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9. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has

Committees, Conferences & Summits constituted a committee under whose chairmanship for
preparing the Professional Engineers Bill?
1. Who has been appointed an honorary adviser to the steering
A) M.P. Poonia B) M .S. Ananth
committee for the BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry
C) Rajive Kumar D) Abhay Jere
(CCI) young leaders for the period 2020-2023?
A) Anand Shukla B) Sahil Seth C) Vijay Sinha D) Vishal Talreja
10. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has
formed a market data advisory committee (MDAC) under w hose
2. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up an expert
chairmanship?
committee under whose chairmanship for resolution of Covid-19
A) G. Mahalingam B) Ananta Barua
related stressed assets?
C) S. K. Mohanty D) Madhabi Puri Buch
A) Romesh Sobti B) Aditya Puri C) Rana Kapoor D) K V Kamath
11. Ministry of I&B has constituted a committee under whose
3. The Union government has s et up an expert committee under
chairmanship to review guidelines on Television Rating
whose chairmanship to probe China Watching?
Agencies in India?
A) Rajesh Pant B) Rishi Kumar Shukla
A) Shashi Shekhar Vempati B) Rajkumar Upadhyay
C) Ranjit Sinha D) .Joginder Singh
C) Pulak Ghosh D) Shalabh Pandey

4. The Centre has set up a high-level committee to prepare a

12. Which Indian diplomat was elected to the U.N. Advisory
roadmap for regularization of land leasing in the agriculture
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
sector under whose chairmanship?
(ACABQ)?
A) Madhu Thota B) Sunil kumar Gupta
A) Vidisha Maitra B) Aparna Sharma
C) Ajay Tirkey D) Saurabh Agrawal
C) Devyani Khobragade D) Neelam Shah

5. SEBI has set-up a technical committee on the social stock

13. As per which committee's report, UGC recommended 20
exchange under whose chairmanship?
institutions for Institutes of Eminence (IoE)?
A) Harsh Kumar Bhanwala B) Ashok Gulati
A) G. Mahalingam B) N Gopalaswami
C) Govinda Rajulu Chintala D) Santhosh Jayaram
C) Shalabh Pandey D) Devyani Khobragade
● SEBI Committee on mutual funds - Usha Thorat
● Municipal bonds development committee - Sujit P rasad 14. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Committee
● Market data advisory committee - Madhabi Puri Buch - First to draft the National Water Policy?
women to become whole time member of SEBI. A) V. G. Kannan B) Mihir Shah
C) Kirit Parikh D) Shashi Shekhar
6. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the women’s
selection committee by BCCI? 15. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of the road safety
A) Neetu David B) Mithu Mukherjee committee by Supreme Court?
C) Renu Margaret D) Arati Vaidya A) Balraj Tuli B) Abhay Manohar Sapre
C) Prem Chand Jain D) Chandra Gupta Suri
7. The Union government has appointed whom as the member of
the Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI? 16. Which state is going to set up a committee to suggest
A) Ashima Goyal B) Jayanth R Varma measures to improve forest tourism ?
C) Shashanka Bhide D) All of the above A) Madhya Pradesh B) Gujarat
C) Himachal Pradesh D) Maharashtra
8. The Supreme Court constituted a committee under whose
chairmanship to take steps for preventing stubble burning in 17. Who has been appointed as the chairman of the BCCI’s
Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh? selection committee ?
A) Madan B Lokur B) Indu Malhotra A) Rudra Pratap Singh B) Harvinder Singh
C) Indira Banerjee D) Hemant Gupta C) Sunil Joshi D) MSK Prasad

18. The government has formed a committee under which

Ministry to work out the operational modalities of ' Kisan Rail’?
A) Ministry of Agriculture B) Ministry of Railways
C) Ministry of Corporate Affairs D) Ministry of Home Affairs

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19. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal for 28. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the
the abolition of 9,304 posts in the Military Engineering Service International Boxing Association's (AIBA) champions and
(MES ) following the recommendation of which committee? veterans committee?
A) D.B. Shekatkar B) Satinder Kumar Saini A) Vijender Singh B) Mary Kom
C) P R Venkatesh D) S T Upasani C) Pinki Jangra D) Akhil Kumar

20. A high-level committee of experts has been formed by the 29. The Central Government has decided to constitute "an
government to recommend reforms in India's drug regulatory empowered committee for manufacturing in high technology
system. Who will head this committee? areas”. The committee will be headed by?
A) Rajesh Bhushan B) Prashant Khare A) Minister of Commerce and Industry B) Minister of Textile
C) Avinash Bhatia D) Kailash Kanitkar C) Minister of Corporate Affairs D) Minister of Power

21. The National Human Rights Commission has constituted a 30. ISRO gave its nod to the Parliamentary Standing Committee
committee under whose chairmanship to study COVID impact on on Education led by whom to provide technical assistance for
human rights? satellite TV classrooms in the country?
A) K S Reddy B) Nimesh G Desai A) Amit Shah B) Ramesh Pokhriyal
C) Abhey Shukla D) Viraf Mehta C) Vinay Sahastrabuddhe D) Harsh Vardhan

22. Who has been appointed Chairman of the Technical Advisory 31. Who from India has been appointed as one of the members of
Committee of the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA)? the UN tax committee for the 2021 to 2025 term?
A) Udesh Kohli B) R Narayanaswamy A) Neena Gopalan B) Anish Patnaik
C) Dilip Shanghvi D) Raghavendra Narayan C) Rasmi Ranjan Das D) Vibha Rathore

23. The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has set 32. Who will chair a meeting of the High-Level Committee (HLC)
up a “ Stay in India and Study in India” committee under whose to commemorate the 400th Birth Anniversary (Prakash Purab) of
chairmanship? Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji?
A) Amit Khare B) Pankaj Mittal A) Nitin Gadkari B) S Jaishankar
C) Anil Sahasrabudhe D) D.P. Singh C) Amit Shah D) Narendra Modi

24. Who is the head of the national level committee set up by the 33. RBI under whose chairmanship has set up an external
Home Ministry, for reform in criminal law? advisory committee for evaluating banking applications?
A) Ajay Kanwar B) Ranbir Singh A) Dilip S. Shanghvi B) Narayan Dubey
C) Vimal Kumar D) Prakash Padukone C) Shyamala Gopinath D) B.Mahapatra

25. The Union Government has decided to form a committee 34. Under whose chairmanship government has formed an
under whose chairmanship for protecting the language, culture expert committee for Startup India Seed Fund Scheme?
and land of Ladakh? A) Sushil Kumar B) A K Tripathi C) H K Mittal D) Anju Bhalla
A) Amit Shah B) G Kishan Reddy
C) Rajeev Kumar D) Prahlad Singh Patel 35. RBI under whose chairmanship has constituted a committee to
review the working of Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs)?
26. The Union government has constituted an empowered A) Sudarshan Sen B) Anil Kumar Sharma
committee for administration of Covid-19 vaccine under whose C) Mridul Saggar D) Vivek Deep
chairmanship?
A) RS Sharma B) Abhay Karandikar 36. A committee has been constituted by NHRC under whose
C) Rajiv Sinha D) Rajiv Ranjan Tiwari chairmanship to probe complaints of post-poll violence in West
Bengal?
27. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has constituted an e xpert A) Prafulla Chandra B) Rajiv Jain
committee under whose chairmanship on Primary ( Urban) Co- C) Mahesh Mittal D) Rajendra Babu
operative Banks?
A) M. D. Patra B) B.P. Kanungo 37. Dr. Harsh Vardhan , Union Minister for Health and Family
C) N.S. Vishwanathan D) M. K. Jain Welfare digitally chaired which session of WHO Executive
Board, through Video Conference?
A) 150th B) 148th C) 120th D)170th

