SSC Important General knowledge question 2016

SSC Important General knowledge question 2016

1. Where is Railway Staff College situated?  Answer: Baroda
2. What is the width of Broad gauge rail? Answer: 1.676
3. Which is the First Electric Train in India ? .Answer: Deccan Queen (Kalyan - Pune)
4. When did Life Line Express (Jeevan Rekha) Started? Answer: In 1991
5. Which year is declared as "Year of Rail Users" by the Indian Railways? Answer: 1995
6. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel? Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel(Banihal railway tunnel)
7. Which is the Longest Railway platform in the World? Answer: Gorakhpur station platform (UP)
8. Which is the train running between India and Bangladesh? Answer: Maitree Express
9. Which are the states have no Railway? Answer: Meghalaya and Sikkim (building new railway lines)
10. Which is the World’s oldest working steam locomotive engine (train)? Answer:Fairy Queen runs in India
11.  What is the width of Narrow gauge rail? Answer: 0.762
12. Where is the Headquarters of Konkan railway? Answer: Belapur CBD (Navi Mumbai) .
13. Which is the fastest train in India?  Answer: Shatabdi Express
14. In which year Indian Railway board established?  Answer: 1905
15. Which is the first Railway station in India? Answer:Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria terminal)
* 16. Who is the first Indian to present Railway Budget? Answer: John Mathai
* 17. Who is the first railway minister in India? Answer: John Matthai 
* 18. Who is the first lady Railway minister of India? Answer: Mamta Benergy
* 19. Which is the highest railway station in India? Answer: Ghum railway station
* 20. Which is the longest Railway bridge in India? Answer: Vallarpadam Bridge (kerala)
* 21. What is the slogan of Indian Railway? Answer: lifeline of the nation
* 22. Where is the Museum of Indian Railway situated? Answer:  Chanakyapuri (New Delhi)
* 23. First Indian double-decker train coach factory situated? Answer: Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala
*24. Which is the longest train route in India? Answer: Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Expres
 

Latest Who is Who?

1. Who is the Present Attorney General   =>>  Mukul Rohatgi
2. Who is the Present Solicitor General =>>  Ranjit kumar

3. Who is the Present Comptroller and Auditor General  =>>  Shashi Kant Sharma
4. Who is the Present Army Chief =>> Lt General Dalbir Singh Suhag
5. Who is the Present Chief of Air staff =>> Arup Raha
6. Who is the Present Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) =>> Admiral Robin K. Dhowan
7. Who is the Present Chief Election Commissioner  =>>  Nasim Zaidi
8. Who is the Present National Human Rights Commission, Chairman =>>  Justice Cyriac Joseph
9. Who is the Present National Commission for Woman, Chairperson =>>  Lalitha Kumaramangalam
10. Who is the Present Chief Information Commissioner CIC) =>> Radhakrishna Mathur
11. Who is the present Finance Commission, Chairman =>> Y.V. Reddy

12. Who is the Present ISRO, chairman  =>>  A. S. Kiran Kumar
13. Who is the present SEBI chairman =>> UK Sinha (Upendra Kumar Sinha)
14. Who is the present Supreme Court Chief Justice of India =>> T. S. Thakur
15. Who is the chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)? Answer: Rajinder Khanna
16. Who is the chief of Intelligence Bureau (IB)? Answer: Dineshwar Sharma
17. Who is the chief of CBI? Answer: Anil Sinha
18.Who is the present TRAI(Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) Chairman ? Answer: RS Sharma 
19. Who is the present Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC)? Answer:   K.V. Chowdary 
20. Who is the present Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations?
Answer:  Asoke Kumar Mukerji (Syed Akbaruddin from December 2015)
21* Who is the present Chairman of Competition Commission of India (CCI)? Answer: Devender Kumar Sikri 
22*. Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India)Answer : Arvind Panagariya

Heads of important international organizations: World


1. Who is the president of World Meteorological Organization? Answer: David Grimes
* 2. Who is the Secretary-General of World Meteorological Organization? Answer:  Michel Jarraud 
* 2. Who is the secretary general of ASEAN?  Answer: Le Luong Minh
3. Who is the Director-General of UNESCO?Answer: Irina Bokova
* 4. Who is the Secretary General of NATO? Answer: Jens Stoltenberg
* 5. Who is the President of the European Council? Answer:  Donald Tusk
6. Who is the head of the African Union Commission? Answer: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
* 7. Who is the Executive Director of UN Women? Answer: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
8. Who is Head of World Health Organization? Answer: Margaret Chan  
9. Who is the Managing Director of IMF? Answer: Christine Lagarde 
10. Who is the President of the World Bank? Answer: Jim Yong Kim 
*11. Who is the Secretary-General of United nations? Answer: Ban Ki-moon

