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Sample 20148.Pdf BOOK 2 © BPI INDIA PVT LTD, 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without specifi c prior permission of the publisher. BPI INDIA PVT LTD A-27, Ground Floor, Mohan Cooperative Industrial Estate, New Delhi-110044 (India) Tel: +91-11-43394300, e-mail: [email protected] Buy online: www.bpiindia.com Questions Current Affairs The National Green Highways Mission (NGHM) has been 1. launched from which city of India? Name the animal that was documented as the oldest living 2. vertebrate on earth. Who topped the 2016 Forbes list of 100 Richest Tech 3. Billionaires in the World? Which Indian personality has won the Gourmand World 4. Cookbook Award for 2015-16? Which movie clinched the maximum awards at the 88th 5. Academy Awards? 6. Who is the new president of FIFA? The book “Ace against Odds” is the autobiography of which 7. Indian tennis player? Who won the 2016 women’s singles Wimbledon 8. Championship? The national football team of which country won the Euro 9. Cup 2016? Who became the first woman Chief Justice of 10. Nepal? Name the Indian Gymnast who created history by 11. becoming the first Indian gymnast to enter the Olympic final at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Who won the men’s 200 m gold in the 2016 Rio 12. Olympics? With which country did India sign a short-term route 13. agreement for transport of petroleum products? Which country launched the world’s first hack-proof 14. quantum communication satellite? 15. Who has been elected the President of Zambia? 16. Who has been conferred with the 2015 Jnanpith Award? (3) Questions Which former Indian cricketer was named head coach of 17. the Afghanistan National Cricket Team? Who has won the first-ever Wimbledon wheelchair tennis 18. men’s singles title? Name the writer who won the 2016 Man Booker 19. International Prize for fiction for ‘The Vegetarian’? Who was awarded with the University of Houston’s highest 20. teaching award in 2016? 21. Who won the 2016 Scholastic Asian Book Award? Who has been appointed as the Managing Director of 22. Microsoft India Research Lab located in Bengaluru? The voters of which country approved a new draft 23. constitution giving extra powers to the military? Name the frozen nutritional dessert developed by Central 24. Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI) Mysuru. 25. Who is the Prime Minister of United Kingdom? Which player retired from international football after 26. defeat in the finals of the Copa America League? Who won the 2016 Fide Women’s Grand Prix 27. trophy? Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Central 28. Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)? Name the author of Jhansi’r Rani (The Queen of Jhansi) 29. who died in July 2016. Which country has successfully launched “Gaofen-3”, an 30. earth observation satellite? Name the two South American countries who agreed to 31. reopen pedestrian border that had been closed in 2015 to curb smuggling. 32. Which country inaugurated the world’s first electric road? In which city was India’s first Water Metro project 33. launched? Which country has been declared free from measles by 34. WHO? (4) Questions Who won the best actress award for ‘Madly’ at Tribeca 35. Film Fest 2016? Name the Indian who won the 2016 Global Indian of the 36. Year award. Who was the first Brazilian to win a gold medal at 2016 Rio 37. Olympics? How is the Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill 2014 38. better known as? Name the country that won the women’s 2016 ICC World 39. T20. 40. Which is the world’s first hospital on a train? Name the first Indian female athlete to win a silver medal 41. at the Olympics. Which animal has been declared as critically endangered 42. by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature? Who has been elected as the first woman governor of 43. Tokyo? Name the longest-surviving tigress in Ranthambore 44. National Park who died in August 2016. Who became the first-ever Indian to win the Mr. World 45. title? Name NASA’s spacecraft that entered Jupiter’s orbit in 46. July 2016, to understand the origin and evolution of the planet. Which city will host the 2020 European Aquatics 47. Championships? Who won the best actress award at the National Film 48. Awards 2016? Who won the 2015 Bharatiya Jananpith’s Navlekhan 49. award? Name the first woman in the world to win the 2016 50. International Maritime Organization Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea. (5) Answers Answers 1. New Delhi 30. China 2. Greenland shark Venezuela and 31. 