1. After the recent reduction in interest rate for small savings schemes by the govt for the Oct-Dec quarter of 2016-17, what is the new interest rate for Five-Year Senior Citizens Savings Scheme?
- 1) 7.7 per cent
- 2) 8 per cent
- 3) 8.1 per cent
- 4) 8.2 per cent
- 5) 8.5 per cent
2. Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi has won 2016 Noble Prize in
- 1) Medicine
- 2) Chemistry
- 3) Physics
- 4) Literature
- 5) Peace
3. The Indian govt has invited Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to be the next Chief Guest at India’s Republic Day parade of 2017. He is the Crown Prince of
- 1) Kuwait
- 2) Saudi Arabia
- 3) Abu Dhabi
- 4) Iran
- 5) Syria
4. India has formally joined the Paris Climate Change Agreement by submitting its instrument of ratification to the UN. The UN headquarters is located in
- 1) Washington DC
- 2) New York
- 3) London
- 4) Paris
- 5) Geneva
5. Indian Gaganjeet Bhullar is associated with which of the following games? He won the Korea Open 2016 recently.
- 1) Snooker
- 2) Badminton
- 3) Golf
- 4) Tennis
- 5) Squash
6. The govt has appointed R Ravindra as the next Ambassador of India to
- 1) Kenya
- 2) Nigeria
- 3) Algeria
- 4) Cote d’Ivoire
- 5) Guinea
7. Which of the following films won the first prize at the Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival (SBSFF) recently?
- 1) Sarkarmi Rati Wadho!
- 2) Chembuku Moodindi
- 3) Nahna Doot
- 4) Murga
- 5) None of these
8. Lee Hsien Loong, who visited New Delhi recently, is the present Prime Minister of
- 1) Switzerland
- 2) Philippines
- 3) Thailand
- 4) Vietnam
- 5) Singapore
9. Which of the following has become the first state in the country to implement Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in Kerosene?
- 1) Gujarat
- 2) Madhya Pradesh
- 3) Uttar Pradesh
- 4) Jharkhand
- 5) Tamil Nadu
10. Who among the following won the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix F1 championship?
- 1) Daniel Ricciardo
- 2) Nico Rosberg
- 3) Max Verstappen
- 4) Sebastian Vettel
- 5) Lewis Hamilton
