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1. Which of the following, partnered with
INOX, PVR and Cinepolis to showcase
UEFA Super Cup 2019 match live in the-
atres?
(A) Sony
(B) ESPN
(C) Tensports
(D) Star Cricket
2. Emisat satellite, which is in news recently,
is associated to which country?
(A) India
(B) Japan
(C) China
(D) South Korea
3. As per UGC notice, all universities in India
will get a final subscription to access which
Swedish anti-plagiarism software?
(A) Dravin
(B) Inkis
(C) Urkund
(D) Pitras
4. Who was conferred with American
Academy of Ophthalmology’s (AAO) high-
est award Life Achievement honor?
(A) Reeta Ganguly
(B) Sunil S Ramesh
(C) Santosh G Honavar
(D) Devesh Patel
5. How many years of imprisonment was
given to the culprits of child pornogra-
phy?
(A) 3 Years
(B) 5 Years
(C) 10 Years
(D) 12 Years
6. Who has been named as the new King of
Malaysia?
(A) Ahmad Shah
(B) Abdul Rahim
(C) Sultan Abdullah
(D) Sirajuddin
7. To which of the following professions Fa-
rook Khan belongs?
(A) Journalist
(B) Doctor
(C) Scientist
(D) Athlete
8. Which country has signed an agreement
about the sharing of white shipping infor-
mation with Indian Navy?
(A) Indonesia
1. A 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. B 6. C 7. A 8. C
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(B) South Africa
(C) Philippines
(D) New Zealand
9. This is set to become the first Indian state
to roll out Universal Basic Income (UBI)?
(A) Bihar
(B) Kerala
(C) Sikkim
(D) Andra Pradesh
10. Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel was
sworn in as Chief Justice of
(A) Gujarat High Court
(B) Delhi High Court
(C) Manipur High Court
(D) Tripura High Court
11. Which state government has launched No-
tun Disha initiative to provide training to
teachers?
(A) Nagaland
(B) Tripura
(C) Arunachal Pradesh
(D) Mizoram
12. ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ is an ini-
tiative to pay tribute to which freedom
fighter?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Sardar Patel
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
13. Which country’s Aerospace Industries has
signed $93 million Naval MRSAM deal
with Indian Navy?
(A) South Korea
(B) United States
(C) Israel
(D) Germany
14. The 35th Tri-Services Commanders Confer-
ence for the year 2019 was held in
(A) Kochi, Kerala
(B) Chennai, Tamilnadu
(C) New Delhi, Delhi
(D) Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
15. Which female cricketer received the 2019
CK Nayudu Lifetime Award of BCCI?
(A) Anjum Chopra
(B) Jhulan Goswami
(C) Mithali Raj
(D) HamandeepKaur
16. How many Indian Navy Ship will take part
in Chinese Navy’s 70th anniversary cele-
brations?
(A) 3
(B) 2
(C) 5
(D) 4
17. India and organize training pro-
gramme on EXIM Bank’s guidelines.
(A) Nepal
(B) Russia
(C) US
(D) Singapore
18. Which private sector bank is planning to
open 450 branches in the forthcoming fi-
nancial year?
(A) Yes Bank
(B) Axis Bank
(C) ICICI Bank
(D) Punjab National Bank
19. The 12-day Aerial Exercise Red Flag 2019
began in which country?
(A) Singapore
(B) Russia
(C) Malaysia
(D) US
9. C 10. B 11. B 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. A 16. B 17. A 18. C 19. D 20. B
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20. Name the Indian hockey player who will
been honoured with Mohan Bagan Ratan?
(A) Jaipal Singh Munda
(B) Keshav Dutt
(C) Kishan Lal
(D) Bharat Chettri
21. The India’s higest annual rainfall is expe-
rienced at?
(A) Coimbatore
(B) Cherrapunji
(C) Mawsynram
(D) Pondicherry
22. Which city hosted the ‘ANGAN’, an inter-
national Conference on Energy Efficiency in
Building Sector?
(A) Mumbai
(B) New Delhi
(C) Gurugram
(D) Chandigarh
23. Which of the following IITs has signed a
MoU with EBTC to establish a living Lab?
(A) IIT Delhi
(B) IIT Hyderabad
(C) IIT Roorkee
(D) IIT Guwahati
24. Which of the following is the base year
for the National Clean Air Programme
(NCAP)?
(A) 2014
(B) 2017
(C) 2015
(D) 2016
25. Where is the headquaters of International
Atomic Energy Agency?
(A) Vienna
(B) Washington, D.C
(C) Hague
(D) Geneva
26. Dallol Geothermal Field belongs to which
country?
(A) Russia
(B) Sudan
(C) Ethiopia
(D) Norway
27. MSDF and this organisation signed a
Statement of Intent (SOI) to codify, doc-
ument and share best practices to improve
learning outcomes in public school educa-
tion.
(A) National Development Council
(B) NITI Aayog
(C) Ministry of Human Resource Develop-
ment
(D) NCERT
28. As per 2018 global Multidimensional
Poverty Index, India’s poverty rate has
decreased from 55 % to
(A) 50 %
(B) 32 %
(C) 42 %
(D) 28 %
29. Which city has topped the tap water qual-
ity ranking released by the Bureau of In-
dian Standards?
(A) Telangana
(B) Mumbai
(C) Chennai
(D) Aizawl
30. Which of the following tops in the Best In-
dian Brands Of 2019?
(A) Dmart
(B) Airtel
(C) Reliance
(D) Tata
31. RBI slaps penalty for how many banks for
non-strengthening of ‘SWIFT’ related con-
trols?
21. C 22. B 23. B 24. B 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. D 29. B 30. D 31. A
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(A) 7
(B) 4
(C) 3
(D) 6
32. Who was appointed as the 25th Director
General of BSF?
(A) Lachhu Ram
(B) Vivek Kumar(V.K) Johri
(C) Rajni Kant Mishra
(D) Sanjeev Kumar Singh
33. Maharashtra Tourism Development Corpo-
ration organised an Elephanta festival in
which city?
(A) Thane
(B) Nagpur
(C) Pune
(D) Mumbai
34. Who has been appointed as chairman
of the ‘Ma Narmada, Ma Kshipra evam
Ma Mandakini River Trust’ in Madhya
Pradesh?
(A) Aditya Joshi
(B) Madhusudan Patidar
(C) Varsha Varman
(D) Namdev Tyagi
35. Which country has dropped visa require-
ment for Chinese and Indian tourists or
business people?
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Australia
(C) Mexico
(D) Brazil
36. Which state’s block Panchayat has won
the prestigious Deen Dayal Upadhyay
Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar for
2019?
(A) UP
(B) Bihar
(C) Kerala
(D) Telangana
37. Which film won the Best Foreign Film in
Oscar 2019?
(A) Shoplifters
(B) Cold War
(C) Roma
(D) Capernaum
38. Which spacecraft of NASA broke the
record for smallest space object ever or-
bited, after successfully entering into orbit
around the asteroid Bennu?
(A) OSIRIS-Rex
(B) RAMSUS-Rfx
(C) YIPOP-Yla
(D) HUTCH-Las
39. Which station has been conferred with
‘Eat Right Station’ certification by the
Food Safety and Standards Authority of In-
dia?
(A) Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station
(B) The Howrah railway station
(C) Charbagh railway station
(D) Ghum railway station
40. d India-Australia Secretary-level 2+2 Di-
alogue was recently held in which of the
following city?
(A) Perth
(B) New Delhi
(C) Sydney
(D) Pune
41. Who has been conferred with the Order of
St Andrew the Apostle - the highest state
decoration of Russia, recently?
(A) Narendra Modi
(B) Ilham Aliyev
(C) Dean Barrow
(D) Ashraf Ghani
32. B 33. D 34. D 35. D 36. C 37. C 38. A 39. A 40. B 41. A 42. B
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42. Which country successfully sent six
Yunhai-2 atmospheric environment re-
search satellites and a test communication
satellite of Hongyan constellation into or-
bit?
(A) Russia
(B) China
(C) US
(D) UK
43. Which of the following financial service
company won the Celent Model Bank 2019
Award?
(A) Equitas Small Finance Bank
(B) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
(C) AU Small Finance Bank
(D) Fincare Small Finance Bank
44. What is the latest GDP growth estimate
of India by India Ratings and Research for
the fiscal 2019-20?
(A) 6.3%
(B) 6.9%
(C) 6.6%
(D) 6.1%
45. 2019 International Stock Taking Confer-
ence on Tiger Conservation was held in
(A) Lucknow
(B) New Delhi
(C) Ahmedabad
(D) Hyderabad
46. Name of the Airline which operated
world’s first zero-waste flight.
(A) Etihad Airways
(B) Scoot
(C) Emirates
(D) Qantas
47. Name of the ICAS Officer, who took
over as the Controller General of Accounts
(CGA).
(A) Raosaheb Danve
(B) Babul Supriyo
(C) Girraj Prasad Gupta
(D) Ramdas Athawale
48. Which of the following IIT institute tied up
with GE to set up India’s first ‘Cold Spray’
SMART Lab?
(A) IIT Madras
(B) IIT Delhi
(C) IIT Mumbai
(D) IIT Kanpur
49. Saksham 2019 is an annual high intensity
people-centric mega campaign under the
aegis of which ministry?
(A) Ministry of Drinking Water and Sani-
tation
(B) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Gas
(C) Ministry of Finance
(D) Ministry of Information and Broad-
casting
50. When is National Doctors Day cele-
brated?
(A) July 2
(B) July 1
(C) JulY 3
(D) June 29
51. World Rhino Day is observed every year
on
(A) 21st September
(B) 22nd September
(C) 23rd September
(D) 24th September
52. Who is known as ‘the father of eco-
nomics’?
(A) Amartya Sen
(B) John M. Keynes
(C) Richard Cantillon
(D) Adam Smith
43. D 44. D 45. B 46. D 47. C 48. A 49. B 50. B 51. B 52. D 53. B
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53. How much will be allotted under the Prad-
hanmantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojna as
per the union Budget 2019?
(A) Rs. 55000 crore
(B) Rs. 75000 crore
(C) Rs. 30000 crore
(D) Rs. 85000 crore
54. Who won the World Rapid Chess title?
(A) Harika Dronavalli
(B) Koneru Humpy
(C) Antoaneta Stefanova
(D) Lei Tingjie
55. Where did Seamaster 2019 ITTF Chal-
lenge Plus held?
(A) Muscat
(B) Salalah
(C) Dubai
(D) Nizwa
56. What is the theme of the 11th BRICS sum-
mit?
(A) Building Responsive, Inclusive and
Collective Solutions
(B) Stronger Partnership for a Brighter
Future
(C) Collaboration for Inclusive Growth
and Shared Prosperity in the 4th Indus-
trial Revolution
(D) Economic Growth for an Innovative
Future
57. Beresheet spacecraft, which is in news re-
cently, is from which country?
(A) United States
(B) China
(C) Japan
(D) Israel
58. Which city organized the Bandana Sen Li-
brary Awards for the first time?
(A) Lucknow
(B) Kolkata
(C) New Delhi
(D) Bhopal
59. The annual exercise Sindu Sudarshan-VII
of Indian Army is being conducted in which
city?
(A) Ajmer
(B) Guwahati
(C) Dispur
(D) Barmer
60. Who will launch a new initiative in the
National disease management Programme
for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and
Brucellosis?
(A) Shri Venkaiah Naidu
(B) Shri Narendra Modi
(C) Shri Ram Nath Kovind
(D) Shri Rajnath Singh
61. Name the bank which has received CCI
Nod for Merger with Gruh Finance.
(A) RBL Bank
(B) Kotak Mahindra Bank
(C) Bandhan Bank
(D) IndusInd Bank
62. Which state CM hiked Rs.200 per
month under Madhu Babu Pension Yojana
scheme?
(A) Bihar
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Haryana
(D) Odisha
63. The capital of Yugoslavia is
(A) Budapest
(B) Belgrade
(C) Sophia
(D) Bishkek
64. Who is the 1st Indian player to reach the
350-game mark in ODI?
(A) Sachin Tendulkar
54. B 55. A 56. D 57. D 58. C 59. D 60. B 61. C 62. D 63. B 64. A
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(B) Kapil Dev
(C) Sourav Ganguly
(D) Rahul Dravid
65. Which country banned Indian vehicles in
the tourist hub of Pokhara?
(A) Pakistan
(B) Afghanistan
(C) Nepal
(D) Bhutan
66. Zonel Sougaijam, who has been included
in the Facebook Hall of Fame 2019, he be-
longs to which Indian state?
(A) Manipur
(B) Haryana
(C) Maharastra
(D) Andra Pradesh
67. Which of the following bank has been cat-
egorized as a private sector lender follow-
ing the acquisition of majority stake by
Life Insurance Corporation?
(A) Axis Bank
(B) HDFC Bank
(C) IDBI Bank
(D) Punjab National Bank
68. Which Indian journalist has been ap-
pointed president of the Alliance for Media
Freedom (AFMF)?
(A) Vineet Jain
(B) N Ram
(C) Shaili Chopra
(D) Shoma Chaudhury
69. Krishna Sobti passed away, in New Delhi,
She was a
(A) Journalist
(B) Actor
(C) Writer
(D) Educationalist
70. Which country has been elected as a mem-
ber of the World Heritage Committee?
(A) Israel
(B) Ghana
(C) Thailand
(D) Indonesia
71. Who has taken oath as pro-tem Speaker
of Lok Sabha?
(A) Virendra Kumar
(B) Jitendra Singh
(C) Nitin Gadkari
(D) Amit Shah
72. What is the new name given the faraway
ice world ‘Ultima Thule’?
(A) Canis
(B) Magellanic
(C) Arrokoth
(D) Maffei
73. IIT Roorkee and have signed an MoU
to develop Space Technology Cells on the
campus of the varsity.
(A) Indian Air Force
(B) HAL
(C) DRDO
(D) ISRO
74. President Ram Nath Kovind appointed
whom as the Chief Justice of the Kar-
nataka High Court?