Included 2016 events related GK and current affairs questions

1. Who is the present Union Railway minister? Answer: Suresh Prabhu 
2. The venue for 2016 SAARC summit (19th) ?  Answer: Islamabad (Pakistan)
3. Venue for 2016 Olympics ? Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4. UN Observes 2016 as ________? Answer: International Year of Pulses
5.Who won the 2016 FIFA Ballon d'Or award (player of the year )? Answer: Lionel Messi 
6. Who won 2016 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year? Answer: Carli Lloyd (USA)
7 . Who was recently appointed as Chairman of Competition Commission of India ( CCI) ?
Answer: Devender Kumar Sikri (The former Gujarat cadre IAS officer)
8. What is the full form for ASBA that was recently in news?
Answer: Application Supported by Blocked Amount (Introduced by SEBI for applying to IPO - initial public offers) 
*9. Who will be the chief guest at 2016 Republic day parade?
Answer: French President Francois Hollande 
*10.Who is the First Lady Chief Minister in Jammu and Kashmir? Answer: Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed
*11. First Railway University will be in which state? Answer: Gujarat( Vadodara )
12. Who is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog ( National Institution for Transforming India)?
Answer : Arvind Panagariya 
13. Which is the 29th state of India? Answer: Telangana
14. Which state moving it's capital to "Amaravati"? Answer: Andhra Pradesh
15. Which is the First Digital state in India? Answer: Kerala
*16 First Digital district in India? Answer: Idukki (Kerala)
*17. Who Won  2016 Oscar - best actor award ? Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio
*18. Who Won 2016 oscar - best actress award ? Answer: brie Larson
*19. Who Won  2016 oscar - best film  ?  Answer: Spotlight  
*20. Who is the winner of able prize 2016? Answer: Andrew Wiles( Brittan )
*21. Which is the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 Venue? Answer: India
*23. The eighth BRICS Summit (2016) will be held in which country? Answer: India(Goa) 

 1. Newly appointed BCCI President ? Answer:  Shashank Manohar
2. Who was recently appointed as chief of industrial corridor project (Delhi- Mumbai)?
Answer: Alkesh Sharma
3. Recently selected Nepal prime minister? Answer: Khadga Prasad Oli
4. Which country launched missile named "Imad"? Answer: Iran 
5. Who is the 2015 booker prize winner?  Answer: Marlon James (Jamaica)
6. Who wrote the book "A Brief History of Seven Killings" ? Answer: Marlon James
7. Who is Miss India 2015 winner?  Answer: Aditi Arya 
8. Which team won Copa America 2015? Answer: Chile
*9. Nepal's recently elected president (first women president for Nepal)? Answer:  Bidhya Devi Bhandari 
10. Who is the recently selected prime minister of Nepal? Answer: K.P. Sharma Oli 
10. The economically diverse region of MENA nations refers to which countries?
Answer: Middle East and North Africa 
11. Which country was affected by Typhoon "Koppu" ?  Answer : philippines 
12. Which country recently built Zam Hydropower Station on river Brahmaputra?
Answer: china (dam located at Tibet) 
 13. 2015 WTA women’s doubles winners? Answer: Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza
14.Venue for G20 summit 2015? Answer: Turkey
15.  2015 Third India–Africa Forum Summit was held at _________? Answer: New Delhi
16. Who was recently appointed as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations  ? Answer: Syed Akbaruddin
17. Recently elected Bihar chief minister ? Answer: Nitish Kumar  
*18. Recently appointed Canada prime minister?Answer: Justin Trudeau 
*19. Who is the Newly appointed  Argentina president? Answer: Mauricio Macri
*20. Which country recently tested  nuclear capable ballistic missile named "Shaheen 1A" ? 
Answer: Pakistan 
*21. Who is Miss Universe 2015 ? Answer: Pia Wurtzbach from Philippines 

