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100 Important GK Questions Capsule for SBI Clerk Exam 2016 Part-2
1). World's largest blue star sapphire that weighs
1404.49 carats was discovered in a mine of country?
a) US
e) None of the above

5). February 4th was observed as the World Cancer
Day. This years theme
b) Bhutan
a) Inspire action, take action
c) Sri Lanka
b) We can. I can
d) India
c) Prevent cancer
e) Bangladesh
d) Challenge perceptions
2). Russia Bangladesh's state-run Atomic Energy
e) Take control of my cancer journey
Commission signed a deal with Russia to set up two
6). Who became the head of Indian Cost Accounting
nuclear power plants, each with 1,200 MW capacity,
Service with effect from February 01, 2016?
an investment totaling _______-?
a) R S Mann
a) $10.65 billion
b) D J Pandian
b) $10.85 billion
c) Ms. ArunaSethi
c) $12.75 billion
d) R S Reddy
d) $12.65 million
e) Shinjini Kumar
e) $12.65 billion
3). Indian-origin cancer research expert honored with
7). The book titled Nathuram Godse - The Story of an

Assassin written by
Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his influential
a) Anup Ashok Sardesai
work on prevention and treatment of cancer is
b) AnujDhar
a) Harpal Singh Kumar
c) AB Pandya
b) Muzaffar Ali
d) NandanNilekani
c) Ram Lakhan Singh
d) Satyendra Nath
8). Famous personality Intizar Hussain who passed
away recently is a
4). National Award on e-Governance 2015-16 was
a) Lok Sabha speaker
given to which of the following Organizations?
b) Actor
a) Insurance Regulatory and Development
c) NASA Astronaut
Authority of India
d) Urdu literatures writer
b) SEBI
e) Political cartoonist
c) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
9). Which bank has inked MoU with Universal Sompo
d) Employees Provident Fund Organization
General Insurance Co. Ltd. for offering accidental
(EPFO)
death coverage to its savings bank account holders?
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a) Yes Bank
d) Technical Education
b) Corporation Bank
c) State Bank of India
14). Which of the following is Chinese equivalent of
d) Axis Bank
Ezubao?
e) ICICI Bank
10). Who was awarded the Pride of Kerala award?
a) Paytm
b) Istagram
a) E. Sridharan
c) Lending Club
b) VarunPillai
d) Testa
c) VidyaBalan
d) Meera Jasmine
15). Barack Obama visited Cuba recently. After how
e) Ramesh Chennithala
many years this is the first time to visit an American
Answers:
President to Cuba?
1).c) 2).d) 3).a) 4).d) 5).b) 6).c) 7).a) 8).d)
a) 86
9).b) 10).c)
b) 92
c) 108
11). Which of the following is known as an angel
d) 88
investor?
e) 75
a) MukeshAmbani
16). World Forestery Day was observed on
b) Ratan Tata
a) 21st April
c) AzimPremzi
b) 21st September
d) Kumar Mangalam Birla
c) 21st August
d) 21st March
12). Which of the following Indian cricketers got

highest ever bid in the IPL 2016 auction?
e) 21st October
17). Which among the following companies is going
a) Nathu Singh
to invest $100 million in India to train over 250,000
b) Pawan Singh Nagi
students?
c) Yuvaraj Singh
a) Intel
d) Mohit Sharma
b) Cisco
e) ViratKohli
c) Alphabet Inc
13). Global Initiative of Academic Networks is related
d) Citigroup
to
e) CarMax
a) Basic Education
18). President of Zanzibar is
b) Intermediate Education
a) Ali Mohamed Shein
c) Higher education
b) Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
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c) Nursultan Nazarbayev
d) Al Nehyan
23). The Committee appointed to look into ONGC-RIL
dispute on KG gas fields
19). Which state has been conferred with Krishi
a) AbidHussainCommittee
Karman Award 2016?
b) AP Shah Committee
a) Arunachal Pradesh
c) NarasimhamCommittee
b) Uttar Pradesh
d) MashelkarCommittee
c) Himachal Pradesh
e) OmkarGoswamiCommittee
d) Andhra Pradesh
24). The new executive director at the IMF who will
e) Madhya Pradesh
represent India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
20). V D Rajappan has passed away recently. He is a
a) SubirGokarn
a) Politician
b) NarendraModi
b) Singer
c) H L Dattu
c) Actor
d) R M Lodha
d) Painter
e) Musician
25). The country which launched its first UNNESCO

