Current Affairs Quiz – October 11 2015

In Current Affairs Quiz
October 12, 2015

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ

1. Name the Indian boy in UAE, who becomes youngest ACCA affiliate?
a) Narasimhan Madabusi
b) Avinash Ravindran
c) JS Karthikeyan
d) Ramkumar Kannan

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Answer d) Ramkumar Kannan. Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) membership.

2. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry?
a) Naishadh Parikh
b) Binoy Job
c) Abhishek Chatterjee
d) Srinivas Reddy

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Answer a) Naishadh Parikh

3. Who has been appointed chairman of Broadband India Forum (BIF)?
a) MF Farooqui
b) KL Narayanan
c) Ramdas Gupta
d) Sunaina Chawla

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Answer a) MF Farooqui. He has replaced ex-telecom secretary Shyamal Ghosh who has been appointed Chairman Emeritus of BIF.

4. GOI to launch _________ to help kick tobacco habit.
a) Quit Smoking
b) No to Tobacco
c) M Cessation
d) Avoid Tobacco and Live

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Answer c) M Cessation. The Union Health Ministry will launch M Cessation or Mobile Cessation to develop tobacco use abstinence among people interested in quitting.

5. Who laid the foundation stone of two elevated Metro corridors in Mumbai– Dahisar-D N Nagar and Dahisar-Andheri (east) route?
a) President Pranab Mukherjee
b) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
c) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
d) Home Minister Rajnath Singh

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Answer c) Prime Minister Narendra Modi

6. Manorama, an actress, who passed away recently, belongs to
a) Kerala
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Maharashtra
d) Karnataka

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Answer b) Tamil Nadu. A versatile actress, Manorama had acted in over 1,200 Tamil films.

7. CBI has raided a bank’s offices w.r.t. a Forex Scam of about Rs 6000 crore. Name the Bank.
a) HDFC Bank
b) Axis Bank
c) Bank of Baroda
d) Bank of India

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Answer c) Bank of Baroda

8. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates Mahatma Gandhi street in which country?
a) Palestine
b) Israel
c) Egypt
d) Jordan

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Answer d) Jordan.

9. India and __________ have signed two MoUs on cooperation between Foreign Service Institutes and on Cooperation in Sports & Youth Affairs.
a) Sri Lanka
b) Maldives
c) Bhutan
d) Nepal

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Answer b) Maldives.

10. The Dutch Open Title has been won by
a) Ajay Jayaram
b) Leander Paes
c) Stan Wawrinka
d) Raul Must

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Answer a) Ajay Jayaram

11. Japan Open title winner is
a) Roger Federer
b) Stephen Ray
c) Stan Wawrinka
d) Rafael Nadal

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Answer c) Stan Wawrinka

12. The winner China Open title is
a) Roger Federer
b) Andy Murray
c) Rafael Nadal
d) Novak Djokovic

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Answer d) Novak Djokovic

13. Sushil Koirala, the Prime Minister, who resigned recently for the election, belongs to
a) Bhutan
b) Myanmar
c) Cambodia
d) Nepal

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Answer d) Nepal. Koirala submitted his resignation to President Ram Baran Yadav who accepted it and asked him to conduct daily administrative functions till a new government is formed.

14. Proneeta Swargiary, who has been in News recently, is a/an
a) Musician
b) Dancer
c) Social Activist
d) RTI Activist

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Answer b) Dancer. Delhi girl Proneeta Swargiary has won the fifth season of reality show Dance India Dance (DID).

15. International Day of the Girl Child is observed on
a) October 10
b) October 11
c) October 12
d) October 13

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Answer b) October 11. 2015 Theme: The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030