(A) Mohammad Rafiq
(B) Abhay Shreeniwas Oka
(C) Raghvendra Singh Chauhan
(D) Vijay Kumar Bist
75. Ajeya Kalama was appointed as Principal
Advisor to which of the following state?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Telangana
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Odisha
65. C 66. A 67. C 68. B 69. C 70. C 71. A 72. C 73. D 74. B 75. A 76. B
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76. Which of the following teams has won the
Kochi Area Pulling Regatta 2019?
(A) INS Vikrant
(B) INS Dronacharya
(C) INS Betwa
(D) INS Vikramaditya
77. Who has been named as the new speaker
of Lok Sabha?
(A) Virendra Kumar
(B) Om Birla
(C) Jitendra Singh
(D) Nitin Gadkari
78. Which airlines used TaxiBot on an Airbus
A320 aircraft?
(A) Air India
(B) Spice Jet
(C) Indigo
(D) Sahara
79. Which is the first country to introduce
WHO approved typhoid vaccine?
(A) Japan
(B) India
(C) Pakistan
(D) USA
80. Peter Handke, who received the Nobel Lit-
erature prize, belongs to which of the fol-
lowing countries?
(A) Germany
(B) France
(C) Austria
(D) Australia
81. Uttarakhand’s first tulip garden will be
opened in which district?
(A) Uttarkashi
(B) Dehradun
(C) Pithoragarh
(D) Chamoli
82. Who among the following was named as
the “Most Trusted Sports Personality in
2019”?
(A) Virat Kohli
(B) P
. V. Sindhu
(C) Mary Kom
(D) MS Dhoni
83. Which country has lifted all limits on
nuclear research and development pro-
gramme?
(A) Russia
(B) Iran
(C) Ukraine
(D) Pakistan
84. The headquarters of Water and Power
Consultancy Services (India) Limited
(WAPCOS) is located in which of the fol-
lowing cities?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Dehradun
(C) Shimla
(D) Chandigarh
85. Iran unveiled precision-guided missiles
in Tehran.
(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 2
(D) 5
86. Name the app launched by Narendra Singh
Tomar to help farmers in geo-tagging
geo-fencing of crop also gives informa-
tion about high-yielding crops and seeds?
(A) Krishi Mitr
(B) Krishi Kisan
(C) Kisan Suvidha
(D) Kisan Agriculture
87. India’s Vidisha Baliyan was crowned the
Miss Deaf World 2019 title. She belongs
to which state?
77. B 78. A 79. C 80. C 81. C 82. A 83. B 84. A 85. A 86. B 87. D
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(A) Karnataka
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Uttar Pradesh
88. India’s first-of-its-kind ‘Voter Park’ has
recently inaugurated in which of the fol-
lowing cities?
(A) Kolkata
(B) Pune
(C) Dehradun
(D) Gurugram
89. Which Country will host India in all 3 for-
mats of Cricket in 2020?
(A) New Zealand
(B) South Africa
(C) West Indies
(D) England
90. To which state, Bandaru Dattatreya was
appointed as the governor by President
Ram Nath Kovind?
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Telangana
(C) Kerala
(D) Maharashtra
91. InterGlobe Aviation Ltd plans to build its
2nd MRO in
(A) Pune
(B) Kolkata
(C) Bengaluru
(D) New Delhi
92. Which region has been renamed as the
‘Kalyana Karnataka’ recently?
(A) Hyderabad-Karnataka Region
(B) Mumbai-Karnataka Region
(C) Panaji Karnataka Region
(D) Amaravati Karnataka Region
93. Indian pair G. Sathiyan and Anthony Amal-
raj won medal World Tour Platinum
Australian Open.
(A) Gold
(B) Silver
(C) Bronze
(D) None of the Above
94. and the US successfully tested Arrow-
3 Anti-Ballistic Missile System.
(A) India
(B) China
(C) Israel
(D) Russia
95. With which central American country, In-
dia signed two documents during Vice
President Venkaiah Naidu?
(A) Belize
(B) Panama
(C) Costa Rica
(D) Nicaragua
96. Name the veteran bollywood actor who
passed away on June 10, 2019.
(A) Dayanand Shetty
(B) Girish Karnad
(C) Joy Mukherjee
(D) Karan Johar
97. Who released the 4th cycle of All India
Tiger Estimation 2018?
(A) Rajnath Singh
(B) Narendra Modi
(C) Amit Shah
(D) Ram Nath Kovind
98. With which country Bangladesh signed an
MoU for training 1800 Bangladesh Civil
Servants at the National Centre for Good
Governance (NCGG)?
(A) India
(B) Nepal
(C) China
(D) Japan
88. D 89. A 90. A 91. C 92. A 93. C 94. C 95. C 96. B 97. B 98. A 99. D
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99. India has recently conducted the first
night-trial of which missile?
(A) Akash
(B) Brahmos
(C) Prithvi
(D) Agni II
100. Who has become the first Defence Minis-
ter to fly LCA Tejas?
(A) Amit Shah
(B) Nirmala Sitharaman
(C) Rajnath Singh
(D) Manohar Parrikar
101. How many MoUs signed between In-
dia and Bolivia including Culture, Mining,
Space.
(A) 4
(B) 8
(C) 6
(D) 7
102. Who was appointed as the new chief
executive officer (CEO) of Myntra and
Jabong?
(A) Amar Nagaram
(B) Vishnu Srinivasan
(C) Sumit Agarwal
(D) Vasuki Rawat
103. India signed an agreement with which
of the following bank for setting up India-
Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural
Development (IAIARD) in Malawi?
(A) NABARD
(B) NABCONS
(C) SIDBI
(D) NSIC
104. ‘India Sports Summit-Fitness:$10 Billion
Opportunity’ was organised by CII in
which of the following cities?
(A) Patna
(B) Gurugram
(C) New Delhi
(D) Faridabad
105. The first person to climb Mount Everest
twice is .
(A) Malavath Purna
(B) Anshu Jamsenpa
(C) Premlata Agarwal
(D) Santosh Yadav
106. The battle of Haldighati was fought in
the year
(A) 1525
(B) 1527
(C) 1576
(D) 1586
107. How many missions will be completed by
PSLV with the launch of RISAT-2BR1 on
board PLSV-C48?
(A) 58
(B) 55
(C) 50
(D) 45
108. Where was the fifth Dornier squadron
of the Indian Navy, “Indian Naval Air
Squadron 313 (INAS 31C)” commissioned
recently?
(A) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
(B) Mumbai, Maharashtra
(C) Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
(D) Meenambakkam, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
109. Which country will organise a Bhagwad
Gita Mahotsav in partnership with the
Haryana Government?
(A) Nepal
(B) Myanmar
(C) Japan
(D) Mauritius
100. C 101. B 102. A 103. B 104. C 105. D 106. C 107. C 108. D 109. D 110. A
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110. Which oil company has launched a drive
to turn plastic to specialized bitumen?
(A) Indian Oil Corp.
(B) Bharat Petroleum
(C) ONGC
(D) GAIL
111. Where was the nation-wide Fit India
Movement by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi launched?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Kota
(C) Bhopal
(D) Indore
112. Name the cyclone that has hit the In-
dian States of Odisha and West Bengal re-
cently.
(A) Cyclone Hudhud
(B) Cyclone Gaja
(C) Cyclone Phailin
(D) Cyclone Fani
113. Which government set up a 17-member
high-level committee to “reform higher ed-
ucation” in the capital?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Haryana
(D) Delhi
114. Which state became first state in the
country to adopt digital fingerprint and iris
scanning system?
(A) Gujrat
(B) Goa
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Maharashtra
115. The first-ever India-Central Asia Dia-
logue at the level of Foreign Ministers is
scheduled to be held in which of the fol-
lowing countries?
(A) Turkmenistan
(B) Tajikistan
(C) Afghanistan
(D) Uzbekistan
116. Justice Vikram Nath has been appointed
as the chief justice of which High court?
(A) Rajasthan High Court
(B) Jharkhand High Court
(C) Allahabad High Court
(D) Gujarat High Court
117. Which of the following is the highest
civilian award of Bangladesh?
(A) Aga Khan Award
(B) Dr Kalam Smriti
(C) Ekushey Padak
(D) RISK Award
118. India and signed Contract for Mod-
ernisation of Radar and Missile Systems.
(A) Italy
(B) Turkey
(C) Spain
(D) Russia
119. Former badminton world number one Lee
Chong Wei has announced his retirement.
He belongs to which country?
(A) Brazil
(B) Germany
(C) Malaysia
(D) Canada
120. Legendary ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Director
Franco Zeffirelli passed away recently. He
belongs to which country?
(A) Italy
(B) Russia
(C) Germany
(D) Canada
111. A 112. D 113. D 114. D 115. D 116. D 117. C 118. D 119. C 120. A 121. A
122. A
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121. With which company, CBSE have part-
nered to build AI learning for schools?
(A) Microsoft India
(B) Google
(C) Infosys
(D) IBM
122. Former Union Minister V. Dhananjaya
Kumar was passed away recently. He be-
longs to the state of?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Andra Pradesh
(D) Maharashtra
123. Who has signed Mou with Centre
for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
(CDFD) to provide DNA-based diagnostic
service to the public?
(A) OrthoCAD Network Research Cell
(B) Institute of Nuclear Medicine Allied
Sciences
(C) National Institute of Virology
(D) CSIR-CCMB
124. What is the theme of the 6th India Water
Week 2019?
(A) Water Cooperation-Building Partner-
ships
(B) Water is the Key to Socio-economic
Development and Quality of Life
(C) Minimising Harmful Fluxes From Land
to Water
(D) Water cooperation:Coping with 21st
Century Challenges
125. Which of the following Israeli lunar Mis-
sion crashed on the Moon?
(A) LADEE
(B) Beresheet
(C) Juno-1A
(D) Ofek-11
126. Which warship of the Indian Navy partic-
ipated in the multinational maritime exer-
cise ‘Cutlass Express 2019’?
(A) INS Talwar
(B) INS Trishul
(C) INS Trikand
(D) INS Tarkash
127. Britain and Spain have joined hands with
other major powers to suspend military
exports to which one country?
(A) Kuwait
(B) Israel
(C) Turkey
(D) UAE
128. Which state government launches digital
platform for Agro land conversion?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Punjab
(D) Gujarat
129. Which of the following cricket teams has
clinched the 2019 Ranji Trophy?
(A) Vidharbha
(B) Saurashtra
(C) Bengal
(D) Railways
130. Name the NRI scientist who has been
conferred with the Pravasi Bhartiya Sam-
man Award.
(A) Pan Nalin
(B) Vinod Khosla
(C) Dr Rajendra Joshi
(D) Mira Nair
131. ISRO and signed an agreement to
set up a joint maritime surveillance sys-
tem.
(A) JAXA
(B) CNES
(C) NASA
(D) SpaceX
123. D 124. D 125. B 126. C 127. C 128. A 129. A 130. C 131. B 132. A
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132. International Olympic Committee(IOC)
has provisionally lifted ban from this coun-
try regarding hosting international sports
events?
(A) India
(B) Pakistan
(C) Srilanka
(D) Bangladesh
133. Who recently became the 1st woman of
Indian Navy to fly Dornier surveillance air-
craft?
(A) Shivangi
(B) Punita Arora
(C) Shaliza Dhami
(D) Minty Agarwal
134. International Mountain Day is observed
on which of the following days?
(A) 16th December
(B) 4th December
(C) 11th December
(D) 8th December
135. PepsiCo’s CEO Indra Nooyi has joined as
a board of directors for this company, re-
cently.
(A) Paypal
(B) Myntra
(C) Amazon
(D) Snapdeal
136. Which project won the Aga Khan Archi-
tecture Award 2019?
(A) Warka Water
(B) Courtyard House Plugin
(C) Arcadia Education Project
(D) Enghelab Street Rehabilitation
137. Which country will be giving its highest
civilian award ‘Order of Zaid’ to the Indian
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi?
(A) Saudi Arabia
(B) S. Korea
(C) N. Korea
(D) UAE
138. Name the Arab country which has with-
drawn its membership from OPEC, re-
cently.
(A) United Arab Emirates
(B) Bahrain
(C) Qatar
(D) Oman
139. Which Indian personality has been hon-
ored with the 2018 Seoul Peace Prize re-
cently?
(A) Sushma Swaraj
(B) Narendra Modi
(C) Manmohan Singh
(D) Manohar Parrikar
140. t November is celebrated as the founda-
tion day of which state?
(A) Madhya Pradesh
(B) Tripura
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Himachal Pradesh
141. Which government has approved over
$9 million for relief and rehabilitation
work in cyclone-hit Odisha.
(A) Sydney
(B) Hong Kong
(C) Thailand
(D) Seoul
142. Who has become the 3rd Indian batsman
to reach top 10 in ICC rankings?
(A) Virat Kohli
(B) Suresh Raina
(C) Rohit Sharma
(D) Shikhar Dhawan
143. The Supreme Court (SC) has imposed a
fine of Rs 20 lakh on which state govern-
ment for banning satirical film Bhobishy-
oter Bhoot?
133. A 134. C 135. C 136. C 137. D 138. C 139. B 140. A 141. B 142. C 143. B
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(A) Assam
(B) West Bengal
(C) Jharkhand
(D) Odisha
144. The annual military exercise KAZIND-
2019 between India Kazakhstan army
commenced at pithoragarh in Uttrakhand,
Which edition is this for this exercise?
(A) 4th
(B) 3rd
(C) 2nd
(D) 5th
145. Who delivered a Chetak helicopter to the
Indian Navy?
(A) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(B) Bharat Dynamics
(C) BrahMos Aerospace
(D) Aroon Aviation Services
146. Naval bilateral exercise between India
and Bangladesh is being held at?
(A) Andaman sea
(B) Visakhapatnam
(C) Babina military station
(D) Bay of Bengal
147. Name the Bank which got RBI approval
for holding up to 9.9 percent stake in Band-
han Bank.
(A) SBI
(B) Yes
(C) Axis
(D) HDFC
148. Oxygen Parlour has been opened at
which railway station?