Biosphere Reserve (Inle Lake) recently
Answers:
a) Russia
11).b) 12).b) 13).c) 14).c) 15).d) 16).d) 17).b)
b) Malaysia
18).a) 19).c) 20).c)
c) Laos
d) Myanmar
21). The Italian author of best-selling novels, including

The Name of the Rose who died recently?
a) Elena Ferrante
e) Cambodia
26). The state which marked its statehood day on 15
Nov
b) Stefano Benni
a) Jharkhand
c) Dino Buzzati
b) Nagaland
d) Primo Levi
c) Meghalaya
e) Umberto Eco
d) Punjab
22). Indias lightest revolver ever which weighs as

less as 250 grams
e) Haryana
27). World Egg Day/World Post Day is observed on
a) Nirbheek
a) 9th July
b) Ashani
b) 9th August
c) Nidar
c) 9th September
d) Walker
d) 9th October
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28). The telecom firm which announced Project Leap,
of Rs.60,000-cr revamp plan, recently is
32). Which city is hosting 4th nuclear security summit

2016?
a) Washington
a) Idea
b) Geneva
b) BharatiAirtel
c) Brussels
c) Vodafone
d) New York
d) Aircel
e) BSNL
29). The new deadline set by the RBI for exchanging
pre-2005 currency notes with new ones
33). Which country has announced to block Facebook,

Twitter and other websites?
a) North Korea
a) 30th June 2016
b) Malaysia
b) 30th July 2016
c) Pakistan
c) 1st June 2016
d) Venezuela
d) 1st July 2016
e) Iran
e) 31st July 2016
34). Which state has launched M Wallet mobile App?
30). Which of the following bank acquires 10% stake
a) Andhra Pradesh
in Institutional Investor Advisory Services (HAS) for
b) Karnataka
Rs.1 crore?
c) Telangana
a) ICICI Bank
d) Madhya Pradesh
b) Kotak Mahindra Bank
e) Kerala
c) Axis Bank
35). Union government has imposed safeguard duty
d) HDFC Bank
on the import of ____
e) Yes Bank
a) Steel
b) Aluminium
Answers:
c) Gold
21).e) 22).c) 23).b) 24).a) 25).d) 26).a) 27).d)
d) Copper
28).b) 29).a) 30).b)

36). Indias first attribution centre will be established
31). France has ended operation Sangaris in _______
in which city?
a) Afghanistan
a) Kolkata
b) Central African Republic
b) Bangalore
c) Cuba
c) Chennai
d) USA
d) Mumbai
e) Canada
e) Hyderabad
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37). HasimThaci has been elected as the President of
41). Indias first Education Acceleration programme
___.
Edugild was launched in?

a) Tanzania
a) IIT, Mumbai
b) Kosovo
b) JNU
c) Peru
c) MIT,Pune
d) Ghana
d) NIT, Warangal
e) IISC, Bangalore
38). Who has been appointed as the United Nations
42). Glenmach Pharmaceutical Inchas got nod from
Goodwill ambassador?
FDA for manufacture of Migraine drugs is
a) Serena Williams
headquartered at?
b) Michelle Yeoh
a) Delhi
c) Ashely Judd
b) Gurgaon
d) Sara Taylor
c) Mumbai
d) Hyderabad
39). Which company has become tech partner of

London marathon?
e) Ahmadabad
43). How many crores have been disbursed so far
a) Wipro
under MUDRA Yojana for small & medium
b) Infosys
enterprises?
c) TCS
a) 1 lakh crore
d) Tech Mahindra
b) 2 lakh crores
c) 25000 crores
40). Which state has classified Feni as Heritage
d) 50,000 crores
spirit?
e) 75000 crores
a) Maharashtra
44). Who is chosen as Nepals first women chief
b) Tamilnadu
justice?
c) Goa
a) SushilaKarki
d) Madhya Pradesh
b) Bindhya Bandhari
e) Haryana
c) Sheikh haseena
d) K.P.Oli
Answers:
31).b)
32).a) 33).a) 34).c) 35).a) 36).d) 37).b)
38).c) 39).c) 40).c)

