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Q) Which of the following player has received the Orange Cap for scoring maximum runs at the IPL 2019?
A. Imran Tahir
B. David Warner
C. Andre Russell
D. K L Rahul
Q) Who has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director of ITC?
A. Vineet Taneja
B. Pradeep Jain
C. Pawan Munjal
D. Sanjiv Puri
Q) Which terrorist group has claimed for the first time that it has established a “province” named Wilayah of Hind in India?
A. Al-Shabaab
B. Islamic State
C. Jaish-e-Mohammed
D. Lashkar-e-Taiba
Q) Nearly 300 yaks have died due to starvation following heavy snowfall in which district since late last year?
A. North Sikkim
B. South Sikkim
C. East Sikkim
D. West Sikkim
Q) What is the name of Kerala’s largest temple festival, which began on May 12, 2019?
A. Thrissur Pooram
B. Hampi Festival
C. Vishu
D. Onam
Q) Pakistan will receive $ _________ billion from International Monetary Fund for over three years?
A. 3 billion
B. 4 billion
C. 5 billion
D. 6 billion
Q) Which football club has won the English Premier League Title 2019?
A. Manchester City
B. Liverpool
C. Brighton
D. Barcelona
Q) Which female cricketer has become the highest wicket-taking spinner in ODI?
A. Jhulan Goswami
B. Sana Mir
C. Suzie Bates
D. Meg Lanning
Q) International Nurses Day 2019 was observed on?
A. May 12
B. May 11
C. May 10
D. May 9
Q)Which country has tested the world’s fastest bullet train called ALFA-X with Speed of 400 kmph?
A. China
B. Russia
C. Japan
D. USA
Q) Who has become the third Indian to claim 150 wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL)?
A. Piyush Chawla
B. Amit Mishra
C. Mohit Sharma
D. Harbhajan Singh
Q) Who has been appointed as India men’s football team coach?
A. Jim Harbaugh
B. Tony Dungy
C. Marv Levy
D. Igor Stimac
Q) India’s first ever ice cafe has been opened in Gaya village of which region of Jammu and Kashmir, at 14,000 feet height above sea level?
A. Leh
B. Jammu
C. Ladakh
D. Srinagar
Q) Which Bollywood actor is all set to come out with his debut novel Dopehri?
A. Pankaj Kapur
B. Anil Kapoor
C. Bobby Deol
D. Fardeen Khan
Q) Who was appointed as a member of Commonwealth Secretariat rbitral Tribunal (CSAT)?
A. KS Radhakrishnan
B. Madan Lokur
C. H L Dattu
D. Dinesh Maheshwari
Q) Mena Mangal who was gunned down recently was a former journalist of which country?
A. Pakistan
B. Bangladesh
C. Afghanistan
D. Nepal
Q) Who has been appointed as the new President of the United Nations General Assembly?
A. Tijjani Mohammad Bande
B. María Fernanda Espinosa
C. Joseph Nanven Garba
D. Peter Thomson
Q) World Migratory Bird Day 2019 was observed on?
A. May 10
B. May 9
C. May 11
D. May 8
Q) Konkan Railways Corporation Ltd has signed a contract agreement with which country to supply two 1600 HP DEMU train sets?
A. Bhutan
B. Myanmar
C. Bangladesh
D. Nepal
Q) National Technology Day in India was observed on?
A. May 11
B. May 10
C. May 9
D. May 8
Q) Who was honoured with the 2019 McCain Institute Award for Courage and Leadership?
A. Chhaya Sharma
B. Archana Ramasundaram
C. Meera Borwankar
D. Vimla Mehra
Q) Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka was sworn-in as the Chief Justice of which High Court?
A. Jharkhand
B. Karnataka
C. Kerala
D. Madhya Pradesh
Q) Which of the following UTs/States has recruited barn owls to fight rodent menace?
A. Tamil Nadu
B. Dadar & Nagar Haveli
C. Lakshadweep
D. Gujarat
Q) Which country has approved first vaccine named Dengvaxia for the prevention of dengue disease?
A. Australia
B. United States
C. Norway
D. Netherland
Q) Indian Air Force has received the first AH-64E Apache attack helicopter from which country?
