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Q) NABARD has launched Rs 700-crore worth Venture
Capital Fund named “what” for Agri & Rural
Startups?

A. Nabventures
B. Nabardfund
C. Nabfunds
D. Ruralfund
Q) Who has become the first female to be appointed as ICC
Match Referee?

A. GS Lakshmi
B. Claire Polosak
C. Kim Cotton
D. Shivani Mishra
India successfully conducted the flight test of ABHYAS - High-speed
Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) from a test range in Odisha

The trial, carried out by the Defence Research and Development

Organisation (DRDO) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at
Chandipur in Balasore, was tracked by various radars and electro-
optic systems.
Q) The Indian Army is planning to shift its training command
headquarters from Shimla to which city?

A. Meerut
B. Dehradun
C. Pune
D. Hyderabad
Q) Who has scaled the Mount Everest for the record 23rd
time?

A. Kami Rita
B. Shubham Kaushik
C. Temba Tsheri
D. Will Cross
Q) Who has become the world’s first woman pilot to cross the
Atlantic Ocean in a light sport aircraft (LSA)?

A. Aarohi Pandit
B. Suchitra Nigam
C. Anita Giri
D. Komal Pandey
Q8) The Indian Navy’s first full-fledged Services Selection Board
(SSB) was inaugurated in which city?

A. New Delhi
B. Lucknow
C. Udaipur
D. Kolkata
Q) Who has been appointed as the brand
ambassador of the BharatPe?

A. Shahrukh Khan
B. Hrithik Roshan
C. Salman Khan
D. Varun Dhawan
Q) Who has been appointed as the Chairperson of the News
Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA)?

A. A.K. Sikri
B. R.V. Raveendran
C. Sanjay Karol
D. Vijay Kumar Bist
Q) Who has been appointed as the first head of country’s first tri-services
Special Operations Division comprising commandos from all three
services?

A. Maj Gen D.S. Ahuja

B. Maj Gen Ranbir Singh
C. Maj Gen A K Dhingra
D. Maj Gen Ashwani Kumar
Q) Who has won re-election with an absolute majority in
parliament in South Africa?

A. Jacob Zuma
B. Cyril Ramaphosa
C. Danny Jordaan
D. Paul Kruger
Q) As per the Geological Survey of India (GSI) which state has
35 percent of the country's Graphite deposits?

A. Mizoram
B. Nagaland
C. Arunachal Pradesh
D. Tripura
Q) The United Nations recently has imposed sanctions on which
terror group?

A. Al-Badr
B. Al-Nusra Front
C. Harakat Sham al-Islam
D. ISIS-Khorasan
Q) Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) has recently
observed its ______ foundation day?

A. 50th
B. 49th
C. 75th
D. 25th
Q) NASA’s ambitious plan to put the first woman on the surface of
the Moon by 2024 has been named what?

A. Artemis
B. Brizo
C. Astraea
D. Bia
 Q) The Website of the Lokpal was inaugurated on May 16,
2019 by the Chairperson, Justice Shri Pinaki Chandra Ghose.
The website has been developed by?

A. National Informatics Centre

B. IIT Madras
C. NITI Aayog
D. Wipro
Q) Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings of Basel,
Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions were held in?

A. London
B. Paris
C. Geneva
D. Beijing
 Q) RBI has released the “Payment and Settlement Systems in India:
Vision 2019 – 2021″. The vision holds 4Cs,which of the following “C” is
not among them?

A. Competition
B. Cost
C. Convenience
D. Calculation
 Q) The Reserve Bank of India has directed the Non-Banking Financial
Company (NBFCs) with asset size of more than Rs.________ billion to appoint
a Chief Risk Officer (CRO)?

A. Rs. 20 billion
B. Rs. 30 billion
C. Rs. 40 billion
D. Rs. 50 billion
Q) Who has been appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji as
a judge?

A. P. N. Bhagwati
B. Altamas Kabir
C. Madan B Lokur
D. Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
Q) Which country will host the 2023 Asian Cup soccer
tournament?

A. Japan
B. India
C. China
D. Thailand
Q) When the National Dengue Day is observed every year in
India?

A. 14 May
B. 15 May
C. 16 May
D. 17May
Q) Election Commission invoked Article 324 in which state?

A. Gujarat
B. Assam
C. Madhya Pradesh
D. West Bengal
Q) An MoU has been signed to plant 10,000 Rudraksh Trees in which
state?

A. Himachal Pradesh
B. Uttar Pradesh
C. Uttarakhand
D. Jammu And Kashmir
Q) Which country has become the first Asian nation to legalise same-
Sex marriage?

