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1. Which city will be the country's first water smart (b) C. Rangarajan/
city? (c) Raghuram Rajan/
water smart city (d) Amartya Sen/
(a) Varanasi/ (b) Mirzapur/ Ans.(b)
(c) Prayagraj/ (d) Ayodhya/ 7. India’s first online gaming Centre of Excellence is
Ans.(a) to be set up in which of the following cities?
2. Who among the following has become as prime
minister of New Zealand?
(a) Shillong/ (b) Delhi/
(a) Jacinda Ardern/ (c) Chennai/ (d) Hyderabad/
(b) David Shearer/
Ans.(a)
(c) Aruna Miller/
(d) Chris Hipkins/ 8. Recently which state became the first in the
Ans.(d) country to pass the Lokayukta Bill?
3. In which state,world-class Kayaking-Canoeing Lokayukta Bill
Academy is to be set up at Tehri?
Tehri Kayaking-Canoeing (a) Telangana/ (b) Karnataka/
Academy (c) Maharashtra/ (d) Gujarat/
(a) Uttar Pradesh/ Ans.(c)
(b) Uttarakhand/ 9. Who has been conferred with the Pandit Hariprasad
(c) Bihar/ Chaurasia Lifetime Achievement Award?
(d) Himachal Pradesh/ Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Lifetime Achievement
Ans.(b) Award
4. Who has been awarded Atal Samman Award for (a) Usha Uthup/
excellence in field of science & research?
(b) Udit Narayan/
Atal Samman
Award (c) Aparna Sen/
(a) Prabhu Chandra Mishra/ (d) Dr. Prabha Atre/
(b) Raj Reddy/ Ans.(d)
(c) S. Somanath/ 10. Inacio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as the
(d) Ajit Kumar Mohanty/ President of which country for the third time?
Ans.(a) Inacio Lula da Silva
5. Under which scheme, Railways will modernize
stations to improve amenities for passengers? (a) Brazil/ (b) Argentina/
(c) France/ (d) Britain/
Ans.(a)
(a) Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana/ 11. India’s second longest cable-stayed eight-lane Zuari
(b) Yatri Mitra/
Bridge opens in which state/UT?
(c) Gati Shakti/
(d) Amrit Bharat Station/ eight-lane Zuari Bridge
Ans.(d)
6. Who has authored a book titled “Forks in the Road: (a) Jammu & Kashmir/
My Days at RBI and Beyond”? (b) Gujarat/
“Forks in the Road: My Days at RBI and Beyond” (c) Karnataka/
(d) Goa/
(a) Shaktikanta Das/ Ans.(d)

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12. Who has been elevated as Managing Director and 19. Who among the following has became India’s 78th
CEO of Indian Overseas Bank? Grandmaster?
Indian Overseas Bank CEO Grandmaster

