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Q) Which football club has won the 2019 Super Cup of Football title?
A. FC Goa
B.Chennaiyin FC
C.Bengaluru FC
D. Pune City

Q) Who has won the men’s singles title at 2019 Singapore Open?
A. Kento Momota
B.Takeshi Kamura
C.Mohammad Ahsan
D.Anthony Sinisuka

Q) Who has become the new Prime Minister of the Palestine?

A. Mahmoud Abbas
B. Mohammed Ishtayeh
C. Imran Fateh
D. Abbas Mohammed Qureshi

Q) Name the Indian Boxer who has won the gold medal in the 54 kg category at the Boxing
World Cup in Cologne, Germany?
A. Pinki Rani
B. Parveen
C. Sakshi Malik
D. Meena Kumari Maisnam

Q) Who has become the 1st cricketer to score 100 “50-plus scores” in T20 cricket history?
A. David Warner
B.Chris Gayle
C.M S Dhoni
D.Virat Kohli

Q) SPACE X will launch the DART mission of NASA in June 2021, What does “R” in
DART stands for?
A. Redirection
B.Radiance
C.Recycle
D.Radar

Q) The world's largest airplane called ‘Roc’ weighing nearly 2,26,800 kilograms took its
first flight from which city ?
A.NewYork
B.Washington DC
C.Calfornia
D.Seattle

Q) Which country’s lunar mission Beresheet crashed on the Moon?

A. Japan
B.Israel
C.UAE
D.Russia

Q) Which golfer has clinched his fifth Masters and 15th major title after 11 years?
A. Tiger Woods
B.Rory Mcllroy
C.Dustin Johnson
D.Justin Rose

Q) Who has won the World Press Photo Of The Year 2019 award for “Crying Girl” image?
A. Steve McCurry
B. Lee Jeffries
C. John Moore
D.Jimmy Nelsson

Q) The DRDO has successfully test-fired the long-range sub-sonic cruise missile named
what?
A.Nirbhay
B.Dhruv
C. Trishul
D.Vaayu

Q) Who has become the highest-scoring Indian batsman in T20 format?

A. Suresh Raina
B.MS Dhoni
C. Virat Kohli
D.Rohit Sharma

Q) Which two newspapers were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their separate investigations of
President Donald Trump and his family?
A. New York Times
B. The Wall Street Journal
C. Washington Post
D. A&B
E. B&C
F. A&C

Q) Who has been appointed as the Managing Director of Twitter for its India Operation ?
A. Vimal Jain
B. Rajeev Parakh
C. Manish Maheshwari
D. Gagandeep Bhatia

Q) The Indian Air Force (IAF) is going to recommend Wing Commander Abhinandan
Varthaman for which gallantry medal
A. Mahavir Chakra.
B. Kirti Chakra.
C. Vir Chakra.
D. Shaurya Chakra.

Q) Which country is hosting the Asian Weightlifting Championships 2019 ?

A. Japan
B. China
C. India
D. South Korea

Q) Which terror group has taken the responsibility of Easter suicide attacks of Srilanka ?
A. Islamic State
B. Boko Haram
C. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
D. Al-Shabaab

Q) India’s first gold at the 23rd Asian athletics championships was won by whom ?
A. Dutee Chand
B. Hima Das
C. Nilima Ghose
D. Gomathi Marimuthu

Q) 'Raavana-1‘ is the satellite launched by which country?

A.India
B.Sri lanka
C.Nepal
D.Mali

Q) Which country will host the G20 summit in November 2020?

A. India
B.UAE
C. Saudi Arab
D.France

Q) Bus ticketing platform redBus has appointed whom as its brand ambassador?
A. Hardik Pandya
B. M S Dhoni
C. Virat Kohli
D. Rohit Sharma

Q) The Ministry of External Affairs has set up an Indo-Pacific division in the foreign office,
name the head of the Indo-Pacific Wing?
A. Vikram Doraiswami
B. Anubhav Kumar
C. Vijay Pawar
D. Avin K Parakh

Q) US President Donald Trump has announced to bestow Presidential Medal of Freedom

to which golfer?
A. Brooks Koepka
B. Rory McIlroy
C. Dustin Johnson
D. Tiger Woods

Q) Which General Insurance Company has been certified with ISO 31000:2018?
A. Shriram
B.Reliance
C.Royal Sundaram
D.Cholamandalam MS