A. Vietnam
B. Thailand
C. Myanmar
D. Taiwan
Q7) The International Cricket Council (ICC) released the official song for the
ICC Men’s World Cup 2019 titled?

A. Stand True
B. Held High
C. Stand By
D. True Spirit
Q) Which is the first state in India to issue Masala Bonds?

A. Odisha
B. Gujarat
C. Karnataka
D. Kerala
Q) Which ICGS was decommissioned at Visakhapatnam after 29
years of service?

A. Veera
B. Vigraha
C. Rajdhwaj
D. Samrat
Q) Who was awarded with the prestigious Sasakawa Award 2019?

A. Rajnath Singh
B. M Venkaiah Naidu
C. Pramod Kumar Mishra
D. Narendra Modi
Q)Which of the following has created history by climbing the Mount Everest in
their maiden attempt?

A. National Security Guard (NSG)

B. Border Security Force (BSF)
C. Indian Army
D. Border Road Oranization(BRO)
Q) India has delivered the first pair of replacement Mi-24 attack
helicopters to which country?

A. Nepal
B. Bhutan
C. Afghanistan
D. Bangladesh
Q) Who has won the Best Child Actor award for ‘Chippa’ at the 19th
New York Indian Film Festival?

A. Namit Shah
B. Faizal Khan
C. Sparsh Shrivastav
D. Sunny Pawar
Q) Union Ministry of Environment has announced a project to create DNA
Database for?

A. Asiatic Lion
B. Royal Bengal Tiger
C. Great Indian Bustard
D. Indian Rhinos
Q) Which State Assembly is undertaking E-Vidhan, an initiative to digitize all
records?

A. Karnataka
B. Kerala
C. Odisha
D. Gujarat
Q) Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has launched which project
to conduct annual performance appraisal report (APARs) for CBIC officers?

A. SPARROW
B. ARROW
C. ASSESS
D. WORTH
Q) Which edition of Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise
(SIMBEX) is being held in Singapore?

A. 20th
B. 29th
C. 26th
D. 19th
Q) Which state celebrated its 44th Statehood Day on May 16?

A. Assam
B. Sikkim
C. Nagaland
D. Tripura
Q) Under the nutrition gardens initiative launched by Ministry of Human Resources
Development, each school will get Rs _______ per year to each school to set up the
kitchen garden?

A. Rs 10,000
B. Rs 5,000
C. Rs 15,000
D. Rs 20,000
Q) Sanjiv Goenka Group’s Spencer’s Retail will acquire Godrej Industries’
grocery chain Nature’s Basket for what amount?

A. Rs 400 crore
B. Rs 600 crore
C. Rs 300 crore
D. Rs 250 crore
Q) First NCC Girls Expedition Team from Sikkim was Flagged off to
scale which mountain?

A. Mt Tenchenkhang
B. Mt Everest
C. Mt Kanamo
D. Mt Kangchenjunga
Q) Israel has proposed the name of which country to be the focus
country in Jerusalem Film Festival, 2020?

A. United States
B. UAE
C. China
D. India
Q) Who has been roped in along with Virat Kohli as the brand ambassador for
Himalaya MEN Face Care Range by The Himalaya Drug Company?

A. Rishabh Pant
B. Rohit Sharma
C. Ajinkya Rahane
D. KL Rahul
Q) Who has become the first Sikh woman to be appointed to the
council’s cabinet of United Kingdom?

A. Jasbir Jaspal
B. Inderjeet Kaur
C. Simran Arora
D. Dilmeet Kaur
Q) The NITI Aayog has proposed Rs _________ crore plan to create
an institutional framework for artificial intelligence (AI) in the
country?

A. Rs 3,500 crore
B. Rs 7,500 crore
C. Rs 6,500 crore
D. Rs 5,500 crore
Q) Volodymyr Zelenskiy sworn in as the President of which country?

A. Slovakia
B. South Sudan
C. Costa Rica
D. Ukraine
Q) BSNL has partnered with which company for expanding its
WiFi footprint in the country?

A. Microsoft
B. Google
C. Facebook
D. IBM
Q)Who will be appointed as the new High Commissioner of Pakistan
to India?

A. Shah Mahmood Qureshi

B. Moinul Haq
C. Mohammad Faisal
D. Jauhar Saleem
Q)Who has become the first Indian player to sign up for the players
draft of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2019?

A. Parthiv Patel
B. Yuvraj Singh
C. Suresh Raina
D. Irfan Pathan
Q) Which state has notified Bukkapatna as second Chinkara Wildlife
Sanctuary?