(A) New Delhi Railway Station
(B) Nashik Railway Station
(C) Pune Railway Station
(D) Gwalior Railway Station
149. Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal sold
his equity shares valued at USD 76 million
to
(A) Walmart
(B) Alibaba
(C) Myntra
(D) Jabong
150. Which Country honoured Prime Minister
Narendra Modi with The Rule of Nishan Iz-
zuddeen award?
(A) Maldives
(B) UAE
(C) Bhutan
(D) Bahrain
151. Prasar Bharati and signed an MoU
for research collaboration in newly emerg-
ing technologies.
(A) IIT Delhi
(B) IIT Madras
(C) IIT Roorkee
(D) IIT Kanpur
152. International Civil Aviation Day is ob-
served on which date?
(A) 16th December
(B) 8th December
(C) 7th December
(D) 2nd December
153. Who has become the first woman IPS
DIG and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
officer to successfully complete the South
Pole expedition?
(A) Susheela Das
(B) Aniksha Gupta
(C) Aparna Kumar
(D) Roopali Seth
154. Who was the recepient of Ashoka
Chakra for year 2019?
(A) Hangpan Dada
(B) Mohan Goswami
(C) Jyoti Prakash Nirala
(D) Nazir Ahmad Wani
144. A 145. A 146. B 147. D 148. B 149. A 150. A 151. D 152. C 153. C 154. D
155. D
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155. US President Donald Trump recently
showed interest in buying which nation?
(A) Iceland
(B) Ireland
(C) Cuba
(D) Greenland
156. Who among the following has been ap-
pointed as the interim finance and corpo-
rate affairs minister by the President of
India?
(A) Shri Piyush Goyal
(B) Shri Naresh Iyer
(C) Shri Suresh Prabhu
(D) Shri Vikram Singh
157. Bharat Fibre, which is in news recently,
is associated to which of the following
telecom companies?
(A) BSNL
(B) Reliance Jio
(C) Vodafone
(D) Airtel
158. Who is the head of the RBI panel on dig-
ital payments?
(A) Aruna Sharma
(B) H R Khan
(C) Nandan Nilekani
(D) Kishore Sansi
159. Which Indian official has been appointed
by UN as Controller ASG in DMSPC?
(A) Chandramouli Ramanathan
(B) Snehlata Shrivastava
(C) Ram Shankar Katheria
(D) Mahesh Sharma
160. Which country will host the United Na-
tions Framework for Climate Change (UN-
FCC) Conference of Parties (COP-25) meet-
ing on 2-13 December 2019?
(A) Geneva, Switzerland
(B) Moscow, Russia
(C) Santiago, Chile
(D) Paris, France
161. Which country has been left out of Eu-
ropean Union’s 2050 climate neutrality
agreement?
(A) Belgium
(B) Croatia
(C) Czech Republic
(D) Poland
162. Which city is to organize the Interna-
tional Conference on Landslides Risk Re-
duction and Resilience?
(A) Kolkata
(B) New Delhi
(C) Mumbai
(D) Chennai
163. Name the Indian Cricketer who be-
came the highest international wicket-
taker across formats in 2018?
(A) Ishant Sharma
(B) Jasprit Bumrah
(C) Rishabh Pant
(D) Shikhar Dhawan
164. How many DCBs will be merged to form
Kerala Bank?
(A) 12
(B) 13
(C) 11
(D) 14
165. Abhishek Singh was appointed as the
Chief Marketing officer of;
(A) PhonePe
(B) BharatPe
(C) Paytm
(D) Freecharge
156. A 157. A 158. C 159. A 160. C 161. D 162. B 163. B 164. B 165. B 166. C
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166. Who was awarded SAR Award for Fish-
erman for saving 11 lives from a sinking
fishing boat at the 18th National Maritime
Search and Rescue Board (NMSARB) meet-
ing?
(A) Ravi Shukla
(B) Jayanand Singh
(C) Anand A Ambhire
(D) Vikram
167. This state government introduced a
scheme ‘Notun Disha’ for the school stu-
dents from classes III-VIII.
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Tripura
(C) Kerala
(D) Assam
168. Under major new proposals, the Defence
minister has approved re-location of how
many Army officers from Army headquar-
ters to the field army?
(A) 206
(B) 307
(C) 403
(D) 512
169. Who sets a Record With most wins at
Billboard Awards?
(A) Rihanna
(B) Chris Brown
(C) Drake
(D) Taylor Swift
170. Along with which ministry, Ministry of
Railways launched Commando for Railway
Security (CORAS) of Indian Railways?
(A) Ministry of Commerce and Industry
(B) Ministry of Information and Broad-
casting
(C) Ministry of Consumer Affairs
(D) Ministry of Home Affairs
171. Who has been sworn in as the new pres-
ident of Indonesia?
(A) Mark Wilson
(B) Rasd Hudson
(C) Joko Widodo
(D) None of the above
172. Which of the following banks has
launched paperless account opening facil-
ity for NRIs?
(A) ICICI Bank
(B) Axis Bank
(C) IDBI Bank
(D) HDFC Bank
173. When did International Day Against Drug
Abuse and Illicit Trafficking observed?
(A) 26 June
(B) 25 June
(C) 24 June
(D) 23 June
174. Who is to become the next chief of the
Indian Army?
(A) Sunil Lamba
(B) Bipin Rawat
(C) Manoj Mukund Naravane
(D) Karambir Singh
175. Which of the following banks has
launched India’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ at
lower interest rates?
(A) SBI
(B) ICICI Bank
(C) PNB
(D) Axis Bank
176. Which country has successfully tested
the world’s first Floating Nuclear Power
Plant (FNPP)?
(A) United States
(B) China
(C) Japan
(D) Russia
167. B 168. A 169. C 170. A 171. C 172. C 173. A 174. C 175. A 176. D 177. D
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177. For which bank, RBI imposed Rs.1.5
crore for non-compliance on frauds?
(A) Union Bank of India
(B) Oriental Bank of Commerce
(C) Allahabad bank
(D) Bank of India
178. Which guided rocket system was re-
cently launched for Odisha coast?
(A) Agni
(B) Pinaka
(C) Naag
(D) Akash
179. The Centre has decided to set up a na-
tional law university in which of the fol-
lowing state?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Assam
(D) Uttarakhand
180. What is the India’s rank in the Star-
tupBlink’s 2019 Startup Ecosystem Rank-
ing?
(A) 20th
(B) 19th
(C) 18th
(D) 17th
181. Name the last captive white tiger, that
died in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park
(SGNP) in Borivali, Mumbai.
(A) Sidharth
(B) Renuk
(C) Bajirao
(D) Avni
182. Which insurance company has overtaken
Life Insurance Corporation of India, re-
cently?
(A) Max Life Insurance
(B) Birla Sun Life Insurance
(C) ICICI Prudential
(D) HDFC Standard Life Insurance
183. National Street Food Festival was re-
cently organised in which city?
(A) Jaipur
(B) New Delhi
(C) Pune
(D) Indore
184. Who has become the first black woman
to won the 2019 Man Booker Prize for Fic-
tion?
(A) Bernardine Evaristo
(B) Rakshi Walter
(C) Eleanor Catton
(D) Anne Enright
185. Bronze medal at the Under-23 Wrestling
World Championships 2019 has been won
by which player?
(A) Vinesh Phougat
(B) Ravi Rathi
(C) Susheel Kumar
(D) Bajrang Punia
186. Which country has got its first female
Prime Minister?
(A) Somalia
(B) UAE
(C) Belgium
(D) Chad
187. Which Indian cricketer broke Don Brad-
man’s record of highest average in Test
cricket on home soil?
(A) Rohit Sharma
(B) Virat Kohli
(C) Ajinkya Rahane
(D) Ravindra Jadeja
188. The Indian state which has won 3
awards in Pacific Asia Travel Association
(PATA) awards for the year 2019.
(A) Kerala
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Andra Pradesh
178. B 179. D 180. D 181. C 182. A 183. B 184. A 185. B 186. C 187. A 188. A
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189. Who is the recipient of the Tagore Award
for Cultural Harmony for year 2016?
(A) Ram Sutar Vanji
(B) Chhayanaut
(C) Rajkumar Singhajit Singh
(D) Milind Kumar
190. What is the name of the deceased inter-
net sensation cat nicknamed as Grumpy
Cat?
(A) Paddles
(B) Tardar Sauce
(C) Tuxedo Stan
(D) Barsik
191. Which research institute has recently
found a typical apple carries more than
100m bacteria inside it?
(A) University of Chicago
(B) Michigan State University
(C) Graz University of Technology
(D) Delhi University
192. Christchurch Call to Action, which is in
news recently, is the brainchild of which
of the following countries?
(A) Canada UK
(B) Germany Spain
(C) Netherlands Sweden
(D) New Zealand France
193. ‘Blue Revolution’ is related to?
(A) Food grain Production
(B) Fruit Production
(C) Fertilizer Production
(D) Fish Production
194. Manuel Marrero Cruz has been ap-
pointed as prime minister of which coun-
try?
(A) Brazil
(B) France
(C) Poland
(D) Cuba
195. IRDAI set up a Committee of 13 mem-
bers to review regulatory framework on
micro-insurance. Who is the head of the
committee?
(A) Suresh Mathur
(B) Girish Joshi
(C) Amit Rathi
(D) Rajinder Singh
196. Which among the following company has
been ordered to pay $572 million for Opi-
oid addiction crisis in US?
(A) Covidien
(B) Medtronic
(C) Johnson Johnson
(D) Unilever
197. Which of the following will be the official
mascot of 13th COP of the Convention on
the Conservation of Migratory Species of
Wild Animals (COP CMS 13)?
(A) Great hornbill
(B) Yellow-footed green pigeon
(C) Indian roller
(D) Great Indian Bustard
198. Which IIT inked MoU to launch Centre of
Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technolo-
gies?
(A) IIT Delhi
(B) IIT Roorkee
(C) IIT Mumbai
(D) IIT Pune
199. Name of bollywood actress who recently
decided to quit bollywood due to religious
reasons.
(A) Zaira Wasim
(B) Katrina Kaif
(C) Nagma
(D) Fatima Sana Shaikh
190. B 191. C 192. D 193. D 194. D 195. A 196. C 197. D 198. A 199. A 200. C
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200. Ieoh Ming Pei, who passed away re-
cently, was the renowned architect of
which country?
(A) Japan
(B) South Korea
(C) China
(D) Singapore
201. Who has been appointed as Head of
Cricket at NCA, recently?
(A) Sachin Tendulkar
(B) Rahul Dravid
(C) Anil Kumble
(D) Ravi Shastri
202. Trishna gas project, which is in news re-
cently, is located in which of the following
states?
(A) Nagaland
(B) Tripura
(C) Manipur
(D) Assam
203. Which bank has launched an Action Plan
for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue
Economies for the Asia and Pacific region?
(A) Asian Development Bank
(B) International Monetary Fund
(C) Islamic Development Bank
(D) European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development
204. International holocaust remembrance
day was observed on which date?
(A) 27th January
(B) 26th January
(C) 25th January
(D) 24th January
205. ICC banned UAE Coach Irfan Ansari from
all forms of Cricket for the period of
years.
(A) 3 Years
(B) 8 Years
(C) 10 Years
(D) 12 Years
206. Who has recently taken oath as the pro-
tem speaker of the Maharashtra assem-
bly?
(A) Kalidas Kolambkar
(B) Vaibhav Madhukar Pichad
(C) Sandeep Naik
(D) Sada Sarvankar
207. In which country, demonstrations are go-
ing on in response to a proposed tax on
calls via WhatsApp and other messaging
services?
(A) Sudan
(B) Lebanon
(C) Austria
(D) Kenya
208. Who inaugurated the first Mega Food
Park of Telangana?
(A) Harsh Vardhan
(B) Smriti Irani
(C) Harsimrat Kaur Badal
(D) Prakash Javadekar
209. COMCASA is India’s military-information
sharing pact with which of the following
country?
(A) Japan
(B) Russia
(C) China
(D) United States
210. Chandoli National Park is in which
state?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Madhya Pradesh
(D) Odisha
201. B 202. B 203. A 204. A 205. C 206. A 207. B 208. C 209. D 210. B 211. C
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211. UEFA (Union of European Football Asso-
ciations) Super Cup held in Istanbul was
won by
(A) Chelsea
(B) Madrid
(C) Liverpool
(D) Real Madrid
212. Which of the following states has be-
come the first Indian state to set up a Price
Monitoring and Research Unit (PMRU)?
(A) Punjab
(B) Kerala
(C) Karnataka
(D) Telangana
213. Which state cabinet has approved the Rs
93 crore cloud-seeding programme?
(A) Assam
(B) Karnataka
(C) Tamilnadu
(D) Andra Pradesh
214. Shri Kishan Dan Dewal has been ap-
pointed as the next Ambassador of India
to which of the following country?
(A) Moldova
(B) Turkey
(C) Armenia
(D) Albania
215. Which of the following countries has re-
cently deployed additional 3, 000 troops
to Saudi Arabia?
(A) England
(B) USA
(C) France
(D) Germany
216. Who launched a Military Veterans Em-
ployment programme in partnership with
DGR and AWPO?
(A) Amazon
(B) Flipkark
(C) Paypal
(D) Netflix
217. Recently, Google unveiled a video game
streaming service called
(A) Pokimane
(B) Nightblue
(C) GVidu
(D) Stadia
218. The 2nd Meeting of India-Italy Joint
Working Group on Counter Terrorism was
held in
(A) Pune
(B) Mumbai
(C) Kolkata
(D) New Delhi
219. What is the following is the first Indian
Ship between India and Bangladesh?
(A) Goa Bengal
(B) Chilika Bengal
(C) Brahmaputra Bengal
(D) R V Bengal Ganga
220. Which telecommunications company has
partnered with google for expanding its
WiFi footprint?
(A) Reliance Jio
(B) Vodafone Group Plc
(C) Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)
(D) Bharti Airtel
221. On which date, the 2019 Non-Resident
Indian Day is observed recently?
(A) January 8
(B) January 9
(C) January 6
(D) January 7
222. Who won a Best Actor in Motion Picture-
Drama of 76th Annual Golden Globe
Awards?