A. France
B. Russia
C. USA
D. Israel
Q) The first edition of world’s first exclusive women’s cricket magazine named ‘Criczone’ was released in which city?
A. Mumbai
B. Jaipur
C. New Delhi
D. Agra
Q) Roshan Taneja who passed away recently was a famous?
A. Acting Trainer
B. Gym Trainer
C. Filmmaker
D. Actor
Q) Apple is going to open its first retail store in which city of India?
A. New Delhi
B. Bengaluru
C. Mumbai
D. Hyderabad
Q) Which airlines has launched the world’s first-ever “zero-waste” flight?
A. Qantas
B. Emirates
C. Ethiad
D. Spice Jet
Q) Indian Army will observe year 2019 as which year?
A. Year of Pulwama Martyrs
B. Year of Next of Kin
C. Year of Sacrifice
D. Year of Remembrance of Martyrs
Q) Which of the following has unveiled a project named ‘Blue Moon’?
A. Jack Ma
B. Elon Musk
C. Jeff Bezos
D. Mark Zuckerberg
Q) India’s first global, Mega-Science Exhibition ‘Vigyan Samagam’ was held in which city?
A. New Delhi
B. Mumbai
C. Kochi
D. Bengaluru
Q) Which country’s central bank has printed the $50 note with a spelling mistake where the word “responsibility” is printed as “responsibilty”?
A. USA
B. Canada
C. Germany
D. Australia
Q) Cooperative major IFFCO has elected whom as its chairman?
A. Balvinder Singh Nakai
B. Dileep Sanghani
C. Vinod Kumar Goyal
D. Pratap Singh
Q) WHO has collaborated with the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to eliminate industrially produced trans fat (iTFA) from food supply worldwide by which year?
A. 2024
B. 2023
C. 2025
D. 2022
Q) India’s first UPI Bahi Khata for merchants has been started by which of the following?
A. Paytm
B. BHIM
C. PhonePe
D. BharatPe
Q) Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has acquired which British toy retailer?
A. Child World
B. Hamleys
C. Toy Kingdom
D. Gamleys
Q) The first case of Monkey pox Virus was reported in which country recently?
A. Thailand
B. Indonesia
C. Singapore
D. Nigeria
Q) Which country has become the second nation after Britain to declare a climate emergency?
A. Norway
B. France
C. Germany
D. Ireland
Q) Who among the following Bollywood actresses has been appointed byt he UN as its SDG advocate?
A. Priyanka Chopra
B. Deepika Padukone
C. Dia Mirza
D. Amisha Patel
Q)Which state police deployed the first ever anti-Naxal women’s commando unit?
A. Maharashtra
B. Chhattisgarh
C. Bihar
D. Jharkhand
Q) Engineers from the IIT Bombay have developed a microprocessor called _______ which could reduce the country’s dependence on imports?
A. MILAN
B. AJIT
C. SETU
D. CHIRAG
Q) On 9th May 2019 which birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap was celebrated across the country?
A. 479th
B. 450th
C. 500th
D. 398th
Q)Two Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo jailed in which country for more than 500 days have been freed?
A. Indonesia
B. North Korea
C. Myanmar
D. Turkey
Q) Which company has been announced as the principal sponsor of the Afghanistan cricket team for the 
A. Micromax
B. Reliance
C. Wipro
D. Amul
Q) The World Athletics Day 2019 was observed on?  
A. May 8
B. May 7
C. May 9
D. May 6
Q)The ______ birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was celebrated across the country on May 8, 2019?
A. 150th
B. 158th
C. 130th
D. 175th
Q) Who has been re-elected with the highest number of votes to a five-year term on International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)?
A. Ramesh Chand
B. Vinayak Shree
C. Komal Pandey
D. Jagjit Pavadia
Q) What was the theme of the World Red Cross Day 2019?
A. #Love
B. #Blood
C. #Life
D. #Donate
Q) Who was conferred with Order of St. George award by Kerala church?
A. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
B. Baba Ramdev
C. Jaggi Vasudev
D. Acharya Rajneesh
Q) Purple frog could be soon designated as state amphibian of which state?
