Professional Documents
Culture Documents
d) Bang
6. Who recently was
appointed as the
Managing Director and
Chief Executive Officer
of SBI Mutual Fund?
a) Mohit Kamboj
b) Anuradha Rao
c) Vishal Garg
d) Mukesh Mehta
7. Who was recently
honoured with the
Entertainer of The Year
award by CNBC-TV18?
a) Ranveer Singh
b) Priyanka Chopra
c) Irrfan Khan
d) Deepika Padukone
8. Name the 100-yearold women athlete from
India who won Gold
medal at the American
Masters Games in the
100-meter dash.
a) Jhulan Goswami
b) Jaspreet Kaur
c) Man Kaur
d) Jasmit Kaur
1. Who of the
following was awarded
the prestigious Saraswati
Samman for the year
2015?
a) Padma Sharma
b) Padma Sachdev
c) Sunita Jain
d) Advay Ramesh
2. Name the country
with which India signed
Logistics Exchange
Memorandum of
Agreement (LEMOA) in
August 2016.
a) The United
States
b) Germany
c) Russia
d) Nepal
3. Which country has
launched Operation
Euphrates Shield in Syria
to end the rule of Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) as well as against
the Syrian Democratic
Forces (SDF)?
a) Turkey
b) Russia
c) The United States
d) Isreal
4. Who of the following
is the author of the
autobiography 'ChittChete' written in Dogri
language?
a) G Satheesh
b) Sanjeev Sanyal
c) Padma Sachdev
d) Ravi Velloor
5. Name the city that
is hosting the 2016
Mother Teresa
International Film
Festival (MTIFF)?
a) Kolkata
b) Panaji
c)
d)
Bengaluru
New Delhi
b)
c)
d)
Ashok Kumar
Girish Luthra
Robin K. Dhowan
d) Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF)
15. Who of the
following won the Talex
Open ITF mens futures
tournament?
a) Daniel Masur
b) Ramkumar
Ramanathan
c) Sumit Nagal
d) Yuki Bhambri
1. When is the
International Day
Against Nuclear Tests
observed globally?
a) 23 September
b) 16 November
c) 29 August
d) 30 October
2. Who was appointed
as the President of India
Bullion and Jewellers
Association in August
2016?
a) Mohit Kamboj
b) Mukesh Mehta
c) Surendra Sharma
d) Vinod Mehta
3. India stood at which
position in the World
Risk Index 2016
published by United
Nations University
Institute for Environment
and Human Security?
a) 146th
b) 89th
c) 77th
d) 34th
4. Which country topped
the World Risk Index
2016 published by
United Nations
University Institute for
Environment and Human
Security?
a) Tonga
b) Philippines
c) Germany
d) Vanuatu
5. Who will head the
high-level committee
constituted by Union
Finance Ministry in
August 2016 to suggest
steps to promote card
payments?
a) Ratan P Watal
b) Prabhas Kumar Jha
c) Ashok Lavasa
d) Shashi Arora
6. Who was appointed
as the Advocate General
of Tamil Nadu in August
2016?
a) AL Somayaji
b) R
Muthukumaraswamy
c) Krishnamoorthy
d) SR Bhaskaracharya
7. Who was appointed
as the CEO of Sheth
Creators, a real estate
company of Nusli Wadialed Wadia Group?
a) Jeh Wadia
b) Amit Chandra
c) Anil Dubey
d) Bharat Dhuppar
8. Name the cricketer
who gave BMW to Indian
medalists at 2016 Rio
Olympics.
a) Rahul Dravid
b) MS Dhoni
c) Sachin Tendulkar
d) Virendra Sehwag
9. Who of the following
won the doubles
womens title at 2016
Connecticut Open?
a) Kateryna Bondarenko
a) Research and
Analysis Wing (RAW)
b) National Security
Guards (NSG)
c) Border Security
Force (BSF)
d) Strategic Forces
Command (SFC)
4. Which book was
authored by Ravi Velloor
that chronicles India's
journey in the decade
before Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's rise?
a) Laid in India
b) India Rising:
Fresh Hope, New
Fears
c) India: A Million
Mutinies Now
d) India's Unending
Journey
5. Which Indian State
signed MoU with Japan
to develop food value
chain in the state?
a) Gujarat
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Odisha
2. Who of the
following was sworn-in
as the Chief Justice of
the Allahabad High
Court?
a) Syed Rafat Alam
b) DY Chandrachud
c) Ferdino Rebello
d) Dilip Babasaheb
Bhosale
3. Which intelligence
and security agency of
India was added to the
Second Schedule of the
RTI Act, 2005 in July
2016 leading to its
exemption from the
purview of the Act?
Enforcement of Security
Interest Bill, 2016
b) The Recovery of
Debts due to Banks and
Financial Institutions Bill,
2016
c) The Indian Stamp
Bill, 2016
d) Enforcement of
Security Interest &
Recovery of Debts
Laws & Miscellaneous
Provisions
(Amendment) Bill,
2016
8. Who was appointed
as the Managing Director
of Mondelez
International's India
Business in August
2016?
a) Chandramouli
Venkatesan
b) Maurizio Brusadelli
c) Deepak Iyer
d) Ravi Velloor
9. Who was named as
the President of
Microsoft India by the
parent company
Microsoft Inc in August
2016?
a) Bhaskar Pramanik
b) Anant
Maheshwari
c) Ajay Vellor
d) R. Seshasayee
10. Narsingh Yadav,
the Olympic bound
wrestler who earlier
failed the dope test, was
given clean chit by
National Anti Doping
Agency (NADA) under
which Article of the
NADAs anti-doping
code.
