🏛 Indian Economy & Business

1. What is India’s GDP growth rate for FY 2024–25 as per the Economic Survey?

• A) 5.2%

• B) 6.5%

• C) 7.8%

• D) 4.9%
  ✅ Answer: 6.5%

2. Who is the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?

• A) Urjit Patel

• B) Shaktikanta Das

• C) Raghuram Rajan

• D) D. Subbarao
  ✅ Answer: Shaktikanta Das

3. Which is the largest public sector bank in India?

• A) Punjab National Bank

• B) Bank of Baroda

• C) State Bank of India

• D) Canara Bank
  ✅ Answer: State Bank of India

4. What does NITI Aayog stand for?

• A) National Institution for Transforming India

• B) National Institute for Technology and Innovation

• C) National Integrated Trade Initiative

• D) National Industrial and Trade Institute
  ✅ Answer: National Institution for Transforming India

5. Who is called the Father of the White Revolution in India?

• A) Norman Borlaug

• B) M.S. Swaminathan

• C) Verghese Kurien

• D) C. Subramaniam
  ✅ Answer: Verghese Kurien

6. What is the base year for India’s GDP calculation?

• A) 2004–05

• B) 2011–12

• C) 2014–15

• D) 2010–11
  ✅ Answer: 2011–12

7. What does CRR stand for in banking?

• A) Capital Reserve Ratio

• B) Cash Reserve Ratio

• C) Credit Risk Ratio

• D) Current Risk Rate
  ✅ Answer: Cash Reserve Ratio

8. Which campaign promotes manufacturing in India?

• A) Digital India

• B) Make in India

• C) Skill India

• D) Stand-Up India
  ✅ Answer: Make in India

9. Which Indian company first crossed $200 billion market capitalization?

• A) TCS

• B) Reliance Industries

• C) Infosys

• D) Wipro
  ✅ Answer: Reliance Industries

10. What is the Repo Rate as of June 2025?

• A) 5.75%

• B) 6.00%

• C) 6.25%

• D) 6.50%
  ✅ Answer: 6.50%

11. Who is the current Finance Minister of India?

• A) Nitin Gadkari

• B) Piyush Goyal

• C) Nirmala Sitharaman

• D) Amit Shah
  ✅ Answer: Nirmala Sitharaman

12. GST stands for:

• A) Goods and Services Tax

• B) General Sales Tax

• C) Government Service Tax

• D) Gross State Tax
  ✅ Answer: Goods and Services Tax

⚖️ Indian Polity & Governance

13. Who is the Chief Justice of India as of 2025?

• A) N.V. Ramana

• B) U.U. Lalit

• C) D.Y. Chandrachud

• D) Ranjan Gogoi
  ✅ Answer: D.Y. Chandrachud

14. How many members are nominated by the President to Rajya Sabha?

• A) 10

• B) 12

• C) 14

• D) 15
  ✅ Answer: 12

15. Who was India’s first woman President?

• A) Sarojini Naidu

• B) Pratibha Patil

• C) Indira Gandhi

• D) Sucheta Kriplani
  ✅ Answer: Pratibha Patil

16. Article 370 was related to which region?

• A) Punjab

• B) Jammu & Kashmir

• C) Nagaland

• D) Sikkim
  ✅ Answer: Jammu & Kashmir

17. Who appoints the Chief Election Commissioner?

• A) Prime Minister

• B) President

• C) Supreme Court

• D) Parliament
  ✅ Answer: President

18. Who is the current Lok Sabha Speaker?

• A) Sumitra Mahajan

• B) Om Birla

• C) Meira Kumar

• D) Ghulam Nabi Azad
  ✅ Answer: Om Birla

19. Which Amendment reduced the voting age from 21 to 18?

• A) 42nd Amendment

• B) 44th Amendment

• C) 61st Amendment

• D) 73rd Amendment
  ✅ Answer: 61st Amendment

20. Tenure of Rajya Sabha members is:

• A) 5 years

• B) 4 years

• C) 6 years

• D) 3 years
  ✅ Answer: 6 years

21. The Iron Lady of India was:

• A) Indira Gandhi

• B) Sarojini Naidu

• C) Sushma Swaraj

• D) Pratibha Patil
  ✅ Answer: Indira Gandhi

22. WHO headquarters are located in:

• A) Paris

• B) Geneva

• C) New York

• D) London
