IAS - All You Need to Know: 100 MCQs - NOVEMBER 2016 CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Which of the following entities has launched India’s first payment bank?

(A) Reliance Industries

(B) Airtel M Commerce Services

(D) FINO PayTech

Answer: Airtel M Commerce Services

2. Which of the following has become the India’s first e-assembly constituency?

(A) Dharamshala assembly constituency

(B) Palampur assembly constituency

(D) Chujachen assembly constituency

Answer: Palampur assembly constituency

3. Which of the following has been named as the world’s fastest supercomputer, as per recently released Top500 list of supercomputers?

(A) Tianhe-2

(B) Sunway Taihulight

(D) Cori

Answer: Sunway Taihulight

4. Which advanced monitoring system will be introduced by Indian Railways to collision avoidance?

(A) Tri-Sutra

(B) Tri-Netra

(D) Tri-Nest

Answer: Tri-Netra

5. For which purpose “Hind-Iran portal” has been launched between India and Iran?

(A) Social cause

(B) Trade

(D) Entrepreneurship

Answer: Trade

6. “The Pradhan Mantri YUVA Yojana” has been launched by Union Government for what purpose?

(A) Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

(B) Women Education

(D) SC/ST Education

Answer: Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

7. The Election Commission of India has launched an online survey to assess level of awareness among Overseas Indian Citizens in collaboration with which institute?

(A) Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology

(B) Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha

(D) Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Answer: Tata Institute of Social Sciences

8. The Defence Research & Development Organisation has signed a MoU with which IIT institute to establish a Joint Advanced Technology Centre (JATC)?

(A) IIT Bombay

(B) IIT Kharagpur

(D) IIT Delhi

Answer: IIT Delhi

9. Which Indian firm has won the 2016 Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance?

(A) Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)

(B) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

(D) GAIL India Limited

Answer: Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)

10. Which Indian company has been named as the 2016 Digital Innovator of the Year by GE Digital?

(A) Infosys

(B) Wipro

(D) Tata Consultancy Services

Answer: Tata Consultancy Services

11. Which of the following is the India’s longest expressway in the Indian road network?

(A) Agra-Lucknow Expressway

(B) Ahmedabad Vadodara Expressway

(D) Yamuna Expressway

Answer: Agra-Lucknow Expressway

12. The 2016 Wangala harvest festival has celebrated by which tribe of North-East India?

(A) Deori tribe

(B) Khasi tribe

(D) Nyishi tribe

Answer: Garo tribe

13. Which Indian short film has won the award at the 2016 UNESCO Salon Youth Video Competition?

(A) 3 Shades

(B) Ambani the investor

(D) Ahlaya

Answer: Magical Piano

14. Which film has won the Golden Peacock award at the 2016 International Film Festival of India?

(A) Rauf

(B) Daughter

(D) Cold of Kalandar

Answer: Daughter

15. “Lakshmi” India’s first banking robot has been launched by which bank?

(A) State Bank of India

(B) City Union Bank

(D) Axis Bank

Answer: City Union Bank

16. Who will be the chief guest at the “14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention”?

(A) Li Keqiang

(B) Shinzo Abe

(D) Satyandre Adhin

Answer: Antonio Costa

17. Who has been appointed as the Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO)?

(A) Lalit Kumar

(B) Shokin Chauhan

(D) Ranbir Singh

Answer: A K Bhatt

18. Who has become the brand ambassador for 2017 T20 Blind Cricket World Cup?

(A) Rahul Dravid

(B) Sachin Tendulkar

(D) Saurav Ganguly

Answer: Rahul Dravid

19. Who has become the first Indian to be elected the President of the International Hockey Federation?

(A) Narinder Batra

(B) Dhanraj Pillay

(D) Kirtan Singh

Answer: Narinder Batra

20. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Swachh Rail Mission of Indian Railway?

(A) Nitin Patil

(B) Bindeshwar Pathak

(D) Nishant

Answer: Bindeshwar Pathak

21. Which Bollywood personality has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Switzerland tourism?

(A) Amitabh Bachchan

(B) Alia Bhatt

(D) Shah Rukh Khan

Answer: Ranveer Singh

22. Which Bollywood personality will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 Dubai International Film Festival?

