Current Affairs October 2016 - Online Quiz



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Q 1 - The Union Government has approved projects worth _________________ under the Heritage Infrastructure Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY scheme).

A - Rs. 70 crores

B - Rs. 100 crores

C - Rs. 113 crores

D - Rs. 114 crores

Answer : D

Q 2 - The Government has registered 250 mandis of ten states with the e-trading platform under the ‘E-NAM’. What does E-NAM stand for?

A - electronic-National Agriculture Market

B - electronic-National Aeronautics Missionary

C - electronic-North-indian Agricultural Market

D - electronic-Nation Agri Market

Answer : A

Q 3 - The International Buddhist Conclave-2016, which was officially inaugurated on the 2nd of October, 2016 in New Delhi, opened its first session in ______________.

A - Uttar Pradesh

B - Gujarat

C - Goa

D - Kathmandu

Answer : A

Q 4 - Who has been elected as the President of the International Gymnastics Federation?

A - Georges Guelzec

B - Bruno Grandi

C - Morinari Watanabe

D - Both a and c

Answer : C

Q 5 - Who won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2016?

A - Jean-Pierre Sauvage

B - Sir J. Fraser Stoddart

C - Bernard L. Feringa

D - All the above

Answer : D

Q 6 - Which of the following countries successfully launched a spacecraft carrying two astronauts, in its longest-ever manned space mission?

A - South Korea

B - China

C - Japan

D - USA

Answer : B

Q 7 - The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the first edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit on the theme _______________________.

A - Beyond 2015: People, Planet and Profit

B - Sustainable development and progress

C - Beyond 2015: People, Planet and Progress

D - Beyond 2016: People, Planet and Success

Answer : C

Q 8 - Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016?

A - David J. Thouless

B - F. Duncan M. Haldane

C - Both a and b

D - None

Answer : C

Q 9 - The first ever trade fair of the BRICS countries got underway in _____________.

A - New Delhi

B - Goa

C - Lucknow

D - Hyderabad

Answer : A

Q 10 - ________________ state announced to observe 2017 as the "Garib Kalyan Varsh every year?

A - Kashmir

B - Haryana

C - Uttar Pradesh

D - Uttar Pradesh

Answer : B

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