A. Kerala
B. Karnataka
C. Tamil Nadu
D. Andhra Pradesh
Q) The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) celebrated its _____th Raising Day on 7th May 2019?
A. 40th
B. 55th
C. 59th
D. 50th
Q) Name the Father of modern legal education in India who passed away recently?
A. NR Madhava Menon
B. Sandeep Soni
C. Omprakash Mishra
D. Sandharbh Brijnath
Q) World Asthma Day 2019 was observed on?
A. May 4
B. May 6
C. May 7
D. May 3
Q) Boubou Cisse was appointed as the new Prime Minister of which country?
A. Iraq
B. Mali
C. Yemen
D. Peru
Q) Bangladesh and India will co-produce a film on the life and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The movie will be directed by whom?
A. Rajkumar Santoshi
B. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
C. Shyam Benegal
D. Zoya Akhatar
Q)Which of the following countries was re-elected as an observer to inter-governmental forum Arctic Council?
A. Finland
B. India
C. Sri Lanka
D. Denmark
Q) Madhesi Party and Naya Shakti Party are the two political parties of which country?
A. Sri Lanka
B. Nepal
C. Bhutan
D. India
Q) Scientists from CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has conducted the genetic study for the very first time on people of which place?
A. Lakshadweep Island
B. Andaman and Nicobar Islands
C. Daman & Diu
D. Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Q) KVIC has distributed more than one lakh bee-boxes among farmers and unemployed youths across India in less two years under which mission?
A. Sweet Revolution
B. Honey Mission
C. Banas Honey Project
D. Bee Mission
Q) Laurentino Cortizo has won the presidential elections of which country?
A. Costa Rica
B. Angola
C. Panama
D. Comoros
Q) Which company has launched a software named“Elec tionGuard” to help countries ensure secure and verifiable voting?
A. Google
B. Facebook
C. Wipro
D. Microsoft
Q) Who has been awarded the 2019 V K Krishna Menon award posthumously for his outstanding contribution in journalism?
A. Satyendra Murli
B. G D Robert Govender
C. Gour Kishore Ghosh
D. Gaurav Smith Arya
Q)What was the name of the last surviving White Tiger at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) who passed away at the age of 18?
A. Mastani
B. Bajirao
C. Shivaji
D. Laila
Q)Which state Assembly has passed a new Act which allows Shops & Businesses to remain open 24X7?
A. Maharashtra
B. Gujarat
C. Uttar Pradesh
D. West Bengal
Q) Bandana, the Nepali girl has set a Guinness World Records by continuously dancing for 126 hours. By doing so she broke the record previously set by whom?
A. Kalamandalam Hemlatha
B. Aditi Mangaldas
C. Gopika Varma
D. Neena Prasad
Q) Name the female squash player who has won the Asian Squash Championship title in Kuala Lumpur?
A. Misha Grewal
B. Anwesha Reddy
C. Surbhi Misra
D. Joshna Chinappa
Q) The Group of 7 (G7) industrialised nations meet is going to be organized in August 2019 in which country?
A. Italy
B. France
C. Japan
D. Germany
Q) The United Kingdom is in talks with the Indian government on building a new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier named what?
A. INS Rohit
B. INS Vishal
C. INS Samudra
D. INS Kirti
Q) Indian Navy has launched the fourth Scorpene Class Submarine named what?
A. INS Vela
B. INS Kalvari
C. INS Kursura
D. INS Karanj
Q) Stevo Pendarovski has won the run-off Presidential elections conducted in which country?
A. North Macedonia
B. Greece
C. Albania
D. Serbia
Q) Which of the following has launched the Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station?
A. JAXA
B. NASA
C. Space X
D. CNSA
Q) According to a recent study, which of the following scripts is on the verge of extinction?
A. Sarada Script
B. Modi Script
C. Brahmi Script
D. Indus Script
Q) Zero Pendency Courts Project is the pilot project of which High Court?
A. Madras High Court
B. Guwahati High Court
C. Delhi High Court
D. Bombay High Court
Q) Who was awarded with the 27th P.C. Chandra Puraskaar?
A. Devi Prasad Shetty
B. Surender Nath Khanna
C. Ramakanta Panda
D. Amit Mittal
Q) Who has been appointed as the new head coach for Indian Men’s Volleyball team?