(A) Amitabh Bachchan

(B) Yash Raj Chopra

(D) Jeetendra

Answer: Rekha

23. Who has been honoured with the 2016 International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Award?

(A) Rainer Brinkmann

(B) William S. Benson

(D) Wu Shengli

Answer: Radhika Menon

24. Which Indian personality has been honoured with the 2016 Dr. Nagendra Singh Internal Peace award?

(A) Baba Ramdev

(B) Sushma Swaraj

(D) Sri Sri Ravishankar

Answer: Sri Sri Ravishankar

25. Who will be conferred with the Rashtriya Kalidas Samman for year 2016-17?

(A) N. Rajam

(B) Anupam Kher

(D) Banshi Kaul

Answer: Banshi Kaul

26. Who is the newly elected director-general of the International Labour Organization (ILO)?

(A) Adriana Cruz

(B) Michel Hansenne

(D) Guy Ryder

Answer: Guy Ryder

27. Which Indian boxer to be honoured with ‘Legends Award’ by International Boxing Association (AIBA)?

(A) Sarjubala Devi

(B) Mary Kom

(D) Shiva Thapa

Answer: Mary Kom

28. Who has been appointed as the new Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan?

(A) Raheel Sharif

(B) Zubair Hayat

(D) Qamar Javed Bajwa

Answer: Qamar Javed Bajwa

29. Which famous surgeon performed the world’s first artificial heart transplant?

(A) William Trevor

(B) Denton Cooley

(D) Leonard Cohen

Answer: Denton Cooley

30. Who has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of South Korea?

(A) Yim Jong-yong

(B) Jung Youn-kuk

(D) Choi Soon-sil

Answer: Kim Byong-joon

31. The book “A Season of Ghosts” has been authored by whom?

(A) Amrish Tripathi

(B) Chetan Anand

(D) Milan Ganguly

Answer: Ruskin Bond

32. The book “Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition” has been authored by whom?

(A) Kisan Jha

(B) Nisid Hajari

(D) Ruskin Bond

Answer: Nisid Hajari

33. The book “An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India” has been authored by whom?

(A) Amrish Tripathi

(B) Hamid Ansari

(D) Romesh Dutt

Answer: Shashi Tharoor

34. Prof. MGK Menon, who passed away recently, was the chief of which organisation?

(A) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

(B) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

(D) Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)

Answer: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

35. The National Cancer Awareness Day is observed on which date in India?

(A) November 8

(B) November 7

(D) November 6

Answer: November 7

36. The Constitution Day is celebrated on which date in India?

(A) November 25

(B) November 24

(D) November 26

Answer: November 26

37. What is the theme of 2016 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women?

(A) Orange your neighbourhood

(B) Orange the world

(D) Orange the people

Answer: Orange the World

38. What is the theme of the 2016 World Diabetes Day?

(A) Understand diabetes and live Happily

(B) Eyes on Diabetes

(D) Diabetes education and prevention

Answer: Eyes on Diabetes

39. What is the theme of the first-ever World Tsunami Awareness Day?

(A) Reduce Mortality, Raise awareness

(B) Knowledge for Life

(D) Effective Education and Evacuation Drills

Answer: Effective Education and Evacuation Drills

40. What is the theme of the 2016 United Nations’ World Cities Day?

(A) Designed to Live Together

(B) Promoting a better urban future

(D) Better City, Better Life

Answer: Inclusive Cities, Shared Development

41. What is the theme of 2016 World Pneumonia Day?

(A) Universal access to pneumonia prevention and care

(B) Keep the Promise, Stop Pneumonia Now

(D) Innovate to End Child Pneumonia

Answer: Keep the Promise, Stop Pneumonia Now

42. What is the theme of 2016 United Nations Universal Children’s day?

(A) Teach Respect

(B) A World Fit for Children

(D) Innovate for Children

Answer: Stop violence against children

43. What is the India’s rank in the 2017 Climate Change Performance Index?

(A) 56th

(B) 20th

(D) 66th

Answer: 20th

44. What is the India’s rank in the 2016 Global ICT Development Index?

(A) 71st

(B) 138th

(D) 66th

Answer: 138th

45. Which committee has been constituted to convert 100% Government – Citizen Transactions to the digital platform?

(A) Piyush Goyal committee

(B) Arun Jaitely committee

(D) Amitabh Kant committee

Answer: Amitabh Kant committee

46. Who heads the newly constituted committee of chief ministers on demonetisation?

(A) Manohar Lal Khattar

(B) Pinarayi Vijayan

(D) N Chandrababu Naidu

Answer: N Chandrababu Naidu

47. Who is the head of a task force formed by the Reserve Bank of India to re-calibrate all ATMs and cash dispensing machines with the new design of Rs 500 and Rs 2000 notes?