a) Article 3.6
b) Article 9.3
c)
d)
Article 10.4
Article 11
a)
b)
c)
d)
Vikram Amar
Jamshed Bharucha
Subra Suresh
Braj B Kachru
b)
c)
d)
B. Chandrakala
Nripendra Misra
Armstrong Pame
Rajya Sabha on 3
General Manager of
Integral Coach Factory?
a) Rashmi Chaudhary
b) Jitendra Singh
c) P K Yadav
d) Sudhanshu Mani
10. Which of the
statements in context of
Motor Vehicle
(Amendment) Bill, 2016
is false that was
approved by the Union
Cabinet recently?
a) The bill proposes to
increase penalties
against traffic violations
to as deterrent measure
b) It talks about
Juveniles offence
c) It increases
compensation for Hit
& Run cases to 5 lakh
rupees from 50000
rupees.
d) It proposes to create
National Register for
Driving Licence and
Vehicle registration
through Vahan &
Sarathi platforms
11. Name the Olympic
Participant from India
whos named was
cleared for participation
in Rio Olympics by
United World Wrestling
(UWW).
a) Narsingh Yadav
b) Dharambir
c) Sandeep Tomar
d) Sushil Kumar
12. Which of the
following Constitutional
Article was referred by
Delhi High Court to hold
that Lt. Governor is the
administrative head of
the National Capital
Territory?
collection?
a) Sanchay
b) Sachet
c) Sanchit
d) Nirikshak
committee to look at
various facets of
household finance in
India?
a) Sumit Bose
Committee on
Household Finance
b) Tarun Ramadorai
Committee on
Household Finance
c) Harun R Khan
Committee on
Household Finance
d) Deepak Mohanty
Committee on
Household Finance
8. Who was appointed
as the Prime Minister of
Tunisia in August 2016?
a) Beji Caid Essebsi
b) Habib Essid
c) Youssef Chahed
d) Ahmed Safi
group?
a) Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan
b) Jamaat-ul-Fuqra
c) Jamaat-ur-Ahrar
d) Tehreek-e-Jaferia
Pakistan
5. Who of the
following will be sworn-in
as the Chief Minister of
Gujarat?
a) Nitinbhai Patel
b) Vijay Rupani
c) Nitin Patel
d) Saurabh patel
6. Name the country
that has banned
Pokemon Go app
because of unspecified
security concerns.
a) Russia
b) China
c) Yemen
d) Iran
7. Name the state that
has decided to provide
as many as 1200 wi-fi
hotspots in its capital.
a) Bihar
b) Maharashtra
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Karnataka
8. Name the country
that decided not to host
the European Road
Cycling Championships,
planned for 14 to 18
September 2016, for
security reasons.
a) France
b) Germany
c) Austria
d) Belgium
9. The Eastern Zonal
Cultural Centre (EZCC),
an autonomous
organization under Union
Ministry of Culture, has
organized a 64-day-long
theatre festival in which
city?
a) Kolkata
b) Delhi
c) Mumbai
d) Hyderabad
Union Government
Union Cabinet on 3
August 2016 gave its
approval
to
Motor
Vehicle
(Amendment)
Bill, 2016 that seeks to
improve - Road Safety
in the country
The
Olympic
Participant from India
whos
named
was
cleared for participation
in Rio Olympics by
United World Wrestling
(UWW)
Narsingh
Yadav
Facility launched by
Union Government in
August 2016 that allows
people
to
sign
documents digitally from
remote
places- eSignDesk
Person appointed as
the Chairman of the
Administrative Reforms
Commission (ARC) of
Kerala- VS
Achuthanandan
The
Union
Government has decided
to raise a CRPF battalion
consisting of scheduled
tribe candidates from
- Bijapur, Dantewada,
Narayanpur
and
Sukma
districts
in
Chhattisgarh
The Communist Party
of
Nepal-Maoist
Chairperson who has
been elected the 39th
Prime Minister of Nepal
is
- Pushpa
Kamal
Dahal
Union Cabinet on 3
August 2016 gave its
approval
to
Motor
Vehicle
(Amendment)
Bill, 2016 that seeks to
improve - Road Safety
in the country
The
Olympic
Participant from India
whos
named
was
cleared for participation
in Rio Olympics by
United World Wrestling
(UWW)
Narsingh
Yadav
Following
Constitutional
Article
was referred by Delhi
High Court to hold that
Lt. Governor is the
administrative head of
the
National
Capital
Territory - Article 239 &
239AA
PEN/Heim
Translation
Fund Grants for English
translation of Hindi novel
Simsim
by
Geet
Chaturvedi is - Anita
Gopalan
Person named as the
President of Microsoft
India by the parent
company Microsoft Inc in
August 2016 - Anant
Maheshwari
Person appointed as
the Managing Director of
Mondelez International's
India Business in August
2016 - Deepak Iyer
National Disaster
Response Force Director
General, OP Singh laid
The
National
Institutes of Technology,
Science Education and
Research (Amendment)
Bill, 2016 that was
passed in Parliament
wants to establish the
National
Institute
of
Technology in - Andhra
Pradesh
Book R D Burmania:
Panchamemoirs
is
authored
by
- Chaitanya Padukone
India
in
August
2016- Rajesh Thadani
She
won
the
womens singles title in
the 2016 Rogers Cup
- Simona Halep
Intelligence
and
security agency of India
that was added to the
Second Schedule of the
RTI Act, 2005 leading to
its exemption from the
purview
of
the
Act- Strategic
Forces
Command (SFC)
International Kabaddi
Federation on 31 July
2016 selected a country
to
host
The
2016
Kabaddi
World Cup
India
He was sworn-in as
the Chief Justice of the
Allahabad High Court
- Justice
Dilip
Babasaheb Bhosale
A skydiver with
18000
jumps,
who
became first person to
jump from 25000 feet
(7620 meters) without a
parachute or a wing suit
- Luke Aikins
Railway
Minister
Suresh Prabhu flagged
off maiden broad-gauge
train service between
Agartala
and
Delhi
- Tripura
Sundari
Express
The
47-day-long
annual
monsoon
trawling
ban
from
venturing
into
the
Arabian Sea was lifted
midnight 31 July 2016
in - Kerala
edition of a school
textbook is - Goa
1. Who of the
following created history
by becoming the first
Indian gymnast to enter
the Olympic final at the
Rio Olympic Centre?
