Current Affairs Questions & Answers - Sept 23, 2015

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1) Which well known Malayalam playback singer passed away on 20th September 2015 on account of cancer?

a. Radhika Thale
b. Anumppamma
c. Maduh Balakrishnan
d. P. Leela

ANSWER: Radhika Thale

2) Which well known BCCI president recently passed away at the age of 75 on 20th September 2015?

a. Jagmohan Dalmiya
b. Sunil Gavaskar
c. N. Srinivasan
d. Raj Singh Durgarpur

ANSWER: Jagmohan Dalmiya

3) Which TOI editor recently passed away on 20th September 2015?

a. Sumit Sen
b. H. K Dua
c. K. S. Jayaraman
d. Coomi Kapoor

ANSWER: Sumit Sen

4) Which party in Greek national elections has won the mandate to form government for the second time in 2015, on 21st September 2015?

a. Left wing Syriza party
b. Far Right Golden Dawn
c. New Democracy
d. Nationalist Independent Greeks

ANSWER: Left wing Syriza party

5) Which renowned Urdu scholar 20 September 2015 was honoured with the Jnangarima Manad Alankaran by Bharatiya Jnanpith in New Delhi?

a. Gulzar
b. Shamim Hanfi
c. Javed Akhtar
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Shamim Hanfi

6) President Pranab Mukerjee on 19 September 2015 presented the National Tourism Award 2013-2014 to which city for being the Best Heritage City?

a. Gwalior, MP
b. Varanasi, UP
c. Cuttack, Odisha
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Gwalior, MP

7) The US Internal Revenue Service thinks bitcoin is property; a federal judge thinks it's a currency. What has the Commodity Futures Trading Commission decreed it as?

a. Property
b. Currency
c. Commodity
d. Futures

ANSWER: Commodity