Useful GK Questions for Railway RRB Exam 2016 (Non Technical)

Hi Aspirants, here are some useful General Knowledge (GK) Questions useful and expected in the upcoming Railway RRB Exam 2016 (Non Technical) scheduled to start on 28 March 2016 for selection of Assistant Station Master, Goods Guard, Commercial Apprentice, Traffic Apprentice, Enquiry cum Reservation Clerk, Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist, Senior Clerk cum Typist, Traffic Assistant, Senior Time Keeper etc. Attempt quiz & share your reviews. 

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1)  The Finance Commission is appointed for every ____ year?

(A) 3

(B) 4

(C) 5

(D) 6

2) National Institute of Oceanography is located at?

(A) Calcutta

(B) Chennai

(C) Mangalore

(D) Panaji

3)  The C. K. Nayudu Trophy is related to which sport?

(A) cricket

(B) Hockey

(C) Football

(D) Chess

4) All India Radio commenced operations in?

(A) 1926

(B) 1936

(C) 1945

(D) 1947

5) The joint session of the two houses is presided by?

(A) the speaker

(B) the president

(C) chairman of Rajyasabha

(D) none of these

6) Titan is the largest natural satellite of planet

(A) Mercury

(B) Venus

(C) Saturn

(D) Neptune

7) The earliest known Indian script is

(A) Mori

(B) Devanagari

(C) Brahmi

(D) Kharosti

8) How many times the preamble was amended

(A) once

(B) twice

(C) thrice

(D) four times

9) The state with the lowest population in India is

(A) Goa

(B) Tripura

(C) Mizoram

(D) Sikkim

10) The Simon Commission was appointed in

(A) 1927

(B) 1928

(C) 1929

(D) 1930

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Download Admit Card of Railway RRB Exam 2016

Hi Aspirants, Railway Recruitment Board has released the admit card/Call letter of  Computer Based Test for recruitment of Non Technical Popular Categories (Graduate) for the posts of Assistant Station Master (ASM), Clerk, Enquiry cum Reservation Clerk (ECRC), Commercial Apprentice (CA), Traffic Assistant (TA), Junior Accounts Assistant cum Typist, Senior Clerk cum typist, Senior time Keeper.

As per the schedule, the Computer Based Test will be conducted from 28th March till 30th April 2016.

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Current Affairs MCQ Quiz – 8 March 2016

Hi Aspirants, here is the Current Affairs Quiz for 8 March 2016. Trending topics for the day include International Women’s Day, “world’s longest” all-women-operated flight by Air India, Mahila E-HAAT etc. Attempt the quiz to check details of each topic. 

1) International Women’s Day is celebrated on?

(A) 8 March

(B) 9 March

(C) 7 March

(D) 6 March

2) What is the theme of International Women’s Day 2016 observed on 8 March 2016?

(A) Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture it!

(B) Equality for Women is Progress for All

(C) A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence Against Women

(D) Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality

3) Air India on 7 March 2016 flew the “world’s longest” all-women-operated flight from Delhi to which city?

(A) New York

(B) Sydney

(C) Singapore

(D) San Francisco

4) Which country has recently decided to partner with India’s smart city programme and will help developing Kochi (Kerala), Bhubaneswar (Odisha) and Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) as smart cities?

(A) Australia

(B) Germany

(C) France

(D) Japan

5) Which women tennis player was on 8 March 2016 provisionally suspended after failing drugs test at Australian Open?

(A) Sania Mirza

(B) Martina Hingis

(C) Maria Sharapova

(D) Serena Williams

6) Who was recently conferred prestigious 2016 Mahindra Samriddhi India Agri Lifetime Achievement Award also known as the Krishi Shiromani Samman?

(A) Dr Amrita Patel

(B) Sobha Koshy

(C) Nalini Netto

(D) Shalini Nair

7) Union Government on 8 March 2016 launched an online marketing platform ____ to facilitate women entrepreneurs to sell their products to buyers?

(A) Mahila Sahay

(B) Mahila E-Market

(C) Mahila Jyoti

(D) Mahila E-HAAT

8) _____ on 6 March 2016 became the first financial entity in India to get Small Financial Bank Licence by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)?

(A) Disha Microfin

(B) Janalakshmi Financial Services

(C) Capital Local Area Bank

(D) Ujjivan Financial Services

9) Raymond Tomlinson who died on 7 March 2016 is the Internet pioneer and inventor of?

(A) Microsoft Office

(B) Gmail

(C) Blogger

(D) Orkut

10) Which country won the 2016 Asia Cup T20 trophy cricket tournament?

(A) India

(B) Pakistan

(C) Bangladesh

(D) Srilanka

Answers

1) Ans. (A) 8 March

Note: International Women’s Day was first observed as a popular event after 1977 after the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has proclaimed to observe March 8 as the UN Day for Women’s Rights and World Peace.