a) Deepika Kumari
b) Dipa Karmakar
c) Yelena Produnova
d) Ashish Kumar
2. Name the
Australian surfing
champion who died in
August 2016 at the age
of 71.
a) Miki Dora
b) Mike Diffenderfer
c) Bud Browne
d) Bernard Farrelly
3. Name the eminent
Assamese litterateur and
winner Sahitya Akademi
award for his work
Edhani Mahir Hanhi who
died in August 2016.
a) VK Pipersenia
b) Naba Kumar Doley
c) Mahim Bora
d) Ajit Barua
4. Who of the
following headed the
BCCI Panel that was
formed to advice on SC
verdict on
implementation of
Justice Lodha committee
recommendations?
a) Justice (retd)
Markandey Katju
b) Ram Jethmalani
c) Justice (retd) MB
Shah
d) Madhav Chitale
Australian surfing
champion best known as
Midget for his slight size
who died on 7 August
2016 at the age of 71 is
- Bernard Farrelly
The
Odisha
governments
special
assistance scheme for
elderly weavers that was
launched to mark the
National Handlooms Day
is -Baristha Bunakar
Sahayata Yojana
- Devendra Fadanvis,
the Chief Minister of
Maharashtra
Grandmaster and
former
world
junior
champion
Abhijeet
Guptaon
who
added
another feather to his
cap by retaining the
Commonwealth
Chess
championship crown in
Colombo, Sri Lanka is
- Abhijeet Gupta
He was sworn-in as
the 19th Chief Minister
of
Gujarat
- Vijay
Rupani
He was sworn-in as
the deputy Chief Minister
of Gujarat - Nitin Patel
Famous musician
who died in August 2016
and gave the Album
titled
Beached- Ricci
Martin
Prime
Minister
Narendra Modi in August
2016 launched Mission
Bhagiratha
inTelangana
App launched by
Union Government in
August 2016 to enable
citizens associate more
and more with Swachh
Eminent Assamese
litterateur who passed
away in August 2016
and
won
Sahitya
Akademi award for his
most
popular
work
Edhani Mahir Hanhi in
2001- Mahim Bora
The
state
that
launched
an
online
service for consumers to
apply for low-tension
service connections is
- Tamil Nadu
Voters of the country
that approved a new
draft constitution, giving
extra powers to the
military - Thailand
damages in animals.
What is endosulfan?
a) Organochlorine
insulators
b) Organochlorine
pesticide
c) Organochlorine
chloromethanes
d) Organochlorine vinyl
chloride
3. Name the American
swimmer who set a new
world record to win gold
in the women's 400
metres freestyle at the
Rio Olympics.
a) Jazmin Carlin
b) Leah Smith
c) Katie Ledecky
d) None of the above
4. The Wildlife
Institute of India
announced that it will
house Indias first
repository on tigers
under its new Tiger Cell.
Who is funding the Tiger
Cell?
a) National Institute of
Animal Welfare
b) National Board for
Wildlife
c) National Institute of
Feline Welfare
d) National Tiger
Conservation
Authority
5. Which country won
the gold in first-ever
Olympic Women's Rugby
Sevens Championship in
Rio de Janeiro?
a) Australia
b)
c)
d)
New Zealand
Canada
Britain
observed on 9 August
2016 was adopted via a
resolution by UN General
Assembly in the year?
a) 1981
b) 1994
c) 1999
d) 2003
14. Which of the
following institution is
responsible for enforcing
ban on Ponzi Scheme
which were in news
recently?
a) State
Government
b) Union Government
c) SEBI
d) RBI
a)
b)
c)
d)
Delhi
Madhya Pradesh
Haryana
Bihar
c)
d)
1997
2001
4. Who of the
following assumed the
charge as the Chairman
of Central Silk Board,
Union Ministry of
Textiles?
a) N S Bissegowda
b) K M
Hanumantharayappa
c) KR Nekarara
d) SK Horata
5. Name the Veteran
film producer, script and
screenplay writer who
passed away in August
2016 and wrote
dialogues for Sivaji
starrer Avanthan
Manithan?
a) ML Kannadasan
b) SP Muthuraman
c) KR Vairamuthu
d) Panchu
Arunachalam
6. Name the
Yesteryear Tamil actress
who passed away in
August 2016 and was
part of Hindi films like
Pistolwali (1972), Rani
Aur Jaani (1973)?
a) Jyothilakshmi
b) Aarthi Agarwal
c) Rasika Joshi
d) Nanda
7. Who was appointed
as the Managing Director
of Max Hypermarkets
India?
a) Viney Singh
b) Bharti Grover
c) Rajeev Krishnan
d) Saiyam Chauhan
8. The Reserve Bank
of India in August 2016
launched by China in
August 2016 for the
protection of its
maritime rights?
a) Tiantong-01
b) Wenchang-00
c) Jiuquan Satellite
d) Gaofen-3
12. Who of the
following is the head of
the Rhino Horn
Verification Committee
that was constituted by
Assam Government to
verify the genuineness
of the rhino horns stored
in various treasuries of
the state since three
decades?
a) Mohan Chandra
Malakar
b) Ripun Bora
c) Kuladhar Saikia
d) Swargadeo Singha
13. The 'Early
Childhood Care and
Education' policy notified
by Union Government
aims to achieve holistic
development of children
below which age?