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38. The International Solar Alliance (ISA) is plannng to launch the
WSB at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Glasgow in November. What is the full form of WSB?
A) Wind Solar Bank B) Work Sunlight Bank
C) World Solar Bank D) None of the above
39. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar attended which edition
of Ministerial Conference of Heart of Asia - Istanbul Process
(HoA-IP) on Afghanistan in Dushanbe?
A) Eighth B) Ninth C) Fifth D) Eleventh
40. What was the theme of the IAF Commanders’ Conference
2021?
A) Reorienting for the Future B) IAF in the Next Decade
C) Enhancing our operational capability D) None of the above
41. Which company has launched the 'School of Hope and
Empowerment' (S.H.E.) at the 2021 UNESCO World Conference
on Education for Sustainable Development?
A) Wipro B) Tata Communication C) Microsoft D) Infosys
42. The 8th International Nitrogen Initiative Conference (INI2020)
was held in which country?
A) Denmark B) France C) Poland D) Germany
43. In which city National Water Conference was held?
A) New Delhi B) Mumbai C) Ranchi D) Bhopal
44. The 13 th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on
the conservation of migratory species of wild animals (CMS) will
be held in which city?
A) Pune B) Chennai C) Gandhinagar D) Manali
45. What was the theme of the 56th Munich Security Conference
(MSC) 2020?
A) Westlessness B) Climate Change
C) Focusing on people D) Role Of Mediation
46. Third High Level Global Conference on Road Safety was held
in which city? A) Stockholm B) Berlin C) London D) Warsaw
47. International Judicial Conference 2020 was organized in
which city?
A) Dehradun B) New Delhi C) Ahmedabad D) Raipur
48. International Conference on Banana 2020 was held in which
city?
A) Kochi B) Visakhapatnam C) Tiruchirappalli D) Chennai
49. International Conference on Standardisation of Diagnosis and
Terminologies in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha Systems of
Medicine was held in which city?
A) Mumbai B) New Delhi C) Pune D) Hyderabad
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50. The First South Asian Conference on Sustainability in Textile
and Apparel Industry will be held in which country?
A) Maldives B) India C) Nepal D) Sri Lanka
51. Which city hosted the India Pharma & India Medical Device
2020 conference?
A) New Delhi B) Gandhinagar C) Bengaluru D) Pune
52. International Conference on Nano Science and Technology
(ICONSAT) was held in which city?
A) New Delhi B) Kolkata C) Pune D) Bengaluru
53. Which city was selected to host the 5th Edition of World
Coffee Conference from 7-9 September 2020?
A) Kochi B) Chennai C) Pune D) Bengaluru
54. The conference RE-START – ‘ Reboot the Economy through
Science, Technology and Research Translations’ was organized
by which among the following?
A) FICCI B) NITI Aayog
C) Technology Development Board D) NASSCOM
55. Fifth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament (5WCSP)
was organized virtually by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
and Parliament of which country?
A) Hungary B) Austria C) Slovenia D) Croatia
56. National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL)
has organized the “ World Urdu Conference ” in which city?
A) Lucknow B) Hyderabad C) New Delhi D) Bhopal
57. The 35th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC 35)
was held under whose chairmanship?
A) India B) Bhutan C) Vietnam D) South Korea
58. Which trade association organised the “National Digital
conference on Ease of Doing Business for Atmanirbhar Bharat”?
A) NASSCOM B) ASSOCHAM C) FICCI D) CII
59. Which of the following ministries inaugurated “International
conference on Mental Health: Looking Beyond COVID 19” ?
A) Ministry of Home Affairs B) Ministry of Health
C) Ministry of Education D) Ministry of Social Justice &
Empowerment
60. Which country has decided to hold a virtual summit of the
G20 nations to address the COVID-19 pandemic?
A) Germany B) Saudi Arabia C) India D) France
Theme - “Realising the opportunities of 21st Century for all” .
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61. The 7 th World Cities Summit (WCS) will be held in which
country? A) Germany B) France C) Russia D) Singapore
62. RAISE 2020, First Indian Artificial Intelligence Summit will
take place in which city?
A) Bengaluru B) Hyderabad C) Raipur D) New Delhi
63. UN’s COP 26 climate summit has been postponed. Which city
was scheduled to host the summit this year?
A) Tokyo B) London C) New Delhi D) Glasgow
64. Which country will host the G-20 summit in 2021?
A) Italy B) Brazil C) Canada D) Saudi Arabia
65. Which country will host the Pacific islands summit in 2021?
A) Australia B) New Zealand C) Japan D) South Korea
66. Which country hosted the virtual Global Vaccine Summit
2020?
A) United States B) France C) United Kingdom D) Argentina
67. Which among the following organizations has announced to
host a “Twin Summit” in January 2021?
A) World Health Organization B) SAARC
C) United Nations D) World Economic Forum
68. 36th ASEAN Summit was held virtually in which country?
A) Thailand B) Vietnam C) Myanmar D) Brunei
69. Who are the two agricultural experts from India that are
named by the UN chief to the scientific group for 2021 food
summit?
A) Rattan Lal & Uma Lele. B) Dinesh Kumar & Krishna Gaur
C) Sanjay Manjay & Vishakha Lalwani. D) Vijay Dhavala &
Anubhuti Lahoti.
70. (APEC) Summit 2021 will be hosted by which country?
A) Malaysia B) Chile C) New Zealand D) Australia
71. The Cycling Federation of India (CFI) is all set to host the
first-ever Cycling Summit in 2021. The summit will be held in
which city?
A) Delhi B) Mumbai C) Bengaluru D) All of the above
72. Which city will hold the Global Aerospace Summit from
September 28 to 29?
A) New Delhi B) Abu Dhabi C) Muscat D) New York
73. Which country will host a summit of the council of heads of
government of the SCO on November 30?
A) Kazakhstan B) Russia C) China D) India
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74. Which state government has won the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) Award for Sabuj Sathi project?
A) Odisha B) West Bengal C) Karnataka D) Rajasthan
75. Vaishwik Bharatiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit will be
inaugurated on the birth anniversary of which personality?
A) Atal Bihari Vajpayee B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar D) Chandra Shekhar Azad
76. Which country and United Nations will co-host a global
climate summit on December 12?
A) France B) Italy C) Britain D) Germany
77. The 12 th BRICS Summit will be held virtually on November
17 under the Presidency of which country?
A) South Africa B) China C) Russia D) Brazil
Theme: “ Global Stability, Shared Security and Innovative
Growth ”.
78. Which country hosted the virtual Summit of Ministers of
Justice of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO?
A) China B) India C) Kazakhstan D) Russia
79. Which country will host the G20 summit in 2023?
A) India B) Russia C) Germany D) Canada
80. The first edition of Healthcare Future Summit took place
virtually from 6-8 December 2020 in which city?
A) Dubai B) Tokyo C) New Delhi D) Sydney
Theme : Bringing Healthcare Communities Together
81. The 5th India Water Impact Summit (IWIS) was held on 10
December. The Summit was organized by?
A) NITI Aayog B) NMCG
C) FICCI D) Department of Water Resources.
The theme of IWIS 2020 is - “ Arth Ganga: River Conservation
Synchronised Development ”.
I) Which country hosted the World Sustainable Development
Summit 2021 from 10th to 12th February?
A) India B) Japan C) Finland D) South Korea
● Theme: Redefining Our Common Future: Safe and Secure
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# Grammy 2021
Awards & Honours ● Record of the year - Everything I Wanted by Billie Eilish
• Padma Awards 2021 ● Album of the year - “Folklore” by Taylor Swift
● Song of the year- “I Can’t Breathe” by Dernst Emile II, H.E.R.
» Padma Vibhushan (7) and Tiara Thomas ● Best rap song - “Savage” by Megan Thee
Stallion featuring Beyonce. ● Best music video- “Brown Skin Girl”
by Beyonce.

87. Which movie won the award for best film at 74th edition of
the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA)?
A) Soul B) Nomadland C) The Father D) Another Round
# List of winners at BAFTA 2021
● Best Film : Nomadland ● Best Film Not In English Language :
Another Round ● Best Documentary : My Octopus Teacher
● Best Animated Film : Soul
● Best Director : Chloé Zhao, Nomadland.
82. Which Indian short film is shortlisted in top 10 films under
Live Action Short film category for 93rd Oscar Awards? 88. Name the Indian who has won Whitley Awards 2021, also
A) Chappal B) Kaash C) Bhay D) Bittu known as the Green Oscar?
A) Nuklu Phom B) Sumaira Abdulali
83. Who has won the best actor award at the Dadasaheb Phalke C) Marimuthu Yoganathan D) Kinkri Devi
International Film Festival Awards 2021?
A) Akshay Kumar B) Ajay Devgan 89. Which movie has won the best film award on environment
C) Sushant Singh Rajput D) Varun Dhawan conservation at the 67th National Films Awards 2021?
A) Bhoomi Geetha B) Black Forest C) Paani D) Water Burial
84. Who won the award for best director at the 66th Filmfare
Awards? 90. Which ship has been adjudged the best ship of the Eastern
A) Om Raut B) Homi Adajania Fleet among capital ships at Fleet Awards Function 2021?
C) Shoojit Sircar D) Anubhav Sinha A) INS Shardul B) INS Kumbhir C) INS Talwar D) INS Sahyadri

85. Which state has been conferred the award for Most Film ● INS Kamorta has received the title of the most spirited ship.
Friendly State at 67 th National Film Awards? ● INS Kiltan and INS Khukri won the best corvette trophy amongst
A) Madhya Pradesh B) Assam C) Uttarakhand D) Sikkim corvettes

# 67th National Film Awards 91. Which two cities jointly won the Smart Cities Awards 2020 for
holistic development?
● Best Hindi Film : Chhichhore ● Best Bengali Film : Gumnaami A) Pune and Chennai B) Bengaluru and Kolkata
● Best Assamese Film : Ronuwa - Who Never Surrender C) Jaipur and Nagpur D) Indore and Surat
● Best Feature Film : Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea
(Malayalam) ● Best Actor : Manoj Bajpayee for Bhonsle (Hindi), 92. Name the Indian who was honoured with the International
and Dhanush for Asuran (Tamil) Woman of Courage 2021 Award?
● Best Actress : Kangana Ranaut for Panga (Hindi) and A) Viji Penkootu B) Gowsalya Shankar
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (Hindi) C) Vandana Shiva D) Pramila Nesargi
● Best Direction : Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan for Bahattar
Hoorain (Hindi) 93. Who will be conferred with the honor of the Knight of the
Order of Arts and Letters , second highest civilian French
86. Who has created history at the 63rd Grammy Awards by honour?
becoming the only female artist to ever win 28 Grammy awards? A) Deepa Mehta B) Meghna Gulzar
A) Billie Eilish B) Taylor Swift C) Beyonce D) Madonna C) Guneet Monga D) Gauri Shinde

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94. Which airport from India has won the Airport Council 103. Who has received the 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World
International's (ACI) Director General's Roll of Excellence honour Press Freedom Prize ?
for Airport Service Quality? A) May Chidiac B) Win Tin
A) Visakhapatnam International Airport C) Jineth Bedoya Lima D) Maria Ressa
B) Cochin International Airport Ltd
C) Kempegowda International Airport 104. Who has won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2021?
D) Indira Gandhi International Airport A) Mariana Enríquez B) Tsitsi Dangarembga
C) Megan McDowell D) Benjamín Labatut
95. Which Indian movie has won the top honour, the Tiger Award
for best film, at the 50 th International Film Festival Rotterdam 105. Name the Indian Mathematician who has been named
(IFFR)? winner of the prestigious 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize?
A) Bonus B) Pebbles C) The Parcel D) Choked A) Nikhil Srivastava B) Bhaskar Yadav
C) Deepak Malviya D) Hemant Patil
96. Who won the Eminent Engineer Award for the Year 2020 by
the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)? 106. Name the Indian Origin journalist who has won the Pulitzer
A) Ashwani Lohani B) Vinod Kumar Yadav Prize for exposing China's vast infrastructure for detaining
C) Arun Kumar D) Vivek Sahai Muslims?
A) Anjali Jain B) Megha Rajagopalan
97. Which Ministry has received SKOCH Gold Award for its C) Padmasree Warrior D) Niala Boodhoo
“Empowerment of Tribals through IT enabled Scholarship
Schemes”? 107. Suchitra Durai, who received King Bhumibol World Soil Day
A) Ministry of Science and Technology. - 2020 Award on behlaf of ICAR, is a n Ambassador of India to
B) Ministry of Tribal Affairs. C) Ministry of Rural Development. which country?
D) Ministry of Panchayati Raj A) Malaysia B.Singapore C) Mauritius D) Thailand

