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Exclusive Monthly GA MCQs: April 2019
1. What was the Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in Feb 2019?
1) Rs 91,247 cr
2) Rs 93,247 cr
3) Rs 95,247 cr
4) Rs 97,247 cr
5) Rs 99,247 cr
2. The govt infused Rs 5,042 cr into which of the following public sector banks ahead of merger of two other
public sector lenders with it?
1) State Bank of India
2) Allahabad Bank
3) Corporation Bank
4) Canara Bank
5) Bank of Baroda
3. Justice (Retd.) DK Jain will be BCCI’s ad-hoc Ethics Officer. The three-member Committee of
Administrators (COA) that runs BCCI is headed by
1) Vinod Rai
2) Ravi Thodge
3) Vikram Limaye
4) Ramachandra Guha
5) Diana Edulji
4. Which among the following teams won the 2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament?
1) India
2) Malaysia
3) South Korea
4) Pakistan
5) Japan
5. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih recently said that former President Abdulla Yameen is the most tyrannical ruler in
the history. Solih is the present President of
1) Yemen
2) Maldives
3) Syria
4) Indonesia
5) Malaysia
6. _____ will issue equivalency to all Indian degrees that match the set criteria. It will give a huge relief for
expats in getting jobs in the Gulf country.
1) UAE
2) Saudi Arabia
3) Qatar
4) Iraq
5) Kuwait
7. President Ram Nath Kovind recently participated in a community reception at Santiago, the capital of
1) Peru
2) Colombia
3) Kenya
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4) Romania
5) Chile
8. The govt has extended the last date to link Permanent Account Number (PAN) with Aadhaar number by six
months till
1) 30 Jun 2019
2) 30 Jul 2019
3) 30 Aug 2019
4) 30 Sep 2019
5) 30 Oct 2019
9. The World Autism Awareness Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Apr
2) 12 Apr
3) 20 Apr
4) 22 Apr
5) 30 Apr
10. Which of the following was the world’s biggest oil producer in 2018 as per the ratings agency Fitch?
1) BP
2) Total
3) Shell
4) ADNOC
5) Aramco
11. The new imperial era of which country, to begin on May 1 with Crown Prince Naruhito becoming emperor,
will be called Reiwa?
1) Netherlands
2) Japan
3) Cambodia
4) Thailand
5) Spain
12. Nirav Modi, the main accused in the $2-bn Punjab National Bank fraud case, was arrested in which of the
following countries recently?
1) Jamaica
2) Peru
3) Chile
4) UK
5) US
13. PS Jayakumar is the present MD and CEO of which of the following public sector banks?
1) Bank of Baroda
2) State Bank of India
3) Corporation Bank
4) Indian Overseas Bank
5) Indian Bank
14. The govt has awarded the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for Coorg Arabica, Wayanaad Robusta,
Chikmagalur Arabica, Araku Valley Arabica and Bababudangiris Arabica. These are the varieties of
1) Tea
2) Rice
3) Coffee
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4) Maize
5) Turmeric
15. The Union Cabinet has approved the creation of additional posts in the NCLAT. In the term NCLAT, letter
‘C’ stands for
1) Corporate
2) Copyright
3) Chartered
4) Conversion
5) Company
16. Who among the following won the ATP Miami Open 2019?
1) John Isner
2) Roger Federer
3) Dominic Thiem
4) Kevin Anderson
5) Rafael Nadal
17. Abdelaziz Bouteflika has announced to resign before his mandate expires. He is the present President of
1) Bolivia
2) Eretria
3) Estonia
4) Algeria
5) Namibia
18. ISRO’s launch vehicle PSLV-C45 placed 28 foreign satellites and an intelligence satellite in their orbits
recently. The primary satellite in the rocket was
1) INTELSAT
2) EMISAT
3) VISIONSAT
4) VIEWSAT
5) INDOSAT
19. Army Chief General Bipin Rawat went on a four-day tour to which country recently to discuss issues of
mutual interest in military cooperation?
1) US
2) Russia
3) China
4) Japan
5) Australia
20. India and Chile have agreed to work together to strengthen the global response to defeat and destroy
terrorism. The currency of Chile is
1) Krona
2) Sol
3) Peso
4) Rand
5) Pound
21. Which of the following electronic mail services completed 15 years in service on 1 Apr 2019?
1) Gmail
2) Zoho Mail
3) Outlook.com
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4) Mail.com
5) Yahoo! Mail
22. Which of the following has become the second largest state-owned lender after merging Dena Bank and
Vijaya Bank into itself?
1) State Bank of India
2) Corporation Bank
3) Bank of Baroda
4) Bank of India
5) Canara Bank
23. The goods and services tax (GST) collections for Mar 2019 hit a record high of
1) Rs 1.02 lakh-cr
2) Rs 1.06 lakh-cr
3) Rs 1.09 lakh-cr
4) Rs 1.13 lakh-cr
5) Rs 1.16 lakh-cr
24. The growth of eight core industries slowed down to _______ in Feb 2019.
1) 1.9 per cent
2) 2.1 per cent
3) 2.3 per cent
4) 2.5 per cent
5) 2.7 per cent
25. Which of the following countries recently approved sale of 24 MH 60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters to India?
1) Norway
2) Sweden
3) France
4) Germany
5) US
26. Abdelaziz Bouteflika recently resigned as the President of
1) Algeria
2) Somalia
3) Nigeria
4) Estonia
5) Cambodia
27. The growth in global trade volumes is likely to slow down to 2.6 per cent in 2019 as per the World Trade
Organisation (WTO). The present Director-General of WTO is
1) David Malpass
2) Jim Yong Kim
3) Tedros Adhanom
4) Jerome Powell
5) Roberto Azevedo
28. _______ recently announced that it is targeting to double the proportion of women working on its shopfloor
to 10 per cent of the total workforce by 2025.
1) RIL
2) Infosys
3) Tata Steel
4) Wipro
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5) JSW Steel
29. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), India is set to grow at what per cent in the current fiscal
on strengthening consumption?
1) 7 per cent
2) 7.2 per cent
3) 7.4 per cent
4) 7.5 per cent
5) 7.6 per cent
30. Amitabh Chaudhry is the present chief executive officer of which of the following private sector banks?
1) Federal Bank
2) IndusInd Bank
3) YES Bank
4) Axis Bank
5) IDBI Bank
31. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Pakistan's economic growth is set to slump further to
____ in the fiscal year 2019.
1) 3.6 per cent
2) 3.9 per cent
3) 4.2 per cent
4) 4.5 per cent
5) 4.8 per cent
32. Pakistan could be blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) soon. The FATF is an
intergovernmental organization based in
1) Rome
2) Geneva
3) Perth
4) London
5) Paris
33. In Mozambique, a vaccination campaign has been launched after Cyclone Idai battered the nation. The
capital of Mozambique is
1) Baku
2) Manama
3) Nassau
4) Maputo
5) Yerevan
34. Which country recently introduced harsh new sharia laws that make adultery and homsexuality punishable?
Bandar Seri Begawan is its capital.
1) Indonesia
2) Malaysia
3) Brunei
4) Libya
5) Yemen
35. President Ram Nath Kovind returned from a three-nation visit to Croatia, _______ and Chile recently.
1) Bolivia
2) Peru
3) Paraguay
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4) Brazil
5) Ecuador
36. The govt in 2015 launched FAME-India Scheme. In the term FAME, letter ‘F’ stands for
1) Functional
2) Full
3) Formal
4) Fractional
5) Faster
37. ______ launched the world’s first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks recently.
