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No. of Question -100 (c) (d) Manmohan Singh 1. Which of the following observatory of NASA has 11. The -US two plus two Ministerial Dialogue was discovered Water On A Sunlit Surface Of The Moon? which edition of the annual event? (a) Heliosphere (b) NasCom (a) Second (b) Third (c) SOFIA (d) Molave (c) Fourth (d) Sixth

2. Six year-old Anzar Mustaeen Ali from which country has 12. Naresh Kanodia, who passed away recently was a won the Global Art Competition conducted by ICCR? veteran actor of which film industry? (a) Pakistan (b) Bangladesh (a) Bengali (b) Marathi (c) Sri Lanka (d) Vietnam (c) Gujarati (d) Odia

3. On the lines of IPL cricket, a unique Plastic Premier 13. Indian-origin Wavel Ramkalawan has been appointed League (PPL) tournament is being played in which city in as the President of which country? order to free the city from single use plastic? (a) Sri Lanka (b) Mauritius (a) Bhopal (b) Chandigarh (c) Maldives (d) Seychelles (c) (d) Pune 14. Which among the following corporations has topped 4. Name the secure messaging application launched by the Forbes list of World’s Best Employer 2020? Indian Army as a messaging application is similar to (a) Microsoft (b) Amazon Telegram and WhatsApp. (c) Samsung (d) Google (a) SAI (b) SecureMessage (c) GIMS (d) Samvad 15. Every year, India observes the Vigilance Awareness Week. The week is observed as a tribute to which leader? 5. Who among the following has been appointed as new (a) Jawaharlal Nehru Chief Information Commissioner of India? (b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (a) Bimal Zulka (c) Subhas Chandra Bose (b) Rajat Kumar (d) Atal Bihari Vajpayee (c) Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha (d) Uday Mahurkar 16. Which Indian company has topped the India list of Forbes World’s Best Employer 2020? 6. A book titled “Night of the Restless Spirits: Stories from (a) Wipro (b) TCS 1984” authored by ______. (c) HCL Technologies (d) Infosys (a) Khushwant Singh (b) Salman Rushdie (c) Arundhati Roy (d) Sarbpreet Singh 17. Famous Gujarati film musician, singer and former Parliamentarian from Patan ______passed away. 7. Which of the following state recently fix the floor price (a) Mahesh Kanodia (b) Ramesh Singh for vegetables? (c) Rishab Verma (d) Mathura Das (a) West Bengal (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Karnataka (d) Kerala 18. Pakistan is currently under which list of FATF for being non-cooperative in the global fight against money 8. Aditya Puri has stepped down as the MD & CEO of HDFC laundering and terrorist financing? Bank. Who has been appointed to replace Puri as the new (a) Grey (b) Brown MD & CEO? (c) Blue (d) Black (a) Malay Patel (b) Kaizad Bharucha (c) Sashidhar Jagdishan (d) Sandeep Parekh 19. The longest temple ropeway project of the world has been inaugurated in which state of India? 9. Which day of the year is observed as the Infantry Day (a) Rajasthan (b) Gujarat by the Indian Army every year? (c) Kerala (d) Himachal Pradesh (a) October 27 (b) October 28 (c) October 26 (d) October 25 20. PM Modi has inaugurated the Paediatric Heart 10. The Government has set up a high-level committee to Hospital, which is India’s biggest hospital for cardiology. It look into commemoration of the 400th birth anniversary is in which city? of Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur. Who is the head of this (a) Surat (b) Mumbai committee? (c) Bhopal (d) (a) Amit Shah (b) Rajnath Singh www.studycampus.in 1| Page  022-41237666

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21. Which player has won the 2020 Portuguese Grand the series of four indigenously built anti-submarine Prix? warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes for the Indian Navy. (a) Lewis Hamilton (b) Max Verstappen (a) 5th (b) 4th (c) Ricardo Zunino (d) Valtteri Bottas (c) 3rd (d) 2nd