Q) Who has become the first Indian to be inducted to National Geospatial Advisory
Committee (NGAC) of US?
A. Suresh Seth
B.Sanjay Kumar
C. Vishal Patel
D.Keshav Gupta

Q) The Centre has approved a proposal to change the name of a village in Madhya Pradesh
from ‘Durjanpur’ to ‘________ ’ ?
A. Shivpuri
B.Shivdham
C.Durgapur
D.Awadhpuri
Q) What is the rank of India in World Press Freedom Index 2019?
A.143
B.140
C.131
D.129

Q) Alan Garcia, who passed away recently, was the former President of which country?
A. Mali
B.Poland
C.Peru
D.Slovenia

Q) Naval exercise “VARUNA” will be held between India and which Country?
A. Srilanka
B.Argentina
C. France
D.Russia

Q) The Election Commission (EC) has launched which mobile application that provides
near-real time availability of voter turnout during elections across India?
A. Citizens Turnout
B. Elections 2019
C. Voter Turnout
D. Real Time Turnout
Q) Which two Indian Navy warships participated in the International Fleet Review (IFR)
held at Qingdao, China on April 23?
A. INS Kolkata
B. INS Shakti
C. INS Vikrant
D. A&C
E. A&B
F. B&C

Q) Who has become the first Indian woman to be elected to the Fellow of the Royal Society
(FRS), in 359-year history of the prestigious scientific academy?
A. Gagandeep Kang
B. Jaspreet Kaur
C. Manpreet Singh
D. Amrita Shaw

Q) The Book on Jallianwala Bagh poem ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ was released in which country
recently?
A. Saudi Arab
B.UAE
C. Japan
D.Russia

Q) Who will become the 1st world leader to meet Crown Prince Naruhito after he's
crowned Japan's new emperor on May 1?
A. Narendra Modi
B. Donald Trump
C. Scott Morrison
D. Justin Trudeau

Q) India has rebuilt Chhyoiphel Kundeling Monastery in which country?

A. Srilanka
B.Mali
C.Nepal
D.Singapore

Q) The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of five teagrowing and consuming countries,
was launched in which country?
A. Japan
B.China
C. Sri Lanka
D.Indonesia

Q) Saudi Arabia has issued a formal order increasing the Haj quota of India to _____ ?
A. 1.75 lakh
B. 3 lakh
C. 2.5 lakh
D. 2 lakh

Q) Who has been apointed as Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) exclusive
Corporate Ambassador to the Indian Business Community?
A. Sunil Gavaskar
B. Ajit Agarkar
C. Harsha Bhogle
D. Ravi Shastri

Q) Which astronaut is going to have her mission on the International Space Station (ISS)
extended to 328 days, which would set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a
woman?
A. Christina Koch
B. Sandra Magnus
C. Jessica Meir
D. Beth Moses

Q) The Indian Navy has launched a guided missile destroyer named what at Mazagon
Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai?
A. Mizoram
B. Vishakhapatnam
C. Kochi
D. Imphal

Q) India’s first Centre of Excellence for drone development to come up at which IIT?
A. IIT Madras
B. IIT Hyderabad
C. IIT Kanpur
D. IIT Bombay

Q) Con de Lange, an all-rounder cricketer from which country passed away at the age of
38 years?
A. Ireland
B.South Africa
C. Scotland
D.New Zealand

Q) The world's tallest indoor waterfall, 131-foot-tall, opened for the general public at
which Airport?
A. Jewel Changi Airport
B. Capital International Airport
C. Tokyo Haneda Airport
D. Dubai International Airport
Q) Which retail company has become India’s first retail company to cross the Rs.1 lakh
crore annual revenue milestones?
A. Big Bazaar
B. Reliance
C. HyperCity
D. DMart

Q) Yusuf Hamied who was honoured in the 2019 list of new fellows of the UK’s Royal
Society, is the chairman of which company?
A. Lupin Ltd
B. Sun Pharmaceutical
C. Aurobindo Pharma
D. Cipla

Q) According to the International Labour Organization , Bhopal gas tragedy was among
the world’s “major industrial accidents” of the 20th century. This tragedy took place in
which year?
A. 1983
B. 1984
C. 1986
D. 1985

Q) Universe’s first molecule, formed 14 billion years ago, was detected in space recently.
Name the molecule?
A.Helium hydride ion
B.Terbium hydride Ion
C.Curium hydride ion
D.Mercury hydride ion