1) China
2) US
3) Germany
4) South Korea
5) France
38. Which of the following books has been authored by the former Reserve Bank Governor YV Reddy?
1) Fault Lines
2) I Do What I Do
3) Indian Fiscal Federalism
4) The Squam Lake Report
5) The Third Pillar
39. Who among the following is the present Managing Director & CEO of the IDBI Bank? The RBI has
categorised it as a private sector bank for regulatory purposes.
1) KP Nair
2) Rakesh Sharma
3) GM Yadwadkar
4) Pankaj Jain
5) Sudhir Shyam
40. The International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action is observed every year on which
date?
1) 04 Apr
2) 14 Apr
3) 24 Apr
4) 28 Apr
5) 30 Apr
41. The rating agency Fitch has forecasted a growth of _____ in the fiscal year ending Mar 2020 (FY20) for
India.
1) 6.6 per cent
2) 6.8 per cent
3) 7 per cent
4) 7.2 per cent
5) 7.4 per cent
42. The RBI, on 4 Apr, cut the repurchase rate by 25 basis points. Now, the reverse repo rate stands adjusted at
1) 6.50 per cent
2) 6.25 per cent
3) 6 per cent
4) 5.75 per cent
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43. In a bid to further improve the cash position of banks, RBI has tweaked LCR norms. Here, the term LCR
means
1) Liability Coverage Ratio
2) Liquidity Cushion Ratio
3) Liability Convergence Ratio
4) Longevity Coverage Ratio
5) Liquidity Coverage Ratio
44. _______ has conferred the prestigious Zayed Medal on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the highest
decoration awarded to kings, presidents and heads of states.
1) Iran
2) Iraq
3) UAE
4) Qatar
5) Saudi Arabia
45. The marginal standing facility (MSF) is a window for banks to borrow from the RBI in an emergency
situation when inter-bank liquidity dries up completely. Current MSF rate is
1) 6.25 per cent
2) 6.50 per cent
3) 6.75 per cent
4) 7 per cent
5) 7.25 per cent
46. The Indian Army recently built the longest suspension bridge (260-feet long) over Indus river in
1) Shimla
2) Srinagar
3) Ladakh
4) Rajouri
5) Poonch
47. _____, in Apr 2018, became the first city in the country to leapfrog from Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel to
Euro-VI grade fuels.
1) Mumbai
2) Bengaluru
3) Chennai
4) Pune
5) New Delhi
48. Which political party has announced to implement a minimum income scheme called Nyuntam Aay Yojna
(Nyay)?
1) BJP
2) Congress
3) CPI
4) BSP
5) Janata Dal (U)
49. India has decided to set up India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) in
1) Mozambique
2) Zimbabwe
3) Botswana
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5) Zambia
50. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was sworn in as the new President of which of the following countries recently?
1) Kazakhstan
2) Tajikistan
3) Turkmenistan
4) Uzbekistan
5) Kyrgyzstan
51. The rating agency Fitch has forecasted a growth of _____ for India in the fiscal year 2020-21.
1) 6.9 per cent
2) 7.1 per cent
3) 7.3 per cent
4) 7.5 per cent
5) 7.7 per cent
52. The IT industry body Nasscom has appointed who among the following as its Chairman for 2019-20?
1) UB Pravin Rao
2) Debjani Ghosh
3) Salil Parekh
4) Keshav Murugesh
5) Rishad Premji
53. Which of the following private sector lenders has announced its merger with mortgage financier Indiabulls
Housing Finance Ltd in an all-stock deal?
1) Lakshmi Vilas Bank
2) IndusInd Bank
3) Federal Bank
4) Karnataka Bank
5) Dhanlaxmi Bank
54. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) recently appointed who among the following as the president for
2019-20?
1) TV Narendran
2) Uday Kotak
3) Rakesh Bharti Mittal
4) Rajesh Gopinathan
5) Vikram Kirloskar
55. Hayabusa2 spacecraft recently released an explosive onto an asteroid to make a crater on its surface and
collect underground samples. This space probe is launched by
1) South Korea
2) US
3) Japan
4) China
5) European Union
56. Who among the following has been selected as the new President of the World Bank? He is the 13th
President of WB and will serve a five-year term.
1) Jerome Powell
2) Mario Draghi
3) Ben Bernanke
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5) Janet Yellen
57. Which country recently declared a state of national disaster over the massive blaze that engulfed five cities
and counties along the northeastern coast?
1) North Korea
2) South Korea
3) Japan
4) Cambodia
5) Vietnam
58. ______ plans to sell 25.05 per cent equity stake in Star Union Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company (SUD Life).
1) Indian Bank
2) Bank of Baroda
3) Corporation Bank
4) UCO Bank
5) Bank of India
59. An ELSS scheme invests in equity mutual funds and also gives you tax benefits. Here, the term ELSS stands
for
1) Equity Linked Share Scheme
2) Equity Linked Stock Scheme
3) Equity Linked Savings Scheme
4) Equity Linked Scoring Scheme
5) None of these
60. India recently achieved a historic feat by shooting down its own low-orbit satellite with a ground-to-space
missile. All the following have such capabilities excluding
1) Japan
2) US
3) Russia
4) China
5) None of these
61. Phayeng village has become India’s first carbon-positive settlement, a village which sequesters more carbon
than it emits. It is situated in
1) Manipur
2) Tripura
3) Sikkim
4) Assam
5) Nagaland
62. ______ has secured the approval of Competition Commission of India (CCI) to acquire controlling stake (up
to 66.15 per cent) in Mindtree.
1) Infosys
2) Wipro
3) TCS
4) IBM
5) L&T
63. The present AIFF President has become the first Indian to be elected as a FIFA Council member. The
present AIFF President is
1) IM Vijayan
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3) Praful Patel
4) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
5) Pawan Kumar Chamling
64. The 7th Foreign Office consultations between India and Italy were held in New Delhi recently. The currency
of Italy is
1) Krona
2) Peso
3) Rand
4) Euro
5) Lek
65. The headquarters of the World Bank is situated in which city?
1) Frankfurt
2) Washington DC
3) London
4) Paris
5) New York
66. Karnataka Bank has entered into an MoU with Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company to distribute the latter’s
life insurance products. Karnataka Bank is a
1) Payments Bank
2) Small Finance Bank
3) Public Sector Bank
4) Private Sector Bank
5) Co-operative Bank
67. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has given approval to Paytm Money to start offering
broking services. The present Chairman of SEBI is
1) TS Vijayan
2) Ajay Tyagi
3) Yogesh Agarwal
4) Subhash Chandra Khuntia
5) David Rasquinha
68. CS Rajan has been appointed as the new Managing Director of which of the following institutions?
1) UTI Mutual Fund
2) IOC
3) ONGC
4) SAIL
5) IL&FS
69. Lilongwe is the capital of which of the following countries? The currency of the country is Kwacha.
1) Mozambique
2) Botswana
3) Malawi
4) Zambia
5) Tanzania
70. The National Maritime Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 05 Apr
2) 10 Apr
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4) 25 Apr
5) 30 Apr
71. The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kohima was observed by the Nagaland govt recently. The Battle of
Kohima was fought in three stages during the Second World War in
1) 1941
2) 1942
3) 1943
4) 1944
5) 1945
72. Who among the following won the 2019 Malaysia Open badminton recently?
1) Chen Long
2) Lin Dan
3) Viktor Axelsen
4) Xie Xingfang
5) Lee Chong Wei
73. India recently evacuated its entire contingent of 15 CRPF personnel from Libya after the situation suddenly
worsened there. The capital of Libya is
1) Tripoli
2) Rabat
3) Bamako
4) Accra
5) Porto-Novo
74. The award for the ‘Sportsperson of the year – Male’ went to Neeraj Chopra at the recent ESPN India Multi-
Sport Awards. Neeraj is associated with which game?