a) Three years
b) Six years
c) Ten years
d) fourteen years
14. Name the port city
that is threatened by the
Wildfires in southern
France that forced to
evacuation.
a) Marseille
b) Arles
c) Nimes
d) Avignon
15. What is the
estimated cost of the
R&D project for
development of
4. Who is appointed as
the Managing Director of
Microsoft India Research
Lab located in
Bengaluru?
a) Chandu Thekkath
b) Vrijesh Sarabhai
c) Sriram Rajamani
d) None of the above
5. Which state
became the first to ratify
The Constitution (122nd
Amendment) (GST) Bill,
2014?
a) Karnataka
b) Assam
c) Maharashtra
d) Nagaland
6. Which of the
following is not part of
the consortium of the
government entities that
made the proposal of
R&D project for
development of
Advanced Ultra Super
Critical (AUSC)
Technology for Thermal
Power Plants?
a) Bharat Heavy
Electricals Limited
(BHEL)
b) Indira Gandhi
Centre of Atomic
Research (IGCAR)
c) National Thermal
Power Corporation
(NTPC)
d) Oil and Natural
Gas Corporation
(ONGC)
7. Name the swimmer
who became the first
swimmer to win four
consecutive gold medals
in same event?
a) Mark Spitz
b) Matt Biondi
c) Ryan Lochte
d)
Michael Phelps
8. Name the
legendary Pakistani
cricketer, often dubbed
as Little Master, who
passed away recently.
a) Hanif Mohammad
b) Anwar Hussain
c) Imtiaz Ahmed
d) Israr Ali
9. Kazakhstans Nijat
Rahimov won gold medal
of the men's 77kg
weightlifting class at the
Rio Olympic Games. He
formerly represented
which country?
a) Azerbaijan
b) Russia
c) Germany
d) Croatia
10. Which Indian
music composer will
honour legendary
carnatic vocalist M. S.
Subbulakshmi at the
United Nations on 15
August 2016 at the
United Nations General
Assembly?
a) Amit Trivedi
b) A.R. Rahman
c) Shankar Mahadevan
d) Lucky Ali
11. Dmitriy Balandin
won men's 200m
breaststroke swimming
event at the Rio
Olympics. He represents
which of the following
countries?
a) Azerbaijan
b) Russia
c) Croatia
d) Kazakhstan
12. Unit 1 of
Kudankulam Nuclear
theme of the
International Meeting on
Counter Terrorism that
was held in Bali,
Indonesia?
a) Countering Cross
Border Movement of
Terrorism
b) Terrorism and the
World
c) Countering
Terrorism
d) Movement against
Terrorism
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1. The 2016
International Youth Day
was celebrated on
14. Anti-monopoly
watchdog of which
country ruled that
Google would have to
pay a 6.8 million dollar
fine, for pre-installing
applications on mobile
devices running its
Android operating
system?
a) Russia
b) China
c) Israel
d) India
15.
a)
b)
c)
d)
11 August
12 August
13 August
14 August
2. Which State
Government approved
33 percent reservation
to women in urban local
bodies?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Assam
Tripura
Nagaland
Manipur
3. This State
Government decided to
make Aadhar Card
mandatory for
procurement of paddy
from farmers?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Odisha
Telangana
Karnataka
Rajasthan
Ma Long
Zhang Jike
Zhou Qi
Sun Kye
10 August
11 August
12 August
13 August
7. In which city of
Andhra Pradesh, the
Nasscom launched
operations of Startup
Warehouse under its
10000 startup initiative
by 2020.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Visakhapatnam
Amaravati
Tirupati
Kurnool
8. To which country
Russia delivered S-400
Triumph missile
systems?
a)
b)
Azerbaijan
Crimea
c)
d)
Armenia
Latvia
9. Which of the
following was
documented as the
oldest living vertebrate
on the planet?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Greenland shark
Blue Whale
Galpagos tortoise
African elephant
4.07%
5.07%
6.07%
7.07%
Madhav Chitale
Ananad Desai
Amitabh Kant
N K Singh
Mark Zuckerberg
Bill Gates
Azim Premji
Shiv Nadar
Dipika Pallikal
Joshna Chinappa
L S Settipalli
None of them
Hyderabad
Pune
Kolkata
Bengaluru
2. The National
Committee on Trade
Facilitation related to
which international
organisation?
a)
b)
c)
d)
a) World Trade
Organisation
b) International
Monetary Fund
c) World Bank
d) World Economic
Forum
Micro enterprises
Small enterprises
Medium enterprises
All of the above
Japan
United States
China
India
T Balumahendra
S K Seeman
Velainu Vandhutta
Na Muthukumar
Anita Wlodarczyk
Sophie Hitchon
Wenxiu Zhang
None of the above
Odisha
West Bengal
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
a)
b)
c)
d)
Anguilla
Barbados
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
DH Waghela
Sujata Manohar
Manjula Chellur
Sushant Rohilla
Denmark
Poland
Russia
Germany
Haridwar
Rishikesh
Mathura-Vrindavan
Kolkata
Shashi Shekhar
Madhav Chitale
Arvind Subramanian
Anand Desai
Dhaka
New Delhi
Colombo
Islamabad
Virat Kohli
Ajinkya Rahane
R Ashwin
Murali Vijay
5. A Federal Supreme
Court justice authorized
corruption probe against
Dilma Rousseff. She is
the president of
a)
b)
c)
d)
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Columbia
Mumbai
Hyderabad
Bengaluru
New Delhi
Eddie Albert
Tracie May
Patricia Sullivan
Gita Hall
Hansraj Verma
Kalpana Chawla
RB Udhayakumar
P Shanmugam
Pureit
AirQuick
Blueair
Odonil
c) Anirudh
Ravichander
d) A R Rahman
a)
b)
c)
d)
T A Rasaq
SR Bappu
Vazhayil Khadeeja
Pinarayi Vijayan
Amy Tinkler
Simone Biles
Alexandra Raisman
Ecaterina Szabo
Sepp Blatter
Stanley Rous
Joao Havelange
None of the above
a)
b)
c)
d)
Gurdial Singh
Kartar Singh Duggal
Komail Singh Somal
None of the above
3. Which international
quasi-judicial body
recently banned wrestler
Narsingh Yadav for four
years following an
appeal by World AntiDoping Agency?