98. Who has become the first Indian woman to win the Wildlife 108. Who has won the Pulitzer Prize 2021 for fiction category for
Photographer of the Year award? “The Night Watchman” novel?
A) Rathika Ramasamy B) Aishwarya Sridhar A) Marcia Chatelain B) Natalie Diaz
C) Ronicka Kandhari D) Latika Nath C) Tania Leon D) Louise Erdrich

99. Name the Indian who will be awarded with the p restigious 109. teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder in a live-
UN medal p osthumously for courage and sacrifice in the line of streamed video that quickly spread worldwide, was awarded the
duty? Pulitzer Prize. What’s her name?
A) Yuvraj Singh B) Ivan Michael Picardo A) Darnella Frazier B) Marley Dias
C) Mulchand Yadav D) All of the above C) Marsai Martin D) Storm Reid

100. Who has been chosen for the prestigious Central European 110. Name the Indian journalists who has won the Fukuoka Grand
University (CEU) Open Society Prize for commitment towards Prize 2021?
public health services? A) Pallavi Aiyar B) Siddharth Varadarajan
A) KK Shailaja B) Maneka Gandhi C) P. Sainath D) Aparna Karthikeyan
C) Harsh Vardhan D) Randeep Guleria
111. Which among the following has won the U NDP Equator
101. Who has been announced as the winner of the Templeton Prize 2021 from India?
prize 2021? A) Reliance Foundation B) Goonj
A) Alvin Plantinga B) Marcelo Gleiser C) HelpAge India D) Snehakunja Trust
C) Jean Vanier D) Jane Goodall
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102. Who has been conferred the World Food Prize 2021 ? has also won the UNDP Equator Prize 2021 from India.
A) Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted B) Shiny Surendran
C) Nidhi Mohan Kamal D) Mahima Sethia 112. Who among the following has won the Basque Culinary
World Prize 2021?
A) Heston Blumenthal B) Xanty Elías
C) Jamie Oliver D) Alain Ducasse

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113. Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 123. Who has been honored with the highest civilian award of
authors listed for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize, he has been Mongolia “ The Order of Polar Star” ?
selected for his which novel? A) RK Sabharwal B) Soma Mondal
A) The Year of the Runaways B) China Room C) Manoj Jain D) Rahul Dhir
C) Ours are the Streets D) Space Life Matter
124. Name the Indian who has been awarded the Ordre National
114. The tableau of which state has won the first prize at this Du Merite , or National Order of Merit of France?
year's Republic Day parade? A) Arindam Banerjee B) Dipyaman Sanyal
A) Tripura B) Uttarakhand C) Gujarat D) Uttar Pradesh C) Gaurav Vohra D) Rohini Godbole

115. Who has been awarded the 2020 Ibrahim Prize for 125. Who has been conferred Indian Personality of the Year
Achievement in African Leadership? Award at 51st IFFI?
A) Mahamadou Issoufou B) Cyril Ramaphosa A) Atul Kulkarni B) Ashok Saraf
C) Nana Akufo-Addo D) John Magufuli C) Biswajit Chatterjee D) Nana Patekar

116. Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2020 has been conferred 126. Which Airport of India has bagged global recognition from
on? the Airports Council International World's ' Voice of the
A) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman B) Yohei Sasakawa Customer' award?
C) Qaboos bin Said Al Said D) Ekal Abhiyan Trust A) Kempegowda International Airport.
B) Visakhapatnam International Airport
117. Who was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize C) Indira Gandhi International Airport.
2021? D) Cochin International Airport.
A) Loujain al-Hathloul B) Sheema Kalbasi
C) Eva Kolstad D) Shamima Shaikh 127. Who has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s
Choice Award 2020?
118. Who have been declared the winners of the 2020 A) Sudhir Shivaram B) Art Wolfe
Millennium Technology Prize ? C) Robert Irwin D) Frans Lanting
A) Shankar Balasubramanian B) David Klenerman
C) George Beller D) A&B E) B&C F) A&C 128. Which organization has received the Asia Environmental
Enforcement Award-2020 awarded by the United Nations
119. Who has won the prestigious International Booker Prize Environment Program (UNEP)?
for the book At Night All Blood is Black? A) Wildlife Trust of India B) Central Pollution Control Board
A) Linwood Barclay B) David Diop C) Forest Survey of India D) Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
C) Jane Casey D) Lucy Ferriss
129. Name the female forest officer from India who has been
120. An IIT Roorkee professor has received the ‘NSG Counter- felicitated with UN's Asia Environmental Enforcement Award?
IED & Counter-Terrorism Innovator Award 2021' for his design of A) Veena Sekhri B) Sasmita Lanka
a blast-resistant helmet, what’s his name? C) Sanjukta Mudgal D) Renu Singh
A) Shailesh Ganpule B) Sanjiva Prasad
C) Aaditeshwar Seth D) Abhijnan Chakraborty 130. Who has been awarded the 2021 Nuremberg International
Human Rights Award?
121. Name the Indian who has won the prestigious United A) Sayragul Sauytbay B) Michelle Bachelet
Nations' Land for Life Award 2021 for his conservation concept, C) Sonny Okosun D) Umaji Naik Khomane
the Familial Forestry?
A) Anand Singh Thakur B) Ketan Kumar 131. Who has been awarded the India Biodiversity Award 2021
C) Shyam Sundar Jyani D) Vineet saxena in the individual category of ‘Conservation of domesticated
species’?
122. Name the Indian - American chemist who has won the A) Shaji N.M B) Cheruvayal Raman
European Inventor Award 2021 i n the “Non-EPO countries” C) K Viswanathan D) K Anand
category?
A) Asha Negi B) Sumita Mitra
C) Naina Sharma D) Anwesha Sikander

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132. Which sports organization of India has won the prestigious 142. According to the India Justice Report (IJR) 2020 , which state
Etienne Glichitch Award ? has the best justice delivery system?
A) Cycling Federation of India A) Jharkhand B) Madhya Pradesh
B) International Boxing Association C) Maharashtra D) Himachal Pradesh
C) Hockey India D) Badminton Association of India ● The justice delivery system is best in Maharashtra and worst in
Uttar Pradesh.
133. Who will be conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold ● In the small states, with less than one crore population, Tripura
and Silver Rays by Japan? has best justice delivery system and Megahlaya the worst.
A) Nidhi Saxena B) Khyati Mishra ● Telangana has the highest share of women judges at 46.2
C) Jyoti Sharma D) Shyamala Ganesh percent, while Jharkhand has the lowest at 12.1 percent in
subordinate courts.
134. Who has become the only ranger from Asia to win the
prestigious International Ranger Award ? 143. Who was named The Best FIFA Men’s Player for 2020?
A) Mahinder Giri B) Sanjay Jha A) Lionel Messi B) Cristiano Ronaldo
C) Vishnu Kumar D) Aditya Thakur C) Robert Lewandowski D) Neymar

135. Name the Indian who was honored with the International 144. According to the NCAER Land Records and Services Index,
Woman of Courage 2021 Award? which is the best performing state in terms of digitising land
A) Viji Penkootu B) Gowsalya Shankar records?
C) Vandana Shiva D) Pramila Nesargi A) Odisha B) Karnataka
C) Maharashtra D) Madhya Pradesh
136. The building of which college has been recognised with the
2020 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage 145. According to data released by the Registrar General of
Conservation? India, which state has the worst Infant mortality rate (IMR) in the
A) Amar Singh College B) Lady Shri Ram College country at 48?
C) Miranda House D) Hansraj College A) Madhya Pradesh B) Bihar
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Jharkhand
137. Who has been awarded with the Global Teacher Prize
2020? Highlights :-
A) Ranjitsinh Disale B) Shuvajit Payne ● India’s infant mortality rate (IMR) has improved very
C) Vineeta Garg D) Nirmala Shah marginally from 33 per 1,000 live births in 2017 to 32 in 2018.
● Madhya Pradesh continues to have the worst IMR in the country
138. Which Tiger Reserve has bagged the first-ever international at 48. ● Nagaland has the best IMR at 4.
award, TX2 , for doubling tiger population? ● Among large states, Kerala is the best performer being the
A) Dudhwa Tiger Reserve B) Pilibhit Tiger Reserve only state with an IMR in single digits at 7.
C) Buxa Tiger Reserve D) Pench Tiger Reserve ● The largest decline in IMR has been registered by Mizoram
with a decline from 15 to 5.
139. Which among the following has won 2020 UN Global ● India’s birth rate stood at 20, the death rate was 6.2.
Climate Action Award for its efforts to combat climate change ● Chhattisgarh has the highest death rate in the country at 8,
amid the Covid-19 pandemic? while Delhi has the lowest at 3.
A) Indian Antarctic Program B) IMPRINT India
C) Indian Environmental Society D) Global Himalayan 146. Which state has topped the Niti Aayog’s Export
Expedition Preparedness Index 2020?
A) Maharashtra B) Gujarat
140. Who has won the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize C) Tamil Nadu D) Odisha
2020 for his book, The City and the Sea?
A) Yatish Yadav B) Krishna Saksena Key Points:
C) Ashok Vaid D) Raj Kamal Jha ● Among the landlocked states, Rajasthan has performed the
best, followed by Telangana and Haryana.
141. Which police station has been selected as the best police ● Across Union Territories, Delhi has performed the best,
station in the country for 2020? followed by Goa and Chandigarh.
A) Nongpok Sekmai B) Jhilmili C) Kharsang D) Kalighat ● Among the Himalayan states, Uttarakhand topped the chart,
followed by Tripura and Himachal Pradesh.

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147. According to National Statistical Office (NSO) survey , which # Nobel prize 2020 :
is the least literate state in India?
A) Bihar B) Madhya Pradesh
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Andhra Pradesh.

