Wednesday 29 October 2014

October Current Affairs Quiz 2014:-

Here is the Top 30 Current Affairs Quiz of October 2014 has been developed to help the students prepare on varied topics of current affairs. The quizzes have been prepared keeping in mind the requirements of various competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, Banking, MBA and others.

Top 30 Current Affairs Questions of October 2014:-

1. Who is appointed as new chairman of Prasar Bharti?
Ans- Surya Prakash

2. Which one of the following named as Most valuable player in Asian Games?
Ans-Mary Kom

3. Who is appointed as new Chief Economic Advisior?
Ans- Arvind Subramanium

4. Which Best Bank Award for Business Intelligence Initiatives among small banks?
Ans-Karur Vysya Bank

5. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was observed on..........?
Ans- 17 October 2014

6. Which Bollywood actor appointed as UNICEF goodwill Ambassador for South Asia?
Ans-Amir Khan

7. Who has won Man Booker Prize 2014?
Ans- Richard Flanagan (Australia)- Noble(The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

8. According to Sixth economic census, which state has highest number of Hired workers?
Ans- Arunachal Pradesh
9. Which Bank launched Facebook based money transfer platform kaypay?
Ans- Kotak Mahindra Bank

10. Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2014 report released, What is India's Position in it?
Ans- 55 (out of 120 countries)

11. Who has won the 2014 economics Nobel Prize ?
Ans- French economist Jean Tirole

12. Which International Organisation Launches Global Infrastructure Fund to cater the needs of emerging economies and developing Countries?
Ans World Bank

13. Who won Best Central Bank Governor Award by euro-money?
Ans- Raghuram Rajan

14. Who has been honoured with National Kishore Kumar Award for 2012-13?
Ans-Sameer

15. New Chief Minister of Maharashtra?
Ans- Devendra Fadnavis

16. 10th Edition of World Islamic Economic Forum held at- ?
Ans- Dubai

17. Who has appointed as New Product Chief of Google?
Ans- Sundar Pichai

18. Who has been re-elected as Brazil Prime Minister?
Ans- Dilma Rousseff

19. Who won the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize 2014 ?
Ans- gynaecologist Denis Mukwege Mukengere

20. Who creates record of maximum victory margin in Lok Sabha elections ?
Ans- Pritam Munde (Gopinath Munde’s second daughter)

21. India was re-elected to which council of UN? 
Ans- United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the period of 2015 to 2017.

22. Who is Appointed as Prime Minister of Yemen?
Ans- Khaled Bahah

23. Who has won legislative assembly elections for the 11th time to become longest serving MLA in India?
Ans- Ganpatrao Deshmukh

24. Organisation headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi is.....?
Ans- Bachpan Bachao Andolan

25. Who has been won the  Noble Prize for Peace?
Ans- Kailash Satyarthi(India) and Malala Yousafzai(Pakistan)

26. Who has been won the  Noble Prize for Literature?
Ans- French writer Patrick Modiano

27. Who has been won the Noble Prize for chemistry?
Ans- Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy."

28. WWho has been won the Noble Prize for Physics?
Ans- Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and American Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel prize for Physics for inventing a new energy efficient and environmentally friendly light source, the LED.

29. Who has been won the  Noble prize for Medicine?
Ans- John O Keefe, May‐Britt Moser and Edvard I Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

30. What is India's Rank in most desirable place to work?
Ans- 18th (US tops the list)

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