1. Who became the most expensive overseas player ever bought at an Indian Premier League (IPL)
auction on February 20, 2017?
1) Tymal Mills
2) Chris Woakes
3) Ben Stokes
4) Eoin Morgan
5) Kagiso Rabada
2. Who took charge as the Chairman of Tata Sons on February 21, 2017?
1) Venu Srinivasan
2) N. Chandrasekaran
3) S. Ramadorai
4) T.V. Narendran
5) Noel Naval Tata
3. Who is the author of the newly launched book "Fearless in Opposition: Power & Accountability"?
1) Jairam Ramesh
2) Kamal Nath
3) P. Chidambaram
4) Shashi Tharoor
5) Sitaram Yechury
4. Which country hosted the Asian Winter Games in February 2017?
1) South Korea
2) China
3) Kazakhstan
4) Japan
5) Vietnam
5. Bank of Baroda has signed a sponsorship contract with which of the following badminton players?
1) P.V. Sindhu
2) Kidambi Srikanth
3) Parupalli Kashyap
4) Both (1) and (2)
5) All (1), (2) and (3)
6. Which of the following offers an instant, 24x7, interbank electronic fund transfer service through mobile phones?
1) NEFT
2) RTGS
3) IMPS
4) IFSC
5) IMFC
7. In Payments Banks, for the first five years the stake of the promoter should be at least?
1) 40%
2) 30%
3) 25%
4) 50%
5) 60%
8. Which country has recently testfired a shore based anti-ship missile named "Zarb"?
1) Iran
2) Israel
3) China
4) Pakistan
5) Russia
9. Kersti Kalijulaid became the first female President of which of the following countries on October 10, 2016?
1) Latvia
2) Lithuania
3) Estonia
4) Slovenia
5) Bulgaria
10. Abdelilah Benkirane was reappointed as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in October 2016?
1) Morocco
2) Egypt
3) Sudan
4) Tunisia
5) Libya
11. Which of the following books is written by Stuart Blackburn?
1) Into the Hidden Valley
2) Allegiance
3) A Highland Ruby
4) Daggers of Treason
5) A Knife in Darkness
12. Where is the headquarters of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) located?
1) London
2) Amsterdam
3) Berlin
4) Bonn
5) Frankfurt
13. Monsanto is a multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company based in:
1) Germany
2) France
3) USA
4) Japan
5) Switzerland
14. Who is the only Indian to win two gold medals at the Paralympics?
1) Deepa Malik
2) Mariyappan Thangavelu
3) Devendra Jhajharia
4) Rajinder Singh
5) Sundar Singh Gurjar
15. What is the name of the largest cash transfer program in the world?
1) SARAL
2) PAHAL
3) SAHAJ
4) SABLA
5) None of these
16. Who headed the committee that recommended the setting up of NABARD?
1) A. Ghosh
2) Abid Hussain
3) D. R. Mehta
4) B. Sivaraman
5) M. Narasimham
17. The illegal copying of information from the magnetic strips found on credit and debit cards is
called as:
1) Card Encryption
2) Card Fraud
3) Card Skimming
4) Card Spoofing
5) None of these
18. A bond with no maturity date is called as:
1) Convertible Bond
2) Callable Bond
3) Redeemable Bond
4) Perpetual Bond
5) Speculative Bond
19. What is the maximum limit for deposits in the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Account in an year?
1) Rs.1, 50,000
2) Rs.1, 00,000
3) Rs.2, 00,000
4) Rs.2, 50,000
5) No limit
20. Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located in which of the following Indian States?
1) Madhya Pradesh
2) Chhattisgarh
3) Bihar
4) Jharkhand
5) Odisha
21. Which of the following banks are not permitted to issue credit cards to their customers?
1) Regional Rural Banks
2) Private Sector Banks
3) Small Finance Banks
4) Payments Banks
5) None of these
22. "SCORES" is a web based complaints redress system of:
1) RBI
2) NABARD
3) SEBI
4) PFRDA
5) None of these
23. Indradhanush is a seven pronged plan to revamp functioning of?
1) Public Sector Banks
2) Private Sector Banks
3) Regional Rural Banks
4) Cooperative Banks
5) None of these
24. Nokrek National Park is located in which of the following Indian States?
1) Assam
2) Nagaland
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Meghalaya
5) Arunachal Pradesh
25. The first Regional Rural Bank in India Prathama Bank was established on October 2, 1975. It was
sponsored by which of the following banks?
1) State Bank of India
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Union Bank of India
4) United Bank of India
5) Syndicate Bank
26. Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of which of the following public sector banks?
1) Punjab National Bank
2) Bank of India
3) Bank of Baroda
4) Indian Overseas Bank
5) Oriental Bank of Commerce
27. Who is the present Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and
Sanitation?
1) Narendra Singh Tomar
2) Radha Mohan Singh
3) Thawar Chand Gehlot
4) Anant Kumar
5) Chaudhary Birender Singh
28. Indian badminton player Sourabh Verma won which of the following tournaments in October 2016?
1) Chinese Taipei Open
2) Dutch Open
3) Russian Open
4) Japan Open
5) Malaysian Open
29. Which country won the 1st BRI CS U-17 Football Tournament held in Goa in October 2016?
1) South Africa
2) India
3) Brazil
4) Russia
5) China
30. Bhumibol Adulyadej passed away on October 13, 2016. He was the 9th monarch of which of the
following countries?
