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SSC CGL 2020 – Current Affairs Marathon – PART I

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October Current Affairs Marathon

Q.1) Recently Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur launched the Pragati Rath of which bank?

a) SBI

b) IDBI Bank

c) HDFC Bank

d) PNB

Q.2) Recently which state gets in-principle nod from Centre to set up its first SEZ at Sabroom?

a) Tripura

b) Mizoram

c) Assam

d) Odisha

Q.3) Who has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology?

a) William G. Kaelin Jr

b) Gregg L. Semenza

c) Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe

d) All of the above

Q.4) Which city hosted the 39th World Congress of Poets?

a) Bhubaneswar

b) Kochi

c) Lucknow

d) Kanpur

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Q.5) What is the rank of India in the Global Firepower Index 2019?

a) 4th

b) 5th

c) 3rd

d) 7th

Q.6) Who is the author of book “India and the Netherlands – Past, Present and Future”?

a) Gopal Ayer

b) VenuRajamony

c) Rishi Raj

d) NK Chaturvedi

Q.7) Which state government launched an awareness campaign — Urjagiri

— which aims at stopping power theft and saving?

a) Bihar

b) Uttarakhand

c) Odisha

d) Maharashtra

Q.8) Recently government launched which portal for monitoring coal

supply to power plants?

a) PRANJAY

b) PRAKASH

c) VARUN

d) CHAMAK

Q.9) Who has been appointed as the Principal Director General of Press Information Bureau?





a) NKSingh

b) KS Dhatwalia

c) Vikas Chaturvedi

d) Rajesh Kumar Vyas

Q.10) What is the theme of this year’s World Teachers Day 2019?

a) Transformation of Education

b Young Teachers: The future of the Profession

c) Teachers evolving Education lives

d) Young and Energetic Teachers

Q.11) The exercise KAZIND is a exercise between India and which other country?

a) Uzbekistan

b) Kazakhstan

c) Afghanistan

d) China

Q.12) Who has won Russian Grand Prix?

a) Nico Rosberg

b) Lewis Hamilton

c) Sebastian Vettel

d) Valtteri Bottas

Q.13) What is the theme of this year’s Wildlife Week?

a) Water and Living

b) Life below water: for people and planet

c) Save Environment

d) Life is Water

Q.14) Recently Union Home Minister Amit Shah flagged off Vande Bharat Express from which city/UT to Shri Mata VaishnodeviKatra?





a) Kanpur

b) New Delhi

c) Mumbai

d) Lucknow

Q.15) Which country unveiled the DF-41 intercontinental-range ballistic missile?

a) China

b) India

c) USA

d) Russia

Q.16) Recently Indian men’s hockey team defeated which country to

maintain their 100 percent record in the tour?

a) Australia

b) Belgium

c) Netherlands

d) Canada

Q.17) Who was presented with most effective Swachchta Ambassador

Award by President Ram Nath Kovind?

a) Saurav Ganguly

b) Sachin Tendulkar

c) MS Dhoni

d) Virat Kohli

Q.18) What is the interest rate for Public Provident Fund for the third quarter of FY 20?

a) 8.0%





b) 7.9%

c) 7.7%

d) 8.1%

Q.19) Recently Ram Vilas Paswan launched which application for registering consumer grievances?

a) Grievence App

b) Consumer App

c) Consumer Grievance App

d) Consumer Redressing App

Q.20) The World Tournoi satellite competition is being held in which country?

a) Thailand

b) Canada

c) Belgium

d) Singapore

Q.21) Recently Indian Army biggest mountain combat exercise ‘Him Vijay’ held in which state?

a) Manipur

b) Arunachal Pradesh

c) Sikkim

d) Assam

Q.22) On the occasion of which birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi,PM Modi

declared India to be an ‘open defecation free’ (ODF) country?

a) 100th

b) 150th

c) 175th

d) 155th





Q.23) The 14th edition of Indo – Mongolian joint military training “Nomadic

Elephant” held in which state?

a) Himachal Pradesh

b) Kerala

c) Tamil Nadu

d) Gujarat

Q.24) Recently as per Railway Minister Piyush Goyal,India Railways will connect the country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari by which year?

a) 2025

b) 2022

c) 2024

d) 2021

Q.25) Recently Jessie Norman passed away.She was related to which field?

a) Opera star

b) Author

c) Philosophy

d) Actress

Q.26) Peddapalli district of which state topped the rural Swachhta survey?

a) Bihar

b) Assam

c) Telangana

d) Tamil Nadu

Q.27) Which state retained its top place in Niti Aayog’s School Education Quality Index (SEQI)?

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Kerala





c) Tamil Nadu

d) Assam

Q.28) Which state government launched the YSR Vahana Mitra scheme?

a) Assam

b) Tamil Nadu

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Odisha

Q.29) Which state has recently has launched five new schemes like MukhyamantriSuposhanAbhiyaan on October 2 to mark the 150th birth anniversary

of Mahatma Gandhi?

a) Odisha

b) Chhattisgarh

c) Bihar

d) Assam

Q.30) Recently CMYogi Adityanath flagged off Tejas Express from Lucknow to which city/UT?

a) New Delhi

b) Jammu

c) Kanpur

d) Varanasi

Q.31) Which state government launched a campaign to make state pothole-free?

a) Maharashtra

b) Delhi

c) Jharkhand

d) Bihar

Q.32) Who was appointed as executive director for India at International Monetary Fund?





a) TN Manoharan

b) Surjit S Bhalla

c) Amitabh Kant

d) Rakesh Singh

Q.33) Which state government has launched the ‘Village Secretariat system’?

a) Assam

b) Andhra Pradesh

c) Telangana

d) Odisha

Q.34) Recently Claudio Marchisio announced his retirement from which sport?

a) Cricket

b) Football

c) Tennis

d) Basketball

Q.35) Which city to host National Health Informatics Meet in 2020?

a) Mumbai

b) Kochi

c) Pune

d) Kolkata

Q.36) Who has been appointed as new PM of Portugal?

a) Antonia Costa

b) Marcelo Vieeera

c) Pedro Passos

d) Anibal Cavaco

Q.37) Which state recently launched the ‘Plants for Plastic’ campaign?

a) Assam





b) Bihar

c) Maharashtra

d) Sikkim

Q.38) What is the theme of this year’s World Space Week?

a) Earth and Sun

b) The Moon: Gateway to the Stars

c) Space:The Universe

d) Planets and Galaxies

Q.39) Recently Smriti Irani inaugurated world’s largest plastic made charkha in which city/UT?

a) New Delhi

b) Kolkata

c) Noida

d) Lucknow

Q.40) Who was appointed the chief executive officer of MyGov India, the government’s citizen-centric online platform?

a) Abhimanyu Pratap

b) Abhishek Singh

c) Vikas Singh

d) Rajesh Singh Chaturvedi

Q.41) Recently the NBA is bringing India’s first-ever Floating Basketball Court in

which city/UT?

a) Mumbai

b) New Delhi

c) Pune

d) Chennai

Q.42) Recently the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in collaboration with the

Union Health Ministry launched which application on oral health awareness?





a) Oral Hygiene

b) e-DantSeva

c) EOral

d) eDant

Q.43) The exercise Ekuverin is between India and which other country?

a) Maldives

b) Mauritius

c) Thailand

d) Singapore

Q.44) Who scripted history by scoring the highest-ever individual score in women’s T20I?

a) Alyssa Healy

b) Ellese Perry

c) Mithali Raj

d) SuzieBates

Q.45) Recently Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has launched DIN.What does “I” stands in DIN?

a) Identification

b) Imagine

c) Identity

d) Immediate

Q.46) Recently Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Harsh Vardhan and Harsimrat Kaur

Badal flagged off which express at New Delhi Railway Station?

a) Sher E Punjab Express

b) Sarbat Da Bhala Express

c) Shatabdi Express

d) Tejas Express





Q.47) Recently Tourism Ministry launched which application for 12 sites of India on

occasion of Paryatan Parv 2019?

a) Audio Odigos

b) Audio Sarang

c) Audio Vars

d) Audio Oreo

Q.48) Who will head the panel set up by IRDA to standardise title insurance for home buyers in India?

a) TL Alamelu

b) TN Bakshi

c) NK Singh

d) VR Bhanushali

Q.49) Which became the first state to launch policy on Pneumoconiosis?

a) Tamil Nadu

b) Rajasthan

c) Haryana

d) Bihar

Q.50) Recently which platform got Corporate Agency license from Insurance

Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA).?

a) Mobikwik

b) InstantPay

c) Paytm

d) Freecharge

Q.51) Who will head the committee that has been setup to prepare the contours of a new industrial policy to make India a manufacturing hub?

a) Amitabh Kant





b) Guruprasad Mohapatra

c) PV Bharathi

d) TN Manoharan

Q.52) Who is the author of book “The Tech Whisperer”?

a) TV Shah

b) Jaspreet Bindra

c) MK Haroon

d) Manoj Sinha

Q.53) Who has become the 1st Indian to play 100 T20 International matches?

a) Smriti Mandhana

b) Mithali Raj

c) Jhulan Goswami

d) Harmanpreet Kaur

Q.54) Which city railway station topped the list of cleanest railway stations in the

country, as per a report ‘Swachh Rail, Swachh Bharat 2019’ released by Ministry of Railways?

a) Indore

b) Jaipur

c) Lucknow

d) Bhopal

Q.55) In which city,India’s first e waste clinic will be set up?

a) Lucknow

b) Bhopal

c) Gorakhpur

d) Indore

Q.56) Recently PM Modi inaugurated metro service and ENT hospital in which country?





a) Thailand

b) Netherlands

c) Mauritius

d) Bhutan

Q.57) Who has won women’s China Open 2019?

a) PV Sindhu

b) Naomi Osaka

c) Ashleigh Barty

d) Sania Mirza

Q.58) Recently Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched which initiative to connect with stakeholders of of the rivers?

a) Ganga Rejuvenation

b) Swach Ganga

c) Ganga Amantaran

d) Pavitra Ganga

Q.59) Who will become the first woman referee to officiate in an International Cricket Council (ICC) event?

a) PC Chandranima

b) GS Lakshmi

c) T Lakshmi

d) Scotty Perry

Q.60) The C40 Climate Change Summit held in which country?

a) Netherlands

b) Denmark

c) Thailand

d) India





Q.61) What is the rank of India in latest Annual Global Competitiveness Index?

a) 66th

b) 64th

c) 61st

d) 68th

Q.62) Which system was recently developed by research agencies to warn fishermen of danger?

a) VIRGO

b) OKCHI

c) FENI

d) GEMINI

Q.63) Recently Arjun Bansal and which other Indian personality featured in

Fortune’s 2019 ‘40 Under 40’ list?

a) Ritesh Agarwal

b) Ankiti Bansal

c) Vinod Singh

d) Indra Nooyi

Q.64) The FIA Women’s Grand Prix 2019 held in which country?

a) Russia

b) India

c) USA

d) France

Q.65) India’s first plastic to diesel conversation plant to be operational in which city?

a) Mathura

b) Indore

c) Bhopal





d) Surat

Q.66) What is the theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day?

a) Young people and mental health

b) Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention

c) Mobilizing efforts for mental health

d) Mental Health in the Workplace

Q.67) Who will head the high level inter-ministerial committee to check money laundering activities?

a) TN Manoharan

b) Ajay Bhushan Pandey

c) Ajay Tyagi

d) NK Singh

Q.68) Recently which company received a licence from the Reserve Bank of India to

set up a non-banking financial company?

a) Shubh Loans

b) Ekgrata

c) Fincare

d) Manapurram Finance

Q.69) Who won men’s singles title at the Bahrain International Series Badminton at

Isa Town, Bahrain?

a) Lakshya Sen

b) PriyanshuRajawat

c) Vinayak Raj

d) Ranjit Singh Chaturvedi

Q.70) The 2nd phase of an Indo-Dutch project called Local Treatment of Urban Sewage Streams for Healthy Reuse, or LOTUS-HR was launched in which city/UT?

a) Mumbai





b) New Delhi

c) Chennai

d) Lucknow

Q.71) The Inter Parliamentarian Union (IPU) Meeting held in which country?

a) Denmark

b) Serbia

c) South Africa

d) Thailand

Q.72) What is the theme of this year’s World Arthritis Day?

a) TimeUp

b) Time2Work

c) Arthritis around World

d) Raise awareness

Q.73) As announced by Union Minister Prakash Javedkar, Bharat Stage (BS) VI fuel

will be made available in the country from Which day?

a) April 1,2020

b) Feb 1,2020

c) Dec 31,2019

d) Jan 1,2020

Q.74) Which player has most double hundreds for an Indian batsman?

a) MS Dhoni

b) Virat Kohli

c) Rohit Sharma

d) Shikhar Dhawan

Q.75) Recently PM Abiy Ahmed Ali of which country was awarded the 2019 Nobel

Peace Prize for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation?





a) Eithopia

b) South Africa

c) Zimbabwe

d) Afghanistan

Q.76) What is the theme of this year’s International Day of the Girl Child?

a) Empower Girls:Emergency Response

b) A Skilled Girlforce

c) GirlForce: Unscripted and unstoppable

d) Girls Progress=Goals

Q.77) Recently Union Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai launched which application to facilitate railway passengers?

a) Samarth

b) Sahyatri

c) Samarg

d) Suraksha

Q.78) Which state launched Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana?

a) Odisha

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Haryana

d) Bihar

Q.79) What is theme of this year’s World Sight Day?

a) Universal Eye Health

b) Vision First

c) Eye care for All

d) Stronger Together

Q.80) Recently the government inaugurated 1st Day Care Recreation Centre for

senior citizens in which place?





a) Dehradun

b) Ladakh

c) Leh

d) Srinagar

Q.81) Recently the central government launched which scheme which assures free medicines for pregnant womens?

a) ANSH

b) SUMAN

c) ARYA

d) SHISHU

Q.82) Recently External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar inaugurated which

telecom education project for the African Countries?

a) Byju

b) e VidyaBharti

c) e BharatEdu

d) e IndiaEdu

Q.83) What is the theme of this year’s World Standards Day?

a) Standards makes cities smarter

b) International Standards and fourth Industrial Revolution

c) Video standards create a global stage

d) Cities and standards

Q.84) Which airline became first airlineglobally to use ‘Taxibot’ on Airbus flight?

a) Emirates

b) AirIndia

c) Indigo

d) Qatar Airways





Q.85) Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2019?

a) Peter Handke

b) Olga Tokarczuk

c) Esther Duflo

d) Abhijeet Banerjee

Q.86) Recently Sara Danuis passed away.She was related to which field?

a) Actress

b) Writer

c) Social Activist

d) Sports

Q.87) Which state government recently announced to set up Skills and Entrepreneurship University?

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) New Delhi

c) Bihar

d) West Bengal

Q.88) Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz; James Peebles won the 2019 Noble Prize for Physics for which of the following work?

a) For shedding light on the evolution of the universe and discovering planets

orbiting distant suns.

b) For the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.

c) For their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.

d) For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.

Q.89) Recently the 2nd edition of Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) started between

India and which other country?

a) Bangladesh





b) Nepal

c) China

d) Myanmar

Q.90) The exercise Vajra Prahar is between India and which other country?

a) Russia

b) USA

c) France

d) Sri Lanka

Q.91) What is the theme of this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction?

a) Acting together to reduce damage of disasters

b) Reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic

services

c) Home Safe Home:Reducing Disasters

d) Reducing Exposure,Reducing Displacement

Q.92) Recently PM Narendra Modi released a commemorative stamp in honour of which personality?

a) Arjan Singh

b) Veer Savarkar

c) Karambir Singh

d) Mahatma Gandhi

Q.93) Recently Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh said that India will achieve 175GW of renewable energy target by which year?

a) 2020

b) 2022

c) 2024

d) 2025

Q.94) Who won 15th World Gymnastics Championships Title?





a) Nellie Philips

b) NastiaLuikin

c) Simone Biles

d) Shannon Miller

Q.95) Eliud Kipchoge has become the 1st athlete to run sub 2-hour marathon.He belongs to which country?

a) Zimbabwe

b) Kenya

c) South Africa

d) Rwanda

Q.96) Recently RBI has given the final approval for the merger of which state

district cooperative banks?

a) Uttar Pradesh

b) Kerala

c) Odisha

d) Tamil Nadu

Q.97) Which state government launched a new eye care programme named ‘Dr.

YSR KantiVelugu’ on the occasion of World Sight Day?

a) West Bengal

b) Telangana

c) Odisha

d) Andhra Pradesh

Q.98) Who become the first country in the world to ban ads for the most unhealthy sugary drinks in its latest move to combat rising diabetes rates?

a) Singapore

b) India

c) Australia





d) USA

Q.99) Recently which company has received a non-banking financial company

(NBFC) licence from the Reserve Bank of India?

a) Credit Saison India

b) Credit Suisse India

c) L&T

d) Mahindra and Mahindra

Q.100) Recently RBI rejected which bank plan to merge with Indiabulls

Housing Finance?

a) Lakshmi Vilas Bank

b) Kotak Mahindra Bank

c) IDBI Bank

d) Federal Bank

Q.101) Recently which Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme has been launched from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Headquarters at

Bengaluru?

a) Samarth

b) Dhruv

c) Kaushal

d) Akanksha

Q.102) Recently who has been conferred with an honorary doctorate by the University of Salford in Greater Manchester, England?

a) Asha Bhosle

b) Lata Mangeshkar

c) A R Rahman

d) Arijit Singh

Q.103) Recently Bastian Schweinsteiger has announced his retirement from which sports?





a) Cricket

b) Tennis

c) Football

d) Badminton

Q.104) What is rank of India passport in the latest global passport Index released by Henley & Partners?

a) 82

b) 77

c) 80

d) 79

Q.105) Who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

a) Akira Yoshino

b) M. Stanley Whittingham

c) John B. Goodenough

d) All of the above

Q.106) Recently the Union Cabinet approved how much percent hike in DA to Central government employees?

a) 2%

b) 4%

c) 5%

d) 6%

Q.107) Recently India’s first Garbage Café was inaugurated in which state?

a) Chhattisgarh

b) Odisha

c) Bihar

d) Kerala





Q.108) Who has become the first woman cricketer to complete 20 years in the

international cricket?

a) Smriti Mandhana

b) Mithali Raj

c) Jhulan Goswami

d) Ellyse Perry

Q.109) Recently which application was launched by ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs to encourage Public engagement in planting trees and other such

Green drives?

a) mPlant

b) mHariyali

c) mSurveskshan

d) mRopan

Q.110) Who won the Dutch Open men’s singles title 2019?

a) Roger Federer

b) Yusuke Onodera

c) Lakshya Sen

d) Rafael Nadal

Q.111) Which organisation launched first World report on vision?

a) UNICEF

b) WHO

c) UNESCO

d) NITI Aayog

Q.112) Who was conferred the highest Civilian Honour of Comoros — The Order of the Green Crescent?

a) Ram Nath Kovind

b) Narendra Modi





c) M Venkaiah Naidu

d) Arvind Kejriwal

Q.113) Recently which Indian nun sister was declared saint by Pope Francis at

a grand ceremony at the Vatican City, Rome?

a) Dorothy Gabriel

b) Mariam Thresia

c) Natalia Gabriel

d) Mary Joseph

Q.114) As per EdelgiveHurun India Philanthropy List 2019,who topped the list

for 2019 as top philanthropistg?