3. Bill Gates Colombia 4. Nimi Sunilkumar 32. Sweden 5. Mad Max: Fury Road 33. Kochi 6. Gianni Infantino 34. Brazil 7. Sania Mirza 35. Radhika Apte 8. Serena Williams Aishwarya Rai 36. 9. Portugal Bachchan 10. Sushila Karki 37. Judoka Rafaela Silva 11. Dipa Karmakar The Goods and Services 12. Usain Bolt 38. Tax (GST) Bill, 2014 13. Bangladesh 14. China 39. West Indies 15. Edgar Lungu 40. Lifeline Express 16. Raghuveer Chaudhari 41. PV Sindhu Sumatran and Bornean 17. Lalchand Rajput 42. 18. Gordon Reid orangutan 19. Han Kang 43. Yuriko Koike 20. Rupa Iyer 44. Machli 21. Aditi Krishnakumar 45. Rohit Khandelwal 22. Sriram Rajamani 46. Juno 23. Thailand 47. Budapest 24. Nutrice 48. Kangana 25. Theresa May Amlendu Tiwari, 26. Lionel Messi Balram Kawant, 49 27. Harika Dronavalli Tasneem Khan and Om Rakesh Kumar Naagar 28. Chaturvedi 50. Radhika Menon 29. Mahasweta Devi (6) Questions General Knowledge 1. Who wrote ‘Five Point Someone’? What is the capital of the union territory Dadra and 2. Nagar Haveli? The Arabs discovered these set of islands in the Indian 3. Ocean in 975 AD. Name them. Which epic by Homer describes the tenth year of the 4. Trojan War? Who has been appointed Chairman of All India Football 5. Federation? 6. How many kings are there in a game of chess? Name the important centre of Buddhist learning on River 7. Indus that was influenced by Persia, Greece and Central Asia from the 5th century BC to the second century AD. 8. What is Victoria Terminus now known as? 9. Earth is part of which galaxy? Which team has won the FIFA World Cup maximum 10. number of times? Name the finest keyboard player born in 1756 in 11. Salzburg, Austria. He composed the first two sonatas for his harpsichord when he was only 8. He died very young. Where are the five observatories built by Maharaja Jai 12. Singh II? 13. Which city in Gujarat is called the Diamond City? 14. What is the capital of Jammu and Kashmir? The Uber Cup is presented to the player who wins at 15. which sport? (7) Questions 16. Name the most populated state in India. To protect the tiger species from extinction, which 17. project was launched by the Indian government? Which species of shark has a long head and eyes on both 18. ends to help it see all around? In which indoor game does one throw dice to climb up a 19. ladder or to go down a snake? Which is the largest carnivorous marsupial that was once 20. threatened by cancer? 21. What was the motto of the 2012 Paralympic games? 22. Mahesh Bhupati is a sportsperson for which sport? Name the sportspersons who won the AP's Athlete of the 23. Year award in 2013. Name the author who translated the ‘Ramayana’ into 24. Persian? Which world class batsman said that Sachin Tendulkar's 25. style of playing resembles his own? What was the name of the first unmanned mission sent 26. to the moon by India? Who is the first Indian to win the Grand Slam 27. tournament? 28. Which is the slowest mammal in the world? What is the conical tent constructed by Native Americans 29. called? 30. Name the first person to reach North Pole. 31. In which year will the XVIII Asiad be held? (8) Questions 32. Who was the first person to go into space? 33. Which Indian mathematician gave the concept of zero? Which item was made compulsory by FIFA for all 34. football players in the year 1990? Who teaches Oliver Twist to pick pockets in the Dickens’s 35. book by the same name? 36. In which kind of theatre do actors enact the ‘Ramayana’? 37. After whose name are the Nobel Prizes awarded? 38. Nymphs are the young ones of which animal? Which planet is named after the King of Roman Gods? It 39. is the largest planet. 40. Which is the deepest glacier in the world? In which year did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose form the 41. Indian National Army? Who became the first recipient of the Mahathir Award 42. for Global Peace? Which organ in the human body works continuously to 43. purify blood? The Curiosity rover on Mars found deposits of which 44. elements in 2013? 45. Who is the new President of Maldives? 46. Who created the martial art Jeet Kune Do? In which Indian state was India's longest train tunnel 47. inaugurated in 2013? (9) Questions What is the capital of Meghalaya and also a famous hill 48. station? The Dilwara temples are dedicated to Adinath. Where are 49. these temples located? 50. What is the full form of CRY? 51. What is a blog that contains video material called? 52. Which big cat is the strongest climber? 53. What is Beighton Cup is associated with? 54.
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