Current Affairs Questions & Answers - Oct 21, 2015

03:12

1) Scientists have discovered which innovation that could be used to design prosthetic limbs with the sense of touch?

a. Plastic limbs
b. Plastic skin
c. Rubber limbs
d. Rubber skin

ANSWER: Plastic skin

2) 17th October is celebrated as International Day for Eradication of __________.

a. Slavery
b. Illiteracy
c. Poverty
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Poverty

3) Which state government has signed 2 MoUs with Chinese companies on 17th October 2015?

a. AP
b. MP
c. UP
d. Telangana

ANSWER: Telangana

4) New data from the Office of the Registrar General of India has found that there are ______ females for every 1000 males in 2013.

a. 888
b. 898
c. 900
d. 910

ANSWER: 898

5) Taxi aggregator Ola has hired which previous Infosys executive ___________ as its new finance head.

a. Rajiv Bansal
b. U.B. Pravin Rao
c. Srikantan Moorty
d. David D. Kennedy

ANSWER: Rajiv Bansal

6) Which country shut down its border with Croatia to prevent free flow of migrants on 17th October 2015?

a. Germany
b. Slovenia
c. Hungary
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Hungary

7) Principal bench of the NGT has lifted a stay on sand mining in which state?

a. MP
b. UP
c. Odisha
d. Rajasthan

ANSWER: MP

8) Which Nobel Peace Prize winner has been conferred with the Harvard University prestigious humanitarian award for 2015?

a. Mala Yousafzai
b. Kailash Satyarthi
c. Tawakkul Karmon
d. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

ANSWER: Kailash Satyarthi

9) Which tropical storm has intensified in the eastern Pacific Ocean on 17th October 2015?

a. Olaf
b. Sven
c. Viktor
d. None of the above

ANSWER: Olaf

10) Who has been appointed as CMD of HPCL on 16th October 2015?

a. PK Joshi
b. SP Gupta
c. MK Surana
d. GS Ganesh

ANSWER: MK Surana