(A) H R Khan

(B) N S Vishwanathan

(D) Shaktikanta Das

Answer: S S Mundra

48. “Surya Kiran-X” the Indo-Nepal Joint Military Exercise has started in which city?

(A) Saljhandi, Nepal

(B) Kutch, Gujarat

(D) Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand

Answer: Saljhandi, Nepal

49. The India-Bangladesh joint military exercise “SAMPRITI-2016” has started at which place?

(A) Jaisalmer

(B) Kutch

(D) Tangail

Answer: Tangail

50. Which Indian city will host India-China Joint Training Exercise “Hand-in-Hand 2016”?

(A) Kochi

(B) Pune

(D) Madurai

Answer: Pune

51. Which Indian city is hosting the 2016 National Children’s Film Festival?

(A) New Delhi

(B) Jaipur

(D) Mumbai

Answer: Jaipur

52. India’s first underwater festival has been held in which city?

(A) Pune

(B) Kochi

(D) Guwahati

Answer: Pune

53. India’s first International Children’s festival will be held in which city?

(A) Mumbai

(B) Pune

(D) Guwahati

Answer: Mumbai

54. The 2016 Global Citizen India festival has started in which city?

(A) New Delhi

(B) Mumbai

(D) Lucknow

Answer: Mumbai

55. The world’s first Bollywood theme park has opened in which city?

(A) Mumbai

(B) New York

(D) Kuala Lumpur

Answer: Dubai

56. Which country has launched the world’s longest super-secure quantum communication line?

(A) New Zealand

(B) China

(D) South Korea

Answer: China

57. The 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be hosted by which country?

(A) India

(B) Peru

(D) Philippines

Answer: Peru

58. Fidel Castro, who passed away recently, was the revolutionary leader of which country?

(A) Cuba

(B) Libya

(D) Ethiopia

Answer: Cuba

59. Which country is hosting the Conference of Parties (COP22) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?

(A) India

(B) Morocco

(D) Palestine

Answer: Morocco

60. Which is the focus country in the 2016 India International Trade Fair?

(A) South Korea

(B) Belarus

(D) Thailand

Answer: Belarus

61. Kwon Taek Im, who is honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 International Film Festival of India, is belonged to which country?

(A) Japan

(B) Taiwan

(D) Malaysia

Answer: South Korea

62. India has signed a MoU with which country for setting up of Techo Park in Ramallah?

(A) Israel

(B) Iran

(D) Palestine

Answer: Palestine

63. Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who has been conferred the first ‘World Sanskrit Award’, is belonged to which country?

(A) India

(B) Malaysia

(D) Indonesia

Answer: Thailand

64. “2016 Raad ul Barq” military exercise has been conducted by which country?

(A) Afghanistan

(B) Nepal

(D) Pakistan

Answer: Pakistan

65. Eliud Kipchoge, who has won men’s Airtel Delhi Half Marathon, is belonged to which country?

(A) Sudan

(B) Kenya

(D) Jamaica

Answer: Kenya

66. Silvio Gazzaniga, who designed the FIFA World Cup trophy, was belonged to which country?

(A) France

(B) Germany

(D) Brazil

Answer: Italy

67. Kylie Verzosa, who has been crowned Miss International 2016, is belonged to which country?

(A) Nicaragua

(B) Philippines

(D) Venezuela

Answer: Philippines

68. Katherine Espin, who won the crown of 2016 Miss Earth, is belonged to which country?

(A) Philippines

(B) Ecuador

(D) Venezuela

Answer: Ecuador

69. “Sampriti-2016” a joint military training exercise will be conducted between India and which country?

(A) Myanmar

(B) Bangladesh

(D) Venezuela

Answer: Bangladesh

70. The 2016 World Robot Olympiad will be held in which country?

(A) China

(B) Japan

(D) India

Answer: India

71. The 2016 Heart of Asia (HoA) – Istanbul Ministerial Process will be hosted by which country?

(A) Pakistan

(B) India

(D) China

Answer: India

72. Which state has become the first Indian state to adopt resolution on demonetisation?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Chhattisgarh

(D) Haryana

Answer: Chhattisgarh

73. Ram Naresh Yadav, who recently passed away, was the former Chief Minister of which state?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Rajasthan

(D) Haryana

Answer: Uttar Pradesh

74. Which state government has recently inked MoU with Union Ministry of Civil Aviation for Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN?