b) Court of
Arbitration for Sport
c) International
Narcotics Control Board
d) None of the above
4. The State Bank of
India Board approved
merger of this bank with
itself
a) Kotak Mahindra
Bank
b) Yes Bank
c) Bharatiya Mahila
Bank
d) Canara Bank
5. Who won the mens
200m gold in the 2016
Rio Olympics?
a) Track power
availability for farmers
b) Facilitate ebidding of projects
c) Develop green
energy corridors
d) Facilitate monitoring
of thermal power plants
9. Who was selected for
2016 Sangeet Martand
Ustad Chand Khan
Lifetime Achievement
Award?
a) Satish Vyas
b) Tarun Bhattacharya
c) Shiv Kumar
Sharma
d) Bhajan Sopori
Adam Gemili
Michael Johnson
Colin Jackson
Usain Bolt
a)
b)
c)
d)
a)
b)
c)
d)
Saina Nehwal
P V Sindhu
Jwala Gutta
Shruti Kurien
Nepal
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
8. Union Ministry of
Power launched the eTrans web portal to
a)
b)
c)
d)
Airlander 5
Airlander 11
Airlander 10
Airlander 8
Geeta Phogat
Sakshi Malik
c)
d)
Geetika Jakhar
Geeta Singh
Uttar Pradesh
Haryana
Maharashtra
Punjab
1. Kimia Alizadeh
Zenoorin recently
became the first Iranian
woman to win an
Olympic medal. She won
the bronze medal in
which sport?
a) Taekwondo
b) Badminton
c)
d)
Tennis
Swimming
d) National Institute
of Smart Governance
7. Badminton player P
V Sindhu recently won
historic silver medal in
womens singles
badminton event at Rio
Olympics. Who won gold
in the event?
a) Wang Yihan
b) Sain Nehwal
c) Carolina Marin
d) Dolores Marco
8. Which Indian
cricketer was recently
made an honorary
member of the
esteemed Marylebone
Cricket Club?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Virat Kohli
c) M S Dhoni
d) Virender Sehwag
9. Which educational
institute adopted five
villages under the
Namami Gange
Programme to deploy its
expertise to limit the
flow of sewage into River
Ganga?
a) IIT-Kanpur
b) IIT-Patna
c) IIT-Mandi
d) None of the above
10. A two-day meeting
of BRICS Women
Parliamentarian's Forum
will be held in which
city?
a) Lucknow
b) Udaipur
c) Jaipur
d) Varanasi
11. The United States
of America recently
advised its citizen to not
c)
d)
Odisha
Maharashtra
Cotton
Tobacco
Both (a) & (b)
None of them
Natwar Singh
M K Rasgotra
Shashi Tharoor
Karan Singh
3. Which country
accounted for the
highest share of tourist
arrivals in India?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Sri Lanka
Nepal
Bhutan
Bangladesh
4. 1000 MW Turga
hydel project that was
approved by the Central
Electricity Authority
(CEA) will be located in
a)
b)
c)
d)
Karnataka
West Bengal
Punjab
Telangana
K N Tripathi
Sunita Jain
Vishwanath Tiwari
Mrinal Pande
a) Yogeshwar
Sangwan
b) VK Duggal
c) VP Singh Badnore
d) Najma Heptulla
7. Name the Odia
actor and director who
died in August 2016 and
began his career with
the movie Kedar Gouri in
1954?
a) Raja Pattnaik
b) Tatwa Prakash
Satapathy
c) Subhakanta Sahu
d) Gobind Tej
8. Name the former
international umpire who
passed away in August
2016?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hillel Awaskar
Amiesh Saheba
Shyam Bansal
Subrata Banerjee
9. Who of the
following was appointed
as the 24th governor of
Reserve Bank of India
(RBI)?
a) Arvind
Subramanian
b) Arvind Panagariya
c) Arundhati
Bhattacharya
d) Urjit R Patel
10. BRICS women
parliamentarians forum
was held in which city of
India?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Delhi
Jaipur
Hyderabad
Chennai
11. A group of
researchers discovered a
Bay of Bengal
Manila Bay
Ago Bay
Mappila Bay
Bixon
Alloy
Steel
Graphite
China
Canada
The United States
Great Britain
Amitabh Bachchan
Rajinikanth
Ranveer Singh
Kamal Haasan
a) N. Ramachandran
b) Vijay Kumar
Malhotra
c) Abhay Singh
Chautala
d) None of the above
This
country
accounted
for
the
highest share of tourist
arrival
in
India
Bangladesh
1000 MW Turga
hydel project that was
approved by the Central
Electricity
Authority
(CEA) will be located in
West Bengal
Former international
umpire
who
passed
away
in
August
2016- Subrata
Banerjee
parliamentarians forum
on 21 August 2016
ended at Jaipur with the
passage of - the Jaipur
Declaration
He was appointed as
the 24th governor of
Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) - Dr. Urjit R Patel
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
and
Afghanistan
President
Ashraf
Ghani
today
jointly tele-inaugurated
the Stor Palace in Kabul
that
was
renovated
under
a
tripartite
agreement
between Aga
Khan
Development
Network, Government
of Afghanistan and
the
Union
Government
The President of
Indian
Olympic
Association was recently
awarded the Olympic
Order for his outstanding
services to the Olympic
movement
is
- N.
