Current Affairs Questions 2016

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1.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

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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