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COMPLETE GENERAL AWARENESS PREPARATION FOR RAILWAYS EXAMS 700+ MCQs, LAST 6-month CURRENT AFFAIRS & MEMORY BASED GA Qs (FEB-AUG 2021) Complete General Awareness For Railway Exams Free e-book Table of Contents 1. Last 6 Months Current Affairs Questions (FEB to AUG) 2. 170+ Static GK Questions 3. General Science – Physics 4. General Science – Chemistry 5. General Science – Biology 6. Complete Study Notes for General Science, Indian Polity, Indian Economy, Indian Geography, World Geography, Modern India, Medieval India, Ancient India 7. Important Abbreviations 8. Government Schemes Related Abbreviations 9. Abbreviations related to Important National and International Organizations 10. Other Important Abbreviations 11. Important Days 12. Sobriquets 13. First In India 14. Books And Authors 15. UN and other Important World Organizations: List of the major organizations 16. State, Capital, Chief Misters, and Governor (Updated) 17. List of Union Territories and Their Lt. Governors and Administrators 18. Memory based RRB NTPC 2020 GA Questions Video Lessons, Textual Lessons & Notes Topic Tests covering all topics with detailed solutions Sectional Tests for QA, DI, EL, LR All India Mock Tests for performance analysis and all India percentile General Knowledge (GK) Tests  www.oliveboard.in Questions 1. What was the rank of India in the PHDCCI 9. What is the theme for World Cancer Day International Economic Resilience's Rank? 2021? (1) 1 (1) I am, I can (2) 2 (2) I can, We can (3) 3 (3) We can, I can (4) 4 (4) I am and I will 2. Who was appointed as the new CEO of 10. When was the first ever International Day of National Health Authority? Human Fraternity celebrated? (1) R P Sharma (1) Feb 4,2017 (2) R M Sharma (2) Feb 4,2020 (3) R S Sharma (3) Feb 4,2021 (4) R D Sharma (4) Feb 4,2018 3. A Life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry & Painting Answer keys by Arjun Sengupta & Partha Mukherjee explores the life of who among the following? 1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (4) 4. (2) 5. (3) 6. (4) 7. (4) (1) Poulami Bose 8. (3) 9. (4) 10. (3) (2) Satyajit Ray (3) Uttam Kumar 11. What was India's rank in Economist (4) Soumitra Chatterjee Intelligence Unit's 2020 Democracy Index? (1) 51 4. Who took over as president of Asian Cricket (2) 53 Council recently? (3) 52 (1) Nazmul Hasan Papon (4) 54 (2) Jay Shah (3) Sourav Ganguly 12. Ajay Singh was re-elected as President of (4) Ehsan Mani which of the following federation? (1) Boxing 5. World Wetlands Day is observed every year on (2) Chess February 2. What is the theme for this year? (3) Football (1) Wetlands and Biodiversity (4) Archery (2) Wetlands and Climate Change (3) Wetlands and Water 13. Who was appointed as Chairman of National (4) Wetlands for Disaster Risk Reduction Safety Council recently? (1) S N Shiva 6. Who was the Indian-American scientist (2) S N Swaminathan appointed as Acting Chief of Staff of NASA (3) S N Sivakrishnan recently? (4) S N Subrahmanyan (1) Neera Tanden (2) Vanita Gupta 14. Which of the following organization has (3) Vivek Murthy launched the Stardust 1.0 rocket, the first (4) Bhavya Lal commercial booster rocket powered by biofuel? (1) SpaceX 7. Which word was named Oxford Hindi word of (2) bluShift Aerospace 2020? (3) Northrop Grumman (1) Aadhaar (4) Airbus (2) Nari Shakti (3) Samvidhaan 15. What is the theme for the 2021 International (4) Aatmanirbharta Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation? 8. In which city did India's first wetland (1) Mobilization and Involvement of Health conservation centre come up recently? Personnel to Accelerate Zero Tolerance to Female (1) Kolkata Genital Mutilation (2) Bhubaneswar (2) Achieving the new Global Goals through the (3) Chennai elimination of Female Genital Mutilation by 2030 (4) Mumbai (3) No Time for Global Inaction, Unite, Fund, and Act to End Female Genital Mutilation www.oliveboard.in 3  www.oliveboard.in (4) Unleashing Youth Power: One decade of (3) 16th accelerating actions for zero female genital (4) 15th mutilation 23. Bellatrix Aerospace is building a ‘space taxi’ 16. Prime Minister recently dedicated a 347- for satellites. Through this, it aims to achieve kilometer long Dobhi - Durgapur Natural Gas which of the following? Pipeline as a part of which project? (1) Commercialise space and make it a tourism (1) Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga project hub (2) Pradhan Mantri Urja project (2) To assist ISRO launch satellites (3) Pradhan Mantri Bangla Urja project (3) To ferry small satellites into multiple orbits (4) Pradhan Mantri Rashtra Urja project (4) To clean space debris which is a threat the Earth is currently facing 17. Who among the following co-chaired the 1st India-EU High-Level Dialogue on Trade and 24. The Ministry of Civil Aviation granted Investment? permission to which of the following sports (1) Piyush Goyal organisation to use drones for live aerial (2) Valdis Dombrovskis cinematography recently? (3) Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra (1) FIFA (4) Both A and B (2) AIFF (3) AICF 18. Where has been India's first geothermal (4) BCCI power project has been proposed to be established? 25. The President of India inaugurated the (1) Ladakh General Thimayya Museum in which of the (2) Jammu & Kashmir following states? (3) West Bengal (1) Karnataka (4) Assam (2) Tamil Nadu (3) Kerala 19. The 16th edition of India-US joint military (4) Telangana exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas 20’ commenced recently in which of the following Indian states? 26. Which of the following country recently (1) Rajasthan approved a plan to build the world’s 1st energy (2) Manipur island in the North Sea? (3) Odisha (1) Norway (4) Uttar Pradesh (2) France (3) Finland 20. 'Parliamentary Messenger in Rajasthan' was (4) Denmark authored by who among the following? (1) Venkaiah Naidu 27. World _________ Day is observed on (2) Dr K N Bhandari February 10. (3) Dr Abhishek Singhvi (1) Wheat (4) Both (1) & (2) (2) Rice (3) Pulses Answer keys (4) Chillies 11. (2) 12. (1) 13. (4) 14. (2) 15. (3) 16. (1) 28. Kempegowda International Airport won the 17. (4) 18. (1) 19. (1) 20. (2) ACI World’s ‘Voice Of The Customer’ Award for the committed services provided during the 21. Who among the following won the 13th CEC pandemic. Where is it located? Cup Ice Hockey Championship? (1) Hyderabad (1) Central Reserve Police Force (2) Bengaluru (2) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (3) Guwahati (3) Drass Red (4) New Delhi (4) Indian Army 29. The Prime Minister of India inaugurated the 22. ‘By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of World Sustainable Development Summit 2021. It a Life’ is a book authored by M Hamid Ansari, the is a flagship event of which of the following former Vice President of India. He served as the organisation? ______ VP. (1) Centre for Science and Environment (1) 12th (2) World Resources Institute (2) 13th (3) United Nations www.oliveboard.in 4  www.oliveboard.in (4) The Energy and Resources Institute 37. Which of the following state(s) celebrate their statehood day on the 20th of February? 