Q.1 Which Indian insurance company has featured in the top 10 list of most valuable insurance brands globally?
a. UIIC
b. LIC
c. NIA
d. NICL
Q.2 Who has been appointed as the National President of FICCI Ladies
Organization (FLO)?
a. Shrestha Garg
b. Ujjwala Singhania
c. Kritika Joshi
d. None of these
Q.3 Recently passed away ‘Sunderlal Bahuguna’ was famous?
a. Author
b. Environmentalist
c. Singer
d. None of these
Q.4 What is Patania II, which was seen in the news recently, for being stranded on the Pacific Ocean floor?
a. Container Ship
b. Submarine
c. Mining Robot
d. Satellite module
Q.5 Litani river and Qaraoun lake, which were making news recently, are located in which country?
a. Laos
b. Lebanon
c. Iran
d. Israel
Q.6 Which organisation has released the ‘Global Forest Goals Report 2021’?
a. World Bank
b. FAO
c. UN ECOSOC
d. WWF
Q.7 What is “MACS 1407”, which is seen in the news recently?
a. Covid vaccine candidate
b. Soybean variety
c. New planet
d. Anti-tank missile
Q.8 Indian Army has inaugurated the First Green Solar Energy harnessing plant in which state?
a. Rajasthan
b. Sikkim
c. Punjab
d. Gujarat
Q.9 Which state government has recently announced the launch of Ankur Yojana?
a. Maharashtra
b. Haryana
c. Madhya Pradesh
d. None of these
Q.10 Which of the following gold medalists of the 1982 Asian Games has passed away recently?
a. Sardar Singh
b. Dhanraj Pillai
c. Gulam Mohammad Khan
d. None of these
Q.11 Which country has officially passed a legislation to allow screening of future FDI and Special Economic Agreements?
a. France
b. Switzerland
c. Denmark
d. North Korea
Q.12 DDoS attack, which was making news recently, is associated with which field?
a. Defence
b. Cyber security
c. Maritime Exercise
d. Psychology
Q.13 Which country will provide 6 P-81 patrol Aircraft to India for the use of the Indian Navy?
a. UK
b. USA
c. Japan
d. France
Q.14 When the World Press Freedom Day has been celebrated?
a. 4th May
b. 1st May
c. 2nd May
d. 3rd May
Q.15 Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which was seen in the news recently, is associated with which country?
a. UK
b. Uganda
c. Nigeria
d. Iran
Q.16 Recently Indian Navy launched which operation to bring oxygen-filled cryogenic containers to India from abroad?
a. Operation Nistar
b. Operation Vanilla
c. Mission Sagar II
d. Samudra Setu II
Q.17 The Asian Boxing Championship has moved from India to which country due to Covid 19 ?
a. Israel
b. Pakistan
c. Iran
d. UAE
Q.18 Recently who was named as 4th deputy governor of RBI?
a. Mahesh Sharma
b. Viral Acharya
c. BP Kanungo
d. T Rabi Sankar
Q.19 Recently, which operation was launched by armed forces to fight COVID-19 in India?
a. Cowin
b. CO Jeet
c. CoForce
d. CoArmed
Q.20 Who has been named as the 2021 laureate of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize?
a. Mahmoud Abu Zeid
b. Wa Lone
c. Maria Ressa
d. Dawit Issak
Q.21 The Union Cabinet has approved the signing of an MoU on Migration and Mobility Partnership between India and which other country?
a. France
b. USA
c. UK
d. Singapore
Q.22 The term ‘candidiasis’ was in news recently, is a
a. fungal infection
b. viral infection
c. bacterial infection
d. none of the above
Q.23 Which of the following adopted a law on data protection and privacy for its citizens known as ‘General Data Protection Regulation’?
a. Australia
b. Canada
c. The European Union
d. The United States of America
Q.24 Which country has classified the Indian COVID variant as Variant of Concern (VOC)?
a. Australia
b. UK
b. China
d. Russia
Q.25 Which institution released the ‘Dost For Life’ mobile application for mental well-being?
a. AICTE
b. NTA
c. CBSE
d. UGC
Q.26 A new species Ampelorhiza heteroxylon, that was recently found, belongs to which category?
