Sergey Karjakin
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1 Which state has launched a scheme ‘Adapting Homes for the Differently abled’
recently?
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1) Punjab
2) Haryana
3) Rajasthan
4) Bihar
5) Uttar Pradesh
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Answer:- 2)
Haryana
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2 Who among the
following has won the best actor award
at the 63rd National Film Awards?
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1) Ranbir Kapoor
2) Salman Khan
3) Amitabh
Bachchan
4) Aamir Khan
5) Ranveer Singh
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Answer:- 3)
Amitabh Bachchan
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3 Who among the
following won the Player of the Year
(Men) honour at the second Hockey India Annual Awards for 2015?
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1) Manpreet Singh
2) Akashdeep
Singh
3) Birendra Lakra
4) PR Srejesh
5) Dipsan Tirkey
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Answer:- 4) PR
Srejesh
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4 Which of the
following films has won the Best Film
award at the 63rd National Film Awards?
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1) Tanu Weds Manu
Returns
2) Bajirao
Mastani
3) Piku
4) Bajrangi
Bhaijaan
5) Baahubali
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Answer:- 5)
Baahubali
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5 Charles Michel is the current Prime Minister of
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1) Spain
2) Belgium
3) Sweden
4) Norway
5) Denmark
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Answer:- 2)
Belgium
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6 Indian-American Nandita Bakshi has
been appointed the President and Chief
Executive Officer of Bank of the West which is a unit of French banking
giant
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1) Deutsche Bank
2) CITI Bank
3) Standard
Chartered
4) BNP Paribas
5) Morgan Stanley
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Answer:- 4) BNP
Paribas
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7 The Health
Ministry launched the country’s first,
indigenous rotavirus vaccine to combat diarrhoeal deaths. Who among the
following is the current Union Health
Minister?
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1) Suresh Prabhu
2) Nitin Jairam
Gadkari
3) Venkaiah Naidu
4) JP Nadda
5) Harsh Vardhan
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Answer:- 4) JP
Nadda
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8 The capital city of Syria is
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1) Tirana
2) Luanda
3) Damascus
4) Yerevan
5) Nassau
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Answer:- 3)
Damascus
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9 The private
sector lender Federal Bank is opening
incubation centres for startups in Bangalore and Ernakulam. The bank is headquartered at
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1) Kochi
2) Bengaluru
3) Chennai
4) Hyderabad
5) Kolkata
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Answer:- 1) Kochi
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10 The president
Pranab Mukherjee conferred Padma awards recently. Who among the following is NOT a recipient of Padma Vibhushan this year?
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1) Ramoji Rao
2) Jagmohan
3) Shri Shri Ravi
Shankar
4) Yamini
Krishnamurthy
5) None of these
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Answer:- 5) None
of these
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11 Name the India-origin person who has been
named by the UN Human Rights Council
as an adviser to one of its working groups.
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1) Surya Deva
2) HL Dattu
3) KG
Balakrishnan
4) Syed
Akbaruddin
5) Asoke Kumar
Mukerji
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Answer:- 1) Surya
Deva
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12 PM Narendra Modi on 29 Mar left for a three-nation tour
to Belgium, United States and
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1) Iran
2) Israel
3) Sweden
4) Saudi Arabia
5) UAE
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Answer:- 4) Saudi
Arabia
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13 Who among the
following won the Player of the Year
(Women) honour at the second Hockey India Annual Awards?
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1) Savita
2) Deepika
3) Rani
4) Ritu Rani
5) Preeti Dubey
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Answer:- 2)
Deepika
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14 Who among the
following won the Best Actress award
at the 63rd National Film Awards?
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1) Tamanna Bhatia
(Baahubali)
2) Priyanka
Chopra (Bajirao Mastani)
3) Deepika
Padukone (Piku)
4) Kangana Ranaut
(Tanu Weds Manu Returns)
5) Anushka Sharma
(pk)
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Answer:- 4)
Kangana Ranaut (Tanu Weds Manu Returns)
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15 India has
decided to adopt a national emergency
number, similar to ‘911’ in the US and ‘999’ in the UK. The number chosen
for the purpose is
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1) 112
2) 108
3) 102
4) 101
5) 100
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Answer:- 1) 112
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16 Jiji Mammen is the present CEO of which of the following
financial institutions?
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1) SIDBI
2) NABARD
3) MUDRA Bank
4) IDBI Bank
5) NPCI
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Answer:- 3) MUDRA
Bank
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17 The govt recently permitted what per cent FDI
in the market place format of e-commerce retailing with a view to attract
more foreign investments?
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1) 26 per cent
2) 49 per cent
3) 51 per cent
4) 74 per cent
5) 100 per cent
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Answer:- 5) 100
per cent
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18 Who among the
following won 2016 World Chess
Candidates Tournament?
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1) Magnus Carlsen
2) Fabiano
Caruana
3) Peter Svidler
4) Sergey
Karjakin
5) Viswanathan
Anand
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Answer:- 4)
Sergey Karjakin
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19 The USAID and the ADB recently signed an MoU
to provide _______ of funding for the development
of solar parks across India.
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1) $550 mn
2) $624 mn
3) $688 mn
4) $784 mn
5) $848 mn
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Answer:- 5) $848
mn
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20 The Defence
Expo India-2016, the country's biggest
land, naval and homeland security exhibition, was held recently in
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1) Hyderabad
2) Goa
3) New Delhi
4) Andaman &
Nicobar
5) Puducherry
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Answer:- 2) Goa
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