Practice MCQ for NTA UGC NET JRF Paper 1

1.Who was recently reappointed as the Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF)?

[A] V K Johri
[B] Abhinav Kumar
[C] Rajeev Rai
[D] Arun Kumar Sharma

2.Which Indian entrepreneur was recently honoured with the Australia’s highest civilian honour,‘Order of Australia’?

[A] Anand Mahindra
[B] Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
[C] Azim Premji
[D] Uday Kotak

3.Which Indian musician has been selected for the Madhya Pradesh government’s prestigious National Lata Mangeshkar Award 2018?

[A] Kuldeep Singh
[B] Piyush Kanojia
[C] Zakir Hussain
[D] Jagjit Singh

4.Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, recently?

[A] Pranab Kumar Das
[B] Ajay Bhushan Pandey
[C] M. Ajit Kumar
[D] Atanu Chakraborty

5.Which Hindi writer has been presented with the first ‘Mathrubhumi Book of the Year award’?

[A] Vinod Kumar Shukla
[B] Ramesh Chandra Shah
[C] Mridula Garg
[D] Chitra Mudgal

6.Daniel Arap Moi, who passed away recently, as the longest-serving president of which country?

[A] Nigeria
[B] Kenya
[C] Zimbabwe
[D] South Africa

7.Who has been named as the head of the trust for construction of the Ram Temple, which was recently constituted by the Centre?

[A] K. K. Venugopal
[B] K Parasaran
[C] G E Vahanvati
[D] Maninder Acharya

8.Who was named as the Ernst and Young (EY) Entrepreneur of the Year 2019?

[A] Adi Godrej
[B] Uday Kotak
[C] Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
[D] Sridhar Vembu

9.What is the profession of Barry John, who is recently selected for Lifetime Achievement honour in 2020 META Awards?

[A] Sportsperson
[B] Businessperson
[C] Theatre Director
[D] Politician

10.Hari Shankar Vasudevan, who passed away recently, was associated with which profession?

[A] Sportsperson
[B] Historian
[C] Healthcare Worker
[D] Politician