1. Which district achieved the first position as per 'Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018'?
a) Gaya - Bihar
b) Tuticorn - Tamil Nadu
c) Satara - Maharashtra
d) Meerut - UP
Explanation: Haryana was ranked as the best State while Satara District of Maharashtra was ranked as the best district as per the ranking undertaken by 'Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018'.
2. Who among the following was not one of the recipients of Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2016?
a) Rajendra Pralhad Shelke
b) Sylvanus Dung Dung
c) Sathi Geetha
d) Amit Kumar
Explanation: Amit Kumar was not one of the recipients of Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award for the year 2016.
3. Bharatiya Jnanpith" is an organization related to which of the following?
a) General Knowledge
b) Architecture
c) Science
d) Literature
Explanation: Bharatiya Jnanpith a literary and research organization, based in New Delhi, India, was founded on 18 February 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain.
4. Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony 2013 has been given to
a) Zubin Mehta
b) Narendra Kohli
c) Shalini Singh
d) Arvind Aadiga
Explanation: Music conductor Zubin Mehta received the Tagore Award For Cultural Harmony for the year 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cultural harmony
5. Who won the BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award for women at the BCCI Annual Awards held in Bengaluru in March 2017?
a) Diana Edulji
b) Purnima Raju
c) Shanta Rangaswamy
d) Shubhangi Kulkarni
Explanation: Shanta Rangaswamy won the BCCI Lifetime achievement award for Women at the BCCI Annual Awards held in Bengaluru in March 2017.
6. Which one among the following films was awarded the best motion picture (Drama) in the 72nd Golden Globe Awards?
a) The Theory of Everything
b) Boyhood
c) Still Alice
d) Birdman
Explanation: No explanation is given for this question
7. Which country awards Nobel Prizes?
a) France
b) Sweden
c) Switzerland
d) U. S. A.
Explanation: Except for the Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual Prize Award Ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel.
8. Which one of the following books won the Man Booker Prize 2014?
a) History of the Rain
b) The Lives of Others
c) The Narrow Road to the Deep North
d) How to be Both
Explanation: On 14 October, chair judge A. C. Grayling announced that Australian author Richard Flanagan had won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'.
9. Which of the following won The Man Booker Prize 2016?
a) The Sellout
b) A Brief History of Seven Killings
c) The Narrow Road to the Deep North
d) The Luminaries
Explanation: The Sellout' by Paul Beatty is named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
10. Which one of the following books is in the Shortlist for the Man booker Prize 2015?
a) A Brief History of Seven Killings
b) The Green Road
c) The Year of the Runaways
d) The Moor's Account
Explanation: A Brief History of Seven Killings' was in the Shortlist for the Man booker Prize 2015.