1) Shooting
2) Archery
3) Discuss throw
4) Squash
5) Javelin throw
75. The first-ever global coalition on clean and efficient cooling was launched at a global conference held
recently in
1) Helsinki
2) Olso
3) Copenhagen
4) Stockholm
5) Amsterdam
76. The US House of Representatives recently voted to end US involvement in which country?
1) Syria
2) Libya
3) Afghanistan
4) North Korea
5) Yemen
77. China is all set to host the second Belt and Road Forum. The first BRI Forum was held in which year?
1) 2014
2) 2015
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4) 2017
5) 2018
78. The World Health Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 07 Apr
2) 17 Apr
3) 27 Apr
4) 29 Apr
5) 30 Apr
79. Gudhi Padwa is a festival that marks the beginning of New Year. It is celebrated primarily in
1) Maharashtra
2) Gujarat
3) Uttarakhand
4) Jharkhand
5) Punjab
80. ________ has received an “in-flight and maritime connectivity” (IFMC) license from the department of
telecommunications (DoT).
1) Reliance Jio
2) Vodafone
3) Bharti Airtel
4) BSNL
5) Tata Teleservices
81. Rana won the title of the ‘Coach of the Year’ at the recent ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards. Jaspal coaches
1) badminton
2) tennis
3) boxing
4) shooting
5) archery
82. The RBI has come out with guidelines for banks to set up new currency chests. The new chests should have
a processing capacity of ______ pieces of banknotes per day.
1) 2.8 lakh
2) 3 lakh
3) 4.2 lakh
4) 5.4 lakh
5) 6.6 lakh
83. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) celebrated its 54th Valour Day recently. In 1965, the 2nd
Battalion of CRPF successfully repulsed a Pakistani attack in Gujarat on
1) 01 Apr
2) 09 Apr
3) 19 Apr
4) 29 Apr
5) 30 Apr
84. The US recently designated the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) of which of the following countries as a
foreign terrorist organization?
1) Iran
2) Syria
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4) Qatar
5) Libya
85. India's first indigenously designed and developed artillery gun was inducted in the Indian Army recently.
The 155mm/45 calibre towed gun is named
1) Tarkas
2) Tudir
3) Dhanush
4) Prahar
5) Parakram
86. Jack Dorsey is the present chief executive officer (CEO) of which of the following firms?
1) Facebook
2) Yahoo!
3) Twitter
4) Instagram
5) Whatsapp
87. As estimated by the World Bank recently, India’s GDP growth is expected to accelerate moderately to what
per cent in Fiscal Year 2019-20?
1) 7.1 per cent
2) 7.2 per cent
3) 7.3 per cent
4) 7.4 per cent
5) 7.5 per cent
88. The recently released book ‘Gopalganj To Raisina, My Political Journey’ is the autobiography of
1) Lalu Prasad Yadav
2) Nitish Kumar
3) Ram Vilas Paswan
4) Sushil Kumar Modi
5) Sharad Yadav
89. The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace is observed every year on which date?
1) 03 Apr
2) 06 Apr
3) 16 Apr
4) 26 Apr
5) 30 Apr
90. Who among the following won the women’s singles title of 2019 Malaysia Open Badminton tournament?
1) Tai Tzu-ying
2) Li Xuerui
3) Carolina Marin
4) Tai Tzu-ying
5) Saina Nehwal
91. The RBI appointed committee had recommended to encourage banks to open large and modern currency
chests and Chest Balance Limit (CBL) should be at least
1) Rs 500 cr
2) Rs 1,000 cr
3) Rs 1,500 cr
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5) Rs 2,500 cr
92. Who among the following won the ‘Comeback of the Year’ award at the recent ESPN India Multi-Sport
Awards?
1) Sania Mirza
2) Sakshi Malik
3) Vijender Singh
4) Saina Nehwal
5) Dipa Karmakar
93. The World Economic Forum (WEF) on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 2019 was held recently
in
1) Qatar
2) Bahrain
3) Jordan
4) UAE
5) Saudi Arabia
94. _____ has become the first city in the world to implement a special Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) that
charges an entry fee from vehicles that do not meet the emission standards.
1) London
2) Paris
3) New York
4) Stockholm
5) Olso
95. The BSE has signed an MoU with HDFC Bank with an objective to strengthen the BSE Startups platform.
The present MD & CEO of BSE is
1) Milind Barve
2) Ajay Tyagi
3) Vikram Limaye
4) Nimesh Shah
5) Ashish Chauhan
96. Vikramjit Sahney has been elected as the new president of which of the following organisations?
1) International Chamber of Commerce
2) FICCI
3) CII
4) NASSCOM
5) AMFI
97. Google launched its first drone delivery service in which country recently?
1) Canada
2) US
3) Russia
4) China
5) Australia
98. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently cut India’s GDP growth forecast for 2019-20 to what per
cent?
1) 6.3 per cent
2) 6.6 per cent
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4) 7.6 per cent
5) 7.9 per cent
99. Habib Bank is based in which country? It is a multinational bank and the largest bank by assets in that
country.
1) Afghanistan
2) Bangladesh
3) Maldives
4) Pakistan
5) Malaysia
100. The International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda is observed every
year on which date?
1) 03 Apr
2) 07 Apr
3) 17 Apr
4) 27 Apr
5) 30 Apr
101. The govt has retained the interest rate for General Provident Fund (GPF), Contributory Provident Fund and
other related schemes for the first quarter of FY20 at
1) 7.8 per cent
2) 8 per cent
3) 8.1 per cent
4) 8.2 per cent
5) 8.4 per cent
102. Which of the following cyclones recently ripped into African nations of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and
Malawi killing more than 1000 people?
1) Sagar
2) Bonita
3) Favio
4) Eline
5) Idai
103. Which firm recently launched Anthos, a new open cloud platform, that lets users run applications from
anywhere?
1) Google
2) IBM
3) Microsoft
4) Oracle
5) Amazon
104. The pension regulator PFRDA will soon frame guidelines to bring clarity on the FDI policy in the pension
sector. The present Chairman of the PFRDA is
1) Subhash Chandra Khuntia
2) Rajiv Sabharwal
3) Deepak Parekh
4) Hemant Contractor
5) Kundapur Vaman Kamath
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the country without taking any approvals or licence.
1) Jio Money
2) Airtel Money
3) Google Pay
4) PhonePe
5) Freecharge
106. According to data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi), which of the following has
claimed the top spot with an average AUM of Rs 3.42 tn?
1) Sundaram AMC
2) SBI AMC
3) ICICI Prudential AMC
4) HDFC AMC
5) LIC MF Asset Management
107. Virat Kohli has been named Wisden's Leading Men Cricketer of the year 2018. Who has been named the
Leading Women Cricketer of the year 2018?
