated as the first PSU under the Department of Posts?
a) India Post Payments Bank Limited*
b) India Small Finance Bank Limited
c) India Post and Telegraph Limited
d) India Remittance Bank Limited
.
47. Union Government launched the TARANG mobile
application to
a) Track power transmission projects*
b) Receive complaints from telecom users
c) Monitor central sector schemes
d) Facilitate business to business services
.
48. Which international quasi-judicial body recently banned wrestler Narsingh Yadav for four years following an appeal
by World Anti-Doping Agency?
a) United States Merit Systems Protection Board
b) Court of Arbitration for Sport*
c) International Narcotics Control Board
d) None of the above
.
49. The State Bank of India Board approved merger of this bank with itself
a) Kotak Mahindra Bank
b) Yes Bank
c) Bharatiya Mahila Bank*
d) Canara Bank
.
50. Who won the men’s 200m gold in the 2016 Rio
Olympics?
a) Adam Gemili
b) Michael Johnson
c) Colin Jackson
d) Usain Bolt*
.
51. Who among the following became the first Indian
badminton player to enter the women’s singles finals in Olympics?
a) Saina Nehwal
b) P V Sindhu*
c) Jwala Gutta
d) Shruti Kurien
.
52. With which country India signed a short-term route
agreement for petroleum products?
a) Nepal
b) Afghanistan
c) Bangladesh*
d) Bhutan
.
53. Union Ministry of Power launched the e-Trans web portal to
a) Track power availability for farmers
b) Facilitate e-bidding of projects*
c) Develop green energy corridors
d) Facilitate monitoring of thermal power plants
.
54. Who was selected for 2016 Sangeet Martand Ustad Chand Khan Lifetime Achievement Award?
a) Satish Vyas
b) Tarun Bhattacharya
c) Shiv Kumar Sharma*
d) Bhajan Sopori
.
55. What was the theme of the World Humanitarian Day that was observed on 19 August 2016?
a) The World You’d Rather
b) Inspiring the World's Humanity
c) Shared Humanity
d) One Humanity*
.
56. Name the world’s largest airship that recently made its maiden voyage in England.
a) Airlander 5
b) Airlander 11
c) Airlander 10*
d) Airlander 8
.
57. Name the Indian female wrestler who won the bronze medal in the 58 kg category at the Olympic Games in Rio.
a) Geeta Phogat
b) Sakshi Malik*
c) Geetika Jakhar
d) Geeta Singh
.
58. The Court of Arbitration for Sport recently banned
wrestler Narsingh Yadav for four years following an appeal by World Anti-Doping Agency. Identify the country in which the Court of Arbitration for Sport is located.
a) Lausanne, Switzerland*
b) Paris, France
c) Zurich, Switzerland
d) Hague, The Netherlands
.
59. Which state government will confer Indian wrestler
Sakshi Malik with Rani Laxmi Bai Award for winning a
medal in Rio Olympics?
a) Uttar Pradesh*
b) Haryana
c) Maharashtra
d) Punjab
.
60. The Union Ministry of Power launched the e-bidding portal DEEP for
a) Medium term purchase of power*
b) Long term purchase of power
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
.
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61. Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin recently became the first
Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal. She won the
bronze medal in which sport?
a) Taekwondo*
b) Badminton
c) Tennis
d) Swimming
.
62. Who won gold in the taekwondo event in the 57kg
category at the Rio Olympics?
a) Nikita Glasnovic
b) Eva Calvo Gomez
c) Jade Jones*
d) None of the above
.
63. Which country won the gold medal in women's football event at the Rio Olympics?
a) Germany*
b) Great Britain
c) France
d) Sweden
.
64. P V Sindhu recently secured a silver medal for India at the Rio Olympics. She is associated with which of the following sports?
a) Tennis
b) Squash
c) Badminton*
d) Wrestling
.
65. India ranks at which spot in the 9th edition Global
Innovation Index that released recently?
a) 25th
b) 66th*
c) 67th
d) 84th
.
66. The Union Ministry of Mines launched a web portal for star rating of major mineral mines. The system was developed with the help of which of the following companies?
a) NASSCOM
b) IBM
c) Wipro
d) National Institute of Smart Governance*
.
67. Badminton player P V Sindhu recently won historic
silver medal in women’s singles badminton event at Rio Olympics. Who won gold in the event?
a) Wang Yihan
b) Sain Nehwal
c) Carolina Marin*
d) Dolores Marco
.
68. Which Indian cricketer was recently made an honorary member of the esteemed Marylebone Cricket Club?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Virat Kohli
c) M S Dhoni
d) Virender Sehwag*
.