*22. Who is Miss world 2015? Answer: Mireia Lalaguna from Spain 

*23. Which year is celebrated as "International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies"?
   Answer: 2015 
*24. Which year is celebrated as "International Year of Soils "? Answer: 2015 
*25. Who is the Jnanpith Award 2014 winner?  Answer: Bhalchandra Nemade (Marathi Novelist)
*26. Who is the First women president of  mauratious ?Answer: Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (Elected on 2015)
*27. Which nation won 2015 SAFF CUP? Answer: India 
*28. The venue for  2015 SAFF CUP ( South Asian Football Federation ) ? Answer: Kerala(India) 
 

2015Nobel prize winners

2015 physics Nobel prize winner :Takaaki Kajita(Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald(Canada)
2015 Chemistry Nobel prize winner : Tomas Lindahl(sweden), Paul Modrich(US) and Aziz Sancar(Turkey)
2015 Nobel prize  for Physiology or Medicine : Youyou Tu(China), William C. Campbell(Ireland) and Satoshi Omura(Japan)
2015 Nobel prize for Literature : Svetlana Alexievich(Ukraine)
2015 Nobel peace prize: National Dialogue Quartet  
2015 Economic peace prize: Angus Deaton(UK)

2015 grandslam winners

Grandslam is the four major tennis tournaments Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open

2015 Australian Open men's winner : Novak Djokovic
Australian Open women's winner: Serena Williams 
Australian Open mixed Doubles  winner: Leander Paes  & Martina Hingis 
2015 French Open  men's winner : Stan Wawrinka
French Open  women's winner : Serena Williams 
2015 Wimbledon men's winner :  Novak Djokovic
Wimbledon women's winner :  Serena Williams 
Wimbledon women's double winners : Sania Mirza  & Martina Hingis
Wimbledon mixed Doubles  winner: Leander Paes  & Martina Hingis 

2015 US Open men's winner : Novak Djokovic
US Open women's winner : Flavia Pennetta  
US Open women's double winners : Sania Mirza  & Martina Hingis
US Open mixed Doubles  winner: Leander Paes  & Martina Hingis



Gk questions

1. What is known as king of hobbiesAnswer: philately
2. Vijay Hazare Trophy is related to which sports item ? Answer: Cricket

Tyonline:

1.       Which of the following does not lie along the western coast of India? :: Tuticorin .

2.       Which Indian state is known as ‘Land of Five Rivers’? :: Punjab

3.       Which of the following rivers is known as India's river of sorrow?  :: The Kosi .

4.       From where does the cold and chilly northern winds originate? :: The Arctic Circle.

5.       Which continent has the longest coastline? :: Asia

6.       These days, very often, we hear the term 'Aadhar', which is a unique identification number issued by the UIDAI. How many digits does Aadhar have?   :: 16 digitd

7.       In January 2016, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific released World Economic Situation and Prospects 2015 report. As per the report, the world economy is projected to grow by ____ percent in 2016 and 3.2 percent in 2017. :: 2.9

8.       Which of the following is the correct expansion of TAN? :: Tax Deduction and Collection Account Numbe

9.       Which of the following banks launched a new account 'Pehla Kadam' for kids? :: SBI

10.   National income in India is calculated at :: Factor cost and constant prices .

11.   In January 2016, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the results from Phase-1 of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16. Phase-1 of the NFHS-4 included thirteen states and two union territories. Which of the following was one of the two union territories?  :: Pondicherry

12.   The main reason for low growth rate in India, in spite of high rate of savings and capital formation is :: high capital output ratio .

13.   The Indian constitution is regarded as :: federal in form and unitary in spirit

14.   Which of the following ancient Indian towns was home to the three scholar sages Kapila, Gargi and Maitreya :: Ujjaini .

15.   Who was the last free ruler of the Chola dynasty to be defeated by the Pandyas and the Chola power was ended? :: Rajendra III .

16.   Which of the following Mughal buildings is said to possess the unique feature of being exactly equal in length and breadth? :: Taj mahal

17.   17.The Indian states that were annexed by invoking the Doctrine of Lapse were :: Jhansi, Nagpur and Satara .

18. The demand for ‘purna swaraj’, for the first time, was raised by the Indian National Congress along the banks of river ::  Ravi19. Who is the author of the book `Tale of Two Cites`? :: Charles Dickens 

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