1) Poonam Yadav
2) Smriti Mandhana
3) Veda Krishnamurthy
4) Mithali Raj
5) Harmanpreet Kaur
108. Karnam Sekar has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of which of the following public sector banks?
1) Indian Overseas Bank
2) Oriental Bank of Commerce
3) Indian Bank
4) Bank of India
5) Allahabad Bank
109. Murali Ramaswami has been appointed as the new Executive Director in which of the following banks?
1) State Bank of India
2) Canara Bank
3) Bank of Baroda
4) Syndicate Bank
5) Corporation Bank
110. _______ won the award for ‘Team of the year’ at the recent ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards.
1) Women’s tennis team
2) Women’s badminton team
3) Women’s hockey team
4) Women’s hockey team
5) Women’s table tennis team
111. RA Sankara Narayanan has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of which of the following public sector
banks?
1) Canara Bank
2) Bank of India
3) Indian Bank
4) Allahabad Bank
5) Corporation Bank
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com112. The army ousted and arrested President Omar al-Bashir in which of the following countries recently?
1) Nigeria
2) Sudan
3) Ghana
4) Chad
5) Slovenia
113. The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested recently in London. He has been living for seven
years in London in the embassy of
1) Chile
2) Peru
3) Colombia
4) Ecuador
5) Spain
114. _____ will be the Guest of Honour country at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, ADIBF 2019, as
announced by the UAE.
1) Pakistan
2) US
3) China
4) Japan
5) India
115. _______ has been appointed as the V-C of Jamia Millia Islamia. She is the first woman to be appointed to
the Vice Chancellor's post at Jamia.
1) Shazia Ilmi
2) Asifa Quraishi
3) Najma Akhtar
4) Najma Heptulla
5) Hawraa Zakery
116. _______ is the partner country for the 25th edition of the CII-DST Tech Summit scheduled to be held in
New Delhi in Oct 2019.
1) Netherlands
2) Sweden
3) Denmark
4) Finland
5) Norway
117. The spacecraft named ‘Beresheet’ crashed onto the moon recently after a series of technical failures during
its final descent. The spacecraft was launched by
1) US
2) Russia
3) Japan
4) China
5) Israel
118. The 2019 Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group was held during the week of Apr 8-14 in
1) Geneva
2) Bali
3) Lima
4) Washington DC
5) Tokyo
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com119. Rashid Khan bagged the ‘Leading T20 Cricketer of the Year’ award from Wisden recently. He plays for
1) Pakistan
2) Bangladesh
3) Afghanistan
4) UAE
5) South Africa
120. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently estimated India’s GDP growth in 2020 at
1) 7.1 per cent
2) 7.3 per cent
3) 7.5 per cent
4) 7.7 per cent
5) 7.9 per cent
121. Sanjiv Sharma has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of
1) Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari
2) Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
3) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
4) Nalanda University, Nalanda
5) IGNOU, New Delhi
122. Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi has been appointed as the Executive Director at
1) State Bank of India
2) Corporation Bank
3) Bank of India
4) Indian Overseas Bank
5) Punjab National Bank
123. Which country awarded its highest state honour 'Order of St Andrew the Apostle' to PM Narendra Modi
recently?
1) France
2) Germany
3) Russia
4) Sweden
5) Norway
124. Which of the following events completed 100 years recently? It took place on Apr 13, 1919.
1) Sepoy Mutiny
2) Quit India Movement
3) Civil Disobedience Movement
4) Jallianwala Bagh massacre
5) Chauri Chaura incident
125. The growth in the industrial sector, as represented by Indices of Industrial Production (IIP), slowed down
to what per cent in Feb 2019?
1) 0.1 per cent
2) 0.3 per cent
3) 0.5 per cent
4) 0.7 per cent
5) 0.9 per cent
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com126. The rate or retail inflation, as presented by Consumer Price Index (CPI), remained at what per cent in Mar
2019?
1) 1.86 per cent
2) 2.26 per cent
3) 2.86 per cent
4) 3.36 per cent
5) 3.86 per cent
127. The UN Security Council recently voted unanimously to completely end its peacekeeping operations in
1) Haiti
2) Myanmar
3) Thailand
4) Chad
5) Sudan
128. The UN has awarded ‘Kanyashree Prakalpa’ scheme of which state govt with its highest Public Service
Award? The scheme is aimed at promoting girls' education.
1) Haryana
2) Bihar
3) Madhya Pradesh
4) Karnataka
5) West Bengal
129. India’s population grew at an average annual rate of what per cent between 2010 and 2019 to 1.36 bn,
according to a report by the United Nations Population Fund?
1) 1.1 per cent
2) 1.2 per cent
3) 1.3 per cent
4) 1.4 per cent
5) 1.5 per cent
130. Alice G Vaidyan has been awarded the ‘Freedom of the City of London’ in recognition of her work to
promote insurance ties between India and the UK. She is the present Chairman and Managing Director of
1) LIC of India
2) GIC Re
3) UIIC
4) OIC
5) AICI
131. Chandka Elephant Sanctuary is a wildlife reserve located in which state? Nearly after four decades,
bamboo rice shown up here recently.
1) Jharkhand
2) West Bengal
3) Odisha
4) Karnataka
5) Telangana
132. The stock market of ______ recently overtook Japan to be world's third largest in value.
1) China
2) South Korea
3) India
4) Hong Kong
5) Switzerland
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com133. The DoT recently approved the merger of Tata Teleservices’ consumer mobility business with
1) Jio Infocom
2) Reliance Communications
3) Vodafone Idea
4) BSNL
5) Bharti Airtel
134. K Siva Reddy has been chosen for the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018, for his collection of poems
titled Pakkaki Ottigilite (Turning Aside While Lying Down). He is a
1) Tamil poet
2) Telugu poet
3) Kannada poet
4) Malayalam poet
5) Marathi poet
135. The ‘Sabooj Sathi’ scheme, aimed at distributing bi-cycles to students of class IX and XII studying in govt
schools, has won the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) award of the UN. The
scheme is being run in
1) Bihar
2) Uttar Pradesh
3) West Bengal
4) Odisha
5) Madhya Pradesh
136. Jean-Michel Lapin has become the new Prime Minister of which of the following countries?
1) Nigeria
2) Chad
3) Rwanda
4) Uganda
5) Haiti
137. The Rajouri Day is celebrated on which date every year to pay homage to the brave martyrs who laid down
their lives for liberation of Rajouri from the Pakistani infiltrators?
1) 01 Apr
2) 03 Apr
3) 13 Apr
4) 23 Apr
5) 30 Apr
138. A new species of ancient human, Homo luzonensis, was discovered in which of the following countries
recently?
1) Philippines
2) Thailand
3) Vietnam
4) Cambodia
5) Brunei
139. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have won 2019 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize. Both of them
are associated with
1) BBC
2) Reuters
3) ANI
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com4) Fox News
5) CNN
140. The International Day of Human Space Flight is observed every year on which date?
1) 01 Apr
2) 02 Apr
3) 12 Apr
4) 22 Apr
5) 30 Apr
141. Who among the following won the 2019 Chinese Grand Prix F1 championship?
1) Sebastian Vettel
2) Valtteri Bottas
3) Lewis Hamilton
4) Fernando Alonso
5) Kimi Raikkonen
142. Gelete Burka (women’s race) and Abrha Milaw (men’s race) won the 43rd edition of the Paris Marathon
recently. Both of them belong to
1) Guatemala
2) Honduras
3) Belize
4) Ethiopia
5) Rwanda
143. Meena Kumari Maisnam is associated with which of the following games? She won gold medal in
Cologne, Germany recently.