(A) Rami Malek
212. B 213. B 214. C 215. B 216. A 217. D 218. D 219. D 220. C 221. B 222. A
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(B) Gwilym Lee
(C) Christian Slater
(D) John Deacon
223. Which city organized the 27th Confer-
ence of COCSSO, 2019?
(A) Kolkata
(B) New Delhi
(C) Mumbai
(D) Chennai
224. Which company ties up with Suryoday
Small Finance Bank for vehicle loans?
(A) Reliance Industries
(B) Ashok Leyland
(C) Larsen and Tourbo Company
(D) Bharat Electronics limited
225. Which country recently launched the
space Force?
(A) USA
(B) China
(C) Israel
(D) Russia
226. What is the full form of IEC?
(A) International Export Code
(B) Indian Export Code
(C) Import Export Code
(D) Indian Employment Code
227. Which economic corridor was excluded
from the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) re-
cently?
(A) China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
(CMEC)
(B) Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar
(BCIM) Economic Corridor
(C) Nepal-China-India Economic Corri-
dor(NCIEC)
(D) China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
(CPEC)
228. Which command won the 15th edition of
General J J Singh air weapon championship
held in Army Marksmanship Unit?
(A) Northern Command, Udhampur
(B) Western Command, Chandimandir
Cantonment
(C) Eastern Command, Lucknow
(D) Central Command, Lucknow
229. According to the Henley Passport Index,
India ranks which position as the world’s
most travel-friendly passport?
(A) 79
(B) 81
(C) 68
(D) 52
230. Which of the following institute is to
partner with ISRO to set up space technol-
ogy cell?
(A) IIT Roorkee
(B) IIT Bombay
(C) IIT Kanpur
(D) IIT Delhi
231. What is the theme of the 2019 edition
of World Tribal Day (WTD)?
(A) Indigenous People
(B) Indigenous Regions
(C) Indigenous Cultures
(D) Indigenous Languages
232. What is the name of Japan’s new impe-
rial era?
(A) Mesoz
(B) Reiwa
(C) Paleo
(D) Jacobean
233. The multiplayer version of interactive
mobile game ‘A Cut Above’belongs to
which force?
(A) Indian Navy
(B) Indian Air Force
(C) Indian Army
(D) CISF
224. B 225. A 226. C 227. B 228. A 229. A 230. D 231. D 232. B 233. B 234. D
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234. First Mega Food Park of Central India
has been inaugurated in which state?
(A) Jharkhand
(B) Chhattisgarh
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Madhya Pradesh
235. Ministry of Human Resource Develop-
ment conferred Institution of Eminence
(IOE) status to which of the following Uni-
versity?
(A) O.P
. Jindal Global University
(B) Ashoka University
(C) Bennett University
(D) BML Munjal University
236. Kshiti Goswami, who recently died at 77
was the former Chief Minister of which
state?
(A) Tripura
(B) West Bengal
(C) Odisha
(D) Sikkim
237. Indian Council for Cultural Relations
(ICCR) organised the 5th International Ra-
mayan Festival in
(A) Madurai
(B) Chennai
(C) Kolkata
(D) New Delhi
238. Nirmala Sitharaman and will be the
first recipients of the Distinguished Alumni
Award.
(A) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
(B) Harsh Vardhan
(C) Hardeep Singh Puri
(D) Prakash Javadekar
239. Who will head the newly constituted
Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Af-
fairs?
(A) Rajnath Singh
(B) Nirmala Sitharaman
(C) Ramvilas Paswan
(D) Narendra Singh Tomar
240. Human Rights Day is celebrated on which
of the following day?
(A) 5th December
(B) 6th December
(C) 12th December
(D) 10th December
241. Who won 2019 Rogers Cup tennis tour-
nament?
(A) Lesia Tsurenko
(B) Serena Williams
(C) Bianca Andreescu
(D) Monica Puig
242. Indian Navy hosted maritime informa-
tion sharing workshop at IFC-IOR in which
city?
(A) Gurugram
(B) Delhi
(C) Mumbai
(D) Vishakapatnam
243. This Indian state will to go paperless un-
der E Vidhan initiative.
(A) Andra Pradesh
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Kerala
244. Who among the following players wins
lifetime achievement at Indian Sports Hon-
ours (ISH)?
(A) Geet Jadhav
(B) Kapil Dev
(C) Milkha Singh
(D) Surender Gill
235. A 236. B 237. D 238. A 239. A 240. D 241. C 242. A 243. D 244. C 245. A
246. A
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245. Nethanna Nestham scheme has been
launched in which state?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Bihar
(C) UP
(D) Rajasthan
246. Name the book based on M. Venkaiah
Naidu’s two years as Vice President of In-
dia.
(A) Listening, Learning and Leading
(B) From a party worker to Vice President
of India
(C) Not a common man
(D) Vice President of India as Citizen of
India
247. India’s flagship hydrocarbon interna-
tional conference ‘PETROTECH-2019’ will
be held in
(A) Pune
(B) Kolkata
(C) New Delhi
(D) Mumbai
248. The 64th Filmfare Awards 2019 was
held in
(A) Pune
(B) New Delhi
(C) Kolkata
(D) Mumbai
249. Which state has launched a scheme to
provide free Wi-Fi services to it’s capital
for one hour each day?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Telangana
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Kerala
250. Iran and which country have decided
to set up a Joint Border Reaction Force
(JBRF)?
(A) India
(B) Pakistan
(C) Russia
(D) Bangladesh
251. Uttar Pradesh government announced a
monthly pension of rupees to the des-
titute women in Varanasi.
(A) Rs 1000
(B) Rs 200
(C) Rs 300
(D) Rs 500
252. Which of the following was conferred
with the Golden Peacock Innovative Prod-
uct Award - 2019?
(A) Acko General Insurance
(B) Magma Fincorp
(C) Max Bupa
(D) TATA
253. Name of the programme that is jointly
launched by Google India Tata Trusts to
facilitate digital literacy among women in
rural India.
(A) Internet Saathi
(B) New India
(C) Women Power
(D) Techie Women
254. Who has won People’s Choice Award in
US?
(A) Subodh Gupta
(B) Vivan Sundaram
(C) Akbar Padamsee
(D) Sudarsan Pattnaik
255. On which date, India’s Martyrs Day was
celebrated?
(A) January 28
(B) January 29
(C) January 30
(D) January 31
247. C 248. D 249. A 250. B 251. D 252. A 253. A 254. D 255. C 256. B
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256. ISRO transferred its space grade Li Ion
cell technology to which company?
(A) JSW Energy Ltd
(B) BHEL
(C) Reliance Power Ltd
(D) NHPC
257. Which Asian country has recently submit-
ted its 6th National Report (NR6) to the
Convention on Biological Diversity?
(A) India
(B) Bhutan
(C) Malaysia
(D) Israel
258. Who has decided to form a ‘State Tiger
Protection Force’ to save the Big Cat pop-
ulation in the State?
(A) Bihar
(B) Assam
(C) Telangana
(D) Kerala
259. The 2nd edition of India Myanmar naval
Exercise IMNEX-19 is to be organized at
which place?
(A) Port Blair
(B) Visakhapatnam
(C) Kolkata
(D) Chennai
260. Name the Indian Company which has the
Higher Market Value than IBM at $120.5
bn.
(A) TCS
(B) HDFC Bank
(C) Reliance Industries Limited
(D) ITC Limited
261. Which Bank launched a paperless account
opening facility for NRIs?
(A) Yes Bank
(B) Axis Bank
(C) ICIC Bank
(D) IDBI Bank
262. According to ‘Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU)’ India ranked in the ‘Inclusive
Internet Index 2019’.
(A) 32nd
(B) 47th
(C) 50th
(D) 28th
263. h Ayurveda Day is to be organized on
which of the following dates?
(A) October 25
(B) October 24
(C) October 26
(D) October 27
264. Which Indian Personality has honoured
with the highest award of Republic of
Guinea?
(A) Narendra Modi
(B) Ram Nath Kovind
(C) Shusma Swaraj
(D) Nirmala Sitharaman
265. Which among the following becomes 1st
Indian Shipyard to deliver 100 Warships?
(A) Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited
(B) GRSE
(C) Cochin Shipyard
(D) Goa Shipyard
266. Where did Mahatma Gandhi IT and
Biotechnology Park inagurated?
(A) Liberia
(B) Benin
(C) Nigeria
(D) Cote d’Ivoire
267. The 6th Women Of India Organic Festival
2019 was held in which city?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Bhopal
(C) Chandigarh
(D) Kolkata
257. A 258. C 259. B 260. A 261. D 262. B 263. A 264. B 265. B 266. D 267. C
268. B
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268. Pratap Singh Tomar belongs to which
game?
(A) Boxing
(B) Shooting
(C) Wrestling
(D) Cricket
269. The memorial Day of Marudur Gopalan
Ramachandran is being celebrated on
24TH December all over the India. He be-
longed to which profession?
(A) Director
(B) Politician
(C) Both A and B
(D) Coach
270. Who has been designated as ICC Cricket
Committee Chairman for the period of 3
years?
(A) Sachin Tendulkar
(B) VVS Laxman
(C) Sourav Ganguly
(D) Anil Kumble
271. Who is the minister of Petroleum, now?
(A) Smriti irani
(B) Rambilas Paswas
(C) Dharmendra Pradhan
(D) Ravishankar Prasad
272. Name the company which launched the
china’s first commercial rocket.
(A) OneSpace
(B) LinkSpace
(C) CASC
(D) iSpace
273. What is the name of the new novel writ-
ten by the booker prize winning author,
Salman Rushdie inspired by Spanish clas-
sic Don Quixote?
(A) Quichotte
(B) Milkman
(C) Lincoln in the Bardo
(D) The Sellout
274. In which event Indian Athlete, Gomathi
Marimuthu has won the first gold medal
in Asian Athletics Championship 2019?
(A) 200 metres(Women)
(B) 1500 metres(Women)
(C) 800 metres(Women)
(D) 100 metres(Women)
275. Who invented Radio?
(A) Nikola Tesla
(B) Samuel Morse
(C) Galileo Galilei
(D) Guglielmo Marconi
276. Which entity, has been barred by Re-
serve Bank of India(RBI) from charg-
ing pre-payment penalties or foreclosure
charges from individual borrowers?
(A) Non-BankingFinanceCompany(NBFC)
(B) Commercial Banks
(C) Payment Banks
(D) Co-operative Banks
277. Who has been chosen for 2019 UN-
ESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom
Prize along with Wa Lone?
(A) Kyaw Soe Oo
(B) Mazen Darwish
(C) Mahmoud Abu Zeid
(D) Dawit Isaak
278. Which country is the highest recipient of
remittances in 2018, as per World Bank
(WB)’s latest report “Migration and Devel-
opment Brief”?
(A) Philippines
(B) India
(C) China
(D) Mexico”
269. C 270. D 271. C 272. D 273. A 274. C 275. D 276. A 277. A 278. B 279. D
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279. Hitachi Payment Services Pvt Ltd and
this bank jointly establishing a digital pay-
ments platform for India.
(A) Axis
(B) ICICI
(C) HDFC
(D) SBI
280. Asia’s largest biotechnology and life-
sciences forum “BioAsia 2019” was held
in
(A) Bengaluru
(B) Kochi
(C) Chennai
(D) Hyderabad
281. Name the Indian player who was titled
Sportsperson of the Year Award 2019 at
the annual awards and scholarships func-
tion.
(A) Sharath Kamal
(B) Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
(C) Bajrang Punia
(D) Mouma Das
282. Which country has celebrated the historic
Mujibnagar day recently?
(A) Myanmar
(B) Nepal
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) Bangladesh
283. Who was awarded with Lifetime Con-
tribution Award at AIMA Managing India
awards 2019?
(A) Devi Prasad Shetty
(B) Azim H Premji
(C) Sanjiv Bajaj
(D) Pawan Goenka
284. Name the mission launched by the Indian
Army under White Knight Corps Comman-
der Lt Gen Paramjit Singh in Jammu.
(A) Reach Out
(B) Maitri
(C) Rahat
(D) Calm Down
285. Which state government received the Ad-
venture tourism award during the World
Tourism Day(WTD) 2019?
(A) Goa
(B) Andhra Pradesh
(C) Telangana
(D) Uttarakhand
286. Which municipal corporation has teamed
up with NGO under the concept ‘Feed the
need’ to feed the hugry?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Kerala
(C) Telangana
(D) Karnataka
287. The 9th annual World Hunger Day with
the theme “#SustainabilityIs” is cele-
brated on;
(A) May 31
(B) May 30
(C) May 29
(D) May 28
288. Which of the following company’s Mu-
tual Fund has been renamed as Nippon In-
dia Mutual Fund (NIMF)?
(A) Wipro
(B) Tata
(C) Reliance
(D) Aditya Birla
289. Which state government declared a re-
duction of fine amounts under the motor
vehicle?
(A) Andra Pradesh
(B) Kerala
(C) Gujarat
(D) Maharashtra
280. D 281. A 282. D 283. B 284. A 285. A 286. C 287. D 288. C 289. C 290. C
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290. BYPL, a power distribution company,
launched energy saving app recently.
What is the name of the app?
(A) Ecobee Smart Thermostat
(B) Green Outlet
(C) Susthome
(D) Energy Cost Calculator
291. h to 20th April was observed as;
(A) National Fire Service Week
(B) World Immunization Week
(C) National Non-Smoking Week
(D) World Orphan Week
292. India’s first health-focused credit card
has been launched by;
(A) HDFC Bank
(B) RBL Bank
(C) ICICI Bank
(D) Axis Bank
293. APEDA sent its first trial shipment of
fresh vegetables from Varanasi to Which
city by sea route?
(A) Paris
(B) Dubai
(C) Chabhar
(D) Moscow
294. Who conferred the Pradhan Mantri
Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2019.
(A) Shri Venkaiah Naidu
(B) Shri Narendra Modi
(C) Shri Ram Nath Kovind
(D) Shri Arun Jaitley
295. Who was elected the President of the
Democratic Republic of Congo?
