1. Who was appointed the Principal Economic Adviser in the Department of Economic Affairs in February 2017?
1) Shaktikantha Das
2) Sanjeev Sanyal
3) Hasmukh Adhia
4) Ashok Lahiri
2. Majuli is India's first island district. It is in which of the following States?
1) Tamil Nadu
2) West Bengal
3) Kerala
4) Assam
3. Indian- origin girl Priyanka Yoshikawa was recently crowned?
1) Miss Philippines
2) Miss South Korea
3) Miss Japan
4) Miss Vietnam
4. White Helmets is a volunteer civil defense organization that operates in?
1) Libya
2) Colombia
3) Lebanon
4) Syria
5. The annual Solung festival of Adi tribe was held in September 2016 in?
1) Assam
2) Himachal Pradesh
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) Jharkhand
6. Who has been appointed the Chancellor of The Energy Resources Institute (TERI)?
1) Ajay Mathur
2) C.K. Ansani
3) Ashok Chawla
4) Punit Goenka
7. Farooq Khan was appointed the Administrator of which of the following Union Territories in August 2016?
1) Lakshadweep
2) Daman and Diu
3) Chandigarh
4) Dadra and Nagar Haveli
8. Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) bagged the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy in September 2016. JSS is an NGO based in?
1) Uttar Pradesh
2) Tamil Nadu
3) Goa
4) Kerala
9. Where was the first BRICS film festival held in September 2016?
1) Goa
2) Jaipur
3) New Delhi
4) Udaipur
10. Islam Karimov passed away on September 2, 2016. He was the President of which of the following countries from 1991 to 2016?
1) Kazakhstan
2) Tajikistan
3) Kyrgyzstan
4) Uzbekistan
11. Which Indian ecologist and conservation activist became the first Asian to be awarded the prestigious "Heritage Heroes Award" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in September 2016?
1) Bibhuti Lahkar
2) Surya Deva
3) Manish Sharma
4) Jitendra Jagota
12. Which Indian diplomat has written the book "Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos"?
1) Meera Shankar
2) Hardeep Singh Puri
3) Arun Kumar Singh
4) Nirupama Rao
13. Navtej Singh Sarna is the Indian Ambassador to which of the following countries?
1) China
2) Japan
3) USA
4) France
14. Petrapole Integrated Check Post was jointly inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and?
1) Maithripala Sirisena
2) Sheikh Hasina
3) Tshering Tobgay
4) Prachanda
15. The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill-2016 increased the maternity leave from 12 weeks to?
1) 24 weeks
2) 28 weeks
3) 26 weeks
4) 25 weeks
16. On July 25, 2016 which company announced a deal to buy Yahoo's internet business for $ 4.8 billion?
1) Google
2) Microsoft
3) Salesforce
4) Verizon Communications
17. PRASAD is a scheme started by the Ministry of?
1) Rural Development
2) Tourism
3) Human Resources
Development
4) External Affairs
18. Which Tamil actor was selected for the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, a French award in August 2016?
1) Rajini Kanth
2) Vishal
3) Kamal Haasan
4) Ajit
19. Which country won its first men's Olympic football gold medal in August 2016?
1) Germany
2) Brazil
3) Argentina
4) Chile
20. Simone Biles won four gold medals and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She is an American?
1) Gymnast
2) Swimmer
3) Track and field athlete
4) Tennis player
21. S.R. Nathan passed away on August 22, 2016. He was the President of which of the following countries from 1999 to 2011?
1) Indonesia
2) Sri Lanka
3) Singapore
4) Malaysia
22. Sri Lanka has signed an agreement with which of the following countries to construct a Financial City Centre in Colombo?
1) India
2) Thailand
3) China
4) USA
ANSWERS:
1) 2 2) 4 3) 3 4) 4 5) 3 6) 3 7) 1 8) 4 9) 3 10) 4
11) 1 12) 2 13) 3 14) 2 15) 3 16) 4 17) 2 18) 3 19) 2 20) 1 21) 3 22) 3