GK of 3rd Dec @WA
GK of 3rd Dec @WA
Hockey
2) Which sport is Durand Cup associated with? Football
3) Name the female winner of Wimbledon 2018? Angelique Kerber
4) Which award did Ankur Dhama won and which field he is into?
Arjuna Award and blind athlete
5) Who won a gold medal in the men’s 1500 meters race event at the Asian
Games?
Jinson Johnson
6) The fourth BIMSTEC summit concluded in which city recently with emphasis
on multidimensional connectivity? Kathmandu, Nepal
7) The RBI cleared Rana Kapoor’s reappointment as the managing director and
CEO of which o the following banks recently? Yes Bank
8) Justice Tahira Sadar was sworn in as the first woman Chief justice o a high
court in which country recently? Baluchistan High Court, Pakistan
9) Larnaca International Airport is located in which country? Cyprus
10) General Motor’s CFO? Dhivya Suryadevara
11) Which state has become the first Indian state to launch single
emergency number 112? Himacal Pradesh
12) New Chairman o UPSC? Arvind Saxena
13) State flower o AP? Jasmine
14) Chief Guest in Republic day 2019? South African President Cyril
Ramphosa
15) Theme off world tobacco Day 2019? Tobacco & Heart disease
16) NYSE names 1st woman chief in the exchange’s 22-years history,
name?
Stacey Cunningham
17) Electricity is one o the 8 crore industries o India, True or False? True
18) The Govt has launched an unique initiative to introduce school
students to 22 language, what is it? Bhasa Sangam
19) Which country will host G20 summit in 2022? India
20) Vikas Gowda, retired recently was associated with which sport?
Discus throw
21) Name the director of ‘Don bass’ who recently won Golden Peacock
award?
Sergei Loznitsa
22) Which city hosted the first biannual Indian Air force Commander’s
conference?
New Delhi
23) Which country hosted the 2018 International Conferecne on TRIPS-
CBD linkage? Switzerland
24) Tata Motors Ltd. has signed a MoU with which state govt for
deployment of 1000 electric vehicles i.e. EV in which state? Maharashtra
Govt.
25) Which state proposed to launch its individual flag? Karnataka
26) Yuvraj Wadhwani won boys U-13 title at the 25th Asian junior
individual championship in which game in Chennai recently? Squash
27) The company to design the robot ‘Sophia’? Hanson Robotics
28) Who became the first Indian to win medal in skiing? Anchal Thakur
29) Laureus world sports awards will be held where and when? Monaco
in Feb 2019
30) Ajit Kumar Das has been appointed as the new Executive Director in
which bank?
United Bank of India
31) Who is elected as new election commissioner? Sunil Arora
32) Present CEO of UIDAI? Ajay Bhusan Pandey
33) India’s first underwater robotic drone? eyeROV Tuna
34) Which state govt. recently signed four MoU with Israeli institutions to
address issues o farmers and depleting groundwater level in the state?
Punjab
35) Which is the fastest supercomputer and where it was unveil?
Pratyush and Mihir
36) Who won Syed Modi international badminton championship?
Sameer Verma
37) P M Venkaiah naidu embarked on a 7 days visit to three South
African countries Botswana, Zimbabwe and? Malawi
38) Military forces from 31 countries recently held NATO’s largest
exercise decades named? Trident Juncture
39) National Milk day is observed on? 26th Nov
40) 2017/2018 word of the year? youthquake/Toxic
41) Women world T20 was held in? West Indies
42) Asma Jahangir has been posthumously awarded the UN Human
Rights Prize; she was a human rights activist and lawyer from which
country? Pakistan
43) India’s longest river bridge (19.3 km long) will be built connecting
Dhubri in Assam to Phulbari in Meghalaya on which river? Brahmaputra
44) What is the name o the joint training exercise between Pakistan and
Russia held in Pakistan recently? Druzba
45) The book ‘’Ants among Elephants: An untouchable family and the
making of modern India’’ has been named the winner of 2018 Shakti Bhatt
first book prize, authored by whom? Sujahta Gidla
46) The venue of the 27th Fusion Energy Conference i.e. FEC held recently
was? Gandhinagar,Gujrat
47) Who has been appointed as the interim Director of the Central
Bureau of Investigation i.e. CBI after Director Alok Verma and special
Director Rakesh Asthana were sent on leave? Nageshwar Rao
48) The ‘’Shahi Litchi” mostly grown in which district of Bihar, now enjoys
the geographical indication i.e. GI tag? Muzaffarpur
49) Who has been named for this year’s Hridaynath Award or Lifetime
Achievement? Md. Zahur Khayyam
50) ND Tiwari passed away recently. He was the former Chie Minister of
Uttar Pradesh as well as which other state? Uttarakhand
51) Rank of India in global competitiveness index? 58
52) Sameer Verma is associated with which sport? Badminton
53) Which has the highest number off (55770) tribal habitations fully
covered by Drinking Water supply in the country as of now? MP
54) Red Hat has been acquired by which tech giant? IBM
55) Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami opened first of its kind insect
museum in which state recently? Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
56) Dog Park opened in? Kondapur, Hyderabad
57) Who has been appointed as the youngest ever goodwill ambassador
of UNICEF?