Q) Comedian and actor Volodymyr Zelensky has won the 2019 Presidential election of
which country?
A.Ukraine
B.Romania
C.Belarus
D.Hungary

Q) Which of the following has won the 73rd edition of Santosh Trophy?
A. Goa
B.Punjab
C. Services
D.Railways

Q) Which Malayalam film has won the best cinematography award at the Beijing
International Film Festival?
A. Bhayanakam
B. Athiran
C. Janaadhipan
D. Panthu

Q) What was the rank of India in the recently released Index of Cancer Preparedness
(ICP)?
A. 18th
B.11th
C. 14th
D.19th

Q) With an aim to honour renowned India-born economist Amartya Sen which institutions
has announced a Chair in Inequality Studies in his name?
A. London School of Economics
B.Harvard University
C.University of Oxford
D.Erasmus School of Economics

Q) According to FAME II guidelines electric vehicles in India must locally source at least
______ per cent components in order to receive subsidies?
A. 40 %
B. 20 %
C. 35 %
D. 50 %

Q) Mount Agung Volcano which erupts again recently is located in which country?
A. Indonesia
B. Malaysia
C. Laos
D. Cambodia

Q) Which country will host the g20 leaders summit on 21-22 November 2020?
A. Qatar
B. Saudi Arabia
C. UAE
D. India

Q) Which bank has received the approval of the Competition Commission of India (CCI)
for the proposed acquisition of Gruh Finance?
A. Dhanlaxmi Bank
B. Federal Bank
C. Bandhan Bank
D. City Union Bank

Q) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) had committed to provide USD _____ billion in
sovereign loans to India in 2018?
A. 3 billion
B. 2 billion
C. 4 billion
D. 2.6 billion

Q) Punjab National Bank (PNB) has appointed whom as the Executive Director of the
bank?
A. Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi
B. L V Prabhakar
C. A K Azad
D. Rajeev Kumar

Q)Who has been named as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian team for the Street Child
Cricket World Cup 2019?
A. Smriti Mandhana
B. Mithali Raj
C. Jhulan Goswami
D. Ekta Bisht

Q) Notre Dame Cathedral is located in which city?

A. Rome
B. Paris
C. Stockholm
D. Venice

Q) ‘IN – VPN BILAT EX’ took place between India and which country?
A. Vanuatu
B. Indonesia
C. Venezuela
D. Vietnam

Q) Which state celebrated its 72nd Foundation Day on 15th April?

A. Uttarakhand
B. Manipur
C. Sikkim
D. Himachal Pradesh

Q)The Supreme Court has banned all mining activities along which National Park?
A. Kanha National Park
B. Kaziranga National Park
C. Kalesar National Park
D. Manas National Park

Q) Google has opened its first African artificial intelligence (AI) centre in which country?
A. Ghana
B. Togo
C. Burkina Faso
D. Niger

Q) Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat has commissioned which offshore patrol
vessel at Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh?
A. Shaurya
B. Veera
C. Vaibhav
D. Vishal

Q) The Election Commission of India had cancelled polling in which constituency on the
grounds of misuse of money?
A. Vellore
B. Harur
C. Salem
D. Erode

Q) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued the bank notes of which denomination that
are signed by the Governor Shaktikanta Das?
A. Rs 10
B. Rs 100
C. Rs 50
D. Rs 200

Q) From which year onwards, the CBSE students with visual impairment will be allowed to
use magnifying glasses and portable video magnifiers during the Class X final examination
?
A. 2021
B. 2020
C. 2022
D. 2023

Q) Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued guidelines for Candida auris
which is a ____________ ?
A. Algae
B. Fungus
C. Bacteria
D. Virus

Q) Who has been named brand ambassador of Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) ?
A. Sanjeev Kapoor
B. Vikas Khanna
C. Ranveer Brar
D. Kunal Kapur
Q) Which organization was conferred with Swacchta Pakhwada Award 2019 ?
A. All India Radio
B. Publication Division
C. Children’s Film Society of India
D. All of the above

Q) UN English Language Day was observed on ?

