Current GK Question and Answer

Current GK Question and Answer

The theme of Rashtriya Ekta Diwas observed on 31 October 2016	Integration of India
The Indo-Nepal Joint Military Exercise which is being held at Army Battle School, Saljhandi, Nepal from 31 Oct to 13 Nov is named	Surya Kiran-X
The veteran Indian cricketer who has been named the Stroke Ambassador for India at the 10th World Stroke Congress by the Indian Stroke Association	Sunil Gavaskar
The Yazidi human rights activists who have been chosen for the 2016 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament	Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar
The state which has become the second state in the country to be declared open defecation free after Sikkim	Himachal Pradesh
The US writer who has become the first from his country to be awarded the Man Booker Prize for his racial satire The Sellout	Paul Beatty
The official mascot for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia unveiled by FIFA is named (The mascot is a wolf designed by Ekaterina Bocharova)	Zabivaka
The comic character who has been appointed United Nations’ honorary ambassador in support of the UN’s sustainable development goal number five – "to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls"	Wonder Woman
The Portuguese professional football player (midfielder for Bayern Munich club) who has been chosen for the 2016 European Golden Boy Award	Renato Sanches
The micro satellite launched by China from the experimental space lab Tiangong-2 to take photographs of Tiangong-2 and the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft is named	Banxing-2
The fourth edition of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Military Exercise being conducted at Sinha Regimental Centre in Ambepussa, Sri Lanka from 24 October to 06 November 2016 is named	Mitra Shakti 2016
The rank of Indian football team (the best in 6 years) in latest rankings released by FIFA, the list is topped by Argentina, Germany and Brazil	137
The state which has launched Kausalya Setu, a skill development programme for Class 10 failed students	Maharashtra
The prominent British statistician who has been chosen for the first International Prize in Statistics by the International Prize in Statistics Foundation for his well-known Cox Model used in the analysis of survival data	Sir David Cox
The automobile company which has unveiled India's first indigenous circuit electric bus at its corporate office in Chennai	Ashok Leyland
The political party launched by human rights activist Irom Sharmila is named	Peoples Resurgence and Justice Alliance (PRJA)
The state in which the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has dedicated three hydro power stations - Kol Dam, Parvati Project and Rampur Hydro Station to the Nation	Himachal Pradesh
The day long exercise on Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) held by Indian and Chinese armies in Ladakh under the provisions of Border Defense Cooperation Agreement, 2013	Sino India Cooperation 2016
The second of the four follow-on Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (FO-WJFAC) (named after an island in the Nicobar group) which was commissioned into the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam	INS Tihayu
The committee which has submitted its report to the Union Water Resources Ministry concluding that Saraswati River so far considered mythical, actually existed was headed by	KS Valdiya
The city in Madhya Pradesh where the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated a war memorial Shaurya Stambh	Bhopal
The rank of India in the 2016 Global Hunger Index released by the International Food Policy Research Institute recently	97th
King Bhumibol Adulyadej of the Chakri Dynasty, the world's longest serving head of state (having served for over 70 years), who passed away on 13 October 2016 was the king of	Thailand
The city in Jammu and Kashmir where the Union Cabinet setting up Indian Institute of Management	Jammu
The country which has won the first BRICS U-17 Football tournament held in Goa defeating South Africa in the finals	Brazil
The city in which India's first international arbitration centre was inaugurated by Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis	Mumbai
The public sector undertaking which has appointed Indian badminton star P.V. Sindhu as its brand ambassador	Vizag Steel
The high altitude research station established by the National Centre for Antartic and Ocean Reseach (NCAOR) Goa in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh to better study and quantify the Himalayan glacier responses towards the climate change is named	Himansh
The airport which has been conferred with IBC award and Trophy for excellence in built environment in infrastructure projects at the 21st Annual Convention Inaugural function held in New Delhi	Chandigarh International Airports Limited (CHIAL)
The former Portuguese Prime Minister who has benn formally selected by the United Nations Security Council to be the next Secretary General succeeding Ban Ki-moon next year	Antonio Guterres
The theme of the first World Sustainable Development Summit 2016 being held from 05 to 08 October at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (The 2016 'Sustainable Development Leadership Award' during the summit was conferred the Sikkim CM Shri Pawan Chamling)	Beyond 2015: People, Planet & Progress
The Professor at Ashoka University, Haryana who has been awarded the 2016 John F. Richards Prize by American Historical Association for her book Ashoka in Ancient India	Nayanjot Lahiri
The former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation who has become the first Indian to be inducted into the inducted into the 2016 IAF Hall of Fame by the International Aeronautical Federation (IAF).	Prof U.R. Rao
The public sector bank which has become the first Indian bank to open a branch in Yangon, capital of Myanmar	State bank of India
The Indian wildlife Film-maker and elephant researcher who has been appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (Knight in the National Order of Merit), one of the highest civilian recognitions of the French government	Prajna Chowta
The state in which the first BRICS U-17 football tournament was inaugurated by Union Minister of State (I/C) Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Vijay Goel	Goa
The Chief Guest at 2017 Republic Day celebrations as announced by the Ministry of External Affairs, GoI	Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
The tributary of River Brahmaputra which has been blocked by China owing to construction of Lalho hydro-electric project on it	Xiabuqu River
The state which has become the first in the country implement Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in Kerosene in four identified districts	Jharkhand (in Chatra, Hazaribagh, Khunti and Jantara dists)
The two Indian states which have become the first in the country to be declared ODF (Open Defecation Free) in urban areas on 02 October 2016	Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat

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