Current Affairs (October 16-23)Bit Bank.pdf

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Current Affairs (October 16-23)Bit Bank

1. World Food Day was observed on

a) October 15

b) October 16th

c) October 17th

d) October 18th

2. UN observes October 17th as

a) Eradication of poverty

b) Eradication of child labour

c) Eradication of diseases

d) Eradication of child mortality

3. Chalein Saath Saath is a slogan issued by which of the following countries

a) Indo-china

b) Indo-Japan

c) Indo-Australia

d) Indo- US

4. Which of the following organization celebrated 267th anniversary

a) DRDO

b) CAG

c) Defence

d) Defence Accounts

5. ‘Punarjagaran’ mass awakening for youth launched by which of following ministries

a) Youth Affairs

b) Rural Development

c) Planning Commission

d) Ministry of Agriculture

6. New chief economic advisor to the Government of India is

a) Arvind Subramanian

b) Raghuram Rajan

c) Ranga Rajan

d) None of the above

7. Which of the following is true regarding Arvind Subramanian

a) Elected as 5th chief economic advisor

b) Enjoys the rank and pay equivalent to that of a Secretary of Government of India

c) Foreign policy magazine has named him as one of the 100 global thinkers

d) All the above

8. Books written by Arvind Subramanian

a) India’s Turn: Understanding the economic transformation

b) Poverty and its Eradication

c) Global Economy


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d) None

9. Rank of India in Ease of Doing Business index

a) 140

b) 141

c) 142

d) 143

10. The countries that were absent in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

a) Australia

b) Indonesia

c) South Korea

d) All the above

11. Deadline for girls toilets in all government schools

a) October 2nd 2019

b) August 15th 2015

c) August 15 2016

d) January 1st 2016

12. Match the following:

Nation Submarine

Manufacturer

a. Russia 1. HDW

b. Germany 2. Navantia

c. Spain 3. Amur

13.

a) a- 3, b-1, c-2

b) a-2, b-1, c-3

c) a-1, b-2, c-3

d) a-3, b-2, c-1

14. Recipient of the International Female Police Peacekeeper Award 2014

a) Shakti Devi

b) Yela Devi

c) Shanta Devi

d) Saritha Devi

15. Urban Housing Mission to be named after

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Indira Gandhi

d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel

16. Recipient of National Kishore Kumar Award

a) Javed Akhtar

b) Sameer

c) Vairamutthu


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d) None

17. Newly appointed managing director of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited

a) Gautham Raj

b) Anirudh Chowdary

c) Rama Rajan

d) Rajeswar twivedi

18. Winner of Man Booker Prize 2014 Richard Flanagan belongs to which country

a) Norway

b) Finland

c) Germany

d) Australia

19. Books written by Richard Flanagan

a) Death of a river guide

b) Gould’s book of fish

c) The sound of one hand capping

d) All the above

20. Newly appointed Finance Secretary of India

a) Arvind Mayaram

b) Rajiv Mehrishi

c) Subramanyam

d) Ranga Rajan

21. Which of the following countries were elected as non-permanent members of U.N. Security Council

a) Venuzuela

b) Angola

c) New Zealand

d) Spain

e) All the above

22. DONGFENG – 31B

a) Is a China’s 10,000 km range missile

b) Can be able to carry nuclear war head

c) a & b

d) None of these

23. An International Donor’s Conference on Gaza reconstruction was held in

a) Cairo

b) Lisbon

c) Brasilia

d) Washington

24. KOBANI a Kurdish town where racial violence was held belongs to which of the following country

a) Kenya

b) Sudan

c) Nigeria

d) Syria


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25. Recently elected American Attorney to department of Justice

a) Vandana Gupta

b) Ramesh Datta

c) Vanita Gupta

d) None

26. International Olympic Committee (IOC) newly elected honorary member

a) Rabdhir singh

b) Lalit Modi

c) Jashwanth Roy

d) None

27. Which of the following countries elected as 181st member of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

a) Bangladesh

b) Sudan

c) Congo

d) Bhutan

28. Recently appointed T.K. Vishwanathan Committee is for which of the following

a) Economic Reforms

b) Financial Sustainability

c) FDI

d) Bankruptcy Law

29. Which of the following is true regarding Mohammadan Sporting

a) Kolkata based foot ball club founded in 1891

b) Considered as one of the ‘big three’ in national foot ball together with East Bengal and Mohan Bagan