Highlights:
● After Kerala, Delhi has the best literacy rate at 88.7 per cent,
followed by Uttarakhand's 87.6 percent.
● Rajasthan is the second worst performer with literacy rate at
69.7 percent, followed by Bihar at 70.9 per cent,
● Overall literacy rate in the country at about 77.7 per cent.
● In rural areas, the literacy rate is 73.5 percent compared to
87.7 per cent in urban areas of the country.
● At all-India level, the male literacy rate is higher at 84.7 152. Who has won the prestigious International Women of
percent compared to 70.3 per cent among women. Courage Award 2020?
A) Aura Elena B) Aiman Umarova
148. Under the Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya category C) Aliyah Khalaf D) Jalila Haider
which state has bagged the first position at state level?
A) Tamil Nadu B) Gujarat C) Kerala D) Sikkim. 153. The World Health Organization (WHO) has conferred the
World No Tobacco Day Award 2020 to which NGO of India?
149. Which company has topped the list of ‘ World’s Best A) Goonj B) Katha C) SEEDS D) Kutumb
Employer 2020 ′ published by Forbes’?
A) Amazon B) Samsung C) IBM D) Microsoft. 154. Who has become the only Indian to win the prestigious
Richard Dawkins award?
150. Which state among large States category was adjudged the A) Anupam Kher B) Javed Akhtar
best governed State in the Public Affairs Index-2020 ? C) Amitabh Bachchan D) Anurag Kashyap.
A) Andhra Pradesh B) Kerala C) Odisha D) Telangana.
155. Who has been conferred with the first Prof. P C Mahalanobis
Award ?
#Public Affairs Index-2020
A) Urjit Patel B) Bimal Jalan
● Best Governed State in the Large States Category : Kerala
C) Chakravarthi Rangarajan D) Duvvuri Subbarao
(1.388 PAI Index point) followed by Tamil Nadu (0.912)
● Least Governed State in the Large States Category: Uttar
156. Who has become the PETA India's Person of the Year 2020 ?
Pradesh (-1.461) followed by Odisha (-1.201) and Bihar (-1.158 )
A) Shahid Kapoor B) John Abraham
● In the small State category : Goa ranked first with 1.745 points,
C) Kangana Ranaut D) Sonam Kapoor
followed by Meghalaya (0.797)
● The worst performers : Manipur (-0.363) followed by Delhi (-
157. Who has won the Pulitzer Prize 2021 for fiction category for
0.289) ● Best Union Territories: Chandigarh (1.05 PAI points)
“The Night Watchman” novel?
followed by Puducherry (0.52)
A) Marcia Chatelain B) Natalie Diaz
● Bottom UTs : Dadar and Nagar Haveli (-0.69) followed by
C) Tania Leon D) Louise Erdrich.
Andaman, Jammu and Kashmir (-0.50)

158. Name the Indian journalist who has been honoured with the
151. Which state has been adjudged the best in organ donation
2020 Pulitzer Prize in the field of feature photography?
in the country for the sixth consecutive year?
A) Dar Yasin B) Mukhtar Khan
A) Kerala B) Tamil Nadu
C) Channi Anand D) All of the above
C) Andhra Pradesh D) Karnataka.

159. Dubai-based Indian-origin author Avni Doshi is among the

13 authors shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Booker Prize for
her novel?
A) Burnt Sugar B) Deadly Shadows
C) A Girl to Remember D) Hunted by the Sky

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160. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has won the International 170. What is the rank of India in Global Hunger Index report
Booker Prize for the year 2020 for her which novel? 2020, prepared and published jointly by Irish aid agency
A) A. Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Concern Worldwide and German organization Welt Hunger
B) The Discomfort of Evening Hilfewas ?
C) The Memory Police A) 94th B) 88th C) 100th D) 102nd
D) The Adventures of China Iron.
171. What is the rank of India in the Global Competitiveness
161. Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize f or his which Index 2021 compiled by Competitiveness (IDM)?
novel? A) 58th B) 44th C) 43rd D) 68th
A) The Sellout B) The Sense of an Ending
C) Wolf Hall D) Shuggie Bain 172. What was the rank of India at 2021 Global Peace Index
released by Institute for Economics & Peace?
A) 135th B) 141st C) 140th D) 137th
Various Indexes
173. What is the rank of India in the International IP Index 2021
released by the U.S. Chamber Chamber of Commerce’s Global
162. What is the rank of India in the Chandler Good Innovation Policy Center (GIPC)?
Government Index (CGGI) 2021? A) 38th B) 41st C) 36th D) 40th
A) 55th B) 49th C) 38th D) 68th
174. What is the rank of India in the Corruption Perception
163. Which state was ranked first in the Sustainable Development Index 2021 released by Transparency International?
Goals Index 2020-21? A) 80th B) 78th C) 86th D) 84th
A) Himachal Pradesh B) Kerala
C) Andhra Pradesh D) Telangana 175. What is the rank of India in the 2021 Climate Change
Performance Index (CCPI) published by Germanwatch,
164. What is the rank of India in the Henley Passport Index NewClimate Institute and Climate Action Network Europe.?
2021? A) 11th B) 9th C) 12th D) 10th
A) 74th B) 85th C) 76th D) 67th
176. What is the rank of India in Economic Freedom index 2021
165. What is the rank of India in the World Economic Forum's published by US conservative think-tank, The Heritage
Gender Gap Index 2021? Foundation?
A) 112th B) 108th C) 140th D) 142nd A) 119th B) 120th C) 121st D) 123rd

166. According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2020, India 177. What is the rank of India in the World Press Freedom
was the _____th most climate-affected country in 2021? Index 2021 released by Reporters without Borders?
A) Fifth B) Seventh C) Second D) Eight A) 141st B) 140th C) 138th D) 142nd

167. Which state has topped in the NITI Aayog India Innovation 178. What is the rank of India in UN World Happiness Report-
Index 2020 ? 2021 released by UN Sustainable Development Solutions
A) Tamilnadu B) Gujarat C) Kerala D) Karnataka Network? A) 141st B) 140th C) 138th D) 139th

168. What is the rank of the India in the 2021 United Nations 179. What is the rank of India in the WEF Global Energy
Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index Transition index 2021?
2020? A) 130th B) 131st C) 133rd D) 129th A) 87th B) 75th C) 84th D) 69th

169. What is the rank of India in 2020 Global Terrorism Index 180. What is the rank of India in the Inclusive Internet Index
recently released by the Australia based Institute for Economics 2021 by Facebook-Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)?
& Peace (IEP). ? A) 5th B) 7th C) 8th D) 10th A) 55th B) 49th C) 38th D) 68th

181. What is the rank of India in the 2020 Democracy Index’s

global ranking released by the Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU)? A) 55th B) 56th C) 53rd D) 67th

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182. What is the rank of India in the World Investment Report 193. Who is the author of the book 1857 – The Sword of Mastaan
2021 released by United Nations Conference on Trade & ? A) Vineet Bajpai B) Varun Sayal
Development (UNCTAD)? A) 6th B) 10th C) 8th D) 5th C) Anand Neelakantan D) Shreyas Bhave

183. What is the rank of India in the Reuters Institute Digital 194. Who is the author of the book Because India Comes First ?
News Report, 2021? A) 28th B) 30th C) 31st D) 36th A) Vero Nunes B) Ram Madhav
C) Sukhmeet Grewal D). Sharad Shukla
184. What is the rank of India in the Human Capital Index 2020
released by World Bank? 195. By Many a Happy Accident is an autobiography of which
A) 112th B) 115th C) 121st D) 116th leader?
A) Venkaiah Naidu B) Hamid Ansari
185. What is the rank of India in the Global Innovation Index C) Pratibha Patil D) Shashi Tharoor
2020 published by Cornell University, INSEAD and the UN
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and GII 196. Maverick Messiah is a biography of which political figure?
Knowledge Partners.? A) Jayaram Jayalalithaa B) NT Rama Rao
A) 73rd B) 63rd C) 48th D) 52nd C) Sushma Swaraj D) Bal Thackeray

197. The Frontier Gandhi: My Life and Struggle is an

autobiography of which personality?
Books & Authors A) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
C) Dr. Zakir Husain D) Mohammad Abdur Rahiman
186. Who is the author of the book “ Right Under Your Nose ”?
A) Urjit Patel B) R Giridharan 198. Who are the authors of the book ‘Escaped: True stories of
C) Rahul Gandhi D) Shekhar Chaudhary Indian fugitives in London”?
A) Danish and Ruhi Khan B) Amit and Mahesh Pandey
187. What is the name of the coffee table book which was C) Nigar and Sehmant Ahmed D) Abhinash and Richa Gandhi
launched on 16 th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD)?
A) A Journey: Poems by Narendra Modi 199. Who is the author of the book “My Experiments With
B) Journey of Narendra Modi Silence”?
C) Modi India Calling – 2021 D) Timeless Modi A) Samir Soni B) Kunal Kapur
C) Ranvir Shorey D) Sonu Sood
188. Who is the author of the book “Ten Lessons for a Post-
Pandemic World”? 200. Who is the author of the book " Bringing Governments and
A) Ruchir Sharma B) Sanjay Jha People Closer “?
C) Fareed Zakaria D) Gautam Baid A) M Ramachandran B) Neeraj Gyanendran
C) Rashid Ahmed D) Vineet Singh
189. Who is the author of the book “Unfinished”?
A) Twinkle Khanna B) Priyanka Chopra Jonas 201. Who is the author of the book Prince with a “Paintbrush :
C) Rani Mukherjee D) Karishma Kapoor The Story of Raja Ravi Varma”?
A) Rukmini Varma B) Rupika Chawla
190. Who is the author of the book “The Little Book of C) Ranjita Desai D) Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan
Encouragement”?
A) Gian Kumar B) Gaur Gopal Das 202. Who is the author of the book ' Baanjh: Incomplete Lives
C) Dalai Lama D) Jaggi Vasudev of Complete Women’?
A) Sweta Rani B) Tanvi Sinha
191. Who is the author of the book “Beautiful Things”? C) Susmita Mukherjee D) Leena Varghese
A) Melania Trump B) Hunter Biden
C) Cole Emhoff D) Michelle Obama 203. Who is the author of the book “My Life in Full: Work,
Family and Our Future“?
192. Who is the author of the book Whereabouts ? A) Roshni Nadar B) Vinita Bali
A) Chitra Banerjee B) Jhumpa Lahiri C) Chanda Kochhar D) Indra Nooyi
C) Arundhati Roy D) Abigail Dean

