81. Name the person who carried on his famous father’s legacy with his own music career and whose kidnapping as a young man added a bizarre chapter to his father’s legendary life, died recently. - Frank Sinatra Jr.
82. Name the Indian leader who is among the most influential people on the Internet, according to TIME magazine. - Prime Minister Narendra Modi
83. The Interest rate under the Public Provident Fund scheme will be cut to how much percent for the period from April 1 to June 30 from 8.7 per cent? - 8.1 per cent
84. The Interest rate on the KVP will be cut to how much percent from 8.7 per cent? - 7.8 per cent
85. Name the Technology giant who will invest USD 100 million in India by 2020, to support the Government’s Digital India initiative. - Cisco
86. Pharmaceutical major Pfizer has appointed whom as its new Managing Director (MD) with immediate effect for a period of five years? - S Sridhar
87. Who has been selected as the next head of the U.S. military’s Northern Command, which will make her the first woman to head a U.S. combatant command? - U.S. Air Force General Lori Robinson
88. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named whom as an honorary U.N. ambassador to encourage young people to go “green” and step up action to tackle climate change? - Red, the character in Angry Birds
89. Government allows how much percent FDI in insurance under automatic route? - 49%
90. Which Grand Prix was halted by a red flag after a crash between McLaren's Fernando Alonso and Haas's Mexican driver Esteban Gutierrez left the former’s car wrecked, with debris littered across the Albert Park circuit? - Australian Grand Prix
91. Name the Bangladesh pace sensation who was suspended for bowling with an illegal action by the ICC, dealing a massive blow to the team’s campaign in the ongoing World Twenty20. - Taskin Ahmed
92. Name the Indian wrestler has bagged an Olympic quota in the men’s 65 kg freestyle category at the ongoing Asian qualifying tournament. - Yogeshwar Dutt
93. Who has won the 2016 Abel prize for his “stunning proof of Fermat’s last theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era of mathematics,” (to quote from the citation)? - Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
94. Nepal secured transit rights through which country following an agreement between Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and his counterpart? - China
95. Name the girl who won the 100-metre dash at the Street Child Games held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil recently. - Hepsiba
96. Signalling India’s deepening naval engagement in the Indian Ocean, the Indian navy has for the first time deployed one of its advanced maritime reconnaissance aircraft to which country for surveillance of the island nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone? - Seychelles
97. The country’s current account deficit (CAD) narrowed to how much percent of GDP during the October-December quarter of the financial year, mainly due to lower trade deficit? - 1.3 per cent
98. PVR Ltd, India’s biggest multiplex chain announced a strategic partnership to sell PVR’s movie tickets on which e-commerce platform? - Paytm
99. Who has been re-elected as the Zanzibar President recently? - Ali Mohamed Shein
100. Sachin Tendulkar has invested an undisclosed sum in which firm and has also become the brand ambassador of the company? - Smartron India
101. Ashok Leyland Defence Systems (ALDS), a division of Hinduja Group flagship company Ashok Leyland has selected which firm to develop light specialist vehicle and light armoured multi-purpose defence vehicles for armed forces? - US-based Lockheed Martin
102. Property consultant JLL India has tie-up with which online marketplace to sell homes, as it seeks to tap the growing e-commerce business in India? - Snapdeal
103. Name the bank which has raised Rs 500 crore from issue of bonds on a private placement basis recently. - The State Bank of India
104. Name the India’s biosphere reserve that placed among 20 UNESCO world biosphere reserves. - Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve (ABR)
105. Which country will host the eighth annual summit of BRICS from October 15-16 in its capacity as chair of the influential bloc comprising five countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa? - India
106. Name the Ex-Intel CEO who passed away recently. - Andy Grove
107. Who was unanimously elected as PDP legislature party leader? - Mehbooba Mufti
108. Name the legendary Dutch soccer striker and coach who died of lung cancer at the age of 68 recently. - Johan Cruyff
109. Name the Beleaguered business tycoon who has decided to step down as the Chairman of pharma major Sanofi India, nearly 33 years after he assumed the post. - Vijay Mallya
110. Fresh from his landmark trip to Cuba, U.S. President Barack Obama will now travelled to which country, where four decades later resentment still simmers over Washington’s backing for its former dictatorship? - Argentina
111. The Union Cabinet gave its ex-post facto approval for a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and which country to mobilise up to $75 billion long-term investment in the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)? - United Arab Emirates (UAE)
112. Name the Australian all-rounder who will quit international cricket after the ongoing World Twenty20 in India. - Shane Watson
113. Prime Ministers of India with which country commissioned international gateway of internet service in Agartala and supply of 100MW power from Tripura? - Bangladesh
114. The country’s foreign exchange reserves rose how much amount for the week ended March 18, according to the latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India? - $355.94 billion
115. Name the Tata Steel Ltd, Europe unit's chief executive who is stepping down to take up a senior leadership position with a large, privately owned industrial company in Germany.- Karl Koehler
116. Name the ‘World’s Fastest Kiwi’ who completed his journey of the Indian Golden Quadrilateral on his bicycle recently. - Tim Chittock
117. Name the President of Iran who has arrived in Pakistan on a landmark visit, his first since becoming President. - Hassan Rouhani
118. Name the Nepal’s Army Chief which is likely to leave for a week-long trip to China on March 27 to strengthen bilateral military ties between the two countries. - Gen Rajendra Chhetri
119. Who has been appointed by the Geneva-based UNHRC as the Asia-Pacific representative of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises recently? - Surya Deva
120. Finance Minister ArunJaitley said the government would soon launch a ‘Stand-up India’ scheme to provide loans of up to how much amount to help members of SC/ST community, to enable them to set up big industries and turn into big entrepreneurs? - Rs. 1 crore
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