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India was ranked 67th at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Which is the other country that was also ranked 67th?
1) Bulgaria
2) Venezuela
3) Mexico
4) Lithuania
5) Mongolia
The 14th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas will be held in January 2017 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Bengalore
3) Jaipur
4) Hyderabad
5) Mumbai
The 13th India-European Union Summit was held on March 30, 2016 in?
1) New Delhi
2) Mumbai
3) Brussels
4) London
5) Paris
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Disaster Management Centre will be established in which of the following countries?
1) Nepal
2) Bangladesh
3) Maldives
4) India
5) Sri Lanka
Who was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize for mathematics?
1) Artur Avila
2) Manjul Bhargava
3) Louis Nirenberg
4) John Nash
5) Sir Andrew Wiles
Which football team won the 2016 African Nations Championship held in Rwanda?
1) Democratic Republic of Congo
2) Mali
3) Ivory Coast
4) Niger
5) Nigeria
Which country will host the 2018 African Nations Championship football tournament?
1) Ivory Coast
2) Sudan
3) Tunisia
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
The 12th South Asian Games in February 2016 were co-hosted by?
1) Kolkata and Guwahati
2) Guwahati and Shillong
3) Agartala and Shillong
4) Agartala and Itanagar
5) Kolkata and Agartala
The 13th edition of the South Asian Games will be held in 2018 in which of the following countries?
1) Bhutan
2) Bangladesh
3) Nepal
4) Sri Lanka
5) Maldives
LAMITYE 2016 is a joint military training exercise between Indian Army and the Army of:
1) Maldives
2) France
3) Sri Lanka
4) Seychelles
5) Japan
Swami Vivekananda International Airport is located in?
1) Ranchi, Jharkhand
2) Cuttack, Odisha
3) Rajkot, Gujarat
4) Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
5) Raipur, Chhattisgarh
The Banks Board Bureau (BBB) will select the heads of:
1) Regional Rural Banks
2) Public Sector Banks
3) Private Sector Banks
4) Payments Banks
5) Small Finance Banks
The "Kishore" scheme under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) offers maximum loan of:
1) Rs. 50,000
2) Rs. 2 lakh
3) Rs. 5 lakh
4) Rs 10. lakh
5) None of these
Indradhanush is a seven pronged plan to revamp:
1) Cooperative Banks
2) Microfinance Institutions
3) Private Sector Banks
4) Public Sector Banks
5) None of these
Which of the following Central Universities celebrated its 100th year in 2016?
1) University of Allahabad
2) Aligarh Muslim University
3) Visva Bharati University
4) University of Delhi
5) Banaras Hindu University
Safra Catz visited India recently. She is the Chief Executive Officer of:
1) IBM
2) Intel
3) Oracle
4) Yahoo
5) Facebook
Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) is a premier agricultural research institute located in:
1) Hyderabad
2) Cuttack
3) Bangalore
4) Chennai
5) Nagpur
The National Deworming Day is observed by the Ministry of Health and Family welfare on:
1) March 5
2) March 10
3) February 5
4) January 25
5) February 10
Which of the following books is NOT written by Pranab Mukherjee?
1) The Turbulent Years: 1980-1996
2) The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years
3) Thoughts and Reflections
4) Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy
5) The Unseen Indira Gandhi
India participated for the first time in the Cobra Gold multilateral amphibious exercise hosted by:
1) China
2) Thailand
3) Pakistan
4) Philippines
5) Japan
"Setu Bharatam" is a central government program that aims at making all National Highways railway level crossing free by the year:
1) 2019
2) 2020
3) 2021
4) 2022
5) 2025
The Mesabi Iron Range is the chief iron ore mining district in:
1) Brazil
2) USA
3) Australia
4) South Africa
5) Kenya
Who became the first civilian President of Myanmar after over 50 years of military rule on March 30, 2016?
1) Myint Swe
2) Henry Van Thio
3) Htin Kyaw
4) Thein Sein
5) None of these
Ahmed Aboul Gheit is the present Secretary General of the Arab League. He is former Foreign Minister of:
1) Morocco
2) Qatar
3) Tunisia
4) Egypt
5) Bahrain
Dominic Asquith is which country's High Commissioner to India?
1) Canada
2) New Zealand
3) Australia
4) Jamaica
5) UK
Tribhuvan International Airport is situated in:
1) Bangkok, Thailand
2) Colombo, Sri Lanka
3) Kathmandu, Nepal
4) Jakarta, Indonesia
5) Putrajaya, Malaysia
What is the currency of Mauritius?
1) Mauritius Riel
2) Mauritius Dollar
3) Mauritius Rupee
4) Mauritius Pound
5) None of these
Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the 21st Law Commission?
1) Justice C.K. Prasad
2) Justice Cyriac Joseph
3) Justice N. Santosh Hegde
4) Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan
5) Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee
Who won the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize?
1) Wang Shu, China
2) Alejandro Aravena, Chile
3) Peter Zumthor, Switzerland
4) Kazuyo Sejima, Japan
5) None of these
Global Risks Report is an annual study published by the:
1) World Bank
2) International Monetary Fund
3) World Economic Forum
4) World Trade Organization
5) None of these
Who was appointed as the Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal in March 2016?
1) Justice Permod Kohli
2) Justice Arun Tandon
3) Justice A.K. Mittal
4) Justice Ajay Tewari
5) Justice Jaswant Singh
"The High Mountains of Portugal" is a 2016 novel written by:
1) David Mitchell
2) Yann Martel
3) Graham Swift
4) Jerry Pinto
5) None of these
Lloyd S. Shapley of USA passed away on March 12, 2016. He won the 2012 Nobel Prize in:
1) Physics
2) Chemistry
3) Economics
4) Medicine
5) Literature
Who has been appointed the first Chairman of the Banks Board Bureau?
1) H.N. Sinor
2) R. Gandhi
3) Anil Kahandelwal
4) Vinod Rai
5) None of these
Andrew Holness is the present Prime Minister of:
1) Antigua
2) Barbados
3) Dominica
4) Saint Lucia
5) Jamaica
In March 2016, Barack Obama became the first US President in 88 years to visit which of the following countries?
1) Japan
2) Argentina
3) North Korea
4) Cuba
5) Libya
Which country topped the World Happiness Index, according to the World Happiness Report 2016?
1) Denmark
2) Canada
3) Iceland
4) Switzerland
5) Norway
What is India's rank in the World Happiness Index 2016? (Out of 156 countries)
1) 117
2) 118
3) 116
4) 121
5) 130
Martin Crowe died on March 3, 2016 at the age of 53. He was the greatest batsman of?
1) West Indies
2) Australia
3) New Zealand
4) South Africa
5) None of these
The 4th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves was held in March 2016 in:
1) Chile, Santiago
2) Ankara, Turkey
3) Brisbane, Australia
4) Lima, Peru
5) Jakarta, Indonesia

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