Ramachandran
A
group
of
researchers discovered a
new species of eel,
Gymnothorax
indicus,
from - Bay of Bengal
He authored the
book Life In Diplomacy
- M K Rasgotra
1. Which of the
following cities will host
the 2016 Kabaddi World
Cup?
a) Ahmedabad
b) Pune
c) Mumbai
d) Sri Muktsar Sahib
2. Who was recently
appointed the Vice
Chancellor of the Homi
Bhabha National
Institute?
a) Ravi Grover
b) P D Gupta
c) Ravi Juneja
d) None of the above
a)
b)
c)
d)
Japan
Germany
China
Taiwan
Banwarilal Purohit
has
been
recently
The
journalist,
considered the dean of
black press columnists,
who
passed
away
recently is - George E.
Curry
Indian-origin
President of Singapore
who died in August 2016
and was the sixth and
longest-serving
President
of
Singapore- S R Nathan
Person sworn in as
the Lieutenant Governor
of Andaman and Nicobar
Islands in August 2016Jagdish Mukhi
India in August 2016
signed agreement with
which country to foster
conditions that will help
create
and
improve
workplace-based
vocational training in
India's
industrial
clusters-Germany
The
state
that
decided
to
engage
retired
teachers
in
government high schools
under Teacher on Call
scheme to meet the
shortage of teaching
faculty is Odisha
The
state
that
proposed to create 17
new districts in the state
is Telangana
President Pranab
Mukherjee
launched
Kolkata
Akashvani
Kendras Moitree Service
in Bangla for listeners in
- Bangladesh
of criminals in August
2016?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Rajasthan
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Haryana
7. India is ranked at
which place in the W10
report 2016 released by
New World Wealth?
a) Second
b) Fourth
c) Seventh
d) Ninth
8. When the
International Day for the
Remembrance of the
Slave Trade and Its
Abolition was observed
globally?
a) 20 August
b) 21 August
c) 22 August
d) 23 August
9. The Airport
Authority of India signed
a MoU with which state
for successful launch of
the Regional
Connectivity Scheme
(RCS) of the Union
Government?
a) Madhya Pradesh
b) Odisha
c) Maharashtra
d) Rajasthan
10. Name the two
states that signed MoU
to build three barrages
for water utilization of
Godavari River and its
tributaries.
a) Telangana and Goa
b) Telangana and
Andhra Pradesh
c) Telangana and
Maharashtra
d) Maharashtra and
Goa
11. Indian-origin
politician Sellapan
Ramanathan who died in
the recent past was the
former president of
which nation?
a) Singapore
b) Malaysia
c) Indonesia
d) Thailand
12. Union Government
launched Sugamaya
Pustakalaya online
library to serve
a) Persons with
print disabilities
b) Persons with
dyslexia
c) Persons with
physical disabilities
d) Persons with visual
disabilities
13. Which country
launched the KN-11
ballistic missile from a
submarine in Sea of
Japan?
a) Japan
b) North Korea
c) China
d) South Korea
14. Court of
Arbitration for Sport
(CAS) recently banned a
country from competing
at Septembers
Paralympics in Rio.
Name it.
a) China
b) Russia
c) North Korea
d) Pakistan
15. Two-day SAARC
Finance Ministers
Conference began in
a) New Delhi
b)
c)
d)
Colombo
Dhaka
Islamabad
Union Government
launched
Sugamaya
Pustakalaya
online
library
to
serve
Persons with print
disabilities
This city is hosting a
2-day SAARC Finance
Ministers
Conference
Islamabad
He was appointed as
the head of the task
force by the Union
Government to study the
structure of organised
Group A Central services
T Jacob
This
company
acquired the cement
business
of
Reliance
Infrastructure Ltd Birla
Corporation Limited
Indian-origin
politician
Sellapan
Ramanathan
died
recently. He was the
former
president
of
Singapore
This
State
Government issued a
draft
notification
for
creation of 17 new
districts Telangana
This Indian tennis
player topped the WTA
womens
doubles
ranking Sania Mirza
Airport Authority of
India in August 2016
signed a MOU with which
state
for
successful
launch of the Regional
Connectivity
Scheme
(RCS) of the Union
Government- Maharash
tra
International Day for
the Remembrance of the
Slave Trade and Its
Abolition is observed
globally on- 23 August
India is ranked at
which place in The W10
report 2016 released by
New
World
WealthSeventh
This
country
launched
the
KN-11
ballistic missile from a
submarine in Sea of
Japan North Korea
The country that will
not
compete
at
Septembers
Paralympics in Rio after
losing an appeal against
a ban imposed for state-
sponsored
Russia
doping
Telangana
and
Maharashtra
government signed a
Memorandum
of
Understanding (MoU) to
start work on three
barrages at - Tummidi
Hatti
on
Pranhita
River, Medigadda on
Godavari River and
Chanaka-Korata
on
Painganga River
State government
that
made
available
online
A2
milk
of
indigenous cows in North
India through Vita Milk
Plants on demand of
general
public
is
- Haryana
Campaign
b) Skill India Campaign
c) Kaushal Vikas Yojana
d) Nai Manzil Yojana
3. Union Cabinet
approved revised Double
Taxation Avoidance
Agreement (DTAA) for
avoidance of double
taxation and prevention
of fiscal evasion with
respect to taxes on
income with a nation.