(a) Ajay Kumar Srivastava/ (a) Koustav Chatterjee/

(b) Vivek Joshi/ (b) Aditya Mittal/
(c) Prashant Kumar/ (c) Pranav Anand/
(d) Atul Kumar Goel/ (d) Bharath Subramaniyam/
Ans.(a) Ans.(a)
13. Which state's Charaideo Maidam has been 20. Home minister Amit Shah has laid the foundation
nominated UNESCO World Heritage Tag? stone of the Central Detective Training Institute
Charaideo Maidam UNESCO World (CDTI) at Devanahalli in which state?
Heritage Tag Devanahalli
(a) Assam/ (CDTI)
(b) Arunachal Pradesh/ (a) Telangana/
(c) Meghalaya/ (b) Tamil Nadu/
(d) Mizoram/ (c) Karnataka/
Ans.(a) (d) Kerala/
14. The Indian Army has handed over first-ever 3D Ans.(c)
printed houses for soldiers at which city? 21. Which country has taken over the Presidency of
3D printed the Council of the European Union for the first six
houses months of 2023?
(a) Ahmedabad/ (b) Delhi/
(c) Bengaluru/ (d) Nagpur/
Ans.(a) (a) France/ (b) Germany/
15. Which state has commenced India’s first Nilgiri (c) Finland/ (d) Sweden/
Tahr project? Ans.(d)
Nilgiri Tahr 22. Which country has formally embraced the euro as
its currency, making it the 20th member state of
(a) Kerala/ the European Union?
(b) Karnataka/
(c) Tamil Nadu/
(d) Andhra Pradesh/
Ans.(c) (a) Serbia/ (b) Hungary/
16. Koneru Humpy won which medal at the World Chess (c) Croatia/ (d) Slovenia/
Blitz Championship? Ans.(c)
Blitz Championship Koneru Humpy 23. Who has been appointed as the next Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of the Railway Board?
(a) Silver/
(b) Gold/
(c) Bronze/ (a) Anil Kumar Lahoti/
(d) None of these/ (b) VK Tripathi/
Ans.(a) (c) Ajay Kumar Srivastava/
17. 108th Indian Science Congress held in which of the (d) Praveen K Srivastava/
following states? Ans.(a)
24. India got its first In vitro fertilization (IVF) mobile
unit for animals in which state's Amreli?
(a) Gujarat/ Amreli
(b) Maharashtra/ vitro fertilization (IVF) mobile unit
(c) Chhattisgarh/
(a) Maharashtra/
(d) Madhya Pradesh/
(b) Madhya Pradesh/
Ans.(b)
(c) Gujarat/
18. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador
(d) Arunachal Pradesh/
of G20 summit meetings in Uttar Pradesh?z
Ans.(c)
G20
25. Who among the following has been appointed as
the brand ambassador by Bandhan Bank for 'Jahaan
(a) Sania Mirza/
Bandhan, Wahaan Trust' campaign?
(b) Shivangi Singh/
'Jahaan Bandhan,
(c) Avani Chaturvedi/
(d) Toolika Rani/ Wahaan Trust'
Ans.(d)
(a) Virat Kohli/

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 (b) Sachin Tendulkar/ Dibrugarh
(c) Sourav Ganguly/ cruise "Ganga Vilas"
(d) MS Dhoni/
Ans.(c) (a) Ayodhya/ (b) Prayagraj/
26. Who will become the first openly Transgender (c) Ballia/ (d) Varanasi/
woman executed in the US? Ans.(d)
33. Who has been appointed as Bihar’s state icon by
Transgender Election Commission ?
(a) Christine Jorgensen/ state icon
(b) Laurel Hubbard/
(c) Joyita Mondal/ (a) Sharda Sinha/
(d) Amber McLaughlin/ (b) Maithili Thakur/
Ans.(d) (c) Pankaj Tripathi/
27. What is the name of the fifth Kalvari class (d) Manoj Tiwari/
submarine inducted into the Indian Navy? Ans.(b)
34. Which state has won the World Habitat Award 2023
for its JAGA mission?
(a) INS Vela/ JAGA World Habitat
(b) INS Karanj/ Award
(c) INS Kalvari/ (a) Jharkhand/
(d) INS Vagir/ (b) Bihar/
Ans.(d) (c) Odisha/
28. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has inaugurated (d) Andhra Pradesh/
Siyom Bridge in which of the following states? Ans.(c)
Rajnath Singh 35. India will start supplying diesel to which country
Siyom Bridge through a Friendship pipeline?
(a) Arunachal Pradesh/
(b) Assam/
(c) Meghalaya/ (a) Bangladesh/ (b) Nepal/
(d) Manipur/ (c) Bhutan/ (d) Myanmar/
Ans.(a) Ans.(a)
29. Who has become the first woman officer to be 36. NTPC has started India’s first green hydrogen
deployed operationally in Siachen? blending operation in which state?
Siachen NTPC green hydrogen
blending operation
(a) Shanti Tigga/ (a) Maharashtra/
(b) Seema Rao/ (b) Uttar Pradesh/
(c) Sania Mirza/ (c) Madhya Pradesh/
(d) Shiva Chauhan/ (d) Gujarat/
Ans.(d) Ans.(d)
30. Which has state has decided to abolish the revenue 37. Which state government has intended to make the
policing system ? state as the first Green Energy State by the end of
2025?
(a) Himachal Pradesh/
(b) Uttarakhand/ (a) Haryana/
(c) Uttar Pradesh/ (b) Himachal Pradesh/
(d) Haryana/ (c) Uttarakhand/
Ans.(b) (d) Uttar Pradesh/
31. Which of the following is First Country in Asia to Ans.(b)
Launch Hydrogen Powered Train? 38. World’s first Palm-leaf Manuscript Museum in
inaugurated in which of the following states?
(a) Japan/
(b) China/ (a) Maharashtra/ (b) Tamil Nadu/
(c) Indonesia/ (c) Kerala/ (d) Karnataka/
(d) Singapore/ Ans.(c)
Ans.(b) 39. Who has been honored with Assam's highest civilian
32. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the award "Asom Baibhav"?
world's longest river cruise, "Ganga Vilas" from "Asom Baibhav"
which city to Dibrugarh (Assam)?