A. Dragan Mihailovic
B. Nico Freriks
C. Matt Anderson
D. Luca Vettori
Q)Which panel has given clean chit to CJI Ranjan Gogoi in sexual harassment probe?
A. Indira Banerjee
B. Indu Malhotra
C. Dipak Misra
D. S.A. Bobde
Q) Which country’s 10 dollar Bill/Currency has been adjudged as the best bank note for 2018 by the International Bank Note Society (IBNS)?
A. USA
B. Canada
C. France
D. Sweden
Q) World’s First Crypto Powered City will be opened in which country?
A. Japan
B. Canada
C. Malaysia
D. Russia
Q) E-commerce platform Myntra has appointed which celebrity couple as its first brand ambassadors?
A. Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma
B. Ajay Devgan and Kajol
C. Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone
D. Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna
Q) Who has become the youngest player to score half century in IPL?
A. Ruturaj Gaikwad
B. Kamlesh Nagarkoti
C. Sandeep Lamichhane
D. Riyan Parag
Q) “Game Changer” is the Autobiography of which player?
A. Shoaib Akhtar
B. Shahid Afridi
C. Shoaib Malik
D. Wasim Akram
Q) India will purchase 10 Kamov-31choppers from which country for 3,600 crores?
A. France
B. Israel
C. Russia
D. USA
Q) The Indian Space Research Organization is planning to send a probe to study the sun early in 2020. The name of the mission is?
A. Aditya-L1
B. Aditya-K1
C. Aditya-G1
D. Aditya-L2
Q) Maha Vajiralongkorn was crowned as King of which country?
A. Tonga
B. Thailand
C. Monaco
D. Luxembourg
Q) Which country was the biggest recipient of funds from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the year 2018?
A. Armenia
B. India
C. Hong Kong
D. Fiji
Q) Government of India has made it mandatory for Electric Vehicles to have number/license plates in which Color?
A. Blue
B. Black
C. Red
D. Green
Q) Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting (WCCL) has acquired personal care maker Splash Corporation. Splash is based in which country ?
A. Singapore
B. Philippines
C. Germany
D. Argentina
Q) A postage stamp has been released to commemorate _______th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta Desikan and his great philosopher’s life and highly valued work?
A. 500th
B. 450th
C. 750th
D. 650th
Q) Who was conferred with France’s highest civilian honour, Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Legion d’Honneur?
A. A S Kiran
B. K Sivan
C. G. Satheesh Reddy
D. Avinash Chander
Q) India is planning to launch its latest radar imaging satellitenamed “what” towards the end of May 2019 ?
A. GISAT 2BR1
B. VISAT 2BR1
C. KISAT 2BR1
D. RISAT 2BR1
Q) The 14th edition of the annual Sino-Indian border trade recently opened at?
A. Nathu La
B. Bum La
C. Lipu lekh
D. Zoji La
Q) World Press Freedom Day was observed on?
A. May 1
B. May 2
C. May 3
D. April 30
Q) Which Indian Navy Ship will be decommissioned soon after having served for 36 years?
A. INT Vikrant
B. INS Ranjit
C. INS Viraat
D. INS Shaurya
Q) Which Indian wrestler bagged gold medal in the 2019 Ali Aliyev Wrestling Tournament?
A. Sushil Kumar
B. Bajrang Punia
C. Gurpreet Singh
D. Harpreet Singh
Q) The name of the Cyclonic Storm ‘Fani’, which has hit the Odisha coast, was suggested by which country?
A. Bhutan
B. Nepal
C. Bangladesh
D. India
Q) The Police of which city has launched an all-women police patrol unit ‘Rani Abbakka Force’?
A. Chennai
B. Bengaluru
C. Mangaluru
D. Kolkata
Q) Which company has become the first operator to start optical fiber-based high-speed broadband service in Pulwama with the launch of ‘Bharat Fibre’?
A. MTNL
B. BSNL
C. Airtel
D. Reliance Jio
Q) The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has constituted a 10-member committee to bring out ‘Safety Manual’ of the department. Who will head this committee?