a) Shiv Nadar

b) Aziz Permji

c) Mukesh Ambani

d) Gautam Adani

Q.115) What is the theme of this year’s World Egg Day?

a) Eat your egg today and every day

b) Protein for Life

c) Egg for Sustainable Life

d) Eggs as the source of life

Q.116) Recently Margaret Atwood and whom have jointly won the 2019

Booker Prize?

a) Bernardine Evaristo

b) Stephen Lewis

c) Rogarlatta Johnson

d) Dwayne Flair

Q.117) Recently Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched which scheme to honour good samaritans who take accident victims to hospital?





a) JabaazDilliwites

b) FarishteDillike

c) Nek Farishte

d) DillikeBande

Q.118) What is the theme of this year’s World Migratory Bird Day?

a) Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution!

b) Their future is our future

c) Preserve Environment and Birds

d) Sustainable Development of Wildlife

Q.119) The 9th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Intersessional Ministerial meeting held in which city?

a) Bangkok

b) Amsterdam

c) New Delhi

d) Kathmandu

Q.120) The 10th Asian Conference on Emergency Medicine (ACEM) held in which city?

a) Mumbai

b) New Delhi

c) Chennai

d) Lucknow

Q.121) Recently Baul Festival concluded in which country?

a) India

b) Bangladesh

c) Bhutan

d) Nepal

Q.122) Who was appointed as the new chief of the European Central Bank?





a) Indra Nooyi

b) Christine Lagarde

c) Krystillane Georgia

d) David Malpass

Q.123) Who was honoured with the ‘Most Eminent Senior Citizen Award’?

a) K Parasaran

b) VC Chaturvedi

c) NK Bhargav

d) Sunil Awasthi

Q.124) Recently the king of which country Willem Alexander visited India?

a) Netherlands

b) Hungary

c) England

d) Thailand

Q.125) The 5th Edition of World Coffee Conference to be held in which city?

a) Mumbai

b) Chennai

c) Bengaluru

d) New Delhi

Q.126) Which series won award for best direction at the Asian Academy Creative Awards ceremony?

a) Delhi Crime

b) Kota Factory

c) Sacred Games

d) Mirzapur

Q.127) The exercise Shinyuu Maitri is between India and which other country?





a) SriLanka

b) Japan

c) Mongolia

d) Russia

Q.128) According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India,which town emerged as the most polluted city in India with the Air Quality Index (AQI) figures at 358?

a) Nagod

b) Devendranagar

c) Loni

d) Panna

Q.129) Who has won the 2019 Stockholm Open title?

a) Jospeh Miles

b) Milos Raonic

c) Denis Shapovalov

d) Traver Simons

Q.130) Who is the author of book “Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a

Champion’s Life”?

a) Viswanathan Anand

b) Saurav Ganguly

c) MS Dhoni

d) Sachin Tendulkar

Q.131) Recently India’s Flora Fountain has been chosen for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.It is located in which city?

a) Chennai

b) Mumbai

c) Ahmedabad





d) Lucknow

Q.132) Which Insurance company launched video calling service ‘i-SERV’ to

enhance customer service experience?

a) IDBI Federal Insurance

b) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance

c) National Insurance Company Limited

d) Max Bupa Insurance

Q.133) The 9th edition of the Sultan of Johor Cup 2019 was held in which

country?

a) Malaysia

b) Myanmar

c) Thailand

d) Singapore

Q.134) What is the theme of this year’s World Food Day?

a) Our Actions Are Our Future

b) Change the future of migration

c) Ending Hunger by 2025

d) Food:A life

Q.135) As per wealth intelligence firm’s ‘The Wealthiest Cities Worldwide in

2019’ list,which city has the highest number of wealthiest people in the world?

a) Amsterdam

b) London

c) New York

d) Beijing

Q.136) Who was elected as new chairman of Indian Banks’ Association(IBA)?

a) Sunil Arora

b) Rajnish Kumar





c) NK Singh

d) PV Bharathi

Q.137) As per Crime in India Report 2017,which state tops the list of states in

crimes against women?

a) Maharashtra

b) Bihar

c) Uttar Pradesh

d) Assam

Q.138) Which team won Pro Kabaddi Title?

a) Dabang Delhi

b) Bengal Warriors

c) Pune Warriors

d) Lucknow Nawabs

Q.139) What is the rank of India in World Giving Index 2019?

a) 89

b) 73

c) 80

d) 82

Q.140) Recently Joko Widodo was sworn in as president of which country?

a) Maldives

b) Thailand

c) Indonesia

d) Netherlands

Q.141) According to India Innovation Index 2019,which state is the most

innovative major state in India?

a) Karnataka





b) Assam

c) Gujarat

d) Maharashtra

Q.142) Recently Kalidas Karmakar passed away.He was related to which field?

a) Director

b) Painter

c) Sports

d) Actor

Q.143) Recently the Chenani-Nashri tunnel of which state has been renamed after Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee?

a) Uttarakhand

b) Himachal Pradesh

c) Jammu and Kashmir

d) Punjab

Q.144) Who was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI),?

a) Nilesh Jain

b) Pankaj Kumar

c) D Arora

d) Sunil Arora

Q.145) Who assumes charge as new Controller General of Accounts?

a) JPS Chawla

b) Anoop Kumar

c) Nikhil Swani

d) Giriraj P Gupta

Q.146) Recently Nitin Gadkari announced the naming of which national highway as “Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Marg.?





a) 705AA

b) 800BB

c) 703AA

d) 700BB

Q.147) The exercise IMNEX 19 recently held between India and which other country?

a) Thailand

b) Myanmar

c) Sri Lanka

d) Russia

Q.148) What is the rank of India in the 2019 Global Hunger Index?

a) 99

b) 102

c) 117

d) 95

Q.149) Who won the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix?

a) Nico Rosberg

b) Lewis Hamilton

c) Sebastian Vettel

d) Valtteri Bottas

Q.150) Which platform was launched for national repository of India’s cyber tech capabilities?

a) SagarRatna

b) TechFriend

c) TechSagar

d) TechFit





Q.151) What is the theme of this year’s International Day for the Eradication

of Poverty?

a) Moving from Humiliation and Exclusion to participation:Ending poverty in all its forms

b) Building a Sustainable Future:Coming together to end poverty

c) Acting Together to Empower Children, their Families and Communities to End

Poverty

d) Accelerating global action for a world without poverty

Q.152) Recently who has become India’s 65th Grandmaster?

a) E Srinivasan

b) Raunak Sadhwani

c) Srikant Dixit

d) Lavnya Sharma

Q.153) Recently United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) launched which

campaign to raise awareness and take steps against hunger and malnutrition in India?

a) Feeding and Eating

b) Feed Our Future

c) Stop Malnutrition

d) Feed World

Q.154) Who was elected as vice chairman of World Steel Association?

a) RK Sinha

b) Sajjan Jindal

c) Manohar Singh

d) Indra Nooyi

Q.155) Which state government constituted two committees to deal over water disputes with Kerala relating to the Parambikulam-Aliyar Project (PAP) and

the Pandiyar-Punnampuzha project?





a) Karnataka

b) Tamil Nadu

c) Odisha

d) Assam

Q.156) Which country won the SAFF U-15 women’s championship 2019?

a) Pakistan

b) Nepal

c) India

d) Bhutan

Q.157) What is the theme of this year’s Global Handwashing Day?

a) Make Handwashing a Habit

b) Clean Hands-A recipe for Hands

c) Clean Hands for All

d) Our Hands Our Future

Q.158) The exercise EX EASTERN BRIDGE-V’ was recently held between India

and which other country?

a) Australia

b) Oman

c) Mongolia

d) Thailand

Q.159) Recently Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan launched which scheme to engage motivated individuals with the food safety

ecosystem at ground level?

a) Food Seva

b) Food Safety Mitra

c) Food Safety Health

d) Food Eat





Q.160) Which state government has set up Kanyashree University to empower

girls?

a) West Bengal

b) Manipur

c) Assam

d) Sikkim

Q.161) Recently Christina Koch and which other astronaut have made history by completing the first-ever all-female spacewalk?

a) Christiana George

b) Sandy Rose

c) Krishtlina Georgia

d) Jessica Meir

Q.162) The Sudarshan Chakra Vahini War exercise begins in which city?

a) Surat

b) Chennai

c) Jaisalmer

d) Kanpur

Q.163) Recently Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated ‘Col Chewang

Rinchen Setu’, in which region?

a) Kashmir

b) Ladakh

c) Jammu

d) Leh

Q.164) Which country will host 91st Interpol General Assembly in 2022?

a) USA

b) India

c) Russia





d) China

Q.165) Recently which state government released IRONMAN 70.3 postal

stamp?

a) Maharashtra

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Goa

d) Bihar

Q.166) Which pair won the badminton mixed doubles title at the Egypt

International 2019 in Cairo, Egypt?

a) Utkarsh Arora and Karishma Wadkar

b) Kuhoo Garg and Dhruv Rawat

c) Dinesh ShAh and Karishma Sharma

d) Kuhoo Garg and Nikhil Jain

Q.167) Which Company has won the DigiDhan Mission Fin-tech Award 2018-2019 for ‘Innovation in Digital Payments through Emerging Technology’ at the MeitY

Start-up Summit 2019 held in Delhi?

a) PhonePe

b) Paytm

c) BharatPe

d) Mobikwik

Q.168) Which statewon the Vijay Hazare trophy?

a) Assam

b) Tamil Nadu

c) Karnataka

d) Odisha

Q.169) Who was appointed as the first Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir?

a) Girish Chandra Murmu





b) Satya Pal Malik

c) Ram Sevak Kushwaha

d) R K Mathur

Q.170) Which state has launched online platform SMARTPORT?

a) Andhra Pradesh

b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Maharashtra

d) TamilNadu

Q.171) Recently the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) have launched

which online test for class 9th and 10 th students?

a) Anvesha

b) Tamanna

c) Utkarsh

d) Smriti

Q.172) What is the theme of this year’s International Chefs Day?

a) Healthy Food for growing up

b) Foods for Healthy Heroes

c) World on a Plate

d) How Heathy Food Works

Q.173) Recently which Bollywood actor joined hands with UNICEF and Ministry

of Women and Child Development to raise awareness and speak up against sexual abuse of children?

a) Ayushmaan Khuraana

b) Amitabh Bacchhan

c) Shahrukh Khan

d) Salman Khan





Q.174) Which Institute has secured the 17th rank globally in the ‘Financial

Times Masters in Management Rankings 2019.?

a) IIM Lucknow

b) IIM Calcutta

c) IIM Bengaluru

d) IIM Kozhikode

Q.175) Recently Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has released a special commemorative coin on whose 125th birth anniversary?

a) Paramahansa Yogananda

b) Sardar Patel

c) Yogiraj Hansmukh

d) Arun Jaitley

Q.176) Recently Dilip Parikh passed away.He was the former CM of which state?

a) Odisha

b) Gujarat

c) Assam

d) Maharashtra

Q.177) Who was appointed as the new Administrator of Lakshadweep?

a) Arif Khan

b) Kalraj Mishra

c) Dineshwar Sharma

d) Anandiben Patel

Q.178) Whatis the theme of this year’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week?

a) Media and Information Literate Cities:Voices,Powers and Change Makers





b) Media and Information Literate Citizens: Informed, Engaged, Empowered

c) Media:Reimagining ways of learning in Information environments

d) Media and Democracy

Q.179) Recently Abhishek Nayar announced his retirement from which sports?

a) Cricket

b) Tennis

c) Football

d) Baseball

Q.180) Which has become the first State in the country to enact a law on contract farming?

a) Kerala

b) Tamil Nadu

c) Maharashtra

d) Assam

Q.181) Who will head the committee that has been set up by IRDAI to evaluate application under regulatory sandbox?

a) S Sadagopan

b) Venugopal

c) Arvind Dutta

d) MK Singh

Q.182) Who will represent Asian bloc in athlete ambassadors group in Tokyo

Olympics 2020?

a) Mary Kom

b) Virat Kohli

c) PV Sindhu

d) Sania Mirza

Q.183) Who has been appointed as new director-general of the International

Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a United Nations’ nuclear watchdog?





a) Kyth Gener

b) Rafael Grossi

c) Christians Ligarde

d) Theresa May

Q.184) Recently PV Sindhu and which other personality was named the ambassadors for Bharat Ki Laxmi, an initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi?

a) Disha Patani

b) Deepika Padukone

c) Sania Mirza

d) Katrina Kaif

Q.185) Which state government plans to make state child marriage free by

2030?

a) Bihar

b) Odisha

c) Uttar Pradesh

d) Maharashtra

Q.186) What is the theme of this year United Nations Day?

a) Planet and Earth

b) Our Planet, Our Future

c) Universe and Earth

d) Environment protection

Q.187) Who was appointed as new Governor of Mizoram?

a) Kalraj Mishra

b) Gita Naik

c) PS Sreedharan Pillai

d) Ram Naik





Q.188) From 2020, which two Indian cities will be included in the World Bank’s

doing business report?

a) Mumbai and Kolkata

b) Delhi and Mumbai

c) Delhi and Bengaluru

d) Bengaluru and Kolkata

Q.189) The ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020 to be held in which country?

a) Australia

b) England

c) South Africa

d) India

Q.190) Which Indian male boxer has won gold medal in Olympic Test Event

for Boxing in Tokyo, Japan?

a) Shiv Thapa

b) Naresh Jain

c) P Sreejesh

d) Robin Singh

Q.191) Which award has been constituted to commemorate All Time World

Pioneers?

a) Gandhi Mandela Foundation

b) Mahatma Gandhi Prize

c) Gandhi Peace Prize

d) Nelson Mandela Prize

Q.192) What is the theme of this year’s World Cities Day?

a) Cities:The planet

b) Changing the world: innovations and better life for future generations

c) Building Sustainable and Resilient Cities





d) Changing the world

Q.193) Which Company has launched Preventive Health’ Tool to Raise

Awareness of Personal Health Concerns?

a) Google

b) Facebook

c) Microsoft

d) Amazon

Q.194) What is the rank of India in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business

2020 survey?

a) 63

b) 92

c) 83

d) 71

Q.195) Who won the Indian Golf Union Junior National Championship 2019?

a) Tanmay Parihar

b) Sonmay Bhatt

c) Arjun Bhati

d) Aryan Singh

Q.196) Who won the Mexico Grand Prix 2019?

a) Lewis Hamilton

b) Valtteri Bottas

c) Charles Leclerc

d) Sebastian Vettel

Q.197) What is the rank of India in Global Health Security Index?

a) 56

b) 55





c) 57

d) 58

Q.198) What is the rank of India in The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2019

Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion report?

a) 5th

b) 3rd

c) 6th

d) 1st

Q.199) Who has been sworn as 47th Chief Justice of India?

a) Ranjan Gogoi

b) Sharad Arvind Bobde

c) N Ibotombi Singh

d) HC Prasad

Q.200) Recently Tom Sole,Abiodun Abioye and Selladore Kumar were banned from which sports?

a) Cricket

b) Tennis

c) Football

d) Basketball

Q.201) C Raghavachari passed away recently. He was related to which field?

a) Businessman

b) Journalism

c) Educationist

d) Politics

Q.202) Who is the author of Ten Studies in Kashmir: History and Politics?

a) Nilanjana Roupy





b) Kashinath Pandit

c) Ashish Ray

d) Roopa Singh

Q.203) Who has been appointed as Director General, Bureau of Indian Standards?

a) Pramod Kumar Tiwari

b) Alok Chaturvedi

c) Arvind Dutta

d) Anoop Singh

Q.204) What is the rank of India in the latest FIFA rankings?

a) 102

b) 100

c) 106

d) 104

Q.205) What is the theme of this year’s National Ayurveda Day?

a) Ayurveda and Naturopethy

b) Herbal Treatment

c) Ayurveda for Prevention and Control of Diabetes

d) Yogic Breathing

Q.206) Who has been appointed as the chairman of Airports Authorityof India?

a) Arvind Singh

b) Ashwani Lohani

c) PC Mody

d) Sukhbir SinghSandhu

Q.207) Recently Indian Railways has launched which machine to render fast

ticketing to millions of commuters?





a) C Pay

b) One Pay ATM

c) One Touch ATVM

d) Pay More

Q.208) What is the theme of this year’s World Polio Day?

a) Stories of Progress: Past and present

b) End Polio now,make history today

c) A celebration of unsung heroes of polio eradication

d) Polio Eradication and Planet

Q.209) Who has taken charge as the new Director General (DG) of National Security Guard (NSG)?

a) Anup Kumar Singh

b) Atanu Chakraborty

c) Arvind Chaturvedi

d) PC Chandra

Q.210) Who has been appointed the next Adjutant General of the Indian Army?

a) Anshul Jain

b) PC Dhawan

c) Arvind Dutta

d) Bipin Rawat

NOVEMBER 2019

1.Which state government has decided to partner with MIT-based

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)?

a) West Bengal b)Kerala c)Odisha d) Sikkim

2.What is the theme of 2019 edition of World Cities Day (WCD)?





a)Designed to Live Together

b)Inclusive Cities, Shared Development

c) Changing the world

d)Promoting a better urban future

3.John Witherspoon, who passed away recently, was the noted actor

and comedian of which country?

a)United States b) France c)Japan d)China

4.Which IIT has decided to set up space technology cell in

collaboration with ISRO?

a)IIT Delhi b) IIT Kanpur c) IIT Bomba d)IIT Madras

5.UNESCO has designated which Indian city as Creative City of

Gastronomy?

a)Mumbai b)Chennai c)Hyderabad d) Varanasi

6. India’s first-ever Arts Exposition for talents with intellectual

challenges “eCAPA 2019” has started in which city?

a) Kanpur b) Kochi c)Dehra d)New Delhi

7.Which city is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25)

after Chile withdraws?

a) New York b) Paris c) Madrid d)New Delhi

8.The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to set up Sikh

museum and research centre in which city?

a)Bhopal b) Jabalpur c) Indore d) Gwalior

9.Which country will be the partner country at the International Film

Festival of India (IFFI- 2019)?





a)Afghanistan b) China c) Japan d) Russia

10.Which state government has decided to institute Suraj award to

promote organ donation?

a) Odisha b) Kerala c) Karnataka d) Andhra Pradesh

11. Which state has launched e-ganna app for sugarcane farmers?

a) Rajasthan b) Uttar Pradesh c) Bihar d) Jharkhand

12. The 2019 World Kabaddi Cup will be held in which of the following

states?

a)Haryana b)Punjab c)Gujarat d)Rajasthan

13.Under whose chairmanship a committee has been made to draft a

new National Water

Policy (NWP)?

a) Inderjit Singh b) Montek Singh Ahluwalia

c) Jaswant Singh d) Mihir Shah

14.As per the SBI research report, what would be the GDP Growth rate

of India for Fiscal

Year 2020?

a) 6.1% b) 5.9% c) 5 % d) 6.3%

15.As per the judgement of the Supreme Court, who among the

following also comes under the Right to Information(RTI) Act?

a)Office of President of India

b)Office of Chief Justice of India

c)Office of Prime Minister of India

d)Office of Vice President of India





16. Which state will launch the Sishu Suraksha App?

a) Karnataka b) Rajasthan c) Himachal Pradesh d)Assam

17. Which edition of India International Trade Fair 2019 will be held in

Delhi?

a) 40th b) 39th c) 38th d) 37th

18. Who has been added to the board of the New York’s Metropolitan

Museum of Art?