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 (a) Dr. Tapan Saikia/ 46. Who won the best director award at New York Film
(b) Krishna Roy/ Critics Circle?
(c) Debajit Barman/ New York Film Critics Circle
(d) Dayal Goswami/
Ans.(a) (a) SS Rajamouli/
40. Who among the following has become the first (b) Rishab Shetty/
woman cricketer whose statue installed at the (c) Prashanth Neel/
Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)? (d) Sanjay Leela Bhansali/
Ans.(a)
(SCG) 47. The Indian and the Egyptian Armies are conducting
(a) Belinda Clark/ the first-ever joint exercise Cyclone-I in which of
(b) Ellyse Perry/ the state states?
(c) Meg Lanning/
Cyclone-I
(d) Katherine Brunt/
(a) Rajasthan/
Ans.(a)
(b) Madhya Pradesh/
41. Who has been awarded for best actress in the Asian (c) Gujarat/
Film Competition section at the 21st Dhaka (d) Uttar Pradesh/
International Film Festival (DIFF), Bangladesh? Ans.(a)
(DIFF) 48. Who among the following has authored The book,
“Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India
Won Its Freedom,”?
(a) Ketaki Narayan/ “Revolutionaries: The Other
(b) Keerthy Suresh/ Story of How India Won Its Freedom,”
(c) Nayanthara/
(d) Samantha/ (a) C. Rangarajan/
Ans.(a) (b) Sanjeev Sanyal/
42. Who has been elected as chairman of Gem and (c) Vikram Sampath/
Jewellery Domestic Council? (d) Nirmala James/
Ans.(b)
49. Which state has become the first fully Digital
(a) K V Shaji/ Banking state in the country?
(b) Saiyam Mehra/ Digital Banking
(c) Shamsher Singh/
(d) Arun Kumar Singh/ (a) Maharashtra/ (b) Karnataka/
Ans.(b) (c) Kerala/ (d) Tamil Nadu/
43. Who among the following has become the 79th Ans.(c)
Grandmaster of India? 50. Which car racer won the Indian National Car Racing
79th Grandmaster Championship?
(a) Pranav Anand/
(b) Aditya Mittal/ (a) Karun Chandhok/
(c) Koustav Chatterjee/ (b) Chirag Ghorpade/
(d) Pranesh M/ (c) Narain Karthikeyan/
Ans.(d) (d) Jehan Daruvala/
44. Who has been awarded “The most distinguished Ans.(b)
scientist of the year 2022”? 51. Who has been appointed as the next director
general in the Directorate of General of Civil
Aviation (DGCA)?
(a) T Govindaraju/ (DGCA)
(b) Thalappil Pradeep/
(a) Praveen Sharma/
(c) Kanishka Biswas/
(b) Vikram Dev Dutt/
(d) R Vishnu Prassad/ (c) Anurag Kumar/
Ans.(d) (d) M Paramasivam/
45. Which city will Host First-Ever Formula E World Ans.(b)
Championship Race? 52. In which state India's first coal gasification based
First-Ever Formula E World Talcher fertilizer plant will be ready by October
2024?
(a) Hyderabad/ (b) Delhi/
(c) Mumbai/ (d) Jaipur/
Ans.(a)