A. April 22
B. April 24
C. April 23
D. April 21

Q) Which country has been nominated as the “Guest of Honour” country at the 29th
edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) ?
A. France
B. India
C. US
D. Sweden

Q) Who has become the first Indian to hit 200 sixes in the Indian Premier League ?
A. Virat Kohli
B. Suresh Raina
C. Yuvraj Singh
D. M S Dhoni

Q) The government has extended the ban on import of milk and its products from which
country ?
A. Russia
B. China
C. US
D. Germany

Q) Hope Probe project is an ambitious dream project of which country to send a mission to
Mars ?
A. Saudi Arab
B. UAE
C. Turkey
D. Egypt

Q) The Reserve Bank of India has divested its entire stake in which of the following
Organization ?
A. NABARD
B. NHB
C. SEBI
D. A&C
E. B &C
F. A&B

Q) Which country has released a special commemorative stamp on the theme of Ramayana
to mark the 70th anniversary of establishment of its diplomatic ties with India ?
A. Malaysia
B. Singapore
C. Indonesia
D. Thailand

Q) Name the Pakistan Journalist who has been named as the 71st World Press Freedom
Hero by the International Press Institute (IPI) ?
A. Hamid Mir
B. Ansar Abbasi
C. Asma Shirazi
D. Cyril Almeida

Q) Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to name a new community in the occupied
Golan Height after whom ?
A. Donald Trump
B. Narendra Modi
C. Barack Obama
D. David Ben-Gurion

Q) Which country has successfully tested the world’s first floating nuclear power plant
(NPP), Akademik Lomonosov ?
A. France
B. Belarus
C. Russia
D. Estonia

Q) RBI has given its in-principle approval to which Bank for acquiring 9.9 per cent stake
in Bandhan Bank ?
A. ICICI Bank
B. HDFC Bank
C. Axis Bank
D. Yes Bank

Q) Who was honoured with the prestigious Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award ?
A. Salim Khan
B. Madhur Bhandarkar
C. Helen
D. All of the above

Q) Which Cryptocurrency Exchange company has introduced India’s first platform for
wholesale cryptocurrency trading ?
A. Unocoin
B. BuyUcoin
C. Coinmama
D. Unboxcoin

Q) National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved merger of which private sector
lender Bank with Bharat Financial Inclusion (BFIL) ?
A. City Union Bank
B. Karur Vysya Bank
C. RBL Bank
D. IndusInd Bank

Q) The second edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize was awarded to author Rana
Dasgupta for his which novel ?
A. Tokyo Cancelled
B. Notes on a Suicide
C. Solo
D. Capital

Q) Who has become the first Indian-origin person to win an election in Japan, having
gotten elected to Tokyo's Edogawa Ward assembly?
A. Amogh Despande
B. Puranik Yogendra
C. Madan Singh
D. Arvind Akolkar

Q) Who has taken charge as the 52nd Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) ?
A. Vinayak Patil
B. Rajendra Kumar Nayak
C. Arun Kumar Rastogi
D. Karan Acharya

Q) Who has become the first woman Zonal Manager of LIC ?

A. Naina Lal Kidwai
B. Archana Bhargava
C. Kaku Nakhate
D. Mini Ipe

Q) Who is set to take over as the new Managing Director and CEO of Indian Overseas
Bank from July 1, 2019 ?
A. Karnam Sekar
B. R. Subramanian Kumar
C. Suresh Sethi
D. Arun Kumar Goel
Q) Former Indian Army Chief General (Retired) Dalbir Singh Suhag was appointed as
India's High Commissioner to which country ?
A. Taiwan
B. Cuba
C. Seychelles
D. Malta

Q) United States has listed which animal as threatened species under the Endangered
Species Act ?
A. Giraffe
B. Polar Bear
C. Bison
D. Red Panda

Q) Which company has become the world's third company to hit USD 1 trillion value ?
A. Alibaba
B. Microsoft
C. Toyota Motor
D. Walmart

Q) What was the rank of India in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2019 ?
A. 78th
B. 80th
C. 59th
D. 90th

Q) India’s first laboratory meat project took off in which city ?