a)Indra Nooyi b) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

c) Chanda Kochhar d) Nita Ambani

19. Public Service Broadcasting Day is observed every year in India

on?

a) 13 November b) 12 November c) 11 November d) 10

November

20. World’s first CNG port terminal will be established in which city of

Gujarat?

a) Vadodara b) Jamnagar c) Navsari d) Bhavnagar

21.Which Indian organization is hosting the 2019 SCO Joint Exercise

on Earthquake Rescue?

a)NDRF b) CISF c)CRPF d) BSF

22.Which Indian author has won the JCB Prize for Literature 2019?

a) Madhuri Vijay b) Pradip Krishen

c)Anjum Hasan d) KR Meera

23.Who has become the fastest Indian cricketer to take 50 T20I

wickets?





a) Jasprit Bumrah b) R Ashwin

c) Deepak Chahar d) Yuzvendra Chahal

24. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has proposed to merge which

Central paramilitary force with ITBP?

a) Sashastra Seema Bal

b) Central Reserve Police Force

c) Border Security Force

d) Assam Rifles

25. Which country has won 2019 Fed Cup Title?

a) United States b)France c)Australia d) Germany

26. The ‘Air Fest-2019’ was held in which city by the Indian Air Force,

recently?

a) Pune b)Kanpur c) Nagpur d) New Delhi

27. The Defence Innovations Conference ‘Def-Connect’ was held in

which city to showcase the accomplishments of the Innovations for

Defence Excellence (iDEX) initiative?

a) New Delhi b) Lucknow c) Bengaluru d) Hyderabad

28. The Jammu and Kashmir government has set up a panel to declare

which Lake and its

surrounding areas as an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ)?

a) Dal Lake b)Gadsar Lake

c)Wular Lake d) Mansar Lake

29. Who has been roped in as the Brand Ambassador of Chelsea

Football Club (FC) for





India?

a)Varun Dhawan b)Arjun Kapoor

c)Ayushmann Khurrana d)Vicky Kaushal

30.Who is leading Indian delegation at the 15th meeting of the

Governing Council of SACEP?

a) Narendra Modi b) Om Birla

c) Prakash Javadekar d) Ram Nath kovind

31.Who has been selected for 27th Ezhuthachan Puraskaram 2019?

a) M Mukundan b) Anand c) K Jayakumar d) Rani George

32.Which Indian-origin researcher has won the Australian

government’s ‘Early career

researcher of the year 2019’ award?

a) K S Mukherjee b) Nishant Patil c) M K Sanoo d) Neeraj

Sharma

33. Which IIT has launched ‘Arise-A Standing Wheelchair’ for

disabled?

a)IIT Madras b) IIT Bombay c)IIT Indore d) IIT Kanpur

34.DRDO Igniter Complex has come up in which DRDO’s laboratory?

a) Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR)

b) Defence Research & Development

c) Armaments Research & Development Establishment (ARDE)

d) High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL)

35.Sara Damnjanovic, who won the Miss Asia Global Title 2019, is

from which country?





a) France b) Vietnam c) Serbia d) Spain

36.Which country has protested over the inclusion of the region of

Kalapani in the new

political map of India?

a)Pakistan b) Bhutan c) Nepal d) Bangladesh

37.Who has become the first Indian to be appointed as General Vice

President (GVP) of

IODA?

a) Rajesh Reddy b) Vinaya Shetty c) Mohit Kumar d) Nidhi

sharma

38. The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has partnered with which

bank for payment

related services?

a) BoB b) SBI c) Central Bank of India d) Dena bank

39. Which country has assumed the Chairship of the Indian Ocean Rim

Association (IORA) for 2019-2021?

a) Israel b) UAE c) India d) South Africa

40. India’s first air pollution web repository “IndAIR” has been

launched by which

organisation?

a)BARC b) CSIR c) DRDO d) ISRO

41. Special Protection Group (SPG) Act, sometimes seen in news, was

enacted by Parliament of India in which year?

a) 1988 b) 1987 c) 1986 d) 1984





42. The Sanskrit Bharati Vishwa Sammelan has started in which city?

a) Shimla b) Pune c) Ranchi d) New Delhi

43.Name the first city in India that installed first of its kind high-end Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Machines

for quick detection of diseases such as dengue, tuberculosis (TB) and

swine flu .

a) Hyderabad, Telangana b) New Delhi, Delhi

c) Chennai, Tamil Nadu d) Kolkata, West Bengal

44.Name the vessel which is the second in the series of five fast patrol

vessels (FPV) delivered to the Indian Coast Guard by GRSE?

a) ICGS Rani Avanti Bai

b) ICGS Rani Abbakka

c) ICGS Annie Besant

d) ICGS Rani Durgavati

45.Who has become the first Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in Men’s

T20 match?

a) R Ashwin b)Jasprit Bumrah

c)Deepak Chahar d) Mohammed Siraj

46. The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up its 1st vulture

conservation in which district?

a) Lucknow b) Sitapur c) Maharajganj d) Raebareli

47 Which union ministry has launched Credit-linked Subsidy Services

Awas Portal (CLAP)?

a)Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

b) Ministry of Road Transport and Highways





c)Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare

d) Ministry of Women and Child Development

48. Which state has topped the overall crimes against children, as per

latest CRY Report?

a) Uttar Pradesh b) Punjab c) Haryana d) Odisha

49. Which state government has decided to launch project Shakti to

alert the public about

crimes?

a) Kerala b) Uttar Pradesh c) Madhya Pradesh d) Rajasthan

50. Which state Police has organized the 47th All India Police Science

Congress (AIPSC)?

a) Punjab b) MP c) UP d) Rajasthan

51. Which state Government has decided to set up outdoor gyms at

public places?

a)Rajasthan b) Odisha c) UP d) Himachal Pradesh

52. Who is the author of the book “The Daughter from a Wishing Tree

Unusual Tales about

Women in Mythology”?

a) Sudha Chandran b) Sudha Murty c)Kiran Bedi d)

Lakshmi Venu

53.Global sports brand, Trusox has roped in which India cricketer as

its brand ambassador

for India?

a) Virat Kohli b) Rohit Sharma c) K L Rahul d) Hardik

Pandya





54. In India the National Education Day is celebrated every year on?

a)12 November b) 11 November

c)10 November d) 9 November

55. India’s first elephant memorial was opened on which highway?

a)Delhi to Amritsar b)Agra to Mumbai

c)Pune to Machilipatnam d)Agra-Mathura

56. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) will set up a 2G ethanol plant in

which of the following districts of Haryana?

a)Faridabad b)Jhajjar c)Panipat d)Karnal

57. Which state has decided to seek UNESCO World Heritage Site

status for 14 Hoysala

temples?

a)Tamil Nadu b)Karnataka c)Odisha d)Kerala

58. Under whose chairmanship a panel has been formed to implement

Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s order for 100 days homestay to

CAPF Jawans?

a)Atul Karwal b)Surinder Singh

c)Anil Chauhan d)Satinder Kumar Saini

59. Who was awarded the Wildlife Conservation Society’s George

Schaller Lifetime Award in Wildlife Conservation Science?

a)Rajeev Pillay b)K. Ullas Karanth c)Aaron Lobo d)Ajay

Desai

60. Name the forest guard who has won the Royal Bank of Scotland

(RBS) Earth Heroes





award 2019?

a)Dimbeshwar Das b)Mohan Singh

c)Virag Sharma d)Rajeev Singh

61. Indian Railways has launched which cartoon character through an

animated

short film video to spread awareness of maintaining safety among

passengers?

a) Hanuman Bhaiya b) Ramu Bhaiya

c) Gappu Bhaiya d) Motu Bhaiya

62. The government has launched which unique mentorship

programme under which civil

service probationers will have to adopt a youth to provide career and

professional guidance?

a)Nurture the Future b)The Future Youth

c)The Youth Participation d)Young Workforce

63. Which television personality will receive the Carol Burnett Award

for lifetime achievement at the 2020 Golden Globes?

a)Ellen DeGeneres b)Oprah Winfrey

c)Barbara Walters d)Sharon Osbourne

64. Name the writer who will be honoured with the Tata Literature

Live! Lifetime

Achievement award 2019?

a)Bhavna Chauhan b)Hemant Shesh

c)Shanta Gokhale d)Rajesh Talwar





65. Who has become the youngest Indian cricketer to score a half-

century in international

cricket?

a)Mansi Joshi b)Shafali Verma c)Pramila Bhatt d)Priya Punia

66. Which state celebrated its foundation day on 9 November 2019?

a)Uttarakhand b)Himachal Pradesh c)Gujarat d)Assam

67.Who is the author of the book “RN Kao: Gentle Spymaster”?

a)S E Joshi b) Nitin A Gokhale

c) K Sankaran Nair d) Girish Chandra

68. On which date, the 2019 edition of National Epilepsy Day (NED) is

observed?

a) November 17 b) November 18

c) November 19 d) November 20

69. The Union government has banned which state-based insurgent

group Hynniewtrep

National Liberation Council (HNLC)?

a) Nagaland b) Tripura c) Mizoram d)Meghalaya

70. Which state government has decided to start Arundhati gold

scheme by January 2020?

a)Tamil Nadu b) West Bengal c) Assam d) Kerala

71. Which military unit has been honoured with President’s Colour

award?

a) Mahar Regiment b) Rajputana Rifles

c)Indian Naval Academy d)The Garwal rifles





72. IRCTC has signed pact with which state tourism to market & run

Golden Chariot train?

a) Karnataka b) Maharashtra c) Kerala d) Tamil Nadu

73. Which country has declared that Israeli settlements on West Bank

do not violate

international laws?

a) United Kingdom b) Russia c) United States d)France

74. Which Indian state has launched the first Hindi daily “Arun

Bhoomi”?

a) Arunachal Pradesh b)Nagaland c) Tripura d) Mizoram

75. On which date, the 2019 edition of World Fisheries Day (WFD) is

observed?

a)November 22 b) November 21


76. Which country is hosting the world’s first Muslim yoga camp?

a) India b) Israel c)Bangladesh d) China

77. The 8th International Tourism Mart (ITM-2019) was held in which

city?

a) Imphal b) Guwahati c) Itanagar d)Kolkata

78. Kailash Joshi, who passed away recently, was the former CM of

which state?

a) Rajasthan b) Madhya Pradesh

c) Uttar Pradesh d) Chhattisgarh





79. Which Indian Armed force has celebrated ‘Poonch Link Up Day’?

a)Indian Army b) Indian Air Force

c) Indian Navy d)Indian Coast Guard

80. India’s first largest biotechnology stakeholders conglomerate – the

Global Bio-India (GBI) Summit 2019 was held in which city?

a) Chennai b) New Delhi c) Pune d) Kolkata

81. Which country’s team has won the 2019 Davis Cup title?

a) Spain b) Canada c) Switzerland d) USA

82. On which date, the 2019 edition of International Day for the

Elimination of Violence

against Women is observed?


c)November24 d)November 23

83. Which state government has launched a citizen helpline No. 14400

for corruption-related complaints?

a)Uttar Pradesh b) Andhra Pradesh

c)Madhya Pradesh d)Rajasthan

84. Which Indian armed force is set to host multi-nation military drill

‘Milan 2020’?

a)Indian Air Force b) Indian Coast Guard

c) Indian Navy d)Indian army

85. Which state cabinet has approved the nomination of at least one

differently abled member to each panchayat?

a) UP b) Odisha c) Rajasthan d) Chhattisgarh





86. When is World Science Day for Peace and Development celebrated

every year?

a) 11 November b) 9 November c) 8 November d) 10 November

87.Titan Eyewear has appointed which Bollywood actor as its Brand

Ambassador?

a)Vicky Kaushal b) Ayushman Khurrana

c) Rajkumar Rao d) Varun Dhawan

88.Which state had accounted for 50% of Northeast violence in 2018,

as per a Union Home Ministry report?

a) Manipur b) Mizoram

c) Nagaland d) Arunachal Pradesh

89.The first-ever joint tri-service exercise named INDRA 2019 will be

held between India and which country from December 10-19?

a) France b) Sweden c) Russia d) Malaysia

90.Google India has appointed whom as its new country manager?

a) Sandeep Sinha b) Sanjay Gupta

c) Karthik Reddy d) Rajat Kumar Gupta

91.What is the name of the firs electric airplane unveiled by NASA?

a) G-27 Maxwell b) X-57 Maxwell

c) Y-34 Maxwell d) Z-66 Maxwell

92.The Indian Air Force has launched which multiplayer version of its

interactive mobile

game?





a) Indian Air Force – Air Conflicts

b) Indian Air Force – Heroes Above

c) Indian Air Force – A Cut Above

d) Indian Air Force – A Daring Show

93.Tiger TRIUMPH, the first-ever Tri-Services Amphibious Exercise

between India and United State (US) is scheduled to be held from

November 13 – 21 in which state?

a) Andhra Pradesh b) Kerala c) Goa d) Tamil Nadu

94.Which upcoming Bollywood movie has stirred fears of impacting

India’s relations with Afghanistan over the portrayal of a character,

Ahmad Shah Abdali?

a) Panipat b) Tanhaji c) Laal Kaptaan d) Prthiviraj

Chauhan

95.India and which country held the Joint Naval Exercise “Samudra

Shakti” in Bay Of

Bengal?

a) Malaysia b) Singapore c) Indonesia d)

Thailand

96.Nicola Adams has announced her retirement from which of the

following sports?

a) Boxing b) Badminton c) Gymnastics d) Shooting

97. Which General Insurance has launched a new mobile app called

‘Farmitra’?

a) Bharti AXA b) Edelweiss

c) Bajaj Allianz d) Kotak Mahindra





98.Who has become the second fastest Indian to score 2,000 runs in

one day

internationals?

a) Shikhar Dhawan b) Smriti Mandhana

c) Virat Kohli d) Mithali Raj

99.Which writer has been selected for the 29th Vyas Samman?

a) Kunwar Narayan b) Geet Chaturvedi

c) Vishwanath Tripathi d)NasiraSharma

100. The 11th BRICS Summit was held in which country?

a) Brazil b) China c) South Africa d) Russia

101. Which of the following ministries has launched the Wastelands Atlas – 2019?

a) Ministry of Rural Development

b) Ministry of Home Affairs c) Ministry of Jal Shakti

d) Ministry of Coal

102. Which railway station has become the first railway station under

Southern Railway to become visually-challenged friendly?

a) Madurai b) Kollam c) Coimbatore d) Tirunelveli

103 Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary is located in which of the following

states?

a)Assam b) Uttar Pradesh c) Gujarat d) West Bengal

104. The National Research Institute of Unani Medicine for Skin

Disorders (NRIUMSD) was recently launched in which of the following

cities?

a)New Delhi b)Amravati c)Hyderabad d)Kanpur





105. Which of the following novels has won the 2019 JCB prize for

Literature?

a) The Far Field b) City of Girls

c) The Bride Test d) Lost Children Archive

106. Which state has partnered with Abhijit Banerjee’s Lateef Jameel

Poverty Action Lab to minimise poverty?

a) Gujarat b) Karnataka c) Odisha d) Rajasthan

107. Which country has been made the focus country for the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival?

a)France b) Russia c) Japan d) Germany

108. Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri has inaugurated a new Guru

Nanak Chair at which University?

a) Oxford University b) University of Birmingham

c) Stanford University d) Harvard University

109. Which of the following ministries has launched two new IT

initiatives – ICEDASH and ATITHI?

a) Ministry of Jal Shakti b) Ministry of Finance

c) Ministry of Defence d) Ministry of Railways

110. The Central government will invite President of which country as

the chief guest to the Republic Day celebrations 2020?

a) Sweden b) United States c) Brazil d) Germany

111. AHTUs will be set up in all districts across the nation, What does

“H” stands for in AHTUs?

a)Human b) Hand c) Hostel d) Home

112. Which has become the first Government hospital in India to have Robotic Surgery Facility?

a) Safdarjang Hospital, Delhi

b) TATA Memorial Hospital, Mumbai





c) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi

d) Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi

113. Which city held the title for the world’s most polluted city in the

latest edition of Guinness World Records 2020?

a) Delhi b) Greater Noida c) Kanpur d) Patna

114. Under Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat initiative which state has

been tagged with Maharashtra to promote art, culture and tourism of

their respective states?

a) Goa b) Tripura c) Odisha d) Andhra Pradesh

115. In which state the first micro composting centre (MCC) was

inaugurated?

a) Telangana b) Odisha c) Karnataka d) Tamil Nadu

116. India is planning to open 100 additional airports by which year?

a)2023 b) 2024 c) 2022 d) 2025

117. Pegasus which is news recently is a ____________?

a)Trojan b) Worm c) Spyware d) Rootkit

118. Who has become the first female President of Ethiopia?

a) Sahle-Work Zewde b) Tarja Halonen

c) Helen Clark d) Dalia Itzik

119. Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the Shanghai

Cooperation Organisation Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search

and Rescue (SCOJtEx) in which city?

a) Pune b) Bengaluru c) New Delhi d) Mumbai

120. Which country has won the 2019 Rugby World Cup?

a)England b) South Africa c) Japan d) Scotland





121. The telecom regulator has mandated a minimum ring duration of

__________ seconds for outgoing mobile calls before they are disconnected?

a) 30 seconds b) 45 seconds c) 20 seconds d) 60 seconds

122. India has ranked at which place in 2019 Global Microscope Report

on Financial Inclusion?

a) Sixth b) Tenth c) Third d) Fifth

123. Who will be honoured with the Icon of Golden Jubilee award at

the 50th edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI)?

a)Prabhas b) Rajnikanth c) Amitabh Bachchan d) Shahrukh Khan

124. In which city UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) will be organized from 2 to 13 December?

a) Malaga b) Barcelona c) Seville d) Madrid

125. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has inaugurated the 21st North

East Book Fair in which of the following cities?

a) Dispur b) Guwahati c) Imphal d) Gangtok

126.Name the India’s first Signal Fish that found in Lakshadweep sea off Kerala coast.

a) Sander lucioperca b) Sparus aurata

c) Pteropsaron indicum d) Betta splendens

127. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has presented the prestigious

Award for Corporate Excellence to which company for saving water?

a) Pepsico India b) ITC Limited c) Nestlé d) Procter and Gamble

128. Coal India has a target to produce 1 billion tons of coal by which

year?

a)2025 b) 2022 c) 2026 d) 2024





129. Which two countries have signed the International Solar Alliance’s

(ISA) Framework Agreement?

a) Eritrea b) Saint Lucia c) Saint Kitts and Nevis d) A & C

130.‘Arpa Pairi Ke Dhaar, Mahanadi he apaar’ has been declared the

state song of which state?

a) Madhya Pradesh b) Rajasthan c) Chhattisgarh d) Jharkhand

131. Who has been appointed as the Global Brand Ambassador for

footwear brand

Crocs?

a) Deepika Padukone b) Priyanka Chopra Jonas

c) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan d) Alia Bhatttan

132. The Centre has constituted a high-level committee, to suggest necessary policy initiatives for attracting more investments into the

Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Regions PCPIR,

under whose chairmanship?

a) Rajat Bhargava b) Sudhir Bhargava

c) Ashok Chawla d) Ashok Kumar Gupta

133.Kalaburgi Airport of which state was recently inaugurated under the UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik)-Regional Connectivity Scheme

(RCS)?

a) Kerala b) Andhra Pradesh c) Tamil Nadu d) Karnataka

134.Who has become the first Indian to be crowned Mr Universe 2019

title at the 11th World Bodybuilding and Physique Sports

Championship (WBPF) 2019?