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204. Who is the author of the book Karunanidhi: A Life ? 215. Who is the author of the book ‘Fiercely Female: The Dutee
A) Vembu Vikiraman B) Meena Kandasamy Chand Story’ ?
C) A.S. Panneerselvan D) Rajam Krishnan A) Shoma Chaudhury B) Boria Majumdar
C) Praful Bidwai D) Sundeep Mishra
205. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar released an e-book titled:
“The Green Queens of India – A nation’s pride”. The book is 216. Who is the author of the book "The Living Mountain: A
dedicated to? Fable for Our Times"?
A) Women Forest Officers. B) Women Environmental Scientists A) Amitav Ghosh B) Ruskin Bond
C) Women In Defence. D) Tribal Women. C) Anita Desai D) Shobhaa De

206. Who is the author of the book “The Mystery of the Parsee 217. Who is the author of the book "Languages of Truth"?
Lawyer”? A) Salman Rushdie B) Ruskin Bond
A) Shrabani Basu B) Lewis Carroll C) Vikram Seth D) Shashi Tharoor
C) Stuti Changle D) Ajay Pandey
218. Who is the author of the book 'Home in the World’?
207. Who is the author of the book Advantage India: The Story A) Chetan Bhagat B) Ruskin Bond
of Indian Tennis? C) Vikram Seth D) Amartya Sen
A) Trinanjan Chakraborty B) Arup Saikia
C) Anindya Dutta D) Chandresh Narayanan. 219. Who is the author of the book It’s a Wonderful Life?
A) Salman Rushdie B) Vikram Seth
208. Who is the author of the book “India: A Scamster Born C) Ruskin Bond D) Shashi Tharoor
Every Minute“?
A) Nimsdai Purja B) Gaurav Punj 220. Who is the author of the book Habba Khatoon?
C) Snigdha Poonam D) Michael Palin. A) Baby Halder B) Padma Sachdev
C) Kajal Suri D) Nitasha Kaul
209. "Believe: What Life and Cricket Taught Me" is the
autobiography of which cricketer? 221. Who is the author of the book “The 7 Sins of Being A
A) Rahul Dravid B) Suresh Raina Mother”?
C) Virat Kohli D) Rohit Sharma A) Mandira Bedi B) Tahira Kashyap
C) Sonai Bendre D) Raveena Tondon
210. Who is the author of the book The Christmas Pig?
A) J.K. Rowling B) Kinky Friedman 222. Who is the author of the book The Nutmeg's Curse?
C) Gareth Moore D) Ruskin Bond A) Amitav Ghosh B) Vikram Seth
C) Aravind Adiga D) Anita Desai
211. Who is the author of the book “ Agriculture in India:
Contemporary Challenges ”? 223. Who is the author of the book 1232 km: The Long Journey
A) Mohan Kanda B) Samant Goel Home?
C) Arun Goel D) Sanjeevanee Kutty A) Manish Jha B) Vinod Kapri
C) Kabeer Kaushik D) Ajit Pal Mangat
212. Who is the author of the book # Me Too?
A) Aravind Adiga B) Samit Basu 224. Who is the author of the book “The Long Game: How the
C) Hemant Shesh D) Karan Puri Chinese Negotiate with India”?
A) Ashok Kantha B) Vijay Gokhale
213. Who is the author of the book ‘What's Up With Me?‘ C) Vikram Misri D) Gautam Bambawale
A) Divya Dutta B) Tisca Chopra
C) Neena Gupta D) Nandita Das 225. Who is the author of the book Tiananmen Square: The
Making of a Protest?
214. Who is the author of the book Wild and Wilful ? A) Harsh Vardhan Shringla B) Ranjan Mathai
A) Neha Sinha B) Komal Sharma C) Rajesh Sharma D) Vijay Gokhale
C) Ritu Singh D) Amisha Kher

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226. Who is the author of the book "Nehru, Tibet and China"? 237. Who is the author of the book "40 Years with Abdul
A) Avtar Singh Bhasin B) Vikram Seth Kalam"?
C) Aravind Adiga D) Anita Desai A) Tessy Thomas B) Madhavan Chandradathan
C) A . Sivathanu Pillai D) K. Radhakrishnan
227. Who is the author of the book Buddha in Gandhara?
A) Shivshankar Menon B) Sunita Dwivedi 238. 'I Am No Messiah‘ is an Autobiography of which actor?
C) Sudarshan Ramabadran D)Yashaswini Chandra A) Amitabh Bachchan B) Sonu Sood
C) Hrithik Roshan D) Anupam Kher
228. Who is the author of the book "India and Asian
Geopolitics: The Past, Present"? 239. Who is the author of the book Your Best Day Is Today?
A) Rahul Pandita B) Vinod Mehta A) Vivek Agnihotri B) Anupam Kher
C) Sandeep Vijayan D) Shivshankar Menon C) Shekhar Kapur D) Ashutosh Rana

229. Who is the author of the book " Sikkim: A History of 240. Who is the author of the book "Pandemonium: The Great
Intrigue and Alliance“? Indian Banking Tragedy"?
A) Lakshmi Puri B) Preet Mohan Singh Malik A) Duvvuri Subbarao B) Yaga Venugopal Reddy
C) Monika Kapil Mohta D) Mukta Dutta Tomar C) Tamal Bandyopadhyay D) Lakshmi Kant Jha

230. Who is the author of the book Life in the Clock Tower 241. Who is the author of the book "Rasaathi: The Other Side of
Valley? a Transgender"?
A) Shakoor Rather B) Nikhil Bapat A) Aravind Adiga B) Sasindran Kallinkeel
C) Yoshita Singh D) Poonam Mehra C) Ravi Subramanian D) Jeet Thayil

231. Who is the author of the book "Elephant In The Womb"? 242. Portraits of Power : Half a Century of Being at Ringside
A) Anushka Sharma B) Kalki Koechlin is an autobiography of which among the following personalities?
C) Kareena Kapoor D) Geeta Basera A) Abhijit Banerjee B) Avinash Dixit
C) Vijay Shankar Vyas D) Nand Kishore Singh
232. Indian sprint legend Milkha Singh passed away recently.
What is the name of his Autobiography? 243. Who is the author of the book “The Battle of Belonging” ?
A) Playing to Win B) The Race of My Life A) Chetan Bhagat B) Piyush Goyal
C) Faster than Lightning D) Ace Against Odds C) Smriti Irani D) Shashi Tharoor

233. Who is the author of the book On the Trail of Buddha: A 244. Who is the author of the book Mr Prime Minister, We
Journey to the East? Shrank the Dragon ?
A) Samit Basu B) Deepankar Aron A) Pradeep Goorha B) Manish Prabhat
C) Ashok Banker D) Kewal Dheer C) Rahul Shrivastava D) Pranay Kumar Verma

234. Who is the author of the book “The Light of Asia : The 245. Who is the author of the book The Ultimate Goal?
Poem that Defined the Buddha”? A) Rajeev Sen B) Ravindra Kaushik
A) Amish Tripathi B) Jairam Ramesh C) Ajit Doval D) Vikram Sood
C) Aravind Adiga D) Ashwin Sanghi
246. Who is the author of the book “Night of the Restless
235. Who is the author of the book 'Legend of Suheldev: The Spirits: Stories from 1984”?
King Who Saved India‘? A) Roopinder Singh B) Sarbpreet Singh
A) Amish Tripathi B) Arvind Parashar C) Narinder Singh Kapoor D) Anup Singh Choudry
C) Ajay Pandey D) Chetan Bhagat
247. World’s first sciencetoon book entitled “ Bye Bye Corona ”
236. Who is the author of the book "Dharma: Decoding the has been written by whom?
Epics for A Meaningful Life"? A) Reshu Singh B) Manjula Padmanabhan
A) Amish Tripathi B) Arvind Parashar C) Kaveri Gopalakrishnan D) Pradeep Srivastava
C) Ajay Pandey D) Chetan Bhagat

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248. Who has been recognized as the world’s youngest author by 260. Who is the author of the book "Voices of Dissent" ?
the International Book of Records? A) Romila Thapar B) Irfan Habib
A) Saloni Srivastava B) Mayuri Bhargav C) Ramachandra Guha D) Aparna Vaidik
C) Abhijita Gupta D) Sanya Gupta
261. Who is the author of the book “ Kitchens of Gratitude ”?
249. Who is the author of the novel – “A Burning”? A) Sanjeev Kapoor B) Ranveer Brar
A) Megha Majumdar B) Sejal Badani C) Vikas Khanna D) Kunal Kapur
C) Amita Trasi D) Shobha Rao
262. Who is the author of the book ‘ Judiciary, Judges and the
250. Who is the author of the book “The Archer”? Administration of Justice ’?
A) Deepa Anappara B) Akhil Katyal A) R. Banumathi B) Hrishikesh Roy
C) Taslima Nasreen D) Paulo Coelho C) Indira Banerjee D) Ajay Rastogi