1) Bhutan
2) Morocco
3) Vietnam
4) Thailand
5) Cambodia
31. What is the premium payable per annum per member under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)?
1) Rs.100
2) Rs. 330
3) Rs. 300
3) Rs. 12
5) Rs. 76
32. DAX is a blue chip stock market index of which of the following countries?
1) France
2) Germany
3) UK
4) Spain
5) Russia
33. Which of the following cities is located on the banks of the river Han?
1) Hong Kong
2) Tokyo
3) Seoul
4) Beijing
5) Hangzhou
34. Who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on autophagy?
1) David Thouless
2) Bernard Feringa
3) J. Fraser Stoddart
4) Yoshinori Ohsumi
5) Both (1) and (2)
35. The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL), the corporate entity of Vizag Steel, has appointed which
of the following players as its brand ambassador?
1) Saina Nehwal
2) Sakshi Malik
3) Dipa Karmakar
4) Deepika Kumari
5) P.V. Sindhu
36. Who was appointed as India's Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva in October 2016?
1) Renu Pall
2) Anup Wadhwan
3) Amandeep Singh Gill
4) Ajay Kumar Bhalla
5) None of these
37. Who received the Harvard University's Humanitarian Award in September 2016?
1) Ban Ki-moon
2) Elie Wiesel
3) Dalai Lama
4) Aung San Suu Kyi
5) Julian Assange
38. Arnold Palmer of USA died on September 25, 2016. He excelled in which of the following sports?
1) Baseball
2) Golf
3) Basketball
4) Tennis
5) Ice Hockey
39. Dario Fo, the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, passed away on October 13, 2016. He belonged to:
1) Netherlands
2) Poland
3) Italy
4) Germany
5) Spain
40. What is India's rank among the 118 developing countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2016?
1) 73
2) 75
3) 87
4) 97
5) 88
ANSWERS:
1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 4 6) 3 7) 1 8) 4 9) 3 10) 1
11) 1 12) 2 13) 3 14) 3 15) 2 16) 4 17) 3 18) 4 19) 1 20) 2
21) 4 22) 3 23) 1 24) 4 25) 5 26) 3 27) 1 28) 1 29) 3 30) 4
31) 4 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 3 37) 4 38) 2 39) 3 40) 4
auction on February 20, 2017?
1) Tymal Mills
2) Chris Woakes
3) Ben Stokes
4) Eoin Morgan
5) Kagiso Rabada
2. Who took charge as the Chairman of Tata Sons on February 21, 2017?
1) Venu Srinivasan
2) N. Chandrasekaran
3) S. Ramadorai
4) T.V. Narendran
5) Noel Naval Tata
3. Who is the author of the newly launched book "Fearless in Opposition: Power & Accountability"?
1) Jairam Ramesh
2) Kamal Nath
3) P. Chidambaram
4) Shashi Tharoor
5) Sitaram Yechury
4. Which country hosted the Asian Winter Games in February 2017?
1) South Korea
2) China
3) Kazakhstan
4) Japan
5) Vietnam
5. Bank of Baroda has signed a sponsorship contract with which of the following badminton players?
1) P.V. Sindhu
2) Kidambi Srikanth
3) Parupalli Kashyap
4) Both (1) and (2)
5) All (1), (2) and (3)
6. Which of the following offers an instant, 24x7, interbank electronic fund transfer service through mobile phones?
1) NEFT
2) RTGS
3) IMPS
4) IFSC
5) IMFC
7. In Payments Banks, for the first five years the stake of the promoter should be at least?
1) 40%
2) 30%
3) 25%
4) 50%
5) 60%
8. Which country has recently testfired a shore based anti-ship missile named "Zarb"?
1) Iran
2) Israel
3) China
4) Pakistan
5) Russia
9. Kersti Kalijulaid became the first female President of which of the following countries on October 10, 2016?
1) Latvia
2) Lithuania
3) Estonia
4) Slovenia
5) Bulgaria
10. Abdelilah Benkirane was reappointed as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in October 2016?
1) Morocco
2) Egypt
3) Sudan
4) Tunisia
5) Libya
11. Which of the following books is written by Stuart Blackburn?
1) Into the Hidden Valley
2) Allegiance
3) A Highland Ruby
4) Daggers of Treason
5) A Knife in Darkness
12. Where is the headquarters of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) located?
1) London
2) Amsterdam
3) Berlin
4) Bonn
5) Frankfurt
13. Monsanto is a multinational agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company based in:
1) Germany
2) France
3) USA
4) Japan
5) Switzerland
14. Who is the only Indian to win two gold medals at the Paralympics?
1) Deepa Malik
2) Mariyappan Thangavelu
3) Devendra Jhajharia
4) Rajinder Singh
5) Sundar Singh Gurjar
15. What is the name of the largest cash transfer program in the world?
1) SARAL
2) PAHAL
3) SAHAJ
4) SABLA
5) None of these
16. Who headed the committee that recommended the setting up of NABARD?
1) A. Ghosh
2) Abid Hussain
3) D. R. Mehta
4) B. Sivaraman
5) M. Narasimham
17. The illegal copying of information from the magnetic strips found on credit and debit cards is
called as:
1) Card Encryption
2) Card Fraud
3) Card Skimming
4) Card Spoofing
5) None of these
18. A bond with no maturity date is called as:
1) Convertible Bond
2) Callable Bond
3) Redeemable Bond
4) Perpetual Bond
5) Speculative Bond
19. What is the maximum limit for deposits in the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Account in an year?