69. Which educational institute adopted five villages under the Namami Gange Programme to deploy its expertise to limit the flow of sewage into River Ganga?
a) IIT-Kanpur*
b) IIT-Patna
c) IIT-Mandi
d) None of the above
.
70. A two-day meeting of BRICS Women
Parliamentarian's Forum will be held in which city?
a) Lucknow
b) Udaipur
c) Jaipur*
d) Varanasi
.
71. The United States of America recently advised its
citizen to not to travel in certain areas of which country?
a) Afghanistan
b) Ethiopia*
c) Egypt
d) China
.
72. Which country topped the 9th edition Global
Innovation Index (GII) 2016 that was released recently?
a) The United States of America
b) Finland
c) Germany
d) Switzerland*
.
73. Identify the athlete who became the first Iranian
woman to win an Olympic medal recently.
a) Mahsa Javar
b) Najmeh Khedmati
c) Leila Rajabi
d) Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin*
.
74. Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma will be conferred upon
with the annual Sangeet Martand Ustad Chand Khan
Lifetime Achievement. He is associated with which of the following musical instruments?
a) Santoor*
b) Tabla
c) Sarod
d) Sitar
.
75. India’s first comprehensive Crime Criminal Tracking Network System was recently launched by which state government?
a) Chhattisgarh
b) Punjab
c) Odisha
d) Maharashtra*
.
76. Pink Bollworm pest that has been in news affects
a) Cotton
b) Tobacco
c) Both (a) & (b)*
d) None of them
.
77. Who authored the book Life In Diplomacy?
a) Natwar Singh
b) M K Rasgotra*
c) Shashi Tharoor
d) Karan Singh
.
78. Which country accounted for the highest share of
tourist arrivals in India?
a) Sri Lanka
b) Nepal
c) Bhutan
d) Bangladesh*
.
79. 1000 MW Turga hydel project that was approved by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) will be located in
a) Karnataka
b) West Bengal*
c) Punjab
d) Telangana
.
80. Name the author who was awarded with the
prestigious Vyas Samman 2015?
a) K N Tripathi
b) Sunita Jain*
c) Vishwanath Tiwari
d) Mrinal Pande
.
81. Who was appointed as India's Ambassador to Georgia in August 2016?
a) Yogeshwar Sangwan*
b) VK Duggal
c) VP Singh Badnore
d) Najma Heptulla
.
82. Name the Odia actor and director who died in August 2016 and began his career with the movie Kedar Gouri in 1954?
a) Raja Pattnaik
b) Tatwa Prakash Satapathy
c) Subhakanta Sahu
d) Gobind Tej*
.
83. Name the former international umpire who passed
away in August 2016?
a) Hillel Awaskar
b) Amiesh Saheba
c) Shyam Bansal
d) Subrata Banerjee*
.
84. Who of the following was appointed as the 24th
governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?
a) Arvind Subramanian
b) Arvind Panagariya
c) Arundhati Bhattacharya
d) Urjit R Patel*
.
85. BRICS women parliamentarians’ forum was held in
which city of India?
a) Delhi
b) Jaipur*
c) Hyderabad
d) Chennai
.
86. A group of researchers discovered a new species of eel, Gymnothorax indicus, from which of the following bays?
a) Bay of Bengal*
b) Manila Bay
c) Ago Bay
d) Mappila Bay
.
87. Name the all-in-one virtual reality solution launched by Intel to create merged reality.
a) Bixon
b) Alloy*
c) Steel
d) Graphite
.
88. The 2016 Summer Olympics recently concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Which country topped the medal table?
a) China
b) Canada
c) The United States*
d) Great Britain
.
89. Which Indian actor is chosen for the prestigious
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight in the
National Order Arts and Letters)?
a) Amitabh Bachchan
b) Rajinikanth
c) Ranveer Singh
d) Kamal Haasan*
.
90. The President of Indian Olympic Association was
recently awarded the Olympic Order for his outstanding services to the Olympic movement. What is his name?
a) N. Ramachandran*
b) Vijay Kumar Malhotra
c) Abhay Singh Chautala
d) None of the above
.
.
91. Which of the following cities will host the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup?
a) Ahmedabad*
b) Pune
c) Mumbai
d) Sri Muktsar Sahib
.
92. Who was recently appointed the Vice Chancellor of the Homi Bhabha National Institute?
a) Ravi Grover
b) P D Gupta*
c) Ravi Juneja
d) None of the above
.
93. Name the Belgian jazz musician, mostly known for harmonica playing, who died recently.
a) Sidney Bechet
b) Max Roach
c) Toots Thielemans*
d) Miles Davis
.
94. Name the journalist, considered the ‘dean of black press columnists’, who passed away recently.
a) William Raspberry
b) John H. Johnson
c) Robert C. Maynard
d) George E. Curry*
.