45). 600 MW thermal power plant Singareni has been
planned to synchronize in April in which state?
a) Karnataka
b) Haryana
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c) Madhya Pradesh
50). India has provided a grant of 265 million to set up
d) Telangana
the memorial of which famous personality in Srilanka?
e) Odisha
a) Ambedhkar
46). Who was in March 2016 appointed as a UNDP
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
Goodwill Ambassador to promote the 2030
c) APJ Abdul Kalam
Sustainable Development Agenda?
d) Rabindranath Tagore
a) Maria Sharapova
b) Ashley Judd
c) Leonardo DiCaprio
Answers:
d) Michelle Yeoh
41).c) 42).c) 43).a) 44).a) 45).d) 46).d) 47).b)
48).a) 49).a) 50).d)
47). Name the festival that marks Thai New year and
which is going to be imposed curfew by Bangkok.
51). Which state has took over 75% of the
a) MakhaBucha
outstanding loan liabilities of its power distribution
b) Songkran
companies amounting to Rs 39,900 cr under UDAY
c) Chonburi
scheme recently?
d) Loy Krathong
a) Rajasthan
b) Uttar Pradesh
48). Which country is the second largest investor in
c) Gujarat
London as revealed by London & partners?
d) Haryana
a) India
e) Maharashtra
b) China
52). Marshall Islands plan to sue India, Pakistan and
c) Russia
Britain over nuclear weapons in the International
d) USA
Court of Justice which is located in
e) Japan
a) Hague
49). Name the Indian city which hosted the first-ever
b) Amsterdam
World Sufi Forum, which was inaugurated by Prime
c) Geneva
Minister Narendra Modi?
d) London
a) New Delhi
e) Rome
b) Lucknow
53). Who won the womens singles title at the
c) Ahmadabad
Australian Open 2016?
d) Hyderabad
a) Serena Williams
e) Bangalore
b) Angelique Kerber
c) Sabine Lisicki
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d) GarbineMuguruza
58). In the FY16, Indian firms have raised over Rs
e) Maria Sharapova
58,000 cr through the issuance of NCDs. The term
54). Which govt and Japanese International
NCD stands for
Cooperative Agency (JICA) have signed MoU on
a) Non-Cashable Debenture
Capacity Enhancement for Sustainable Agriculture
b) Non-Clubbable Debenture
and Irrigation Development.
c) Non-Convertible Debt
a) Gujarat
d) Non-Convertible Debenture
b) Rajasthan
e) Non-Convertible Debt
c) Mizoram
59). The football legend Johan Cruyff, who died after
d) Sikkim
a battle with cancer recently, was a _____ footballer.
e) Nagaland
55). Every year Mar 24 is observed as the
a) US
b) Germany
a) World Tuberculosis Day
c) France
b) Cancer Day
d) Dutch
c) Malaria Day
e) Argentina
d) World Kidney Day
60). Which of the following countries has topped the
e) World Heart Day
2015 Human Development Index (HDI) in the South
56). India and which country signed an MoU recently
Asia Region?
for construction of six nuclear reactors at Jaitapur in
a) Bangladesh
Maharashtra?
b) Bhutan
a) Germany
c) Sri Lanka
b) China
d) India
c) Japan
e) Pakistan
d) France
e) Australia
Answers:
57). Who is the author of the novel That Long
51).b) 52).a) 53).b) 54).c) 55).a) 56).d) 57).a)
Silence?
58).d) 59).d) 60).c)
a) Shashi Deshpande
b) Arundhati Roy
51). Who has become the highest ranked sikh police
c) Kiran Desai
officer in Malaysia after being appointed as Police
d) Anita Desai
Commissioner of Kuala Lumpur?
e) Vikram Seth
a) Amar Singh
b) Ikhnoor Singh,
c) Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal
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d) Amitoj Singh
Festival and honoured with the Crystal Bear award in
e) Navjot Singh
the 'GenerationKPlus' section?
52). The parliament of which country has become the
a) Rasam
first in the world to completely run on solar power?
b) Mili
a) China
c) Haram
b) France
d) Fireman
c) Pakistan
e) Ottal
d) Switzerland
57). In which city the international conference on
e) Spain
Antimicrobial Resistance was inaugurated by the
53). Which country has become the world's largest
Health Minister J. P. Nadda?
importer of arms?
a) Chennai
a) China
b) New Delhi
b) India
c) Bangalore
c) Brazil
d) Hyderabad
d) Russia
e) Nagpur
e) Israel
54). Which university has honoured the actress Lucy
58). Which women tennis player has been ranked

no.1 according to WTA rankings?
Liuas Universitys Artist of the Year?
a) Venus Williams
a) Harvard
b) Martina Hingis
b) Cambridge
c) Martina Navratilova
c) Oxford
d) Serena Williams
d) Stanford
e) Maria Sharapova
e) MIT
55). Lalita Babar has been named as the Sports
59). From which place the Prime Minister, Narendra