a) Murli Kumar b) Rajendran Mani

c) Varinder Singh Ghuman d) Chitharesh Natesan





135. Government is planning to merge Daman and Diu with which of

the following Union

Territories?

a) Lakshadweep b) Dadra and Nagar Haveli

c) Andaman and Nicobar Islands d) Puducherry

136.World’s biggest Islamic Congregation “Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima” is

being held in

which city?

a) Lucknow b) Kochi c) Agra d) Bhopal

137. Indian Army has dedicated the Army Goodwill Park as a mark of

paying tribute to

which soldier?

a) Subedar Chuni Lal b) Capt Vikram Batra

c)Lance Naik Nazir Ahmed Wani d) Major Saurabh Kalia

138.Police of which city has launched cybersecurity interactive robotic

agent named CYBIRA?

a) Bhopal b) Hyderabad c) New Delhi d)

Visakhapatnam

139. Which city has become the first in India to install Reverse

Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Machines?

a)New Delhi b)Kolkata c) Bengaluru d) Amravati

140 Who has won the gold medal in the Women’s 10m Air Pistol at

2019 ISSF World

Cup?

a) Rahi Sarnobat b) Apurvi Chandela





c) Manu Bhaker d) Seema Tomar

141. Which Indian Ministry has signed a memorandum of cooperation

(MoC) with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) for support in

innovation?

a) Ministry of Home Affairs

b) Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare

c) Ministry of Human Resource Development

d) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

142.Paradise Beach was recently declared as ‘no plastic’ zone. The

beach is located in which state/UT?

a) Andaman & Nicobar b) Goa c) Odisha d) Puducherry

143. The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and

Development for 2019 will be

conferred on whom?

a) Manmohan Singh b) Angela Merkel

c)David Attenborough d) Sheikh Hasina

144. Which company has recently launched cloud game streaming

service “Stadia” ?

a)Microsoft b) Google c) Sony d) Nexon

145. Which state has approved Arundhati scheme to provide 1 Tola

Gold to Brides free of cost?

a) Odisha b) Chhattisgarh c)Assam d) Uttarakhand

146. Which country has won the 18th edition of the FIFA Under 17

World Cup trophy?

a) Mexico b) Brazil c) Nigeria d) Netherlands





147. Who has been elected as the President of Gymnastics Federation

of India?

a) Shantikumar Singh b) Ashok Kumar Gupta

c) Sudhir Mital d) Arvind Saxena

148. When is World Children’s Day observed?



149.Jayakwadi Dam which was in news recently is located in which of

the following cities?

a) Nashik b) Pune c) Aurangabad d) Mumbai

150. Which company has launched 60 Starlink satellites for cheaper

global Internet?

a) Google b)Facebook c) Space X d) Boeing

151. Which state has made sanitary napkins mandatory for all the

industries and

factories for their women staff?

a) Gujarat b) Assam c) Rajasthan d) West Bengal

152. The modern railway coach factory is using which humanoid robot

to transport documents from one place to another?

a) Sona 1.5 b) Rani 1.5 c) Radha 1.5 d) Krish

1.5

153.Pliosaurs, which are in news recently, are known from which

geologic period?





a) Pleistocene b) Oligocene c) Jurassic d)

Carboniferous

154.India has partnered with which countries to explore an alternative

to SWIFT?

a)South Africa & Maldives b) Bangladesh & Sri Lanka

c) Russia & China d)France &china

155.Which Indian scholar has won the 2019 BRICS-Young Innovator

Prize?

a) Sunil Rajput b)Ravi Prakash

c) Laxmi Jain d) Deepankar Kumar S

156.Which international organization has organized the 2019 World

Conference on Access to Medical Products – Achieving the SDGs 2030

in New Delhi?

a) WHO b)UNICEF c)UNESCO d)IMF

157.Which tech giant has organized the South Asia Safety Summit

2019?

a)Microsoft b)Facebook c) Twitter d) Infosys

158.The first-ever pink ball Test match is being held between India &

which country?

a) South Africa b) Bangladesh c) New Zealand d)

England

159.Which state government has launched YSR Matsyakara Bharosa

scheme for fishermen?

a) Andhra Pradesh b) Tamil Nadu c) West Bengal d)Kerala





160.Chitharesh Natesan, who became the first Indian to be crowned

Mr Universe 2019, is from which state?

a)Telangana b) Tamil Nadu c) Odisha d)Kerala

161.Whose Aadhaar KYC (Know Your Customer) norms were simplified

by the government of India recently?

a) Senior Citizen b) Migrants

c) Non-resident Indian d) Physically Challenged

162.Oxford Dictionaries has named which word as its 2019 Word of

the Year?

a) Climate action b) Climate denial

c) Climate anxiety d)Climate emergency

163.What number of government vehicles will be converted into e-

vehicles to make them

eco-friendly?

a) 3 Lakh b) 1 lakh c) 5 lakh d) 4 lakh

164. World Heritage-listed Shuri Castle which has been destroyed by a

massive fire is

located in which of the following countries?

a) South Korea b) Japan c) China d) Ukraine

165. Who will now be eligible to apply for National Pension System

(NPS)?

a)Non Resident Indians b)Overseas Citizens of India

c)Refugees in India d)All of the above





166. As per the 14th National Health Profile (NHP) 2019, Life

Expectancy of females is ______ years?

a)68.7 years b)67.4 years c)70.2 years d) 59.9 years

167. National Day for Disaster Reduction is observed every year on 29

October to

commemorate destruction brought by which cyclone?

a)Super Cyclone 1999 b)Cyclone Hudhud

c)Cyclone Fani d)Cyclone Ochki

168. Around 2,209 panchayats were brought under natural farming

under Prakritik Kheti Khushaal Kissan Yojana of which state?

a) Uttarakhand b) Haryana

c) Himachal Pradesh d) Rajasthan

169. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has unveiled a ________point

reform charter for functioning of the Parliament and State

Legislatures?

a)Ten b)Twenty c)Twelve d)Fifteen

170. Researchers of which institution has created the first ever Indian

Brain Atlas (IBA)?

a) IIT Delhi b) IIIT Hyderabad

c) IICB Kolkata d) IIT Madras

171. Which country has been declared as the Guest of Honour at the

38th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2019?

a) India b) Mexico c) France d) Sweden

172. Name the country, which topped in the ‘Freedom on the Net’ (FoTN) report titled ‘The Crisis of Social Media’ by Freedom House .





a) India b) Vietnam c) Iceland d) China

173. Which is the focus country of the 3rd edition of the Guwahati

International Film Festival?

a) Mexico b) Australia c) Iran d) Russia

174. Who has been appointed as the new Ambassador of India to

UAE?

a) Pavan Kapoor b) Navdeep Singh Suri c) Ajay Bisaria d)

Gautam Bambawale

175. Which country is hosting the 35th ASEAN Summit?

a) Cambodia b) Thailand c) Indonesia d)

Malaysia

176.Which country has launched the worlds’ first blockchain-based

carbon trading

exchange?

a)United States b)France c)Singapore d)China

177.Which state has the highest anaemia among men as per the

report titled ‘Anaemia among men in India: A nationally representative cross-sectional study’ ?

a) Bihar b) Jharkhand c) Meghalaya d) West Bengal

178.Which Nuclear Power Plant was recently attacked by the

malware?

a) Kaiga b) Tarapur c) Rawatbhata d) Kudankulam

179. Online shopping site ShopClues has decided to merge its business

with which e-commerce platform?





a) Qoo10 b) Shopify c) Big Cartel d) Amazon

180. ________ will ban all political advertising worldwide from 22

November 2019?

a) Google b) Twitter c) Facebook d) LinkedIn

181. Which of the following cities has now been officially designated as

a UNESCO

Creative City of Gastronomy?

a)New Delhi b) Hyderabad c) Bhopal d) Bengaluru

182.Which state/UT has the highest population density with 11,320

people per square kilometre ?

a) Maharashtra b) Delhi c) Uttar Pradesh d) Gujarat

183.Name the German Minister of Food & Agriculture, who visited India recently .

a) Franziska Giffey b) Julia Klockner

c) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer d) Katarina Barley

184.Under which article the Chief Justice of the High Courts are

transferred ?

a) Article 222 of the constitution of India b) Article 322 of the constitution of India

c) Article 422 of the constitution of India

d) Article 522 of the constitution of India

185.Find the district which is not the part of new Union Territory Ladakh ?

a) Chilhas b) Poonch c) Kargil d) Gilgit Wazarat





186.Name the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, who

visited India recently.

a) Gerhard Schröder b) Emmanuel Macron

c) Angela Merkel d) Theresa May

187.Using which fund, recommended Anti-Human-Trafficking-Units (AHTUs) and Women Help Desks (WHDs) will be set up ?

a) Nirbhaya Fund b) Permanent Fund

c) Revenue Fund d) Capital projects Fund

188.Name the deceased American novelist, who won the “National

Book Critics Circle Award for fiction” for his novel, “A Lesson Before

Dying” in the year 1993.

a) John Steinbeck b) William Faulkner

c) Ernest James Gaines d) Herman Melville

189.Where was the 2nd ‘No Money for Terror’ 2019 conference held ? a) Melbourne, Australia b) Wellington, New Zealand

c) Washington, D.C., United States d) Berlin, Germany

190.Name the Indian delegate, who visited Colombo, Sri Lanka to address the Biennial Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Conference (CLM)

2019 .

a) Ravi Shankar Prasad b) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar c) Prakash Javadekar d) Nitin Gadkari

191.Anjan Mitra passed away recently, he was associated with which

football club where he worked as the general secretary for over two

decades ?

a) Real Kashmir b) Chennai City





c) Mohun Bagan d) East Bengal

192.Name the longest-serving British MP(member of parliament), who

announced the retirement from Parliament after 32 years.

a) Chris Williamson b) Nigel Keith Anthony Standish Vaz c) Liz Kendall d) Andrew Bridgen

193.What was the theme of the inaugural conclave on “National

Capital Region(NCR) -2041”?

a) Theme –“Delhi Capital for the world soon” b) Theme –“National Capital for Tomorrow”

c) Theme –“Planning for Tomorrow’s Greatest Capital Region”

d) Theme –“Delhi-MetroPolis of Tomorrow’s world”

194.Which country’s Cricketer Tony Mann passes away recently ? a) Australia b) Bangladesh c) New Zealand d) West Indies

195.World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) is observed from

_____________ .

a) November 15 – 21 b) November 16 – 22 c) November 17 – 23 d) November 18 – 24

196.Under which act, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has disclosed list of

30 major wilful defaulters of India ?

a) RTI act 2005 b) RTI act 2006 c) RTI act 2007 d) RTI act 2008

197.Shaukat Kaifi passed away recently, she was a ___________ .

a) Director & Singer b) Actor & Producer

c) Director & Producer d) Theatre Artist & Film Actor





198.Where was the DRDO Industry Synergy Summit 2019 organised

by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) held ? a) Bengaluru, Karnataka b) Hyderabad, Telangana

c) Mumbai, Maharashtra d) Kolkata, West Bengal

199.When will the ‘Fit India week’ celebrated ?

a) Second week of December b) Second week of November c) Third week of November d) First week of December

200.Which two countries will participate in the Joint military exercise

named ‘SURYA KIRAN – XIV’ ?

a) India and Sri Lanka b) India and Bangladesh c) India and Nepal d) India and Russia

December Current Affairs Questions

1. Where was the 7th edition of India-Sri Lanka joint Military & Army Exercise MITRA SHAKTI–VII: 2019 held ? 1) Kochi, Kerala 2) Pune, Maharashtra 3) Kolkata, West Bengal 4) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

2.Who was appointed as the 24th Controller General of Accounts (CGA) on 1st December, 2019 ? 1) Soma Roy Burman 2) Rajiv Gauba 3) Archana Nigam 4) Sushil Singh

3.Where was the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) 2019 held ? 1) Jakarta, Indonesia 2) Kathmandu, Nepal 3) Washington D.C., United States 4) Bangkok, Thailand





4.Who is the author of the book titled “The Legacy of Militancy in Punjab: Long Road to Normalcy” 1) Aravind Adiga and Inderjit Singh Jaijee 2) Inderjit Singh Jaijee and Dona Suri 3) Anita Desai and Dona Suri 4) Jhumpa Lahiri and Dona Suri

5.Pension week is celebrated from _____________________ . 1) November 30 to December 6 2) November 29 to December 5 3) November 28 to December 4 4) November 27 to December 3

6.What was the theme of the World AIDS (Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) day that is celebrated on December 1 annually ? 1) Theme – “Hands up for #HIVprevention” 2) Theme – “Communities make Difference” 3) Theme – “Know Your Status” 4) Theme – “Right to health”

7.Which incident is remembered & observed as National Pollution Control Day on December 2 ? 1) AZF Explosion 2) Halifax Explosion 3) Piper Alpha tragedy 4) Bhopal gas tragedy

8.Which armed industry company has appointed Hari Mohan as chairman on December 1, 2019 ? 1) Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) 2) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) 3) Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) 4) Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)

9.Name the deceased American musician & songwriter , who was best known for popularise Caribbean music with hit songs like Day-O .





1) Alan Arkin 2) Erik Darling 3) Irving Louis Burgie 4) William Attaway

10.On which date, International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is observed annually ? 1) December 2 2) December 1 3) November 30 4) November 29

11.Multi Media Exhibition at World War II museum held in ?

a) Manipur

b) Mizoram

c) Tripura

d) Nagaland

12.From which year, hallmarking of gold jewellery and artefacts will be made mandatory across the country? A)2023 B)2020 C)2022 D)2021

13.The 40th Session of the UNESCO General Conference was held in which city? A)New Delhi B)Bangkok C)Paris D)Tokyo

14.Recently Adel Abdul Mahdi submitted his resignation in parliament. He was the former PM of which nation? A)Iraq





B)Iran C)Israel D)Afghanistan

15.Who among the following was honoured with the 2019 Ballon d’Or award? a) Lionel Messi b) Cristiano Ronaldo c) Luis Suarez d) Luca Modric

16.The Union Cabinet recently approved a proposal to extend the period of reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and State Legislatures for how many more years? a) 7 Years b) 8 Years c) 9 years d) 10 Years

17.Who was the first to spot Vikram Lander’s debris on the lunar surface? a) Shanmuga Subramanian b) Shanti Krishnamachari c) Ravindran Sundaram d) Shresth Chaturvedi

18.Who received the National Florence Nightingale award 2019 posthumously? a) N Shoba b) Suni Sreejith c) Lini Sajeesh d) Shreya Gopinath

19.To which country, India has committed to provide Rs 4,500 crores for implementing development projects & Rs.400 crores for transitional trade support facility ? 1) Myanmar 2) Bhutan 3) Bangladesh 4) Nepal





20.Under which mission, nationwide vaccination drive that aims to immunize children under 2 years of age and pregnant women against 8 vaccine preventable diseases launched on December 2, 2019 ? 1) National Social Assistance Scheme 2) National Service Scheme 3) INSPIRE Programme 4) Intensified Mission Indradhanush 2.0 (IMI-2.0)

21.To which Country, India is set to offer $450 million Line of Credit (LoC) in which $400 million will be provided for infrastructure projects and $50 million provided for counter terror measures ? 1) Myanmar 2) Sri Lanka 3) Nepal 4) Bangladesh

22.Which state was ranked as the most corrupt state having 78% citizens indulged in bribery as per the report titled ‘India Corruption Survey 2019’ ? 1) Rajasthan 2) West Bengal 3) Assam 4) Maharashtra

23.What is the rank of India in the Corruption Perception index 2019 ? 1) 82 2) 75 3) 80 4) 78

24.Name the organization, which constitutes a committee that recommends to launch a scheme for the promotion of endangered languages in central and state universities . 1) Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) 2) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 3) University Grants Commission (UGC) 4) All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)





25.Which bank has joined hands with Walmart India to launch a co-branded credit card ? 1) Axis Bank 2) HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation )Bank 3) ICICI Bank 4) State Bank of India

26.Who won the prestigious 12th ‘Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2019’ for his 2018 book, ‘Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From’ ? 1) Akshaya Mukul 2) Sujatha Gidla 3) Anuk Arudpragasam 4) Tony Joseph

27.Who was elected as the President of Mauritius on December 2, 2019 ? 1) Barlen Vyapoory 2) Ameenah Gurib 3) Prithiviraj Singh Roopun 4) Monique Ohsan Bellepeau

28.What is the reason behind launching the operation “Clean Art” ? 1) To crack down the illegal trade for bear bile 2) To crack down the illegal trade for mongoose hair 3) To crack down the illegal trade for elephant ivory 4) To crack down the illegal trade for rhinos horns

29.Which country was hit by Typhoon Tisoy (Kammuri) ? 1) Philippines 2) Thailand 3) Vietnam 4) Cambodia

30.Alisson won inaugural Yashin Trophy, Yashin Trophy is given to ___________.





1) Holder / Long Snapper 2) Goalkeeper 3) Punter 4) Gunner / Jammer

31.Name the cricketer, who became the fastest man to score 7000 runs in test matches in 126 innings by breaking a 73-year old record held by Wally Hammond in the year 1946 . 1) Steven Peter Devereux Smith 2) Virat Kohli 3) David Warner 4) Rohit Sharma

32.What was the theme of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) observed on 3rd December, 2019 ? 1) Theme – ‘Transformation towards sustainable and resilient society for all’ 2) Theme – ‘Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality’ 3) Theme – ‘Promoting the participation of persons with disabilities and their leadership: taking action on the 2030 Development Agenda’ 4) Theme – ‘Achieving 17 Goals for the Future We Want’

33.Name the scheme launched by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy that provides postoperative sustenance allowance of Rs.225 medical allocation for each person for a day or Rs 5000 per month . 1) YSR Matsyakara Nestham Scheme 2) YSR Aasaraa Scheme 3) YSR Anna Vidya Deevena Scheme 4) YSR Adarsham Scheme

34.Which organization has partnered with Punjab state government to design a public-private pilot project on shared, clean and electric mobility (e-mobility) ? 1) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 2) World Environment Federation (WEF)





3) United Nation (UN) 4) World Economic Forum (WEF)

35.Which state is set to provide 25% subsidy and 100% stamp duty waiver for setting up of defence industry in the state ? 1) Maharashtra 2) Assam 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Gujarat

36.Indian Navy Day is observed annually on _______________ . 1) December 4 2) December 3 3) December 2 4) December 1

37.Name the Indian badminton player, who enters the top 30 list of the BWF (Badminton World Federation) 2019 ranking & ranked 29th on December 3, 2019 ? 1) B. Sai Praneeth 2) Lakshya Sen 3) Parupalli Kashyap 4) Sourabh Verma

38.Which country was awarded with 2019 Marylebone Cricket Club’s(MCCs) Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket award for the sportsmanship ? 1) India 2) Australia 3) New Zealand 4) England

39.Name the firm, which developed the World’s lowest dose-volume Rotavirus vaccine called “ROTAVAC 5D” that prevents rotavirus diarrhoea in young children. 1) Bharat Biotech 2) Indian Immunologicals Limited





3) Serum Institute of India 4) Biocon

40.Which state government has launched the “MadhuApp” for e-learning for students by providing video lectures and exercise ? 1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Odisha 3) Gujarat 4) Maharashtra

41.Where was the indigenously developed nuclear capable surface-to-surface missile, “Prithvi-2” test fired ? 1) Kochi, Kerala 2) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh 3) Chandipur, Odisha 4) Balasore, Odisha

42.To which country, Upender Singh Rawat was appointed as the Indian Ambassador on December 3, 2019 ? 1) Republic of Costa Rica 2) Republic of Cuba 3) Bahamas 4) Barbados

43.What was the theme of the World Soil Day that observed on 5th December 2019 ? 1) Theme – “Healthy soils for a healthy life” 2) Theme – “Stop Soil Erosion, Save our Future” 3) Theme – “Caring for the Planet starts from the Ground” 4) Theme – “Soils and pulses, a symbiosis for life”

44.Which institute has partnered with National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) to create “Gandhipedia”, an online repository holding the Books, Letters and Speeches written by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to celebrate his 150th birth anniversary ?