251. Who is the author of the book Making Sense of Indian 263. Who is the author of the book “ A promised land ”?
Democracy? A) Barack Obama B) Justin Trudeau
A) Manish Sisodia B) Rajendra Pal Gautam C) Scott Morrison D) Boris Johnson
C) Yogendra Yadav D) Satyendra Kumar Jain
264. Who is the author of the book “ Azaadi ”?
252. Who has written the introduction of the book “ A Bend in A) Shashi Tharoor B) Arundhati Roy
Time : Writings by Children on the Covid-19 pandemic”? C) Suresh Prabu D) Chetan Bhagat
A) Ruskin Bond B) Bijal Vachharajani
C) Roopa Pai D) Sudha Murti 265. Who is the author of the book The Commonwealth of
Cricket ?
253. Who is the author of the book Our Only Home: A Climate A) Richard Osman B) Ramachandra Guha
Appeal to the World? C) Amitav Ghosh D) Sanjeev Sanyal
A) Dalai Lama B) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
C) Dandapani D) Acharya Prashant 266. Who is the author of the book “Let Us Dream” ?
A) Pope Benedict B) Pope Francis C) Pope John D) Pope Leo
254. Who is the author of the book “One arranged murder”?
A) Chetan Bhagat B) Manav Kaul 267. Who is the author of the book “ Running Toward Mystery:
C) Sudeep Nagarkar D) Nikhil Mahajan The Adventure of an Unconventional Life ”?
A) Tenzin Priyadarshi B) Gaur Gopal Das
255. Who is the author of the book “Insomnia: Army Stories”? C) Bhaswati Bhattacharya D) Sogyal Rinpoche
A) Rachna Bisht B) Vishal Bahukhandi
C) Tanushree Podder D) Arjun Subramaniam 268. Who is the author of the book “ India Tomorrow:
Conversations with the Next Generation of Political Leaders ”?
256. Who is the author of the book “Full Spectrum: India’s A) Pradeep Chhibber B) Sandeep Shah
Wars, 1972-2020 ″? C) Anurag Pandey D) Shashank Garg
A) Satish Kumar Sareen B) Anil Yashwant Tipnis
C) Arjun Subramaniam D) Pradeep Vasant Naik 269. Who is the author of the book “Greenlights”?
A) Dustin Hoffman B) Matthew McConaughey
257. Who is the author of the book “ Grandparents’ Bag of C) Johnny Depp D) Bradley Cooper.
Stories ”?
A) Sudha Murty B) Kiran Desai 270. Who is the author of the book “ Fall Again, Rise Again”?
C) Anita Desai D) Anuja Chauhan A) Vishal Sikka B) Sandeep Aggarwal
C) Vijay Shekhar Sharma D) Sachin Bansal
258. Who is the author of the book Breaking The Cocoon @ 40 ?
A) Sudha Murty B) Roopa Pai C) Radha Nair D) Stuti Gupta 271. Which among the following organizations has launched the
book The Little Book of Green Nudges ?
259. Who is the author of the book “ A bouquet of flowers ”? A) UNICEF B) UNEP C) UNESCO D) UNWTO
A) Anuja Chauhan B) Varsha Dixit # Kavitha Rao-Author of the book Lady Doctors: The Untold
C) Krishna Saksena D) Swati Kaushal Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine.

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A) Subodh Kumar Jaiswal B) Rakesh Asthana
C) Y.C. Mody D) K.R. Chandra

281. Name the Indian-American who has been appointed senior

Important Appointments adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden?
A) Manisha Kapoor B) Neera Tanden
272. Who has been selected as the new Central Vigilance C) Meera Shah D) Aakriti Bajaj
Commissioner by a high-powered committee headed by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi? 282. Who has been appointed as the new humanitarian chief of
A) Suresh Patel B) Anita Pandove United Nations?
C) Bimal Julka D) Sanjay Kothari A) Alison B lake B) Martin Griffiths
C) Duncan Norman D) Jessica Hand
273. Who has been appointed as the Director of the National
Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS)? 283. Who has been appointed as the head coach of Indian
A) Indira Devi B) Pratima Murthy Women’s Cricket Team?
C) Rita Christopher D) Neelam Sudan. A) Zaheer Khan B) Ajit Agarkar
C) Ramesh Powar D) Anil Kumble
274. The government of India has appointed whom as
‘Counsellor’ in India's Permanent Mission in the World Trade 284. Who has been appointed as National President of FICCI
Organisation for three years? Ladies Organization (FLO)?
A) Aashish Chandorkar B) Mohan Singh Rawat A) Jyoti Vij B) Ujjwala Singhania
C) Sandeep Sodhi D) Nirmal Singh C) Neha Bhatiya D) Amrita Majumdar

275. Who has been appointed as the New Chairman of Microsoft? 285. Who has been appointed as the Finance Secretary?
A) Steven Ballmer B) Maria Klawe A) Debashish Panda B) T V Somanathan
C) Satya Nadella D) Helmut Panke C) Tarun Bajaj D) Ajay Seth
# Revenue secretary - Tarun Bajaj
276. President-elect of the 76th session of the UNGA, Abdulla ❖ Economic Affairs Secretary - Ajay Seth
Shahid, has appointed which Indian as his Chef de Cabinet?
A) Dinesh Bhatia B) Kishan Dan Dewal ❖ Secretary, Parliamentary Affairs - Gyanesh Kumar
C) Suresh Reddy D) K Nagaraj Naidu
286. The President of India has appointed whom to perform the
277. Who has been appointed as the New Election Commissioner duties of the office of the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court?
of India? A) Rajesh Bindal B) Sanjib Banerjee
A) Anup Chandra Pandey B) Sushil Chandra C) Biswanath Somadder D) Dipankar Datta
C) Rajiv Kumar D) Sunil Arora
287. National Commission for Women has recently started a
# Sushil Chandra is the current 24th Chief Election WhatsApp helpline number (9354954224) for pregnant women.
Commissioner and the two Election Commissioners are Rajiv Who is the current chairperson of NCW?
Kumar and Anup Chandra Pandey. A) Archana Singh B) Rekha Sharma
C) Jayanti Patnaik D) Poornima Advani
278. Who has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of
the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)? 288. Name the Indian-American who has been appointed as
A) Rajesh Bansal B) Sunil Mehta Associate Attorney-General o f United States?
C) Ajay Bhushan D) Tarun Bajaj A) Vanita Gupta B) Leela Seth
C) Nidhi Goyal D) Anita Naiyyar
279. Who has been appointed as the President of Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII) for 2021-22? 289. Who has been appointed as external auditor of the
A) Chandrajit Banerjee B) Sanjiv Bajaj Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)?
C) T V Narendran D) Pawan Munjal A) Vinod Rai B) Shashi Kant Sharma
C) Rajiv Mehrishi D) G C Murmu
280. Who has been appointed as the new Director of the Central
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290. Who has been appointed the mission director of Atal 299. Name the Indian American who has been appointed as the
Innovation Mission (AIM)? Acting Chief of Staff of the U.S. space agency?
A) Chintan Vaishnav B) Mahesh Kumar A) Bhavya Lal B) Minkashi Gupta
C) Vishal Saxena D) Nilay Patel C) Anwesha Chaudhary D) Nandika Sharma

291. Who has been appointed as the chief of the Anti-Corruption 300. The Embassy of Israel in India has appointed whom as
Unit of BCCI ? Honorary Consul in the NorthEast region?
A) Damodar Goutam Sawang B) Shabir Hussein A) Joyshree Das Verma B) Anuradha Singh
C) Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta D) Rajnish Seth C) Tina Saxena D) Shailini Vilay

292. Who has been appointed as the chairperson of the Public 301. Name the Indian origin who has been appointed as the
Enterprises Selection Board (PESB)? President of the United Nations COP26 climate conference by
A) Mallika Srinivasan B) Shekhar Mital Britain?
C) Naveen Bhandari D) Mitaali Sinha A) Alok Sharma B) Nitin Jha
C) Animesh Vatsa D) Kailash Shah
293. Who has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)? 302. Who has been appointed as the new chairman and CEO of
A) Anup Singh B) Sanjeev Kumar the Railway Board ?
C) Himanshu Sharma D) Saurbah Garg A) Vishal Yadav B) Suneet Sharma
● Sanjeev Kumar h as been appointed as the Chairman of the C) Abhishek Singh D) Rakesh Nigam
Airports Authority of India (AAI)
● Atish Chandra w ill be Chairman and Managing Director, Food 303. Who is the President of the Inter Parliamentary Union?
Corporation of India. A) Duarte Pacheco B) Thierry Delaporte
C) Klaus Schwab D) Carmen Reinhart
294. Who has been appointed as the Attorney General of the
United States? 304. Thomas Bach has been re-elected as president of the
A) Merrick Garland B) William Barr International Olympic Committee until which year?
C) Jeff Sessions D) Monty Wilkinson A) 2023 B) 2022 C) 2026 D) 2025

295. Who has been re-appointed as the Chairman of the Panel of 305. Who has been re-elected as US House Speaker after
External Auditors of the United Nations for the year 2021? winning 216 votes?
A) Rajiv Mehrishi B) Girish Chandra Murmu A) Kevin McCarthy B) Nancy Pelosi
C) Vinod Rai D) Shashi Kant Sharma C) Tammy Duckworth D) Hakeem Jeffries

296. Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the 306. The UN Human Rights Council has elected whom as its
International Boxing Association's (AIBA) champions and President for 2021?
veterans committee? A) Joachim Rücker B) Nazahat Shameen Khan
A) Vijender Singh B) Mary Kom C) Coly Seck D) Alex Van
C) Pinki Jangra D) Akhil Kumar
307. Who has become the first Indian to be elected as
297. Name the I ndian economist w ho has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Advistory Committee of the Human Rights
Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of Council (HRC)?
the UNEP? A) Ajai Malhotra B) Vinod Sahu
A) Ligia Noronha B) Bina Agarwal C) Niranjan Singh D) Pradeep Chauhan
C) Parveen Talha D) Rohini Pande
308. Narinder Batra has been re-elected as the president of
298. Who has been appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio which sports organization?
Guterres as U nder-Secretary-General and Associate A) Cycling Federation of India
Administrator of UNDP? B) International Boxing Association
A) Chitra Ramkrishna B) Usha Rao Monari C) International Hockey Federation
C) Usha Sangwan D) Vani Kola D) Badminton Association of India

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309. Who has become the chief of the United States Agency for 320. Who has been appointed as the new Lieutenant Governor of
International Development (USAID)? Jammu and Kashmir?
A) John Barsa B) Max Primorac A) Manoj Sinha B) Jagdish Mukhi
C) Samantha Power D) Chris Milligan C) Draupadi Murmu D) Bhagat Singh Koshyari