1) Boxing
2) Shooting
3) Archery
4) Squash
5) Wushu
144. India will build a cancer hospital in Kenya in collaboration with Japan and will partner with the UAE to set
up an information and communications technology (ICT) centre in
1) Chad
2) Ghana
3) Nigeria
4) South Africa
5) Ethiopia
145. ______ is set to host the world’s foremost Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit 'AI Everything' to empower
global dialogue on the future of govt, business and society.
1) India
2) UAE
3) Saudi Arabia
4) Mauritius
5) South Korea
146. Bhutan will soon ratify Bangladesh-Bhutan-India-Nepal (BBIN) initiative for road and rail connectivity.
Who is the present Prime Minister of Bhutan?
1) Jai Bir Rai
2) Dorji Tshering
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com3) Namgay Tshering
4) Tandi Dorji
5) Lotay Tshering
147. The SFIO arrested Ramesh C Bawa, Ex-MD and CEO of IL&FS Financial Services Ltd. Here, the term
SFIO means
1) Serial Fraud Investigation Office
2) Securities Fraud Investigation Office
3) Serious Fraud Investigation Office
4) Severe Fraud Investigation Office
5) None of these
148. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation remained at what per cent in Mar 2019?
1) 2.91 per cent
2) 3.04 per cent
3) 3.10 per cent
4) 3.18 per cent
5) 3.26 per cent
149. Which of the following projects of West Bengal, which aims at creating a pool of skilled candidates, won
the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) awards under the aegis of the UN recently?
1) Sabooj Sathi
2) Utkarsh Bangla
3) Khushi Scheme
4) Mahapranay Yojna
5) Utthan Scheme
150. The prestigious Saraswati Samman, the highest recognition in the field of Indian literature, is awarded by
1) KK Birla Foundation
2) Tata Sons
3) Govt of India
4) Madhya Pradesh govt
5) Sahitya Akademi
151. The govt has made it mandatory for all medical devices to get CDSCO certification. In the term CDSCO,
letter ‘S’ stands for
1) Standard
2) System
3) Schedule
4) Supply
5) Source
152. As per the data published by the Union Commerce Ministry, the trade deficit of India with China narrowed
by $10 bn in 2018-19 to
1) $60 bn
2) $59.3 bn
3) $57.4 bn
4) $55.4 bn
5) $53 bn
153. Prajnesh Gunneswaran is associated with which of the following games? He rose to career-high ranking of
80 recently.
1) Badminton
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com2) Squash
3) Tennis
4) Table tennis
5) Snooker
154. India announced their 15-man squad for the ICC World Cup recently. Who among the following is NOT
part of the team announced?
1) Vijay Shankar
2) Rishabh Pant
3) Dinesh Karthik
4) Yuzvendra Chahal
5) Kedar Jadhav
155. The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarm over a 300 per cent increase in the case of _____
globally in the first quarter of 2019 compared with 2018.
1) tuberculosis
2) AIDS
3) cancer
4) measles
5) typhoid
156. The ICC World Cup cricket tournament is scheduled to be played in which country from 30 May?
1) England
2) South Africa
3) New Zealand
4) UAE
5) Australia
157. The exports of goods in 2018-19 registered a 9.06 per cent growth to hit a new high of
1) $231 bn
2) $283 bn
3) $331 bn
4) $376 bn
5) $431 bn
158. A massive fire gutted Notre-Dame Cathedral situated in which city recently? It is one of the landmarks of
the city.
1) London
2) New York
3) Berlin
4) Madrid
5) Paris
159. The govt recently asked Google and Apple to take down which of the following mobile applications from
their app stores after the Supreme Court refused to stay an earlier order by the Madras High Court to ban the
app?
1) Whatsapp
2) Facebook
3) Duo
4) TikTok
5) Weibo
160. India’s trade deficit in 2018-19 increased to
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com1) $162.05 bn
2) $176.42 bn
3) $182.21 bn
4) $186.12 bn
5) $194.76 bn
161. The 2019 SCO Summit will be held in Bishkek in Jun. Bishkek is the capital city of
1) Kyrgyzstan
2) Kazakhstan
3) Turkmenistan
4) Tajikistan
5) Uzbekistan
162. A total of 150 Indian peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have received
medals of honour. The capital city of South Sudan is
1) Baku
2) Manama
3) Yerevan
4) Nassau
5) Juba
163. The European Union recently condemned a decision by the US to open the way for lawsuits in American
courts over property confiscated by
1) Venezuela
2) Cambodia
3) Syria
4) Cuba
5) Chile
164. ______ has been named as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian team for the Street Child Cricket World
Cup.
1) Jhulan Goswami
2) Virat Kohli
3) Mithali Raj
4) Harmanpreet Kaur
5) Smriti Mandhana
165. The researchers at _______ recently "printed" the world's first three dimensional (3D) vascularised
engineered heart using a patient's own cells and biological materials.
1) University College London
2) Tel Aviv University
3) University of California
4) Yale University
5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
166. Lenin Moreno is the present president of which of the following countries?
1) Jamaica
2) Ecuador
3) Jordan
4) Peru
5) Colombia
167. Which of the following private sector banks recently launched paperless account opening facility for NRIs?
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com1) IndusInd Bank
2) Bandhan Bank
3) IDFC First Bank
4) IDBI Bank
5) Karnataka Bank
168. _______ has received approval from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for the proposed scheme
of amalgamation of Gruh Finance with the bank.
1) Bandhan Bank
2) IDBI Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) Federal Bank
5) Kotak Mahindra Bank
169. Harsheel Dani is associated with which of the following games? He clinched Dutch International title
recently.
1) Tennis
2) Squash
3) Snooker
4) Chess
5) Badminton
170. The 2019 G-20 Summit is scheduled to be held in Jun in
1) Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
2) Jakarta (Indonesia)
3) Osaka (Japan)
4) Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
5) New Delhi (India)
171. The Indian banks clocked what per cent year-on-year credit growth in FY2019?
1) 13.23 per cent
2) 12.22 per cent
3) 11.21 per cent
4) 10.20 per cent
5) 9.19 per cent
172. The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) has launched a 5G Use
Cases Lab for banking and financial sector. The IDRBT is an arm of
1) BIS
2) RBI
3) Federal Reserve
4) ADB
5) NDB
173. Kento Momota won men’s singles title of the 2019 Singapore Open badminton tournament. The winner of
the women’s singles title was
1) Kong Hee-yong
2) Nozomi Okuhara
3) Wakana Nagahara
4) Mayu Matsumoto
5) Taipei Tai Tzu-ying
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com174. The Pulitzer Prize is given for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and
musical composition in the US. It is awarded by
1) US Govt
2) Harvard University
3) Columbia University
4) Stanford University
5) Reporters Without Borders
175. Which country has developed the world’s first armed amphibious drone boat?
1) US
2) Russia
3) Japan
4) China
5) Israel
176. Bihu is one of the most important festivals celebrated in the state of
1) Jharkhand
2) Assam
3) Chhattisgarh
4) Odisha
5) Telangana
177. India's first interactive exotic bird park, at the EsselWorld Bird Park, was inaugurated in which of the
following cities recently?