A. Kerala
B. Odisha
C. Karnataka
D. Tamil Nadu
Q) Which country has passed an amendment, the Offensive Weapons Bill, by
which Sikhs in the country will be allowed to carry kirpans?

A. Australia
B. United Kingdom
C. Canada
D. United States
Q) Niki Lauda who passed away recently was related to
which sports?

A. Golf
B. Polo
C. Formula 1
D. Football
Q) ‘Not All Animals Migrate by Choice’ Campaign
was inaugurated by whom?

A. Priyanka Chopra
B. Dia Mirza
C. Deepika Padukone
D. Huma Qureshi
Q) Joko Widodo has been re elected as the President of
which country?

A. Vietnam
B. Brunei
C. Thailand
D. Indonesia
 Q) A High-Level Committee on Digital Payments recently
submitted its report to the RBI. The Committee is headed by
whom?

A. Sunil Mehta
B. R Gandhi
C. Nandan Nilekani
Ranjan Kumar
Q) The ______death anniversary of former Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi was observed across the nation on May 21,
2019?

A. 27th
B. 28th
C. 29th
D. 30th
Q) The National Anti-Terrorism Day is observed
annually on?

A. May 20
B. May 19
C. May 21
D. May 18
Q) Which Player has recently started lifestyle brand
CheQmate?

A. Aashish Nehra
B. K L Rahul
C. Mohammed Kaif
D. Yuzvendra Chahal
Q) Which Police officer will be honoured with the UN Dag
Hammarskjold Medal posthumously?

A. Rajeev Singh
B. Anush Saxena
C. Vivek Patidar
D. Jitendra Kumar
Q) ISRO has successfully launched which earth
observation satellite through PSLV-C46?

A. RISAT-2A
B. RISAT-2D
C. RISAT-2C
D. RISAT-2B
Q)Oman author Jokha Alharthi has won the Booker
International Prize for her which book?

A. At Dusk
B. Mouthful of Birds
C. The Pine Islands
D. Celestial Bodies
Q)Who will be conferred with Japan's second highest
national award - the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and
Silver Star‘?

A. Shayam Saran
B. Gurdeep Kohli
C. Vishwas Patil
D. Niranjan Jha
Q) Who has become the first woman pilot of the Indian
Air Force to qualify to undertake combat missions on a
fighter jet?

A. Bhawana Kasturi
B. Surbhi Sharma
C. Bhawana Kanth
D. Khusbu Chahel
Q) Which of the following paramilitary forces has signed the charter
of affiliation with the Indian Coast Guard to enhance inter-forces
cooperation and interoperability?

A. Assam Rifles
B. Special Frontier Force
C. Indo-Tibetan Border Police
D. Sashastra Seema Bal
 Q) Who will be honoured with the United Nation's highest
peacekeeping award, dubbed as Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal
for Exceptional Courage, posthumously?

A. Supun Phiri
B. Chancy Chitete
C. Sasha Muluzi
D. John Campbell
Q) The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully test fired
the aerial version of the supersonic BrahMos cruise
missile from which fighter aircraft?

A. Su-30 MKI
B. MiG – 29
C. Mirage 2000
D. Boeing C-17
Q) The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared
which two countries as malaria-free?

A. Algeria and Argentina

B. Algeria and Nigeria
C. Argentina and Srilanka
D. South Sudan and Malawi
Q) Who has become the first Pakistani to scale
seven peaks in seven continents?

A. Samina Baig
B. Mirza Ali
C. Nazir Sabir
D. Aamir Qureshi
Q) Who is the author of the book Coming Round the
Mountain?

A. Salman Rushdie
B. Vikram Seth
C. Amish Tripathi
D. Ruskin Bond
 Q) Which bank has given in-principle nod for financing 4
metro rail projects and a Rs 30,000 crore rapid rail corridor
between Delhi and Meerut?

A. World Bank
B. International Monetary Fund
C. New Development Bank
D. Asian Development Bank
Q) Name the judge who was appointed to the
Supreme court recently?

A. Aniruddha Bose
B. A S Bopanna
C. B R Gavai
D. Surya Kant
E. All of the above
 Q) The commercial arm of Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) was officially inaugurated on May 23,
2019 by what name?

A. NewSpace India Limited (NSIL)

B. NewAge India Limited (NAIL)
C. Satellite India Limited (SIL)
D. DefenceArm India Limited (DAIL)
Q) Who will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister of
Andhra Pradesh?

A. N Chandrababu Naidu
B. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Pawan Kalyan
C. K Chandrashekhar Rao
Q) Who is the youngest BJP candidate to win in
the Lok Sabha Elections 2019?

