Persons in News Current Affairs Quiz - October 2016

1. __________ Minister Rajnath Singh visited Bahrain ?

Home Finance Road, Transport and Highways External Affairs None of These

2. A new frog species that resembles Graceful tree frog (Litoria Gracilenta), discovered in ___________‚„s Queensland ?

UK Russia Australia USA None of These

3. Arnab Goswami resigned as Editor-in-Chief of _________ ?

India TV NDTV BBC Times Now None of These

4. __________'s Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Nasrul Hamid visited India. ?

Sri Lanka Pakistan Nepal Afghanistan Bangladesh

5. Bengaluru's Kieren Dsouza became first Indian to complete Spartathlon, described as the world‚„s toughest race. She completed 246.6 km distance in 33 hours, one minute and 38 seconds. Spartathlon is an annual run between Athens and Sparta in __________, with a reported success rate of 50%. ?

Russia USA Greece UK None of These

6. _________ noted Footballer Carlos Alberto passed away. ?

Brazilian Russian Portugese Spanish None of These

7. ___________ Olymic Champion Jessica Ennis-Hill retired from athletics. ?

Russian British American Polish None of These

8. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited Oslo (__________) for mini Ministerial gathering of Trade Ministers. ?

Norway USA UK Russia None of These

9. Finance Minister ________ visited USA and Canada ?

Arun Jaitley Nitin Gadkari Home Road, Transport and Highways None of These

10. First Woman Chief Minister of _________, Shashikala Kakodkar passed away ?

Gujarat Andhra Pradesh Maharashtra Goa None of These

11. ____________'s Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Alexander Dobrindt visited India ?

USA Russia Spain Germany None of These

12. Government will commemorate birth centenary of social activist and former RSS leader ____________ from October 11, 2016 to October 11, 2017. ?

Mohan Bhagwat Nanaji Deshmukh K. B. Hedgewar Laxman Vaman Paranjpe None of These

13. Indian Air Force Chief _________ Visited Russia ?

Bikram Singh Sunil Lanba D K Jain Dalbir Singh Suhaag Arup Raha

14. Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari visited ____________ (Central Europe) and Algeria ( North Africa). India and ___________ signed two MoUs, including one on water management. India and Algeria will form a multi-billion dollar joint venture for establishing a fertilizer plant in Algeria ?

Hungary Austria Czech Republic Croatia None of These

15. Indian mountaineer _________ scaled world‚„s 6th highest mountain Cho Oyu (8188 metres), at China Tibet border. Arjun has climbed five of the 14 highest mountains in the world that tower over 8000 metres ?

Geeta Phogat Bachendri Pal Arunima Sinha Arjun Vajpai None of These

16. India‚„s largest conglomerate Tata Sons removed ________________ as Chairman. Board replaced him with his predecessor Ratan Tata as interim chairman for four months. Mistry had shortest tenure as Chairman so far at the group. ?

Ishaat Hussain N Chandrasekaran Cyrus Pallonji Mistry Shiv Nadar None of These

17. _________ Prince Mikasa (uncle of Emperor Akihito) passed away. He was oldest imperial family member in world. ?

Chinese Japanese Vietnamese Cambodian None of These

18. Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, Last king of ________ passed away ?

Uganda Rwanda Uruguay Paraguay None of These

19. King of _________, Bhumibol Adulyadej passed away after 70 years reign ?

Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand None of These

20. Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences _________ visited USA for White House Arctic Science Ministerial meeting ?

Harsh Vardhan Nityin Gadkari Rajnath Singh Sushma Swaraj None of These

 

21. _____________ government declared 90 year old Lalbiakthanga Pachuau as oldest working journalist in India ?

Mizoram Manipur Nagaland Assam None of These

22. _________ Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu visited India ?

Serbian Nigerian Danish Polish None of These

23. Nobel prizewinning _________ Actor Dario Fo passed away ?

Russian Polish Swiss Italian None of These

24. Noted ________ boxer Aaron Pryorpassed away ?

Danish Russian Swiss British American

25. Noted ____________ Mountaineer Junko Tabei passed away. She was first woman to climb world‚„s highest peak - Mount Everest ?

Russian Chinese Japanese Swiss None of These

26. Recenly passed away local actors - Raj Begum (________ singer), Heisnam Kanhailal (Manipuri theatre legend), Mehar Mittal (Punjabi Actor)?

Kashmiri Manipuri Assamese Punjabi None of These

27. Noted _____ Social Activist (Particularly Anti - Vietnam War Activist), Tom Hayden Passed Away ?

Russian USA Denmark Poland None of These

28. Noted writer and litterateur from _______, Dayanand Anant passed away. ?

Himachal Pradesh Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Manipur None of These

29. Prime Minister of New Zealand, ______________ visited India. India and New Zealand signed three agreements in the areas of double taxation avoidance (DTAA), sports and food security ?

Malcolm Turnbull Vladimir Putin Lars Lokke Rasmussen Angela Merkel John Key

30. Prime Minister of __________, Lee Hsien Loong visited India ?

Vietnam China Singapore Japan None of These

31. Rishi Jaitly resigned as ____________'s India head ?

Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter None of These

32. ______ Defence Minister Sergey Shoiguv visited India f0r 16th Intergovernmental Commission Meet on Military-Technical Cooperation ?

Serbian Russian American Swiss None of These

33. _________ Gandhian Activist Mewa Ramgobin passed away ?

South African Cambodian Bangladeshi Russian None of These

34. ________ Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe visited India ?

Mauritius Vietnam Russian American Sri Lankan

35. ____________, Chief of Indian Navy visited Myanmar. ?

Bikram Singh Sunil Lanba Arup Raha Ranbir Singh None of These

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