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 (a) Odisha/ 59. How many children have been conferred with the
(b) Chhattisgarh/ Prime Minister's National Award for Children this
(c) West Bengal/ year?
(d) Madhya Pradesh/
Ans.(a)
53. Which Indian-origin Sikh woman has become the (a) 10 (b) 11
first ever female Sikh judge in the US? (c) 12 (d) 15
Ans.(b)
60. Who has been appointed as the Chairman and
Managing Director of Electronics Corporation of
(a) Manpreet Monika Singh/
India Limited (ECIL)?
(b) Manpreet Singh Virk/ (ECIL)
(c) Kiran Peshawaria/
(d) Karpal Kaur Sandhu/ (a) Baskar Babu Ramachandran/
Ans.(a) (b) Hasmukh Adhia/
54. Who has authored the book titled "Roller Coaster: (c) Hemant Gupta/
An Affair with Banking"? (d) Anurag Kumar/
"Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking" Ans.(d)
61. Which state's ‘Year of Enterprises’ project has been
(a) C. Rangarajan/ selected as a best practices model in the thrust on
(b) Amartya Sen/ MSMEs ?
(c) Tamal Bandyopadhyay/ MSME ‘Year of
(d) Raghuram Rajan/ Enterprises’
Ans.(c)
55. Which country has declared a medical emergency (a) Karnataka/ (b) Tamil Nadu/
in Yanomami territory following reports of children (c) Maharashtra/ (d) Kerala/
dying of malnutrition and other diseases caused Ans.(d)
62. Who have been awarded the ICC Men’s and women's
by illegal gold mining?
Player of the Month for December 2022?
ICC Player of the
Yanomami Month
(a) Sikandar Raza, Tahlia McGrath
(a) Columbia/ (b) Brazil/
(c) Peru/ (d) Bolivia/ (b) Mohammad Rizwan, Harmanpreet Kaur
Ans.(b)
56. According to Central Pollution Control Board (c) Harry Brook, Ashleigh Gardner
data,which was Most Polluted City in India in
2022? (d) Jos Buttler, Sidra Ameen

Ans.(c)
(a) Faridabad/ (b) Gaziabad/ 63. Who has been appointed as new global business
(c) Delhi/ (d) Patna/ head of Meta in India?
Ans.(c) Meta
57. Which program has won the Platinum Award in the
Digital Empowerment of Citizens Category in (a) Anurag Kumar/
Digital India Awards 2022 held in delhi? (b) Chandan Singh/
(c) Shivnath Thukral/
Digital India Awards
(d) Vikas Purohit/
Ans.(d)
64. Which space agency has named Indian-American
(a) e-SCR/ space expert AC Charania as chief technologist?
(b) e-NSC/
(c) e-Sanjeevani/
(d) e-NAM/ (a) NASA/ (b) JAXA/
Ans.(d) (c) ISRO/ (d) CNSA/
58. What is the rank of India in Henley Passport Index Ans.(a)
2023? 65. Who has won the International Cricket Council
Henley Passport Index 2023 (ICC)'s Sir Garfield Sobers award for cricketer of
(a) 83rd (b) 84th the year 2022?
(c) 85th (d) 86th (ICC)
Ans.(c) Sir Garfield Sobers