Modi, has launched the National Rurban Mission?
Person of the Year in the India Sports Awards 2015.
a) Korba, Chhattisgarh
To which sports she is associated?
b) Bastar, Chhattisgarh
a) Sprinter
c) Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh
b) Derby
d) Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
c) Steeplechase
e) Koriya, Chhattisgarh
d) Marymoor
60). Investment proposal for how much amount from
e) Keirin
India Post, has been approved by the Public
56). Which Indian film has been named the best
Investment Board for setting up of an investment
children's film at the 66th Berlin International Film
bank?
a) Rs. 500-crore
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b) Rs. 800-crore
c) Malaysia
c) Rs. 900-crore
d) Bangladesh
d) Rs. 1000-crore
e) Bhutan
e) Rs. 950-crore
75). Which has become the worlds first region to

eliminate malaria completely?
Answers:
a) Asia
61).a) 62).c) 63).b) 64).a) 65).c) 66).e) 67).b)
b) Africa
68).d) 69).c) 70).e)
c) Europe
d) Australia
71). Which state has become first to bring law against

law Social boycott?
a) Uttar Pradesh
e) America
76). Which country has signed an agreement with
India for tackling offshore tax evasion?
b) Maharashtra
a) USA
c) Gujarat
b) Germany
d) Rajasthan
c) UAE
e) Madhya Pradesh
d) Malaysia
72). Which country has declared draught emergency

for the first time ever?
a) Peru
e) France
77). Which state has launched Bhimrao Ambedkar
Awas Yojana for windows?
b) El Salvador
a) Jharkhand
c) Ukraine
b) Maharashtra
d) Slovenia
c) Odisha
e) Bulgaria
d) Bihar
73). Which date has been declared as Bindeshwar

Pathak Day in New York?
a) 14th April
e) Meghalaya
78). Which scheme has replaced Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Abhiyan?
b) 14th March
a) Khelo India
c) 15th April
b) Khel India
d) 15th March
c) Sports India
d) Forward India
74). Which country has signed a MoU with India for

selling up a LPG import terminal?
a) Mauritius
b) Maldives

79). Which telecom company is going to launch data
sharing service facility for users across India?
a) Reliance
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d) USA
c) BSNL
e) Japan
d) Airtel
e) Idea
80). Trimbakeshwar temple I located in which state?
84). Kakrapar nuclear plant is situated in ____?

a) Odisha
b) Gujarat
a) Tamilnadu
c) Chhattisgarh
b) Kerala
d) Rajasthan
c) Maharashtra
e) Maharashtra
d) Andhra Pradesh
85). Where the South Asia Regional Training and
e) Chhattisgarh
Technical Assistance Center is to be set-up?

a) New Delhi
Answers:
b) Dhaka
71).b) 72).b) 73).a) 74).d) 75).c) 76).a) 77).a)
c) Colombo
78).a) 79).c) 80).c)
d) Male
e) Mumbai
81). International Day of Forests is observed on March

21 every year. Theme for the year 2016 is
86). Aadhar Bill, 2016 will _______?

a) Target Delivery of Financial and Other
a) Forests for health
Subsidies, Benefits and Services
b) Save forests, save lives
b) Empower Start Ups
c) Forests and water
c) Impart voting rights to Bangladeshi
d) Rain and Forests
refugees
d) Deal with Climate change and
82). Who has won Noor Inayat Khan Prize for the
Environmental pollution
2016?