a. Insect
b. Plant
c. Aquatic Animal
d. Land Animal
Q.27 Which state initiative Parvat Dhara yojana to rejuvenate water sources?
a. Himachal Pradesh
b. Uttar Pradesh
c. Gujarat
d. Bihar
Q.28 What is the theme of the 2021 World Asthma Day?
a. Never too early, never too late
b. Enough Asthma Deaths
c. Uncovering Asthma Misconceptions
d. STOP for asthma
Q.29 Who has received the 3rd Highest award of Japan Order of the Rising Sun?
a. Shyamala Ganesh
b. Achanta Kamal
c. Krithi Karanth
b. Chandani Mehra
Q.30 Who is the winner of the 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize?
a. Maria Ressa
b. Cheche Lazaro
c. Rodrigo Duterte
d. Mike Enriquez
Q.31 Which movie won the Best Film (Jury) at 11th Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival 2021?
a. Jungle Cry
b. Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior
c. Parasite
d. Angrezi Medium
Q.32 What is the name given to the world’s largest aircraft by American company ‘Stratoluanch’?
a. Pamola
b. Sirin
c. Roc
d. Ziz
Q.33 Shuvuuia deserti was in news recently, it is the:
a. small bird
b. nocturnal dinosaur
c. indigenous desert plant
d. none of the above
Q.34 Recently HAL demonstrated which advanced light helicopter its deck operations capabilities?
a. Aditya
b. Tridev
c. Arjun
d. Dhruv
Q.35 Recently freedom fighter and Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra musician passed away.Name him?
a. Dinesh Acharya
b. Shobhit Mondal
c. Taraknath Banerjee
d. Anup Bhattacharya
Q.36 What is the theme of this year’s World Migratory Bird Day 2021?
a. Sing,Fly,Soar-Like a Bird
b. Birds Connect our world
c. Protect Birds-Be the solution to beat plastic pollution
d. Unifying our voices for bird conservation
Q.37 What is the theme of this year’s World Red Cross Day 2021?
a. Everywhere for everyone
b. Voluntary service to nation
c. Together We are unstoppable
d. Memorable Smiles from around the World
Q.38 What is the name of the World’s 1st Artificial Intelligence Ship?
a. Sunflower 40
b. Earth 2030
c. Mayflower 400
d. Seafarer 66
Q.39 The Arouca Bridge has been inaugurated in which country?
a. Spain
b. France
c. Portugal
d. Switzerland
Q.40 Which country has launched a new remote sensing satellite, Yaogan-34, into space?
a. USA
b. Norway
c. China
d. India
Q.41 Who has been felicitated with the “Sportswoman of the Year” at the 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards?
a. Naomi Osaka
b. Simona Halep
c. Ashleigh Barty
d. Anna Van Hooft
Q.42 The DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon will be launched by which company in 2022?
a. SpaceX
b. ISRO
c. NASA
d. Roscosmos
Q.43 Which species of frog is the officially largest frog in the world?
a. Goliath frog
b. African Bull frog
c. American Bullfrog
d. Cane Toad
Q.44 The ‘Yazidi’, seen in the news recently, is a minority religious group predominantly found in which country?
a. Sudan
b. China
c. Iraq
d. Afghanistan
Q.45 Bucharest Nine (B9) is a group of nine countries from which international bloc?
a. G 20
b. European Union
c. NATO
d. Commonwealth
Q.46 Which state recently conducted a Monkey Census using the mobile application designed by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII)?
a. Gujarat
b. Haryana
c. Rajasthan
d. West Bengal
Q.47 ‘Jezero’ Crater, whose images have been captured recently, is a crater in which astronomical body?
a. Moon
b. Sun
c. Mars
d. Venus
Q.48 ‘The Christchurch Call’ was an initiative of which country?
a. France
b. New Zealand
c. Australia
d. Germany
Q.49 Kundoli Proposed Reserve Forest, where 18 elephants have recently died, is situated in which state?
a. Karnataka
b. Himachal Pradesh
c. Assam
d. Kerala
Q.50 Which state has proposed to control microfinance, by way of a state legislation?
a. Assam
b. Uttar Pradesh
c. Tamil Nadu
d. Kerala
Q.51 Which animal has recently resurfaced in India, in Mizoram’s Paulding sanctuary, after a gap of 108 years?
