1) Where
was the 7th edition of India-Sri Lanka joint Military & Army Exercise MITRA
SHAKTI– VII: 2019 held?
A) Kochi, Kerala
B) Pune, Maharashtra
C) Kolkata, West Bengal
D) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Answer – B)
Pune, Maharashtra
2) Who
was appointed as the 10th President of Asian Development Bank (ADB) on 2nd
December 2019?
A) Taroichi Yoshida
B) Masatsugu Asakawa
C) Haruhiko Kuroda
D) Tadao Chino
Answer -B)
Masatsugu Asakawa
3) Where
was the 8th edition of the joint training exercise between India and China
named “HAND-IN-HAND 2019” held?
A) Meghalaya
B) Mizoram
C) Assam
D) Maharashtra
Answer -A)
Meghalaya
4) Which
state has signed $206 million loan agreement with Asian Development Bank (ADB)
to develop water supply, sewerage infrastructure in 5 cities?
A) West Bengal
B) Tamil Nadu
C) Maharashtra
D) Assam
Answer – B)
Tamil Nadu
5 ) Who
won his record 6th Men’s Ballon d’Or award for the year 2019?
A) Kylian Mbappé
B) Antoine Griezmann
C) Cristiano Ronaldo
D) Lionel Messi
Answer – D)
Lionel Messi
Women’s
Ballon d’Or award – Megan Rapinoe.
Yashin
Trophy – Alisson Becker
Kopa
Trophy 2019 – Matthijs de Ligt.
6) Where
was the 21st Asian Archery Championship for the year 2019 held?
A) Washington D.C., United States
B) Moscow, Russia
C) Beijing, China
D) Bangkok, Thailand
Answer -D)
Bangkok, Thailand
7) Where
was the India’s 1st National maritime heritage museum to be built with the aim
to boost the underwater or marine archaeology?
A) Lothal, Gujarat
B) Kolkata, West Bengal
C) Chennai, Tamil Nadu
D) New Delhi, Delhi
Answer – A)
Lothal, Gujarat
8) Which
country topped in the UNCTAD’s (United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development) “Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce Index 2019”?
A) Netherlands
B) Switzerland
C) Singapore
D) Australia
Answer -A)
Netherlands
9) Who
was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Alphabet on 4th December
2019?
A) Steve Ballmer
B) Satya Nadella
C) Sergey Brin
D) Sundar Pichai
Answer – D)
Sundar Pichai
10) Where
was the foundation stone of India’s first Ganga centralised aqualab laid?
A) Dehradun, Uttarakhand
B) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
C) Guwahati, Assam
D) Kolkata, West Bengal
Answer -A)
Dehradun, Uttarakhand
11) Where
was the India’s first Hybrid Annuity (HAM) based 14 MLD (megalitres per day)
Sewage Treatment Plant(STP) inaugurated?
A) Mangaldoi in Darrang, Assam
B) Manika block in Latehar, Jharkhand
C) Abhana Village in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh
D) Sarai village in Haridwar, Uttarakhand
Answer – D)
Sarai village in Haridwar, Uttarakhand
12) Name
the first ever brand ambassador of La Liga from India, who is also the first
ever non- footballer appointed in that position on December 12, 2019?
A) Shikhar Dhawan
B) Rohit Gurunath Sharma
C) Virat Kohli
D) MS Dhoni
Answer-B)
Rohit Gurunath Sharma
13) Name
the first Indian state to introduce ‘Trakea’, a unique barcoding software’
which helps to enable foolproof security of the samples collected in Forensic
reports?
A) Haryana
B) Kerala
C) Maharashtra
D) Madhya Pradesh
Answer-A)
Haryana
14) Name
the first Indian wrestler, who won the 2019 ‘Junior Freestyle Wrestler of the
Year‘ at the age of 18 years by United World Wrestling (UWW)?
A) Sushil Kumar
B) Rahul Aware
C) Mausam Khatri
D) Deepak Punia
Answer-D)
Deepak Punia
15 )
Where was the India’s first ‘Vaccination On Wheels’(VOW) Clinic launched by IIT
Hyderabad’s Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) fellow Mr. Jignesh
Patel in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
A) Guwahati, Assam
B) Pune, Maharashtra
C) New Delhi, Delhi
D) Kolkata, West Bengal
Answer-B)
Pune, Maharashtra
16) Where
was the World’s first ever Global Refugee Forum held?
A) Paris, France
B) Madrid, Spain
C) Geneva, Switzerland
D) Washington D.C., United States (U.S.)
