Current Affairs Interactive Quiz 25 October 2015
Bollywood
actor purchased of a franchise in Masters Champions League of cricket,
book Warriors Remembered, sworn-in of mayor of Bonn, and Mount Kalam
among others.
1. Identify the bollywood actor. He bought a franchise in the UAE-based Masters Champions League of cricket on 22 October 2015
a) Salman Khan
b) Sanjay Dutt
c) Aamir Khan
d) Shah Rukh Khan
2.
PM Narendra Modi released a book entitled ‘Warriors Remembered’ on the
occasion of Police Commemoration Day on 21 October 2015. The book
commemorates the sacrifices of which of the following paramilitary
organisations?
a) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
b) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
c) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
d) Border Security Force (BSF)
3. Identify the Indian-origin politician who was sworn in as the mayor of Bonn in Germany on 21 October 2015
a) Shiv Pande
b) Harbhajan Kaur
c) Ashok-Alexander Sridharan
d) Shriti Vadera
4.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 22 October 2015 laid the foundation
stone of Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh. The proposed city
is located on which river?
a) Godavari
b) Tungabhadra
c) Vamsadhara
d) Krishna
5.
US-based Western Digital Corporation on 21 October 2015 announced that
it will acquire SanDisk as part of a 19 billion dollar deal. In this
context, identify the Indian-origin entrepreneur who co-founded SanDisk
in 1988
a) Sanjay Mehrotra
b) Vinod Khosla
c) Anshu Jain
d) Manoj Bhargava
6.
Three Baltic states-Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on 15 October 2015
signed an agreement with which of the following European countries to
build a gas pipeline?
a) Germany
b) Poland
c) Denmark
d) Norway
7.
Identify the multilateral agency that released the World Energy Outlook
Special Report 2015: Energy and Climate Change on 21 October 2015
a) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
b) World Bank
c) International Energy Agency (IEA)
d) World Economic Forum (WEF)
8.
Name the two mountaineers who in October 2015 became first people to
climb 6180 meter high unnamed peak in Himachal’s Spiti Valley.
a) Arunima Sinha and Bhupesh Kumar
b) Arjun Vajpai and Raghav Joneja
c) Arjun Vajpai and Bhupesh Kumar
d) Raghav Joneja and Bhupesh Kumar
9.
Two Indian mountaineers in third week of October 2015 named an unnamed
peak in Himachal’s Spiti Valley as Mount Kalam, in honour of former
President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam. The peak is located near which of
the following Himalayan glacier?
a) Thajwas
b) Bara-Sigri
c) Gangotri
d) Kolahoi
10.
Name the person who on 23 October 2015 was designated as the Special
Presidential Envoy to the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State
for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by US President Barack Obama.
a) Brett McGurk
b) John Allen
c) David Petraeus
d) James Mattis
11.
Which of the following state on 23 October 2015 announced the launch of
New Integrated Licensing Policy (NILP) 2015 for development of Hyper
and High Potential Urban Complexes (HHPUC)?
a) Maharashtra
b) Delhi
c) Jammu and Kashmir
d) Haryana
12. Which of the following Hurricane struck Mexico's Pacific coast on 23 October 2015?
a) Arthur
b) Wilma
c) Allen
d) Patricia
13.
Ministry of Defence on 24 October 2015 approved the induction of women
into the combat stream of Indian Air Force (IAF). According to the
decision, first women pilots will be commissioned on the job in
a) December 2015
b) January 2016
c) June 2016
d) November 2016
14.
Name the Vice President of Maldives who was arrested on 23 October 2015
on suspicion of links to a blast on the Presidential boat that occurred
on 28 September 2015.
a) Yameen Abdul Gayoom
b) Ahmed Adeeb
c) Umar Naseer
d) Mohamed Jameel Ahmed
15.
Name the leading mobile payment and e-commerce platform that on 23
October 2015 has tied up with Bank of Maharashtra to offer mobile wallet
top up facility through bank ATMs.
a) Paytm
b) Google Wallet
c) LoopPay
d) Shopnix
Answers
1-(b) 6-(b) 11-(d)
2-(a) 7-(c) 12-(d)
3-(c) 8-(c) 13-(c)
4-(d) 9-(b) 14-(b)
5-(a) 10-(a) 15-(a)