A. Vinesh Arora
B. Anand Ahuja
C. J K Jain
D. K M Soni
Q) The 17th edition of the joint naval exercise, “Varuna19”, has started between India and which country?
A. Russia
B.Singapore
C. France
D.Indonesia
Q) B Subhashan Reddy who passed away recently was a former Chief Justice of which High Courts ?
A. Madras
B. Guwahati
C. Delhi
D. Patna
Q) Which country has become India’s top crude oil supplier for the second consecutive year, meeting more than one-fifth of the country’s oil needs in the 2018-19 fiscal year?
A. Saudi Arab
B. Iran
C. Iraq
D. Yemen
Q) Japan’s new emperor, Naruhito, has formally ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne, which has begun which era in the country?
A. Heisei Era
B. Reiwa Era
C. Kamakura Era
D. Edo Era
Q) Which country has signed into law a “sovereign internet” bill which will allow the authorities to isolate the country’s internet?
A. South Korea
B. Russia
C. France
D. Brazil
Q)Who has been appointed as the first non-British president of the Marylebone Cricket Club?
A. Kumar Sangakkara
B. Rahul Dravid
C. Sanath Jayasuriya
D. Kapil Dev
Q22) BSE, formerly known as the Bombay Stock Exchange, has appointed whom as its first independent woman director?
A. Niranjana Jha
B. Jayshree Vyas
C. Kashvi Patel
D. Archana Baghel
Q2) Which two states observed its foundation day on 1st May 2019 ?
A. Gujarat, Bihar
B.Assam, Tripura
C.Gujarat, Maharashtra
D.Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand
Q) According to a latest report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India was the world’s ________largest military spender in
the year 2018 ?
A. Fifth
B. Fourth
C. Third
D. Sixth
Q) Which company has launched the music video streaming platform “Wynk Tube”?
A. Samsung
B. Airtel
C. Google
D. T- series
Q) Who has become the first Indian to rank in the top 25 rankings of ITTF rankings ?
A. G Sathiyan
B. Sharath Kamal
C. Ramkumar Ramanathan
D. Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Q) Which country has honoured Lt. Gen. (retd) Jack Farj Rafael (JFR) Jacob with a plaque on Ammunition Hill Wall of Honour ?
A. UAE
B. Saudi Arab
C. Israel
D. Australia
Q)The Union Environment Ministry has constituted a committee to implement the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), which aims to reduce particulate matter (PM) pollution by 20%-30% in at least 102 cities by which year?
A. 2025
B. 2030
C. 2024
D. 2027
Q) Who will take over as the Vice Chief of Indian Air Force from May 1, 2019?
A. Anil Khosla
B. Rakesh Kumar Bhadauria
C. Surya Singh Prakash
D. Narendra Singh Rajput
Q) The Indian naval ships INS Kolkata and INS Shakti have reached which country to participate in the three days ADMM-Plus Maritime Security Field Training Exercise (FTX)?
A. Russia
B. Japan
C. Iran
D. South Korea
Q) The Indian Army has claimed to discover “mysterious footprints” of a mythical creature of folklore in Nepal named what?
A. Kichkandi
B. Yeti
C. Vali
D. Yali
Q) Who will author the book “Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon”?
A. Arundhati Virmani
B. Jairam Ramesh
C. Mark Tully
D. Jagannath Sarkar
Q) Researchers from which IIT have developed an optical character recognition (OCR) system for Bharati Script?
A. IIT Delhi
B. IIT Bombay
C. IIT Madras
D. IIT Kanpur
Q) Who has authored the book “Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook” ?
A. Saba Naqvi
B. Rana Ayyub
C. Arundhati Roy
D. Sagarika Ghosh
Q) Beirut has set a new Guinness World Record for the number of national flags raised in a city for 24 hours. Beirut is the capital of which country?
A. Cyprus
B. Jordon
C. Libya
D. Lebanon
Q) Ayushman Bharat Diwas was celebrated across the country on?
A. 27April
B. 29 April
C. 30 April
D. 28 April
Q) The Indian Army is in the process of procuring Spike-LR AntiTank Missiles from which  Country?
A. USA
B. Russia
C. Israel
D. France
 
 

 

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