(A) Joseph Kabila
(B) Felix Tshisekedi
(C) Emmanuel Shadary
(D) Martin Fayulu
296. Who among the following has been ap-
pointed as Whole-Time Member, Insol-
vency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
recently?
(A) Anupam Shrivastava
(B) Anil Kumar Chaudhary
(C) Sudhaker Shukla
(D) D Rajkumar
297. The tamil novelist, who won Sahitya
Akademi Award in 1997 for the novel
“Saaivu Naarkkali” (The Reclining Chair)
passed away recently is;
(A) Rajam Krishnan
(B) Thoppil Mohamed Meeran
(C) Balakumaran
(D) Tamilvanan
298. Which state has allowed women to work
in night shifts in all factories (registered
under the factories act)?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Maharastra
(C) Odhisa
(D) Andhra Pradesh
299. Russell Baker, the two-time Pulitzer
Prize-winning author has passed away.
He was from which country?
(A) Italy
(B) United States
(C) France
(D) Germany
300. Who has been chosen for the first-ever
Sheikh Saud International Prize for Mate-
rials Research?
(A) K. Radhakrishnan
(B) K Sivan
(C) C N R Rao
(D) G. Madhavan Nair
291. A 292. B 293. B 294. C 295. B 296. C 297. B 298. A 299. B 300. C 301. B
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301. Name the organization, that presents
National Academy Awards.
(A) Indian Numismatic Historical and Cul-
tural Research Foundation
(B) Lalit Kala Academy
(C) Life Art Academy
(D) National Center For Performing Arts
302. The new Health Insurance Scheme AB-
MGRSBY Launched in which state?
(A) West Bengal
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Bihar
303. This bank recently updates rules for cash
deposits of up to Rs 50, 000.
(A) Axis Bank
(B) Yes Bank
(C) HDFC Bank
(D) Canara Bank
304. Which among the following states does
not fall under the one nation one ration
card pilot project?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Telangana
(D) Andhra Pradesh
305. The Cabinet of this state decides to pro-
vides approval for the promulgation of or-
dinance on Maratha quota.
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Maharashtra
306. Who has been appointed as the new In-
formation and Broadcasting Secretary?
(A) AnupWadhawan
(B) Ravi Mittal
(C) P
. Raghavendra Rao
(D) S. K. Sinha
307. The 55th death anniversary of India’s
first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru was observed on;
(A) 28th May
(B) 27th May
(C) 24th May
(D) 25th May
308. ICGS and Assam Rifles signed “Affil-
iation Charter” in Shillong.
(A) Sagar
(B) Varaha
(C) Shaurya
(D) Vikram
309. A newly ‘Make In India’ train Pulathisi
Express was flagged off from which rail-
way station of Sri Lanka?
(A) Colombo Fort railway station
(B) Maradana railway station
(C) Badulla railway station
(D) Hatton railway station
310. Recently, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
elected as the president of ?
(A) Sudan
(B) Seychelles
(C) Kyrgyzstan
(D) Mauritania
311. Which state government appoints film-
star Govinda as brand ambassador to pro-
mote the state’s traditions and tourist
places?
(A) Punjab
(B) Gujarat
(C) Madhya Pradesh
(D) Uttar Pradesh
312. Mawmluh cave, sometimes seen in news,
is associated to which of the following
states?
(A) Meghalaya
(B) Arunachal Pradesh
(C) Nagaland
(D) Mizoram
302. C 303. D 304. A 305. D 306. B 307. B 308. C 309. A 310. D 311. C 312. A
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313. Reliance Capital to sell its stake in mu-
tual funds to Japanese partner Nippon Life
Insurance for crore.
(A) Rs 4, 520
(B) Rs 6, 000
(C) Rs 5.250
(D) Rs 3.810
314. The first-ever UN’s International Day of
Education is celebrated on which date?
(A) January 26
(B) January 25
(C) January 24
(D) January 23
315. Who is the head of the SEBI committee to
suggest norms for Social Stock Exchanges
(SSE)?
(A) Ishaat Hussain
(B) Amit Chandra
(C) Vineet Rai
(D) Shamika Ravi
316. Tawlhlohpuan, which recently got the GI
Tag, is from state.
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Assam
(C) Manipur
(D) Mizoram
317. The CM of this state launched an Online
revenue payment system, recently.
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Odisha
(C) West Bengal
(D) Uttar Pradesh
318. Who is the convenor of the newly consti-
tuted Group of Ministers (GoM) to look at
issues related to lottery under GST?
(A) Sudhir Mungantiwar
(B) Himanta Biswa Sarma
(C) Mauvin Godinho
(D) Krishna Byre Gowda
319. Which country test-fired two short-
range missiles which flew about 430 km
and reached an altitude of 50 km?
(A) North Korea
(B) US
(C) Iran
(D) China
320. Who has been elected as First Indian and
Asian General Vice President of Interna-
tional Organization Development Associa-
tion (IODA)?
(A) Ajit Sandhu
(B) Rajesh Shukla
(C) Vinaya Shetty
(D) Mukul Tandon
321. Where was the first Bamboo Industrial
Park will be set up in India?
(A) Lambakheda-Bhopal, Madhya
Pradesh
(B) Mahudi-Gandhinagar, Gujarat
(C) Manderdisa-Dima Hasao, Assam
(D) Behta-Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
322. Who claimed a bronze medal in the
women’s 5000m race?
(A) Ashwini Nachappa
(B) Dutee Chand
(C) Anju Bobby George
(D) Parul Chaudhary
323. The NGT has formed a committee to ex-
amine illegal sand mining in which of the
following rivers?
(A) Ganga
(B) Cauvery
(C) Yamuna
(D) Godavari
324. Who has signed a contract with Airbus
for cabin and cargo design engineering?
(A) Tech Mahindra
(B) Infosys
(C) IBM
(D) TCS
313. B 314. C 315. A 316. D 317. B 318. A 319. A 320. C 321. C 322. D 323. C
324. A
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325. Which IIT has tied up with Pullela Gopic-
hand Badminton Academy to develop train-
ing module?
(A) IIT Indore
(B) IIT Kharagpur
(C) IIT Roorkee
(D) IIT Madras
326. Which of the following team is the win-
ner of the Deodhar Trophy 2019?
(A) India A
(B) India B
(C) India C
(D) India D
327. Which state launched a mobile app called
“Sishu Suraksha”?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Assam
(C) Goa
(D) Haryana
328. Which country lifted 2019 Asian Men’s
Volleyball Championship title?
(A) Indonesia
(B) Australia
(C) Iran
(D) India
329. Who will organise WCO Asia Pacific re-
gion meeting in Kerala?
(A) CBIC
(B) Income Tax Department
(C) CESTAT
(D) IRDA
330. Union Cabinet Chaired by Prime minis-
ter Narendra Modi approved setting up of
New Viral Vaccine Manufacturing Unit in
which state?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Kerala
(D) Haryana
331. UNICEF and has signed a LOI for chil-
dren Empowerment.
(A) Ministry of Human Resource Develop-
ment
(B) Ministry of Home Affairs
(C) National Development Council
(D) NITI Aayog
332. India and which country have signed JDI
to strengthen Indian railways?
(A) Russia
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) Germany
(D) Italy
333. In which year, Paper Currency Act was
enacted by British Government of India?
(A) 1854
(B) 1861
(C) 1907
(D) 1890
334. Who has been appointed as the chairman
of the Land Ports Authority of India?
(A) Amit Puri
(B) M Vishnu Vardhan Rao
(C) Aditya Mishra
(D) Rakesh kumar
335. 25th International conference and exhibi-
tion on terrestrial and satellite broadcast-
ing, BES EXPO 2019 held in
(A) Kolkata
(B) Mumbai
(C) New Delhi
(D) Chennai
336. Peter Handke who has been selected as
winner of Nobel Prize for the year 2019
belongs to which of the following coun-
tries?
(A) Austria
(B) Poland
(C) USA
(D) Russia
325. B 326. B 327. B 328. C 329. A 330. A 331. D 332. C 333. B 334. C 335. C
336. A
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337. Which of the following states has re-
cently declared Indus river dolphin as the
state’s aquatic animal?
(A) Haryana
(B) Himachal Pradesh
(C) Punjab
(D) Jammu Kashmir
338. The Cabinet of this state government ap-
proved the proposal for the creation of a
new Directorate of Dairy Development to
boost the milk production.
(A) Nagaland
(B) Meghalaya
(C) Uttarakhand
(D) West Bengal
339. For which community, the Union Gov-
ernment has decided to develop Eklavya
Model Residential Schools?
(A) Dalits
(B) EWS
(C) Scheduled Castes
(D) Scheduled Tribes
340. Which of the following railway stations
has topped the Indian Railways Station
Cleanliness Survey 2019?
(A) Jaipur
(B) Jodhpur
(C) Durgapura
(D) Jammu Tawi
341. Union Minister for Tourism K.J. Alphons,
has inaugurated the first project under the
Swadesh Darshan Project in
(A) Uttarkhand
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Sikkim
(D) Manipur
342. Asian Cup Football tournament will be
hosted by;
(A) China
(B) India
(C) South Korea
(D) Philippines
343. Who became the sixth Indian player to
win a junior Grand Slam title?
(A) Leander Paes
(B) Vikram Sharma
(C) Sumit Nagal
(D) Ramanathan Krishnan
344. The scientists from this country discov-
ered a possible “death switch” mechanism
in the plant’s immune system that triggers
infected cells to self-destruct.
(A) Russia
(B) India
(C) China
(D) UK
345. Name the small Finance Bank Launches
Current Account with Unique Auto-Sweep
Facility.
(A) Jana Small Finance Bank
(B) Equitas Small Finance Bank
(C) Suryoday Small Finance Bank
(D) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
346. World’s oldest man who died due to nat-
ural causes in Japan at the age of 113.
(A) Jiroemon Kimura
(B) Nami Nagamatzu
(C) Hizui Sherza
(D) Masazo Nonaka
347. India with which country has signed an
MOU to set up Savitribai Phule Pune Uni-
versity’s campus abroad?
(A) Japan
(B) Russia
(C) Qatar
(D) Israel
337. C 338. B 339. D 340. A 341. C 342. A 343. C 344. C 345. A 346. D 347. C
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348. IWF has provisionally suspended five
athletes belonging to which nation?
(A) India
(B) Japan
(C) Russia
(D) China
349. Justice Vikram Nath appointed as the
first Chief Justice of
(A) Shimla High Court
(B) Agartala High Court
(C) Amaravati High Court
(D) Cuttack High Court
350. The 11th India-Iran Joint Consular Com-
mittee was held in
(A) Pune
(B) Kolkata
(C) New Delhi
(D) Hyderabad
351. The researchers at which university in US
have developed a new method to purify
water used in oil refinement?
(A) Stanford University
(B) Clemson University
(C) University of Arkansas
(D) Purdue University
352. INF Treaty, which is in news recently, is
in between which of the following coun-
tries?
(A) Taiwan China
(B) France Germany
(C) United States Russia
(D) Israel Palestine
353. Which country has won the 2019 Asian
Cup Football tournament?
(A) Japan
(B) Qatar
(C) Iran
(D) Singapore
354. The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup be-
gins in which of the following country?
(A) Germany
(B) Belgium
(C) Brazil
(D) France
355. Who was the captain of ICC world cup
winning cricket team?
(A) Ben Stokes
(B) Kane Williamson
(C) Eoin Morgan
(D) Jason Roy
356. Who is the author of the book “Around
the World in Eighty Days”?
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Richard
(C) U.S.Naipaul
(D) Jules Verne
357. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
has slapped which of the following country
with a four-year ban from international
sports events?
(A) South Korea
(B) Russia
(C) Canada
(D) Israel
358. The Minister of Environment represented
India at the Madrid Climate Conference.
Who is the Minister of Environment, In-
dia?
(A) Shri Prakash Javadekar
(B) Narendra Singh Toma
(C) Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda
Gowda
(D) Dharmendra Debendra Pradhan
359. How many NPA accounts did PNB puts
off for sale to recover dues of Rs 1, 234
crores?
(A) 21
349. C 350. C 351. D 352. C 353. B 354. D 355. C 356. D 357. B 358. A 359. C
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(B) 15
(C) 11
(D) 8
360. Who has been appointed as Britain’s
Home Secretary, recently?
(A) Andrea Leadsom
(B) Penny Mordaunt
(C) Priti Patel
(D) Liz Truss
361. The e-AUSHADHI portal has been
launched for online licensing of which of
the following drugs?
(A) Ayurveda
(B) Unani
(C) Siddha
(D) All of the above
362. Who won the Cervantes Prize for
2019?
(A) Antonio Colinas
(B) Gabriel Ferrater
(C) Joan Margarit
(D) Andres Sanchez Robayna
363. The Union Cabinet has recently approved
a reservation at what percentage for ‘eco-
nomically backward’ upper castes in gov-
ernment jobs?
(A) 5 %
(B) 10 %
(C) 6 %
(D) 15 %
364. What is the India’s rank in the 2019 In-
dex of Cancer Preparedness (ICP)?
(A) 19th
(B) 20th
(C) 15th
(D) 13th
365. Who is the CEO of Flipkart?
(A) Kalyan Krishnamurthy
(B) Sriram Venkataraman
(C) Punit Soni
(D) Sheena Singh
366. Indias first policy to protect bank locker
was launched by
(A) Royal Sundaram General Insurance
(B) Max Bupa company
(C) ICICI Lombard
(D) IFFCO Tokio General Insurance
367. GSAT-31, which is in news recently,
is launched from which of the following
places?
(A) Sriharikota
(B) Moscow
(C) French Guiana
(D) Florida
368. Union Minister of Science and Technology
Harsh Vardhan inaugurated Next Genera-
tion Sequencing (NGS) facility in
(A) Hyderabad
(B) Mumbai
(C) Kolkata
(D) Kochi
369. India’s new species of reddish brown
pit viper was recently discovered in which
state?
(A) Himachal Pradesh
(B) Meghalaya
(C) Arunachal Pradesh
(D) Uttarakhand
370. Which ministry unveiled a draft ‘Nation
Resource Efficiency Policy’?
