1. Rani Nair set to be new CBDT Chairperson. He is replacing ...........
A) Rameshwar Oraon
B) Tapan Misra
C) S.B. Nayar
D) Atulesh Jindal
E) Dr. Rakesh Tewari


2. The Union Government appointed ...........as the Chief Executive Officer of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
A) Dinesh K. Sarraf
B) Anoop Mishra
C) Ajay Bhushan Pandey
D) Rajiv Mehrishi
E) None


3. Who presented the Dr B C Roy National Awards for the years 2008, 2009 & 2010?
A) Narendra Modi
B) Sushma Swaraj
C) Rajnath Singh
D) Ravi Shankar Prasad
E) Pranab Mukherjee


4. UNESCO names musician Kudsi Erguner as Agency's Artist for Peace. Kudsi Erguner hails from ..........
A) Iran
B) Iraq
C) Turkey
D) Syria
E) UAE


5. The World Bank confirmed New York University economics professor Paul Romer as its next chief economist. He replaces ............
A) Jos' Manuel Barroso
B) Raghu Reddy
C) Ajit Singh
D) Kaushik Basu
E) Arvind Subramaniyam


6. Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in as Prime Minister for a second term for which of the following countries?
A) New Zealand
B) Fuji
C) Sweden
D) Australia 
E) Norway

7. HDFC's Chief Financial Officer has been ranked as the best CFO in Asia. He is ......
A) Alokesh Bhattacharyya
B) Sashi Jagdishan
C) W. Larry Cash
D) Jairam Sridharan
E) Ketaki Bhagwati


8. The world's best airline for 2016 is .......,according to a survey of millions of airline passengers conducted by Skytrax.
A) Emirates 
B) Qatar Airways
C) Singapore Airlines
D) Cathay Pacific
E) None




9. Who was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL)?
A) D Y Chandrachud
B) Sanjay Gupta
C) Aruna Sundarajan
D) Dr. Joram Begi
E) Margaret Thatcher


10. Who of the following became the first indigenous woman to be elected to the House of Representatives of Parliament of Australia?
A) Neville Bonner
B) Aden Ridgewa
C) Linda Burney 
D) Joanna Lindgren
E) Siliveri Madhukar gupta


11. Who was elected as the speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly?
A) Kagodu Thimmappa
B) JB Jayachandra
C) KJ George
D) KB Koliwad
E) Prashant rana


12. Who recently took over as the Director of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit?
A) Madhavan Nair
B) Madhav Dhekane
C) Shailesh Nayak
D) Nitin Nadia
E) None of the above


13. Mumbai's civic body has renamed a city square near Hiranandani Garden in suburban Powai to Jyotirmoy Dey Chowk. Jyotirmoy Dey was a ..........
A) Painter
B) Singer
C) Jounalist
D) Actor
E) None

14. .............. becomes first woman to bag IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea.
A) Radhika Menon
B) Swetha Menon
C) Swathi Menon
D) Soumya Menon
E) None


15. Lidudumalingani Mqombothi won the 17th edition of prestigious Caine Prize 2016 for his short story 'Memories We Lost'Lidudumalingani Mqombothi hails from ........
A) Canada
B) South Africa
C) USA
D) Kenya
E) Nigeria


16. Kalinga Prize is given in the field of ........
A) Literature
B) Sports
C) Science & Technology
D) Music
E) Arts


17. life-size bronze statue of former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was unveiled at Peikarumbu on the occasion of his first death anniversary at ..........
A) Kanyakumari
B) Rameswaram
C) Pondicherry
D) Trivandrum
E) Kochi

18. India - born ........... appointed as Dean of University of North Texas College of Information.
A) Kinshuk 
B) B S Basi
C) Manu Dutta
D) Revati Balakrishnan
E) Meena Benerjee


19. Theresa May appointed Prime Minister of which of the following country?
A) France
B) Germany
C) Poland
D) United Kingdom 
E) Brazil