A. B.K.Hariprasad
B. Chandrani Murmu
C. P C Mohan
D. Tejaswi Surya
Q) Who has won the Joan Miró Prize for 2019?

A. Nalini Malani
B. Renuka Gujral
C. Rooma Mehra
D. Hemi Bawa
Q) UN General Assembly (UNGA) has asked
which country to withdraw from Chagos
Archipelago?

A. Mauritius
B. United kingdom
C. Sweden
D. Germany
Q) Which company will exit mutual fund business by selling its stake
to Japanese partner Nippon Life Insurance?

A. Invesco India
B. Reliance Capital
C. Kotak India
D. Aditya Birla
Q) Square Kilometre Array (SKA) which is in the news recently is what
kind of object?

A. Radar
B. Satellite
C. Telescope
D. Super computer
 Q) Ministry of HRD is planning to launch which ambitious project worth ₹1.5 lakh
crore to improve the quality and accessibility of higher education over the next five
years?

A. EQUIP
B. LATENT
C. TARGET
D. QUALITY
Q) Election Commission has released a report on NOTA votes which states that this
state _______ registered the maximum None of The Above (NOTA) votes of about 8
lakh?

A. Jharkhand
B. Bihar
C. Madhya Pradesh
D. West Bengal
Q) The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, the terrorist group based in which country,
has been banned by the Indian Government?

A. Pakistan
B. Afghanistan
C. Iran
D. Bangladesh
Q) Who has become the first Indian woman to scale world’s 5th
highest mountain Mount Makalu?

A. Santosh Yadav
B. Purnima Tiwari
C. Priyanka Mohite
D. Sandhya Patil
 Q) The WHO has unveiled a new strategy to deal with deaths and injuries
from snakebites in which the target to has been set to cut the snakebite-
related deaths and disabilities by 50% by which year?

A. 2024
B. 2030
C. 2031
D. 2028
Q) Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE) has signed whom as
the brand ambassador for Massey Ferguson tractors?

A. Sachin Tendulkar
B. Varun Dhawan
C. Akshay Kumar
D. Hrithik Roshan
Q) Who has honored with ‘UN SDG 10 Most
Influential People in Healthcare Award’?

A. Baba Ramdev
B. Acharya Balkrishna
C. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
D. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Q)PM Narendra Modi will visit which
country in his first foreign tour post
election win?

A. Maldives
B. South Africa
C. Bhutan
D. Indonesia
Q) Who has become the first Kashmiri
woman to climb the Mount Everest?

A. Nahida Manzoor
B. Huma Siddiqui
C. Samina Baig
D. Erum Khan
Q)Who has won the gold in women's 10m
air rifle at the ISSF World Cup in Munich?

A. Anjum Mudgil
B. Apurvi Chandela
C. Rahi Sarnobat
D. Shweta Chaudhary
Q) The government has decided to merge the Central
Statistical Organisation (CSO) and the National
Sample Survey Office (NSSO) to form a new body
called?

A. National Statistical Office (NSO)

B. National Survey Office (NSO)
C. National Data Office (NDO)
D. National Surveillance Office (NSO)
Q) Which country has won the 16th
edition of the Sudirman Cup 2019?

A. India
B. China
C. Japan
D. Indonesia
Q) Sri Lanka is in advanced talks with India
and which country to construct a container
terminal at the port in Colombo?

A. Russia
B. Japan
C. France
D. South Korea
Q) DRDO has successfully conducted the second test firing of which medium range
surface to air defence missile system?

A. Veera-1D
B. Kailash-1G
C. Akash-1S
D. Jal-1H
Q) The nation pays homage to first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru on his _______th death anniversary on 27th May 2019?

A. 50th
B. 55th
C. 29th
D. 57th
Q) Which company is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency, named
as GlobalCoin, in early 2020?

A. Google
B. Microsoft
C. Twitter
D. Facebook
Q13) Which town of he of Madhya Pradesh has been included in tentative list of
the World Heritage Sites of UNESCO?

A. Maheshwar
B. Orchha
C. Shivpuri
D. Ujjain
Q) Mount Agung volcano which erupted recently is located
in which country?

A. Thailand
B. Indonesia
C. Mali
D. Vietnam
Q) Which IAF’s aircraft was recently certified to
operate on indigenous Bio-Jet fuel?

A. Mirage 2000
B. Sukhoi Su-30
C. HAL Cheetah
D. AN-32
Q) Lt Governor of Delhi Shri Anil Baijal has inaugurated the
Sahara Naval Hostel for whom at Vasant Kunj, New Delhi?