30. Who was recently awarded the SKOCH Chief (1) Meghalaya Minister of the Year Award? (2) Mizoram (1) YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (3) Arunachal Pradesh (2) Pinarayi Vijayan (4) Both (2) & (3) (3) Hemant Soren (4) Vijaybhai R. Rupani 38. When is International Mother Language Day celebrated? Answer keys (1) February 18 (2) February 21 21. (3) 22. (1) 23. (3) 24. (4) 25. (1) 26. (4) (3) February 22 27. (3) 28. (2) 29. (4) 30. (1) (4) February 23 31. Who among the following is the recipient of 39. Who among the following won the Women's the Sanctuary Lifetime Service Award 2020 Singles in Australian Open 2021? (1) Erwin Agnel (1) Elise Mertens (2) Balvinder Singh (2) Aryna Sabalenka (3) Bandu Mankar (3) Both (1) & (2) (4) Theodore Baskaran (4) Naomi Osaka 32. Who is the President of the Geneva-based 40. Chris Morris became the costliest ever player United Nations Human Rights Council? at IPL auction for Rajasthan Royal. He belongs to (1) Ajai Malhotra which of the following countries? (2) Preeti Sinha (1) South Africa (3) Nazhat Shameem (2) England (4) Mallikarjun Kharge (3) New Zealand (4) Australia 33. Which of the following organisation received the Asia Environmental Enforcement Award- Answer keys 2020? (1) Central Zoo Authority of India 31. (4) 32. (3) 33. (3) 34. (4) 35. (2) 36. (2) (2) Animal Welfare Board of India 37. (4) 38. (2) 39. (4) 40. (1) (3) Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (4) Wildlife Institute of India 41. Who is the author of the book 'Starstruck: Confessions of a TV Executive'? 34. Name the only Indian city to get recognised (1) Arnab Goswami as a 2020 Tree City of the World. (2) Sweta Singh (1) Indore (3) Ravish Kumar (2) Bengaluru (4) Peter Mukerjea (3) Srinagar (4) Hyderabad 42. The state of Karnataka will host the ________ edition of Khelo India University 35. NASA successfully landed its 5th rover on Games in 2021. Mars in a deep crater near its equator called (1) First __________. (2) Second (1) Juno (3) Third (2) Jezero (4) Fourth (3) Eros (4) Perseverance 43. Who bagged the 'Best Male Actor' award at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival 36. Which of the following organisation has been Awards 2021? mandated to undertake the awareness drive for (1) Salman Khan promoting Public Charging, e-mobility & its (2) Akshay Kumar ecosystem named 'Go Electric'? (3) Shahrukh Khan (1) TERI (4) Aamir Khan (2) BEE (3) IREDA 44. Who among the following clinched the Table (4) ADB Tennis National title with a win over Sharath Kamal? (1) J Sathiyan www.oliveboard.in 5  www.oliveboard.in (2) K Sathiyan (3) Atma-Nirbahr Bano (3) P Sathiyan (4) Becoming Self-Reliant in BioTech (4) G Sathiyan 52. Which of the following one is the theme for 45. Inmarsat is a(n) _________ satellite World Wildlife Day 2021? telecommunications company. (1) Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People (1) American and Planet (2) Japanese (2) Sustaining all life on earth (3) British (3) Life Below Water: for People and Planet (4) Italian (4) Big Cats 46. Who is the current Union Minister for Jal 53. The Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV Shakti? channels have been merged into a single entity (1) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat called _______. (2) Rajnath Singh (1) Doordarshan (3) Nitin Jairam Gadkari (2) LR TV (4) Thaawar Chand Gehlot (3) India TV (4) Sansad TV 47. Which of the following rocket launched the Amazonia-1 satellite of Brazil and 18 Co- 54. QS World University Rankings by Subject passenger satellites into space? 2021 was released recently. IIT-Madras secured (1) GSLV-C51 30th rank in the world for which subject? (2) PSLV-C51 (1) Petroleum Engineering (3) PSLV-C50 (2) Minerals and Mining Engineering (4) GSLV-C50 (3) Chemical engineering (4) Civil and structural engineering 48. 'The President is Missing' is a book about a terrorist cyberattack on the White House. It was 55. Mary Kom was appointed as Chairperson of authored by who among the following? which of the following committee under (1) Hunter Biden International Boxing Association (AIBA) recently? (2) Hillary Clinton (1) Disciplinary Committee (3) Louise Penny (2) Champions and Veterans Committee (4) Both (2) & (3) (3) Youth Mentorship Committee (4) Clean Sport Committee 49. ISRO recently emerged successful in launching Brazil's Amazonia -1 satellite. 56. In the Municipal Performance Index of 2020 Amazonia - 1 has a mission life of _______ which city topped in municipalities having over a year(s). million population? (1) 1 (1) Surat (2) 2 (2) Bhopal (3) 3 (3) Tirupati (4) 4 (4) Indore 50. In March 2021, Prime Minister inaugurated 57. Indian economist Ligia Noronha was the ______ edition of the Maritime India appointed as UN Assistant Secretary-General Summit. recently. Whom did she replace? (1) First (1) Preeti Sinha (2) Second (2) Satya Tripathi (3) Third (3) Elliott Harris (4) Fourth (4) Maria-Francesca Spatolisano Answer keys 58. India commemorated Chabahar Day on which day on the sidelines of the 2nd Maritime 41. (4) 42. (2) 43. (2) 44. (4) 45. (3) 46. (1) India Summit-2021? 47. (2) 48. (4) 49. (4) 50. (2) (1) March 2 (2) March 5 51. What is the theme of the Global Bio India (3) March 4 2021 that was inaugurated by Union Health (4) March 1 Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan? (1) Transforming Lives (2) Biosciences to Bio-economy www.oliveboard.in 6  www.oliveboard.in 59. The theme of International Women's Day 66. Damien Wright has been appointed as 2021? Punjab Kings' bowling coach in IPL 2021. He is (1) Realizing Women's Rights from __________. (2) Think equal, build smart, innovate for change (1) New Zealand (3) Time is Now: Rural and urban activists (2) Australia transforming women's lives (3) UK (4) Women in leadership: Achieving an equal (4) South Africa future in a COVID-19 world 67. Who has been chosen for the Kendra Sahitya 60. 19-year old Manu Bhaker won the BBC’s Akademi Award-2020 for his anthology of poems Emerging Player of the Year award. She is Agniswaasa penned in 2017? associated with ________. (1) ‘Digambara Kavi’ Nikhileswar (1) Shooting (2) Meena Kandasamy (2) Running (3) Tishani Doshi (3) Swimming (4) Sonnet Mondal (4) Wrestling 68. Who was recently presented with Answer keys International Woman of Courage 2021 Award by U.S. Consulate? 51. (1) 52. (1) 53. (4) 54. (1) 55. (2) 56. (4) (1) Sunita Krishnan 57. (2) 58. (3) 59. (4) 60. (1) (2) Gowsalya Shankar (3) Shaheen Mistri 61. Which of the following river is associated (4) Shazia ilmi with Maitri Setu? (1) Kaveri 69. Koneru Humpy is associated with which (2) Godavari sport? (3) Feni (1) Tennis (4) Ravi (2) Badminton (3) Squash 62. Which of the following one is the first (4) Chess satellite mission to use two different radar frequencies (L-band and S-band) to measure 70. 27th “Hunar Haat” was recently inaugurated changes in our planet's surface less than a at Lal Parade Ground in which of the following centimetre across? cities? (1) NISAR (1) Gwalior (2) Gaganyaan (2) Indore (3) Netra (3) Raipur (4) Shakti (4) Bhopal 63. Which of the following nation topped in the Answer keys Economic freedom index 2021? (1) India 61. (3) 62. (1) 63. (4) 64. (1) 65. (3) 66. (2) (2) China 67. (1) 68. (2) 69. (4) 70. (4) (3) USA (4) Singapore 71. Who became the first Indian fencer ever to qualify for the Olympics? 64. Who is appointed as the Chief Statistician of (1) Kabita Devi India? (2) Gisho Nidhi (1) GP Samanta (3) CA Bhavani Devi (2) Sushil Chandra (4) Pritam Kotal (3) Rajiv Kumar (4) Om Prakash Rawat 72. National Vaccination Day 2021 observed on_________. 65. PM Modi has launched which of the following (1) March 20 initiatives to mark 75 years of India’s (2) March 16 Independence? (3) March 17 (1) Shakti Mahotsav (4) March 18 (2) Prayas Mahotsav (3) Amrut Mahotsav (4) Shikhar Mahotsav www.oliveboard.in 7  www.oliveboard.in 73. Name the first Central American country to Answer keys achieve malaria-free status? (1) Panama 71. (3) 72. (2) 73. (4) 74. (4) 75. (1) 76. (3) (2) Costa Rica 77. (3) 78. (2) 79. (3) 80. (2) (3) Nicaragua (4) El Salvador 81. Who has been appointed as the first female President of Tanzania? 