- 1) China
- 2) Brazil
- 3) South Africa
- 4) Russia
- 5) India
2. Who among the following has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)?
- 1) Vijay Gokhale
- 2) Gautam Bambawale
- 3) Arun Kumar Singh
- 4) Ahmed Javed
- 5) Navdeep Singh Suri
3. Russia’s state-controlled oil giant Rosneft and its partners took over Indian oil firm ________ recently in an all-cash deal valued at about $13 billion.
- 1) Essar Oil
- 2) Cairn India
- 3) GE Oil & Gas
- 4) Petronet LNG
- 5) GGCL
4. An expert panel appointed by the govt has concluded that the mythical river Saraswati existed. The panel was headed by
- 1) KJ Ramesh
- 2) Rakesh Tewari
- 3) Rabi Narayan Bastia
- 4) KS Valdiya
- 5) None of these
5. The 8th BRICS Summit and BIMSTEC Summit Outreach concluded in Goa recently. Who among the following was NOT present at the two meets?
- 1) Aung San Suu Kyi
- 2) Tshering Tobgay
- 3) Pushpa Kamal Dahal
- 4) Jacob Zuma
- 5) None of these
6. Which of the following MoUs was signed by the BRICS nations at the recent summit held in Goa?
- 1) MoU for Establishment of BRICS Agricultural Research Platform
- 2) MoU on Mutual Cooperation between Diplomatic Academies
- 3) MoU on Regulations on Customs Cooperation Committee of the BRICS
- 4) All the above
- 5) Only 1) and 3)
7. Kigeli V, who died at the age of 80 in American exile recently, was the last king of
- 1) Somalia
- 2) Ethiopia
- 3) Rwanda
- 4) Uganda
- 5) Zambia
8. The govt has formally granted a licence to which of the following oil companies to set up 3,500 petrol pumps in India?
- 1) BP Plc
- 2) Royal Dutch Shell
- 3) ExxonMobil
- 4) Kuwait Petroleum Corp
- 5) Chevron Corporation
9. Which of the following countries opened the Latin America’s first elephant sanctuary recently?
- 1) Argentina
- 2) Brazil
- 3) Colombia
- 4) Venezuela
- 5) Chile
10. _________ has been awarded ET Panache’s ‘Trendsetter Awards 2016.’
- 1) Deepika Padukone
- 2) Anushka Sharma
- 3) Sonam Kapoor
- 4) Priyanka Chopra
- 5) Vidya Balan
