Current Affairs – WBPSC Miscellaneous Preliminary Question Paper
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Current Affairs – WBPSC Miscellaneous Preliminary Question Paper
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2019
- Which state is set to conduct a dedicated state-level Adalat for LGBT community?
(A) Telangana
(B) Kerala
(C) Gujarat
(D) Maharashtra
- Who is Greta Thunberg?
(A) A feminist activist from Sweden.
(B) A Swedish school girl fighting climate crisis.
(C) A Cuban singer raising voice against corruption.
(D) A Georgian school girl fighting for social justice.
- Who is playing the lead role in the Biopic of Jhulan Goswami?
(A) Deepika Padukone
(B) Tapasee Pannu
(C) Bipasha Basu
(D) Anushka Sharma
- Which film director’s centenary is being observed this year (2020)?
(A) Ritwik Ghatak
(B) Mrinal Sen
(C) Satyajit Roy
(D) Utpal Dutt
- Which Bollywood film has been chosen as the official entry for Oscar in 2020?
(A) Gully Boy
(B) Sand Ki Ankh
(C) Sky Is Pink
(D) Kabir Singh
- Who is the current Number One player in Men’s Lawn Tennis?
(A) Roger Federer
(B) Novak Djokovic
(C) Rafael Nadal
(D) Alexander Zverev
- Which one of the following films is a Oscar winning documentary on climate change?
(A) An Inconvenient Truth
(B) Cold Pursuit
(C) Night on Earth
(D) The River Wild
- Which city included Hindi as the third official language to be used in its courts?
(A) Kuala Lampur
(B) Doha
(C) Abu Dhabi
(D) Hong Kong
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2018
- Who became the 2nd Indian American Judge of the US Court of Appeals in 2017?
(A) Bikram Set
(B) Amul Thapar
(C) Dalbir Bhandari
(D) Krishna Chandra
- On May 28, 2017 which University has included Gandhi and Indian Independence in its
curriculum?
(A) London
(B) Cambridge
(C) Oxford
(D) Harvard
- First which country in the World has given a basic income to the unemployed?
(A) USA
(B) Australia
(C) Germany
(D) Finland
- In which year the Banaras Hindu University has appointed its First Women Chief Proctor?
(A) 2018
(B) 2017
(C) 2016
(D) 2015
- Recently who has been appointed as the Chairman of the Film and Television Institute of
India?
(A) Anupam Kher
(B) Amitava Bachchan
(C) Nasiruddin Shah
(D) Shabana Azmi
- Who has been appointed as UN Ambassador of peace?
(A) Malala Yousafzai
(B) Kamala Begum
(C) Shabana Yousafzai
(D) Caruana Galizia
- Who has been appointed in West Bengal as the first transgender Judge in Lok Adalat?
(A) Hemapat Agarwal
(B) Joyita Mondal Mahi
(C) Firdous Naz
(D) Joyshree Pati
- The name of the present Governor of Tripura is
(A) Braj Kumar Nehru
(B) Tathagata Roy
(C) Manik Sharkar
(D) Shitaram Yechuri
- Who was chasing the final gold medal at the 2017 World Championship for Jamaica?
(A) David Lekuta
(B) Usain Bolt
(C) Mike Powel
(D) Ashton Eaton
- Who is the Captain of the Indian Women’s Cricket team?
(A) Mitali Raj
(B) Anju Mishra
(C) Shasi Gupta
(D) Preeti Kaur
- India has beaten in the Blind T20 Cricket World Cup, 2017 final held in Bengaluru
(A) Pakistan
(B) England
(C) Sri Lanka
(D) Bangladesh
- 18th Asian Games 2018 will be held in
(A) China
(B) Indonesia
(C) Bangladesh
(D) Bhutan
- West Bengal won the 71st Santosh Trophy Football Championship defeating
(A) Delhi
(B) Mumbai
(C) Goa
(D) Uttar Pradesh
- Dhyan Chand National Sports Awards, 2017 has been conferred on
(A) Dipa Karmakar
(B) Bhupender Singh
(C) Heera Nand
(D) V.J. Surekha
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2012 (S-1)
- Name the first democratically elected President of Egypt
(A) Mohammed Morsi
(B) Hosni Mubarak
(C) Muammar Gaddafi
(D) Ali Abdullah Saleh
- According to the Right to Education Act and the recent verdict of the Supreme Court, what percentage of children have to be provided free education in private schools ?
(A) 30%
(B) 22%
(C) 25%
(D) 35%
- What type of new Public Sector Bank is proposed set up in the 2013-14 Union Budget of India ?
(A) Agricultural Bank
(B) Industrial Bank
(C) Commercial Bank
(D) Women’s Bank
- In 2012, the WHO declared India to be free from which disease ?
(A) Small Pox
(B) Polio
(C) Tuberculosis
(D) Chicken Pox
- Who is the chairman of NABARD?