74. Who became the first player ever in men's (1) Samia Sulaman Hassan cricket to score 3000 runs in the Twenty20 (2) Samrila Suluhu Hassan International? (3) Samia Suluhu Hassan (1) M.S. Dhoni (4) Samrila Sulaman Hassan (2) Rohit Sharma (3) Hardik Pandya 82. Which one of the following is the theme of (4) Virat Kohli 2021 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination? 75. Who has been appointed as the Director (1) United against racism: Dignity and Justice for General of the National Security Guard? All (1) M A Ganapathy (2) Youth united against racism (2) Kuldiep Singh (3) Youth standing up against racism (3) Karambir Singh (4) World standing up against racism (4) Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria 83. When is World Water Day observed? 76. Name the first Afghanistan player to score a (1) March 21 double-century in Test cricket? (2) March 22 (1) Rashid Khan (3) March 23 (2) Asghar Afghan (4) March 20 (3) Hashmatullah Shahidi (4) Mohammad Nabi 84. Who won the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) award recently? 77. Who recently broke PT Usha’s long-standing (1) Christopher Nolan Federation Cup record of 23.30 seconds in 200 (2) Martin Scorsese metres sprint running event? (3) Amitabh Bachchan (1) Swapna Barman (4) Jean-Luc Godard (2) Mareena George (3) S Dhanalakshmi 85. Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra qualified for (4) Krishan Kumar Tokyo Olympics under which sport? (1) Table Tennis 78. According to the IQAir index, Which of the (2) Badminton following one ranked as the most polluted capital (3) Swimming city globally? (4) Tennis (1) Beijing (2) Delhi 86. Which film won the best feature film award (3) Karachi at the 67th National Film Awards announced for (4) Tehran the year 2019? (1) Marakkar:Lion of the Arabian Sea 79. What is India's rank in the World Happiness (2) Asuran Report 2021? (3) Bhonsle (1) 144 (4) Panga (2) 149 (3) 139 87. Who won the Gandhi Peace Prize for the Year (4) 127 2019? (1) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 80. Joint Field Training Exercise 'DUSTLIK' took (2) Qaboos bin Said Al Said place between India and which other nation? (3) Yōhei Sasakawa (1) Kyrgyzstan (4) Ekal Abhiyan Trust (2) Uzbekistan (3) Tajikistan 88. What is the theme of 2021 World (4) Kazakhstan Meteorological Day? (1) Weather-ready, climate-smart (2) Hotter, drier, wetter - Face the future (3) Understanding clouds www.oliveboard.in 8  www.oliveboard.in (4) The ocean, our climate and weather 96. Who was appointed as CEO of UIDAI recently? 89. What was India's rank on the latest (1) Sanjeev Kumar International Intellectual Property Index released (2) Atish Chandra by GIPC? (3) Saurabh Garg (1) 36 (4) Talleen Kumar (2) 45 (3) 53 97. Who is the author of the book 'My (4) 40 Experiments with Silence' that is yet to be published? 90. Where was Shaheed Bhagat Singh Smarak (1) Samir Soni inaugurated by Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (2) Naseeruddin Shah recently? (3) Rahul Roy (1) Maharashtra (4) Virendra Saxena (2) New Delhi (3) Punjab 98. Who won the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021? (4) Uttar Pradesh (1) Amina Cain (2) Caleb Femi Answer keys (3) Rachel Long (4) Carmen Maria Machado 81. (3) 82. (3) 83. (2) 84. (3) 85. (1) 86. (1) 87. (2) 88. (4) 89. (4) 90. (2) 99. Who is the author of '1232 km: A Long Journey Home', the upcoming publication of 91. How many satellites did Russia's Soyuz HarperCollins India? Rocket carry into space from 18 countries (1) Vinod Kapri recently? (2) Mulk Raj Anand (1) 41 (3) Salman Rushdie (2) 26 (4) Kiran Desai (3) 35 (4) 38 100. Which of the following one delivered MV 'Sindhu' A 500 pax passengers cum 150 MT 92. Where did ISRO make its breakthrough Cargo Vessel built indigenously for Andaman and demonstration of free-space Quantum Key Nicobar? Distribution over 300 m recently? (1) Pipavav shipyard limited (1) Sriharikota (2) Mazagon dock shipyard limited (2) Bengaluru (3) Hindustan shipyard limited (3) Kochi (4) Cochin Shipyard Ltd (4) Ahmedabad Answer keys 93. What is the theme of 2021 World Tuberculosis Day? 91. (4) 92. (4) 93. (4) 94. (1) 95. (4) 96. (3) (1) Stop TB, fight poverty 97. (1) 98. (4) 99. (1) 100. (4) (2) It's time (3) It's time to end TB! 101. Which of the following warship is deployed (4) The Clock is Ticking by the Indian Navy in the 'Indo-US PASSEX' exercise? 94. Who is to be conferred with the Vyas (1) INS Shivalik Samman - 2020? (2) INS Himadri (1) Sharad Pagare (3) INS Vikrant (2) Nasira Sharma (4) INS Shivaji (3) Mamta Kalia (4) Sunita Jain 102. Which edition of “Hunar Haat” is being organised at Kala Academy, Panaji in Goa? 95. A team from which college in India became (1) 24 the first ever to win the CoreNet Global Academic (2) 25 Challenge? (3) 26 (1) IIT Mumbai (4) 28 (2) IIT Chennai (3) IIT Delhi (4) IIT Kharagpur www.oliveboard.in 9  www.oliveboard.in 103. Where is the 9th Heart of Asia-Istanbul Answer keys Process (HoA-IP) ministerial conference being held? 101. (1) 102. (4) 103. (4) 104. (1) 105. (3) (1) Istanbul 106. (4) 107. (1) 108. (1) 109. (3) 110. (2) (2) Kabul (3) Almaty 111. Sharankumar Limbale is to receive 2020 (4) Dushanbe Saraswati Samman award. He is winning the award for his work in which language? 104. Which edition of NATHEALTH annual (1) Hindi summit was held recently? (2) Odia (1) 7th (3) Sanskrit (2) 4th (4) Marathi (3) 2nd (4) 5th 112. What is the rank of India on World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 105. Agharkar Research Institute scientists 2021? discovered a new species of diatoms from Mula (1) 125 river in which district of Maharashtra recently? (2) 112 (1) Satara (3) 156 (2) Thane (4) 140 (3) Pune (4) Sindhudurg 113. What is the name of the multinational exercise that the Indian army is participating in 106. Who is the author of the book 'Names of Bangladesh? the Women', that was published recently? (1) Exercise Bongosagar (1) Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (2) Exercise Shantir Ogroshena (2) Naomi Alderman (3) Exercise SAMPRITI (3) Rebecca Abrams (4) Exercise Bangabandhu (4) Jeet Thayil 114. Who is to be awarded the 51st Dadasaheb 107. In a first, Indian Navy is to take part in the Phalke Award? French Naval Exercise in Bay of Bengal along (1) Amitabh Bachchan with other QUAD members. What is the name of (2) Rajinikanth the exercise? (3) Kamal Haasan (1) La Pérouse (4) Irrfan Khan (2) Varuna (3) Passex 115. The ______ edition of National Maritime (4) L' océan Day was celebrated on April 5, 2021. (1) 33rd 108. Who won the best actor(male) award at the (2) 45th 66th Filmfare Awards? (3) 66th (1) Irrfan Khan (4) 58th (2) Ayushmann Khurana (3) Amitabh Bachchan 116. 'Sangrama Sarinahi' is a book written by (4) Sushant Singh Rajput who among the following? (1) Prachand Praveer 109. What is the name of the ship that blocked (2) M Venkaiah Naidu Suez Canal, recently? (3) Dr Shailendra Joshi (1) Ever Girl (4) Biswabhushan Harichandan (2) Ever Blue (3) Ever Given 117. The Internationa Day of Sport for (4) Ever Green Development and Peace is celebrated every year on _________. 110. Where did the special forces of India and (1) Second Tuesday of April US carry out the 11th edition of the military drill (2) April 3 'Vajra Prahar'' recently? (3) April 6 (1) Rajasthan (4) First Friday of April (2) Himachal Pradesh (3) Karnataka (4) Andaman and Nicobar www.oliveboard.in 10  www.oliveboard.in 118. For the first time, scientists discovered (3) Justice Ashok Bhushan emissions of _________ from Uranus. (4) Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar (1) Gamma Rays (2) Ultra-Violet Rays 126. 