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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Current affairs latest gk questions 2015

Included  2015 events related gk and current affairs questions 

 

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 1. Newly appointed BCCI President ?

Answer:  anurag thakur (appointed on 23-5-2016)

2. who was recently appointed as chief of industrial corridor project (Delhi- mumbai)?
Answer: Alkesh Sharma

3. Recently selected Nepal prime minister?
Answer: Khadga Prasad Oli

4. Which country launched missile named "Imad" ?
Answer: Iran 

5. who is the 2015 booker prize winner ? 
Answer: Marlon James (Jamaica)

6. who wrote the book "A Brief History of Seven Killings" ?
Answer: Marlon James

7. Who is Miss India 2015 winner ? 
Answer : Aditi Arya 

8. which team won copa america 2015?
Answer: chile

*9. Nepal's recently elected  president  (first women president for nepal)?
Answer:  Bidhya Devi Bhandari 

10. Who is the Recently selected prime minister of Nepal ?
Answer: K.P. Sharma Oli

10. The economically diverse region of MENA nations refers to which  countries?
Answer: Middle East and North Africa

11. which country was affected by Typhoon "Koppu" ?
Answer : philippines 

12. which country recently built Zam Hydropower Station on river Brahmaputra?
Answer: china (dam located at tibet)
 
13. 2015 WTA womens doubles winners ?
 Answer: Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza

14. Venue for G20 summit 2015?
Answer: Turkey

15.  2015 Third India–Africa Forum Summit was held at ___________ ?
Answer: New Delhi

16. Who was recently appointed as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations  ?
Answer: Syed Akbaruddin

17. Recently elected  Bihar chief minister ?
Answer: Nitish Kumar  

*18. Recently appointed Canada prime minister ?
Answer: Justin Trudeau 

*19. who is the Newly appointed  argentina president?
Answer: Mauricio Macri

*20. which country recently tested  nuclear capable ballistic missile named "Shaheen 1A" ? 
Answer: Pakistan 

*21. who is  Miss Universe 2015 ?

Answer: Pia Wurtzbach from Philippines

*22. Who is Miss world 2015?

Answer: Mireia Lalaguna from Spain

*23. Which year is celebrated as "International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies"?
   Answer: 2015

*24. Which year is celebrated as "International Year of Soils "?
Answer: 2015 

*25. Who is the Jnanpith Award 2014 winner? 
Answer: Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi Novelist)

*26. Who is the First women president of  mauratious ?
Answer: Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (Elected on 2015)

*27. which nation won 2015 SAFF CUP ?
Answer: India 

*28. The venue for  2015 SAFF CUP ( South Asian Football Federation ) ?
Answer: kerala(India)
 

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2015Nobel prize winners

2015 physics Nobel prize winner : Takaaki Kajita(Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald(Canada)

2015 Chemistry Nobel prize winner : Tomas Lindahl(sweden), Paul Modrich(US) and Aziz Sancar(Turkey)

2015 Nobel prize  for Physiology or Medicine : Youyou Tu(China), William C. Campbell(Ireland) and Satoshi Omura(Japan)


2015 Nobel prize for Literature : Svetlana Alexievich(Ukraine)

2015 Nobel peace prize: National Dialogue Quartet 

2015 Economic peace prize: Angus Deaton(UK)

2015 grandslam winners

Grandslam is the four major tennis tournaments Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open

2015 Australian Open men's winner : Novak Djokovic
Australian Open women's winner: Serena Williams
Australian Open mixed Doubles  winner: Leander Paes  & Martina Hingis

2015 French Open  men's winner : Stan Wawrinka
French Open  women's winner : Serena Williams 

2015 Wimbledon men's winner :  Novak Djokovic
Wimbledon women's winner :  Serena Williams
Wimbledon women's double winners : Sania Mirza  & Martina Hingis
Wimbledon mixed Doubles  winner: Leander Paes  & Martina Hingis


2015 US Open men's winner : Novak Djokovic
US Open women's winner : Flavia Pennetta 
US Open women's double winners : Sania Mirza  & Martina Hingis
US Open mixed Doubles  winner: Leander Paes  & Martina Hingis

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Gk questions

1. what is known as king of hobbies
Answer: philately

2. Vijay Hazare Trophy is related to which sports item ?
Answer: Cricket

RRB Important General knowledge question

Indian Railway Important GK questions ( updated on 2025)


First railway minister of India?
Answer: Jhon Mathai

1. Where is Railway Staff College situated ?
Answer: Baroda


2. What is the width of Broad gauge rail ?
Answer: 1.676


3. Which is the First Electric Train in India ?
Answer: Deccan Queen (Kalyan - Pune)


4. When did Life Line Express (Jeevan Rekha) Started ?
Answer: In 1991


5. Which year is declared as "Year of Rail Users" by the Indian Railways ?
Answer: 1995


6. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel in India?
Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel)



7. Which is the Longest Railway platform in the World ?
Answer: Hubballi Junction in India


8. Which is the train running between India and Bangladesh ?
Answer: Maitree Express, Bandhan Express


9. Which are the states have no Railway ?
Answer: Sikkim (building new railway lines)


10. Which is the Worlds oldest working steam locomotive engine (train) ?
Answer: Fairy Queen runs in India


11.  What is the width of Narrow gauge rail ?
Answer: 0.762


12. Where is the Headquarters of Konkan railway ?
Answer: Bilapur


13. Which is the fastest train in India ?
Answer: Vande Bharat Express


14. In which year Indian Railway board established ?
Answer: 1905


15. Which is the first Railway station in India ?
Answer: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria terminal)


* 16. Who is the first Indian to present Railway Budget  ?
Answer: John Mathai


* 17. Who is the first railway minister in India ?
Answer: John Matthai 


* 18. Who is the first lady Railway minister of India ?
Answer: Mamta Benergy


* 19. Which is the highest railway station in India ?
Answer: Ghum railway station


* 20. Which is the longest Railway bridge in India ?
Answer: Bogibeel Bridge assam


* 21. What is the slogan of Indian Railway ?
Answer: lifeline of the nation


* 22. Where is the Museum of Indian Railway situated?
Answer:  Chanakyapuri (New Delhi)

* 23. first indian double-decker train coach factory situated?
Answer: Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala

*24. which is  the longest train route in India?
Answer: Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express

*25. khulna kolkata train runs between which countries?
Answer: India and Bangladesh 

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