Current Affairs : November quiz 2015 (One word) - 7

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1. World Polio Day is observed annually across the world on........?


Ans- 24 October

2. Mada Venkateswara Rao passed away recently. Who is he ?

Ans- Veteran Telugu actor

3. India‟s first AC double-decker Shatabdi train to run on which route?

Ans- Mumbai to Goa

4. Which city is hosting 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit?

Ans- New Delhi

5. Who won 2015 World Drivers‟ Championship (WDC) for third time ?

Ans- Lewis Hamilton

6. Who has won Silver medal in the 2015 Archery World Cup Final in the men‟s individual compound 
section in Mexico ?

Ans- archer Abhishek Verma

7. What is the full form of NDRF ?

Ans- National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)

8. Which State announced to open Sanskrit University for Scheduled Castes ?

Ans- Haryana at at Mundri village

9. Recently which country has been hit by Hurricane Patricia?

Ans- Mexico

10. What is the name of the committee which has been formed to probe the death of a 15 year old Dalit Youth in Gohana, Haryana?

Ans- Amit Bhatia

11. Who was elected as the President of Nepal. She is the first women president of Nepal ?

Ans- Bidhya Devi Bhandari

12. India has been placed at which place among the 189 countries in the recently released World 
Bank‟s 2016 rankings of Ease of Doing Business Report ?

Ans- 130th position (Singapore topped the list)

13. Who has been appointed as the chairman of the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN) of UN 
Security Council Reforms?

Ans-Sylvie Lucas

14. What is the name of Indian Navy and Sri Lankan Navy Joint Naval Exercise held at Trincomalee, Sri 
Lanka ?

Ans- SLINEX

15. who is the head of new panel set up to simplify Income-Tax Act ?

Ans- Justice RV Easwar

16. What is the full form of HRIDAY ?

Ans- Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana

17.Who was elected as New President in Guatemala ?

Ans- Former comedian, Jimmy Morales

18. What was the name of Commission which submitted its report on illegal migrants from Bangladesh 
into Assam ?

Ans- Upamanyu Hazarika

19. WHo released a report entitled Inequality, Uprisings, and Conflict in the Arab World as part of the 
Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) Economic Monitor series ?

Ans- World Bank

20. Which Film was awarded with BNL People‟s Choice Award at the 10th Rome Film Festival held in 
Rome, Italy?

Ans-Director Pan Nalin‟s film, Angry Indian Goddesses

21. Who was selected for New York Global Leaders Dialogue Humanitarian Award ?

Ans- Sociologist and founder of Sulabh International Bindeshwar Pathak

22. Who was appointed as Chairman of Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) ?

Ans- Najib Shah

23. The World Bank hasprojected its growth forecast for India for 2015-16 at .........?

Ans- 7.5 per cent

24. Who was appointed as SBI Managing Director ?

Ans- P K Gupta

25.Which company partnered major insurance companies to offer online premium payments ?

Ans- Paytm

26. Who was awarded 2015 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ?

Ans- Saudi blogger Raif Badawi

27. Who has won the 2015 Tanzanian Presidential election ?

Ans- John Pombe Magufuli

28. What is the name of China‟s first lunar rover who sets record for longest stay on Moon ?

Ans- Yutu

29. Who was elected as the 54th speaker of the US House of Representatives?

Ans- Republican Paul Ryan

30. Who was nominated as a Director to the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India 
(RBI) ?

Ans- Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das

31. The National Unity Day was observed across India on.......?

Ans- 31 October 2015 to commemorate the birthday of Sardar Vallabhai Patel

32. According to the Freedom on the Net 2015 report which country gives maximum freedom to its 
citizen on internet?

Ans- Iceland

33. Which country has successfully launched Tianhui-1C, a third mapping satellite of the Tianhui-1 
series ?

Ans- China

34. Name the China‟s first high-resolution stereo mapping satellite for civilian use?

Ans- Ziyuan III.