Current Affairs Quiz – October 15 2015

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ

1. Real estate developer Tata Housing has partnered with _________ to sell its affordable homes online.
a) Instagram
b) Twitter
c) Facebook
d) Google

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Answer c) Facebook. Through this new campaign titled ‘Social sell’ on Facebook, the company plans to sell around 250 units of its new five-acre residential project in Goa called Codename —Goa Paradise.

2. The 4th International Tourism Mart (ITM) has been inaugurated in
a) Kanpur
b) Gangtok
c) Hyderabad
d) Bengaluru

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Answer b) Gangtok, Sikkim.

3. Who has been hailed as Rashtra Ratna by Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
b) APJ Abdul Kalam
c) LK Advani
d) Subash Chandra Bose

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Answer b) APJ Abdul Kalam. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paying tribute to late President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam on his 84th birth anniversary,hailing him as a ‘rashtra ratna’.

4. Who has announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket?
a) Harbhajan Singh
b) Zaheer Khan
c) Rohit Sharma
d) MS Dhoni

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Answer b) Zaheer Khan.

5. Australia clears way for ___________ Group’s $7 billion coal and rail project.
a) Reliance
b) Adani
c) Tata
d) BGM

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Answer c) Adani

6. The name of recently commissioned fast patrol vessel is
a) ICGS Kayathri
b) ICGS Anmol
c) ICGS Shayadhri
d) ICGS Shakeel

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Answer b) ICGS Anmol

7. Musa indandamanensis is a/an
a) Apple
b) Banana
c) Pine Apple
d) Avacoda

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Answer b) Banana. Scientists at the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have discovered a new species of banana from a remote tropical rain forest on the Little Andaman islands.

8. Who has been selected for the Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award?
a) Kailash Satyarthi
b) Malala
c) Pranab Mukherjee
d) Ban Ki Moon

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Answer a) Kailash Satyarthi

9. Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Transport Project is related with
a) Bhutan
b) Myanmar
c) Bangladesh
d) Nepal

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Answer b) Myanmar. Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval for the Revised Cost Estimate (RCE) of 2904.04 crore rupees for the Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Transport Project in Myanmar.

10. Omid Kordestani has been appointed as the Executive Chairman of
a) Facebook
b) Twitter
c) Instagram
d) Google

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Answer b) Twitter

11. ________ has acquired EMC Corporation for 67 billion US dollars
a) Amazon
b) Dell Inc
c) Snapdeal
d) HCL

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Answer b) Dell Inc

12. _____________ became the first European country to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the establishment of Nalanda University.
a) Germany
b) UK
c) Portugal
d) Belgium

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Answer c) Portugal.

13. The Navies of India, United States and Japan have began the five-day Malabar exercise 2015 on the ___________ Coast.
a) Western Coast
b) Southern Coast
c) Eastern Coast
d) Northern Coast

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Answer c) Eastern Coast.

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