19 April is observed (3) Radio Eaves as____________________. (4) X-Rays (1) World Liver Day (2) World Kidney Day 119. Who among the following is India's first (3) World Eye Donation Day female cricket commentator? (4) World Diabetes Day (1) Isa Guha (2) Lisa Sthalekar 127. As part of the Artemis program, NASA has (3) Chandra Naidu selected ______________ to carry the American (4) Mayanti Langer astronauts to the lunar surface. (1) ISRO 120. Who is recently appointed as the revenue (2) JAXA secretary under the Ministry of Finance? (3) ESA (1) Ajay Seth (4) SpaceX (2) Tarun Bajaj (3) Gyanesh Kumar 128. Name the player who has won Formula One (4) Ajay Bhushan Pandey Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2021? (1) Lewis Hamilton Answer keys (2) Max Verstappen (3) Sebastian Vettel 111. (4) 112. (4) 113. (2) 114. (2) 115. (4) (4) Nico Rosberg 116. (4) 117. (3) 118. (4) 119. (3) 120. (2) 129. Who recently bagged the Monte Carlo 2021 121. Who was appointed as BCCI's Anti- Title By Beating Andrey Rublev? Corruption Unit chief recently? (1) Novak Djokovic (1) Ajit Singh (2) Kevin Volland (2) S Ramann (3) Stefanos Tsitsipas (3) S Sripal (4) Rafael Nadal (4) Shabir Hussein 130. NASA's experimental helicopter Ingenuity is 122. Recently Nethra Kumanan created history the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft by becoming first Indian woman to qualify for on _________________________. Olympics in which of the following sport? (1) Venus (1) Sailing (2) Jupiter (2) Fencing (3) Mars (3) Rowing (4) Saturn (4) Shooting Answer keys 123. Devishankar Awasthi Award 2020 has been awarded to the prolific Hindi prose, journalist, 121. (4) 122. (1) 123. (4) 124. (1) 125. (2) and critic Ashutosh Bhardwaj. He was given the 126. (1) 127. (4) 128. (2) 129. (3) 130. (3) award for which of his work? (1) Jo Frame Men Na The 131. Who is the first Indian woman to scale the (2) Dharma Artha Kama Moksha Mt. Annapurna? (3) Wah Bhi Koi Des Hai (1) Priyanka Mohite (4) Pitra-Vadh (2) Harita Kaur Dayal (3) Maharshi Karve 124. Who has started a movement called (4) Roze Millian Bethew 'Satyagraha against Pollution'? (1) Viral Desai 132. National Civil Services Day is observed on (2) Licypriya Kangujam _____________________. (3) Vandana Shiva (1) April 21 (4) Chandi Prasad Bhatt (2) April 22 (3) April 20 125. _______________is current chairperson of (4) April 23 National Green Tribunal (NGT). (1) Justice A.M. Khanwilkar (2) Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel www.oliveboard.in 11  www.oliveboard.in 133. Arjun Kalyan became India’s 68th Chess (4) Globalization and Free Trade: The Asian Grandmaster. He is from ___________. Perspectives (1) Kerala (2) Karnataka Answer keys (3) Tamil Nadu (4) Telangana 131. (1) 132. (1) 133. (3) 134. (3) 135. (1) 136. (2) 137. (1) 138. (3) 139. (2) 140. (1) 134. Who is recently appointed as the President of Cuba? 141. Nelson Mandela World Humanitarian Award (1) Guy Parmelin for the year 2021 has been awarded to? (2) Frank-Walter Steinmeier (1) Ramana Singhal (3) Miguel Díaz-Canel (2) Ramana Sinha Sehgal (4) Raul Castro (3) Rumana Singh (4) Rumana Sinha Sehgal 135. As per a recent World Press Freedom Index 2021, which among the following countries 142. What is the name of the bilateral exercise ranked the First, the Second, and the Last? recently conducted by the Indian and French (1) Norway, Finland, and Eritrea Navy in the Arabian Sea? (2) Norway, Denmark, and Eritrea (1) GARUDA-2021 (3) Denmark, Finland , and China (2) INDIRA-2021 (4) Norway, Denmark, and China (3) VARUNA-2021 (4) EAGLE-2021 136. Earth Day is observed on _____________________every year and the 143. E-book ''Climate Change Explained - for theme for Earth Day 2021 is one and all' is authored by: ___________________________________. (1) Aakash Ranison (1) April 21, Climate action. (2) Melati Wijsen (2) April 22, Restore Our Earth and it (3) Licypriya Kangujam (3) April 22, Protect Our Species (4) Jamie Margolin (4) April 21, End Plastic Pollution 144. Which among the following is the theme for 137. Who is the author of the latest children's 2021 World Malaria Day? novel 'The Christmas Pig'? (1) Zero Malaria Starts with Me (1) J.K. Rowling (2) Reaching the Zero Malaria target (2) Ruskin Bond (3) Ready to Beat Malaria (3) E. B. White (4) End Malaria for Good (4) Louisa May Alcott 145. April 26 is observed as 138. Luna 25 is one of the Lunar missions ____________________. planned by ___________________. (1) World Intellectual Property Day (1) USA (2) World Health Day (2) India (3) World Mental Health Day (3) Russia (4) World Malaria Day (4) UAE 146. What is the theme of World Immunization 139. What is the rank of India in the recently Week 2021? released ‘Energy Transition Index 2021’? (1) Vaccines bring us closer (1) 110 (2) Vaccines Works for All (2) 87 (3) Protected Together: Vaccines Work (3) 65 (4) Immunization saves millions (4) 102 147. "Zhurong" is the first-ever Mars rover of 140. What is the theme of the Boao Forum for ____________________. Asia Annual Conference 2021? (1) Israel (1) A World in Change: Join Hands to Strengthen (2) China Global Governance and Advance Belt and Road (3) UK Cooperation. (4) Iran (2) Community of shared destiny (3) An Open and Innovative Asia for a World of Greater Prosperity www.oliveboard.in 12  www.oliveboard.in 148. Naomi Osaka of_________ has been (1) Santosh Yadav named Sportswoman of the Year at the Laureus (2) Nungshi Malik World Sports Awards 2021. (3) Taniha Malik (1) USA (4) Baljeet Kaur (2) Japan (3) Sweden 156. Which country has successfully landed a (4) Germany spacecraft on Mars recently? (1) Japan 149. Name the world’s first intelligent ship, set (2) India to Navigate Across the Atlantic. (3) Russia (1) Rayflower 400 (4) China (2) Payflower 400 (3) Mayflower 400 157. Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has (4) Sayflower 400 formed a minority government recently. He has become the PM of Nepal for _____ time. 150. Life in the Clock Tower Valley is the debut (1) 2nd book of Press Trust of India (PTI) journalist (2) 1st Shakoor Rather. This novel provides the (3) 3rd historical and political information (4) 4th about______________________. (1) Punjab 158. Famous environmental conservationist (2) Himachal Pradesh Nuklu Phom gets prestigious Whitley Awards (3) Kashmir 2021. He hails from which state? (4) Uttarakhand (1) Sikkim (2) Arunachal Pradesh Answer keys (3) Nagaland (4) Tripura 141. (4) 142. (3) 143. (1) 144. (2) 145. (1) 146. (1) 147. (2) 148. (2) 149. (3) 150. (3) 159. Which former Cricketer has been recently appointed as the head coach of India Women 151. Who has recently sworn as the new Cricket Team? humanitarian chief of the United Nations (1) Ajay Jadeja Organisation? (2) BS Bedi (1) John Zwaanstra (3) Ramesh Powar (2) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (4) Dinesh Mongiya (3) David Malpass (4) Martin Griffiths 160. Which of the following institutions has been recently conferred with ‘Green Urja Award’? 152. Which of the following organisation (1) Indian Renewable Energy Development publishes the World Development Report? Agency Limited (1) UNDP (2) Solar Energy Corporation of India (2) IMF (3) India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (3) World Bank (4) Indian Railway Finance Corporation (4) International Labour Organization Answer keys 153. Who has been recently named COP26 People's Advocate? 