a.Snow leopard
b. Hyena
c. Yamuna Dolphins
d. Doria’s foam-nesting tree frog
Q.52 The Indian and Indonesian Navies have conducted PASSEX in which sea?
a. Bay of Bengal
b. Arabian Sea
c. Persian Gulf
d. Andaman Sea
Q.53 Who has been sworn in as the new administrator of NASA?
a. Marco Rubio
b. Rick Scott
c. Charles Bolden
d. Bill Nelson
Q.54 Who has been appointed the new executive director of RBI?
a. T Rabi Shankar
b. Dinesh Jain
c. Michael Patra
d. Jose J Kattoor
Q.55 Who has become the first person from India to win the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award?
a. Khelil Goiua
b. Juergen Habermas
c. Iran Mersal
d. Tahera Qutbuddin
Q.56 Which nation will be the world’s fastest-growing major economy in 2022, as per the UN?
a. India
b. US
c. China
d. UK
Q.57 Which state government will present ‘Manoj Das International Literary Award’ in memory of eminent litterateur Manoj Das?
a. Uttar Pradesh
b. Odisha
c. Haryana
d. Bihar
Q.58 Who has been appointed as new CMD of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited?
a. Arun Kumar Singh
b. DK hota
c. Manoj Jain
d. K Padmakar
Q.59 Which became the first state to launch an online flood reporting and information management system?
a. Assam
b. Uttarakhand
c. Himachal Pradesh
d. Maharashtra
Q.60 Which country chaired the first BRICS Employment Working Group (EWG) Meeting held in 2021?
a. India
b. Nepal
c. China
d. SriLanka
Q.61 Who has been appointed as the new Chief at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)?
a. Martin Griffiths
b. Mark Lowcock
c. Andrew Jenny
d. Faith Barol
Q.62 Who has received the “World Food Award” of the year 2021?
a. Vanita Gupta
b. Shakuntala Hark Singh
c. Rattan Lal
d. Simran Groot
Q.63 Which company has been conferred with the “Green Urja Award”?
a. IRDA
b. BHEL
c. IREDA
d. DRDO
Q.64 Arjuna award-winning Venugopal Chandrasekar, who has passed away, was associated with which sports?
a. Badminton
b. Table Tennis
c. Wrestling
d. Cricket
Q.65 Who has been appointed as the head coach of the Indian Women’s National Cricket Team?
a. Vinod Kambli
b. Wasim Jaffer
c. Munaf Patel
d. Ramesh Powar
Q.66 Who has created a world record by scaling Mount Everest twice in the shortest span of time within a season?
a. Barry Bishop
b. Wang Fouzou
c. Mingma Tenji Sherpa
d. Lingma Sherpa
Q.67 Malerkotla has been announced as the 23rd district of which state?
a. Kerala
b. Punjab
c. Haryana
d. Bihar
Q.69 SPOT, which was making news recently, is a technology developed for which purpose?
a. Auto- Parking
b. Testing Coronavirus
c. Checking Nutrition values
d. Robotic Navigation
Q.70 Farzad-B giant gas field, which was making news recently, is situated in which country?
a. Afghanistan
b. Iran
c. Israel
d. UAE
Q.71 Who is the first India descent player to win the Mixed Martial Artist (MMA) world championship?
a. Arjan Bhullar
b. Giant Zanjeer
c. Guru Raaj
d. Dilsher Shanky
Q.72 With reference to Environmental Science, what is A-76, which was seen in the news recently?
a. Frog
b. Iceberg
c. Moss
d. Fungus
Q.73 Satpura Tiger Reserve, which has been added to the tentative list of UNESCO’s world heritage sites, is located in which Indian state?
a. Maharashtra
b. Madhya Pradesh
c. Odisha
d. West Bengal
Q.74 When is the ‘World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development’ observed every year?
a. May 18
b. May 20
c. May 21
d. May 23
Q.75 Who has been named COP26 People’s Advocate for the U.K.’s Presidency of the UN climate change summit in Glasgow?
a. S Jaishankar
b. David Attenborough
c. Nicole Pashiyan
d. Greta Thunberg
Q.76 Which country’s Mars Rover Zhu Rong successfully landed on Mars?
