Current affairs : November quiz 2015 (One word) -3

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1. India will host G20 summit in ......... ?

Ans- 2018 (2016 to China and in 2017 Germany)

2. Recently, which country has been severely affected by Super typhoon Dujuan?

Ans- China

3. Which country has been ranked number one in the recently launched ICC women.s team ranking?

Ans-Australia

4. Who won the Lata Mangeshkar Award for Lifetime Achievement?

Ans-Prabhakar Jog

5. Which country / territory flag was raised at United Nations for the first time in october?

Ans- Palestine

6. Who has been honoured by UK city of Coventry for his contributions to the West Midlands region of 
central England ?

Ans- Ratan Tata

7. The International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) was observed across the world with the theme 
Sustainability and Age Inclusiveness in the Urban Environment ?

Ans- 1 October 2015

8. Which country has launched 20th new generation satellite into space as part of its domestic BeiDou 
Navigation System (BDS) ?

Ans- China

9. World Vegetarian Day was observed on........?

Ans- 1 October 2015

10. What is the Full form of FATCA?

Ans- foreign account tax compliance act

11. Who was appointed as BCCI President ?

Ans-Shashank Manohar

12. Who has won the 2015 Right Livelihood Award ?

Ans-Inuit and Arctic activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier of Canada

13. Who has emerged as world.s largest cotton producer ?

Ans- India

14. Which State government Launches Citizen Portal to submit on-line complaints to the police stations 
through internet ?

Ans- Odisha

15. Brian Friel, who died recently, was a greatest playwright belongs to which country?

Ans- Ireland

16. Who will provide 120 million dollars loan to upgrade the India-Bangladesh electricity network?

Ans- Asian Development Bank (ADB)

17. Which Bank has become the first institution worldwide to launch m-Visa, a card-less and device-
less solution to make the payments ?

Ans- ICICI Bank

18. Who has assumed additional charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of Steel Authority of 
India Limited (SAIL) ?

Ans- Dr Anup K Pujari

19. India's first solar powered district court inaguratedby Prime Minister at which place ?

Ans- Khunti, Jharkhand

20. Who was appointed as CFO of flipkart for commerce platform ?

Ans- Sriram Venkataraman

21. Who have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of neutrino oscillations ?

Ans- Japan's Takaaki Kajita and American Arthur B. McDonald

22. Who have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine-2015 ?

Ans- one half jointly to William C Campbell (Ireland) and Satoshi Omura (Japan) for their discoveries 
concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites and the other half to 
Youyou Tu (China) for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria.

23. DRDO inaugurated world‟s highest Research Centre at which Place ?

Ans- Chang La, Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir at 17600 feet

24. Who won the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Championship ?

Ans-China by defeating the Philippines

25. Edida Nageswara Rao passed away recently. Who is he ?

Ans- Renowned Telugu Cinema Producer

26. Asian Development Bank (ADB) give around Rs. 1,500 crore ($ 240 million) for skill development to which State ?

Ans- Madhya Pradesh

27. Nabard sanctions Rs. 2,112 cr loan to Gujarat under RIDF. What is the Full form of RIDF ?

Ans- Rural Infrastructure Development Fund

28. Who allowed terminally ill patients to legally end their lives under a doctor.s supervision ?

Ans- California

29. Who was appointed as permanent CEO of Twitter ?

Ans- Jack Dorsey

30. What is the name of a torpedo launch and recovery vessel that commissioned recently ?

Ans- INS Astradharini