  ✅ Answer: Geneva

23. Who is the UN Secretary-General as of 2025?

• A) Ban Ki-moon

• B) António Guterres

• C) Kofi Annan

• D) Tedros Adhanom
  ✅ Answer: António Guterres

24. BRICS stands for:

• A) Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

• B) Belgium, Russia, Italy, China, Spain

• C) Britain, Russia, India, Canada, Sweden

• D) Bangladesh, Romania, Iran, Chile, Slovakia
  ✅ Answer: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

25. When did India become a WTO member?

• A) 1985

• B) 1995

• C) 2001

• D) 1991
  ✅ Answer: 1995

26. ASEAN full form is:

• A) Association of South Asian Nations

• B) Asia-Europe Strategic Alliance Network

• C) Association of Southeast Asian Nations

• D) Allied Southeast Nations
  ✅ Answer: Association of Southeast Asian Nations

27. G20 summit in 2023 was hosted by:

• A) Indonesia

• B) India

• C) Italy

• D) Argentina
  ✅ Answer: India

28. The headquarters of the International Monetary Fund is in:

• A) Washington D.C.

• B) Geneva

• C) Vienna

• D) Brussels
  ✅ Answer: Washington D.C.

29. UNICEF stands for:

• A) United Nations International Children’s Education Fund

• B) United Nations Children’s Fund

• C) Universal Children’s Fund

• D) United Nations Integrated Child Emergency Fund
  ✅ Answer: United Nations Children’s Fund

30. The Paris Agreement relates to:

• A) Cyber Security

• B) Climate Change

• C) Free Trade

• D) Nuclear Disarmament
  ✅ Answer: Climate Change

🏆 Sports & Awards

31. Who won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019?

• A) Australia

• B) India

• C) England

• D) New Zealand
  ✅ Answer: England

32. The Olympic Games 2024 will be hosted in:

• A) Tokyo

• B) Paris

• C) Los Angeles

• D) Rome
  ✅ Answer: Paris

33. Who is known as the Flying Sikh?

• A) Milkha Singh

• B) P.T. Usha

• C) Abhinav Bindra

• D) Sachin Tendulkar
  ✅ Answer: Milkha Singh

34. Who received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize?

• A) World Food Programme

• B) Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

• C) Narges Mohammadi

• D) Abiy Ahmed
  ✅ Answer: Narges Mohammadi

35. The Bharat Ratna was awarded in 2019 to:

• A) Pranab Mukherjee

• B) Sachin Tendulkar

• C) Bhupen Hazarika

• D) All of the above
  ✅ Answer: All of the above

36. Who won the Ballon d’Or 2023?

• A) Lionel Messi

• B) Karim Benzema

• C) Cristiano Ronaldo

• D) Luka Modric
  ✅ Answer: Lionel Messi

37. The first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal:

• A) Saina Nehwal

• B) Mary Kom

• C) P.V. Sindhu

• D) Karnam Malleswari
  ✅ Answer: P.V. Sindhu

38. Who is the captain of Indian women’s cricket ODI team as of 2025?

• A) Mithali Raj

• B) Harmanpreet Kaur

• C) Smriti Mandhana

• D) Deepti Sharma
  ✅ Answer: Harmanpreet Kaur

39. Dronacharya Award is given for:

• A) Literature

• B) Teaching

• C) Coaching in Sports

• D) Social Work
  ✅ Answer: Coaching in Sports

40. The Thomas Cup is associated with which sport?

• A) Badminton

• B) Tennis

• C) Hockey

• D) Football
  ✅ Answer: Badminton

🔬 Science & Technology

41. ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the Moon in:

• A) July 2022

• B) August 2023

• C) January 2024

• D) November 2023
  ✅ Answer: August 2023

42. The Father of the Indian Space Program:

• A) Homi J. Bhabha

• B) Vikram Sarabhai

• C) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• D) Satish Dhawan
  ✅ Answer: Vikram Sarabhai