(A) Assam

(B) Odisha

(D) Madhya Pradesh

Answer: Assam

75. Which state government has launched “Lakshya Bhagirathi” campaign to complete the irrigation projects?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Chhattisgarh

(D) Assam

Answer: Chhattisgarh

76. The Asia’s largest man-made ‘Jungle Safari’ is located in which state of India?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Chhattisgarh

(D) Uttar Pradesh

Answer: Chhattisgarh

77. “Aware and Care” the health awareness campaign has been launched by which state government?

(A) Uttar Pradesh

(B) Kerala

(D) Karnataka

Answer: Punjab

78. “Parippida Mission” has been launched by which state government to ensure housing for all?

(A) Kerala

(B) Karnataka

(D) Assam

Answer: Kerala

79. Which state government has signed a MoU with the Microsoft India for digital initiatives?

(A) Andhra Pradesh

(B) Kerala

(D) Tamil Nadu

Answer: Telangana

80. “Smart Water Distribution Monitoring” web portal has been launched by which state government?

(A) Andhra Pradesh

(B) Telangana

(D) Tamil Nadu

Answer: Andhra Pradesh

81. The 2016 International Tourism Mart has started in which state of India?

(A) Arunachal Pradesh

(B) Manipur

(D) West Bengal

Answer: Manipur

82. The first Indian National Open Accuracy Paragliding Championship has started in which state?

(A) Uttarakhand

(B) Sikkim

(D) Himachal Pradesh

Answer: Himachal Pradesh

83. Which state has topped the NITI Aayog’s 2016 Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index?

(A) Gujarat

(B) Rajasthan

(D) Maharashtra

Answer: Maharashtra

84. Which state government has observed November 1 as ‘No Tobacco Day’?

(A) Punjab

(B) Kerala

(D) Haryana

Answer: Punjab

85. India’s first Cherry Blossom Festival has started in which state?

(A) Arunachal Pradesh

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(D) Himachal Pradesh

Answer: Meghalaya

86. India’s first-ever Liquefied Natural Gas driven bus has been launched in which state?

(A) Kerala

(B) Assam

(D) Karnataka

Answer: Kerala

87. The world’s highest skywalk will come up in which state of India?

(A) Himachal Pradesh

(B) Assam

(D) Sikkim

Answer: Sikkim

88. Which state will be the first Indian state to launch cyber police stations in all districts?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Assam

(D) Odisha

Answer: Maharashtra

89. The 2016 Urban Mobility India conference has started in which state?

(A) Punjab

(B) Gujarat

(D) Assam

Answer: Gujarat

90. Which state has become the first Indian state to adopt the Fly Ash Utilization Policy?

(A) Andhra Pradesh

(B) Maharashtra

(D) Uttar Pradesh

Answer: Maharashtra

91. India’s first digital and cashless village “Akodara” is located in which state?

(A) Tamil Nadu

(B) Gujarat

(D) Kerala

Answer: Gujarat

92. The National Institute of Sowa Rigpa will be established in which state?

(A) Himachal Pradesh

(B) Jammu & Kashmir

(D) Uttarakhand

Answer: Jammu & Kashmir

93. “Saur Sujala Yojana” has been launched in which state of India?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Rajasthan

(D) Sikkim

Answer: Chhattisgarh

94. Which of the following states have topped the 2016 all-India State/Union Territory-wise Ease of Doing Business rankings?

(A) Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

(B) Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

(D) Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan

Answer: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

95. India’s first and Asia’s longest cycle highway has been opened in which state of India?

(A) Uttar Pradesh

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(D) Assam

Answer: Uttar Pradesh

96. The 2016 Great Indian Film and Literature Festival will be held in which state?

(A) Uttar Pradesh

(B) Maharashtra

(D) Haryana

Answer: Haryana

97. “Har Ghar Bijli Lagataar” programme has been launched by which state government?

(A) Bihar

(B) Uttar Pradesh

(D) Rajasthan

Answer: Bihar

98. “Annapurna Rasoi Programme” will be started by which state government to provide quality meal to weaker section?

(A) Rajasthan

(B) Uttar Pradesh

(D) Odisha

Answer: Rajasthan

99. Which of the following states have become Open Defecation Free states in India?

(A) Kerala, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh

(B) Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim

(D) Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Assam

Answer: Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim

100. Which Indian state will become the first state in India to go cashless?

(A) Goa

(B) Sikkim

(D) Kerala

Answer: Goa

IAS - All You Need to Know

27 December 2016

100 MCQs - NOVEMBER 2016 CURRENT AFFAIRS

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