1. Who has been appointed as head of Lamborghini India Pvt Ltd?
a) Indrani Menon
b) Paras Mehta
c) Sharad Agrawal
d) Naresh Krishna
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Answer c) Sharad Agrawal. Lamborghini India Pvt. Ltd, the Indian arm of Italy-based super luxury sports car maker, has appointed Sharad Agarwa l, as its head with immediate effect. He was previously the head of Field Force for Audi India. In his new role, Agarwal will oversee the functions of sales, marketing, after sales and network development.
2.__________ to be honoured with Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award.
a) Vishwanthan Anand
b) SL Narayan
c) Debashish Das
d) Akshayraj Kore
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Answer a) Vishwanthan Anand. Chess legend Viswanathan Anand will be honoured with the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award. Maharashtra Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao will present the award in Mumbai on April 12. The previous recipients of the award include eminent personalities like Lata Mangeshkar, Babasaheb Purandare, Asha Bhosle, Amitabh Bachchan, Hariprasad Chaurasia and A R Rahman.
3. Which state Government launches Adarsh Vidyalaya Project?
a) Maharashtra
b) Odisha
c) Kerala
d) Telangana
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Answer b) Odisha. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the Odisha Adarsh Vidyalaya (OAV) project at Sasan Ambagaon village in his home constituency Hinjli in Ganjam district. The aim of the project is to provide modern schools on the lines of Kendriya Vidyalayas in the underdeveloped rural pockets of the State.
4. _______inaugurates Water Films Festival.
a) Sonia Gandhi
b) Najma Heptulla
c) sushma Swaraj
d) Uma Bharti
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Answer d) Uma Bharti. The Water Film Festival, a part of the India Water Week celebrations, was inaugurated by Uma Bharti, Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in New Delhi.
5. First Horticulture University has been opened in_______.
a) Maharshatra
b) Haryana
c) Kerala
d) Rajasthan
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Answer b) Haryana. Union Agriculture and farmers Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh laid the Foundation stone of Haryana State University of Horticultural Sciences at Karnal,Haryana. A full fledged horticultural university will cater the needs to support the gap between teaching, research and extension activities in the state and will establish the convergence and synergy to disseminate latest technology and horticulture education to our young generation, besides identifying strategies for further development.
6. _________launched a portal for registration and allotment of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) at a function held in New Delhi.
a) Smriti Irani
b) Najma Heptulla
c) sushma Swaraj
d) Uma Bharti
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Answer a) Smriti Irani. The Union Minster of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani launched a portal for registration and allotment of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) at a function held in New Delhi.
7. ________to suggest ways to tighten security along Indo-Pak border.
a) Kumar Committee
b) Naresh Sinha Committee
c) Madhukar Gupta Committee
d) None of the above
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Answer c) Madhukar Gupta committee. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted high-level committee to suggest ways to tighten security along India-Pakistan border. The committee will be headed by former Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta.
8. _________features in the Thomson Reuters top 50 Indian Innovator companies and research organizations for the year 2015.
a) The Council of Science and Industrial Research
b) The Council of Scientific and Industry Research
c) The Councils of Scientific and Industrial Research
d) The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
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Answer d) The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) features in the Thomson Reuters top 50 Indian Innovator companies and research organizations for the year 2015. The Top 50 Indian Innovators lead the country in innovation output. They are a group of businesses and research institutions that develop, recognize and protect great ideas and use it to their full potential.
9. Who has been named as the New Prime Minister of Iceland?
a) Hermann Johnson
b) John Magnus
c) David Gunnlaugsson
d) Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson
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Answer d) Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson. Iceland’s government named a new prime minister and called for early elections in the autumn, a day after Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson quit to become the first global politician brought down by the “Panama Papers” leaks. It was unclear whether the naming of Fisheries Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson to head the government or the call for early elections would satisfy the thousands of Icelanders who in street protests this week demanded the government resign immediately for early elections.
10. ______ declare ceasefire?
a) Australian and Armenian
b) Azerbaijan and Armenian
c) Azerbaijan and American
d) None of the above
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Answer b) Azerbaijan and Armenian. Azerbaijan and Armenian separatists in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh have said they are halting hostilities after four days of intense fighting between them, which had prompted warnings the conflict could spiral into all-out war. The ceasefire announcement came as several European countries urged an end to the fighting, worried that an escalation could cause instability in a region that serves as a corridor for pipelines taking oil and gas to world markets.
11. Bronze bust of ______ unveiled at UNESCO Headquarters.
a) Ravi Shankar
b) Chankya
c) Aryabhata
d) None of the above
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Answer c) Aryabhata. Union Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani unveiled a bronze bust of the ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer Aryabhata, which is a gift from India, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Smriti Irani was attending the high-level segment of the ‘International Conference on the Zero‘.
13. Which Country launches SJ-10 retrievable space science probe
a) India
b) China
c) America
d) None of the above
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Answer b) China. China has put a retrievable scientific research satellite into the space in a fresh bid to aid scientists back on Earth in studying microgravity and space life science. In a cloud of brown smoke, the satellite, SJ-10, roared into the air on the back of a Long March 2-D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China’s gobi desert.
14. Who wins 2016 Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament?
a) India
b) USA
c) China
d) UK
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Answer a) India. Indian men won the Asian Nations Cup Chess tournament with a 3-1 victory over Vietnam in the final round as they pushed formidable China down to second place. India collected 17 points, two more than World and Olympiad champions China, to clinch the title. Top seed China beat UAE 4-0 in their final round match. Kazakhstan and Iran took the third and fourth places respectively.
15. Who won 2016 Yonex Sunrise India Open badminton titles?
a) Kento Momota and Ratchanok Intanon
b) Kento Momota and Sania Nehwal
c) Sania Nehwal and Ratchanok Intanon
d) None of the above
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Answer a) Kento Momota and Ratchanok Intanon. Kento Momota of Japan won men’s singles title at the 2016 Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton championship. In the final match held at the Siri Fort Sports Complex in New Delhi, he defended the title by defeating Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen 21-15 21-18. Earlier, in an another match, Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon won the women’s singles title by defeating Xuerui Li of China.
16. MHP Rao who passed away was a/an_____.
a) Actor
b) Singer
c) Architect
d) Writer
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Answer c) Architect. Myneni Hari Prasad Rao, considered the architect of the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) and its first project director died here in a private hospital due to old age ailments at the age of 88. Rao was specially appointed by the then Nuclear Power Board to oversee the construction and commissioning of the MAP).