310. Name the Indian-origin immunologist who has been elected 321. Who has been appointed as the Deputy Chairman of Rajya
to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences of United States? Sabha ?
A) Sankar Ghosh B) Inder Nair A) Manoj Kumar Jha B.) JP Nadda
C) Naresh Badore D) Amit Tyagi C) Harivansh Narayan Singh D) Ghulam Nabi Azad

311. J. Blinken was sworn in as the ___________th U.S. Secretary 322. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of the
of State? A) 71st B) 63rd C) 55th D) 75th Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)?
A) Sunil Kumar Gupta B) PD Vaghela
312. Ebrahim Raisi has been elected as the new President of C) Pradeep Rao D) Abhay Karandikar
which country? A) Iraq B) Egypt C) Turkey D) Iran
323. Who has been appointed as Executive Director of the World
313. Who has been elected as the new President of the Tibetan Bank ?
Exile Government ? A) Rajesh Bhushan B) Arun Singhal
A) Penpa Tsering B) Ven Karma C) Rajiv Bansal D) Rajesh Khullar
C) Pema Yangchen D) Lobsang Sangay

314. Naftali Bennett who has sworn in as Israel's new Prime First in News & Miscellaneous
Minister, belongs to which political party?
A) Yamina party B) Likud party
C) Labor party D) Shas party 324.Who has become the first Indian to be appointed as a judge
of the County Court of Victoria ( Australia)?
315. Who has been appointed as Secretary General of the Lok A) Manoj Bhargava B) Pardeep Singh Tiwana
Sabha? C) Karun Cariappa D) Kamal Shah
A) Aditya Kumar Anand B) Alok Ranjan
C) Girish Kumar Mishra D) Utpal Kumar Singh 325. Who has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the first
Sports University established by the Delhi government?
316. Who is set to be appointed as the country’s next Chief A) Renu Bala Chanu B) Karnam Malleswari
Information Commissioner (CIC)? C) Vandna Gupta D) Prasmita Mangaraj
A) Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha B) Shivshankar Menon
C) Vijay Keshav Gokhale D) Brajesh Mishra 326. Who has become the first woman to be appointed the
President of Louvre – the world’s largest art museum?
317. Who has been appointed as the next Permanent A) Anne Berthelot B) Olivette Otele
Representative of India to the Permanent Delegation of India to C) Laurence des Cars D) Marie Holzman
UNESCO?
A) Vishal V. Sharma B) Satbir Singh 327. What is the name of the first woman officer appointed by
C) Srikumar Menon D) Kishan Dan Dewal Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to command a Road
Construction Company (RCC)?
318. US President-elect Joe Biden has selected whom as the next A) Harita Kaur B) Vaishali Hiwase
Surgeon General ? C) Punita Arora D) Mitali Madhumita
A) Dr Madhvi Aya B) Dr Rajat Gupta
C) Dr Sandeep Chakravorty D) Dr Vivek Murthy 328. Who has been appointed as the first woman chairperson of
the National Association of Software and Services Companies
319. Who has been selected by the Public Enterprises Selection (NASSCOM)?
Board as the next Chairman of SAIL? A) Rekha M Menon B) Nidhi K Singh
A) Shashi Shanker B) Shikha Sharma C) Anita Iyer D) Vasuki Sharma
C) Nalin Shinghal D) Soma Mondal

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329. Who has been appointed as the first woman Director-
General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research
(NCAER)?
A) Shubangi Sharma B) Poonam Gupta
C) Vidhya Gupta D) Nandini Shekhar
330. Who has been appointed as the first vice president and
chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York?
A) Naureen Hassan B) Kaizad Bharucha
C) Jay Sidhu D) Vikram Pandit
331. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became the first woman and first
African to be appointed as the head of the World Trade
Organization. She hails from which country?
A) Ethiopia B) Nigeria C) Tanzania D) Ghana
332. Who has become the first Second Gentleman of the United
States?
A) Lloyd Austin B) Douglas Emhoff
C) Javier Becerra D) Merrick Garland
333. Who has become the first Indian to be elected as the
President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)?
A) Jagjit Pavadia B) Krishna Satpathy
C) Anuradha Dikshit D) Neha Kakodkar
334. Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has become the first female Prime
Minister of which country?
A) Samoa B) Fiji C) Tonga D) Tokelau
335. Kaja Kallas has become the first female Prime Minister of
which country? A) Estonia B) Latvia C) Finland D) Sweden
336. Samia Suluhu Hassan has become the first woman President
of which country? A) Uganda B) Tanzania C) Malawi D) Zambia
337. Name the Indian Origin who has been appointed as the first
Chief Executive Officer of the newly launched The WHO
Foundation?
A) Anil Soni B) Vishal Bijlani C) Sandeep Goni D) Vivek Murthy
338. Which state has appointed India’s first-ever woman
ambulance driver under a new initiative?
A) West Bengal B) Tamil Nadu C) Uttar Pradesh D) Telangana
339. Riz Ahmed has become the first Muslim to be nominated for
Best Actor in Oscar. He has been nominated for his role in which
movie?
A) Sound Of Metal B) Venom C) Four lions D) Nightcrawler
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340. 'Nyubu Nyvgam Yerko‘ is the first formal indigenous
language and knowledge system school of which state?
A) Manipur B) Nagaland C) Arunachal Pradesh D) Sikkim
341. Which state has decided to set up “India’s first government-
run ambulance network ” for animals?
A) Odisha B) Karnataka C) Andhra Pradesh D) Goa
342. The world's first animal vaccine against the novel
coronavirus has been registered in which country?
A) France B) Japan C) Russia D) United Kingdom
343. What is the name of the first AI-driven Research Portal of the
Supreme Court which was launched recently by CJI S A Bobde?
A) SUPAE B) SIPACE C) SUPASE D) SUPACE
344. Which has become the first country to ratify Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement?
A) China B) Japan C) South Korea D) Singapore
345. Who has been named as the first-ever female astronaut of
the UAE for the space program?
A) Amira Yahyaoui B) Noura al-Matroushi
C) Faten Al Naqeeb D) Ghosson Al Khaled
346. What is the name of India's first mRNA-based COVID-19
vaccine which is developed by Genova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd?
A) HGCO19 B) COVNV19 C) MRCOV19 D) nCOV21
347. Space agencies of India and which country have signed an
agreement for cooperation in India’s first human space mission,
Gaganyaan? A) Japan B) Australia C) South Korea D) France
348. Which country is set to become the world's first country to
bring in a law forcing its financial firms to report the impacts of
climate change on their business?
A) Denmark B) France C) Australia D) New Zealand
349. Which country has developed the world’s first conjugate
vaccine “Soberana 2” for COVID-19?
A) Canada B) Australia C) Japan D) Cuba
350. Which has become the first Gulf nation to open an embassy
in Israel? A) Oman B) Bahrain C) UAE D) Qatar
351. India's first pollinator park has been opened in which
district of Uttarakhand?
A) Chamoli B) Nainital C) Almora D) Uttarkashi
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352. Which Municipal Corporation has signed an MoU with UNDP 363. India's first CNG tractor was launched recently. Name the
India to co-create India’s ‘first Social Impact Bond (SIB)? company which has converted the diesel tractor into CNG?
A) Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation A) Rawmatt Techno Solutions B) SWAY Techno Solutions
B) Lucknow Municipal Corporation C) Tomasetto Achille India D) A&B E) B&C F) A&C
C) Delhi Municipal Corporation
D) Bombay Municipal Corporation 364. National Dolphin Research Centre (NDRC) which is India’s
first Dolphin Centre is being set up in which city?
353. Who has become the first head of the newly created Human A) Lucknow B) Rishikesh C) Haridwar D) Patna
Rights Cell of Indian Army?
A) Major General Gautam Chauhan 365. Which country has appointed its first Minister for Loneliness
B) Major General Anurag Khatri after the country's suicide rate increased for the first time in 11
C) Major General Vinod Tiwari years? A) South Korea B) Russia C) Japan D) United States
D) Major General Kailash Hirani
366. India’s First Digital University was inaugurated in which
354. Who became the first female match official in a men's Test state recently?
match? She was the fourth umpire in the third Test between India A) Karnataka B) Kerala C) Andhra Pradesh D) Odisha
and Australia?
A) GS Lakshmi B) Lauren Agenbag 367. Which has become the first country to receive Covid-19
C) Kim Cotton D) Claire Polosak vaccines through the World Health Organization-backed Covax
program ? A) Nigeria B) Togo C) Burkina Faso D) Ghana
355. India’s first Fire Park has been established in which of the
following states? 368. Where was India’s first World Skill Centre (WSC)
A) Karnataka B) Odisha C) Andhra Pradesh D) Haryana inaugurated recently?
A) Bhubaneswar B) Bengaluru C) Hyderabad D) Pune
356. What is the name of the country's first indigenous machine
pistol developed by Defence Research and Development 369. India's first-ever 'Transgender Community Desk‘ has been
Organisation (DRDO)? opened at Gachibowli Police Station in which city?
A) ASMI B) NIGAR C) NAKSH D) SITARA A) Hyderabad B) Ranchi C) Bengaluru D) Pune

357. India’s first Labour Movement Museum will be launched in 370. Which country has launched its first military exercise in
which state? space, "AsterX“? A) Denmark B) France C) Germany D) Russia
A) Kerala B) Andhra Pradesh C) Goa D) Uttar Pradesh
371. Who has become the first Indian woman to score 10,000
358. Who is set to become the first woman fighter pilot to take international runs?
part in the Republic Day parade? A) Harmanpreet Kaur B) Smriti Mandhana
A) Nidhi Singh B) Avani Chaturvedi C) Mithali Raj D) Punam Raut.
C) Bhawana Kanth D) Mohana Singh
372. Who has become the first transgender man to star on the
359. India's First 'Gender Park' will be functional from February. front cover of Time Magazine?
The park will be opened in which city of Kerala? A) Zaya Wade B) Indya Moore C) Elliot Page D) Kim Petras
A) Kochi B) Kollam C) Thiruvananthapuram D) Kozhikode
373. National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) is going to launch
360. India’s first Centre for Wetland Conservation and the first-of-its-kind project in the Indian Ocean. What is the name
Management (CWCM) will be set up in which city? of this project?
A) Pune B) Chennai C) Kollam D) Amravati A) Physical Mapping B) Genome Mapping
C) Cube Mapping D) Ocean Mapping
361. India’s first thunderstorm research testbed will be
established in which state? 374. Which Railway zone of India has become the first fully
A) Karnataka B) Odisha C) Andhra Pradesh D) Telangana electrified railway zone in the country?
A) Central Railway B) North Central Railway
362. India's first geothermal power project will be established at C) Konkan Railway D) West Central Railway
which village of eastern Ladakh?
A) Mathoo B) Udmaru C) Hemis D) Puga