Answer-C)
Geneva, Switzerland
17) Who
was named as the first Prime Minister (PM) of Cuba since 1976?
A) Manuel Marrero Cruz
B) Hubert Minnis
C) Charles Michel
D) Mia Mottley
Answer-A)
Manuel Marrero Cruz
18) Which
state topped in the ‘first edition of Good Governance Index (GGI)’ under the
“Big States Category”?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Karnataka
C) Maharashtra
D) Tamil Nadu
Answer-D)
Tamil Nadu
19) Where
did Dharmendra Pradhan unveils India’s First Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Bus
which can run 1000 Kms in one fill?
A) Kolkata, West Bengal
B) New Delhi, Delhi
C) Mumbai, Maharashtra
D) Guwahati, Assam
Answer-B)
New Delhi, Delhi
20) Where
was the foundation stone of India’s first Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
project laid?
A) New Delhi, Delhi
B) Mumbai, Maharashtra
C) Guwahati, Assam
D) Kolkata, West Bengal
Answer-A)
New Delhi, Delhi
21) Name
the railway station that receives the first “Eat Right Station” certification
from Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)?
A) Gorakhpur Railway Station, Gorakhpur
B) Chennai Central Station, Chennai
C) Howrah Junction Station, Kolkata
D) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
(CSMT) railway station, Mumbai
Answer-D)
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway station, Mumbai
22) Name
the first Indian Ophthalmologist, who won the Life Achievement Honor Award
2019, the highest award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)?
A) Dr. Satish Mehta
B) Dr. Navin Sakhuja
C) Dr. Santosh Gajanan Honavar
D) Dr. Lalit Varma
Answer-C)
Dr Santosh Gajanan Honavar
23) Which
state government has won the ‘World Habitat Award’ for its Jaga Mission, that
aims at transforming the slums into livable habitats by UK based organization
World Habitat?
A) Gujarat
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Odisha
D) Assam
Answer-C)
Odisha
24) Name
the Indian actress, who received the 26th Annual Crystal Awards for the year
2020 by World Economic Forum (WEF) for her leadership in raising mental health
awareness?
A) Alia Bhatt
B) Deepika Padukone
C) Priyanka Chopra
D) Aishwarya Rai
Answer – B)
Deepika Padukone
25 ) Name
the first Indian state to introduce ‘Trakea’, a unique barcoding software’
which helps to enable foolproof security of the samples collected in Forensic
reports?
A) Haryana
B) Kerala
C) Maharashtra
D) Madhya Pradesh
Answer-A)
Haryana
26) Name
the Indian Cricketer, who was named in both ICC women’s ODI (One Day
International) and T20 (twenty twenty) teams of the year 2019 in ICC Awards
2019?
A) Smriti Mandana
B) Jemimah Rodrigues
C) Mithali Raj
D) Harmanpreet Kaur
Answer-A)
Smriti Mandana
27) Name
the district that was awarded by United Nations International Children’s and
Education Fund (UNICEF) for effective implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission
in water sanitation and hygiene sectors for the year 2019?
A) Kamareddy district, Telangana
B) Mancherial district, Telangana
C) Karimnagar district, Telangana
D) Nizamabad district, Telangana
Answer-A)
Kamareddy district, Telangana
28) What
is the rank of India in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s
“Human Development Report 2019 – Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today:
Inequalities in human development in the 21st century”?
A) 129
B) 132
C) 125
D) 145
Answer-A)
129
29) Which
state has emerged as the top ranked state in terms of employability as per the
7th edition of the India Skills Report 2020 for the year 2019-20?
A) Telangana
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Maharashtra
D) Tamil Nadu
Answer-C) Maharashtra
-Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh (UP) in the second and third rank respectively.
30) Name
the large scale anti-hijacking exercise conducted by Indian Navy in association
with Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the Cochin Port Trust in Kochi coast, Kerala?
A) Talwar
B) Tropex
C) Slinex
D) Apharan
Answer-D)
Apharan
31) What
is India’s rank in the recently released Gender Gap Index for the year 2019 by
World Economic Forum (WEF)?
A) 114
B) 113
C) 112
D) 111
Answer-C)
112
Rank Country
1 Iceland
2 Norway
3 Finland
32) Which
two countries participate in the joint tri services exercise “INDRA 2019”?
A) India and China
B) India and Japan
C) India and Russia
D) India and Sri Lanka
Answer-C)
India and Russia