1) Indian Institutes of Technology – Madras and Delhi 2) Indian Institutes of Technology – Kharagpur and Kanpur 3) Indian Institutes of Technology – Madras and Gandhinagar 4) Indian Institutes of Technology – Gandhinagar and Kharagpur

45.Who released the yearly magazine of BSF called ‘Borderman’ on the occasion of 55th raising day of BSF (Border Security Force) on December 1, 2019 ? 1) Giriraj Singh 2) Nityanand Rai 3) G. Kishan Reddy 4) Sanjay Jaiswal

46.Which organization has presented 15th edition of Mother Teresa Memorial Awards for Social Justice (MTMA) awards 2019 ? 1) Harmony Foundation 2) Clinton Foundation 3) Adelson Foundation 4) Bush Foundation

47.Name the state, that was bestowed with Best State award in cadaveric organ donation for the fifth time by NOTTO (National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization) . 1) Gujarat 2) Maharashtra 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Tamil Nadu

48.What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)of India for the year 2019-20 as per the 5th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Rates ? 1) 5.5 % 2) 5.3 % 3) 5.1 % 4) 5 %





49.Which country topped in the Comparitech’s list of invasive use of Biometrics ? 1) Pakistan 2) United States of America(USA) 3) China 4) Malaysia

50.Which country’s Election Commission has signed an MoU with Election Commission of India (ECI) for cooperation in the field of electoral management and administration ? 1) Mauritius 2) Madagascar 3) Seychelles 4) Maldives

51.Name the Made in India, fast interceptor vessel that was gifted by India to Maldives on December 4, 2019 to enhance it’s maritime security. 1) COUACH 2) RANI ABBAKKA 3) KAAMIYAAB 4) RAJSHREE

52.Which Police station becomes the best performing Police Stations across the country for the year 2019 ? 1) Anini police station, Arunachal Pradesh 2) Ajk Burhanpur police station, Madhya Pradesh 3) Aberdeen police station, Andaman and Nicobar Islands 4) Balasinor police station, Gujarat

53.Who addressed the 4th India Water Impact Summit 2019 in New Delhi ? 1) Rattan Lal Kataria 2) Pralhad Joshi 3) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat 4) Arjun Ram Meghwal





54.Who was appointed as the chairman of National Stock Exchange(NSE) on December 6, 2019 ? 1) Girish Chandra Chaturvedi 2) Vikram Limaye 3) Dinesh Kanabar 4) Naved Masood

55.Which sport National Coach Dronacharya Awardee, Bhawani Mukherji and Tapan Bose passed away recently ? 1) Cricket 2) Chess 3) Table Tennis (TT) 4) Badminton

56.Who was crowned with Miss Universe 2019 during the 68th edition of the Miss Universe Pageant held in Atlanta, Georgia ? 1) Bonang Matheba 2) Tamaryn Green 3) Zozibini Tunzi 4) Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

57.Name the diplomats, who were honoured with ‘The Diwali – Power of One’ award in recognition and celebration of their work, especially at the United Nations (UN), for a secure and peaceful world . 1) Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Nicholas Emiliou, Frantisek Ruzicka & Volodymyr Yelchenko 2) Besiana Kadare, Martín García Moritán, Walton Alfonso Webson & Mitchell Peter Fifield 3) Jan Kickert, Sheila Carey, Masud Bin Momen & Sheila Carey 4) Lois Michele Young, Sacha Sergio Llorenty Solíz, Sven Alkalaj & Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira

58.On which date, International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime is observed ? 1) 6th December





2) 7th December 3) 9th December 4) 8th December

59.What was the theme of the International Anti-Corruption Day 2019 that is observed annually on December 9 ? 1) Theme – “United against corruption for development” 2) Theme – “United Against Corruption” 3) Theme – “United against corruption for peace” 4) Theme – “United against corruption for security”

60.Name the scheme, from which odisha government has reduced the subsidy to farmers from Rs 10,000 to Rs 4000 per year after merging the scheme with Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) yojana . 1) Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana 2) Sarbakhyama Yojana 3) Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) 4) Biju Swastya Kalyan Yojana

61.How many years of compliance will be given to remove the hazardous material for existing ships as per the “Recycling of Ships Bill 2019” ? 1) 15 years 2) 5 years 3) 7 years 4) 10 years

62.Name the Abhiyan, which aims to promote the education among rural and tribal children . 1) Ekal School Abhiyan 2) Kendriya Vidyalaya Abhiyan 3) Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Abhiyan 4) Sarvodaya Vidyalaya Abhiyan

63.Which scheme has recently mandated the beneficiaries to link Aadhar card to bank accounts only then the amount will be transferred to the account ?





1) Prime Minister Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PM-JJBY) 2) Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PM-SBY) 3) Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) 4) Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM)

64.Which country topped in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s “Human Development Report 2019 – Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st century” ? 1) Scotland 2) Ireland 3) Norway 4) Switzerland

65.Which country’s Davi Kopenawa Yanomami also called the ‘Dalai Lama of the Rainforest’ received the Right Livelihood Award 2019, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ award for his effort taken in the protection of the Amazon Rainforest ? 1) Brazil 2) China 3) Germany 4) Japan

66.Who translated the Abanindranath Tagore’s Book ‘Nalak’ featuring the

journey of life of Gautama Buddha ? 1) Amish Tripathi 2) Kiran Desai 3) Urbi Bhaduri 4) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni





67.Which state cabinet clears a proposal to set up 218 new Fast-track courts out of which 144 courts will hear cases of rape and 74 courts will hear cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act ? 1) West Bengal 2) Gujarat 3) Assam 4) Uttar Pradesh

68.Who inaugurated all-weather 72-metre-long multi cell box type load class 70 bridge in Rajouri in the Union Territory (UT) of J&K ? 1) Subhash Chandra Garg 2) Ajay Bhushan Pandey 3) Girish Chandra Murmu 4) Satya Pal Malik

69.Which state has distributed India’s 1st Pashu Kisan credit cards (Animal husbandry Credit Card) to 101 animal farmers to promote animal husbandry and agribusiness ? 1) West Bengal 2) Assam 3) Uttar Pradesh 4) Haryana

70.How much amount of loan was disbursed by government of India under Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) as on November 1, 2019 ? 1) Rs. 10.24 lakh crore 2) Rs. 10.54 lakh crore 3) Rs. 10.64 lakh crore 4) Rs. 10.74 lakh crore





71.Which city is set to host the 17th edition of BioAsia 2020 with the theme “Today For Tomorrow” ? 1) Mumbai, Maharashtra 2) Guwahati, Assam 3) Chennai, Tamil Nadu 4) Hyderabad, Telangana

72.How many monuments were recognized as the ‘Must see monuments’ by the Minister of State (MoS) of Culture and Tourism, Prahlad Singh Patel on December 9, 2019 ? 1) 168 2) 178 3) 150 4) 138

73.Mongla & Chattogram declared as Ports of Call under “Coastal Shipping Agreement”, these ports are located in which country ? 1) Bhutan 2) Bangladesh 3) Nepal 4) Sri Lanka

74.Which city topped in the list of Euromonitor International’s ‘Top 100 City Destinations’ of 2019 ? 1) Hong Kong 2) Bangkok 3) London 4) Singapore

75.Who was appointed as the brand ambassador for athletic and casual footwear firm ‘PUMA’ for 3 years on December 10, 2019 ? 1) Bhaichung Bhutia 2) Sunil Chhetri 3) Virat Kohli 4) Sandesh Jhingan





76.Name the first woman referee in the Men’s ODI (One Day International) match, who overlooked the opening match of the third series of the World Cup League 2 held in Sharjah Cricket Stadium, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) . 1) Uvena Fernandes 2) Rubadevi Gurusamy 3) Gandikota Sarva Lakshmi 4) Ranjita Devi Tekcham

77.On which date, UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) day was celebrated ? 1) December 8 2) December 9 3) December 10 4) December 11

78.Name the World’s first fully electric commercial aircraft that was test flighted recently in Vancouver, Canada . 1) DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver 2) Douglas DC-3 3) de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter 4) de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter

79.India is set to reconstruct 11 heritage sites under Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) in which of the following country ? 1) Bangladesh 2) Sri Lanka 3) Nepal 4) Myanmar

80.Which countries non-Muslims migrants will get citizenship if they migrated to India on or before December 31, 2014 as per the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 ? 1) Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar 2) Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan





3) Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal 4) Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan

81.Which schedule of the Constitution states that tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura will not be affected with the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 ? 1) Fourth 2) Second 3) Sixth 4) Fifth

82.Which country has designated India’s Indigenously developed satellite navigation system “NAVIC (NAVigation with Indian Constellation)” as allied navigational satellite system ? 1) Russia 2) United States 3) Japan 4) China

83.What is the rank of India in the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2020, released by Germanwatch and NewClimate Institute report with the Climate Action Network (CAN) ? 1) 13th 2) 12th 3) 9th 4) 10th

84.Which film has won the prestigious Suvarna Chakoram award 2019 (Golden Crow Pheasant) in the 24th edition of International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) 2019 ? 1) Howl’s Moving Castle 2) Nobody Knows 3) They Say Nothing Stays the Same 4) The Tale of Princess Kaguya





85.‘Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life’ is a autobiography of _____ . 1) Garry Kasparov 2) Magnus Carlsen 3) Sergey Karjakin 4) Viswanathan Anand

86.Which state has launched 2 social welfare schemes – ‘Vijayamritham’ and ‘Sahachari’ to provide motivation and to become the helping hand for differently-abled persons ? 1) Kerala 2) Assam 3) Odisha 4) Karnataka

87.Under which scheme, Odisha government has included the department of agriculture and farmer’s empowerment to provide quality governance to the people ? 1) Biju Swastya Kalyan Yojana 2) Sarbakhyama Yojana 3) Utthan Scheme 4) Mo Sarkar

88.Who topped in the 16th annual ranking of ‘The Forbes 2019 list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ list released on December 13, 2019 ? 1) Ursula von der Leyen 2) Nancy Pelosi 3) Christine Lagarde 4) Angela Merkel

89. At what position, Union Finance Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman (60 years) ranked in ‘The Forbes 2019 list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ list that released on December 13, 2019 ?





1) 33 2) 41 3) 34 4) 45

90.Scientists from which space agency, have mapped global wind circulation patterns “ripple effects” in the upper atmosphere of Mars (first planet to undergo this effect) ? 1) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2) European Space Agency (ESA) 3) SpaceX 4) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

91.Which organization has signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies) to develop mobile application named ‘Food Donation in India’ to prevent Food wastage ? 1) Facebook 2) Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) 3) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) 4) Infosys

92.Name the founder of “International Changemaker Olympiad (ICO)”, who won the Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Award 2019, popularly known as the “Oscars” of education under “Sustainability” category in London, U.K . 1) Rahul Adhikari 2) Saurabh Saxena 3) Surabhi Dewra 4) Raveendran

93.Which State/UT will host the 11th edition of “INDRA 2019”, a joint tri services exercise between India and Russia ?





1) Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and West Bengal 2) Uttar Pradesh (Babina), Maharashtra (Pune) and Goa 3) Maharashtra, Punjab and Assam 4) Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

94.How much amount was sanctioned by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for setting up women help desks in police stations in all states and Union Territories (UT) across the country ? 1) Rs 400 crore 2) Rs 200 crore 3) Rs 500 crore 4) Rs 100 crore

95.Name the first Asian Country, which becomes the “guest of honour” for 33rd International Book Fair 2019 that held in Guadalajara, Mexico . 1) India 2) China 3) Indonesia 4) Thailand

96.What was the theme of the 6th Indian Ocean Dialogue for the year 2019 that held in New Delhi ? 1) Theme – “Indo-Pacific: Peace and Development in the Indian Ocean Rim” 2) Theme – “Indo-Pacific: Sustainable Development in the Indian Ocean Rim” 3) Theme – “Indo-Pacific: Economic Development in the Indian Ocean Rim” 4) Theme – “Indo-Pacific: Re-imagining the Indian Ocean through an Expanded Geography”

97.Name the Indian states that recorded the lowest birth registrations as per the report titled ‘Birth Registration for Every Child by 2030: Are we on track?’ by UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) . 1) Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh 2) Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand 3) Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Jharkhand 4) Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand





98.Suman Ratan Singh Rao (21) of India, has won the title of Miss World Asia 2019.She belong to which state ? 1) Uttar Pradesh 2) Rajasthan 3) West Bengal 4) Assam

99.Where was the 2nd edition of BWF (Badminton World Federation ) World Tour Finals 2019 (officially known as the HSBC – Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation BWF World Tour Finals 2019) held ? 1) Guangzhou, China 2) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 3) Copenhagen, Denmark 4) Jakarta, Indonesia

100.According to the seventh edition of the India Skills Report 2020,which state topped the list of states with the highest employable talent? A)Maharashtra B)Kerala C)Odisha D)TamilNadu

101.Which aircraft was used to flight test the Brahmos Supersonic cruise missile?

a. Sukhoi-30MKI

b. HAL Tejas

c. SEPECAT Jaguar

d. MiG-21

102.Who is the CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between India and Russia?



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Tejas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG-21



a. Dr G. Satheesh Reddy

b. Shri Rajnath Singh

c. Sudhir Kumar Mishra

d. Avinash Chander

103.VSAT is Very Small _____ Terminals.

a. aperture

b. amplitude

c. accumulator

d. accelerator

104.Which paramilitary force celebrated its 56th Foundation Day on December 17, 2019?

a. CISF

b. ITBP

c. SSB

d. CRPF

105.India celebrated National Mathematics Day on December 22, 2019 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan. He was born in the year ____:

a. 1857

b. 1877

c. 1887

d. 1897

106.What is the title of the book co-authored by Rahul Agarwal & Bharathi S Pradhan released in Dec 2019?

a. Turbulence and Triumph: The Rao Years

b. Turbulence and Triumph: The Gandhi Years

c. Turbulence and Triumph: The Indira Years





d. Turbulence and Triumph: The Modi Years

107.Who has been appointed as the new Chief of Army Staff in December 2019?

a. Manoj Mukund Naravane

b. Gen Bipin Rawat

c. Admiral Karambir Singh

d. Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria

108.Who is the newly appointed Director of Hyderabad-based Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy?

a. Shiv Nawal

b. Amit Narwal

c. Atul Karwal

d. Ajay Kejriwal

109.The Prime Minister of which European country attended the meeting of the Mahatma Gandhi 150th Birth Anniversary Organising Committee in New Delhi in December 2019?

a. Spain

b. Sweden

c. Portugal

d. Denmark

110.Which European country is providing USD 277 million to India to establish an energy-efficient housing programme in the country?

a. France

b. Germany

c. Italy

d. Finland





111.Other than Donald Trump’s impeachment in Dec., 2019, how many Presidents of United States have been impeached by the House of Representatives?

a. 0

b. 2

c. 4

d. 1

112.Which of the following has ranked India 112th in gender gap index?

a. UNICEF

b. World Bank

c. World Economic Forum

d. WHO

113.What is the name of the Russian pipeline being constructed to transport natural gas to Germany?

a. Kord Stream

b. Nord Stream

c. Gord Stream

d. Bord Stream

114.The European Parliament is located in which city in France?

a. Strasbourg

b. Bordeaux

c. Deauville

d. Nantes

115.Which country’s government completed buyback of guns in December 2019 after announcing a ban on assault weapons?

a. United States

b. New Zealand





c. Australia

d. Canada

16.Which of the following is the aircraft carrier launched by China on December 17, 2019?

a. Yushu

b. Tongren

c. Shandong

d. chengzhong

117.Global Refugee Forum was organised in _____ on December 17-18, 2019.

a. Berne

b. Basal

c. Zurich

d. Geneva

118.Who has been appointed as Cuba’s first Prime Minister since 1976?

a. Manuel Marrero

b. Salvador Valdes Mesa

c. Richardo Cabrisas Ruiz

d. Ulises Rosales del Toro

119.Who is the President of the European Council?

a. Thierry Giet

b. Charles Michel

c. Rudy Collignon

d. Robert Demotte

120.Which African country’s first satellite was launched from China on December 20, 2019?

a. Ethiopia

b. Namibia





c. Nigeria

d. Kenya

121.Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor has won 2019 Sahitya Akademi Award in English for which of the following books?

a. The Paradoxical Prime Minister

b. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

c. The Hindu Way

d. India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our Time

122.Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Inaugurating the FICCI ARISE Conference on School Education in which city? a)Mumbai b)NewDelhi c)Lucknow d)Chennai

123.Which state government launches ‘Vijayamritham’ & ‘Sahachari’ schemes to support differently-abled people? a)Telangana b)Assam c)Kerala d)Uttar Pradesh

124.Which movie bagged the ‘Suvarna Chakoram’ (The Golden Crow Pheasant) award at the 24th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)? a)Everyday Everyone Everywhere b)The Sky is Limit c)Avengers Endgame d)They Say Nothing Stays the Same

125.25th UN Climate Change Conference held in which city? a)NewYork



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradoxical_Prime_Minister

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Era_of_Darkness



c)paris d)Madrid

126.Who was crowned as 69th Miss World 2019? a)Manushi Chillar b)Opehly Mezino c)Suman Rao d)Toni Ann Singh

127.When is International Tea Day observed? a)Dec 13 b)Dec 14 c)Dec 16 d)Dec 15

128,Which organization has released a report titled “Digital States of India – A Comparative Analysis” ? a) Deloitte Consulting LLP b) Gartner c) Coeus Age d) Gallup

129.Name the gram panchayat that topped in the 2019 rankings under Mission Antyodaya scheme . a) Athirampuzha (Kerala) b) Jangnapara (Meghalaya) c) Bambhani (Gujarat) d) Molugamboondi (Tamil Nadu)

130.Name the campaign launched in India to increase the appropriate usage of steel in India . a) Da Da Ding b) MAI DIL HUA BACCHE c) ISAPTI IRADA d) JAANE KYA DIKH JAAYE





131.Who is the brand ambassador of the “ISAPTI IRADA” ? a) P.V Sindhu b) Geeta Phogat c) Dutee Chand d) Virat Kohli

132.Which act was amended by the Arms (Amendment) Act, 2019, that received President’s approval recently ? a) Arms Act 1949 b) Arms Act 1939 c) Arms Act 1929 d) Arms Act 1959

133.Which state police were honoured with ‘President’s colours’ and became the 7th to receive the honour ? a) Gujarat b) West Bengal c) Tamil Nadu d) Uttar Pradesh

134.What is India’s rank in the recently released Gender Gap Index for the year 2019 by World Economic Forum (WEF) ? a) 114 b) 113 c) 112 d) 111

135.Who has won the 9th edition of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 for the book “Half The Night Is Gone” ? a) Salman Rushdie b) Ruskin Bond c) Amitabha Bagchi d) Arundhati Roy

136.Who was awarded with the ‘India Cyber Cop of the Year 2019’ by NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies)-





DSCI (Data Security Council of India) ? a) B.P Raju b) R.K.Raghavan c) PC Sharma d) Rishi Kumar Shukla

137.Name the first Indian wrestler, who won the 2019 ‘Junior Freestyle Wrestler of the Year‘ at the age of 18 years by United World Wrestling (UWW) . a) Sushil Kumar b) Rahul Aware c) Mausam Khatri d) Deepak Punia

138.On which date, Minorities Right Day is observed annually in India since 2013 ? sa) 15th December b) 16th December c) 17th December d) 18th December

139.Which tamil novel by author Cho. Dharman received Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2019 recently ? a) Koogai: The Owl b) Eeram c) Sokavanam d) Sool

140.Name the large scale anti-hijacking exercise conducted by Indian Navy in association with Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the Cochin Port Trust in Kochi coast, Kerala . a) Talwar b) Tropex c) Slinex d) Apharan





141.Where was the World’s first ever Global Refugee Forum held ? a) Paris, France b) Madrid, Spain c) Geneva, Switzerland d) Washington D.C., United States (U.S.)