a. USA
b. China
c. Japan
d. Australia
Q.77 Which became the first state to join the global COVAX alliance to procure anti-Covid vaccines?
a. Kerala
b. Karnataka
c. Punjab
d. Madhya Pradesh
Q.78 Which became the world’s first country to ban all synthetic cannabinoid substances?
a. China
b. Japan
c. Mexico
d. USA
Q.79 Who has been conferred International Invincible Gold Medal of this year?
a. Smriti Irani
b. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
c. Nitin Gadkari
d. Amit Shah
Q.80 What is the theme of this year’s 6th UN Global Traffic Safety Week 2021?
a. Streets for Life
b. Improving Global Road Safety
c. Leadership for Road Safety
d. Speakup for Road Safety
Q.81 Recently which organisation setted up COVID Care Centre at Bheemunipatnam?
a. DRDO
b. NASSCOM
c. Indian Navy
d. Indian Army
Q.82 Which company launched the “Together as One” assistance programme for families of its deceased employees?
a. ONGC
b. Bajaj Finserv
c. DRDO
d. Muthoot Finance
Q.83 Who have been selected for the prestigious Basavashree Award for the year 2020?
a. K Kasturirangan
b. Rajeev Taranath
c. Ramesh Singh
d. Deendayal Dev
Q.84 Which state launched a mobile application named ‘MOMA Market’ for home delivery of fresh vegetables?
a. Assam
b. Nagaland
c. Meghalaya
d. Manipur
Q.85 “Clyde’s Spot”, which was making news recently, is a place located in which planet?
a. Mercury
b. Mars
c. Earth
d. Jupiter
Q.86 What is the expansion of ECMO, used in the Covid-19 treatment?
a. Echocardiogram Output
b. Extracorporeal membrane oxygen
c. Electrophysiology Output
d. Endocrine membrane Oxygen
Q.87 Where is Kuno National Park situated in India?
a. Madhya Pradesh
b. Maharashtra
c. Andhra Pradesh
d. Kerala
Q.88 Which Indian state is the top recipient of FDI equity inflows during 2020-21?
a. Karnataka
b. Gujarat
c. Maharashtra
d. Tamil Nadu
Q.89 Which country tops the list of Investor Countries of India in 2020-21?
a. USA
b. China
c. Singapore
d. UAE
Q.90 Who has been crowned Miss Universe for the year 2020?
a. Andrea Meza
b. Adline Castelino
c. Janick Maceta
d. Julia Gama
Q.91 Who is the author of the book “Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance”?
a. Triloki Nath Kaul
b. Arundhati Ghose
c. Mani Shankar Aiyar
d. Preet Mohan Singh Malik
Q.92 Who has been elected as President of the Central Tibetan Administration?
a. Kalsang Dorjee Aukatsang
b. Penpa Tsering
c. Dorjee Pesur
d. Wangdu Tsering
Q.93 The supercomputer named ‘Simorgh’ has been developed by which country?
a. Iran
b. France
c. Finland
d. South Korea
Q.94 Which country has topped the 57th EY Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index?
a. Russia
b. China
c. France
d. USA
Q.95 What is the rank of India in the 57th EY Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) for 2020?
a. First
d. Fourth
c. Second
d. Third
Q.96 The Indian Navy has decommissioned its first destroyer. What is the name of the destroyer ship?
a. INS Sahyadri
b. INS Arihant
c. INS Rana
d. INS Rajput
Q.97 Who has been selected Oxford Student Union President In Byelection?
a. Diksha Kandpal
b. Shivani Arora
c. Anvee Bhutani
d. Himani Chilkoti
Q.98 Who is the author of the book “Buddha in Gandhara”?
a. Mohan Munda
b. Vishal Thakur
c. Monali Krishnan
d. Sunita Dwivedi
Q.99 Which state government has launched Sanjeevani Pariyojana?
a. Gujarat
b. Rajasthan
c. Haryana
d. Madhya Pradesh
Q.100 Which animal will be reintroduced in India after being declared extinct in 1952?
a. Sumatran rhinoceros
b. Cheetah
c. Indian Aurochs
d. Pink-headed Duck
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