Current Affairs Quiz – October 9 2015

CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ

1. The World Postal Day is observed on
a) October 8
b) October 9
c) October 10
d) October 12

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Answer b) October 9. World Egg Day is also observed on October 9.

2. India has signed a Joint Economic and Trade Committee with
a) USA
b) Seychelles
c) Israel
d) Ecuador

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Answer d) Ecuador

3. NGT is associated with
a) Education
b) Crime against Women
c) Environment
d) Black Money

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Answer c) Environment. NGT – National Green Tribunal. The National Green Tribunal today asked the government to “tell us one place” where the Ganga is clean

4. Gajanan Pendharkar, who passed away recently, was the Chairman of
a) Amul
b) Maruti Suzuki
c) Vicco
d) Dabur

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Answer c) Vicco.

5. Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 has been won by National Dialogue Quartet of _________.
a) Egypt
b) Iran
c) Tunisia
d) Libya

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Answer c) Tunisia.

6. Operation Valsalya to track missing children has been launched in
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Kerala
c) Karnataka
d) Maharashtra

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Answer b) Kerala

7. India’s first River Dolphin Reserve to come up in which state?

a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) West Bengal
d) Odisha

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Answer c) West Bengal

8. Indo-China Joint Military Exercise HAND-IN-HAND 2015 will be conducted in __________ province of China.
a) Zhejiang
b) Sichuan
c) Yunnan
d) Shandong

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Answer c) Yunnan

9. The inagural meeting of V20 or Vulnerable 20 countries has been held at
a) Rio
b) Lima
c) Geneva
d) Vienna

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Answer b) Lima. Finance ministers from 20 of the countries most vulnerable to climate change have launched the “V20” group to pool resources for their fight against the impact of global warming.

10. Jurgen Klopp takes over as the manager of
a) Liverpool
b) Arsenal
c) Chelsea
d) Real Madrid

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Answer a) Liverpool.

11. Name the Delhi’s food and civil supplies minister, who has been sacked over corruption charges.
a) Salim Khan
b) Asim Admed Khan
c) Saif Ali Jafar
d) Mohammad Sayeed

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Answer b) Asim Admed Khan

12. Name the person who was recently inducted in Prasar Bharti Board. He was the media advisor to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee?
a) Manoj Mishra
b) Ashok Tandon
c) Manish Tadodia
d) Shashi Alagh

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Answer b) Ashok Tandon

13. An international technical conference on “Rail Coach Interiors: Innovation, Safety, Comfort” was inaugurated at

a) Mumbai
b) Bengaluru
c) New Delhi
d) Hyderabad

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Answer c) New Delhi.

14. The 11th Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) of the Directors General/Commissioners of Customs concluded in

a) Chennai
b) Goa
c) Mumbai
d) New Delhi

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Answer b) Goa.

15. The first BRICS Ministerial meeting on Migration was held recently in

a) Beijing
b) Sochi
c) New Delhi
d) Durban

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Answer b) Sochi.

16. Sports Ministry has sanctioned a central assistance of _________ to J & K to boost sporting activities in state.
a) 100 Crore
b) 200 Crore
c) 300 Crore
d) 400 Croore

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Answer b) 200 Crore.

17. MOS for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik inaugurated the Dr. D. P. Rastogi Central Research Institute for Homeopathy in
a) Chennai
b) Noida
c) Guwahati
d) Kanpur

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Answer b) Noida.

18. Recently an MoU and Agreement on cooperation in the field of sports signed with
a) Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
b) Turkmenistan and Afghanistan
c) Kyrgystan and Turkmenistan
d) Kazakhstan and Uznekistan

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Answer a) Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan

19. The courage of act – A memoir of a crisis and it saftermath is penned by

a) Salman Rushdie
b) Arundhathi Roy
c) S Bernanke
d) Jean Markel

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Answer c) S Bernanke

20. Pluto’s Atmospheric hazes has been captured by

a) Area 53
b) PluNet
c) New Horizons
d) MinaPlu

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Answer c) New Horizons

21. Which city is hosting NCC National Games 2015?
a) Chennai
b) New Delhi
c) Hyderabad
d) Mumbai

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Answer b) New Delhi

22. Data sharing between _____ and _____ has beeen rules invalid
a) UK and Brazil
b) US and EU
c) Germany and African Union
d) BRICS and APEC

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Answer b) US and EU

23. Vikas Krishan and Shiva Thapa are associated with
a) Chess
b) Shotput
c) Boxing
d) Shooting

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Answer c) Boxing

24. The book “Ruled or Misruled: Story and Destiny of Bihar” is penned by
a) Kalyan Singh
b) Santosh Singh
c) Dhananjay Singh
d) Badrinath Singh

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Answer b) Santosh Singh

25. NABARD has sanctioned 2112 crore rupees to _______ for irrigation projects.
a) Gujarat
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Telangana

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Answer a) Gujarat

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