1. Who is the new chief minister of Assam?
Ans: Sarbananda Sonowal
2. Name the multilingual knowledge portal launched by the
Ministry of Human Resources Development.
Ans: Bharatvani (www.bharatvani.in)
3. Frances Arnold, a bio engineer from the United States,
has won which international award recently?
Ans: Millennium Technology Prize
4. The establishment of which National Investment and
Manufacturing Zone in Odisha was recently approved by the Government of India?
Ans: Kalinganagar
5. Who are the winners of the 2016 Indian Premier League?
Ans: Sunrisers Hyderabad
They defeated Royal Challengers
Bangalore by 8 runs in the finals.
6. Which football club won the 2016 European Champions
League?
Ans: Real Madrid FC.
They defeated Atletico Madrid
in the finals.
7. The International Day of UN Peacekeepers was observed on:
Ans: May 29
8. The land-attack version of which supersonic cruise
missile was test fired recently?
Ans: BrahMos
9. Who wrote the recently released book, 'Gujarat Files:
Anatomy of a Cover Up'?
Ans: Rana Ayyub
10. The 2016 United Nations World Humanitarian Summit was
held in which city?
Ans: Istanbul, Turkey
11. Which Indian chief minister was recently conferred the
literary award of Nepal, 'Yug Kavi Siddhicharan Prize'?
Ans: Pawan Kumar Chamling
He was awarded the prize for
his commendable contributions in promoting Nepali literature in India.
12. Who is the new Chairman and Managing Director of the
Nuclear Power Corporation of India?
Ans: S.K. Sharma
13. Who is the new Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry?
Ans: Kiran Bedi
14. Who heads the committee, constituted by the Government
of India, to suggest ways to re-balance the overall defence expenditure and
recommend measures to enhance the combat capabilities of the armed forces?
Ans: Lt. Gen. D.B. Shekatkar
15. Which popular Indian writer wrote the two recently
released books, My Favourite Nature Stories' and 'The World outside my Window?
Ans: Ruskin Bond
16. The recently released book, 'A Call to Mercy: Hearts to
Love, Hands to Serve' is a collection of previously unreleased writings of
which personality?
Ans: Mother Teresa
17. The United Nations has appointed Patricia Espinosa
Cantellano of Mexico to which international post?
Ans: Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
18. Andre Brahic, the French astrophysicist who passed away
recently, is known for the discovery of the rings around which planet?
Ans: Neptune
19. Which Indian won the third prize in the UN Poster for
Peace contest presented by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)?
Ans: Anjali Chandrashekhar
20. The trial run of which Spanish made high speed trains
was recently conducted by the Indian Railways?
Ans: Talgo
21. What is the name the first inflatable room, attached to
the International Space Station, recently deployed by NASA?
Ans: BEAM
22. Which Indian was awarded the 2016 Scholastic Asian Book
Award?
Ans: Aditi Krishnalcumar.
She won the award for her
manuscript, 'Codex: The Lost Treasure of the Indus'.
23. Saudi Arabia's Islamic Development Bank will open its
first branch in India in which city?
Ans: Ahmadabad
24. As per the study conducted by the Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE), which chemical additive used in bread and refined flour was
found carcinogenic?
Ans: Potassium Bromate
25.The use of light and heavy diesel vehicles more than 10
years old have been banned in which cities in Kerala, by the National Green
Tribunal?
Ans: Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kochi, Thrissur, Kozhikode
and Kannur
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