Included 2016 events related gk and current affairs questions
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This post is outdated may be used as a reference1.Who is the present Union Railway minister?
Answer: Suresh Prabhu
2. The venue for 2016 SAARC summit (19th) ?
Answer: Islamabad (Pakistan)
3. Venue for 2016 Olympics ?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4. UN Observes 2016 as ________?
Answer: International Year of Pulses
5 . Who was recently appointed as Chairman of Competition Commission of India?
Answer: Devender Kumar Sikri
6. What is the full form for ASBA that was recently in news ?
Answer: Application Supported by Blocked Amount (Introduced by SEBI for applying to IPO - initial public offers )
7. Who will be the chief guest at 2016 Republic day parade?
Answer: French President Francois Hollande
8.Who is the First Lady chief minister in jammu and kashmir?
Answer: Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed
9. First railway university will be in which state?
Answer: Gujarath( Vadodra )
10. Who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog ( National Institution for Transforming India)?
Answer : Arvind Panagariya
11..er: Andrew Wiles( Brittan )
19. which is the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Venue ?
Answer: India
20. The eighth BRICS Summit(2016) will be held in which country?
Answer: India(Goa)
21. India's first Semi high speed train?
Answer: Gatimaan running between Delhi and agra
22. Newly elected assam chief minister?
Answer: Sarbanada Sonowal(BJP)
23. Newly elected kerala chief minister?
Answer: pinarayi vijayan
24. which state is linked with jat protest?
Answer: Hariyana
*25. 2016 jnanpith award winner?
Answer: Shankha Ghosh (Bengali poet)
*26. who won 2016 miss world ?
Answer: Stephanie Del Valle(Puerto Rico)
Questions from RIO Olympics 2016
26*.What is the mascot of 2016 Rio Olympics ?
Answer: Vinicius and Tom
27. Who was the flag bearer for India in the 2016 Rio Olympics ?
Answer: Abhinav Bindra
28.Indian player who won silver medal in badminton at Rio Olympics 2016 ?
Answer: P V Sindhu
29.Indian player who won bronze medal in wrestling at Rio Olympics 2016 ?
Answer: Sakshi malik
30. The youngest Indian who won Olympic medal ?
Answer : P V Sindhu
31.Which country won highest number of medals in Rio Olympics 2016?
Answer: United states (Total 121 medals)
*32. Where is the venue for 2020 olympics?
Answer: Tokyo
*33. 2016 rajiv gandhi khel ratna award winners?
Answer: Sindhu(badminton), Sakshi malik(wrestling), Dipa Karmakar(gymnastics), Jitu Rai(shooting)
*34.Where is the venue for 2018 Asian games ?
Answer: Indonesia
*35. Newly elected prime minister of United Kingdom?
Answer: Theresa may
*36. Who wrote the book "Aranyer Adhikar"?
Answer: Mahasweta devi(Bengali writer recently passed away.Other important books "Titu Mir , Hajar Churashir Maa")
37*. Who is the recently appointed Governor of Reserve Bank of India ?
Answer: Urjit Patel
38*. Where is the venue for 2016 G20- summit?
Answer: Hangzhou, China
39* Where is the venue for Asean summit 2016?
Answer: Lavos
40*. Who wrote the the book " One Indian girl"?
Answer: Chetan bhagath
Nobel prize 2016
41* who won 2016 nobel prize in medicine ?
Answer: Yoshinori ohsumi
42*. Who is the winner of 2016 Nobel prize in physics ?
Answer:David thouless,Duncane haldane, Michael kosterlitz
42*. Who is the winner of 2016 Nobel prize in physics ?
Answer:David thouless,Duncane haldane, Michael kosterlitz
43*. Who is the winner of 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry ?
Answer: Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Ben Feringa
44*.Who won 2016 Nobel prize in Literature ?
Answer:Bob Dylan
45*. Who is the winner of 2016 Nobel peace prize
Answer: Juan Manuel Santos(President of Colombia )
46* who are the winners of 2016 Nobel prize in economics?
Answer: Oliver Hart & Bengt Holmstrom
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