(A) Prakash Bakshi
(B) C. Rangarajan
(C) C. B. Bhave
(D) None of the above
- How many silver medals did India win in London Olympics, 2012?
(A) 2
(B) 3
(C) 4
(D) 5
- Which country does the present Pope Francis belong to ?
(A) Italy
(B) Argentina
(C) Austria
(D) Brazil
- Mary Kom won the bronze medal in the London 2012 Olympics for which event ?
(A) Women’s heavy weight Boxing
(B) Women’s 60 kg freestyle Boxing
(C) Women’s fly weight Boxing
(D) None of the above
- Which team won the IPL Season V trophy in 2012 ?
(A) Mumbai Indians
(B) Chennai Super Kings
(C) Kolkata Knight Riders
(D) Delhi Daredevils
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2012 (S-2)
- Which party-led government became the first civilian government in Pakistan to last for 5 years?
(A) Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan
(B) Pakistan People’s Party
(C) Pakistan Qaumi Party
(D) Pakistan Muslim League
- Which is the most expensive city in the world?
(A) Tokyo
(B) Melbourne
(C) Zurich
(D) Washington
- Which country is going to host the Winter Olympic Games 2014?
(A) USA
(B) UK
(C) Russia
(D) Canada
- Name the Pakistani female education activist who became a victim of the Taliban recently.
(A) Hina Rabbani Khar
(B) Malala Yousafzai
(C) Benazir Yousafzai
(D) Attia Bano Qamar
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2011
- On June 30, 2010, the Kerala government decided to set up a tribunal to assess actual compensation to victims of the activities of which company in the village of Plachimada
(A) Pepsi
(B) Coca-Cola
(C) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(D) Reliance Industries Ltd.
- Which country conferred citizenship to the Indian artist late M. F. Hussain on February 25, 2010?
(A) United Arab Emirates
(B) Iran
(C) Qatar
(D) Saudi Arabia
- The Chief Justice of India is
(A) Heptulla
(B) Krishnan
(C) Balakrishnan
(D) None of the above
- Ace footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is associated with the club called
(A) Brazil F.C.
(B) Cosmos
(C) Real Madrid
(D) Argentina XI
- Which among the following is the Lokayukta of the State of Karnataka?
(A) Janardhan Reddy
(B) Ramkrishna Hegde
(C) Sanjeev Reddy
(D) None of the above
- Who is the founder of WikiLeaks?
(A) Barack Obama
(B) David Cameron
(C) General Pervez Musharraf
(D) Julian Assange
- Who won the Men’s final in Wimbledon Tennis Championship in 2011?
(A) Roger Federer
(B) Novak Djokovic
(C) Rafael Nadal
(D) None of the above
- The number of medals won by India in the 2010 Commonwealth Games
(A) 98
(B) 101
(C) 107
(D) 115
- Viswanathan Anand, the reigning world champion in Chess successfully defended his title last year (2010) against whom?
(A) Boris Gelfand
(B) Veseline Topalov
(C) Vladimir Kramnik
(D) Gary Kasparov
- What was the result in the India vs South Africa Test series in cricket in 2010-2011?
(A) South Africa won 2-0
(B) India won 1-0
(C) South Africa won 1-0
(D) Series drawn 1-1
- Who won the 56th National Award for Best Female Playback Singer?
(A) Lata Mangeshkar
(B) Sunidhi Chauhan
(C) Shreya Ghoshal
(D) Alka Yagnik
- Who won the 52nd Grammy Award in the ‘Motion Picture Song’ category?
(A) A. R. Rahman
(B) Norah Jones
(C) Lady Gaga
(D) John Lenon
Miscellaneous Question Paper – 2010
- The President of Afghanistan is
(A) Hamid Gul
(B) Sibghatullah Mojaddedi
(C) Hakimullah Mehsud
(D) Hamid Karzai
- The current Pakistani President Zardari is the late Benazir Bhutto’s
(A) Brother
(B) Father
(C) Husband
(D) Brother-in-law
- David Headley is the name of
(A) Industrialist
(B) Politician
(C) Youth leader
(D) Terrorist
- FIFA World Cup 2010 was held in
(A) Barcelona
(B) Brussels
(C) Rio de Janeiro
(D) Johannesburg
(A) Sear’s Tower
(B) Petronas Tower
(C) Roebuck Palace
(D) Burj Dubai
- In December, 2009 a conference on global climate change took place in
(A) New York
(B) Geneva
(C) Reykjavik
(D) Copenhagen
- Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed by
(A) Pakistani Army
(B) CIA Commando
(C) A joint US-Pak assault team
(D) Drone
- The National Security Adviser of India is
(A) S. S. Menon
(B) M. K. Narayanan
(C) P. Chidambaram
(D) R. R. Patil