2) Ans. (D) Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality

3) Ans. (D) San Francisco

Note: The flight was operated as part of International Women’s Day celebrations and travelled a distance of around 14,500 kilometres in close to 17 hours. The non-stop flight to San Francisco took off on 6th March 2016 from New Delhi.

4) Ans. (B) Germany

5) Ans. (C) Maria Sharapova

6) Ans. (A) Dr Amrita Patel

7) Ans. (D) Mahila E-HAAT

8) Ans. (C) Capital Local Area Bank

9) Ans. (B) Gmail

10) Ans. (A) India

Note: In the final match played at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur Indian team overhauled the chasing target of 121 runs set by Bangladesh by seven balls to spare.

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Online Current Affairs Quiz – 6 March 2016

Hi Aspirants, here is the Current Affairs Online Quiz for 6 March 2016 useful for all upcoming competitive exams. Attempt the quiz and share your score. 

Questions for the day. Click the ‘START QUIZ’ button to start the quiz.

1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 March 2016 has launched Setu Bharatam Project to make all national highways free of railway crossings by which year?

(A) 2017

(B) 2018

(C) 2019

(D) 2020

2) PA Sangma who died on 4 March 2016 was a former?

(A) Lok Sabha Speaker

(B) Vice President of India

(C) Chief Justice of India

(D) Governor of RBI

3) Name the Indian who recently won Gold medal in the 50m Pistol Men final event at the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Cup held in Bangkok, Thialand?

(A) Jaspal Rana

(B) Ronjan Sodhi

(C) Omkar Singh

(D) Jitu Rai

4) World’s most expensive train station was recently opened in which country?

(A) Japan

(B) China

(C) USA

(D) UK

5) Who among the following was on 4 March 2016 conferred the 47th Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2015?

(A) Raj Kumar

(B) Gulsar

(C) Adoor Gopalakrishnan

(D) Manoj Kumar

6) Flipkart on 3 March 2016 launched its own ____ named Flipkart Money?

(A) Courier Service

(B) Digital Wallet

(C) Payment Gateway

(D) Payments Bank

7) ____ has recently become the first state/UT in the country to launch the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as a public health programme for school children?

(A) Delhi

(B) Kerala

(C) Tamil Nadu

(D) Andaman and Nicobar

8) Which under-23 cricket team has recently won the Col CK Nayudu Trophy for the season 2015-16?

(A) Kerala

(B) Karnataka

(C) Bengal

(D) Mumbai

9) Who was recently appointed as managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), country’s largest commodity exchange?

(A) Parveen Kumar Singhal

(B) Mrugank Paranjape

(C) Raman Srivastava

(C) Arjun Kapoor

10) Who recently won the title of the world’s richest person in the Forbes’ 30th annual ranking of the world’s billionaires list (2016 edition)?

(A) Warren Buffett

(B) Amancio Ortega

(C) Bill Gates

(D) Jeff Bezos 

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Questions asked in LIC AAO Exam - 6 March 2016 - Morning Shift

Hi Aspirants, here are the GK, GA and Computer Questions asked in today's (6 March 2016) Morning Shift LIC AAO Exam 2016 (LIC Assistant Administrative Officer) . If you have attempted the exam, please share your reviews with us and also share questions you remember. Thanks to Manoj Sharma and Alox Saxena for sharing the below questions with us. 

1. World Book Day is celebrated on? - April 23

2. Cancer Awareness Day is observed on? - February 4

3. Cleanest capital in India? - Bengaluru (According to  Swachh ranking)

4. First aviation park is located in which state? - Gujarat

5. How many copies of Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography ‘Playing It My Way’ have been sold so far? - 1,50,289 (Recently it created Record)

6. Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park is located at? - Tamil Nadu

7. Vienna is the capital of which country? - Austria

8. Sanjay Gandhi National Park is located at? - Maharashtra

9. School Boy Pranaav Danawade who recently created record by scoring 1009 runs in how many balls?- 323

10. BGR-34 Diabetes Medicine was launched by? - CSIR

11. Brendon McCullum recently scored his fastest Test 100 in 54 balls against which country? - Australia

12. Winner of National Chess Championship 2015? - Railways

13. Rail university is located at? - Vadodara

14. Prime ministers of which countries attended Make in India Summit, which was held in Mumbai? - Sweden, Finland and Lithuania, and the Deputy Premier of Poland

15. Recently, which cyclone hit Fiji? - Cyclone Winston

16. Shri Jagmohan received Padma Awards in which field? - Public Affairs

17. Australia Open 2016 women's singles winner?-  Angelique Kerber

18. Bharat Parv was inaugurated in which state? - New Delhi

19. Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is the Chief of? - IMF

20. S.S.Tarapore who died recently was the former? - Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as deputy governor
21. Anup Kumar is related to which sport? - Kabaddi

22. Kwangmyongsong 4 or shining 4 satellite was launched by which country? - North Korea

23. Shyama Prasad Mukharjee Rurban Mission was launched from which state? - Chattisgarh

24. Novelist Umberto Eco who died in February 2016 is from which country? - Italy
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Current Affairs Mock Test for LIC AAO Exam 2016 - Part 2

Hi Aspirants, our team has just created the Part-2 of Mock Test for LIC AAO Exam 2016 covering the important Current Affairs events of January - February 2016 likely to be asked in the Exam. As you the LIC Assistant Administrative officer (AAO) (generalist) Exam 2016 will be held on 5th, 6th, 13th March of 2016. Current Affairs is an important part of this exam and there will be 30 questions from General Knowledge and Current Affairs portion. So in the Part 2 of this mock test also we have included 30 questions. It will help you to analyze and know where you stand in the CA topic. Attempt the quiz and check your score. All the Best.