43. Which planet is known as the Red Planet?

• A) Venus

• B) Mars

• C) Jupiter

• D) Saturn
  ✅ Answer: Mars

44. The first Indian satellite:

• A) Bhaskara

• B) Rohini

• C) Aryabhata

• D) INSAT-1A
  ✅ Answer: Aryabhata

45. The largest gland in the human body is:

• A) Pancreas

• B) Liver

• C) Thyroid

• D) Pituitary
  ✅ Answer: Liver

46. What does DNA stand for?

• A) Deoxyribonucleic Acid

• B) Dinucleic Acid

• C) Dioxyribonucleic Acid

• D) Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
  ✅ Answer: Deoxyribonucleic Acid

47. The vaccine for COVID-19 developed by Bharat Biotech is called:

• A) Covishield

• B) Covaxin

• C) Sputnik V

• D) Corbevax
  ✅ Answer: Covaxin

48. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded for:

• A) Quantum Dots

• B) Climate Models

• C) Attosecond Light Pulses

• D) Graphene
  ✅ Answer: Attosecond Light Pulses

49. The fastest land animal:

• A) Lion

• B) Leopard

• C) Cheetah

• D) Gazelle
  ✅ Answer: Cheetah

50. Silicon Valley is famous for:

• A) Steel Industry

• B) Film Production

• C) Software & Technology

• D) Automobile Manufacturing
  ✅ Answer: Software & Technology

📰 Current Affairs & Miscellaneous

51. The current Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2025):

• A) Eknath Shinde

• B) Devendra Fadnavis

• C) Uddhav Thackeray

• D) Ajit Pawar
  ✅ Answer: Eknath Shinde

52. The Gaganyaan Mission is related to:

• A) Mars Orbiter

• B) Human Spaceflight

• C) Chandrayaan

• D) PSLV Launch
  ✅ Answer: Human Spaceflight

53. The current UN Climate Change Conference is called:

• A) COP25

• B) COP26

• C) COP27

• D) COP28
  ✅ Answer: COP28

54. Who is the current President of France?

• A) Nicolas Sarkozy

• B) Francois Hollande

• C) Emmanuel Macron

• D) Marine Le Pen
  ✅ Answer: Emmanuel Macron

55. India’s first digital currency pilot was launched by:

• A) SEBI

• B) RBI

• C) SBI

• D) NITI Aayog
  ✅ Answer: RBI

56. The Indian state known as the ‘Spice Garden of India’ is:

• A) Kerala

• B) Tamil Nadu

• C) Karnataka

• D) Goa
  ✅ Answer: Kerala

57. What is India’s rank in the Global Innovation Index 2024?

• A) 40th

• B) 36th

• C) 30th

• D) 25th
  ✅ Answer: 36th

58. The new Capital of Andhra Pradesh is:

• A) Vijayawada

• B) Amaravati

• C) Visakhapatnam

• D) Guntur
  ✅ Answer: Amaravati

59. The Kashi Vishwanath Corridor is located in:

• A) Varanasi

• B) Prayagraj

• C) Ayodhya

• D) Haridwar
  ✅ Answer: Varanasi

60. The ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ was launched in which year?

• A) 2012

• B) 2014

• C) 2016

• D) 2018
  ✅ Answer: 2014

61. The International Day of Yoga is celebrated on:

• A) June 21

• B) March 21

• C) April 22

• D) May 1
  ✅ Answer: June 21

62. The ‘Make in India’ initiative was launched in:

• A) 2010

• B) 2012

• C) 2014

• D) 2016
  ✅ Answer: 2014

63. Who is the author of the book ‘India 2020’?

• A) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• B) Ratan Tata

• C) Amartya Sen

• D) C. Rangarajan
  ✅ Answer: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

64. The ‘Jan Dhan Yojana’ aims at:

• A) Health Insurance

• B) Financial Inclusion

• C) Education

• D) Employment Generation
  ✅ Answer: Financial Inclusion

65. India’s first woman IPS officer:

• A) Kiran Bedi

• B) Anju Sharma

• C) Rina Mitra

• D) Renu Raj
  ✅ Answer: Kiran Bedi

66. Which city is known as the ‘Silicon Valley of India’?

• A) Hyderabad

• B) Pune

• C) Bengaluru

• D) Chennai
  ✅ Answer: Bengaluru