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 (a) Virat Kohli/ 73. According to Centre Goverment, India will
(b) Steve Smith/ contribute 25% of global fuel demand by which of
(c) Babar Azam/ the following year?
(d) Faf du Plessis/
Ans.(c)
66. Who has authored the book “Jadunama” on (a) 2025 (b) 2030
veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar? (c) 2035 (d) 2040
Javed Akhtar Ans.(d)
“Jadunama” 74. Which vehicle will carry 3 people to 6000 metres
(a) Samir Soni/ below sea level under Samudrayaan Mission?
(b) Arvind Mandloi/
(c) Neena Gupta/
(d) Kabir Bedi/ (a) MATSYA 6000/
Ans.(b) (b) RATSYA 6000/
67. In which state has the School of Logistics, (c) RAHASYA 6000/
Waterways and Communication been inaugurated? (d) None of these/
Ans.(a)
75. Indian Railways has announced Bharat Gaurav
(a) Mizoram/ tourist train on the route connecting Ayodhya to
(b) Assam/ the pilgrimage sites of Janakpur of which country?
(c) Arunachal Pradesh/
(d) Tripura/
Ans.(d)
68. India’s first 5G-enabled drone has been developed (a) Nepal/ (b) Bhutan/
by which company? (c) Myanmar/ (d) Bangladesh/
5G-enabled drone Ans.(a)
76. Under which project India will provide essential
(a) Airpix/ medical supplies to any developing country
(b) Skylark Dronetech/ affected by natural disasters or humanitarian
(c) IG Drones/ crisis?
(d) Skylark Drones/
Ans.(c)
69. Who among the following has been appointed as
new prime minister of Gabon? (a) Aarogya Maitri/
Gabon (b) Aarogya Setu/
(c) Aarogya Ganga/
(a) Sitiveni Rabuka/ (d) Aarogya Kalyan/
(b) Mette Frederiksen/ Ans.(a)
(c) Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze 77. Which country's R’Bonney Gabriel become 71st
Miss Universe 2022?
(d) Anwar Ibrahim/ R’Bonney Gabriel Miss Universe
Ans.(c)
70. Prime minister Modi inaugurated the Tent City at (a) India/
which place? (b) America/
Tent City (c) Venezuela/
(d) Dominican Republic/
(a) Ayodhya/ (b) Varanasi/ Ans.(b)
(c) Prayagraj/ (d) Mathura/ 78. Who has becomes 1st woman officer to be posted
Ans.(b) at the Border Roads Organisation (BRO)?
71. Which country announced adopting Punjabi as the (BRO)
newest language for its school students?
(a) Sania Mirza/
(b) Avani Chaturvedi/
(c) Bhawana Kanth/
(a) Malaysia/ (b) Australia/
(d) Surbhi Jakhmola/
(c) Sri Lanka/ (d) Indonesia/
Ans.(d)
Ans.(b)
79. Which state Becomes first state to implement
72. Recently, The Millet festival was celebrated in
Blindness Control Policy for Blindness Control with
which city?
the objective of 'Right to Sight'?
'Right to Sight'
(a) Gandhinagar/ (b) Surat/
(c) Ahemdabad/ (d) Baroda/
Ans.(a)

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 (a) Gujarat/ (a) 2029 (b) 2030
(b) Uttar Pradesh/ (c) 2031 (d) 2032
(c) Rajasthan/ Ans.(c)
(d) Madhya Pradesh/ 87. Who has been conferred with Federal Bank Literary
Ans.(c) Award 2022 for his autobiography
80. The world's longest calligraphic mural has been ‘Oranweshananthinte Katha'?
features on the street of the Grand Mosque of which Federal Bank Literary Award
city? ‘Oranweshananthinte Katha'

(a) Amartya Sen/

(a) Makkah/ (b) Medina/ (b) Raghuram Rajan/
(c) Jeddah/ (d) Riyadh/ (c) K. K. Venugopal/
(d) K Venu/
Ans.(a)
Ans.(d)
81. Which movie won the Critics Choice Awards 2023
88. Who among the following has Clinched NSCI
for Best Foreign Language Film? Snooker Open Crown?
Critics NSCI Snooker Open Crown
Choice Awards
(a) Avatar: The Way of Water/ (a) Aditya Mehta/
(b) Babylon/ (b) Laxman Rawat/
(c) RRR/ (c) Pankaj Advani/
(d) Elvis/ (d) Lucky Vatnani/
Ans.(c) Ans.(b)
82. Which state’s Kollam district has been declared 89. Who has been appointed as Indian Ambassador to
the first constitution-literate district of India? the Republic of the Marshall Islands?
Marshall

