1.What is India's position, in the ranking in the World Bank's 2016 Report of Ease of Doing Business?
(a) 130
(b) 129
(c) 135
(d) 141


2. Which bank organized a marathon, named 'Vigithon' to make people aware of the need to fight corruption
(a) SBI
(b) Union Bank of India
(c) ICICI
(d) Punjab National Bank


3. Which submarine, the first of the six in the 'Scorpene Class' Submarines, was successfully set a float recently
(a) INS Khanderi
(b) INS Arihant
(c) INS Kalvari
(d) INS Shankul


4. Which Indian sports administrator and honourary member of the International Olympic Committee passed away recently
(a) Jagmohan Dalmiya
(b) S P Agarwal
(c) Saeed Jaffrey
(d) Ashwini Kumar


5. Arjun Vajpai and Bhupesh Kumar scaled an unexplored peak in Himachal Pradesh and named it after which personality
(a) A P J Abdul Kalam
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Indira Gandhi


6. Name the Vice President of Maldives who has arrested over alleged assassination attempt on the President Abdulla Yameen
(a) Mohamed Nasheed
(b) Ahmed Adeeb
(c) Jameel Ahmed
(d)  None of the above


7. United Nations Day was observed on
(a) October 21
(b) October 27
(c) October 24
(d) October 25


8. Which Indian movies, directed by Pan Nalin, bagged the People's Choice Award at the Rome International Film Festival
(a) Samsara
(b) Valley of Flowers
(c) Echo of Eco
(d) Angry Indian Goddess


9. Which musical composer received this year's Hridayanath Mangeshkar Award?
(a) A R Rahman
(b) Ankit Tiwari
(c) Lalgudi Jayaraman
(d) Vishal Bhardwaj


10. Which imprisoned Saudi blogger has been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Human Rights Prize?
(a) Tim Selwyn
(b) Raif Badwai
(c) Tommy Sheridan,
(d) Paul Modrowski