95. Who was recently sworn in as the Governor of Assam?
a) Banwarilal Purohit*
b) V P Singh Badnore
c) Kaptan Singh Solanki
d) Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya
.
96. Who was recently sworn in as the Governor of Punjab?
a) Banwarilal Purohit
b) V P Singh Badnore*
c) Kaptan Singh Solanki
d) Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya
.
97. India in August 2016 signed agreement with which country to foster conditions that will help create and improve workplace-based vocational training in India's industrial clusters?
a) Japan
b) Germany*
c) China
d) Taiwan
.
98. Who was sworn in as the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in August 2016?
a) Girish Chandra Gupta
b) Banwarilal Purohit
c) V P Singh Badnore
d) Jagdish Mukhi*
.
99. Name the Indian-origin President of Singapore who died in August 2016 and was the sixth and longest-serving President of Singapore.
a) S R Nathan*
b) Puan Nganapandithan
c) Gurdip Singh
d) Virinder K. Moudgil
.
100. Who of the following was not elected for the 2016 Dronacharya Awards that will be conferred by the President Pranab Mukherjee on National Sports Day?
a) Sagar Mal Dhayal
b) Nagapuri Ramesh
c) Bishweshwar Nandi
d) Pullela Gopichand*
.
101. Who of the following was not selected for 2016 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna?
a) PV Sindhu
b) Dipa Karmakar
c) Jitu Rai
d) Shiva Thapa*
.
102. Who of the following was not selected for 2016 Arjuna Awards?
a) Rajat Chauhan
b) Dipa Karmakar*
c) Lalita Babar
d) Ajinkya Rahane
.
103. Who of the following was not selected for 2015 Dhyan Chand Award?
a) Apurvi Chandela*
b) Satti Geetha
c) Sylvanus Dung Dung
d) Rajendra Pralhad Shelke
.
104. Who of the following was adjudged as the man of the series of four-match Test Series between India and West Indies?
a) Virat Kohli
b) Ravichandran Ashwin*
c) Roston Chase
d) Shikhar Dhawan
.
105. Name the typhoon that made landfall near Tateyama City in Chiba Prefecture south of Tokyo in August 2016.
a) Haiyan
b) Ophelia
c) Mindulle*
d) Mike
.
106. United States has announced 138 million dollar new aid to a country. Name it.
a) South Sudan*
b) Kenya
c) Uganda
d) Sudan
.
107. Identify the State that issued a draft notification for creation of 17 new districts.
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana*
c) Karnataka
d) Tamil Nadu
.
108. Identify the Indian tennis player who topped the WTA women’s doubles ranking.
a) Sania Mirza*
b) Rushmi Chakravarthi
c) Tara Iyer
d) Prarthana Thombare
.
109. Identify the company that acquired the cement
business of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd?
a) UltraTech Cement
b) Ambuja Cements
c) Ramco Cements
d) Birla Corporation Limited*
.
110. Who was appointed as the head of the task force by the Union Government to study the structure of organised Group A Central services?
a) Vijay Kelkar
b) T Jacob*
c) Justice A P Shah
d) T K Prasad
.
111. Which state launched the DNA Index System for DNA profiling of criminals in August 2016?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Rajasthan
c) Andhra Pradesh*
d) Haryana
.
112. India is ranked at which place in the W10 report 2016 released by New World Wealth?
a) Second
b) Fourth
c) Seventh*
d) Ninth
.
113. When the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition was observed globally?
a) 20 August
b) 21 August
c) 22 August
d) 23 August*
.
114. The Airport Authority of India signed a MoU with which state for successful launch of the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) of the Union Government?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Odisha
c) Maharashtra*
d) Rajasthan
.
115. Name the two states that signed MoU to build three barrages for water utilization of Godavari River and its tributaries.
a) Telangana and Goa
b) Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
c) Telangana and Maharashtra*
d) Maharashtra and Goa
.
116. Indian-origin politician Sellapan Ramanathan who
died in the recent past was the former president of which nation?
a) Singapore*
b) Malaysia
c) Indonesia
d) Thailand
.
117. Union Government launched ‘Sugamaya Pustakalaya’ online library to serve
a) Persons with print disabilities*
b) Persons with dyslexia
c) Persons with physical disabilities
d) Persons with visual disabilities
.
118. Which country launched the KN-11 ballistic missile
from a submarine in Sea of Japan?
a) Japan
b) North Korea*
c) China
d) South Korea
.
119. Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) recently banned a country from competing at September’s Paralympics in Rio. Name it.
a) China
b) Russia*
c) North Korea
d) Pakistan
.
120. Two-day SAARC Finance Ministers’ Conference began in
a) New Delhi
b) Colombo
c) Dhaka
d) Islamabad*
.
Note: * indicates right answer.
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