142.Mujtaba Hussain has returned his Padma Shri award, in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). He is a legendary __________ . a)Konkani author b) Urdu author c) Bengali author d) Gujarati author

143.What is the rank of India in the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) rankings for the year 2019 on December 19, 2019 ? a) 101 b) 102 c) 108 d) 110

144.On which date, International Human Solidarity Day 2019 is observed ? a) December 20 b) December 19 c) December 18 d) December 17

145.Who was appointed as the Telangana’s first LokAyukta on December 20, 2019 ? a) P Lakshman Reddy b) CV Ramulu c) Reva Khetrapal d) Nawal Kishore Agarwal





146.Name the Prime Minister of Portugal, who visited India recently . a) Hubert Minnis b) Novruz Mammadov c) António Luís Santos da Costa d) Nikol Pashinyan

147.Who presided the 2nd meeting of National Committee for Commemoration of the 150th Birth anniversary (October 2) of Mahatma Gandhi ‘Gandhi@150’ in New Delhi ? a) Nirmala Sitharaman b) Ram Nath Kovind c) Narendra Modi d) Amit Shah

148.Chabahar Agreement, which was seen in news recently was associated with which countries ? a) Bangladesh, India and Pakistan b) India, Bangladesh and Iran c) India, Afghanistan and Iran d) India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh

149.Name the state, that topped the list for organising Fit India Week in schools . a) Andhra Pradesh (AP) b) Uttar Pradesh (UP) c) Kerala d) Karnataka

150.Name the first Australian, who was named as the ‘ITF Women’s World Champion for the year 2019’ under Women’s Singles Category . a) Astra Sharma b) Samantha Stosur c) Ashleigh Barty d) Margaret Court





151.Rafael Nadal was named as the “International Tennis Federation (ITF) World Champions for the year 2019 in Men’s Singles Category. He belongs to which country ? a) France b) Spain c) Argentina d) Russia

152.Which country has launched its first Satellite, “ETRSS-1” by Chinese Long March 4B carrier rocket from china recently ? a) Equatorial Guinea b) Ecuador c) Ethiopia d) Egypt

153.What was the theme of the 11th edition of Regional Quality Conclave (RQC) that held in Uttarakhand ? a) Theme – “Creating and Sustaining a Quality Culture” b) Theme – “Quality Enablers for Manufacturing Competitiveness & Trade” c) Theme – “Quality and Manufacturing Excellence for Sustainable Growth” d) Theme – “Advance Manufacturing with Quality, Innovation & Technology Interventions”

154.What is the common name of the currency, that was renamed from “CFA Franc” by 8 West African Nations (Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo) recently ? a) Ero b) Euro c) Echo d) Eco

155.Which country has recently launched the “Space Force” focusing on warfare in space ? a) Russia b) United States (US)





c) India d) China

156.Who was named as the first Prime Minister (PM) of Cuba since 1976 ? a) Manuel Marrero Cruz b) Hubert Minnis c) Charles Michel d) Mia Mottley

157.Name the “biosimilar” medicine of Trastuzumab, which was announced by World Health Organization (WHO) for 1st time to make breast cancer treatment cheaper . a) Ontruzant b) Taxotere c) Anastrozole d) Adriamycin

158.Who became the leading run-scorer in the 50 over One Day Internationals (ODI) format in the year 2019 ? a) Rohit Sharma b) Shikhar Dhawan c) MS Dhoni d) Virat Kohli

159.Cricketer, Shai Hope was seen in news recently, he belongs to which country ? a) Australia b) West Indies c) South Africa d) New Zealand

160.Martin Peter of England passed away recently, he belonged to which sport ? a) Badminton b) Tennis





c) Football d) Cricket

161.Name the founder of BRAC( Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), who passed away recently . a) Sir Fazle Hasan Abed b) Fazlur Rahman Khan c) Muhammad Yunus d) Madhav Chavan

162.Ramachandra Babu passed away recently, he was a legendary ____________. a) Director b) Cinematographer c) Actor d) Producer

163.Which program was launched to catalyze cross-disciplinary leadership in India? a)EchO network b)Netscape c)Digital Echo d)Eks Network

164.The Government has decided to organize how many Hunar Haat across the country in the next five years to provide market exposure and employment opportunities to artisans, craftsmen and traditional culinary experts? a)80 b)150 c)100 d)125

165.Recently Indian Coast Guard (ICG) conducted which two-day regional level pollution response exercise in Gulf of Kutch? a)Dornier 2019





b)Swach Samigiri c)ReSAREX NE 2019 d)Swachchh Samundra NW 2019

166.Who was named ATP’s comeback player of the year 2019? a)Leander Paes b)Rafael Nadal c)Ashleigh Barty d)Andy Murray

167.When is National Mathematics Day observed? a)21 December b)22 December c)23 December d)25 December

168.Which state government, topped the list in coverage under micro-irrigation for 2019 ? a) Uttar Pradesh (UP) b) Tamil Nadu (TN) c) West Bengal (WB) d) Assam

169.Where was the 1st Annual Meet of State Nodal Agencies for National Green Corps (NGC) “Ecoclub” programme held ? a) Kevadia, Gujarat b) Mumbai, Maharashtra c) New Delhi, Delhi d) Kolkata, West Bengal

170.Find the “Silver Line” project that received Ministry of Railways approval recently ? a) Baruipur – Lakshmikantapur – Namkhana in West Bengal b) Ghaziabad-Meerut-Khatauli(Muzaffarnagar) in Uttar Pradesh c) Thiruvananthapuram – Kasaragod in Kerala d) Tindivanam-Gingee-Tiruvannamalai in Kerala





171.Which organization has released the third edition of global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco use 2000-2025 ? a) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) b) World Health Organisation (WHO) c) United Nation (UN) d) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

172.Which city will host the 17th India-EU summit in the year 2020 ? a) Brussels, Belgium b) Berlin, Germany c) Madrid, Spain d) Washington, D.C., United States (US)

173.Who has conferred the 66th National Film Awards for the year 2018 in 31 categories in New Delhi ? a) Narendra Modi b) Rajnath Singh c) Ram Nath Kovind d) Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu

174.Name the Indian actor, who won the prestigious 50th Dadasaheb Phalke Award (Indian cinema’s biggest honour in his 50th year in the Indian film industry) . a) Kamal Haasan b) Amitabh Bachchan c) Rajinikanth d) Sanjay Dutt

175.Who was appointed as the new President of ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) on December 23, 2019 ? a) Balkrishan Goenka b) Vineet Agarwal c) Niranjan Hiranandani d) Chandru Raheja





176.What was the theme of the National Consumer Rights Day 2019, that was observed on 24th December ? a) Theme – “Alternate consumer grievance/dispute redressal” b) Theme – “Timely Disposal of Consumer Complaints” c) Theme – “Building a Digital World Consumers can Trust” d) Theme – “Antibiotics Off The Menu”

177.For which poetry, V M Girija has been selected for the best poetry award ? a) Kunjunniyude Yathrapusthakam b) Budhha Pournami c) Choottum Koottum d) Ushna Rashi

178.Name the railway station, which has collaborated with Airo Guard & opened the ‘Oxygen Parlour’ to provide an experience of breathing clean air and to battle against rising air pollution . a) Asangaon railway station b) Kasara railway station c) Nashik Railway Station d) Igatpuri railway station

179.Cricketer Vernon Philander announced international retirement from all forms of cricket, he belongs to which country ? a) Sri Lanka b) Bangladesh c) West Indies d) South Africa

180.What was the strike range of the newly test fired Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) ? a) 30 kms b) 20 kms c) 50 kms d) 40 kms

181.Which state topped in the ‘first edition of Good Governance Index (GGI)’ under the “Big States Category” ? a) Andhra Pradesh





b) Karnataka c) Maharashtra d) Tamil Nadu

182.Find the Union Territory, that topped among the other Union Territories in the ‘first edition of Good Governance Index (GGI)’ ? a) Daman and Diu b) Delhi c) Puducherry d) Chandigarh

183.Name the Scheme launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to improve ground water management with an outlay of Rs 6000 crores for 5 years (2020-21 till 2024-2025) . a) Atal Bhujal Yojana b) Atal Jal Yojana c) Atal Vidyutikaran Yojana d) Atal Samridhi Yojana

184.________ edition of Census in India will be conducted in the year 2021 & National Population Register (NPR) will also be updated ? a) 10th b) 16th c) 15th d) 12th

185.Which state will not be covered by National Population Register (NPR) 2021 ? a) Meghalaya b) Nagaland c) West Bengal d) Assam

186.Indian Railway Medical Service (IRMS) will be renamed as ____________ . a) Indian Railway Health Service (IRHS)





b) Indian Railway Welfare Service (IRWS) c) Indian Railway Fitness Service (IRFS) d) Indian Railway Physical Health Service (IRPS)

187.Name the former Prime Minister of India, whose name will be named for the World’s longest Strategic mountain tunnel under Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh . a) Jawahar Lal Nehru b) P. V. Narasimha Rao c) Lal Bahadur Shastri d) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

188.What is the length of the Atal tunnel, World’s longest mountain tunnel under Rohtang Pass located in Himachal Pradesh ? a) 9.8-kilometre b) 9.2-kilometre c) 8.8-kilometre d) 10.2 -kilometre

189.Which country has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India for Bioenergy Cooperation? a) Brazil b) Japan c) China d) Russia

190.Name the country which has signed Protocol to amend the Air Services Agreement with India . a) Russia b) Switzerland c) Saudi Arabia d) Bangladesh

191.Which is the only country in the world, that has hypersonic weapons ? a) France





b) United States c) China d) Russia

192.The term “Greenwashing” was in news recently, what does it mean ? a) Product manufactured with environmental concerns b) Environment Friendly Product c) False claims of environmental compliance d) Claims of environmental compliance

193.What colour will be emitted when UV (UltraViolet) rays were exposed on the newly developed ink ? a) Orange b) Red c) Green d) Blue

194.Which country was affected by the Typhoon Phanfone (Typhoon Ursula) recently? a) Philippines b) Thailand c) Vietnam d) Laos

195.Padma Bhushan awardee, Leander Paes is set to retire in the year 2020, he is associated with which sport ? a) Football b) Cricket c) Badminton d) Tennis

196.Name the Hindi author, poet, story writer, novelist and translator, who was nominated for Sahitya Academy Award in 2019 for his book ‘Main Bhi Jaoonga’. a) Ganga Prasad Vimal b) Premchand





c) Ramdhari Singh Dinkar d) Harivansh Rai Bachchan

197.Which state to declare 2020 as “Year of AI” on January 2? a)Odisha b)Telangana c)Andhra Pradesh d)TamilNadu

198.Who is the author of the book titled “Diamond In My Palm” that describes about the 12 diamonds that was lost from India ? a) Sanjay Dharwadker b) Salman Rushdie c) Ruskin Bond d) Vikram Seth

199.Which country has officially announced to drop its nickname ‘Holland’ recently ? a) Turkey b) Belgium c) Germany d) The Netherlands

200.Which state celebrates the 11-day long open-air theater festival, ‘Dhanu Jatra’ ? a) Maharashtra b) Odisha c) West Bengal d) Assam





Q.1)Which city topped in the 5th edition of Swachh Survekshan League 2020

(Quarter 1 and Quarter 2)having more than 10 lakh population ?

(a)Nashik, Maharashtra

(b)Surat, Gujarat

(c)Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

(d)Indore, Madhya Pradesh

Q.2)Name the only state, that didn’t participate in the 5th edition of Swachh

Survekshan League 2020 .

(a)Maharashtra

(b)West Bengal

(c)Assam

(d)Gujarat

Q.3)How much fund was allocated to Road Sector under National

Infrastructure Pipeline for the year 2019-2020 to 2024-25 ?

(a)Rs. 17.63 lakh crores

(b)Rs. 19.63 lakh crores

(c)Rs. 12.63 lakh crores

(d)Rs. 13.69 lakh crores

Q.4)Who is not a member of the 7-member Group of Ministers (GoM) that

reviews the crop insurance scheme ,“Pradhan Mantri FasalBima Yojana

(PMFBY)” ?

(a)Nirmala Sitharaman

(b)Rajnath Singh

(c)Amit Shah

(d)Narender singhTomar





Q.5)Pragati Maidan metro station metro station was renamed as ‘Supreme Court metro station’ recently by the committee headed by Manish Sisodia.

Who is Manish Sisodia ?

(a)CM of Delhi

(b)Governor of Delhi

(c)Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

(d)Deputy CM of Delhi

Q.6)Which city is set to host the 14th Global healthcare summit in the year

2021 ?

(a)Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh(AP)

(b)New Delhi, Delhi

(c)Mumbai, Maharashtra

(d)Kolkata, West Bengal

Q.7)Name the 5th department that was created under Ministry of Defence

(MoD) after a change in Government of India (Allocation of Business), Rules

1961.

(a)Department of Defence

(b)Department of Military affairs (DMA)

(c)Department of Defence Production

(d)Department of Defence Research and Development

Q.8)MANI app launched by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor, Shri

Shaktikanta Das that would help visually impaired people to identify

denomination of currency notes, what is the full form of MANI?

(a)Visually Aided Note Identifier Application

(b)Mobile app for Visually Aided Note Identifier

(c)Visually Aided Note Identifier





(d)Mobile Aided Note Identifier

Q.9)Name the first & youngest Indian tribal women in the World, who scaled

six mountain peaks in six continents .

(a)Santosh Yadav

(b)Malavath Poorna

(c)Bachendri Pal

(d)Dicky Dolma

Q.10)Vinod Kumar Yadav is the Chairman of the Railway Board, whose tenure was extended by one more year. Who was the former Chairman of

the Railway board?

(a)Rajesh Agrawal

(b)VishweshChaube

(c)Ashwani Lohani

(d)Purnendu Sekhar Mishra

Q.11)Which state government’s Road Transport Corporation has launched the ‘Damini’ helpline service to ensure the safety of women passengers with

the unique number “81142-77777” ?

(a)Gujarat

(b)Assam

(c)Uttar Pradesh

(d)West Bengal

Q.12)Which State/UT has utilized the PoshanAbhiyaan funds well & emerged

as the best performer ?

(a)Mizoram

(b)Lakshadweep





(c)Himachal Pradesh

(d)Bihar

Q.13)What is the Integrated help line number launched by Indian Railways

for quick grievance and enquiries by the passengers during journeys ?

(a)149

(b)152

(c)143

(d)139

Q.14)A cultural troupe from which state came and performing manipuri

martial arts, folk music and folk dances. and celebrated Ritualistic festival,

‘Lai Haroba’ recently in Tripura ?

(a)Manipur

(b)Nagaland

(c)Tripura

(d)Mizoram

Q.15)Census of which animal, is set to be conducted in May 2020 by Wildlife

Institute of India (WII) in Gujarat using 8,000-10,000 cameras ?

(a)Asiatic Lion

(b)Cape lion

(c)American lion

(d)Barbary lion

Q.16)Which state government has launched India’s first online platform called “e-Gazette portal”( http://egazetteodisha.nic.in), designed and

developed by the NIC(National Informatics Centre) ?

(a)Assam





(b)Odisha

(c)Uttar Pradesh

(d)West Bengal

Q.17)Name the 1st state in the U.S, that ban sun cream to save corals and

sea life.

(a)Hawaii

(b)Marshall Islands

(c)Kiribati

(d)Palau

Q.18)Which organization has reported that more than 1,70,000 grave

violations against children in conflict were verified for the last 10 years, It

has named this decade as deadly decade?

(a)World Bank

(b)United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

(UNICEF)

(c)United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

(d)United Nation

Q.19)Which country has become the largest source of Foreign Direct

Investment (FDI) ($8 billion investments) in India during the first half of

FY2020 ?

(a)Japan

(b)Mauritius

(c)United States(US)

(d)Singapore

Q.20)Name the Prize unveiled by Britain’s Prince William to solve “Earth’s

greatest environmental problems,” from climate change to air pollution .





(a)Earth Saver Prize

(b)Climate Changer Prize

(c)Earthshot Prize

(d)Climate Change Prize

Q.21)Who was appointed as the 1st Chairman of NMC (National Medical

commission) on January 2, 2020 ?

(a)Mahesh Verma

(b)Rajendra Pandey

(c)Suresh Chandra Sharma

(d)Rakesh Kumar Vats

Q.22)Under which scheme, the Department of Heavy Industries has

sanctioned 2636 EV (Electric Vehicles) charging stations to clean the mobility

in Road Transport Sector ?

(a)FAME India (Fast Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India)

Scheme

(b)QAME India (Quick Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in

India) Scheme

(c)RAME India (Rapid Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in

India) Scheme

(d)FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric

Vehicles in India) Scheme

Q.23)NEST was in news recently, what does ‘N’ stands for ___________ .

(a)N – NEW

(b)N – NATIONAL

(c)N – NEED

(d)N – NAVAL





Q.24)To boost which type of Saree production, Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has opened its first Silk Processing Plant in Gujarat ?

(a)Bomkai Sarees (b)Patola Sarees

(c)Bandhani/Bandhej Saree

(d)Bhagalpuri Saree

Q.25)5 high-tech Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) labs

with scientists under age 35 years was inaugurated recently in various states, which among these is not one of the state?

(a)Tamil Nadu (b)Telangana

(c)West Bengal

(d)Kerala

Q.26)In Bengaluru, Karnataka the _______ International Science Congress

for the year 2020 with the theme “Science and Technology: Rural Development” inaugurated?

(a)106

(b)108 (c)107

(d)105

Q.27)Which Bank has given a $75 million (over Rs 500 crore) line of credit

(LoC, a soft loan / loan with low interest rate) to Cuba for financing 75 MW

(megawatt) Photovoltaic Solar Parks ? (a)Export-Import (Exim)

(b)State bank (c)Indian bank

(d)World bank

Q.28)Who won the ‘100 Global Child Prodigy Award 2020′ in the “singing” category for singing 120 languages ?

(a)Aditi Singh Sharma (b)Sucheta Satish

(c)Jonita Gandhi

(d)Shilpa Rao





Q.29)World Braille Day is observed annually on ___________ . (a)January 3

(b)January 4 (c)January 2

(d)January 1

Q.30)Name the 1st state in India that shortlist migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan for eligibility under the new Citizenship

Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 . (a)Maharashtra

(b)Uttar Pradesh (UP)

(c)Gujarat

(d)Tamil Nadu

Q.31)Which state has topped among all the states with the highest number of fire alerts at 2,795 ?

