1. The Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently signed an agreement on trade and commerce with her counterpart Tengye Lyonpo Lekey Dorji from
1) Vietnam
2) Philippines
3) Thailand
4) Cambodia
5) Bhutan
2. _______ will preside over the eighth edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) to WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) which will be held in Switzerland’s Geneva in 2018.
1) India
2) China
3) Japan
4) US
5) Malaysia
3. _______ has been elected the President of the International Hockey Federation at the 45th FIH Congress in Dubai.
1) Ken Read, Australia
2) David Balbirnie, Ireland
3) Narinder Batra, India
4) Shahbaz Ahmed, Pakistan
5) None of these
4. Vandana Katariyan is associated with which of the following games?
1) Cricket
2) Hockey
3) Football
4) Chess
5) Snooker
5. Which country will host the 2018 Invictus Games for wounded military personnel?
1) US
2) Canada
3) Australia
4) Austria
5) Finland
6. The India-China Joint Training Exercise “Hand in Hand 2016” is scheduled to be held from Nov 15-27 in
1) Mumbai
2) Chennai
3) Kolkata
4) Pune
5) Bengaluru
7. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-year $12-bn loan program for Egypt, the largest such package to a Middle East nation. The currency of Egypt is
1) Peso
2) Franc
3) Dollar
4) Pound
5) Euro
8. Which of the following banks launched India’s first banking robot named “Lakshmi” recently?
1) Centurian Bank
2) Karur Vysya Bank
3) Jammu and Kashmir Bank
4) Federal Bank
5) City Union Bank
9. India and Japan have signed ten agreements to boost the bilateral cooperation between the two nations. Which of the following is one of them?
1) MoU on Cooperation in the Field of Outer Space
2) MoU on Mutual Collaboration in Marine and Earth Science and Technology
3) MoC in the Field of Agriculture and Food Related Industry
4) MoU for Transport and Urban Development
5) All the above
10. The High Level Meeting of Interior Ministers of Indian Ocean Region (IOR) to Counter Drug Trafficking was held recently in
1) Male, Maldives
2) Chennai, India
3) Jakarta, Indonesia
4) Port Luis, Mauritius
5) Colombo, Sri Lanka