151. (4) 152. (3) 153. (1) 154. (2) 155. (4) (1) David Attenborough 156. (4) 157. (3) 158. (3) 159. (3) 160. (1) (2) Sally Buzbee (3) Martin Griffiths 161. Which of the following is the first cyclonic (4) Ram Karan Verma storm of 2021? (1) Cyclone Tauktae 154. Who has recently won the Formula One (2) Cyclone Nisarga Spanish Grand Prix 2021? (3) Cyclone Gati (1) Max Verstappen (4) Cyclone Nivar (2) Lewis Hamilton (3) Michael Schumacher 162. Who has been declared the winner of the (4) George Russell World Food Prize 2021? (1) Dr. Rattan Lal 155. Who has become the first Indian women to (2) M.S. Swaminathan summit Mount Pumori in Nepal? (3) Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted www.oliveboard.in 13  www.oliveboard.in (4) David Nabarro 170. _______________________became the first club to win both the men’s and women’s 163. ___________________and Champions League. __________________________________are (1) Real Madrid the Men's and Women's singles title winners of (2) Chelsea Italian open 2021? (3) Barcelona (1) Rafael Nadal, Iga Swiatek (4) Man City (2) Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek (3) Rafael Nadal,Karolina Pliskova Answer keys (4) Novak Djokovic,Karolina Pliskova 161. (1) 162. (3) 163. (1) 164. (3) 165. (1) 164. ____________________________is the 166. (1) 167. (1) 168. (2) 169. (2) 170. (3) slogan chosen for the 6th UN Global Traffic Safety Week, which this year is celebrated 171. Who has won the 2021 FA Cup? between 17 and 23 May. (1) Leicester City (1) Get Involved (2) Chelsea (2) Road Safety is No Accident (3) Real Madrid (3) Streets for Life (4) Barcelona (4) Road Safety is No Accident 172. The Indian Navy’s first destroyer 165. Who has taken out the top spot in Fortune's ______________ was decommissioned after 41 annual World's 50 Greatest Leaders list? years of service recently. (1) Jacinda Ardern (1) INS Viraat (2) Dan Schulman (2) INS Vikrant (3) Dr. John Nkengasong (3) INS Rajput (4) Stacey Abrams (4) INS Ranjit 166. Who is the winner of the 69th Miss Universe 173. Which state/UT clinched second rank in the 2020? recent ranking released by the Union Ministry of (1) Andrea Meza Housing and Urban Affairs based on the progress (2) Julia Gama of the implementation of the Smart City Mission's (3) Janick Maceta schemes? (4) Adline Castelino (1) Jharkhand (2) Rajasthan 167. Recently, The book "Sikkim: A History of (3) Delhi Intrigue and Alliance" has published by (4) Tamil Nadu HarperCollins India on May 16. Who is the author of this book? 174. When is the U-17 Women's World Cup to be (1) Preet Mohan Singh Malik held in India? (2) Apoorva Kumar Singh (1) December 2021 (3) Abhay K (2) October 2022 (4) Amit Shah (3) August 2023 (4) November 2022 168. Martha Karambu Koome is appointed as the first woman chief justice of 175. _________________and_______________ ____________________________. __ became the first Indian para shuttlers to (1) Morocco qualify for Tokyo Paralympics. (2) Kenya (1) Palak Kohli and Parul Parmar (3) South Africa (2) Palak Kohli and Anjali Parmar (4) Sudan (3) Anjali Kohli and Parul Parmar (4) Palak Kohli and Parul Kumar 169. Moctar Ouane has recently been reappointed as prime minister of 176. Who was elected to the Badminton World __________________________. Federation council for the period 2021-25? (1) Mauritius (1) Himanta Biswa Sarma (2) Mali (2) Sandeep Bakhshi (3) Costa Rica (3) Raghu vaishnav (4) Niger (4) Girish Chandra Chaturvedi www.oliveboard.in 14  www.oliveboard.in 177. NASA is planning to send its first mobile days. Which of the following is the Atlantic storm robot to which of the following celestial body? of 2021? (1) Mars (1) Ana (2) Moon (2) Yash (3) Jupiter (3) Taukate (4) Neptune (4) Merum 178. “India and Asian Geopolitics: The past, 185. Who is re-elected as the International present” is authored by Hockey Federation (FIH) President for a second _________________________. term during the virtual 47th Congress? (1) Shivshankar Menon (1) Arjun Munda (2) Rajiv Mehrishi (2) SushilKumar (3) S. Jayshankar (3) Aravind Batra (4) Rajnath Singh (4) Narinder Batra 179. Collinet Makosso has recently been 186. Who is the only referee from India to appointed as the Prime Minister of officiate in wrestling matches of the Tokyo ______________. Olympic Games? (1) Republic of Congo (1) Aravind Kumar (2) Niger (2) Ashok Kumar (3) Brazil (3) Amitab Kumar (4) Morocco (4) Anand Kumar 180. Who among the following bagged the India 187. Who has won the La Liga 2021? Biodiversity Award 2021? (1) Atletico Madrid (1) Shaji N M (2) Barcelona (2) Reji K. M (3) Athletic Bilbao (3) Ranjith Kumar (4) Eibar (4) Shaji N. Kumar 188. The International Day for Biological Answer keys Diversity is observed on ________. (1) May 20 171. (1) 172. (3) 173. (2) 174. (2) 175. (1) (2) May 21 176. (1) 177. (2) 178. (1) 179. (1) 180. (1) (3) May 22 (4) May 23 181. Who became the first Indian to win Rudolf V Schindler award? 189. Who among the following Bollywood Actors (1) V. Narashimha Reddy received the UAE’s Golden Visa? (2) D Nagarjuna Reddy (1) Shah Rukh Khan (3) D Nageshwar Reddy (2) Karan Johar (4) T Nageshwar Rao (3) Salman Khan (4) Sanjay Dutt 182. Who has recently been appointed Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation? 190. Which of the following entity launched the (1) KR Chandra ‘Young Warrior movement’ to engage 5 million (2) Subodh Jaiswal young people to fight against Covid-19? (3) VS Kaumudi (1) DRDO (4) C K Chandra (2) IDRO (3) Indian Army 183. Who was conferred with President’s award (4) CBSE by International Hockey Federation through the 47th FIH Congress? Answer keys (1) V Karthikeyan Pandian (2) Sreekanth Kumar 181. (3) 182. (2) 183. (1) 184. (1) 185. (4) (3) K. V Pandian 186. (2) 187. (1) 188. (3) 189. (4) 190. (4) (4) Vijaykumar M.R 191. The Book “Nehru, Tibet and China” 184. Recent news mentioned about the first analyses the events from 1949 to the Indo-China Atlantic storm of the season is posing no threat war in 1962 and its aftermath. It is written by to land and is expected to dissipate in a few who among the following? (1) Shivshankar Menon www.oliveboard.in 15  www.oliveboard.in (2) Shakoor Rather (1) DFCCIL (3) Both (1) & (2) (2) RDSO (4) Avtar Singh Bhasin (3) IRFC (4) IRCTC 192. Amartya Sen is to be honoured with Spain's Princess of Asturias Award 2021. Amartya Sen is 200. Lieutenant General Pradeep Chandran Nair a(n) ________. appointed as the Director-General Of (1) Environmentalist ___________________________. (2) Economist (1) Assam Rifles (3) Cardiologist (2) Sashastra Seema Bal (4) Broadcaster (3) Central Reserve Police Force (4) Border Roads Organisation 193. What is the theme of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers observed on 29th Answer keys of May annually? (1) Women in Peacekeeping – A Key to Peace 191. (4) 192. (2) 193. (3) 194. (2) 195. (3) (2) Protecting Civilians, Protecting Peace 196. (3) 197. (3) 198. (1) 199. (2) 200. (1) (3) The road to a lasting peace (4) 70 Years of Service and Sacrifice. 201. Labor veteran Isaac Herzog recently elected as the 11th president of ________. 194. YUVA was launched by the Ministry of (1) France Education recently. What does ‘A’ in YUVA short (2) Italy for? (3) Germany (1) Authority (4) Israel (2) Authors (3) Administration 202. Which of the following day is observed as (4) Affiliation World Bicycle Day? (1) June 2 195. Who has recently appointed the head of the (2) June 3 National Human Rights Commission? (3) June 1 (1) B. Kemal Pasha (4) June 4 (2) C. S. Karnan (3) Arun Mishra 203. Who recently won the Belgrade Open title (4) B. N. Srikrishna 2021? (1) Alex Molcan 196. Name the Indian pugilist who won a gold (2) Novak Djokovic medal in the 91 kg weight category at the Asian (3) Roger Federer Boxing Championships. (4) Andy Murray (1) Sushil Kumar (2) Sangeet Kumar 204. The International Day of Innocent Children (3) Sanjeet Kumar Victims of Aggression' is observed each year on (4) Sukudev Kumar _________________. (1) June 2 197. Recently, Who won the 2nd straight gold in (2) June 3 Asian Boxing Championship? (3) June 1 (1) Lakshmi Rao (4) June 4 (2) Anupama Rani (3) Pooja Rani 205. Who has been appointed as the Vice Chief (4) MC Mary Kom of the Indian Air force? (1) Vivek Ram Chaudhari 198. Global Parents Day observed on (2) Ballabha Radha Krishna ________________________. (3) RJ Duckworth (1) June 1 (4) Ramanath Chaudhari (2) June 2 (3) May 31 206. Which of the following states ranked the (4) May 30 second position in the sustainable development goals (SDG) index? 