(a) Karnataka/ (b) Kerala/ (a) Rajesh Ranjan/

(c) Tamil Nadu/ (d) Maharashtra/ (b) Suhel Ajaz Khan/
Ans.(b) (c) Sibi George/
83. Who has won the Malaysia Open Super 1000 (d) Vijay Khanduja/
women’s singles titles? Ans.(c)
Malaysia Open Super 1000 90. Which company has become the most valued brand,
overtaking Apple?
(a) Nozomi Okuhara/ Apple
(b) Akane Yamaguchi/
(c) An Se-young/ (a) Google/ (b) Amazon/
(d) Carolina Marin/ (c) Walmart/ (d) Microsoft/
Ans.(b) Ans.(b)
84. Who has been appointed as the new Ambassador 91. Who has authored the book titled “India’s
of India to the Republic of Armenia? Knowledge Supremacy: The New Dawn”?
Armenia “India’s Knowledge Supremacy: The New Dawn”

(a) Bandaru Wilsonbabu/ (a) Dr. Ashwin Fernandes/

(b) Pooja Kapoor/ (b) R. Kaushik/
(c) Nilakshi Saha Sinha/ (c) R. Sridhar/
(d) Sibi George/ (d) A.K. Sikri/
Ans.(c) Ans.(a)
85. ASI has Discovered Two 1200-Year-Old Miniature 92. Which union territory has becomes the first in India
to completely switch to a digital method of
Stupas at Nalanda in which of the following states?
administration?
ASI Nalanda

(a) Maharashtra/ (a) Jammu Kashmir/

(b) Bihar/ (b) Ladakh/
(c) Madhya Pradesh/ (c) Puducherry/
(d) Sikkim/ (d) Chandigarh/
Ans.(b) Ans.(a)
86. In which year ISRO's ‘Shukrayaan I’ mission to 93. How many Padma Awards have been conferred this
Venus will be launched? year?
ISRO ‘Shukrayaan I’ mission

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 (a) 104 (b) 105 98. Which IIT's incubated firm has developed an
(c) 106 (d) 108 indigenous mobile operating system called
Ans.(c) BharOS?
94. Recently which state Government has introduced BharOS
menstrual leave for girl students above the age of
18 years? (a) IIT Delhi/
(b) IIT Madras/
(c) IIT Bombay/
(a) Karnataka/ (b) Kerala/ (d) IIT Kanpur/
(c) Maharashtra/ (d) Tamil Nadu/ Ans.(b)
Ans.(b) 99. India has extended USD 40 million to which
95. Which country Ophthalmologist Dr Sanduk Ruit country for Bolstering Sports Infrastructure?
won top civilian award of Bahrain? Sports Infrastructure
Dr Sanduk Ruit
(a) Australia/ (b) Denmark/
(a) Bangladesh/ (b) India/ (c) Maldives/ (d) Hungary/
(c) Bhutan/ (d) Nepal/ Ans.(c)
Ans.(d)
96. Which airport has won best sustainable greenfield 100. Which state's Wayanad becomes the first district
airport award? in the country to provide basic documents to all
tribal?
Wayanad
(a) Goa Manohar International Airport
(a) Tamil Nadu/
(b) Gujarat Rajkot Greenfield International Airport (b) Karnataka/
(c) Kerala/
(c) Maharashtra Shirdi Airport (d) Andhra Pradesh/
Ans.(c)
(d) Uttar Pradesh Kushinagar Airport

Ans.(a)
97. Who has become Maryland’s first Indian-American
Lieutenant Governor?
Maryland Lieutenant
Governor
(a) Kamala Harris/
(b) Bhavya Lal/
(c) Aruna Miller/
(d) None of these/
Ans.(c)

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