1.Who has been elected as the new Secretary General of the United Nations?
Answer: Antonio Guterres

2. Which State is declared as the first organic farming state of India?
Answer: Sikkim

3. Venue for 2016 Olympics ?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4. UN Observes 2016 as ________?
Answer: International Year of Pulses

5 . Who was recently appointed as Chairman of Competition Commission of India?
Answer: Devender Kumar Sikri

6. What is the full form for ASBA that was recently in news ?
Answer: Application Supported by Blocked Amount (Introduced by SEBI for applying to IPO – initial public offers )

7. Who will be the chief guest at 2016 Republic day parade?
Answer: French President Francois Hollande

8.Who is the First Lady chief minister in jammu and kashmir?
Answer: Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed

9. First railway university will be in which state?
Answer: Gujarat( Vadodara )

10. Who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog ( National Institution for Transforming India)?
Answer : Arvind Panagariya

11. which is the 29th state of india?
Answer: Telangana

12. Which state moving it’s capital to “Amaravati” ?
Answer: Andhra pradesh

13. Which is the First Digital state in India?
Answer: Kerala

14 First Digital district in India?
Answer: Idukki(Kerala)

15. Who Won 2016 oscar – best actor award ?
Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio

16. Who Won 2016 oscar – best actress award ?
Answer: brie Larson

17. Who Won 2016 oscar – best film ?
Answer: Spotlight

18. Who is the winner of abel prize 2016?
answer: Andrew Wiles( Brittan )

19. which is the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Venue ?
Answer: India

20. The eighth BRICS Summit(2016) will be held in which country?
Answer: India(Goa)

21. India’s first Semi high speed train?
Answer: Gatimaan running between Delhi and agra

22. Newly elected assam chief minister?
Answer: Sarbanada Sonowal(BJP)

23. Newly elected kerala chief minister?
Answer: pinarayi vijayan

24. Newly elected Tamilnadu chief minister?
Answer: Jayalalitha

25. which state is linked with jat protest?
Answer: Haryana

26*.What is the mascot of 2016 Rio Olympics ?
Answer: Vinicius and Tom

27. Who was the flag bearer for India in the 2016 Rio Olympics ?
Answer: Abhinav Bindra

28.Indian player who won silver medal in badminton at Rio Olympics 2016 ?
Answer: P V Sindhu

29.Indian player who won bronze medal in wrestling at Rio Olympics 2016 ?
Answer: Sakshi malik

30. The youngest Indian who won Olympic medal ?
Answer : P V Sindhu

31.Which country won highest number of medals in Rio Olympics 2016?
Answer: United states has won total 121 medals with 46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze medals followed by Great Britain with 67 medals (27 gold) While China grabbed the third spot with 26 golds (70 overall). India was placed at 67th position with one silver and one bronze.

*32. Where is the venue for 2020 olympics?
Answer: Tokyo

*33. 2016 rajiv gandhi khel ratna award winners?
Answer: Sindhu(badminton), Sakshi malik(wrestling), Dipa Karmakar(gymnastics), Jitu Rai(shooting)

34.  Total number of medals won by India in Rio 2016 Paralympic Games is______.
Answer:  India won four medal (2 Gold,1 Silver, 1 Bronze) in Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

  • Gold medal winners – Mariyappan Thangavelu (high jump), and Devendra Jhajharia (javelin throw)
  • Silver Medal winner- Deepa Malik (Shot putt)
  • Bronze Medal – Varun Singh Bhati (high jump)

*35.Where is the venue for 2018 Asian games ?
Answer: Indonesia

*36. Newly elected prime minister of United Kingdom?
Answer: Theresa may

*37. Who wrote the book “Aranyer Adhikar”?
Answer: Mahasweta devi(Bengali writer recently passed away.Other important books “Titu Mir , Hajar Churashir Maa”)

38*. Who is appointed as 24th RBI Governor on 20th August 2016 ? ?
Answer: Urjit Patel

39*. Where is the venue for 2016 G20- summit?
Answer: Hangzhou, China

40* Where is the venue for Asean summit 2016?
Answer: Lavos

41*. Who wrote the the book ” One Indian girl”?
Answer: Chetan bhagath

42* who won 2016 nobel prize in medicine ?
Answer: Yoshinori ohsumi

43*. Who is the winner of 2016 Nobel prize in physics ?
Answer:David thouless,Duncane haldane, Michael kosterlitz

44*. Who is the winner of 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry ?
Answer: Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Ben Feringa

45*.Who won 2016 Nobel prize in Literature ?
Answer:Bob Dylan

46*. Who is the winner of 2016 Nobel peace prize
Answer: Juan Manuel Santos(President of Colombia )

47* who are the winners of 2016 Nobel prize in economics?
Answer: Oliver Hart & Bengt Holmstrom

48. The venue for 2016 SAARC summit (19th) ?
Answer: Islamabad (Pakistan)

49. Which Indian shuttler wins the China Open Series Premier title
Answer: PV Sindhu

50.  Which country top the list of high gender equality list published by World Economic Forum for 2015?
Answer:  Iceland