1) Noida
2) Gurugram
3) Bengaluru
4) Mumbai
5) New Delhi
178. The Padma-Shri awardee Dr SK Shivakumar passed away recently. He was a renowned
1) environmentalist
2) musician
3) space scientist
4) biologist
5) actor
179. The International Day for Monuments and Sites is observed every year on which date?
1) 01 Apr
2) 08 Apr
3) 18 Apr
4) 28 Apr
5) 30 Apr
180. Which country will host G20 summit in 2020?
1) Argentina
2) South Korea
3) Canada
4) India
5) Saudi Arabia
181. Three Indians have made it to the Time 100 Influential People of the year 2019 list. One of them is Mukesh
Ambani and the other two Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju are by profession
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com1) Singers
2) Industrialists
3) Lawyers
4) Actors
5) Scientists
182. The finance ministry is looking at innovative Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) model for sale of land
assets of CPSEs. REITs are regulated by
1) SEBI
2) NHB
3) RBI
4) SIDBI
5) NABARD
183. ______ has been awarded the prestigious Celent Model Bank 2019 Award in the category of Financial
Inclusion, for 'Redesigning Lending to Reach Small Businesses'?
1) AU Small Finance Bank
2) Equitas Small Finance Bank
3) Jana Small Finance Bank
4) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
5) Fincare Small Finance Bank
184. Nepal launched its first satellite NepaliSat-1 into space recently. The satellite was launched with the help of
1) China
2) Russia
3) India
4) US
5) Pakistan
185. The 4th Resilient Cities Asia-Pacic 2019 Congress was organised by International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) recently in
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Chennai
4) Bengaluru
5) Hyderabad
186. ETMONEY has become India’s first comprehensive financial services app to integrate UPI. Here, the term
UPI means
1) Unique Payment Interface
2) Unified Payment Interface
3) Universal Payment Interface
4) User Payment Interface
5) None of these
187. The International Space Station (ISS) -- a rare area of cooperation between Russia and the US -- has been
orbiting the Earth since
1) 1992
2) 1996
3) 1998
4) 2000
5) 2002
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com188. Bajrang Punia is associated with which of the following games? He regained the world number one spot in
the game recently.
1) Boxing
2) Shooting
3) Weightlifting
4) Shot put
5) Wrestling
189. Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga resigned recently in which of the following countries?
1) Niger
2) Chad
3) Burkina Faso
4) Mali
5) Nicaragua
190. ________ has appointed Kaushik Shaparia as the chief executive officer for India to succeed Ravneet Gill.
1) CITI Bank
2) Deutsche Bank
3) Standard Chartered
4) Barclays
5) HSBC Bank
191. Which country launched its first satellite ‘Raavana-1’ into space recently?
1) Sri Lanka
2) Maldives
3) Mauritius
4) Myanmar
5) Bhutan
192. ________ is the first Indian woman scientist to be elected as the Royal Society Fellow in 360 years.
1) Anuradha TK
2) Bina Agarwal
3) Indra Nooyi
4) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
5) Gagandeep Kang
193. What is India’s ranking on the World Press Freedom Index 2019?
1) 155th
2) 149th
3) 140th
4) 135th
5) 128th
194. The World Press Freedom Index 2019 is topped by
1) Norway
2) Netherlands
3) Finland
4) Switzerland
5) Singapore
195. A site containing 220-million-year-old fossilized remains of dinosaurs was discovered in Argentina
recently. The capital of Argentina is
1) Jakarta
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com2) Buenos Aires
3) Manila
4) Kuala Lumpur
5) Karakas
196. The Reserve Bank of India has put into circulation 50 rupees denomination banknotes signed by its present
Governor
1) Raghuram Rajan
2) Urjit Patel
3) Shaktikanta Das
4) Viral Acharya
5) MK Jain
197. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has imposed a fine of one lakh seventy-six thousand Euros on
which country for not honouring the Pro League commitments?
1) Afghanistan
2) Bangladesh
3) India
4) Malaysia
5) Pakistan
198. The former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was sentenced to 36 months of preventive prison in which
country recently?
1) Peru
2) Chad
3) Ghana
4) Niger
5) Suriname
199. Which country recently resumed a China-backed rail link project at a new cost of 10.6 bn US dollars?
1) Myanmar
2) Indonesia
3) Brazil
4) South Africa
5) Malaysia
200. A referendum was held in which of the following countries recently to approve the rule of President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi?
1) Turkey
2) Greece
3) Egypt
4) Syria
5) Libya
201. _______ in collaboration with FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) launched a mobile app, MyCircle, to help
women in case they face any problem or a panic situation.
1) Bharti Airtel
2) Reliance Jio
3) Vodafone Idea
4) BSNL
5) MTNL
202. Mohammed Ishtaye was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of which of the following countries recently?
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com1) Nigeria
2) Afghanistan
3) Maldives
4) Brunei
5) Palestine
203. The US won a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against which country recently? It had appealed
against the latter’s us of the tariff rate quotas (TRQs).
1) India
2) Venezuela
3) Chile
4) China
5) Cuba
204. Danny Faure is the present President of which of the following countries? He delivered a speech from deep
below the ocean’s surface appealing to protect our oceans.
1) Mauritius
2) Fiji
3) Seychelles
4) Suriname
5) Trinidad and Tobago
205. The Nation Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a Central Monitoring Committee to make over 350 river
stretches across the country pollution free. The present Chairperson of NGT is
1) HL Dattu
2) Adarsh Kumar Goel
3) TS Thakur
4) Jagdish Singh Khehar
5) Dipak Misra
206. The Bhopal gas tragedy is among the world's "major industrial accidents" of the 20th century as per a UN
report. The tragedy took place in the year
1) 1973
2) 1984
3) 1995
4) 1999
5) 2001
207. Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba launched the third ship of Project 15B which is a guided missile
destroyer. The ship is named
1) INS Patna
2) INS Lucknoe
3) INS Imphal
4) INS Bhopal
5) INS Jaipur
208. Volodymyr Zelenskiy won the Presidential elections in which of the following countries recently?
1) Ukraine
2) Kazakhstan
3) Belarus
4) Tajikistan
5) Uzbekistan
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com209. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin recently named who among the following as next Israeli Prime Minister?
1) Yair Lapid
2) Ayelet Shaked
3) Naftali Bennett
4) Benny Gantz
5) Benjamin Netanyahu
210. India recently suspended the cross-border trade with which of the following countries alleging misuse of
trade routes?
1) Bhutan
2) Nepal
3) Bangladesh
4) Pakistan
5) Myanmar
211. According to the RBI, Exim Bank has provided soft loans of USD 266.60 mn to which of the following
African countries?
1) Rwanda
2) Uganda
3) Ghana
4) Chad
5) Niger
212. Yusuf Hamied has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, UK for his service to the cause
of science. He is the chairman of
1) Lupin
2) Sun
3) Cipla
4) Glenmark
5) Alkem
213. Which of the following teams won the Santosh Trophy football tournament recently?
1) Karnataka
2) Goa
3) Punjab
4) Services
5) Kerala
214. Navdeep Singh Suri is India’s ambassador to which of the following countries at present?
1) Bahrain
2) Iran
3) Iraq
4) Saudi Arabia
5) UAE
215. At least 290 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and five-star hotels during
Easter services in which country recently?