A. Shakti Naris
B. Veer Naris
C. Sashakt Naris
D. Shaurya Naris
Q) India invited the leaders of which group at the Narendra
Modi's swearing-in ceremony on May 30?

A. BIMSTEC
B. SAARC
C. BRICS
D. G-4
Q) The second part of the Indo-French naval exercise, christened as
Varuna 19.2 was concluded in______ ?

A. Djibouti
B. Ghana
C. Algeria
D. Nigeria
Q) Which of the following has entered the globally-acclaimed 2019 World
Architecture News (WAN) Awards?

A. Taj Mahal
B. Charminar
C. Sanchi Stupas
D. Statue of Unity
Q) Who has been elected as the President of the Malawi?

A. Joyce Banda
B. Bakili Muluzi
C. Bingu Mutharika
D. Peter Mutharika
Q) The World Health Organisation has officially labelled which
activity as addictive disorder?

A. Excessive use of mobiles

B. Excessive sleeping
C. Excessive gaming
D. Excessive eating
Q) Which nation has been elected to the Executive Board of first
UN-Habitat Assembly?

A. India
B. Nepal
C. Sri Lanka
D. Pakistan
Q) Veer Savarkar Jayanti was celebrated across India on
which day?

A. 28 May
B. 27 May
C. 26 May
D. 25 May
Q) First all women crew of the Indian Air Force comprising three officers became
the nation’s first to fly which helicopter?

A. Mi-17 V5
B. CH-47 Chinook
C. Mi-26
D. HAL Dhruv
Q) Which country has launched the nuclear-powered ice breaker name as
Ural in order to tap the Arctic’s potential?

A. Japan
B. China
C. Russia
D. USA
Q) India's first Tree Ambulance was inaugurated in which city?

A. New Delhi
B. Kochi
C. Chennai
D. Amravati
 Q)Which has become the India's first historical
monument which will have a breastfeeding room?

A. Ajanta caves
B. Taj Mahal
C. Agra Fort
D. Khajuraho Temple
Q) A seven-foot tall statue of Kodamb Ram from which
state will be installed at a museum in Ayodhya?

A. Madhya Pradesh
B. Karnataka
C. Andhra Pradesh
D. Tamil Nadu
Q) What was the rank of IMD World Competitiveness
Rankings 2019?

A. 50th
B. 46th
C. 43rd
D. 39th
Q) United States has removed which country from its Currency
Monitoring List?

A. India
B. China
C. Switzerland
D. A& B
E. A &C
F. B &C
Q) Record ______ women candidates have been elected
to the 17th Lok Sabha elections?

A. 72
B. 56
C. 78
D. 59
Q)Who has sworn in as the Prime Minister of
Australia?

A. Scott Morrison
B. Bill Shorten
C. Malcolm Turnbull
D. Tony Abbott
Q) Which Indian writer has won the 2019 Nine Dots Prize?

A. Annie Zaidi
B. Charu Nivedita
C. Anu Garg
D. Amrita Pritam
Q18) SpiceJet has become_______ th Indian airline to
have a 100 aircraft in its fleet?

A. Second
B. Third
C. Fourth
D. Fifth
Q) Country's first 'Blockchain District' will come up in
which city?

A. Bengaluru
B. Gurugram
C. Hyderabad
D. Pune
Q) Which football club has won the UEFA
Europa League?

A. Arsenal
B. Barcelona
C. Chelsea
D. Everton
Q) Who has been sworn in as the 8th Prime Minister of
Papua New Guinea?

A. James Marape
B. Julius Chan
C. Peter O Neill
D. Charles Abel
Q) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has constituted a Task Force under whose
leadership on the Development of Secondary Market for Corporate Loans?

A. T. N. Manoharan
B. Atul Kumar Goel
C. Mrutyunjay Mahapatra
D. Rajnish Kumar
Q10) Which state celebrated its statehood day on 30 May 2019?

A. Assam
B. Manipur
C. Goa
D. West Bengal
Q) Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in for a second term as
the President of which country?

A. Burkina Faso
B. Nigeria
C. South Sudan
D. Costa Rica
Q) Who has become the first England cricketer to
play 200 One-day Internationals?

A. Joe Root
B. Jason Roy
C. Ben Stokes
D. Eoin Morgan
Q) Hindi Journalism Day was observed on?

A. May 30
B. May 29
C. May 28
D. May27
Q) The Union Environment Ministry has launched which
song to spread awareness about Air pollution?

A. Yeh Hawa
B. Dheemi Si Pawan
C. Hawa Aane De
D. Lehar si Pawan