22. Lee Kun-hee, who passed away recently was the 32. Who among the following has been named an Chairman of which of these conglomerate? ‘Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020’? (a) Sony Corporations (b) Huawei (a) Jajini Varghese (b) Rajni Tripathi (c) LG (d) Samsung (c) Rajendra Kaur (d) Preeti Singh

23. Department of Posts (DOP), Ministry of 33. Ace Indian cricketer ______has been Communications released a commemorative postage signed up by India’s leading beauty accessories brand, stamp on the ______anniversary of the United Nations Vega, for its men’s personal grooming electronics range Organisations. under the ‘Vega Men’ brand. (a) 71st (b) 72nd (a) Hardik Pandya (b) Rishabh Pant (c) 75th (d) 74th (c) Virat Kohli (d) Rohit Sharma

24. Which of the following corporation has featured on 34. Recently, Asan Conservation Reserve has become a the top on the list of Indian PSUs under the ‘World’s Best Ramsar site making it a Wetland of International Employer 2020’, published by Forbes? Importance. It is located in which of the following Indian (a) SAIL (b) GAIL State? (c) HPCL (d) NTPC (a) Assam (b) Uttarakhand (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Mizoram 25. Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has observed his 59th raising Day on ______. 35. Which of the following entity has roped in Priyanka (a) 21st October (b) 22nd October Chopra Jonas as its brand ambassador? (c) 23rd October (d) 24th October (a) Vega (b) LG Electronics 26. Which country has been appointed as the Chair of the (c) Parle Agro Governing Body of International Labour Organization (ILO) (d) Hindustan Unilever Limited for a period till June 2021? (a) Brazil (b) Australia 36. Police Commemoration Day 2020 was observed on? (c) India (d) Russia (a) 21st October (b) 20th October (c) 19th October (d) 18th October 27. When is the United Nations Day celebrated globally? (a) 21 October (b) 22 October (c) 23 October (d) 24 October 37. Who among the following has been named as the brand ambassador of LG signs? 28. Which country has recently joined the IMF as its (a) Fernando Alonso (b) Rafal Nadal 190th member? (c) Roger Fedrer (d) Lewis Hamilton (a) Andorra (b) Armenia (c) Timor-Leste (d) Madagascar 38. Indian Air Force 1st woman officer, Wing Commander (retd) ______passed away. 29. Who has been appointed as the new Chairperson of (a) Harita Kaur Deol the Governing Body of the ILO for the period October (b) Vijaylakshmi Ramanan 2020- June 2021? (c) Pooja Thakur (a) Nivedita Shukla Verma (d) Shaliza Dhami (b) Kundan Kumar (c) Apurva Chandra 39. Which of the following state has emerged as the top (d) Krishnendra Pratap Singh destination for attracting the highest number of domestic tourists visiting the state in 2019 as per the Indian Tourism 30. Name the third generation, anti-tank guided missile of Statistics (ITS) 2020? DRDO, whose final user trial was successfully conducted (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Tamil Nadu recently from the Pokhran field firing ranges in Rajasthan. (c) Goa (d) Maharashtra (a) SANT (b) MPATGM (c) (d) Amogha missile 40. In terms of Foreign tourists, ______has topped the Indian Tourism Statistics 2020 with nearly 68 31. The ‘INS Kavaratti’, which has recently been lakh foreigners visiting the state in 2019. commissioned into the Indian Navy is the ______in (a) Himachal Pradesh (b) Uttarakhand www.studycampus.in 2| Page  022-41237666