(A) Ministry of Environment Forests
(B) Ministry of New and Renewable En-
ergy
(C) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’
Welfare
(D) Ministry of Earth Sciences
360. C 361. D 362. C 363. B 364. A 365. A 366. D 367. C 368. A 369. C 370. A
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371. How many Memorandum of Agreements
are signed by Indian Railway Stations De-
velopment Corporation for the renovation
of 22 railway stations?
(A) 8
(B) 5
(C) 4
(D) 2
372. DRDO is to double the range of which
missile?
(A) Agni-II
(B) Brahmos
(C) Prithvi
(D) Astra
373. How many countries have landed their
spacecraft on moon before India?
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
374. Which country has dropped an explosive
from its Hayabusa2 spacecraft?
(A) China
(B) Japan
(C) Russia
(D) USA
375. Which state government has decided to
bring a legislation to ensure journalists’
job security?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) West Bengal
(C) Odisha
(D) Bihar
376. “Al Nagah 2019” is the joint exercise
between India and
(A) Oman
(B) UAE
(C) Iraq
(D) Brazil
377. Which film won the Best Film award in
the 20th edition of NEXA’s IIFA Awards
for 2019?
(A) Padmaavat
(B) Raazi
(C) Andhadhun
(D) Sanju
378. RBI imposes Rs crore on Kotak
Mahindra Bank.
(A) 5 Cr
(B) 4.4 Cr
(C) 3 Cr
(D) 2 Cr
379. This Indian business school has been
ranked among Top 10 Forbes Best Inter-
national 1-Year Business Schools 2019?
(A) FMS Delhi
(B) SIBM Pune
(C) IIM Ahmedabad
(D) ISB Hyderabad
380. How many missions have been an-
nounced by ISRO to be conducted in next
10 years?
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 9
381. Srei Equipment Finance and this bank
entered into an agreement for financing
the Micro, Small and Medium enterprises
(MSME) and agriculture sector.
(A) CUB
(B) UBI
(C) IOB
(D) OBC
382. Who has been appointed as the Director
General in Directorate General of Civil Avi-
ation?
(A) Arun Kumar
372. D 373. B 374. B 375. B 376. A 377. B 378. D 379. D 380. B 381. B 382. A
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(B) Nitesh Kumar
(C) Praful Patel
(D) Satish Dixit
383. Which is the first city to have an on-
line waste exchange for municipal solid
waste?
(A) Delhi
(B) Indore
(C) Chennai
(D) Kolkata
384. Which institute will adopt Amazon Web
Services (AWS) Educate programme?
(A) IIT Kolkata
(B) IIT Kharagpur
(C) IIT Roorkee
(D) IIT Bhubaneswar
385. The 4th Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific
(RCAP) Congress 2019 has started in
which of the following cities?
(A) Mumbai
(B) Ahmedabad
(C) Shimla
(D) New Delhi
386. How many Indian-origin women scien-
tists awarded by Australian government
under Superstar of STEM initiative?
(A) 8
(B) 5
(C) 3
(D) 4
387. Which Indian state ranked in the ranking
of Singapore’s Asia Competitiveness Insti-
tute’s (ACI), Ease of Doing Business (EDB)
index 2018?
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Karnataka
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Haryana
388. Who topped the Asian Rich List 2019
with Rs 2.3 lakh crore?
(A) Hinduja family
(B) Lakshmi Mittal family
(C) SP Lohia
(D) Mukesh Ambani family
389. Geological Survey of India (GSI) North
Eastern Region (NER) installed 2 Geologi-
cal Display Boards at which two caves?
(A) Mawmluh cave and Therriaghat cave
(B) Borra Caves and Bhimbetka Caves
(C) Bagh Caves and Badami Caves
(D) Udayagiri Caves and Undavalli Caves
390. How many members took part in the
Sniper Frontier Competition?
(A) 9
(B) 7
(C) 11
(D) 14
391. The Supreme Court appointed whom as
the first ombudsman under the new BCCI.
(A) Justice D.K. Jain
(B) Justice Markandey Katju
(C) Justice Henry Herbert
(D) Justice Henry Newton
392. Which is become the first country in the
UK to criminalize the smacking of chil-
dren?
(A) England
(B) Scotland
(C) North Ireland
(D) Wales
393. What is the maximum amount that an
account holder of Punjab and Maharash-
tra Co-operative Bank Limited (PMC) can
withdraw after prohibition on business
transaction from RBI?
(A) 10000
(B) 5000
(C) 3000
(D) 1000
383. C 384. B 385. D 386. C 387. C 388. A 389. A 390. A 391. A 392. B 393. D
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394. Which Indian company would provide
digital solution for French Open?
(A) Wipro
(B) Infosys
(C) Reliance
(D) TCS
395. Which of the following launched the
Aerospace and Defence Industry Group?
(A) Indo Greek Business Council
(B) China India Business Council
(C) UK India Business Council
(D) UK ASEAN Business Council
396. h Interregional Ministerial Meeting of
Regional Comprehensive Economic Part-
nership (RCEP) 2019 was held in
(A) Bangkok, Thailand
(B) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
(C) Tokyo, Japan
(D) Beijing, China
397. Which of the following city has set a
new Guinness World Record for the num-
ber of national flags raised in a city for 24
hours?
(A) Cairo
(B) Tehran
(C) Beirut
(D) Dubai
398. Who has been conferred the first Atal Be-
hari Vajpayee LTA by the Tripura Govern-
ment?
(A) Khagesh Dev Burman
(B) Chandrakanta Murasingh
(C) Gokulanada Gitiswami
(D) Thanga Darlong
399. Who won the 37th Athens Classic
Marathon?
(A) Felicien Muhitira
(B) John Kipkorir Komen
(C) Costas Gelaouzos
(D) Daniel Muindi
400. The 16th Ministerial Meeting of Asia Co-
operation Dialogue held in
(A) New Delhi
(B) Beijing
(C) Doha
(D) Dubai
401. The researchers of which country has
showed that dark matter is not made up
of tiny black holes?
(A) India
(B) United States
(C) China
(D) Japan
402. The Election Commission has appointed
ex-Bihar chief electoral officer Ajay V
Nayak as Special Observer for which
state?
(A) West Bengal
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Madhya Pradesh
403. Who compiled the recently launched book
“Guru Nanak Bani”?
(A) Bhai Jodh Singh
(B) Manjit Singh
(C) Jagtarjit Singh
(D) Kartar Singh
404. Name the app developed by Indian Insti-
tute of Technology (IIT), Ropar to help the
Visually Impaired to recognise currency
notes? .
(A) Digital Eye
(B) Rishi
(C) Roshni
(D) RupeeCount
395. C 396. D 397. C 398. D 399. B 400. C 401. D 402. A 403. A 404. C 405. A
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405. Name the stadium which will soon be re-
named as Arun Jaitley Stadium?
(A) Feroz Shah Kotla stadium
(B) Wankhede Stadium
(C) Rajiv Gandhi InternationalCricket Sta-
dium
(D) Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium
406. What is the theme of the 2019 World
Immunization Week (WIW)?
(A) Protected Together: Vaccines Work
(B) Beat Diabetes
(C) Immunization saves lives
(D) Protect your world - get vaccinated
407. Who won the National Geoscience
‘Award of Excellence’?
(A) Prof. Syed Wajih Ahmad Naqvi
(B) Mr. Prabhakar Keshaorao Raut
(C) Dr. Janardhana Raju Nandimandalam
(D) Dr. Ashim Kumar Sinha
408. Who unveils country’s first body protec-
tor jointly developed by DRDO for women
personnel in combat?
(A) Railway Protection Force
(B) Border Security Force
(C) Central Reserve Police Force
(D) Central Armed Police Forces
409. Avangard Hypersonic Weapon belongs to
which country?
(A) Russia
(B) China
(C) USA
(D) Israel
410. Which company has banned White Na-
tionalism, White Separatism, recently?
(A) Facebook
(B) Google
(C) Twitter
(D) Instagram
411. The 8th edition Asian Youth Women
Handball Championship 2019 will be held
in
(A) Kolakata
(B) Ahmedabad
(C) Jaipur
(D) Bengaluru
412. Name the Indian swimmer Who was
qualified for 2020 Olympics.
(A) Kushagra Rawat
(B) Anshul Kothari
(C) Rehan Poncha
(D) Sharath Gayakwad
413. Who is the head of the Joint Working
Group (JWG) which is formed by the IRDAI
NHA to curb fraud in Ayushman Bharat
scheme?
(A) Rajiv Kumar
(B) Amitabh Kant
(C) Suresh Mathur
(D) Dinesh Arora
414. Who will direct historical drama ‘King
Leopold’s Ghost’?
(A) Ridley Scott
(B) Ben Affleck
(C) Farhad Safinia
(D) Adam Hochschild
415. Generalized System of Preference (GSP),
sometimes seen in news, is associated to
which of the following countries?
(A) Japan
(B) United States
(C) China
(D) France
416. Lewis Hamilton belongs to which profes-
sion?
(A) Boxer
(B) Athlete
(C) Formula One Driver
(D) Cricketer
406. A 407. A 408. C 409. A 410. A 411. C 412. A 413. D 414. B 415. B 416. C
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417. Name the campaign launched by Gajen-
dra Singh Shekhawat for conservation of
water and water security in New Delhi.
(A) Jal Suraksha Abhiyan (JSA)
(B) Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA)
(C) Jal Bharat Abhiyan (JBA)
(D) Jal Upadhyaya Abhiyan (JUA)
418. Which of the following states has
started census of Otters?
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Madhya Pradesh
419. Which cricketer became the most expen-
sive overseas player in Indian Premier
League?
(A) Chris Gyle
(B) Pat Cummins
(C) Ben Stokes
(D) Aaron Finch
420. The world’s highest marathon “Ladakh
Marathon” was held in
(A) Kashmir
(B) Jammu
(C) Leh
(D) Switzerland
421. India’s first natural Ice Cafe is located in
which of the following states?
(A) Himchal Pradesh
(B) J K
(C) Sikkim
(D) Arunachal Pradesh
422. All India Radio (AIR) organized the Na-
tional Symposium of Poets 2020 on 27
December 2019.The AIR was founded in
which year?
(A) 1957
(B) 1948
(C) 1936
(D) 1985
423. What is the name of the space docking
experiment that ISRO has planned to carry
out in 2020?
(A) Vikram
(B) Spadex
(C) Dock-Tech
(D) Unix
424. The ‘Atal Setu’ bridge named after for-
mer prime minister of India late Atal Bi-
hari Bajpai, which is the third Cable bridge
across river in Panaji, Goa.
(A) Mandovi
(B) Ravi
(C) Godavari
(D) Narmada
425. Which became the first Indian firm to
cross the Rs.9.5 lakh crore market capital-
ization mark?
(A) Tata Group
(B) Reliance Industries Limited
(C) Larsen Toubro
(D) ITC Limited
426. The Thiruvananthapuram-Kasargode
Semi High Speed Rail Corridor (SHSR), a
proposed high-speed rail corridor in In-
dia, is expected to be completed by which
year?
(A) 2022
(B) 2024
(C) 2025
(D) 2020
427. When did the Ganges Water Sharing
Treaty was signed between India and
Bangladesh?
(A) 1997
(B) 1996
(C) 1995
(D) 1998
418. B 419. B 420. C 421. B 422. C 423. B 424. A 425. B 426. B 427. B 428. A
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428. How many banks have been allowed to
exit the PCA framework?
(A) 3
(B) 5
(C) 4
(D) 6
429. 2 day 2019 North Korea - United States
Hanoi Summit held in
(A) Taiwan
(B) Philippines
(C) Thailand
(D) Vietnam
430. What is the theme of the 24th World En-
ergy Congress (WEC-2019)?
(A) Securing Tomorrow’s Energy Today
(B) Energy for Prosperity
(C) Energy Transition Towards 2030
(D) Embracing New Frontiers
431. The Belt and Road Forum (BRF - 2019)
was recently held in which of the follow-
ing Chinese cities?
(A) Tianjin
(B) Shanghai
(C) Beijing
(D) Hangzhou
432. CBIC launches a project for CBIC officers
for over 400 formations of CBIC across In-
dia. The name of the project is;
(A) BUDGET
(B) ROBIN
(C) SPARROW
(D) NIRBA
433. What is the theme of the 27th New Delhi
World Book Fair 2019?
(A) Books opening the mind. Doors open-
ing the future
(B) Vivid Bharat - Diverse India
(C) Readers with Special Needs
(D) Kathasagara: Celebrating Children’s
Literature
434. General Directorate of Residency and
Foreigners Affairs of Sharjah issued the
first Golden card visa to whom among the
following?
(A) Lalu Samuel
(B) Sunil Vaswani
(C) Zulekha Daud
(D) Hitesh Mehta
435. Union Cabinet approved the establish-
ment of a New Greenfield Airport at which
of the following city?
(A) Silchar in Cachar, Assam
(B) Khair in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
(C) Hirasar in Rajkot, Gujarat
(D) Tezpur in Sonitpur, Assam
436. Name the Indian cryptocurrency ex-
change that has terminated its digital
asset trading services and other crypto-
related operations citing regulatory uncer-
tainty and disruption.
(A) Coinbase
(B) Zebpay
(C) Binance
(D) Koinex
437. Which city is the venue of the 29th In-
dian Paint Conference 2019?
(A) Agra
(B) Delhi
(C) Raipur
(D) Udaipur
438. The CM of this state increases family in-
come limit for BPL beneficiary.
(A) Bihar
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Haryana
(D) West Bengal
429. D 430. B 431. C 432. C 433. C 434. A 435. C 436. D 437. A 438. C 439. C
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439. Which state has recently planned to ban
the sale of junk food in schools?
(A) Telangana
(B) Haryana
(C) Gujarat
(D) Uttar Pradesh
440. Name the director of the Monash Alfred
Psychiatry Research Centre, who received
Member of the Order of Australia (OAM)
recently .
(A) Jayshree Ramachandran
(B) Jayashri Kulkarni
(C) Shashi Kant Kochchar
(D) Arun Kumar
441. The central bank of which country has re-
cently banned the use of Indian currency
notes?