199. Which institution of Indian Railways (1) Himachal Pradesh became the first to be declared Standard (2) Tamil Nadu Developing Organization (SDO) under one "One (3) Kerala Nation One Standard" mission? (4) Both A and B www.oliveboard.in 16  www.oliveboard.in (2) June 5 207. Which of the following institution has (3) June 7 recently hosted Asia's first International Memory (4) June 6 Studies Workshop? (1) Indian Institute of Technology Madras 215. Which country has been named as the host (2) Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) (3) Indian Institute of Technology Cuttack Hockey5s World Cup? (4) Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai (1) Japan (2) China 208. Recently, Who has won the International (3) Oman Booker prize 2021? (4) UAE (1) Ruskind Bond (2) Marieke Lucas Rijneveld 216. Who has been recently elected as the (3) David Grossman president of UN General Assembly? (4) David Diop (1) Abdulla Shahid (2) Amitabh Kanth 209. World's first CO2-neutral cement plant will (3) Rajiv Mehrishi open in __________by 2030. (4) Amit Shah (1) Germany (2) Switzerland 217. Who has been awarded the PEN Pinter prize (3) Sweden 2021? (4) Italy (1) George Orwell (2) Ernest Hemingway 210. Which of the following group recently joined (3) Tsitsi Dangarembga with the energy investment program of Bill Gates (4) Roald Dahl to boost green technology? (1) BRICS 218. Who conferred with the Asia Pacific (2) SAARC Productivity Champion award 2021? (3) OPEC (1) R S Sodhi (4) EU (2) Mukesh Jain (3) Abhishek Kumar Answer keys (4) Adar Poonawalla 201. (4) 202. (2) 203. (2) 204. (4) 205. (1) 219. Cricketer Suresh Raina released his 206. (4) 207. (1) 208. (4) 209. (3) 210. (4) autobiography recently. What is its name? (1) Conquer 211. Which among the following is the theme for (2) Believe 2021 World Environment Day? (3) No Spin (1) Time for Nature (4) Thrown Out (2) Air pollution (3) Beating plastic pollution 220. The 47th G7 Summit was held in which (4) Reimagine. Recreate. Restore. place? (1) Glasgow 212. The book ‘1232 km: The Long Journey (2) London Home’ is authored by: (3) Edinburgh (1) Vikram Seth (4) Cornwall (2) Vinod Kapri (3) Arundhati Roy Answer keys (4) Aravind Adiga 211. (4) 212. (2) 213. (1) 214. (3) 215. (3) 213. Which of the following movie has won the 216. (1) 217. (3) 218. (1) 219. (2) 220. (4) best film award on environment conservation at the 67th National Films Awards 2021? 221. Who was sworn in as Israel’s new prime (1) Water Burial minister? (2) Mother Earth (1) Benjamin Netanyahu (3) Capital (2) Yair Lapid (4) NEFA (3) Naftali Bennett (4) Mickey Levy 214. World Food Safety Day (WSFD) is observed annually on__________________________. (1) June 10 www.oliveboard.in 17  www.oliveboard.in 222. Novak Djokovic won his 19th Grand Slam title by winning the French Open 2021. How 230. 'It's a wonderful Life' is a book authored by many times has he won the French Open? who among the following? (1) One (1) Dr. Vipin Gupta (2) Two (2) Dr. Vipul Gupta (3) Three (3) Dr. Vipin Sharma (4) Four (4) None of these 223. The first consignment of GI-certified Answer keys Jardalu mangoes has recently exported to the UK. Which of the following state is associated 221. (3) 222. (2) 223. (1) 224. (3) 225. (4) with Jardalu mangoes? 226. (2) 227. (1) 228. (1) 229. (1) 230. (4) (1) Bihar (2) Odisha 231. Swimmer Kaylee McKeown breaks a 100- (3) Assam meter backstroke world record. She belongs (4) Goa to_______________________. (1) England 224. Minister for road transport and highways (2) Germany and micro, small, and medium enterprises, Nitin (3) South Africa Gadkari has said that the Centre's target is to (4) Australia reduce road accident deaths by 50 percent by _____________. 232. What is the theme of this year's (1) 2022 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit (2) 2021 Trafficking? (3) 2024 (1) Health for Justice. Justice for Health (4) 2023 (2) Share Drug Facts to Save Lives (3) Make Everyday No Drug Day 225. Who won the women’s singles title of (4) Commit to Quit French open 2021? (1) Iga Swiatek 233. Which city was judged the best in India (2) Bethanie Mattek Smart Cities Awards 2020? (3) Desirae Krawczyk (1) Indore (4) Barbora Krejcikova (2) Surat (3) Both A and B 226. Which of the following has recently (4) Bhubaneswar launched The ‘Report it, don’t share it’ campaign? 234. Which Indian wrestler won the 53 kg gold (1) Whatsapp at the Poland Open recently? (2) Facebook (1) Sakshi Malik (3) Telegram (2) Babita Kumari (4) Instagram (3) Vinesh Phogat (4) Divya Kakran 227. Which of the following is often referred as the ’Banana City of India’? 235. Who became IAF’s first woman fighter pilot (1) Jalgaon from J&K? (2) Jabalpur (1) Mawya Sudan (3) Pune (2) Maya Chaudary (4) Nagpur (3) Mawya Bajwa (4) Maya Pandit 228. Who won the French Grand Prix in 2021? (1) Max Verstappen 236. Who won the formula one Styrian Grand (2) Lewis Hamilton Prix 2021? (3) Sergio Perez (1) Sergio Perez (4) Sebastian Vettel (2) Valtteri Bottas (3) Lewis Hamilton 229. Ebrahim Raisi has been elected as the new (4) Max Verstappen president of which nation? (1) Iran 237. NATRAX, Asia's longest and the world's fifth (2) Iraq high-speed test track was inaugurated in (3) UAE _________________________. (4) Saudi Arabia (1) Indore, Madhya Pradesh www.oliveboard.in 18  www.oliveboard.in (2) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 245. Who is the author of the book "Nathuram (3) Agra, Uttar Pradesh Godse: The True Story of Gandhi's Assassin"? (4) Surat, Gujarat (1) Dhanaj Kulkarni (2) Dhaval Kulkarni 238. Which of the following is the capital of (3) Anita Desai Malta? (4) Ankit Tiwari (1) Port Louis (2) Nicosia 246. Who won the Austrian Grand Prix 2021? (3) Valletta (1) Max Verstappen (4) Palermo (2) Lewis Hamilton (3) Lando Norris 239. As of 1 July 2021, Who among the following (4) Valtteri Bottas has named as the world's youngest chess grandmaster? 247. Who became the first Indian female (1) Abhimanyu Mishra swimmer to qualify for Tokyo Olympics? (2) Sergey Karjakin (1) Mana Patel (3) Abhishesk Mishra (2) Shikha Tandon (4) Abhinand Mishra (3) Kenisha Gupta (4) Shivani Kataria 240. Who is the author of the memoir 'Home in the World'? 248. World Zoonoses Day is observed on July 6 (1) Amartya Sen every year to commemorate the scientific (2) Rakesh Sharma achievement of administering the first (3) Abhijit Banerjee vaccination against (4) Rajnath Singh __________________________. (1) Polio Answer keys (2) Rabies (3) Malaria 231. (4) 232. (2) 233. (3) 234. (3) 235. (1) (4) Small Pox 236. (4) 237. (1) 238. (3) 239. (1) 240. (1) 249. Who became the highest leading run-scorer 241. Who won the Gelfand Challenge Chess Title in women's international cricket? recently? (1) Mithali Raj (1) D. Gukesh (2) Charlotte Edward (2) Abhimanyu Mishra (3) Jhulan Goswami (3) Sergey Karjakin (4) Stafanie Taylor (4) Abhishesk Mishra 250. The centre has recently decided to set up a 242. Which one of the following ranks represents separate ministry of ________. the position of India in the Global Startup (1) Banking Ecosystem Index 2021? (2) Corporation (1) 20 (3) Cooperation (2) 11 (4) Artificial Intelligence (3) 15 (4) 44 Answer keys 243. International Day of Cooperatives is 241. (1) 242. (1) 243. (4) 244. (2) 245. (2) celebrated every year on: 246. (1) 247. (1) 248. (2) 249. (1) 250. (3) (1) 3rd July (2) 4th July 251. Who won the RSL Lithuanian International (3) 2nd July Badminton crown recently? (4) First Saturday of July (1) Malvika