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(c) Goa (d) Tamil Nadu 52. India successfully conducted the night trial of its nuclear-capable ______missile, which has been 41. Which country has been invited by India to join the developed by DRDO. trilateral naval exercise “Malabar-2020”, which is (a) -2 (b) -2 conducted annually between India, US and Japan? (c) -2 (d) Gagan-2 (a) Australia (b) (c) Russia (d) France 53. Who has been appointed by the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) as the new Chairman for 2020-21 42. Name the air-to-surface anti-tank missile, which was session? tested successfully by the DRDO recently. (a) Dinesh Kumar Khara (a) Amogha Missile (b) SANT Missile (b) SR Mehar (c) Naag Missile (d) Akash Missile (c) Rajnish Kumar (d) Rajkiran Rai G 43. Which of the following has become the First Country to Use Facial Recognition to Pay Taxes? 54. Who is the author of the book “The Battle of (a) Singapore (b) China Belonging”? (c) Germany (d) Japan (a) Shashi Tharoor (b) Subramanian Swamy (c) Sachin Pilot (d) P. Chidambaram 44. Name the telecom company, who recently selected by NASA to build the first cellular network on the moon. 55. Who has been chosen as the new President of the (a) Nokia (b) Apple Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA)? (c) Samsung (d) Redmi (a) Virendra Sehwag (b) Rajat Sharma (c) Gautam Gambhir (d) Rohan Jaitley 45. ______launches his autobiography ‘Portraits Of Power: Half a Century of Being at Ringside”. 56. India successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic (a) Pawan Goyal (b) NK Singh , from the Indian Navy’s indigenously-built (c) Yogesh Tripathi (d) Puran Verma stealth destroyer ______with the weapon hitting a pre-designated target in the Arabian Sea. 46. Name the player who beat Carolina Marin in (a) INS Satpura (b) INS Shivalik Denmark Badminton Open 2020 to lift women’s single (c) INS Chennai (d) INS Sahyadri title. (a) Sayaka Hirota (b) Yuki Fukushima 57. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has (c) Misaki Matsutomo (d) Nozomi Okuhara approved the extension of the tenure of Home Secretary, ______till August 22, 2021. 47. Which country has topped the Asia Power Index 2020? (a) Rahul Karmakar (b) Rajiv Singh (a) Russia (b) Japan (c) Ajay Kumar Bhalla (d) Vishwas Gautam (c) United States (d) Germany 58. How much amount will be borrowed by the 48. Which of the following state recently launched “Safe on behalf of the states under the City Project” – a women’s safety campaign? special GST window to meet the revenue shortfall of GST (a) (b) Uttar Pradesh Compensation? (c) Gujarat (d) Rajasthan (a) Rs 1.7 lakh crore (b) Rs 1.5 lakh crore (c) Rs 1.9 lakh crore (d) Rs 1.1 lakh crore 49. What is the rank of India in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2020? 59. Who has been appointed as the one-man monitoring (a) 102 (b) 107 committee head by the Supreme Court to look into the (c) 87 (d) 94 issue of prevention of stubble burning in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh? 50. Who has recently become the first ever Indian women (a) Dipak Misra (b) Madan B Loku to win the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award? (c) Ranjan Gogoi (d) Arjan Kumar Sikri (a) Rathika Ramasamy (b) Sooni Taraporevala (c) Dayanita Singh (d) Aishwarya Sridhar 60. ______administrators has announced that the government is coming up with a movement called 51. Name the Prime Minister of New Zealand who has ”My Town My Pride”. been elected for a second term in the Parliamentary (a) Ladakh (b) Jammu and Kashmir election recently. (c) Chandigarh (d) Delhi (a) Justin Trudeau (b) Jacinda Ardern (c) Frank Bainimarama (d) Scott Morrison 61. Who has been appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the Permanent Delegation of www.studycampus.in 3| Page  022-41237666