(A) Pakistan
(B) Bangladesh
(C) Nepal
(D) Sri Lanka
442. The Centre for Military Airworthiness
and Certification cleared the use of which
product in the military aircraft, recently?
(A) Biogas
(B) LNG
(C) Shale gas
(D) Biofuel
443. Which Football Confederation to have
first-ever female referee team?
(A) Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
(B) Confederation of African Football
(CAF)
(C) Confederation of North, Central Amer-
ican and Caribbean Association Football
(CONCACAF)
(D) Oceania Football Confederation
(OFC)
444. The 5th International Dam Safety Confer-
ence - 2019 was the initiative of which in-
ternational organisation?
(A) IMF
(B) World Bank
(C) AIIB
(D) ADB
445. Who won RedInk Award for ‘Journalist
of the Year 2019’?
(A) Rachna Khaira
(B) Sweta Singh
(C) Shali Chopra
(D) Sagarika Ghose
446. Who has been appointed as new chief
coach of India men’s hockey team?
(A) Herman Kruis
(B) W V Raman
(C) Graham Reid
(D) Harendra Singh
447. Which country has recently honoured
1971 war hero Lt Gen JFR Jacob with a
plaque on Ammunition Hill Wall of Hon-
our?
(A) Russia
(B) Israel
(C) Bangladesh
(D) Nepal
448. By what name MiG-27 was known to In-
dian Air Force?
(A) Sherkhan
(B) Bahadur
(C) Flogger
(D) Shershah
449. Which country has supplied Guided Bomb
Spice-2000 to the Indian Air Force (IAF)?
(A) United States
(B) China
(C) Russia
(D) Israel
440. B 441. C 442. D 443. A 444. B 445. A 446. C 447. B 448. B 449. D 450. C
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450. When did the World Book Day is cele-
brated?
(A) 21 April
(B) 22 April
(C) 23 April
(D) 24 April
451. In which exchange we can exchange com-
modities?
(A) NSE
(B) BSE
(C) NYSE
(D) NMCE
452. Name the Indian CM who unveiled the
Yuvashree Arpan Scheme for the youths of
the state.
(A) Arvind Kejriwal
(B) Mamata Banerjee
(C) Yogi Adityanath
(D) Devendra Fadnavis
453. Which state government plans for cloud
seeding project?
(A) Punjab
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Karnataka
(D) Gujarat
454. India and this country signed MoU for
the development and industrial use of
lithium?
(A) Mexico
(B) Chile
(C) Peru
(D) Bolivia
455. This airport wants Citizens to Donate
Plastic Waste, Will Be Used to Build
Roads.
(A) Cochin
(B) Mumbai
(C) Bengaluru
(D) New Delhi
456. This country welcomes France’s decision
to sanction Masood Azhar.
(A) Israel
(B) Denmark
(C) India
(D) Russia
457. The Government of India (GoI) has
drafted five-year action plan to address
drug abuse in the country for which of the
following periods?
(A) 2019 to 2024
(B) 2017 to 2022
(C) 2018 to 2023
(D) 2016 to 2021
458. Which UT/state government has decided
to impose a ban on single-use plastic prod-
ucts from 1st March 2019?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Puducherry
(C) Delhi
(D) Karnataka
459. Which country recently abolished rules
requiring restaurants to provide separate
entrances for women?
(A) UAE
(B) Qatar
(C) Syria
(D) Saudi Arabia
460. Where did the 11th India-Iran Joint Con-
sular Committee Meeting held?
(A) Pune
(B) Ahmedabad
(C) New Delhi
(D) Kolkata
461. Which city is the venue of the World Gov-
ernment Summit (WGS-2019)?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Dubai
(C) Paris
(D) London
451. D 452. B 453. C 454. D 455. C 456. C 457. C 458. B 459. D 460. C 461. B
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462. Indian Navy is to set up aircraft museum
in which city?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Kolkata
(C) Panaji
(D) Kochi
463. Name the world’s rarest giant softshell
turtle that passed away in Suzhou Zoo,
China.
(A) Yangtze
(B) Iberian
(C) Coahuilan
(D) Alpaca
464. Sharda corridor plan, which is in news re-
cently, is related to which of the following
countries?
(A) Nepal
(B) Pakistan
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) Myanmar
465. The 22nd National Conference on e-
Governance will be held in
(A) Shillong, Meghalaya
(B) Guwahati, Assam
(C) Kolkata, West Bengal
(D) Mumbai, Maharashtra
466. For which country, US is not to sell F-35
fighter jets?
(A) Russia
(B) Turkey
(C) Israel
(D) Iran
467. Which company has launched India’s first
PolicyHack for Teachers?
(A) Infosys
(B) Dell
(C) Reliance
(D) Wipro
468. Who has been concurrently accredited as
the next Ambassador of India to the Union
of Comoros?
(A) Arvind Gupta
(B) Abhay Kumar
(C) Sangeeta Bahadur
(D) Naveen Srivastava
469. International Literacy Day is observed
every year on
(A) 5th September
(B) 6th September
(C) 7th September
(D) 8th September
470. Center has given an extension of 6
months to complete the ongoing exercise
for updating the NRC in
(A) Assam
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Uttarkhand
(D) Bihar
471. Which of the following states have
signed agreement for Renukaji multipur-
pose dam project?
(A) Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Hi-
machal Pradesh
(B) Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand
(C) Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh
(D) All of the above
472. Recently, N.K. Singh launched the book
“Indian Fiscal Federalism”. Who is the au-
thor of the book?
(A) Viral Acharya
(B) Yaga Venugopal Reddy
(C) Bimal Jalan
(D) Arvind Subramanian
473. Shri Kumar Tuhin was appointed as the
next Ambassador of India to
(A) Bosnia and Herzegovina
(B) Croatia
(C) Kosovo
(D) Belarus
463. A 464. B 465. A 466. B 467. B 468. B 469. D 470. A 471. D 472. B 473. A
474. A
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474. Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the
centenary celebrations of the world’s old-
est yoga institute in that has marked
100 years of its establishment.
(A) Mumbai
(B) Patna
(C) Andheri
(D) Chadigarh
475. Who is the Chief Operating Officer(COO)
of TCS?
(A) Rajesh Gopinathan
(B) Natarajan Chandrasekaran
(C) G Gopalkrishnan
(D) NG Subramaniam
476. The government has amalgamated how
many Regional Rural Banks into a single
RRB?
(A) 6
(B) 5
(C) 4
(D) 3
477. Which railway station has received Gold
Rating by the Indian Green Building Coun-
cil (IGBC)?
(A) Jaipur
(B) Delhi
(C) Gwalior
(D) Vijayawada
478. Which West Indies cricketer has recently
been banned for tampering the ball?
(A) Nicholas Pooran
(B) Carlos Brathwaite
(C) Dwayne Smith
(D) Lendl Simmons
479. Which state government has banned
sex reassignment surgeries on intersex in-
fants?
(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Karnataka
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Andhra Pradesh
480. India’s first-ever sky cycling park to be
opened in
(A) Manali
(B) Mussoorie
(C) Nainital
(D) Shimla
481. Who has successfully test-fired 500 kg
class guided bomb at Pokhran in Ra-
jasthan?
(A) DRDO
(B) Indian Navy
(C) BARC
(D) Ministry of Defence
482. India and Japan’s ISE Foods signed MoU
to improve
(A) Subsistence farms
(B) Pastoral farms
(C) Arable farms
(D) Poultry farms
483. h of August is celebrated as
(A) Biofuel Day
(B) Biogas Day
(C) Organ Donation Day
(D) Water Day
484. Which Indian city tops in the Traffic
Index-2018?
(A) Chennai
(B) Kolkata
(C) New Delhi
(D) Mumbai
485. Which Indian Sand Artist won Italian
Golden Sand Art Award 2019?
(A) Seva Ram
(B) Nandlal Bose
(C) Sudarsan Pattnaik
(D) Andrew Clemens
475. D 476. D 477. D 478. A 479. A 480. A 481. A 482. D 483. C 484. D 485. C
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486. Recently, with which country India signs
MoU on Defence Co-Operation?
(A) Japan
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) Bangladesh
(D) Myanmar
487. Deen Dayal Veterinary University pro-
posed to set up the first goat fertility lab
in the state of under Rastriya Krashi
Vikas Yojna at the cost of Rs 22 crore.
(A) Odisha
(B) Jharkhand
(C) Assam
(D) Uttar Pradesh
488. How many member squad did India uti-
lized at Asian Junior Badminton Champi-
onship?
(A) 11
(B) 18
(C) 21
(D) 23
489. How many lunar bound orbit manoeuvre
was carried out by Chandrayaan-2 space-
craft on it way to Moon’s south pole?
(A) 13
(B) 9
(C) 7
(D) 5
490. Who received “Champions of Empathy
Award” for spreading awareness about
hepatitis?
(A) Doordarshan
(B) NDTV
(C) Zee Entertainment Enterprises
(D) StarPlus
491. Who is the author of the book on Indian
Council of World Affairs (ICWA) named
“Shakti Ki Manyata-Samyukta Rashtra
Suraksha Parishad” released by Venkaiah
Naidu recently?
(A) T.C.A. Raghavan
(B) Dilip Sinha
(C) Nivedita Ray
(D) Bhaswati Mukherjee
492. Who became the 4th wrestler to win the
World Wrestling Championships 2019 and
secured his Olympics quota?
(A) Rahul Aware
(B) Jitender
(C) Mausam Khatri
(D) Deepak Punia
493. Jimmy Carter, who is in news recently,
is from which country?
(A) Russia
(B) France
(C) Germany
(D) United States
494. Ola has signed a MoU with which of
the state government to implement Smart
Traffic Solutions?
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Karnataka
(C) Telangana
(D) Tamil Nadu
495. The CCEA recently approved the 2800
Megawatt Dibang Multipurpose Project in
which state?
(A) Assam
(B) Meghalaya
(C) Arunachal Pradesh
(D) West Bengal
496. Who acquired secondhand Goods Mar-
ketplace Zefo?
(A) OLX
(B) Quickr
(C) LinkedIn
(D) Sulekha
487. D 488. D 489. D 490. A 491. B 492. D 493. D 494. C 495. C 496. B 497. B
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497. Which company is the 4th most value-
able Indian Private Internet company in In-
dia?
(A) Flipkart
(B) Byju’s
(C) Ola
(D) Paytm
498. Which dancer was awarded the Sangeet
Natak Akademi Awards 2017 under
the category ‘Kathak’, on 6thFebruary
2019?
(A) Deepika Reddy
(B) L.N. Oinam Ongbi Dhoni Devi
(C) Rama Vaidyanathan
(D) Shobha Koser
499. Who among the following was appointed
as the Secretary, Ministry of Minority Af-
fairs?
(A) Tarun Shridhar
(B) Navin Verma
(C) Sanjay Kothari
(D) Sailesh
500. Infant Protection Day is being celebrated
all over the world on which date?
(A) November 5
(B) November 7
(C) November 10
(D) November 11
501. The Preamble of our constitution has
been borrowed from the constitution of
which country?
(A) USA
(B) UK
(C) Japan
(D) Canada
502. ‘Momentum for Change’ is an initiative
of
(A) UN Climate Change secretariat
(B) UNEP
(C) World Bank
(D) UNICEF
503. “International Day for Tolerance” is cel-
ebrated on which date?
(A) 13th November
(B) 14th November
(C) 15th November
(D) 16th November
504. Where did the First BRICS Sherpa Meet-
ing held?
(A) Moscow
(B) Beijing
(C) New Delhi
(D) Curitiba
505. Which of the following is decided to ac-
quire a global cyber security company Au-
jas Networks?
(A) National Stock Exchange of India
(B) ICICI Bank
(C) Angel Broking
(D) Multi Commodity Exchange
506. NITI Aayog recently launched the fourth
edition of Women Transforming India
Awards in
(A) Lucknow
(B) Kolkata
(C) Mumbai
(D) Delhi
507. Centre launched Apollo Proton Cancer
Centre (APCC) in which of the following
city?
(A) Chennai
(B) Hyderabad
(C) Bengaluru
(D) Mumbai
508. Which of the following scheme is planned
by the central government to double farm-
ers income by the year 2022?
498. D 499. D 500. B 501. A 502. A 503. D 504. D 505. A 506. D 507. A 508. B
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(A) Antyodaya Anna Yojana
(B) Krishi Vigyan Kendras
(C) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
(D) National Food Security Mission
509. Which organization has conducted
genome Sequencing of Indians from dif-
ferent populations?
(A) CSIR
(B) ASI
(C) AIMS
(D) WHO
510. Recently, Who won Mr South Asia title?
(A) Sunith Jadhav
(B) Ravinder Malik
(C) Suresh Kumar
(D) Vikram Sinha
511. Which Ministry signed a MoU with the
Indian School of Business (ISB) for a strate-
gic partnership?
(A) Ministry of Health
(B) Ministry of HRD
(C) Ministry of Railways
(D) Ministry of Commerce
512. US approved to sell 24 ‘Romeo’ Sea-
hawk helicopters to India for
(A) 2.8 Billion
(B) 3.1 Billion
(C) 1.2 Billion
(D) 2.6 billion
513. Abhinav Lohan belongs to which game?
(A) Cricket
(B) Golf
(C) Badminton
(D) Boxing
514. ‘SHIKHAR SE PUKAR’ is a documentary
film related to which topic?
(A) Girl Education
(B) Water Conservation
(C) Women Empowerment
(D) None of the above
515. ISRO Unveils Human Space Flight Centre
in
(A) Hyderabad
(B) Mumbai
(C) Bengaluru
(D) Chennai
516. Which social network app launched a
fact-checking feature to combat fake news
to the Lok Sabha elections?
(A) WhatsApp
(B) Facebook
(C) Tik Tok
(D) Viber
517. Who won the Best Child Actor Award at
19th New York Indian Film Festival?
(A) Aaryamann
(B) Namit Shah
(C) Khushi Dubey
(D) Sunny Pawar
518. Which chief minister has recently biked
122 km to promote adventure tourism in
his state?
