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1. Who has won the 2016 US Open Womens Singles tennis tournament?
(A) Serena Williams
(B) Venus Williams
(C) Angelique Kerber
Angelique Kerber.

(D) Karolina Pliskova

2. Which stock exchange has become first Indian stock exchange to file Initial Public Offering (IPO) with SEBI?
(A) National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX)
(B) Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX)
(C) Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
(D) National Stock Exchange (NSE)
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
3. e-nivaran portal has been launched by which government department for online redressal of taxpayers
grievances?
(A) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
(B) Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
(C) Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
(D) Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
4. The 2016 India-US Economic Summit will be held in which of the following cities?
(A) New Delhi
(B) New York
(C) Washington DC
(D) Mumbai
New Delhi.
5. Who is the newly appointed Prime Minister of Kazakhstan?
(A) Bykytzhan Sagintayev (B) Dariga Nazarbayeva (C) Karim Massimov
(D) Nursultan Nazarbayev
Bykytzhan Sagintayev.
6. Which state government has officially launched AIR Regional News Unit (RNU)s Facebook page?
(A) Odisha
(B) Chhattisgarh
(C) Jharkhand
(D) Uttar Pradesh
Chhattisgarh
7. Who has won the 2016 US Open mens singles tournament?
(A) Rafael Nadal
(B) Andy Murray
(C) Stanislas Wawrinka
Stanislas Wawrinka

(D) Novak Djokovic

8. The worlds first robotic operation inside the eye has successfully performed in which country?
(A) United States
(B) China
(C) United Kingdom
(D) Germany
United Kingdom.
9. What is the theme of the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress?
(A) Planet at the Crossroads (B) Save Planet, Save Trees (C) Make Planet peaceful
(D) Develop peace on planet
Planet at the Crossroads
10. The book The Girls has been authored by whom?
(A) J.K. Rowling
(B) Emma Cline
(C) Emma Healey
Emma Cline

(D) Lena Dunham

11. Indias first Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) laboratory will be set up in which
state?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Tamil Nadu

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12. Mariyappan Thangavelu, who won gold medal at 2016 Rio Paralympics Games, is associated with which sports?
(A) Sprint
High jump

(B) High jump

(C) Swimming

(D) Javelin Throw

13. Which state government has recently launched pension scheme for construction workers?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Odisha
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Madhya Pradesh
Odisha
14. Which state government has recently signed MoU with Ministry of Civil Aviation to boost regional air
connectivity?
(A) Punjab
(B) Gujarat
(C) Chhattisgarh
(D) Kerala
Chhattisgarh
15. The book Six Machine is the autobiography of which cricketer?
(A) Yuvraj Singh
(B) Chris Gayle
(C) Virender Sehwag
Chris Gayle

(D) AB de Villiers

16. Which state is the cleanest state in India, as per the latest National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) sanitation
survey?
(A) Manipur
(B) Mizoram
(C) Nagaland
(D) Sikkim
Sikkim
17. Which state has become the first Indian state to roll out Twitter seva?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Tripura
(C) Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh

(D) Karnataka

18. Which state has won Best Horticulture State award of the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA)?
(A)West Bengal
(B) Haryana
(C) Assam
(D) Odisha
Haryana
19. The Scooty for College Girls Scheme has been launched by which state government of India?
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Punjab
(C) Haryana
(D) Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir
20. Which state chief minister of India has won the 2016 Pangkor Dialogue Award?
(A) Lal Thanhawla
(B) T R Zeliang
(C) Sarbananda Sonowal
T R Zeliang

(D) Pema Khandu

21. Which registration module has been launched by the Union Government for Indian students studying abroad?
(A)Madad
(B)Milan
(C)Bharat
(D)iBharat
Madad
22. Who has been appointed as the CMD of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL)?
(A)J Satyanarayana
(B)C.K. Asnani (C)Vivek Bhandari
(D)Surya Deva
C.K. Asnani

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23. Who has become the first Indian woman cricketer to get the prestigious honorary life membership of the
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)?
(A)Shobha Pandit
(B)Anjum Chopra
(C)Sravanthi Naidu
(D)Mithali Raj
Anjum Chopra
24. Ankur Dhama is associated with which sports?
(A)Sprint
(B)Boxing
(C)Wrestling
(D)Discuss throw
Sprint
25. Which weather satellite has been successfully launched by ISRO into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)?
(A)INSAT-3WR
(B)INSAT-3MR
(C)INSAT-3SR
(D)INSAT-3DR
INSAT-3DR
26. Which bank has become the first Indian bank to deploy software robotics for power banking operations?
(A)State Bank Of India (B)Axis Bank
(C)ICICI Bank
(D)HDFC Bank
ICICI Bank
27. Which union minister has recently released report of Swachh Survekshan for rural areas?
(A)Narendra Singh Tomar (B)Rajnath Singh
(C)Praksah Javadekar
(D)Uma Bharti
Narendra Singh Tomar
28. The United Nations charter has been translated into which Indian language?
(A)Tamil
(B)Sanskrit
(C)Telugu
(D)Hindi
Sanskrit
29. Who has been sworn-in as the new Governor of Madhya Pradesh?
(A)Om Prakash Kohli
(B)Banwarilal Purohit
(C)Ram Nath Kovind
(D)Kaptan Singh Solanki
Om Prakash Kohli
30. Who has won the MM Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK)?
(A)Helena Page Schrader (B)Stuart Blackburn
(C)A K Ramanujan
(D)Kermit Roosevelt
Stuart Blackburn

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