1) Rs.1, 50,000
2) Rs.1, 00,000
3) Rs.2, 00,000
4) Rs.2, 50,000
5) No limit
20. Sipat Super Thermal Power Station is located in which of the following Indian States?
1) Madhya Pradesh
2) Chhattisgarh
3) Bihar
4) Jharkhand
5) Odisha
21. Which of the following banks are not permitted to issue credit cards to their customers?
1) Regional Rural Banks
2) Private Sector Banks
3) Small Finance Banks
4) Payments Banks
5) None of these
22. "SCORES" is a web based complaints redress system of:
1) RBI
2) NABARD
3) SEBI
4) PFRDA
5) None of these
23. Indradhanush is a seven pronged plan to revamp functioning of?
1) Public Sector Banks
2) Private Sector Banks
3) Regional Rural Banks
4) Cooperative Banks
5) None of these
24. Nokrek National Park is located in which of the following Indian States?
1) Assam
2) Nagaland
3) Himachal Pradesh
4) Meghalaya
5) Arunachal Pradesh
25. The first Regional Rural Bank in India Prathama Bank was established on October 2, 1975. It was
sponsored by which of the following banks?
1) State Bank of India
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Union Bank of India
4) United Bank of India
5) Syndicate Bank
26. Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of which of the following public sector banks?
1) Punjab National Bank
2) Bank of India
3) Bank of Baroda
4) Indian Overseas Bank
5) Oriental Bank of Commerce
27. Who is the present Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and
Sanitation?
1) Narendra Singh Tomar
2) Radha Mohan Singh
3) Thawar Chand Gehlot
4) Anant Kumar
5) Chaudhary Birender Singh
28. Indian badminton player Sourabh Verma won which of the following tournaments in October 2016?
1) Chinese Taipei Open
2) Dutch Open
3) Russian Open
4) Japan Open
5) Malaysian Open
29. Which country won the 1st BRI CS U-17 Football Tournament held in Goa in October 2016?
1) South Africa
2) India
3) Brazil
4) Russia
5) China
30. Bhumibol Adulyadej passed away on October 13, 2016. He was the 9th monarch of which of the
following countries?
1) Bhutan
2) Morocco
3) Vietnam
4) Thailand
5) Cambodia
31. What is the premium payable per annum per member under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY)?
1) Rs.100
2) Rs. 330
3) Rs. 300
3) Rs. 12
5) Rs. 76
32. DAX is a blue chip stock market index of which of the following countries?
1) France
2) Germany
3) UK
4) Spain
5) Russia
33. Which of the following cities is located on the banks of the river Han?
1) Hong Kong
2) Tokyo
3) Seoul
4) Beijing
5) Hangzhou
34. Who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on autophagy?
1) David Thouless
2) Bernard Feringa
3) J. Fraser Stoddart
4) Yoshinori Ohsumi
5) Both (1) and (2)
35. The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL), the corporate entity of Vizag Steel, has appointed which
of the following players as its brand ambassador?
1) Saina Nehwal
2) Sakshi Malik
3) Dipa Karmakar
4) Deepika Kumari
5) P.V. Sindhu
36. Who was appointed as India's Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva in October 2016?
1) Renu Pall
2) Anup Wadhwan
3) Amandeep Singh Gill
4) Ajay Kumar Bhalla
5) None of these
37. Who received the Harvard University's Humanitarian Award in September 2016?
1) Ban Ki-moon
2) Elie Wiesel
3) Dalai Lama
4) Aung San Suu Kyi
5) Julian Assange
38. Arnold Palmer of USA died on September 25, 2016. He excelled in which of the following sports?
1) Baseball
2) Golf
3) Basketball
4) Tennis
5) Ice Hockey
39. Dario Fo, the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, passed away on October 13, 2016. He belonged to:
1) Netherlands
2) Poland
3) Italy
4) Germany
5) Spain
40. What is India's rank among the 118 developing countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2016?
1) 73
2) 75
3) 87
4) 97
5) 88
ANSWERS:
1) 3 2) 2 3) 3 4) 4 5) 4 6) 3 7) 1 8) 4 9) 3 10) 1
11) 1 12) 2 13) 3 14) 3 15) 2 16) 4 17) 3 18) 4 19) 1 20) 2
21) 4 22) 3 23) 1 24) 4 25) 5 26) 3 27) 1 28) 1 29) 3 30) 4
31) 4 32) 2 33) 3 34) 4 35) 5 36) 3 37) 4 38) 2 39) 3 40) 4