Millie Bobby Brown
58) Who is the oldest awardee of Nobel Prize in Physics? Arthur Ashkin
(96)
59) Who won the 2018 Australian Grand Prix F1 and Azerbaijan
championship?
Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton
60) Who was presented the GK Reddy memorial National Award for
journalism recently? Karan Thapar
61) Gi kadaknath chicken belongs to which state? MP
62) Who has been named Chief Executive Officer of the merged entity of
Idea Cellular and Vodafone? Balesh Sharma
63) Sandeep Michael, who passed away recently used to play which
sport? Hockey
64) Chai Sahay scheme is launched by which state? Assam
65) Which state govt. has launched ‘’Naipunya Ratham’’ or world on
wheels, a multi-utility vehicle which aims to bring technology to the remote
corners? AP
66) Name of India’s first engineless train? Train 18
67) President of India RNK inaugurated the World Hindi secretariat
building in which country recently? Mauritius
68) What is India’s ranking on the UN Sustainable Development Solutions
network’s (SDSN) 2018 World Happiness report? 133
69) The UN Environment Programme has recently recognized which
international airport as the world’s first fully solar energy powered airport?
Cochin Airport
70) Who won the Monaco grand Pix? Daniel ricciardo
71) Which IIT along with Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research (JNCASR) has won the Clarivate Analytics India Innovation Award
2018 in the Academic Institutions category? IIT Bombay
72) India’s rank on world press freedom index? 138
73) Which country has first launched Sovereign Blue bond? Seychelles
74) National Informatics Centre (NIC) has recently set up cloud-enabled
National Data Centre at which Indian city? Bhubaneswar
75) Translator of the Book Flights by Olga Tockarzuck which won
International Man Booker 2018? Jennifer Croft
76) Ganeshi Lal is the governor of which state? Odisha
77) Surya Kiran –XIII exersice conducted at Pithoragarh, uttarakhand
between India and which country? Nepal
78) Uber Cup is associated with which sport? Badminton
79) Bama Balleck Cup is associated with which sport? Table Tennis
80) This year’s fields medal winner of Indian origin? Akshay Venkatesh
81) India Biodiversity Award 2018 has been conferred to Singchung
Bugun Village Community Reserve (SBVCR) in the ‘’Conservation of Wildlife
Species’’ category. The reserve is related to which state/UT? Arunachal
Pradesh
82) Who’s b’day to be celebrated as Delhi’s Football Day? Sunil Chhteri
83) Capital of Congo? Kinsasa
84) SAGAR was launched in which state? Goa
85) Capital of Botswana? Gaborone
86) The US recently withdrew its invitation to which country to
participate in the biennial maritime exercise called, Rim of the Pacific of
RIMPAC? China
87) Which country did not participate in BIMSTEC exercise? Nepal
88) Film Shoplifters, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was awarded the
palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival. Which country’s film? Japanese Film
89) Where was informal meeting of BRICS held recently? Bueno Aries
(Argentina’s capital) along with G20 Summit
90) Which bank would be able to realize around Rs-1993 cr from the first
successful National Company Law Tribunal resolution concerning Bhusan
Steel?
Bank of India
91) Which city now has India’s first railway station run by solar power?
Guwahati
92) Capital of Switzerland? Mbabane
93) Which actor got Crystal Award? SRK
94) Border Security Force celebrated its 54th Raising Day on 1st Dec, 2018,
what was the motto of it? Quest for Peace
95) Which IIM has launched a Bharat Inclusion Initiative to build
knowledge and foster innovation knowledge and foster innovation and
entrepreneurial activity across areas such as financial inclusion, livelihood,
education and health? IIMA
96) What was the theme of World Radio day? Radio and perfect
97) AIDS day 2018 theme? Know your status
98) Asia’s first female Neurosurgeon who recently died? TS Kanaka
99) The first ‘Khadi Mall’ of the country will be opened in the capital of
which state? Who is its CM? Jharkhand, Raghubar Das
100) The Union Cabinet recently approved renaming of which of the
airport as Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore Airport? Agartala
101) Heinrich Heisinger resigned as CEO of Which firm recently?
Thyssenkrupp
102) Which prize did Ela Menon win? Kalidas AwardMoon
103) Moon Jae-in will visited India from July 8-11, He is the president of
which country? South Korea
104) Mohalla Clinic is located? Delhi
105) The RBI recently issued license to which bank to operate in India?
Bank of China
106) Which city is the venue of the South Asia Youth Peace Conference?
New Delhi
107) The Human resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar
recently inaugurated the 17th world Sanskrit Conference in?
Vancouver,Canada
108) TOPS (Target Olympic Podium Scheme) scheme is being implemented
by which Union Ministries? Ministry of Youth and Sports
109) NATO was held in which country? Brussels, Belgium in 2017