1. India's first Dolphin Community Reserve Will
be established in which state?
Ans: West Bengal
2. Which writer from Belarus won the 2015 Nobel
Prize for Literature?
Ans: Svetlana Alexievich
3. Name the newly elected chairman of
Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC)?
Ans: Hoesung Lee
4. Alexander Lukashenko was reelected President
of which country for a fifth term?
Ans: Belarus. He has been the president of the
country since 1994.
5. Which Bollywood music director and lyricist,
known for the movies such as Geet Gaata Chal, Chor Machaye Shor, Ram Teri Ganga
Maili etc?
Ans: Ravindra Jain
6. China opetationalised which arge dam built by
China on the Brahmaptura river in the Tibet Autonomous Region?
Ans: Zam
7. Which group of civil society organisations
won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize?
Ans: National Dialogue Quartet (Tunisia)
8. The 2015 Malabar Naval Exercise held in the
Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean involves which countries?
Ans: India, United States and Japan
9. Which Indian left arm pace bowler announced
his retirement from international cricket recently?
Ans: Zaheer Khan
10. Which Indian was selected for this year's
Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award?
Ans: Kailash Satayarthi
11. Indian Air Force Day was celebrated on:
Ans: 8th October
12. Which team won the Beighton Cup Hockey
tournament?
Ans: Punjab National Bank
13. Where was the 2015 annual meeting of the IMF
and the World Bank held?
Ans: Lima, Peru
14. Which Indian musician has been named
Cultural Ambassador for Seychelles?
Ans: A R Rahman
15. Which Tamil actress, who acted in more than
1500 films, passed away recently?
Ans: Manorama
16. Dr. N. Ramani, who passed away recently, was
a maestro in which musical instrument?
Ans: Flute
17. Nobel Memorial Wall, containing portraits
and information of Indian Nobel laureates, was inaugurated in which Delhi Metro
Station?
Ans: Rajiv Chowk Station
18. Who won the Russian Grand Prix Formula One
race?
Ans: Lewis Hamilton
19. Who is the new chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission?
Ans: Shekhar Basu
20. Which Indian won the 2015 Dutch Open Grand
Prix badminton tournament?
Ans: Ajay Jayaram
21. Name the new Prime Minister of Nepal?
Ans: K P Sharma Oli
22. Ranganath D Mavinakere was elected Chief
Financial Officer of which company?
Ans: Infsoys
23. Who won the 2015 Economics Nobel Prize?
Ans: Angus Deaton
24. Tamil Nadu state government has banned
Ketoprofen, an anti-inflammatory drug, to save which bird from extinction?
Ans: Vultuie
25. Which Jamaican novelist won the 2015 Man
Booker Prize, for his book, A Brief History of Seven Killings?
Ans: Marlon James
26. Which NASA spacecraft revealed that Pluto
has blue skies water?
Ans: New Horizon
27. What is the name given to the bilateral
cricket series between India and South Africa?
Ans: Mahatma Gandhi-Nelson Mandela Series
28. Name the trophy to be awarded to the winners
of the India South Africa test series? '
Ans: Freedom Trophy
29. Name the counter-terrorism drills recently
held between India and China?
Ans: Hand-in-Hand
Ans: 9th October
F World Egg Day was also
observed on October 9.
F World Mental Health Day
was observed on 10th October.
F International Day of the Girl Child was observed on 11th October.
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