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375. Who has become the first Indian woman to scale Mt 386. The world’s first genetically modified (GM) rubber plant
Annapurna ? was planted in which state?
A) Premlata Agrawal B) Shivangi Pathak A) Bihar B) Karnataka C) Assam D) Chhattisgarh
C) Priyanka Mohite D) Santosh Yadav
387. Which Space Agency has decided to hire the first
376. Who has become the first Indian woman to scale Mt Everest differently-abled astronaut ?
in 2021? A) NASA B) ISRO C) CNES D) ESA
A) Tashi Yangjom B) Tine Mena
C) Anshu Jamsenpa D) Bidyapati Ningthoujam 388. Hyderabad-based technology R&D firm Grene Robotics has
designed and developed India’s first indigenous drone defence
377. Baljeet Kaur and Gunbala Sharma have become the first dome called __________?
Indian women to summit Mount Pumori. Mt Pumori is locate in A) Raudra B) Nandaka C) Indrajaal D) Ashwina
which country?
A) Argentina B) South Africa C) Nepal D) Australia 389. Which state has developed India’s first lichen park in
Munsiyari?
378. Which company has won the approval for manufacturing A) Himachal Pradesh B) Uttarakhand
India's first home test kit “CoviSelf” for Covid-19? C) Arunachal Pradesh D) Sikkim
A) MyLab Discovery Solutions B) Angstrom Biotech
C) Oscar Medicare Pvt. Ltd D) HLL Lifecare Ltd. 390. Which c ountry has launched its first-ever military
communications satellite ANASIS-II ?
379. Which state has been ranked first in establishing Health and A) Israel B) Russia C) South Korea D) Japan
Wellness Centres under Ayushman Bharat Program?
A) Andhra Pradesh B) Tamil Nadu C) Karnataka D) Kerala 391. China h as successfully launched its first independent
mission to Mars. What is the name of the mission?
380. Who has become the first Indian to win World A) Shenzhou-1 B) Tianwen-1 C) MarCO -1 D) Yinghuo-1
Choreography Award 2020 ?
A) Shantanu Maheshwari B) Suresh Mukund 392. Which has become the first city in India to have w omen
C) Rohan Vyas D) Mohit Antony symbols on traffic signals and signage?
A) Bengaluru B) Delhi C) Mumbai D) Hyderabad
381. Recently, US space agency NASA has announced to send its
first mobile robot to the Moon in 2023. What is the name of this 393. Noor Inayat Khan h as become the first Indian-origin woman
robot? A) Sigma B) Gamma C) Viper D) Striker to honoured with Blue Plaque in which country?
A) United States B) Australia C) Canada D) United Kingdom
382. Who has become the first woman flight test engineer of
India? 394. India's first t oy manufacturing cluster w ill come up in which
A) Padma Bandopadhyay B) Madhuri Kanitkar state?
C) Aashritha V Olety D) Punita Arora A) West Bengal B) Himachal Pradesh
C) Madhya Pradesh D) Karnataka
383. Which has become the first country in the world to formally
adopt bitcoin as legal tender? 395. Who is set to become India's first woman fighter pilot to fly
A) Russia B) Chile C) El Salvador D) Australia the Rafale aircraft?
A) Payal Gupta B) Aishwarya Boddapati
384. Which space agency has planned to put the world’s first C) Shivangi Singh D) Shubhangi Swaroop.
wooden satellite , WISA Woodsat, on Earth’s orbit by the end of
2021? A) NASA B) Roscosmos C) ESA D) CNES 396. Which has become the first airport of the Airports Authority
of India (AAI) which is entirely solar-powered?
385. Who has become the first female fighter pilot from Jammu & A) Puducherry airport B) Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport
Kashmir to be inducted in the Indian Air Force? C) Pakyong Airport D) Kohima Airport
A) Hafsa Sirin B) Mawya Sudan
C) Zaynab Ali D) Maria Ulfah 397. Asan Conservation Reserve has become the first Ramsar site
of which state?
A) Nagaland B) Manipur
C) Uttarakhand D) Himachal Pradesh

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398. Which h as become the first High Court to live stream
judicial proceedings on YouTube channel?
A) Gujarat High Court B) Chhattisgarh High Court
C) Allahabad High Court D) Rajasthan High Court
Important Military Exercise & Days
399. Indian & French Rafale Fighter Jets will carry out War games
codenamed Exercise SKYROS in which city in Jan 2021?
A) Jodhpur B) Pune C) Bhubaneswar D) Bengaluru
400. Ex Desert Knight-21 is a bilateral Air exercise between India
and which country?
A) Japan B) Russia C) France D) Indonesia
401. A large-scale tri-service joint amphibious exercise was
conducted in Andaman & Nicobar islands from January 21 to 25.
What is the name of this exercise?
A) AMPHEX-21 B) MATRIX-21 C) TRIAMP-21 D) HAMTRIX-21
402. 'Yudh Abhyas’ is a joint military exercise between India and
which country?
A) Russia B) Singapore C) Australia D) United States
403. The second edition of India-Uzbekistan joint military
exercise "Dustlik-2” was held in which state?
A) Rajasthan B) Himachal Pradesh C) Odisha D) Uttarakhand
404. Which country has launched its first military exercise in
space, "AsterX“?
A) Denmark B) France C) Germany D) Russia
405. Indian Navy will participate in the French naval exercise “La
Perouse”. The exercise was held at?
A) Arabian sea B) Bay of Biscay
C) Bay of Bengal D) English Channel
406. Members of which organization will hold the joint anti-
terrorism exercise “Pabbi-Antiterror-2021 “?
A) BRICS B) OPEC C) SAARC D) SCO
407. Indian Navy undertook Passage Exercise (PASSEX) with
Royal Bahrain Naval Force under which Operation?
A) Siddhi B) Maitri C) Sankalp D) Saathi
408. Which edition of Indo-US Joint Special Forces Exercise
VAJRA PRAHAR 2021 was conducted at Bakloh, HP in March
2021? A) 10th B) 11th C) 13th D) 9th
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409. Which country is conducting multinational air force exercise
Aces Meet 2021 ?
A) Bahrain B) Egypt C) Pakistan D) Israel
410. India is conducting military exercise “Khanjar” with which
of the following countries?
A) Bangladesh B) Kyrgyzstan C) Turkmenistan D) France
411. Varuna naval exercise will be held between India, France,
and which country?
A) UAE B) Russia C) Australia D) Japan
412. The first phase of the Malabar Naval exercise including
Australia along with Japan and the U.S was held in which city?
A) Kochi B) Bhubaneswar C) Vishakhapatnam D) Kovalam
413. The armed forces conducted a joint tri-service exercise ‘Bull
Strike’ at which Island in the Nicobar group of islands?
A) Trinket Island B) Little Nicobar
C) Teressa Island D) Trinket Island
414. NDRA NAVY i s a maritime exercise which is conducted
between India and which country?
A) China B) Singapore C) Russia D) France
415. Bongosagar is a joint navy exercise between India and
which country? A) SriLanka B) Japan C) Bangladesh D) Russia
416. The eighth edition of the annual Indian Navy (IN) - Sri Lanka
Navy (SLN) bilateral maritime exercise SLINEX-20 took place in
which city? A) Chennai B) Kochi C) Colombo D) Trincomalee
417. World Braille Day is observed on 4th January. When was the
first time it was celebrated?
A) 2017 B) 2019 C) 2010 D) 2012
418. What is the theme of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is observed
on 9th January 2021?
A) Connecting across Generations
B) Role of Indian Diaspora in building New India
C) Contributing to Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
D) Redefining engagement with the Indian diaspora.
419. India celebrated which edition of Army Day on January 15,
2021? A) 73rd B) 74th C) 72nd D) 70th
420. The Ministry of Culture has announced to celebrate the birth
anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose as which day every year?
A) Parivartan Diwas B) Vijay Diwas
C) Shoorveer Diwas D) Parakram Diwas
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421. India celebrates National Girl Child day every year on
January 24. When was the first time the day was observed?
A) 2008 B) 2006 C) 2007 D) 2014

422. When was International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021

observed?
A) January 26 B) January 28 C) January 29 D) January 27

423. What is the theme of the World Wetlands Day on 2 February

2021?
A) Wetlands and Water
B) Livelihoods at Risk
C) Wetlands : Water life and culture
D) Wetlands and Climate Change

424. When was International Day of Women and Girls in Science

2021 observed?
A) 11 February B) 10 February C) 12 February D) 13 February
● Theme: Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against
COVID-19'.

425. When was World Wildlife Day 2021 observed?

A) 4 March B) 3 March C) 2 March D) 1 March
● Theme: Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet

426. What is the theme of International Women’s Day on 8th

March 2021?
A) Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-
19 world.
B) Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change In Pandemic
C) Women in the Changing World of Work.
D) Equality for Women is Progress for All

427. What is the theme of the World Consumer Rights Day on

15th March 2021 ?
A) Consumer Justice Now B) Tackle Plastic Pollution
C) Trusted smart products D) Making Digital Marketplaces
Fairer

428. The National Vaccination Day also called the National

Immunization Day was observed on 16th March for the first time
in which year? A) 1990 B) 1995 C) 1998 D) 2000

429. What is the theme of World Water Day is observed on 22nd

March 2021?
A) Why Waste Water? B) Valuing Water
C) Water and Climate Change D) Nature for Water

430. When is Earth day observed every year?

A) 21 April B) 23 April C) 20 April D) 22 April

● Theme: Restore Our Earth

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