Bansod (2) Rachael Darragh 244. Who among the following has been named (3) B. Sai Praneeth as India's flag-bearer for Tokyo Paralympics? (4) Lin Dan (1) Deepa Malik (2) Mariyappan Thangavelu 252. Based on the recent portfolio changes of (3) Devendra Jhajharia the cabinet, which of the following is not (4) Varun Singh Bhati correctly matched? (1) Narayan Tatu Rane - Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise. www.oliveboard.in 19  www.oliveboard.in (2) Dr. Virendra Kumar - Ministry of Social 260. Recently, Journalist Palagummi Sainath has Justice and Empowerment been awarded the Fukuoka Grand Prize for 2021. (3) Giriraj Singh -Ministry of Rural Development. Which of the following nation is associated with (4) Ramchandra Prasad Singh - Ministry of the establishment of this award? Panchayati Raj (1) China (2) Thailand 253. Which of the following portfolio is (3) Singapore associated with the union minister Kiren Rijju? (4) Japan (1) Ministry of Food Processing Industries. (2) Ministry of Law and Justice Answer keys (3) Ministry of Steel (4) Ministry of MSME 251. (1) 252. (4) 253. (2) 254. (4) 255. (1) 256. (1) 257. (3) 258. (2) 259. (3) 260. (4) 254. After the recent reshuffling of portfolios in the cabinet, Which of the following portfolios are 261. The government has recently appointed a given to Piyush Goyal? 25-member development council for the (1) Ministry of Commerce and Industry development of _______________________ (2) Ministry of Consumer Affairs (1) Chemicals industry (3) Ministry of Food and Public Distribution (2) Vaccines industry (4) All of the above (3) Steels industry (4) Cement industry 255. Who among the following minister takes the additional charge as the Union Minister of the 262. Who will become the second Indian-born brand new Ministry of Cooperation? woman to fly into space? (1) Amit Shah (1) Mana Patel (2) Piyush Goyal (2) Sumita Bandla (3) Dharmendra Pradhan (3) Sirisha Bandla (4) Mansukh Mandaviya (4) Niharika Rao 256. Who has been recently honored with 263. Kanchan Ugursandi finished the world's first Humboldt Research Award 2021? solo motorcycle expedition covering 18 passes of (1) Kaushik Basu ____________________. (2) Amartya Sen (1) Satpura ranges (3) Abhijit Banerjee (2) Vindhya ranges (4) Raghu Ram Rajan (3) Himalayan ranges (4) Aravalli ranges 257. According to the UN agency, the high temperatures in Antarctica are a result of a large 264. Defence Ministry has implemented high-pressure system creating by ___________, an integrated system for ____________________. automation of sanction and disbursement of (1) Polar Vortex defence pension. (2) Doldrums (1) SPARSH (3) Fohn conditions (2) SAMARTH (4) Jet streams (3) SPARK (4) SPLENDOUR 258. ‘The Light of Asia’: Jairam Ramesh’s new book is a biography of an epic bio-poem on 265. Who has become the first Indian jury ____________________. member for shooting at Tokyo Olympics (1) Mahatma Gandhi (1) Abhishek Verma (2) Gautama Buddha (2) Abhinav Bindra (3) Mother Teresa (3) Pawan Singh (4) Mahavira (4) Gagan Narang 259. Who is the author of a new book titled Lady 266. China has reclassified which of the following Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First from endangered to vulnerable status? Women in Medicine? (1) Giant pandas (1) Anitha Desai (2) Red Fox (2) Arundhati Roy (3) Giant Asian Squirrel (3) Kavitha Rao (4) Phoenix Hen (4) Sunitha Rao www.oliveboard.in 20  www.oliveboard.in 267. Which young Indian Grandmaster has (4) Ahmedabad emerged champion in the Masters’ section of the Serbia Open Chess Championship? 274. Schools in which one of the following states (1) Vidit Gujrathi ranked last in terms of gender parity in senior (2) Nihal Sarin classes according to UDISE Report? (3) Adhiban Baskaran (1) Bihar (4) Srinath narayanan (2) Uttar Pradesh (3) Maharasthra 268. Journalist and playwright __________ has (4) Rajasthan been selected for the Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam (BKS)’s Literary Award for 2021. 275. Who won the Copa America 2021 football (1) N N Pillai tournament? (2) A.M. Rathnam (1) Brazil (3) Thilakan (2) Argentina (4) T Kannatham (3) Colombia (4) Chile 269. Whom did Ashleigh Barty beat in order to win her maiden Wimbledon title? 276. Novak Djokovic has won how many (1) Karolina Pliskova Wimbledon titles as of 2021? (2) T Martincova (1) Four (3) Elina Svitolina (2) Five (4) Iga Świątek (3) Six (4) Seven 270. Recently, KVIC has secured its trademark registrations in which among the following 277. Who won the Wimbledon 2021 Boys’ nations? singles title? (1) Bhutan (1) Siddhant J Banthia (2) UAE (2) Adil Kalyanpur (3) Mexico (3) Samir Banerjee (4) All of the above (4) Dhruv Sunish Answer keys 278. Who was adjudged the player of UEFA EURO 2020? 261. (4) 262. (3) 263. (3) 264. (1) 265. (3) (1) Gianluigi Donnarumma 266. (1) 267. (2) 268. (1) 269. (1) 270. (4) (2) Harry Kane (3) Giorgio Chiellini 271. Which famous actor has recently introduced (4) Kylian Mbappé her book named the 'Pregnancy Bible'? (1) Priyanka Chopra 279. Who is the author of the book "The (2) Genelia D'Souza Ramayana of Shri Guru Gobind Singh"? (3) Kareena Kapoor Khan (1) Baljit Kaur Tulsi (4) Aishwarya Rai (2) KTS Tulsi (3) Meira Kumar 272. World Population Day is observed on 11 (4) Sumitra Mahajan July to draw people's attention towards overpopulation. What is the theme of World 280. India’s first cryptogamic garden was Population day 2021? inaugurated in which state? (1) impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on (1) Uttarakhand sustainibility (2) Uttar Pradesh (2) impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on (3) Gujarat government's actions (4) Maharashtra (3) impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fertility (4) impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family Answer keys planning 271. (3) 272. (3) 273. (2) 274. (4) 275. (2) 273. Minister for Road Transport and Highways 276. (3) 277. (3) 278. (1) 279. (1) 280. (1) Nitin Gadkari recently inaugurated country’s first LNG facility plant at which place? 281. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar (1) Pune unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in (2) Nagpur _______________________. (3) Mumbai (1) Italy www.oliveboard.in 21  www.oliveboard.in (2) France 289. The Prime Minister of India recently (3) Germany inaugurated an International Cooperation and (4) Georgia Convention Centre named 'Rudrakash'. It was constructed with the assistance of which of the 282. Who is the author of the book 'A Kashmiri following countries? Century - Portrait Of A Society In Flux'? (1) Israel (1) Khem Lata Wakhlu (2) France (2) Anitha Desai (3) Russia (3) Amit Tripathi (4) Japan (4) Arjun Bhatt 290. India, Sri Lanka and which one of the 283. Who became the first Indian to judge following countries held Joint Exercise TTX-2021 Gymnastics at the Olympics? On Maritime Security? (1) Deepak Kabra (1) Bangladesh (2) Dipa Karmakar (2) Maldives (3) Ashish Kumar (3) Myanmar (4) Kalpana Debnath (4) Indonesia 284. Which country will host the World Answer keys Badminton Championships in 2026? (1) Canada 281. (4) 282. (1) 283. (1) 284. (4) 285. (4) (2) China 286. (2) 287. (1) 288. (2) 289. (4) 290. (2) (3) USA (4) India 291. Which one of the following railway stations was renamed as Banaras? 285. Which of the following country recently (1) Varanasi Junction unveiled one of the world’s largest 60 megawatt- (2) Shahjahanpur peak solar photovoltaic farms? (3) Basti (1) China (4) Manduadih (2) Japan (3) India 292. Navy of which of the following countries (4) Singapore handed over first two MH-60R multi role helicopters to India, recently? 