(a)Tripura (b)Mizoram

(c)Manipur

(d)Nagaland

Q.32)Name the most powerful military commander of Iran, who was killed

by the American airstrike at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq . (a)Qassem Soleimani

(b)Hassan Nasrallah

(c)Mohammad Javad Zarif

(d)Abu Azrael

Q.33)Name the word chosen by US linguists as their “Word of the Decade” on January 3,2020 .

(a)‘Web’

(b)‘Google’ (c)‘Climate’

(d)‘They’

Q.34)Where is the Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited (IRRPL), a joint

venture of India & Russia located ?

(a)Bengaluru, Karnataka (b)Mumbai, Maharashtra





(c)Amethi, Uttar Pradesh

(d)Pune, Maharashtra

Q.35)Rohit Sharma Cricket stadium foundation stone was laid in which of the

following city recently ? (a)Bengaluru, Karnataka

(b)Guwahati, Assam (c)Hyderabad, Telangana


Q.36)Where was the 63rd National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) for the year 2019 held ?

(a)Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (MP) (b)Guwahati, Assam

(c)Hyderabad, Telangana

(d)Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

Q.37)Raisina Dialogue is an annual multi-lateral conference organized by

which Ministry?

(a) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

(b) Ministry of External Affairs

(c) Ministry of Finance

(d) Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Q.38)The Transport Department of Uttar Pradesh recently launched a

helpline for women called ‘Damini’, what is the helpline number?

(a) 81142 77777

(b) 84421 77777

(c) 88114 88888

(d) 84421 88888

Q.39)The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Academy is to be

established in which city?





(a) Mussoorie

(b) Dehradun

(c) Nagpur

(d) Hyderabad

Q.40)Who is the Director General of Aeronautical Systems in DRDO and is

also known as Missile Woman of India?

(a) Dr.Tessy Thomas

(b) RituKaridhal

(c)Muthiah Vanitha

(d) Anuradha T K

Q.41)Which state will have the country’s first rehabilitation centre for

freshwater turtles?

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Bihar

(c) Chhattisgarh

(d) Odisha

Q.42)Which film won the ‘Best Motion picture- drama’ award in the Golden

Globe awards 2020?

(a) Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

(b) 1917

(c) Missing Link

(d) Parasite

Q.43)Who is the director of the film 1917 ?

(a) George MacKay





(b) Dean-Charles Chapman

(c) Joaquin Phoenix

(d) Sam Mendes

Q.44)Which famous actor won the ‘Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama’

award in the Golden Globe awards 2020?

(a) George MacKay

(b) Dean-Charles Chapman

(c) Joaquin Phoenix

(d) Brad Pitt

Q.45)India and Oman 2 Countries participated in the naval exercise named

‘Naseem-Al-Bahr’, that held in Which state recently? (a)Assam

(b)Manipur (c)Rajasthan

(d)Goa

Q.46)Which state has celebrated the 4th edition of the Buxa Bird Festival 2020 recently at Buxa National park?

(a)Gujarat (b)Arunachal Pradesh (AR)

(c)West Bengal(WB)

(d)Andhra Pradesh (AP)

Q.47)Name the 1st tri-dimensional expedition launched by Indian Navy in

Maharashtra to promote the heritage of Indian Navy & to spread awareness about Coastal Security .

(a)Maha-Navy Connect 2020 (b)Secure-Navy Connect 2020

(c)Aware-Navy Connect 2020

(d)Heritage-Navy Connect 2020

Q.48)What is the default temperature setting of all Air Conditioner (AC) that

was set by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) with effect from January 1,





2020 ? (a)13°C

(b)12°C (c)18°C

(d)24°C

Q.49)77th edition of Golden Globe Awards honouring the best films and television of calendar year 2019 that held in Which place in United States of

America (USA). (a)California

(b)Florida

(c)Texas

(d)Hawaii

Q.50)Who won the “Cecil B. DeMille Award for 2019” during the 77th Golden Globe Awards ?

(a)Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (b)Tim Allen

(c)Michael Clarke Duncan

(d)Tom Cruise

Q.51)Which city will host the 1st edition of the 2020 Khelo India University

Games (KIUG) from February 22nd to March 1, 2020, and the mascots of the games is JAY and BIJAY ?

(a)Guwahati, Assam

(b)New Delhi, Delhi (c)Bengaluru, Karnataka

(d)Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Q.52)Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) organization will observe 2020

as the ‘Year of ________’ ?

(a)Mobility (b)Action

(c)Defence

(d)Climate change

Q.53)Padma Bhushan Awardee, Akbar Padamsee passed away recently, he

was a legendary _______ . (a)Actor & Singer





(b)Actor & Director (c)Painter & Artist

(d)Producer & Director

Q.54)Footballer Hans Tilkowski, passed away recently, he belonged to which country ?

(a)United States (b)Germany

(c)Russia

(d)France

Q.55)Who won the 95th edition of the prestigious Hastings International

Chess Congress at Hastings in England ? (a)Magesh Chandran Panchanathan

(b)M. R. Lalith Babu (c)PentalaHarikrishna

(d)Krishnan Sasikiran

Q.56)Who was concurrently accredited as the next ambassador of India to the Dominica on January 6,2020 ?

(a)Sangeeta Bahadur (b)Arun Kumar Sahu

(c)Srikumar Menon

(d)Kishan Dan Dewal

Q.57)Name the city that will host the International naval exercise ‘MILAN’ in

March 2020 with the theme ‘Synergy Across the Seas’ . (a)Hyderabad, Telangana

(b)Kolkata, West Bengal (c)Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

(d)New Delhi, Delhi

Q.58)42 Countries have signed MLAT with India for cooperation in criminal matters in November 2019, in MLAT ‘l’ denotes ?

(a)Law (b)Low

(c)Light

(d)Legal





Q.59)Which state accounted for the maximum number of economic offences in 2018 as per the National Crime Record Bureau’s (NCRB) report ?

(a)Uttar Pradesh(UP) (b)Rajasthan

(c)Maharashtra

(d)Telangana

Q.60)Which city ranked 1st in the list of fastest growing urban regions/

fastest growing cities in the world as per Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)? (a)Suqian, China

(b)Malappuram, Kerala (c)Kozhikode, Kerala

(d)Can Tho, Vietnam

Q.61)What is the rank of Indian Passport in the Henley passport Index 2020 released by Henley & Partners, which was topped by Japan?

(a)78th (b)80th

(c)82nd

(d)84th

Q.62)Which digital payments company has launched the all-in-one QR

(Quick Response) for merchants to make unlimited payment for free across India ?

(a)Google Pay

(b)PhonePe (c)Paytm

(d)PayPal

Q.63)Name the app launched by HDFC Bank recently to boost digital

payments in India.

(a)‘myApps’ (b)‘myEva’

(c)‘myFinApp’

(d)‘myExclusif’

Q.64)What is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)of India in the year FY20 as

per the World Bank (WB)’s report, “January 2020 Global Economic





Prospects: Slow growth, policy challenges” ? (a)6%

(b)5% (c)5.2%

(d)5.5%

Q.65)Who won the UK(United Kingdom) children’s book award, “Costa Children’s Award” for the debut novel ‘Asha and the Spirit Bird’ ?

(a)Hilary McKay (b)Caroline Ward Vine

(c)JasbinderBilan

(d)Sally Rooney

Q.66)On which date, PravasiBharatiya Divas (PBD) is celebrated ?

(a)January 6 (b)January 7

(c)January 9

(d)January 8

Q.67)National Mission for Safety of Women (NMSW) is the scheme under

which 24 states and Union Territories (UTs) will set up a total of how many ‘fast-track special courts’ (FTSCs) .

(a)1024 (b)1025

(c)1023

(d)1022

Q.68)4 Indian airports have received the International recognition for

reducing the carbon emission level as per the standards set by Airports Council International (ACI), which one of the following is not among that ?

(a)Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport

(b)Biju Patnaik International Airport (c)Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport

(d)Kochi International Airport

Q.69)Chenab bridge is set become the world’s highest railway bridge

_______ m height above riverbed after completion, The 1.315-km-long ‘engineering marvel’ will connect Bakkal (katra) and Kauri (Srinagar).





(a)359 (b)275

(c)333

(d)300

Q.70)Which state will set up 121 acres zoological garden named after the

freedom fighter and revolutionary Shaheed AshfaqullahKhan ? (a)Jaipur, Rajasthan

(b)Guwahati, Assam (c)Nagpur, Maharashtra

(d)Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh

Q.71)Tamil Nadu (TN)’s Fishery and Music universities were named after which politician recently?

(a)K. Kamaraj (b)M. Karunanidhi

(c)J.Jayalalithaa

(d)M. G. Ramachandran

Q.72)Who received the 1st Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Award for

Excellence on January 09, 2020? (a)Virender Lal Chopra

(b)Salim Ali (c)VergheseKurien

(d)Dr M S Swaminathan

Q.73)Name the social activist, who received the 1st Muppavarapu National Award for Social Service on January 09, 2020 .

(a)Sunderlal Bahuguna (b)Chandi Prasad Bhatt

(c)Dr. Gutta Muniratnam

(d)KisanBaburao Hazare

Q.74)Lonavala, Maharashtra will host the _______ edition of, ‘The Pulses

Conclave 2020’ ? (a)5th

(b)4th

(c)2nd

(d)1st





Q.75)Which of the following state is categorized as ‘Front runners’ in the 2nd State Energy Efficiency Index 2019?

(a)Maharashtra (b)Karnataka

(c)Andhra Pradesh

(d)None of these

Q.76)Who stands thrid in the ICC (International Cricket Council) Men’s test

batting ranking 2020 released on January 8, 2020? (a)RavindrasinhAnirudhsinh Jadeja

(b)Virat Kohli (c)Marnus Labuschagne

(d)Jason Omar Holder

Q.77)World Hindi Day (WHD) is observed annually on _______________ . (a)January 9

(b)January 10 (c)January 8

(d)January 7

Q.78)Where is the state-of-the-art, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) located?

(a)New Delhi, Delhi (b)Mumbai, Maharashtra

(c)Chennai, Tamil Nadu


Q.79)Name the Indian Scientist, who won the Merck Young Scientist Awards

2019 for the specialization in main group of chemistry and synthesis of

compounds with main group elements and their catalytic application.

(a)Dr Debojyoti Chakraborty

(b)Dr Sakya Singha Sen

(c)Dr Basker Sundararaju

(d)Dr Siddhesh S Kamat





Q.80)Rani Rampal the Indian sports Player, who was nominated for the “World Games Athlete of the Year”award, 2019 by the International Hockey

Federation (FIH), she is related to which sports?

(a)Hockey

(b)Cricket

(c)Football

(d)Hand ball

Q.81)Lt Col Yuvraj Malik appointed as director of National Book Trust (NBT),

he succeeds _________.

(a)Nandakumar E.N.

(b)Brij Kishore Sharma

(c)Govind Prasad Sharma

(d)Rita Chowdhury

Q.82)Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad, Telangana will host the conference on

civil aviation sector, ‘Wings India 2020’ with the theme __________ ?

(a)Flying for all

(b)Flying for everyone

(c)Fly high

(d)Fly everywhere

Q.83)Which organization has released the first in-depth report of ‘India 2020 Energy Policy Review’ in association with International Energy Agency (IEA)

?

(a)Indian Energy Agency (IEA)

(b)National Development Council (NDC)

(c)National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog

(d)National Energy Agency (NEA)





Q.84)Who launched the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal,

“www.cybercrime.gov.in” ?

(a)Ram Nath Kovind

(b)Narendra Modi

(c)Amit Shah

(d)Rajnath Singh

Q.85)Name the scheme launched by Union Minister for Women and Child Development and Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani for Women entrepreneurship in

Goa .

(a)National Creche Scheme

(b)Yashaswini scheme

(c)SWADHAR Greh Scheme

(d)Mahila Shakti Kendra scheme

Q.86)Which country has elected, Tsai Ing-wen as its President for the second

time ?

(a)Taiwan

(b)Vietnam

(c)Thailand

(d)Laos

Q.87)Who received the prestigious Polly Umrigar Award for the best international cricketer (2018-19) in men’s category from Board of Control for

Cricket in India (BCCI) Annual Awards for the year 2018-19?

(a)Rohit Sharma

(b)Virat Kohli

(c)Shikhar Dhawan





(d)Jasprit Bumrah

Q.88)Name the Indian cricketer, who received the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) ‘s “Dilip Sardesai Award” for the highest run getter in

Test cricket (2018-2019) .

(a)Mahendra Singh Dhoni

(b)Jasprit Bumrah

(c)Jhulan Goswami

(d)Umesh Yadav

Q.89)Yashaswini scheme launched by Union Minister for Women and Child

Development and Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani for Women entrepreneurship in

Which state?

(a)Goa

(b)Rajasthan

(c)Tamil Nadu

(d)Bihar

Q.90)What is the new name of the Kolkata Port, that was renamed during

the sesquicentenary (150th year) celebrations of the Kolkata Port Trust

(KoPT) by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi ?

(a)Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras Port

(b)Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Port

(c)Atal Bihari Vajpayee Port

(d)Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel Port

Q.91)Which country has translated, Swami Vivekananda’s book titled ‘Karma

Yoga‘ in its language during Vishwa Hindi Diwas on January 10, 2020 ?

(a)Pakistan





(b)Bangladesh

(c)Nepal

(d)Sri Lanka

Q.92)Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) armed force, Appointed who as

Director General (DG) on January 13, 2020 ?

(a)Anand Prakash Maheshwari

(b)Rajesh Ranjan

(c)Surjeet Singh

(d)VK Johri

Q.93)Who is not a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as

on 14th January, 2020 ?

(a)N S Vishwanathan

(b)B P Kanungo

(c)Viral V Acharya

(d)Michael Debabrata Patra

Q.94)Name the Surveyor General of India, who was re-appointed for another

period for one year on contract basis on 14th January 2020 .

(a)Dr T Ramaswami

(b)Lt General Girish Kumar

(c)Dr Swarna Subba Rao

(d)VP Srivastava

Q.95)Name the British Indian yoga champion, who was honoured with the

“Global Child Prodigy Award 2020” for achievements in spiritual discipline

yoga .

(a)Ishwar Sharma





(b)Abhijata Sridhar Iyengar

(c)Ajay Tokas

(d)Alpesh Patwari

Q.96)Who was named as the “Most valuable player” in the year 2020 with

€265 million as per International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) Football

Observatory ?

(a)Mohammed Salah

(b)Jadon Sancho

(c)Kylian Mbappe

(d)Raheem Sterling

Q.97)Name the first woman parade adjutant for the Republic Day (26th

January) parade of 2020 & Army day (15th January) of 2020 .

(a)Tania Shergill

(b)Priya Jhingan

(c)Mitali Madhumita

(d)Punita Arora

Q.98)Who won the “Coach of the Year Award” in the 2nd edition of Sportstar

Aces Awards 2020 ?

(a)RB Ramesh

(b)Pusarla Venkata (PV) Sindhu

(c)Rohit Sharma

(d)Steve Smith

Q.99)Which country won 21 medals & topped the year 2019 as number one

shooting nation in world ?

(a)China





(b)India

(c)Russia

(d)United States

Q.100)Which city will host the 19th edition of Annual Joint Exercise ‘Sahyog-

Kaijin’, that is Participated by Japan and India ?

(a)Chennai, Tamil Nadu

(b)Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

(c)Bengaluru, Karnataka

(d)Mumbai, Maharashtra

Q.101) Name the campaign launched by Minister of Petroleum and Natural

Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan to create awareness among the people in conservation

of fuels . (a) Shram Yogi

(b) Samman

(c) Saksham

(d) Sansad Adarsh

Q.102) Which state celebrates the festival ‘Chapchar Kut’ recently ?

(a) Assam

(b) Mizoram

(c) Meghalaya

(d) Gujarat

Q.103) 23rd edition of National Youth Festival (NYF) 2020 held in ?

(a) Bhuvaneshwar

(b) Dehradun

(c) Delhi (d) Lucknow

Q.104) Dr Jitendra Singh launched the Department of Personnel and Training’s (DoPT) online certificate course on“Relevance of Gandhi in the

Contemporary World” at a function in?

(a) Bhuvaneshwar

(b) Dehradun

(c) Delhi





(d) Lucknow

Q.105) Who has written the book ‘Calcutta nights?

(a) U. R. Anandamurthy

(b) SachinKundalkar

(c) VivekShanbhag

(d) Rajat Chaudhuri

Q.106) NgangomBala Devi has become the first Indian woman

footballer to get a professional contract from Scottish giants ‘Rangers FC

belongs to which to state?

(a) Manipur

(b) Haryana

(c) Meghalaya

(d) Maharashtra

Q.107)Which state has emerged as Number 1 state in the ‘Decent work and

economic

growth’ category on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India index in

2019.

(a) Manipur

(b) Telangana

(c) Andhrapradesh

(d) Tamilnadu

Q.108)The 12th edition of South Asian Conference held at New Delhi .What is the Theme of the conference?

(a) “Nation first”: Policy regional perceptions

(b) “Brotherhood first”: Policy regional conspirators

(c) “Neighbourhood first”: Policy regional perceptions

(d) “Friendship first”: Policy regional perceptions

Q.109)the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Blockchain Technology was setup in ?

(a) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(b) Bengaluru, Karnataka

(c) New Delhi, Delhi (d) Kolkata, West Bengal





Q.110)What is the name of the portal that government recently released to speed up construction works of National Highways?

(a)TEZ

(b)SPEED

(c)GATI

(d)MARG

Q.111) Which India State has Launched Virtual Police Station?

(a) Gujarat

(b) Jammu and Kashmir

(c) Odisha

(d) Himachal Pradesh

Q.112The foundation stone of Lakshadweep’s 1st Super Specialty Hospital ?

(a) Kavaratti, Lakshadweep

(b) Minicoy, Lakshadweep

(c) Kalpeni, Lakshadweep

(d) Kiltan, Lakshadweep

Q.113)Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ranked at which position in the World

Gold

Council (WGC) report titled “Outlook 2020: Global economic trends and their

impact on gold” ?

(a) 3rd

(b) 6th

(c) 5th

(d) 4th

Q.114)who attended the 71st Republic day of India as the chief guest?

(a) Fernando Henrique Cardoso

(b) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

(c) Dilma Rousseff

(d) Jair Messias Bolsonaro

Q.115)India’s 1st underwater metro rail, that will run under Which River,

that will be completed by March 2022?

(a) Indus

(b) Musi





(c) Chenab

(d) Hoogly

Q.116)13th edition of International Children’s Film

Festival that was inaugurated in ?

(a) Kathmandu, Nepal

(b) Dhaka, Bangladesh

(c) Myanmar

(d)Mirpur, Bangladesh

Q.117)Who was unanimously nominated as the Life President of Asian

Tennis

Federation (ATF)?

(a) Surendran Subramaniam

(b) Nasser Al-Khelaifi

(c) Suwat Liptapanlop

(d) Anil Khanna

Q.118)Which country’s Cricketer, Mohammad Hafeez announced retirement

recently ?

(a) New zealand

(b) Pakistan

(c) Bangladesh

(d) India

Q.119)Chattisgarh state has launched an app launched to provide

employment to trained youths under their skill development ?

programme.