c) Decides to shut down due to bankruptcy

d) All the above

30. IBSAMAR is a

a) Joint naval exercises held between India, Brazil and South Africa

b) Military Agreement between India, Brazil and South Africa

c) Tripartite agreement between India, Brazil and South Africa

d) All the above

31. Which of the following states announced 2015 as Tourism year

a) Maharashtra

b) Telangana

c) Andhra Pradesh

d) Madhya Pradesh

32. India’s rank among G-20 countries for most desirable destinations to work

a) 14th

b) 16th

c) 17th

d) 15th

33. Global burden of polio diseases was maximally shared by

a) Nigeria


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b) Pakistan

c) India

d) Bangladesh

34. Rank of India in Global Hunger Index

a) 55

b) 63

c) 89

d) 76

35. Who among the following countries does not have a fully functional global navigation system

a) USA

b) Russia

c) Germany

d) China

36. Which among the following would be the nodal officer for implementing the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

a) Member of Parliament

b) Prime Minister

c) District Collector

d) Sarpanch

37. The Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was launched on the birth anniversary of

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Sardar Vallabhai Patel

c) Jai Prakash Narayan

d) Bhagat Singh

38. Newly elected head of kalakshetra foundation by the Union Government Ministry of Culture

a) N. Gopalaswami

b) Priyadarshini Govind

c) Karunakar K Menon

d) Raja Gopalan

39. Winner of the Global Biodiversity Award 2014

a) Amitabh Bachchan

b) Shahukh Khan

c) Aamir Khan

d) Salman khan

40. According to the IMF’s latest world economy outlook, India is poised to become 2 trillion economy this year, by which year India is

expected to cross 3 trillion milestone

a) 2019

b) 2017

c) 2016

d) 2025

41. According to RBI regulations, what is the minimum age children must have completed to open and operate savings bank accounts

independently

a) 10 years


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b) 12 years

c) 15 years

d) 13 years

42. The 38th Parallel line separates which of the following countries

a) China and Taiwan

b) North and South Korea

c) Vietnam and Laos

d) China and Japan

43. Name of the earth observing rapid instrument recently installed by NASA on the ISS

a) ISS Rapid Scat

b) Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector

c) Visible and infra red mapping spectrometer

d) The framing camera

44. The Ebola virus group which causes hemorrhagic fever, is not prevalent among the following countries is

a) Sierra Leone

b) Liberia

c) Guinea

d) Kenya

45. Which missile was developed by India as an answer to America’s Tomahawk and Pakistan’s Babur missile

a) Agni IV

b) ASTRA

c) NIRBHAR

d) Prithvi

46. Largest cane producer of India

a) Maharashtra

b) Uttar Pradesh

c) Punjab

d) Haryana

47. Evo Morales has been elected as President of

a) Bolivia

b) Columbia

c) Chile

d) Peru

48. Which among the following countries is not a part of the so called geographical and cultural region of Levant

a) Lebanon

b) Cyprus

c) Syria

d) Egypt

49. Which Indian player has been recently suspended by International Boxing Federation

a) May Kom

b) Sarita Devi

c) Kavita Goyal


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d) Sarjubala Devi

50. Which country is the single largest troop contributor to UN peace keeping operations

a) USA

b) Russia

c) India

d) France

Answers

1) d 2) a 3) d 4) d 5) a 6) a 7) d 8) a

9) c 10) d 11) b 12) a 13) a 14) d 15) b 16) a

17) d 18) d 19) b 20) e 21) c 22) a 23) d 24) d

25) a 26) d 27) d 28) d 29) a 30) d 31) d 32) b

33) a 34) c 35) c 36) c 37) a 38) b 39) a 40) a

41) b 42) a 43) d 44) c 45) b 46) a 47) d 48) b 49) c

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