286. Babar Azam recently became the fastest (1) Russia batsman to score 14 ODI centuries surpassing (2) Japan Hashim Amla, Virat Kohli. He achieved this feat (3) France in how many innings? (4) United States (1) 76 (2) 81 293. Google announced its second Google Cloud (3) 84 Region in which one of the following places in (4) 98 India? (1) Mumbai 287. July 15 is celebrated as Youth Skills Day all (2) Delhi NCR around the world. When was this day first (3) Bengaluru observed? (4) Hyderabad (1) 2015 (2) 2016 294. According to a recent WWF-UNEP report, (3) 2017 what percent of India's tiger ranges outside (4) 2018 protected areas? (1) 30% 288. Recently, the Union Minister of Sports (2) 35% launched Team India's official cheer song (3) 40% 'Hindustani Way' for the upcoming Tokyo (4) 45% Olympics. India is sending how many athletes to the Tokyo Olympics 2020? 295. Which one of the following institutions (1) 115 recently developed AI algorithm called 'NBDriver' (2) 126 to spot cancer-causing mutations? (3) 234 (1) IIT Delhi (4) 334 (2) IIT Bombay (3) IIT Kharagpur (4) IIT Madras www.oliveboard.in 22  www.oliveboard.in 303. Who is the author of the book "RSS: 296. Who among the following wrote the book Building India Through SEWA"? 'The India Story’? (1) Narendra Modi (1) Dr. Raghuram Rajan (2) Amit Shah (2) Dr. D. Subbarao (3) Ramesh Pokriyal (3) Dr. Bimal Jalan (4) Sudhanshu Mittal (4) Dr. Y V Reddy 304. Who was sworn in as the Governor of 297. Who won the British Grand Prix 2021? Mizoram? (1) Max Verstappen (1) Kambhampati Hari Babu (2) Lewis Hamilton (2) Banwarilal Purohit (3) Charles Leclerc (3) P. Sreedaran (4) Sebastin Vettel (4) Najma Heptulla 298. Who among the following will be conferred 305. Who has been appointed as the Deputy with Mohun Bagan Ratna posthumously? Leader of Rajya Sabha? (1) Sumit Banerjee (1) Thambi Durai (2) Amit Banerjee (2) Keshav Prasad Maurya (3) Shibaji Banerjee (3) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (4) Sangeet Banerjee (4) Dinesh Sharma 299. Who will receive the Olympic Laurel at the 306. Which of the following nation has handed Tokyo Games? over the first two Sikorsky MH-60R multi-role (1) Kip Keino helicopters to the Indian Navy? (2) Muhammed Ul Haq (1) UK (3) Abdul Hassan (2) USA (4) Muhammad Yunus (3) Israel (4) UAE 300. Who became the second woman to win Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival? 307. According to the Nature Index 2021 (1) Renate Reinsve Materials Science, Which Indian Institute was (2) Leos Carax included in the ‘50 Rising Institutions’ list? (3) Julia Ducournau (1) Indira Gandhi Centre for Advanced Scientific (4) Andria Jermand Research (2) Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Answer keys Scientific Research (3) Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences 291. (4) 292. (4) 293. (2) 294. (2) 295. (4) (4) Jawaharlal Nehru technological university 296. (3) 297. (2) 298. (3) 299. (4) 300. (3) 308. Which country appointed Ariel Henry as its 301. _______and ______ are among the Indian new prime minister after the president's awardees of the prestigious Equator Prize for assassination? 2021. (1) Sudan (1) Aadhimalai Pazhangudiyinar Producer (2) Algeria Company Limited and Snehakunja Trust (3) Haiti (2) Rural Health Care Foundation and Salaam (4) Malawi Baalak Trust- Mumba (3) Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Sir Dorabji Tata 309. Pedro Castillo is the new elected president Trust of ________________. (4) Rural Health Care Foundation and Aadhimalai (1) Cuba Pazhangudiyinar Producer Company Limited (2) Peru (3) Argentina 302. Who bagged the prestigious Oeil d'Or award (4) Chile (golden eye) for 'Best Documentary' presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2021? 310. Which of the following institution developed (1) Pamir Kapadia the Oxygen rationing device – AMLEX? (2) Payal Kapadia (1) IIT Kharagpur (3) Anjali Tripathi (2) IIT Madras (4) Lavanya Tripathi (3) IIT Delhi (4) IIT Ropar www.oliveboard.in 23  www.oliveboard.in Answer keys 318. National Broadcasting Day is observed annually in India on_______________________. 301. (1) 302. (2) 303. (4) 304. (1) 305. (3) (1) July 23 306. (2) 307. (2) 308. (3) 309. (2) 310. (4) (2) July 25 (3) July 24 311. Which of the following nation has unveiled (4) July 21 the 600 kph superfast maglev train recently? (1) China 319. What is the maximum range of (2) Japan indigenously developed low weight, fire and (3) India forget Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (4) South Korea that launched by DRDO? (1) 2.5 Km 312. 'Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 2021' is a joint (2) 1.5 Km military exercise between __________and (3) 3.5 Km _____________. (4) 4.5 Km (1) Turkey and Armenia (2) Tajikistan and Armenia 320. Who inaugurated the World Universities (3) Turkey and Azerbaijan Summit 2021? (4) Azerbaijan and Tajikistan (1) Narendra Modi (2) Amit Shah 313. Recently, Vice President released a book (3) Rajnath Singh 'Palleku Pattabhishekam'. Which one of the (4) M. Venkaiah Naidu following sectors is associated with this book? (1) Energy Sector Answer keys (2) Rural India and Agriculture (3) Mining 311. (1) 312. (3) 313. (2) 314. (2) 315. (3) (4) Export Development 316. (1) 317. (1) 318. (1) 319. (1) 320. (4) 314. Who is the author of the book 'Bank with a 321. Recently, Who has been named as the AIFF Soul: Equitas'? men’s Footballer of the Year? (1) Duvvuri Subbarao (1) Sandesh Jhingan (2) C K Garyali (2) Suresh Singh Wangjam (3) Yalamanchili Sivaji (3) Sunil Chhetri (4) NV Ramana (4) Jeje Lalpekhlua 315. Para shooter Rubina Francis created a world 322. Which of the following edition of G20 record at the ongoing Para Sport Cup in Peru. Summit 2021 under the Italian Presidency is She belongs to________________. slated to revolve around its primary theme of (1) Punjab "People, Planet" and Prosperity"? (2) Bihar (1) 14 (3) Madhya Pradesh (2) 13 (4) Kerala (3) 17 (4) 16 316. India successfully flight-tested the New Generation Akash Missile (Akash-NG) off the 323. Which of the following country is the first & Odisha coast. Akash is only country in the Council of Europe to have a_____________________ with an intercept withdrawn from the Istanbul Convention? range of 30 km. (1) Armenia (1) Surface-to-Air missile (2) Belgium (2) Surface-to-Surface missile (3) Turkey (3) Air-to-Air missile (4) Georgia (4) All of the above 324. Who recently bagged the Kuvempu 317. Which of the following city will host the Rashtriya Puraskar 2020? 2032 Olympics? (1) Ajeet Cour (1) Brisbane (2) Gurbhachan Singh Bhullar (2) Sydney (3) Jeelani Bano (3) Canberra (4) Rajendra Kishore Panda (4) Perth www.oliveboard.in 24  www.oliveboard.in 325. India and Maldives have recently inked a (2) Ashok Lavasa pact in which of the following projects? (3) Rajiv Kumar (1) Energy driven Projects (4) Amitab Kant (2) Sustainable Development Goals Projects (3) Biofuel generation Projects 333. Kargil Vijay Diwas is observed every year (4) Community projects on ____________________. (1) July 30 326. Recently, at which event did Russia invite (2) July 25 India for the first time? (3) July 26 (1) SCO Plus meet (4) July 27 (2) NSG meet (3) Troika Plus meet 334. Who won first ever women’s street (4) Global Nuclear Meet skateboarding gold in Tokyo Olympics 2020? (1) Nishiya Momiji 327. Which one of the following towns has (2) Rayssa Leal recently been stripped of its UNESCO World (3) Funa Nakayama Heritage status? (4) Yuto Horigome (1) Damascus (2) Ankara 335. Najib Makita has been recently appointed (3) Liverpool as the Prime Minister of which country? (4) Ahmedabad (1) Israel (2) Palestine 328. AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2022 is to be held (3) Lebanon in Mumbai and _______. (4) Afghanistan (1) Delhi (2) Panaji 336. Which among the following is th