a) Prabha Mallaya
87). NITI Aayog launched Women Transforming India
b) GeetakshiArora
campaign in partnership with UN and ___?
c) AmrutaPatil
a) MyGov
d) Janine Shroff
b) National Commission of Women
c) Bharatiya Grameen MahilaSangh
83). Which country has jointly launched ExoMars 2016
d) Women and Media Group
with Europe?
a) China
88). Garuda Shakti is a Joint Training Exercise
b) India
between India and ____?
c) Russia
a) Bangladesh
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b) China
e) Sweden
c) Russia
93). Who has signed agreement with WIPO to set up
d) Indonesia
Indian Intellectual Property Panorama?
e) Sri Lanka
a) KIPA
89). Who has been appointed as Chairman of 21st
b) KIPO
Law Commission of India?
c) CIPC
a) Subhro Kamal Mukherjee
d) DeitY
b) Ravi R Tripathi
c) Balbir Singh Chauhan
94). Who has become CMD of Bhartiya Nabhikiya
d) A P Shah
Vidyut Nigam?
e) Sanjeev Kumar Chauhan
a) V.G. Mathew
90). Which carrier operated worlds longest all-women
b) G. Sreeram
flight?
c) Rakesh Sharma
a) Emirates
d) Kallol Roy
b) Air India
e) Mithun Sharma
c) Indigo
95). Which country has signed Agreement on Labour
d) Kingfisher
Co-operation and other 4 agreements with India?
a) Kuwait
b) Saudi Arabia
Answers:
81).c) 82).b) 83).c) 84).b) 85).a)
c) Belgium
86).a) 87).a)
88).d) 89).c) 90).b)
d) South Africa
e) UAE
96). What is the currency of Belgium?
91). The 13th India-EU Summit was held at _____?
a) Euro
a) Brussels
b) Pound
b) Antwerp
c) Riyal
c) New Delhi
d) Polish zloty
d) Birmingham
e) Croatia
92). 4th Nuclear Security Summit was held at ____?
97). When is the International Day of Sport for

Development and Peace observed?
a) Seoul
a) March 16
b) The Hague
b) April 6
c) New York
c) May 26
d) Washington
d) April 4
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e) March 24
c) 8
98). Which committee has been constituted to suggest
d) 10
ways to tighten security along Indo-Pak border?
e) 12
a) Anil Goswami
100). Who has become Prime Minister of Iceland?
b) Rajiv Mehrishi
a) Johanna Siguroardottir
c) Madhukar Gupta
b) Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson
d) V K Duggal
c) GeirHaarde
e) Mihir Shah
d) SigurdurIngi Johannsson
99). What is Indias position in terms of military
expenditure as per Trends in world military

expenditure, 2015 report by SIPRI?
Answers:
a) 4
1).a) 2).d) 3).d) 4).d) 5).b) 6).a) 7).b) 8).c)
b) 6
9).b) 10).d)
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e) None of the above

a) Inspire action, take action

2). Russia Bangladesh's state-run Atomic Energy

e) Take control of my cancer journey

Commission signed a deal with Russia to set up two

6). Who became the head of Indian Cost Accounting

nuclear power plants, each with 1,200 MW capacity,

Service with effect from February 01, 2016?

an investment totaling _______-?

7). The book titled Nathuram Godse - The Story of an

Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his influential

a) Anup Ashok Sardesai

work on prevention and treatment of cancer is

a) Harpal Singh Kumar

c) Ram Lakhan Singh

e) None of the above

8). Famous personality Intizar Hussain who passed

e) None of the above

4). National Award on e-Governance 2015-16 was

a) Lok Sabha speaker

given to which of the following Organizations?

a) Insurance Regulatory and Development

d) Urdu literatures writer

c) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

9). Which bank has inked MoU with Universal Sompo

d) Employees Provident Fund Organization

General Insurance Co. Ltd. for offering accidental

e) None of the above

c) State Bank of India

14). Which of the following is Chinese equivalent of

e) None of the above

15). Barack Obama visited Cuba recently. After how

many years this is the first time to visit an American

1).c) 2).d) 3).a) 4).d) 5).b) 6).c) 7).a) 8).d)

11). Which of the following is known as an angel

16). World Forestery Day was observed on

d) Kumar Mangalam Birla

e) None of the above

12). Which of the following Indian cricketers got

to invest $100 million in India to train over 250,000

b) Pawan Singh Nagi

13). Global Initiative of Academic Networks is related

18). President of Zanzibar is

a) Ali Mohamed Shein

e) None of the above

23). The Committee appointed to look into ONGC-RIL

e) None of the above

dispute on KG gas fields

19). Which state has been conferred with Krishi

Karman Award 2016?

24). The new executive director at the IMF who will

represent India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

20). V D Rajappan has passed away recently. He is a

e) None of the above

25). The country which launched its first UNNESCO

11).b) 12).b) 13).c) 14).c) 15).d) 16).d) 17).b)

18).a) 19).c) 20).c)

21). The Italian author of best-selling novels, including

22). Indias lightest revolver ever which weighs as

32). Which city is hosting 4th nuclear security summit

e) None of the above

33). Which country has announced to block Facebook,