Name the nation.
a) Finland
b) France
c) Fiji
d) Cyprus
4. Name the country
that signed a peace deal
with rebels ending five
decade conflict.
a) Syria
b) Ukraine
c) Colombia
d) Egypt
5. Union Cabinet
approved the signing of
new Air Services
Agreement (ASA) with a
country that updates the
existing ASA that was
signed in 1974. Name
the country.
a) Fiji
b) South Africa
c) France
d) Myanmar
6. Name the state in
which a special pink
colour envelop under
speed post was launched
by Justice Virender Singh
with a purpose to
expedite judicial
process.
a) Jharkhand
b) Odihsa
c) West Bengal
d) Delhi
7. Name the country
that was struck by a
high-intensity
earthquake of
magnitude 6.2 on the
Richter scale which led
to death of about 150
people.
a) Ecuador
b) Argentina
c) Italy
d) Paraguay
8. Union Cabinet
enhanced the
compensation to victims
of terror and left
extremism from three
lakh rupees to:
a) Four lakh
b) Five lakh
c) Six lakh
d) Eight lakh
9. The 1st BRICS Film
Festival will be hosted in
which city of India in
September 2016?
a) Delhi
b) Panaji
c) Mumbai
d) Jaipur
10. Which State High
Court cancelled the
recruitment process of
about four thousand
police sub inspectors
initiated by the state
government?
a) Jharkhand
b) Bihar
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Uttar Pradesh
11. Name the famous
political leader who
served as Governor of
several States for a
BRICS
Countries
adopted
which
declaration during the
second meeting of BRICS
Ministers for Disaster
Management in August
2016- Udaipur
Declaration
The 8th BRICS (Brazil,
Russia, India, China and
South Africa) Summit will
be held in- Goa
The woman wrestler
and bronze medalist at
2016 Rio Olympics who
was named as Haryanas
brand ambassador for
Beti Bachao, Beti Padao
campaign is - Sakshi
Malik
Union Government
launched accessible E-
Library
'Sugamya
Pustakalaya' for Divyang
under Prime Ministers
- Accessible
India
Campaign (Sugamya
Bharat Abhiyan)
Union
Cabinet
approved revised Double
Taxation
Avoidance
Agreement (DTAA) for
avoidance
of
double
taxation and prevention
of fiscal evasion with
respect to taxes on
income with - Cyprus
The country that
signed a historic peace
accord to end more than
five decades of conflict
with
rebel
group
Revolutionary
Armed
Forces
of
Colombia
(FARC) is - Colombia
The new Air Services
Agreement
(ASA)
between India and Fiji
that was approved by
Union
Cabinet
seeks
updation of the existing
Air Services Agreement
(ASA) that was signed on
- 28 January 1974
State in which a
special
pink
colour
envelop under speed
post was launched by
Justice Virender Singh
with
a
purpose
to
expedite
judicial
process- Jharkhand
Country struck by a
high-intensity
earthquake
of
magnitude 6.2 on the
Richter scale which led
to death of about 150
people- Italy
Union
Cabinet
enhanced
the
compensation to victims
of
terror
and
left
extremism from three
lakh
rupees
to- Five
lakh
1st BRICS Film Festival
will
be
hosted
in
September
2016
in- Delhi
High Court of which
state
cancelled
the
recruitment process of
about
four
thousand
police sub inspectors
initiated by the state
government- Uttar
Pradesh
1. Which company
topped the Forbes list of
The World's Most
Innovative Companies
2016?
a) Salesforce
b) Incyte
c) Regeneron
Pharmaceuticals
d) Tesla Motors
2. Which Indian
company did not appear
in the Forbes list of The
World's Most Innovative
Companies 2016?
a) Asian Paints
b) Reliance Industries
c) Hindustan Unilever
d) Tata Consultancy
Services
3. Which country
launched the world's first
self-driving taxi service
in August 2016?
a) Japan
b) China
c) Greece
d) Singapore
4. Which South Indian
city inaugurated the first
Children's Court in
August 2016?
a) Vijayawada
b) Hyderabad
c) Bhubaneswar
d) Chennai
5. Name the scientist
who was recently
conferred the first IEIIEEE Award for
engineering excellence
2015.
a) G. Satheesh Reddy
b) Venkatraman
Radhakrishnan
c) Abhay Ashtekar
d) Afroz Ahmad
6. Name the famous
painter from the Bengal
school of painting who
passed away recently.
a) Nandalal Bose
b) Dhirendranath
Brahma
c) Pushyamitra Brahma
d) None of the above
7. How many breeds of
livestock and poultry
was recently registered
with the National Bureau
of Animal Genetic
Resources?
a) Two
b) Five
c) Nine
d) Eleven
b) Pakistan
c) Ireland
d) Germany
b) Tillakaratne
Dilshan
c) Kumar Sangakkara
d) Mahela Jayawardene
2. Union Minister
Maneka Gandhi
launched Protection of
Children from Sexual
Offenses (POCSO) e-Box.
Human being up to
which age are
recognised as a child
under POSCO Act 2012?
a) 10 years
b) 14 years
c) 16 years
d) 18 years
Former
editor
of
Mathrubhumi magazine
who died recently is - K
K Sreedharan Nair
State in which a Mega
Food
Park
was
inaugurated by President
Pranab
Mukherjee
recently- West Bengal
1. Which of the
following Sri Lankan
cricketer announced
retirement from
international cricket in
August 2016?
a) Lasith Malinga
3. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
announced the decision
to set up a task force to
prepare action Plan for
what number of
Olympics Games?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
4. As per RBIs
direction, what will be
the percent at which the
women self-help groups
(SHGs) in rural areas will
be granted loans by all
banks?
a) 6 percent
b) 7 percent
c) 8 percent
d) 9 percent
5. Name the Asian
country that signed an
indefinite ceasefire deal
with Communist
guerrillas ending five
decade conflict.
a) Philippines
b) Vietnam
c) Malaysia
d)
Malaysia
Tendulkar?
a) Manish Sharma
b) Savi Sharma
c) Sudeep Nagarkar
d) Devdutt Pattanaik
11. Name the Polish
Olympian who sold his
Rio medal to save life of
a three-year-old boy
struck with cancer.