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Current Affairs Quiz – 2 March 2016

Hi Aspirants, here is the latest Current Affairs MCQ Quiz 2 March 2016 useful for all upcoming competitive exams like LIC AAO 2016, Railway RRB 2016, ISRO Assistant, SSC CGL etc. Trending topics include LAMITYE 2016, HL Dattu, Union Budget 2016-17, Zero Discrimination Day etc. Attempt the quiz and check your score. 

Questions for the day. Click the ‘START QUIZ’ button to start the quiz.

1) Multinational Military Exercise ____ conducted by Indian Army has started in at Pune, Maharashtra on 1 February 2016?

(A) Force Eighteen

(B) Mithra Shakthi

(C) Together We Do

(D) None of these

2) Hashim Thaci has been elected as the President of which country?

(A) Japan

(B) Kosovo

(C) Cyprus

(D) Brunei

3) Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in which city has recently won three international awards for 2015 year given by the Airports Council International (ACI)?

(A) Thiruvananthapuram

(B) Mumbai

(C) Delhi

(D) Hyderabad

4) The 7th edition of joint military exercise named LAMITYE 2016 by India and which other country has concluded recently?

(A) Australia

(B) Austria

(C) China

(D) Seychelles

5) Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu took charge on 1 March 2016 as the ___th Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)?

(A) Seventh

(B) Sixth

(C) Fifth

(D) Fourth

6) Legendary Comedian Kumarimuthu who died on 1 March 2016 belongs to which film industry?

(A) Malayalam

(B) Tamil

(C) Telugu

(D) Kannada

7) Name the Union Finance Minister who presented the Union Budget 2016-17 in the Parliament on 29 February 2016?

(A) Suresh Prabhu

(B) Nirmala Sitharaman

(C) Ravi Shankar Prasad

(D) Arun Jaitley

8) Which film won the Best Picture award at 88th Academy Awards (OSCAR) 2016?

(A) Spotlight

(B) The Revenant

(C) Room

(D) Bridge of Spies

9) Zero Discrimination Day was observed across the world on?

(A) 2 March

(B) 3 March

(C) 28 February

(D) 1 March

10) Left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso who was on 1 March 2016 suspended for illegal bowling action is from which country?

(A) Sri lanka

(B) Australia

(C) South Africa

(D) Bangladesh

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General Knowledge (GK) Quiz for SSC CGL 2016 – Tier 1

Hi Aspirants, Here is a General Knowledge (GK) Quiz for upcoming SSC CGL 2016 Tier 1 Exam scheduled to be held in May 2016. Attempt the Quiz and share your score. 

Questions for the day. Click the ‘START QUIZ’ button to start the quiz.

1) ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ Programe is scheme related to

(a) arrange compulsory primary education for all female children in India

(b) improve the multinational intake of the India female population

(c) address the dipping child sex ratio and empower the girl child in India

(d) ban the early marriage system by providing compulsory education

2) In which year Vasco da Gama landed at Calicut?

(A) 1234

(b) 1681

(C) 1394

(d) 1498

3) Which of the following is observed as “International Disabled Day”

(a) 1 December

(b) 3 December

(c) 25 December

(d) 31 December

4) Article 243 of the Constitution of India deals with which of the following?

(a) Land reforms

(b) Panchayati Raj System

(c) Fundamental duties

(d) Discritionary powers of the governor

5) Which is the female hormone?

(a) Estrogen

(b) Androgen

(c) Oxygen

(d) Insulin

6) Which of the following revolutions led to the increase in the production of oil seeds?

(a) Green Revolution

(b) White Revolution

(c) Golden Revolution

(d) Yellow Revolution

7) In which of the following form is stored in Computer?

(a) Octal

(b) Hexa decimal

(c) Decimal

(d) Binary

8) Which is the first micro finance company transformed into a bank in India in August 2015?

(a) IDFC Bank

(b) HSBC Bank

(c) Bandhan Bank

(d) Muthoot Finance

9) Under the constitution of India, which one of the following is not a fundamental duty?

(a) To vote in public elections

(b) To develop the scientific temper

(c) To safeguard public property

(d) To abide by the constitution and respect its ideals

10) ‘Manchester of South India’ is

(a) Coimbatore

(b) Madurai

(c) Bengaluru

(d) Chennai

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