A. Bengaluru
B. Delhi
C. Hyderabad
D. Chennai

Q) The Reserve Bank of India has allowed foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to invest
in which bonds ?
A. Municipal Bonds
B. Green Bonds
C. Mortgage Bonds
D. Corporate Bonds

Q) Which airline has become the first major airline to operate a flight without any single-
use plastics on board ?
A. Etihad Airways
B. Qatar Airways
C. Singapore Airlines
D. Malaysia Airlines
Q) The Reserve Bank of India will soon issue new Rs 20 denomination bank notes which
has motif of which monument on the reverse of the note ?
A. Charminar
B. India Gate
C. Ellora Caves
D. Raj Ghat

Q) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has launched which program to
eliminate malaria from India by 2030?
A. LINK India
B. MERA India
C. SAFE India
D. NOTE India

Q) Ministry of Finance has approved ______ % interest rate on Employees’ Provident

Fund (EPF) for 2018-19 ?
A. 8 %
B. 7.81 %
C. 9 %
D. 8.65 %

Q) Which player has won the Asian Snooker Tour title ?

A. Aditya Mehta
B. Lucky Vatnani
C. Pankaj Advani
D. Manan Chandra

Q) Who has become the new CEO of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
Telecommunication (SWIFT) ?
A. Lisa Su
B. Rich Lesser
C. James Hackett
D. Javier Perez Tasso

Q) Which country has sealed One-Day International status for the very first time with a
third straight victory at the World Cricket League Division Two event in Namibia ?
A. United States of America
B. Canada
C. Hong Kong
D. Namibia

Q) A 35-member women police team 'Sthree Shakthi' was launched in which city of
Andhra Pradesh ?
A. Visakhapatnam
B. Amaravati
C. Tirupati
D. Vijaywada

Q) The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has set up a committee
under whose chairmanship to review the regulatory framework on micro insurance ?
A. Suresh Mathur
B. Vijay Anand
C. Sandeep Bakshi
D. H R Khan

Q) The BepiColombo mission is a collaborative project between the European Space

Agency (ESA) and Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the exploration of which
planet ?
A. Venus
B. Mercury
C. Mars
D. Saturn

Q) The Reserve Bank of India has extended the NBFC Ombudsman Scheme 2018 to Non-
Deposit Taking Non-Banking Financial Companies with assets size of minimum what
amount ?
A. Rs 50 Cr
B. Rs 100 Cr
C. Rs 200 Cr
D. Rs 150 Cr

Q) Name the Indian golfer who has won the outstanding achievement as a player award at
the 4th edition of the Annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) awards ?
A. Shiv Kapur
B. Anirban Lahiri
C. Himmat Rai
D. Gaganjeet Bhullar

Q) Who has won his first World Cup gold medal at the ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in
the 10m Air Pistol Men category ?
A. Saurabh Chaudhary
B. Abhishek Verma
C. Shahzar Rizvi
D. Arjun Singh Cheema

Q) The Indian Army has signed an MoU with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation
Limited (NHPC) to construct tunnels on borders of which two countries ?
A. China
B. Pakistan
C. Bangladesh
D. A & B
E. B & C
F. A & C

Q) The Central Works Public Department (CPWD) has constituted an 8 member expert
committee under whose chairmanship to formulate a design policy for building
construction and infrastructure development ?
A. M K Sharma
B. Vijay Verma
C. C N Qureshi
D. Aniruddh Bagga

Q) Who is the only Indian who has been featured in Fortune magazine’s 2019 list of
world’s 100 greatest leaders ?
A. Kailash Satyarthi
B. Arunachalam Muruganantham
C. Narendra Modi
D. Mukesh Ambani

Q) Name the Mizoram Boy who tried to save a chicken has received PETA India’s
‘Compassionate Kid’ Award 2019 ?
A. Bishnu Kalita
B. Derek lalchhanhima
C. Anthony Cheema
D. Rinku Das

Q) Who was the only wrestler who won the gold medal for India at 2019 Asian
Wrestling Championships held in China ?
A. Amit Panghal
B. Bajrang Punia
C. Sakshi Malik
D. Vinesh Phogat

Q) Negasso Gidada who passed away recently was a former President of which country ?
A. Vietnam
B. Ethiopia
C. Peru
D. Niger

Q) The Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) has been
celebrated its ______ th Foundation Day on 25 April ?
A. 50th
B. 45th
C. 60th
D. 49th
Q) Which nation has announced a ban on covering of the face with any kind of veil
or burqa?
A. China
B. Singapore
C. Sri Lanka
D. United States

Q) The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked how many
states to stop the sale of Johnson & Johnson Baby shampoo ?
A. Ten
B. Five
C. Fifteen
D. Seventeen

Q) “Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India” is the book written by ?

A. Hamid Ansari
B. P Chidambaram
C. Shashi Tharoor
D. Nitin Gadkari

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