a) Lukas Weibhaidinger
b) Piotr
Malachowski
c) Robert Harting
d) Christoph Harting
12. Authorities of
which country seized
650 critically
endangered pangolins
from a freezer?
a) Indonesia
b) China
c) Malay Peninsula
d) Nepal
13. Who of the
following topped the
Forbes list of worlds
highest paid actors of
2016?
a) Tom Cruis
b) Matt Damon
c) Dwayne Johnson
d) Jackie Chan
14. Who of the
following will head the
11-member committee
that was constituted by
Finance Ministry to
suggest steps to
promote card payments?
a) DB Shekatkar
b) Anand Desai
c) Arvind Subramanian
d) Ratan P Watal
15. Which country will
host the 19th SAARC
Summit in November
2016?
a) Bangladesh
b) Pakistan
c) Afghanistan
d) Bhutan
The programme
under which all bank has
been asked to provide
loans to women self-help
groups (SHGs) in rural
areas at 7 percent for
2016-17 financial year
is - Deendayal
Antyodaya Yojana National Rural
Livelihoods Mission
(NRLM)
Olympian,
who
returned from the Rio
Games with fever and
body ache last week, has
been hospitalised after
she was tested positive
for Swine Flu is - OP
Jaisha
Highest-ranked
Indian company in the
Forbes list of The World's
Most
Innovative
Companies 2016- Asian
Paints
The number of
breeds of livestock and
poultry recently been
registered
with
the
National
Bureau
of
Animal
Genetic
Resources is Nine
The scientist who
was recently conferred
the first IEI-IEEE Award
for
engineering
excellence 2015 is - G.
Satheesh Reddy
He will chair the fivemember
review
committee
that
was
constituted by NRAI to
probe the shooters' Rio
Games
debacle
- Abhinav Bindra
Former editor of
Mathrubhumi magazine
who died recently is - K
K Sreedharan Nair
State in which a
Mega Food Park was
inaugurated by President
Pranab
Mukherjee
recently- West Bengal
Company
that
topped the Forbes list of
The
World's
Most
Innovative
Companies
2016-Tesla
Motors
Highest-ranked
Indian company in the
Forbes list of The World's
Most
Innovative
Companies 2016- Asian
Paints
The number of
breeds of livestock and
poultry recently been
registered
with
the
National
Bureau
of
Animal
Genetic
Resources is Nine
Former editor of
Mathrubhumi magazine
who died recently is - K
K Sreedharan Nair
State in which a
Mega Food Park was
inaugurated by President
Pranab
Mukherjee
recently- West Bengal
Union Government
launched
Sugamaya
Pustakalaya
online
library
to
serve
Persons with print
disabilities
This
State
Government issued a
draft
notification
for
creation of 17 new
districts Telangana
Airport Authority of
India in August 2016
signed a MOU with which
state
for
successful
launch of the Regional
Connectivity
Scheme
(RCS) of the Union
Government- Maharash
tra
This
company
acquired the cement
business
of
Reliance
Infrastructure Ltd Birla
Corporation Limited
Indian-origin
politician
Sellapan
Ramanathan
died
recently. He was the
former president of
Singapore
This
country
launched
the
KN-11
ballistic missile from a
submarine in Sea of
Japan North Korea'
India is ranked at
which place in The W10
report 2016 released by
New
World
WealthSeventh
Telangana
and
Maharashtra
government signed a
Memorandum
of
Understanding (MoU) to
start work on three
barrages at - Tummidi
Hatti
on
Pranhita
River, Medigadda on
Godavari River and
Chanaka-Korata
on
Painganga River
State government
that
made
available
online
A2
milk
of
indigenous cows in North
India through Vita Milk
Plants on demand of
general
public
is
- Haryana
V P Singh Badnore
has
been
recently
appointed the Governor
of - V P Singh Badnore
Banwarilal Purohit
has
been
recently
appointed the Governor
of - Assam
The
journalist,
considered the dean of
black press columnists,
who
passed
away
recently is - George E.
Curry
Former international
umpire
who
passed
away
in
August
2016- Subrata
Banerjee
Indian-origin
President of Singapore
who died in August 2016
and was the sixth and
longest-serving
President
of
Singapore- S R Nathan
Person sworn in as
the Lieutenant Governor
of Andaman and Nicobar
Islands
in
August
2016- Jagdish Mukhi
India in August 2016
signed agreement with
which country to foster
conditions that will help
create
and
improve
workplace-based
vocational training in
India's
industrial
clusters-Germany
The
state
that
decided
to
engage
retired
teachers
in
government high schools
under Teacher on Call
scheme to meet the
shortage of teaching
faculty is Odisha
The
state
that
proposed to create 17
new districts in the state
is Telangana
President Pranab
Mukherjee
launched
Kolkata
Akashvani
Kendras Moitree Service
in Bangla for listeners in
- Bangladesh
This
country
accounted
for
the
highest share of tourist
arrival
in
India
Bangladesh
1000 MW Turga
hydel project that was
approved by the Central
Electricity
Authority
Person appointed as
India's Ambassador to
Georgia
in
August
2016- Yogeshwar
Sangwan
Author awarded with
the
prestigious
25th
Vyas
Samman
2015- Sunita Jain
BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China and South
Africa)
women
parliamentarians forum
on 21 August 2016
ended at Jaipur with the
passage of - the Jaipur
Declaration
He was appointed as
the 24th governor of
Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) - Dr. Urjit R Patel
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
and
Afghanistan
President
Ashraf
Ghani
today
jointly tele-inaugurated
The President of
Indian
Olympic
Association was recently
awarded the Olympic
Order for his outstanding
services to the Olympic
movement
is
- N.
Ramachandran
A
group
of
researchers discovered a
new species of eel,
Gymnothorax
indicus,
from - Bay of Bengal
primarily
Cotton
affects
He authored the
book Life In Diplomacy
- M K Rasgotra