QUIZQUIZ

BY – PRAGYAN YADAV

Question-1Question-1What is the name given to the

tropical cyclonic storm building over the north Andaman Sea which is expected to hit the coast of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on sheer intensity on 12 October 2014?

Answer of Answer of Q.1Q.1“Hud Hud”

Question-2Question-2What is the name of the first

Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States who died on 8 October 2014 thus raising enormous anxiety in the country?

Answer of Answer of Q.2Q.2Thomas Eric Duncan

Question-3Question-3American scientists Eric Betzig and

William Moerner and Germany’s Stefan Hell were announced as the 3 winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on 8 October 2014. They have been honoured for their contribution in which field of Chemistry?

Answer of Answer of Q.3Q.3Optical Microscopy

Question-4Question-433 years after founding

Infosys, two of its founders bade farewell to the company on 8 October 2014. Who are these two persons?

Answer of Answer of Q.4Q.4NR Narayana Murthy and S

Gopalakrishnan

Question-6Question-6During October 2014 the American

Congress has initiated a probe against how many generic drug makers for price escalation of generic drugs that includes top Indian drug companies Sun Pharma, Dr. Reddy’s Lab and Cadila Healthcare?

Answer of Answer of Q.6Q.614

Question-7Question-7The Indian Air Force (IAF) is

celebrating 8 October 2014 as its foundation day in the form of ‘Air Force Day’. The IAF completed how many years of its establishment on this day?

Answer of Answer of Q.7Q.782 years

Question-8Question-8On 7 October 2014 Japanese

scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and American Shuji Nakamura were named as the winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics for inventing what?

Answer of Answer of Q.8Q.8LED light

Question-9Question-9Birth Centenary celebrations

of which noted Hindustani classical singer commenced from 7 October 2014?

Answer of Answer of Q.9Q.9 Begum Akhtar

Question-10Question-10The new Monetary Policy Framework

Agreement, which aims to change the monetary policy formulation and will also focus on inflation targeting, is proposed to be signed by which date as announced by the Finance Ministry recently?

Answer of Answer of Q.10Q.101 February 2015

Question-11Question-11India’s largest ferris wheel was

inaugurated on 2 October 2014 at Kalindi Kunj in Delhi. This 200-feet high offers panoramic view of the city of Delhi. What is the name given to this giant wheel?

Answer of Answer of Q.11Q.11Delhi Eye

Question-12Question-12Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and

Edvard Moser and Anglo-American John O’Keefe were announced as the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine on 6 October 2014. The three are being rewarded for which of their pioneering work associated with the human mind?

Answer of Answer of Q.12Q.12They solved the mystery – How

does the brain create a map of the space surrounding us and how can we navigate our way through a complex environment?

Question-13Question-13Hewlett-Packard Co (HP) on 6 October 2014

announced plans to split the company into two listed companies by separating its computer and printer businesses from its faster-growing corporate hardware and services operations. What would be the names of the two new companies to be established with this split?

Answer of Answer of Q.13Q.13Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP

Inc.

Question-14Question-14India is among the 5 group of countries will

start work on the world’s biggest telescope in the United States. This will enable to identify an object as small as coin from a distance of 500 km. The other four countries involved in this project include the U.S., Japan, China and Canada. Where this telescope will be established?

Answer of Answer of Q.14Q.14Mauna Kea volcano in on

Hawaii Island in U.S.

Question-15Question-15What is the name of the phone

application (app), the services of which were asked to be blocked by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in a recent request made to the Department of Telecom (DoT)?

Answer of Answer of Q.15Q.15‘We Phone’

Question-16Question-16Which Indian online retail

company organised the “Big Billion Day” sale on 6 October 2014 with a target of $100 million sale in gross merchandise value (GMV)?

Answer of Answer of Q.16Q.16Flipkart

Question-17Question-17What is the name of the new

mid-sized sedan car launched by Maruti Suzuki on 6 October 2014?

Answer of Answer of Q.17Q.17Ciaz

Question-18Question-18Who was nominated as the

next U.S. Ambassador to India recently?

Answer of Answer of Q.18Q.18Richard Rahul Verma

Question-19Question-19The 17th Asian Games concluded

at Incheon (South Korea) on 4 October 2014 with a glittering closing ceremony. The next edition of Asian Games would be held in which city?

Answer of Answer of Q.19Q.19Jakarta (Indonesia)

Question-20Question-20What is the name of the

upgraded version of China’s 10,000-km range missile which was successfully tested recently?