1) Myanmar
2) Maldives
3) Sri Lanka
4) Bhutan
5) Bangladesh
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com216. US President Donald Trump recently vetoed a bill passed by Congress to end support for the Saudi-led war
in
1) Yemen
2) Libya
3) Syria
4) Afghanistan
5) Pakistan
217. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was in Bengaluru, recently, to attend an Indian Premier League (IPL) match. He is
the present President of
1) Brunei
2) Cambodia
3) Malaysia
4) Bangladesh
5) Maldives
218. The historic Mujibnagar day was observed on 17 Apr in which country? The day marks the oath taking
ceremony of the first govt in 1971 in the country.
1) Myanmar
2) Bangladesh
3) Nepal
4) Sri Lanka
5) Afghanistan
219. The Civil Services Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 01 Apr
2) 01 Apr
3) 20 Apr
4) 21 Apr
5) 30 Apr
220. India’s INS Vikramaditya with its MiG-29K fighters and the Charles de Gaulle of which country with its
Rafale-M naval jets will conduct “Varuna” exercise off Goa in May?
1) Russia
2) Sweden
3) France
4) Japan
5) Australia
221. ______ has appointed Manish Maheshwari as the Managing Director of its India operations.
1) Whatsapp
2) Twitter
3) Facebook
4) Tiktok
5) WeChat
222. The Bureau of Police Research and Development under Union Home Ministry, gave "Pandit Govind
Ballabh Pant Award" to Sunil Kumar Gautam for 2018-19 for his book
1) Samvidhan Sutra
2) Samvidhan Saral
3) Samvidhan Path
4) Samvidhan Suvidha
5) Samvidhan Kavya
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com223. The Intellectual Property Rights cell (IPR cell) of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has won the
National Intellectual Property Award 2019. The award will be given on the World Intellectual Property Day on
1) 02 Apr
2) 06 Apr
3) 16 Apr
4) 26 Apr
5) 30 Apr
224. Amar Paul passed away recently. He was an eminent Bengali
1) folk singer
2) poet
3) author
4) folk dancer
5) musician
225. Who among the following India cricketers have been fined Rs 20 lakh each by the BCCI Ombudsman DK
Jain for their sexist comments on a popular TV show?
1) Virat Kohli & KL Rahul
2) Shikhar Dhawan & Hardik Pandya
3) KL Rahul & Hardik Pandya
4) KL Rahul & Suresh Raina
5) Hardik Pandya & Yuzvendra Chahal
226. The Arab League has pledged to pay what amount per month to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to plug the
gap left when Israel blocked tax transfers?
1) $100 mn
2) $150 mn
3) $200 mn
4) $250 mn
5) $300 mn
227. Pakistan and which country will establish a joint border security force to respond to an uptick in violence
along the countries' shared border?
1) Afghanistan
2) India
3) China
4) Tajikistan
5) Iran
228. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has set up the _____ Chair in Inequality
Studies.
1) Muhammad Yunus
2) Malala Yousafzai
3) Amartya Sen
4) Raghuram Rajan
5) Jagdish Bhagwati
229. Mount Agung erupted in which of the following countries recently?
1) Italy
2) Indonesia
3) Malaysia
4) Jamaica
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com5) Japan
230. _____ has signed a deal with India Post to transform it into a multi-service digital hub and modernise the
delivery of mail and packages.
1) Infosys
2) Wipro
3) HCL
4) TCS
5) Tech Mahindra
231. What is India’s ranking out of 28 countries in the Index of Cancer Preparedness (ICP) released by the
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)?
1) 9th
2) 11th
3) 13th
4) 17th
5) 19th
232. S Muthiah passed away recently. He is known as the famed chronicler of the Indian city
1) Mumbai
2) Bengaluru
3) Hyderabad
4) Chennai
5) Kochi
233. The World Book Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Apr
2) 03 Apr
3) 13 Apr
4) 23 Apr
5) 30 Apr
234. Fabio Fognini has become the first tennis player from ______ to win an ATP Masters 1000 title at the
Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters.
1) Spain
2) Netherlands
3) Switzerland
4) Denmark
5) Italy
235. Which country recently successfully tested the world's first floating nuclear power plant (NPP)?
1) China
2) Japan
3) Russia
4) North Korea
5) France
236. Which country recently released a special commemorative stamp on the theme of Ramayana to mark the
70th anniversary of establishment of its diplomatic ties with India?
1) Brunei
2) Mauritius
3) Indonesia
4) Malaysia
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237. _____ has announced to name a new community on the Golan Heights after the US President Donald
Trump as an expression of gratitude.
1) Turkey
2) Israel
3) Spain
4) Greece
5) Egypt
238. The total deposits in Jan Dhan Account are set to cross Rs 1 lakh cr soon. The scheme was launched on 28
Aug
1) 2014
2) 2015
3) 2016
4) 2017
5) 2018
239. The National Panchayati Raj Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Apr
2) 04 Apr
3) 14 Apr
4) 24 Apr
5) 30 Apr
240. Uday Kumar Varma resigned recently as the Secretary General of Assocham. Assocham is the industry
body for
1) textiles
2) real state
3) information technology
4) electronics
5) medical equipments
241. The govt increased its authorised capital by Rs 5,000 cr to Rs 8,000 cr in which of the following public
sector banks recently?
1) Allahabad Bank
2) Bank of India
3) Indian Bank
4) UCO Bank
5) Canara Bank
242. Karnam Sekar was appointed as the new MD & CEO of the Indian Overseas Bank recently. The
headquarters of the IOB is located in
1) Mumbai
2) New Delhi
3) Bengaluru
4) Hyderabad
5) Chennai
243. The World Malaria Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Apr
2) 05 Apr
3) 15 Apr
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5) 30 Apr
244. The world's first and only malaria vaccine was launched in which of the following African countries
recently?
1) Chad
2) Nigeria
3) Malawi
4) Kenya
5) Ghana
245. Which country recently set up a Coordinating Council for attracting foreign investments including from
India? It is Central Asia's biggest and resource-rich country.
1) Tajikistan
2) Kazakhstan
3) Uzbekistan
4) Turkmenistan
5) Kyrgyzstan
246. According to the Fitch Ratings, the Asia-Pacific region’s first central bank to begin an explicit interest rate
easing cycle is
1) Reserve Bank of India
2) Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
3) State Bank of Vietnam
4) Monetary Authority of Singapore
5) Bank of Korea
247. ______ has become the first ‘destination bank’ to go live with net banking and debit card-based e-mandate
authentication.
1) IndusInd Bank
2) Federal Bank
3) Kotak Mahindra Bank
4) ICICI Bank
5) YES Bank
248. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) recently approved the merger of which of the following
banks and the Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd?