(A) Jaganmohan Reddy
(B) Arvind Kejriwal
(C) Pema Khandu
(D) Nitish Kumar
519. Digital Economy Report 2019 was re-
leased by;
(A) World Intellectual Property Organiza-
tion
(B) Food and Agriculture Organization
(C) World Trade Organization
(D) United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development
509. A 510. B 511. C 512. D 513. B 514. B 515. C 516. A 517. D 518. C 519. D
520. C
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520. Who has collaborated with MobiKwik to
launch a smart digital insurance product to
enhance financial inclusion?
(A) Tata AIA
(B) Max Life Insurance
(C) Aegon Life Insurance Company
(D) ICICI Prudential
521. Who has been appointed head of Tiktok
in India?
(A) Rahul Sharma
(B) Nikhil Gandhi
(C) T.Prakashan
(D) Ved Prakash
522. Where was the Debrief of Indian Navy
coastal defence exercise “Sea Vigil”,
chaired by Vice Admiral MS Pawar held?
(A) Chennai
(B) Kolkata
(C) Mumbai
(D) New Delhi
523. Which state government launches E-Step,
a programme for student entrepreneurs?
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Andra Pradesh
(C) Kerala
(D) Karnataka
524. Who is the chief minister of Nagaland?
(A) Conrad Sangma
(B) Neiphiu Rio
(C) Sarbananda Biswal
(D) Biren Singh
525. Which project has been chosen for the
award of certificate of merit under the
Smart City-Empowering India Awards of
the Union government?
(A) Sagarmala Project
(B) Hubballi project
(C) Setu Bharatam Project.
(D) Bharatmala Project
526. Which of the following franchise teams
has won the 5th season of Premier Bad-
minton League (PBL) title?
(A) Hyderabad Hunters
(B) Chennai Smashers
(C) Bengaluru Raptors
(D) Mumbai Rockets
527. The Indian Air Force (IAF) ordered 40
Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas fighter
from which of the company?
(A) CADES Digitech
(B) Kerns Aero Products
(C) Boeing India Private Limited
(D) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
528. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari laid the
foundation stone for 6 Namami Ganga
projects in Agra and in Uttar Pradesh.
(A) Varanasi
(B) Kanpur
(C) Prayagraj
(D) Mathura
529. World Veterinary Day 2019 is observed
on 28th Apri. It’s theme is;
(A) Value of Vaccination
(B) The role of the veterinary profession
in sustainable development to improve
livelihoods.
(C) Antimicrobial Resistance
(D) Give food security and safety
530. Who is the recipient of the 2018 Vyas
Samman?
(A) Leeladhar Jagudi
(B) Surendra Verma
(C) Mamta Kalia
(D) Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari
531. Name the telescope, which is used by
astronomers to capture the first image of
Black Hole?
(A) Event Horizon Telescope
521. B 522. D 523. D 524. B 525. B 526. C 527. D 528. D 529. A 530. A 531. A
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(B) Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
(C) Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope
(D) Lunar-based ultraviolet telescope
532. The two-day WTO ministerial meeting
was held in
(A) New Delhi
(B) Kolkata
(C) Mumbai
(D) Chennai
533. Which city is to organize “Transform-
ing Education Conference for Human-
ity2019”?
(A) Vishakhapatnam
(B) Mumbai
(C) Delhi
(D) Chennai
534. Which among the following has been re-
instated to the Asian Games 2022 edi-
tion?
(A) Poker
(B) Monopoly
(C) Billiards
(D) Chess
535. Where did External Affairs Minister Sub-
rahmanyam Jaishankar has unveiled a
statue of Mahatma Gandhi recently?
(A) Budapest, Hungary
(B) Moscow, Russia
(C) Pecs, Hungary
(D) St Petersburg, Russia
536. FDA approved first Dengue vaccine for
the prevention of dengue disease. It’s
named as;
(A) TetraVax-DV
(B) DENVax
(C) CYD-TDV
(D) Dengvaxia
537. Who won the Ghulam Ahmed Memorial
Cup-2019?
(A) News O’ Star
(B) Asteria
(C) Phenomenal Cruise
(D) Prince Valiant
538. Indian politician Babulal Gaur was
passed away on August 21, 2019. He
was a Former Chief Minister of which
state?
(A) Myanmar
(B) Haryana
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Madhya Pradesh
539. Which city topped the “most digitised
cities” as per Razorpay Software Pvt
Ltd’s digital transactions quarterly(April-
June 2019 ) report, ‘The Era of Rising Fin-
tech’?
(A) Bengaluru
(B) Chennai
(C) Mumbai
(D) Pune
540. The 26th naval drill exercise “SIMBEX-
19” has started between India and which
of the following countries?
(A) Sweden
(B) Singapore
(C) South Africa
(D) Saudi Arabia”
541. The third round of Foreign Office Consul-
tations between India and was held
in New Delhi.
(A) Botswana
(B) Tanzania
(C) Kenya
(D) Cameroon
533. A 534. D 535. B 536. D 537. C 538. D 539. A 540. B 541. A 542. C 543. B
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542. Which state CM introduced KALIA Chha-
tra Bruti for the children of farmers?
(A) Andra Pradesh
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Odisha
(D) Tamil Nadu
543. Which Indian judge has been appointed
as Judge of Supreme Court of Fiji?
(A) Sharad Arvind Bobde
(B) Madan B Lokur
(C) N V Ramana
(D) Abhay Manohar Sapre
544. The first Indian film which won the ‘Out-
standing Artistic Achievement’ award at
the Shanghai International Film Festival.
(A) Veyil Marangal
(B) Thugs of Hindostan
(C) Sanju
(D) Badla
545. What is the theme of 2019 World Con-
sumer Rights Day (WCRD)?
(A) Building a digital world consumers
can trust
(B) Consumer Justice Now!
(C) Trusted Smart Products
(D) Making Digital Marketplaces Fairer
546. Who represented India at the NAM Min-
isterial Meeting in Caracas?
(A) Ranjan Mathai
(B) Syed Akbaruddin
(C) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
(D) Vijay Keshav Gokhale
547. The Union Cabinet Approves MoU be-
tween India and Saudi Arabia in the field
of;
(A) Cooperation on youth matters
(B) Road widening
(C) Housing
(D) Startup Cooperation
548. Who has become the first Indian to grab
Australian Ladies PGA?
(A) Ankita Tiwana
(B) Sharmila Nicollet
(C) Aditi Ashok
(D) Vani Kapoor
549. Rajesh Yaduvanshi is appointed as Exec-
utive Director of this bank.
(A) Bank of Baroda
(B) Axis Bank
(C) Punjab National Bank
(D) IDBI Bank
550. West bengal Governor releases Bengali
version of
(A) The God of Small Think
(B) Great Minds on India
(C) The White tiger
(D) Train to Pakistan
551. Which of the following is the font de-
signed using the principles of cognitive psy-
chology?
(A) Arial
(B) Bookman Old
(C) Bahanschrift condensed
(D) Sans Forgetica
552. India and Finland had signed agreement
on cooperation with which of the following
field?
(A) In the field of agriculture
(B) In the field of Climate and Environ-
ment
(C) In the field of peaceful uses of outer
space
(D) In the field of Science and Technology
553. How much did RBI through the purchase
of government securities?
(A) 12, 000 cr
(B) 10, 000 cr
(C) 15, 000 cr
(D) 24, 000 cr
544. A 545. C 546. B 547. C 548. D 549. C 550. B 551. D 552. C 553. B 554. C
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554. How many states and UTs are included
in “Swachh-Nirmal Tat Abhiyaan”?
(A) 8
(B) 9
(C) 10
(D) 11
555. How many beaches are selected to com-
pete for Blue Flag certification?
(A) 8
(B) 12
(C) 18
(D) 22
556. With which of the following company
SBI Life Insurance signs corporate agency
agreement to provide SBI Life’s range of
products to its customers?
(A) Bajaj Finserv
(B) Repco Home Finance
(C) LIC Housing Finance
(D) PNB Housing Finance Limited
557. Who launch Plastic Waste Management
Campaign for Swachhta Hi Sewa 2019?
(A) Departmentfor Promotion of Industry
Internal Trade
(B) NITI Aayog
(C) Ministry of Home Affairs
(D) Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change
558. Name the renowed author who has been
conferred with the 54th Jnanpith Award.
(A) Rohinton Mistry
(B) Amitav Ghosh
(C) Arundhati Roy
(D) Vikram Seth
559. Name the American scientist, the inven-
tor of computer password passed away at
93 in Massachusetts, U.S.
(A) Bob Kahn
(B) Fernando Corbato
(C) Donald Knuth
(D) Fred Brooks
560. Who has been appointed as the next Am-
bassador of India to the Kingdom of Mo-
rocco?
(A) Gopalkrishna Gandhi
(B) Shambhu S Kumaran
(C) Karma Topden
(D) Apa Pant s
561. Which of the following international or-
ganizations has recently adopted resolu-
tions on single-use plastics and sustain-
able nitrogen management?
(A) WHO
(B) UNEA
(C) UNICEF
(D) UNCTAD
562. The 8th session of the Governing Body
of International Treaty of Plant Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITP-
GRFA) is being organized in which coun-
try?
(A) Italy
(B) UAE
(C) Iran
(D) USA
563. Who has been appointed as the first
Lokayukta of Andhra Pradesh?
(A) Justice P Lakshmana Reddy
(B) Nagendra Singh
(C) Virendra Singh
(D) Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose
564. Who became the first woman to reach
the summit of Mount Everest, and the first
woman to ascend all Seven Summits by
climbing the highest peak on every conti-
nent?
(A) Junko Tabei
(B) Bachendri Pal
(C) Santosh yadav
(D) Premlata Agarwal
555. B 556. B 557. A 558. B 559. B 560. B 561. B 562. A 563. A 564. A 565. A
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565. Ministry of home affairs approves to
be India’s 1st Lightest, Indigenous Bullet
Proof Jacket.
(A) Bhabha Kavach
(B) Safety Jacket
(C) Revet Realer
(D) Bulletproof Vest
566. Which company revealed the World’s
fastest 1TB microSD card at Mobile World
Congress (MWC) 2019?
(A) Kingston Technology
(B) SanDisk
(C) Lexar
(D) Silicon Power
567. Which Indian organisation has decided to
set up a regulatory sandbox for Fintech
startups?
(A) RBI
(B) SEBI
(C) Ministry of Finance
(D) IRDA
568. Who has announced a strategic partner-
ship with German sports goods supplier
“uhlsport”?
(A) Kerala Blasters FC
(B) Mumbai City FC
(C) Chennai City FC
(D) Indian Arrows
569. Which of the following allowed tokeniza-
tion of debit, credit and prepaid card trans-
actions to enhance the safety of digital
payments ecosystem in India?
(A) Ministry of Finance
(B) SEBI
(C) RBI
(D) NPCI
570. South Korea’s Ki Sung-yueng announced
his retirement from which sport on 31st
January 2019?
(A) Basketball
(B) Football
(C) Hockey
(D) Cricket
571. How many ‘Must See Monuments’ have
been identified by Archaeological Survey
of India?
(A) 128
(B) 138
(C) 148
(D) 168
572. Which company has launched first elec-
tric SUV in India?
(A) Hyundai
(B) BMW
(C) Nissan
(D) Volkswagen
573. Who led the Indian delegation at the
16th Ministerial Meeting of Asia Cooper-
ation Dialogue (ACD-2019)?
(A) Rajnath Singh
(B) Sushma Swaraj
(C) V K Singh
(D) Piyush Goyal
574. Which former ISRO scientist is the recip-
ient of the 2019 Padma Bhushan?
(A) K. Radhakrishnan
(B) Nambi Narayanan
(C) Tapan Misra
(D) Nandini Harinath
575. As per which section of the RTI Act, the
Government of India (GoI) cannot refuse
information if disclosure in public inter-
est overshadows certain ‘protected inter-
ests’?
(A) Section 7(2)
(B) Section 6(2)
(C) Section 8(2)
(D) Section 9(2)
566. B 567. A 568. C 569. C 570. B 571. B 572. A 573. C 574. B 575. C 576. C
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576. Who among the following has topped the
Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list and emerged as
the highest-paid celebrity?
(A) Ed Sheeran
(B) Lionel Messi
(C) Taylor Swift
(D) Kylie Jenner
577. Who among the following was named as
the defence minister of Modi’s Cabinet?
(A) Rajnath Singh
(B) Ramvilas Paswan
(C) Dr. Harsh Vardhan
(D) Piyush Goyal
578. Who was conferred with ‘Uttam Jeevan
Raksha Padak’ during the 2 day Subordi-
nate Officers Conclave 2019?
(A) Navik Vinod
(B) V. S. R. Murthy
(C) K. R. Nautiyal
(D) Krishnaswamy Natarajan
579. Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill
2019 provides reservation for Econom-
ically Weaker Sections (EWS) among the
general category.
(A) 20%
(B) 14%
(C) 12%
(D) 10%
580. Wholesale price index-based inflation
was 0.16% in October and in November
it has rose to which figure?
(A) 0.32%
(B) 0.49%
(C) 0.58%
(D) 0.64%
581. With which Country India has planned to
exchange notes regarding the Lunar Mis-
sion?
(A) Israel
(B) US
(C) Russia
(D) China
582. How many capital cities does South
Africa have?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
583. Which bank raised Rs.660 crore by sell-
ing shares to employees under Employee
Share Purchase Scheme (ESPS)?
(A) Syndicate Bank
(B) Punjab National Bank
(C) Union Bank of India
(D) Bank of India
584. The first-ever International Day of Mul-
tilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace has
recently observed on which date?
(A) April 30
(B) April 28
(C) April 26
(D) April 24
585. Which of the following will be the official
mascot for 39th National Games 2022?
(A) Sumatran serow
(B) Gayal
(C) Clouded Leopard
(D) Ox
586. Which of the following states has re-
cently included the Department of Agricul-
ture under Mo Sarkar?
(A) Odisha
(B) Andhra Pradesh
(C) Gujarat
(D) Jharkhand
577. A 578. A 579. D 580. C 581. A 582. C 583. D 584. D 585. C 586. A 587. A