Answer of Answer of Q.20Q.20Dongfeng-31B

Question-21Question-21Chennai Super Kings (CSK) won the

Oppo Champions League T20 for 2014 by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in a one-sided final on 4 October 2014. CSK has now won the Champions League T20 title how many times?

Answer of Answer of Q.21Q.21Two times

Question-22Question-22Who won the Japanese F1

Grand Prix on 5 October 2014?

Answer of Answer of Q.22Q.22Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes

team

Question-23Question-23Who on 4 October 2013 became

the first cricketer in the last 10 years to make it to the Indian national team without playing a single first-class (like Ranji Trophy) or list A match?

Answer of Answer of Q.23Q.23 Kuldeep Yadav

Question-24Question-24Who on 4 October 2014 won

the PGTI Eagleburg Masters held in Bangalore?

Answer of Answer of Q.24Q.24Rashid Khan

Question-25Question-25The rates of the tatkal tickets of Indian

Railways went up from October 2014 with the railways deciding to sell 50% of the quota tickets using dynamic fare system. The ‘Premium Tatkal Ticket scheme’ became operational in how many trains from 1 October 2014?

Answer of Answer of Q.25Q.25Eighty

Question-26Question-26The Indian contingent at 17th Asian

Games concluded its campaign on 3 October 2014 as no Indian athletes would feature in any event on 4 October – the last day of the games. How many total medals were won by Indian the Indian contingent?

Answer of Answer of Q.26Q.2657

Question-27Question-27More than 40 persons were killed and

hundreds injured in a stampede in Bihar’s capital Patna on 3 October 2014. The accident took place after people were returning after watching the “Ravan Vadh” ceremony on the occasion of Dussehra. The accident took place in which historic ground of Patna?

Answer of Answer of Q.27Q.27Gandhi Maidan

Question-28Question-28What is the name of the

British hostage who was shown being beheaded in a video released on 3 October 2014 by Islamic State militants?

Answer of Answer of Q.28Q.28Alan Henning

Question-29Question-29Indian men’s Kabaddi team won the gold

medal at the 17th Asian Games on 3 October 2014 in a tough final against Iran. India defeated Iran by 27-25 despite the fact that it was trailing by 13-21 at half time. This was India’s …………consecutive gold medal in these games.

Answer of Answer of Q.29Q.29Seventh

Question-30Question-30Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2 October

2014 India’s biggest-ever cleanliness drive – the “Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan” (“Clean India Mission”) on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. What is the main objective of this huge mission on which around Rs.62,000 crore would be spent?

Answer of Answer of Q.30Q.30To accomplish the vision of

“Clean India” by 2 October 2019 (The 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi)

Question-31Question-31Indian men’s Hockey team moved one more step

closer in regaining its lost glory by claiming the gold medal at 17th Asian Games at Incheon on 2 October 2014. India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan by 4-2 in a nerve-wracking shoot-out in the finals to earn a direct berth to the 2016 Rio Olympics. With this win India has now won how many gold medals in men’s hockey at the Asian Games?

Answer of Answer of Q.31Q.31Three

Question-32Question-32Microsoft Corporation recently

gave the first official look of the next version of its hugely popular Windows operating system (OS). What is the name of this latest upcoming OS that was also unveiled?

Answer of Answer of Q.32Q.32Windows 10

Question-33Question-33Which two Union Territories

of the Indian Union achieved a unique milestone of 100% banking coverage as revealed in a meeting of Finance Ministry on 1 October 2014?

Answer of Answer of Q.33Q.33Puducherry and Chandigarh

Question-34Question-34Indian women’s team defeated

which team in the finals to win the gold medal in women’s Kabaddi at 17th Asian Games on 3 October 2014?

Answer of Answer of Q.34Q.34Iran

Question-35Question-35Which country’s Parliament

on 2 October 2014 voted to authorize the government to take military action in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State (IS)?

Answer of Answer of Q.35Q.35Turkey

Question-36Question-36Legendary Indian boxer M.C. Mary Kom

won a historic Asian Games gold medal on 1 October 2014 to become the first Indian woman boxer to win an Asian Games gold medal. She defeated Kazakhstan’s Zhaina Shekerbekova 2-0. Mary Kom won this gold in which weight category?

Answer of Answer of Q.36Q.36 Women’s flyweight category

(48-51kg)

Question-37Question-37Indian women’s relay team won

gold medal in which event athletics event at 17th Asian Games on 2 October 2014?

Answer of Answer of Q.37Q.374X400 m relay event