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India to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural (c) Food and Agriculture Organisation Organization (UNESCO), with the rank of Ambassador? (d) United Nations (a) A K Singh Somvanshi (b) Pradeep Kumar (c) Vishal V. Sharma (d) Manju Gupta 71. Russia has given regulatory approval to a second Covid-19 vaccine, named ‘______’, after early- 62. Bhanu Athaiya, the first Indian to win the Oscar has stage studies. passed away. She won the award in which category? (a) SARS-CoV (b) Sputnik V (a) Costume Designing (b) Dance Direction (c) mRNA-1273 (d) EpiVacCorona (c) Short Documentary (d) Original Music 72. PM Modi recently released the autobiography titled 63. What is the theme of the 2020 World Food Day Which Deh Vechwa Karani, which is based on the life of which celebrated all over the world on 16th Oct ? former Union Minister? (a) Fighting hunger and malnutrition (a) Ashok Shankarrao Chavan (b) Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and (b) Sujay Vikhe-Patil Nutrition (c) Balasaheb Vikhe patil (c) ZeroHunger World (d) Vilasrao Deshmukh (d) Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together 73. What is the theme of (WEF) 64. Which of the following countries has been re-elected Annual Meeting 2021? as the co-president of the International (a) Responsive and Responsible Leadership Solar Alliance? (b) Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World (a) France (b) India (c) The Fourth Industrial Revolutio (c) Germany (d) Israel (d) The Great Reset

65. Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri who passed away 74. Recently, PM Modi released a commemorative coin of recently was a renowned _____. what value in honor of Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia? (a) Poet (b) Actor (a) Rs 500 (b) Rs 250 (c) Director (d) Musician (c) Rs 100 (d) Rs 150

66. Who among the following has been named as the 75. Which of the following team won the National ambassador for World Athletics Half Marathon Basketball Association (NBA) Championship 2020? Championships Gdynia 2020? (a) Los Angeles Lakers (b) Toronto Raptors (a) Jeff Richman (b) Constantina Dita (c) Milwaukee Bucks (d) Miami Heat (c) Catherine Ndereba (d) Valeriu Tomescu 76. Which of the following state has declared to introduce 67. Which bank has won the 2020 Central bank of the year high-tech classrooms in all its public schools? award? (a) West Bengal (b) Andhra Pradesh (a) Reserve Bank of India (c) Karnataka (d) Kerala (b) Bank of Ghana (c) Bank of England 77. Britain’s Prince William and Naturalist David (d) Reserve Bank of Australia Attenborough have launched a new prize named “______”, with an aim to encourage change and 68. Shobha Naidu, who has passed away recently was a support to repair the planet. renowned exponent of which classical dance? (a) Seed Prize (a) Bharatnatyam (b) Kuchipudi (b) Champions of the Earth (c) Kathakali (d) Mohiniyattam (c) Earthshot Prize (d) Green Prize 69. World Students’ Day is observed to mark the birth anniversary of which leader? 78. Which state of India has become the first Har Ghar Jal (a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee state of the country by fully implementing the scheme of (b) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan providing tap water connection to every rural household? (c) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Rajasthan (d) Rajendra Prasad (c) Goa (d) Uttarakhand

70. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release a 79. Name the winner of the 2020 French Open Men’s commemorative coin of Rs 75 denomination on the Tennis Championship. occasion of 75th Anniversary of ______. (a) Diego Schwartzman (b) Roger Federer (a) World Health Organization (c) Novak Djokovic (d) Rafael Nadal (b) International Labour Organization www.studycampus.in 4| Page  022-41237666

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80. Who among the following beat Sofia Kenin to win the (a) Ferrari (b) Mercedes Women’s single title in 2020 French Tennis Open? (c) McLaren (d) Renault (a) Magda Linette (b) Victoria Azarenka (c) Sachia Vickery (d) Iga Swiatek 90. Where was the India’s first solar energy-driven miniature train virtually inaugurated? 81. Who has won the Nobel Prize 2020 in Economic (a) Maharashtra (b) Gujarat Sciences? (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Kerala (a) Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller 91. Name the “Most Outstanding Company – Financial (b) Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer Sector” in India in the poll conducted by Asiamoney for (c) Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson the 2nd consecutive year. (d) William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer (a) ICICI Bank (b) HDFC Bank (c) Yes Bank (d) Axis Bank 82. Who has been given as the additional charge of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public 92. Karsh Kale and the Salvage Audio Collectivewon the Distribution? Best Original Music Award 2020 at the 14th Asian Film (a) Piyush Goyal Awards Academy (AFAA) for the film Gully Boy directed by (b) Nitin Gadkari ______. (c) J.P. Nadda (a) Farhan Akhtar (b) Zoya Akhtar (d) Dharmendra Pradhan (c) Javed Akhtar (d) Imtiaz Ali