1) HDFC Bank
2) Karnataka Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) IDBI Bank
5) IndusInd Bank
249. As per the new norms of the markets regulator Sebi, in initial and follow on public offers, REITs have to
offer their units in lots worth at least
1) Rs 5,000
2) Rs 10,000
3) Rs 15,000
4) Rs 25,000
5) Rs 50,000
250. The RBI recently divested its entire stake in National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(Nabard) to the govt for
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2) Rs 80 cr
3) Rs 60 cr
4) Rs 40 cr
5) Rs 20 cr
251. The RBI recently divested its entire stake in National Housing Bank (NHB) in favour of the govt for
1) Rs 550 cr
2) Rs 850 cr
3) Rs 1,250 cr
4) Rs 1,450 cr
5) Rs 1,650 cr
252. As per the new norms of the markets regulator Sebi, in initial and follow on public offers, InvITs have to
offer their units in lots worth at least
1) Rs 25,000
2) Rs 50,000
3) Rs 75,000
4) Rs 85,000
5) Rs 1 lakh
253. The World Intellectual Property Day is observed every year on which date?
1) 02 Apr
2) 06 Apr
3) 16 Apr
4) 26 Apr
5) 30 Apr
254. Rama Sengupta Paul passed away recently. She was a veteran
1) mountaineer
2) cyclist
3) classical dancer
4) classical singer
5) environmentalist
255. Etihad has become the first major airline to fly plastic-free. The airline is based in
1) Saudi Arabia
2) Qatar
3) UAE
4) Kuwait
5) Bahrain
256. Saurabh Choudhary is associated with which of the following games? He won a gold medal recently in the
World Cup in Beijing.
1) Badminton
2) Tennis
3) Squash
4) Snooker
5) Shooting
257. ______ has launched the country’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric Vehicle) to encourage customers to buy
electric vehicles.
1) SBI
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3) ICICI Bank
4) HDFC Bank
5) Axis Bank
258. Cyril Almeida has been named as the International Press Institute's 2019 World Press Freedom Hero. He is
journalist from
1) Afghanistan
2) Bangladesh
3) Pakistan
4) Maldives
5) Syria
259. Who among the following was/were honoured with the prestigious Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award
recently?
1) Helen
2) Salim Khan
3) Madhur Bhandarkar
4) All the above
5) Only 1) and 2)
260. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is headquartered in
1) Perth
2) Geneva
3) Berlin
4) Stockholm
5) Copenhagen
261. Retired Army Chief Dalbir Singh Suhag has been appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to
1) Maldives
2) Mauritius
3) Seychelles
4) Trinidad and Tobago
5) Suriname
262. The RBI recently divested its entire stake in Nabard and NHB in favour of central govt. The divestment
was based on the recommendations of the
1) Narasimham Committee-II
2) Nachiket Mor Committee
3) YV Reddy Committee
4) YH Malegam Committee
5) Vyas Committee
263. Abhishek Verma is associated with which of the following games? He won a gold medal in Beijing
recently and secured Olympic quota for India.
1) Snooker
2) Badminton
3) Table Tennis
4) Golf
5) Shooting
264. Who among the following won the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour title recently?
1) Aditya Mehta
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3) Geet Sethi
4) Pankaj Advani
5) Aung Phyo
265. The Reserve Bank of India will issue banknotes of Rs 20 denomination in the Mahatma Gandhi (new)
series. The new Rs 20 note will feature on back a motif of the
1) Sun Temple
2) Ellora caves
3) Khajuraho Temple
4) Fatehpur Sikri
5) Sundarbans
266. _______ reached a valuation of one trillion dollars for the first time recently becoming only the third
publicly-traded company in history to reach the threshold.
1) Google
2) Microsoft
3) Oracle
4) IBM
5) Alibaba
267. The second edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize was awarded to who among the following for his
2010 novel Solo?
1) Anoop Misra
2) Bindeshwar Pathak
3) Perumal Murugan
4) Rana Dasgupta
5) Tamal Bandyopadhyay
268. The International Girls in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Day is observed every year
on which date?
1) 02 Apr
2) 05 Apr
3) 15 Apr
4) 25 Apr
5) 30 Apr
269. The book titled A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There has been authored by
1) Krishna Sobti
2) Ruchir Sharma
3) Githa Hariharan
4) Surjit Bhalla
5) Kishwar Desai
270. The Reserve Bank of India will issue banknotes of Rs 20 denomination soon. The base colour of the new
Rs 20 note will be
1) yellowish green
2) bluish red
3) reddish blue
4) pinkish grey
5) greenish yellow
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com271. The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for social achievement was awarded to Yohei Sasakawa, who is
the World Health Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for
1) Tuberculosis Elimination
2) Diarrhea Elimination
3) Typhoid Elimination
4) Malaria Elimination
5) Leprosy Elimination
272. The Reserve Bank of India will issue banknotes of Rs 20 denomination soon. The dimensions of the bank
note will be
1) 6.3 cm by 12.3 cm
2) 6.3 cm by 12.6 cm
3) 6.3 cm by 12.9 cm
4) 6.3 cm by 14.7 cm
5) 6.6 cm by 13.5 cm
273. North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un met who among the following for the first time recently?
1) Vladimir Putin
2) Emmanuel Macron
3) Angela Merkel
4) Narendra Modi
5) Shinzo Abe
274. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has formed a panel to review the
existing regulatory framework on microinsurance. The panel is headed by
1) Pratibha Singh
2) VS Narendra Chandra
3) GR Surya Kumar
4) Suresh Mathur
5) Pournima Gupte
275. The govt recently hiked the customs duty on wheat to what per cent to curb imports and protect the
domestic industry?
1) 20 per cent
2) 40 per cent
3) 60 per cent
4) 80 per cent
5) 100 per cent
276. A deep depression over southeast Bay of Bengal developed into cyclonic storm _______ recently.
1) Gaja
2) Fani
3) Nilofar
4) Phyan
5) Aila
277. The 5th Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster
Preparedness was held recently in
1) Patna
2) Colombo
3) Male
4) Kathmandu
5) Dhaka
www.bsc4success.com www.bscacademy.com mailto:bsc4success@gmail.com278. The Belt and Road Initiative or BRI, launched to link Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Gulf region, Africa
and Europe, is an initiative of
1) Japan
2) US
3) China
4) India-US-Australia
5) India-Japan
279. Who among the following won the men’s singles title of the 2019 Barcelona Open tennis tournament?
1) Dominic Thiem
2) Daniil Medvedev
3) Rafael Nadal
4) Roger Federer
5) Novak Djokovic
280. The former all-rounder Jacques Kallis was honoured with an Order of Ikhamanga from the Presidency in
which country recently?
1) England
2) New Zealand
3) Australia
4) Jamaica
5) South Africa
281. Canara Bank and its life insurance partner Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance
launched ‘Webassurance’ recently. The MD and CEO of Canara Bank is
1) RA Sankara Narayanan
2) SS Mallikarjuna Rao
3) PS Jayakumar
4) M Jayshree Vyas
5) Sunil Mehta
282. At present, the Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) is
1) 17 per cent
2) 17.5 per cent
3) 18 per cent
4) 18.5 per cent
5) 19 per cent
283. The RBI, in consultation with the Govt of India, has decided that the limits for WMA for the first half of
the financial year 2019-20 will be Rs 75,000 cr. Here, the term WMA means
1) Waiver and Means Advances
2) Waiver and Margin Advances
3) Ways and Means Advances
4) Ways and Margin Advances
5) None of these
284. The interest rate on WMA will be Repo Rate and overdraft will be what per cent above the Repo Rate? The
RBI provides WMA to the govt.
1) 1 per cent
2) 2 per cent
3) 3 per cent
4) 4 per cent
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