(a) Shiksha Setu

(b) Krishi Kisan

(c) Nyaya Bandhu

(d) Rojgar Sangi

Q.120) 10th edition of World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2020 held at?

(a) Geneva, Switzerland

(b) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates(UAE)

(c) New Delhi, India

(d) Washington D.C., United States (US)

Q.121) 5th edition of the Science Film Festival of India, SCI- FFI 2020 held ?

(a) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

(b) Kolkata, West Bengal





(c) Panaji, Goa

(d) New Delhi, Delhi

Q.122) 1st ever Innovation festival was held recently in ?

(a) Kerala (Held in Kochi)

(b) Madhya Pradesh (Held in Bhopal)

(c) Uttar Pradesh (Held in Varanasi)

(d) Arunachal Pradesh (Held in Itanagar)

Q.123)the India’s 1st Super Fab Lab inaugurated in kerala ,that will collaborate

with which country to enhance the hardware industry?

(a) United States(US)

(b) Bangladesh

(c) UK

(d) Germany

Q.124)Who was appointed as the Chief Executive of Indian Banks’

Association?

(a) Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi

(b) Lingam Venkata Prabhakar

(c) Sunil Mehta

(d) Agyey Kumar Azad

Q.125)Chhannulal Mishra received Padma Vibhushan award recently, is

associated

with which field ?

(a) Art

(b) Public affairs

(c) Spirtualism

(d) Sports

Q.126)Who was honoured with the Harit Ratna Award 2019?

(a) N Kumar

(b) ST Sabarathinam

(c) D. Ramakrishnaiya

(d) R. K. Sivanappan

Q.127)Which Newspaper was awarded with the “National Media Award for print” by





Election Commission of India (ECI) ?

(a) “The Times of India”

(b) “The Economic Times”

(c) “The Indian Express”

(d) “The Hindu Tamil”

Q.128)Who authored the book titled ‘The Winning Sixer: Leadership Lessons To

Master’?

(a) Raman Lamba

(b) Ramesh Powar

(c) Woorkeri Venkat Raman (WV Raman)

(d) Laxman Sivaramakrishnan

Q.129)Jacqueline Williams becomes the first woman third umpire in men’s

international cricket match.She belongs to which country ?

(a) Maldives

(b) Jamaica

(c) Caribbean

(d) Bahamas

Q.130)Which state has topped in the ‘Central and state governmental water

departments based on their efficiency targets for 2019’ released by Ministry of Jal Shakti .

(a) Uttar Pradesh

(b) Gujarat

(c) Delhi

(d) Assam

Q.131)Who was appointed as the president of Archery association of India?

(a) Srinivasan

(b) Arjun munda

(c) Woorkeri Venkat Raman (WV Raman)

(d) Laxman Sivaramakrishnn

Q.132)Which date is set as deadline to implement ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme across the country ?

(a) May 1, 2020

(b) June 1, 2020

(c) April 30, 2020

(d) April 1, 2020





Q.133)Which Insurance Company has partnered with Bharti Airtel Limited to offer Rs 2 lakh insurance cover to Airtel users ?

(a) Max Life Insurance Company Limited

(b) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company

(c) Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company Limited

(d) SBI Life Insurance Company Limited

Q.134)As per United Nations Conference on Trade and

Development (UNCTAD) report titled “Global Investment Trend Monitor

report 2020” India was ranked at which position ?

(a) 5th

(b) 15th

(c) 12th

(d) 8th

Q.135)Who was appointed as the Managing Director (MD) of the State Bank of India

(SBI) ?

(a) Rajnish Kumar

(b) Challa Sreenivasulu Setty

(c) Dinesh Kumar Khara

(d) P. K. Gupta

Q.136)Who was appointed as the Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive

Officer

(CEO) of Bank of Baroda (BoB) ?

(a) PS Jayakumar

(b) S. L. Jain

(c) Vikramaditya Singh Khichi

(d) Sanjiv Chadha

Q.137)Which state becomes the first state in India that implemented

agricultural land leasing

policy ?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Uttarakhand

(c) Assam

(d) Gujarat

Q.138)Who was conferred with the ‘Champions of Change Award-2019’ for social

welfare (Aspirational Districts) by Former President Pranab Mukherjee





recently ?

(a) Deepa Venkat

(b) Hemant Soren

(c) Manish Shisodia

(d) Acharya Balakrishnan

Q.139)Name the Indian city that ranked 14th & topped among other Indian cities in

the Knight Frank’s Global Residential Cities Index Q3 (Quarter) 2019 . (a) Kolkata

(b) Hyderabad

(c) Ahmedabad

(d) Bengaluru

Q.140)Name the 1st state in India that uses face recognition app in 2020 in

its

Municipal polls on pilot basis.

(a) Assam

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) Telangana

(d) West Bengal

Q.141)What is the capital of the newly merged Union Territory (UT) Dadra & Nagar

Haveli and Daman & Diu ?

(a) Daman

(b) Diu

(c) Dadra

(d) Nagar Haveli

Q.142)Mukhyamantri Krishak Durghatna Kalyan Yojana was launched by which state ?

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Andhra Pradesh (AP)

(c) Uttar Pradesh (UP)

(d) West Bengal (WB)

Q.143)Name the 1st Indian telecom operator that has recently launched UPI

(Unified Payments Interface) payments space.

(a) Tata Indicom

(b) Idea Cellular

(c) Bharti Airtel Limited





(d) Reliance Jio

Q.144)How many Indian English words were included in the 10th edition of

the

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary ?

(a) 29

(b) 35

(c) 30

(d) 26

Q.145)Nagoba Jatara, the 2nd biggest tribal festival/Carnival of India

celebrated in

which Indian State?

(a) Chhattisgarh

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Odisha

(d) Telangana

Q.146)Which Indian State has announced Direct Consent to

Operate (CTO) scheme for green Industries?

(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Telangana

(c) Karnataka

(d) Tamil Nadu

Q.147)World Health Organization(WHO) has declared Global health

emergency on

which virus in January 2020?

(a) Ebola Virus

(b) Novel Corona Virus

(c) Nipah Virus

(d) Rubella Virus

Q.148)Who received the highest civilian honour of Australia, ‘Order of Australia

honour’?

(a) Mallika Srinivasan

(b) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

(c) Shobhana Bhartia

(d) Savitri Jindal





Q.149)Who has been appointed as the Queen’s counsel for the courts of England and

Wales ?

(a) Anupam Lal Das

(b) Aparajita Singh

(c) Gopal Sankaranarayanan

(d) Harish Salve

Q.150)ICICI Bank has unveiled India’s largest API (Application Programming

Interfaces) banking portal with how many APIs ?

(a) 200

(b) 250

(c) 225

(d) 245

Q.151)Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin was elected as the Prime

Minister of which country ?

(a) China

(b) Russia

(c) Japan

(d) Germany

Q.152) Who has been selected for the Saraswati Samman 2019 for his short stories

collection- ‘Chequebook’ ?

(a) Salman Rushdie

(b) Chetan Bhagat

(c) Vasdev Mohi (d) Anita Desai

Q.153)who was awarded as the ODI Cricketer of the Year in 16th edition of ICC

awards 2019 . (a) MS Dhoni

(b) Rohit Sharma

(c) Virat Kohli

(d) Shikhar Dhawan

Q.154)Who won the “Spirit of Cricket Award” in the 16th edition of ICC

awards 2019 ?





(a) MS Dhoni (b) Rohit Sharma

(c) Virat Kohli (d) Shikhar Dhawan

Q.155)Who was appointed as the new Prime Minister (PM) of Qatar?

(a) Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani (b) Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

(c) Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani (d) Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani

Q.156)Sanjana kapoor related to which field?

(a) Lyricist

(b) Singer

(c) Dancer

(d) Theatre artist

Q.157)1st International Heritage Symposium and Exhibition

(IHSE) willl be held in ?

(a) Delhi

(b) Telangana

(c) Karnataka

(d) Tamil Nadu

Q.158)India’s 1st Sukhoi-30 fighter squadron will be

inducted ?

(a) Kochi, Kerala

(b) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (AP)

(c) Bengaluru, Karnataka

(d) Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu (TN)

Q.159)What is the rank of China based on steel production as per the World Steel

Association (WSA) 2019 ?

(a) 3rd

(b) 2nd

(c) 1st

(d) 5th

Q.160) Barca Academy Cup – Asia Pacific 2020 will be held in haryana, India

. This cup is related to which sports?





(a) Archery

(b) Boxing

(c) Wrestling

(d) Football

Q.161)Which cab service, launched in Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA),

Delhi to ensure safety of women?

(a) Shakthi on force

(b) Mitra Shakthi

(c) Pink-Specially for women

(d) Women with Wheels

Q.162)Who was conferred with prestigious “Ayurveda Ratan Award 2020” ?

(a) Rajesh Kotecha

(b) Partap Chauhan

(c) Balendu Prakash

(d) Krishna Chandra Chunekar

Q.163)Who is the author of the book titled ‘Why We Are Saying No CAA, NO

NRC, No

NPR’ ?

(a) Ashok Gehlot

(b) Pinarayi Vijayan

(c) Rajinder Kaur Bhattal

(d) Mamata Banerjee

Q.164)World Leprosy Day is observed on ?

(a) Jan 21

(b) Jan 28

(c) Jan 30

(d) Jan 29

Q.165)Nagoba Jatara, the 2nd biggest tribal festival/Carnival of India celebrated in

which Indian State?

(a) Chhattisgarh

(b) Madhya Pradesh

(c) Odisha





(d) Telangana

Q.166)Z-Morh tunnel, it is belongs to which UT/State ?

(a) Ladakh

(b) Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)

(c) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Assam

Q.167)Who won the GV Raja award for athletics (Male) recently ?

(a) Mohammad Anas

(b) Arokia Rajiv

(c) Dharun Ayyasamy

(d) Jinson Johnson

Q.168)Who were honoured with the Madhya Pradesh (MP) state government award, “2017 National Lata Mangeshkar Award” recently ?

(a) Suman Kalyanpur (b) Nitin Bose

(c) Kanan Devi (d) Kuldeep Singh

Q.169)Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre was appointed as the chairman of ?

(a) Road safety committee

(b) Small Scale Industries committee

(c) Banking Supervision committee

(d) Corporate Governance committee

Q.170)Who is the first ever hockey player to win 6th edition ‘World Games Athlete of

the Year Award 2019’?

(a) Rani Rampal

(b) Madhu Yadav

(c) Savitha

(d) Gurjit Gaur

Q.171)Who was appointed as the UN (United Nations) Resident Coordinator

(RC) of Thailand ?

(a) Robert Piper

(b) Achim Steiner

(c) Amina J. Mohammed

(d) Gita Sabharwal





Q.172)Which district topped in the NITI Aayog ( National Institution for

Transforming India) Aspirational Districts ranking for December 2019 ?

(a) Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh

(b) Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh

(c) Balangir, Odisha

(d) Y.S.R., Andhra Pradesh

Q.173)What is the rank of India based on steel production as per the World

Steel Association (WSA) 2019 ?

(a) 3rd

(b) 2nd

(c) 1st

(d) 5th

Q.174)3rd Global Potato Conclave was held at ?

(a) New Delhi

(b) Telangana

(c) Gujarat

(d) West Bengal

Q.175)3rd edition of the International Symposium on

Marine Ecosystems Challenges and Opportunities (MECOS-3)?

(a) Kochi

(b) New Delhi

(c) Visakhapatnam

(d) Mumbai

Q.176)1st edition of the Krishi Manthan, Food, Agri-

business and Rural Development Summit of Asia was hosted by which city ?

(a) Gandhinagar

(b) New Delhi

(c) Mumbai (d) Ahmedabad

Q.177)25th edition of the Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) 2020 held in ?

(a) Canada

(b) Netherland

(c) Vienna





(d) USA

Q.178) What is the rank of India as per the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s

report “The Global Social Mobility Report 2020: Equality, Opportunity and a New

Economic Imperative”?

(a) 70th

(b) 74th

(c) 76th

(d) 78th

Q.179)Which state clinched Khelo India Youth Games 2020 champions trophy by

winning 256 medals (78 gold, 77 silver and 101 bronze)?

(a) Andhra Pradesh

(b) Kerala

(c) Maharashtra

(d) West Bengal

Q.180)The book titled “The Story of Yoga: From India to the

Contemporary World” was written by ?

(a) Alasdair Gray

(b) Alistair Shearer

(c) Ian Rankin

(d) Alexander McCall Smith

Q.181)Who was appointed as the SoftBank group India head on January 22, 2020 ?

(a) Masayoshi Son

(b) Rajeev Misra

(c) Ken Miyauchi (d) Manoj Kohli

Q.182)Name the 1st Woman & 13th President of Greece?

(a) Marietta Giannakou

(b) Anna Diamantopoulou

(c) Katerina Sakellaropoulou

(d) Maria Damanaki

Q.183) Who was appointed as the Prime Minister (PM) of Lebanon ?





(a) Hassan Diab

(b) Michel Aoun

(c) Gebran Bassil (d) Saad Hariri

Q.184) Which is the most polluted city as per the Greenpeace India report of

2018?

(a) New Delhi, Delhi

(b) Chennai, Tamil Nadu

(c) Lunglei, Mizoram

(d) Jharia, Jharkhand

Q.185) Name the most expensive city for luxury living, as per the 1st ‘Global

Wealth and Lifestyle Report 2020?

(a) Singapore city

(b) Hong Kong

(c) Tokyo

(d) Shanghai

Q.186) Indian railways 1st waste to energy plant was commissioned in?

(a) Mumbai, Maharashtra

(b) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

(c) Guwahati, Assam

(d) Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Q.187) India will set up India’s 1st war memorial for service animals?

(a) Hyderabad

(b) Guwahati

(c) Mumbai (d) Meerut.

Q.188) Which country minted the world’s smallest gold coin of 2.96 millimeter (0.12

inches)?

(a) United Kingdom (UK)

(b) France

(c) Switzerland

(d) United States (US)

Q.189) Who was appointed as the panel member of the Advisory Board for

Banking Frauds (ABBF) of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)?

(a) Vineet Anand





(b) Anindo Majumdar

(c) A.D.M Chavali

(d) Nanak Chand

Q.190) Who was awarded with the 5th edition of the Mahakavi Sethia Award

for

poetry?

(a) Nissim Ezekiel

(b) Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

(c) Jeet Thayil

(d) Arun Kolatkar

Q.191) Who was awarded with the “2020 Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda

Prabandhan Puraskar” in the ‘individual category?

(a) Irom Sharmila

(b) Medha Patkar

(c) Arundhati Roy

(d) Kumar Munnan Singh

Q.192) Which country became the first-ever green nation in supporting

breastfeeding women & topped in the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative

(WBTi) survey?

(a) Myanmar

(b) Nepal

(c) Bangladesh

(d) Sri Lanka

Q.193) Name the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s half-

humanoid robot, that is set for an unmanned trip into space before Astronauts.

(a) Vikas Mitra (friend in Sky)

(b) Vaya Mitra (friend in Sky)

(c) Daksh Mitra (friend in Sky)

(d) Vyom Mitra (friend in Sky)

Q.194)11th edition of the Indoor Cricket World Cup will be held in?

(a) New zealand

(b) India

(c) Australia






Q.195) Name the country that will host the Women’s cricket World Cup 2021?

(a) New zealand

(b) India

(c) Australia


Q.196) Which country has launched the South Asia’s 1st e-passport facility?

(a) Sri Lanka

(b) Bangladesh

(c) Nepal (d) India

Q.197) Who was elected to the board of trustees of World Economic Forum (WEF)?

(a) Anshula Kant

(b) Kristalina Georgieva

(c) Mariya Gabriel (d) Gita Gopinath

Q.198) Who was elected as the new Chair of the Forum of the Election Management

Bodies of South Asia (FEMBoSA) for the year 2020 ?

(a) Sunil Arora

(b) Om Prakash Rawat

(c) Achal Kumar Jyoti (d) Ashok Lavasa

Q.199)10th annual meeting of Forum of the Election Management

Bodies of South Asia (FEMBoSA) held ?

(a) Kabul, Afghanistan

(b) Dhaka, Bangladesh

(c) Malé, Maldives

(d) New Delhi, India

Q.200) Who is the author of the book titled “Balwa”, that describes the happening in India in the 1990s?

(a) Dharmendra Pradhan

(b) Pralhad Joshi

(c) Prakash Javadekar

(d) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi





S.No STATE CAPITALS CHIEF MINISTERS GOVERNORS/ADMINISTRATORS

1 Andhra Pradesh Amaravati Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Shri Biswa Bhusan Harichandan

2 Arunachal

Pradesh Itanagar Pema Khandu Brig. (Dr.) B. D. Mishra (Retd.)

3 Assam Dispur Sarbananda Sonowal Prof. Jagdish Mukhi

4 Bihar PATNA Nitish Kumar Fagu Chauhan

5 Chhattisgarh Raipur Bhupesh Baghel Sushri Anusuiya Uikey

6 Delhi New Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Anil Baijal (Lt. Governor)

7 Goa Panaji Pramod Sawant Smt. Mridula Sinha

8 Gujarat Gandhinagar Vijay Rupani Shri Acharya Dev Vrat

9 Haryana

Chandigarh (Shared with

punjab) Manohar Lal Khattar Shri Satyadev Narayan Arya

10 Himachal pradesh

Shimla, Dharamsala (Second

Capital in Winter) Jai Ram Thakur Bandaru Dattatreya

11 Jharkhand Ranchi Raghubar Das Shrimati Droupadi Murmu

12 Karnataka Bangalore BS Yediyurappa Shri Vajubhai Vala

13 Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Pinarayi Vijayan Arif Mohammed Khan

14 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Kamal Nath Lalji Tandon

15 Maharashtra Mumbai Devendra Fadnavis Bhagat Singh Koshyari

16 Manipur Imphal N. Biren Singh Padmanabha Acharya

17 Meghalaya Shillong Conrad Sangma Shri Tathagata Roy

18 Mizoram Aizawl Zoramthanga Prof. Jagdish Mukhi

19 Nagaland Kohima Neiphiu Rio RN Ravi

20 Odisha Bhubaneswar Naveen Patnaik Prof. Ganeshi Lal

21 Puducherry Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Kiran Bedi (Lt. Governor)

22 Punjab Chandigarh (shared with

Haryana

Captain Amarinder Sing Shri V.P. Singh Badnore

23 Rajasthan Jaipur Ashok Gehlot Kaliraj Mishra

24 Sikkim Gangtok Prem Singh Tamang Shri Ganga Prasad

25 Tamil Nadu Chennai Edappadi K.

Palaniswami

Shri Banwarilal Purohit

26 Telangana Hyderabad K. Chandrashekar Rao

(KCR)

Tamilisai Soundararajan

27 Tripura Agartala Biplab Kumar Deb Ramesh Bais

28 Uttarakhand Dehradun Trivendra Singh Rawat Smt. Baby Rani Maurya

29 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yogi Adityanath Anandiben Patel

30 West Bengal Kolkata Mamata Banerjee Jagdeep Dhankhar

List of Chief Ministers, Governors & Capitals (Updated till September, 2019) (States)





S.No STATE CAPITALS

CHIEF

MINISTERS GOVERNORS/ADMINISTRATORS

1 Andaman and Nicobar islands Port blair Devendra Kumar Joshi (Lt. Governor)

2 Dadra and Nagar Haveli Silvassa Praful Khoda Patel(Admin)

3 Daman and Diu Daman Praful Khoda Patel(Admin)

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