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16251. Who won the United States Grand Prix-2013?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel.
16252. Which country won the Davis Cup Tennis title -2013?
Answer: Czech Republic.
16253. Who won the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2013?
Answer: Angela Merkel.
16254. Which country bagged the first rank of 2nd South Asian Federation (SAF) Junior Athletics Championships with 20 gold, 20 silver and 12 bronze medals?
Answer: India.
16255. British biochemist who won two Nobel Prizes for his work on DNA and protein sequencing, died on November 19, 2013?
Answer: Frederick Sanger.
16256. The Sikh man in the USA who will receive $50,000 as compensation to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit against a car dealership in New Jersey for denying him a job for maintaining a beard?
Answer: Gurpreet Kherha.
16257. Who became the first schoolboy cricketer to hit a 500 plus score in an official inter-school match?
Answer: Prithvi Shaw.
16258. Who won the Player of the series award in the 3 ODI Cricket matches played between India and West Indies held in India in November -2013?
Answer: Virat Kohli (India).
16259. Who has taken over as the new Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India?
Answer: Shri Justice Ajit Prakash Shah.
16260. Who is the winner of the World Chess Championship 2013 held from 9 to 22 November 2013 in Chennai, India?
Answer: Magnus Carlsen.
16261. Who won the man of the match award in the first Ashes Test (Australia Vs England) held in Brisbane from November 21-24, 2013?
Answer: Mitchell Johnson (Australia).
16262. Name the Chinese jet-powered unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) conducted its maiden flight on 20 November, 2013?
Answer: The Sharp Sword (Lijian)
16263. What is the name given to the new predatory dinosaur that lived in Utah around 100 million years ago?
Answer: Siats meekerorum.
16264. Who has been retained national coach of the men’s boxing team of India till the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro?
Answer: Gurbaksh Singh Sandhu.
16265. Which state won the overall championship in the 67th National swimming championships?
Answer: Karnataka.
16266. Name the space probe which is successfully launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral in Florida on November 18, 2013?
Answer: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN).
16267. Who is the 15th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army?
Answer: General Raheel Sharif.
16268. Prime Minister of Latvia who has resigned after accepting political responsibility for the collapse of a supermarket roof in the capital that killed 54 people?
Answer: Valdis Dombrovskis.
16269. Who was named the greatest Spanish sports star in history by readers of Spanish sports daily?
Answer: Rafael Nadal.
16270. Which book became the world’s most expensive book late after it fetched a staggering $14 million at a US auction?
Answer: "The Bay Psalm Book”.
16271. Who has topped a list of the 101 most powerful British Asians and Asians resident in the UK?
Answer: Malala Yousafzai.
16272. Managing editor of Tehelka who resigned on November 27, a week after its editor Tarun Tejpal was exposed as having allegedly sexually assaulting a woman journalist colleague?
Answer: Shoma Chaudhury.
16273. India’s 350 km range Surface-to-Surface ballistic missile which was successfully launched on November 27, 2013 from a naval ship off the coast of Balasore?
Answer: Dhanush.
16274. Name the two popes who will be declared saints on April 27, 2014?
Answer: Popes John Paul II and John XXIII.
16275. Bollywood superstar who has been appointed as the good will ambassador of South Korea?
Answer: Shah Rukh Khan.
16276. Name the unmanned resupply spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences which reentered Earth"s atmosphere, marking the end of the highly successful cargo resupply demonstration mission Orbital conducted with its NASA partner?
Answer: Cygnus spacecraft.
16277. Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader who has sentenced to death after he was found guilty of torture, rape and genocide during the war for independence from Pakistan in 1971?
Answer: Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
16278. Government of which country began a partial shutdown on October 1, 2013 for the first time in 17 years, potentially putting up to 1 million workers on unpaid leave, closing national parks and stalling medical research projects?
Answer: U.S.A.
16279. NASA"s Mars rover which has found that surface soil on the Red Planet contains about 2 percent water by weight?
Answer: Curiosity.
16280. On 3 October 2013, the Union Cabinet approved the creation of a new state by bifurcating the existing state of Andhra Pradesh. What is the name given to the 29th state of the Indian union?
Answer: Telangana.
16281. Former central minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader who was sentenced to five years imprisonment in a 17-year-old fodder scam case by a special CBI court after he was convicted on corruption and other charges?
Answer: Lalu Prasad Yadav.
16282. Award-winning photojournalist who made his most enduring mark with a historic image of a mortally wounded Senator Robert F. Kennedy lying on the floor of a Los Angeles hotel in June 1968, died on October 3, 2013?
Answer: Bill Eppridge.
16283. The brilliant and ruthless commander of Vietnam who led a ragtag army of guerrillas to victory in Vietnam over first the French and then the Americans, died on October 4, 2013?
Answer: General. Vo Nguyen Giap.
16284. Who has won the 37th Vayalar Rama Varma Memorial Literary Award for 2013?
Answer: Prabha Varma. (Malayalam Poet).
16285. Which pair won the China Open women"s doubles tennis title -2013?
Answer: Sania Mirza (India) and Cara Black (Zimbabwe).
16286. Former Indian defence minister who has been posthumously honoured by the Bangladesh government with the Friends of Liberation War" award?
Answer: V.K. Krishna Menon.
16287. Which cricketer became the 16th batsman to complete 50,000 runs across all the three formats of the game?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar.
16288. Who has won the China Open Men’s title-2013 defeating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final?
Answer: Novak Djokovic.
16289. Who has won the China Open Women’s title-2013 defeating Maria Sharapova in the final?
Answer: Victoria Azarenka.
16290. Which team won the Champions League Twenty20 title-2013?
Answer: Mumbai Indians.
16291. Which pair won the Japan Open men"s doubles tennis title -2013?
Answer: Rohan Bopanna (India) and Edouard Roger-Vasselin(France).
16292. Who becomes the first woman chairperson of the State Bank of India (SBI)?
Answer: Arundhati Bhattacharya.
16293. Who is worn in as the first elected Tamil Chief Minister of Sri Lanka?
Answer: C.V. Wigneswaran.
16294. The 11th India-ASEAN Summit and 8th East Asia Summit were held in?
Answer: Brunei.
16295. Former Foreign Secretary of India who is appointed as the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom?
Answer: Ranjan Mathai.
16296. Who has been sworn in as the new head of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States of America?
Answer: Janet Yellen.
16297. Former Bangladesh minister who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a war tribunal on October 9, 2013, after he was found guilty of war crimes?
Answer: Abdul Alim.
16298. Eminent agricultural scientist who has been selected for the28th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for the year 2012?
Answer: Dr M S Swaminathan.
16299. Ex-Sri Lanka captain who announced his retirement from test cricket on October 10, 2013?
Answer: Tillakaratne Dilshan.
16300. Name the second-strongest tropical cyclone ever to make landfall in India which hit Coastal Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on October 12, 2013?
Answer: Cyclone Phailin.
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