83. Who among the following has been awarded Nobel 93. Which Indian City is most susceptible to “water risk” Prize 2020 in Literature? according to the list prepared by WWF for Nature and (a) Bob Dylan (b) Kazuo Ishiguro Germany’s DEG? (c) Olga Tokarczuk (d) Louise Glück (a) Kota, Rajasthan (b) Jaipur, Rajasthan 84. Union minister of consumer affairs, food and public (c) Thane, Maharashtra distribution, ______passed away. (d) Indore, Madhya Pradesh (a) Mahendra Nath Pandey (b) Pralhad Joshi 94. Shane Watson announced his retirement from (c) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat all forms of Cricket. He belongs to which Country? (d) Ram Vilas Paswan (a) England (b) New Zealand (c) Australia (d) South Africa 85. Who has been re-elected as the Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)? 95. Name the title sponsor for the 2020 edition of the (a) M. Jayaraman (b) Nilesh Shah Women’s T20 Challenge to be held from November 4-9 (c) Sukumar Shankar (d) B.R. Reddy here in Sharjah. (a) Dream 11 (b) Unacademy 86. In which of the following day, World Post Day is (c) Reliance JIO (d) Patanjali observed? (a) 9th October (b) 8th October 96. Typhoon Goni (also known as Rolly) hit which country (c) 7th October (d) 6th October to be recorded as strongest typhoon of the year so far (October 2020)? 87. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to (a) Indonesia (b) Papua New Guniea award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the (c) Philippines (d) South Korea ______. (a) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 97. Name the first Country to formally exit the Paris (b) United Nations Peacekeeping Forces Climate Agreement (November 2020). (c) International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (a) China (b) United States (US) (d) World Food Programme (c) India (d) Australia

88. Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or National Unity Day is observed 98. Central Government privatized six major airports of on which day? the country . Adani Group took all 6 airports on lease for (a) September 31 (b) October 29 how many years? (c) October 31 (d) August 29 (a) 20 years (b) 35 years (c) 40 years (d) 50 years 89. Lewis Hamilton won the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix (F-1 Emirates Gran Premio dell’Emilia Romagna 2020) 99. Where did the 2nd Batch of three Rafale Fighter Jets recently. He represents which Brand? land in India? www.studycampus.in 5| Page  022-41237666

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(a) Ambala, Haryana (b) Jamnagar Gujarat (c) Hasimara, West Bengal (d) Bhuj, Gujarat

100. Who authored the book “Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi”? (a) Tamal Bandyopadhyay (b) Vinay Sitapati (c) Chinmay Tumbe (d) Chandrakant Lahariya

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Answer Key

1. C 22. D 43. A 64. A 85. B 2. B 23. C 44. A 65. A 86. A 3. C 24. D 45. B 66. B 87. D 4. A 25. A 46. D 67. B 88. C 5. C 26. C 47. C 68. B 89. B 6. D 27. D 48. B 69. C 90. D 7. B 28. A 49. C 70. C 91. B 8. C 29. C 50. D 71. D 92. B 9. A 30. C 51. B 72. C 93. B 10. C 31. B 52. C 73. D 94. C 11. B 32. A 53. D 74. C 95. A 12. C 33. D 54. A 75. A 96. C 13. D 34. B 55. D 76. D 97. B 14. C 35. C 56. C 77. C 98. D 15. B 36. A 57. C 78. C 99. B 16. C 37. D 58. D 79. D 100. B 17. A 38. B 59. B 80. D 18. A 39. A 60. B 81. C 19. B 40. D 61. C 82. A 20. D 41. A 62. A 83. D 21. A 42. B 63. D 84. D

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