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October Current Affairs (MCQ) October Current Affairs (MCQ) No. of Question -100 (c) Narendra Modi (d) Manmohan Singh 1. Which of the following observatory of NASA has 11. The India-US two plus two Ministerial Dialogue was discovered Water On A Sunlit Surface Of The Moon? which edition of the annual event? (a) Heliosphere (b) NasCom (a) Second (b) Third (c) SOFIA (d) Molave (c) Fourth (d) Sixth 2. Six year-old Anzar Mustaeen Ali from which country has 12. Naresh Kanodia, who passed away recently was a won the Global Art Competition conducted by ICCR? veteran actor of which film industry? (a) Pakistan (b) Bangladesh (a) Bengali (b) Marathi (c) Sri Lanka (d) Vietnam (c) Gujarati (d) Odia 3. On the lines of IPL cricket, a unique Plastic Premier 13. Indian-origin Wavel Ramkalawan has been appointed League (PPL) tournament is being played in which city in as the President of which country? order to free the city from single use plastic? (a) Sri Lanka (b) Mauritius (a) Bhopal (b) Chandigarh (c) Maldives (d) Seychelles (c) Indore (d) Pune 14. Which among the following corporations has topped 4. Name the secure messaging application launched by the Forbes list of World’s Best Employer 2020? Indian Army as a messaging application is similar to (a) Microsoft (b) Amazon Telegram and WhatsApp. (c) Samsung (d) Google (a) SAI (b) SecureMessage (c) GIMS (d) Samvad 15. Every year, India observes the Vigilance Awareness Week. The week is observed as a tribute to which leader? 5. Who among the following has been appointed as new (a) Jawaharlal Nehru Chief Information Commissioner of India? (b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (a) Bimal Zulka (c) Subhas Chandra Bose (b) Rajat Kumar (d) Atal Bihari Vajpayee (c) Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha (d) Uday Mahurkar 16. Which Indian company has topped the India list of Forbes World’s Best Employer 2020? 6. A book titled “Night of the Restless Spirits: Stories from (a) Wipro (b) TCS 1984” authored by _________. (c) HCL Technologies (d) Infosys (a) Khushwant Singh (b) Salman Rushdie (c) Arundhati Roy (d) Sarbpreet Singh 17. Famous Gujarati film musician, singer and former Parliamentarian from Patan _________ passed away. 7. Which of the following state recently fix the floor price (a) Mahesh Kanodia (b) Ramesh Singh for vegetables? (c) Rishab Verma (d) Mathura Das (a) West Bengal (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Karnataka (d) Kerala 18. Pakistan is currently under which list of FATF for being non-cooperative in the global fight against money 8. Aditya Puri has stepped down as the MD & CEO of HDFC laundering and terrorist financing? Bank. Who has been appointed to replace Puri as the new (a) Grey (b) Brown MD & CEO? (c) Blue (d) Black (a) Malay Patel (b) Kaizad Bharucha (c) Sashidhar Jagdishan (d) Sandeep Parekh 19. The longest temple ropeway project of the world has been inaugurated in which state of India? 9. Which day of the year is observed as the Infantry Day (a) Rajasthan (b) Gujarat by the Indian Army every year? (c) Kerala (d) Himachal Pradesh (a) October 27 (b) October 28 (c) October 26 (d) October 25 20. PM Modi has inaugurated the Paediatric Heart 10. The Government has set up a high-level committee to Hospital, which is India’s biggest hospital for cardiology. It look into commemoration of the 400th birth anniversary is in which city? of Shri Guru Tegh Bahadur. Who is the head of this (a) Surat (b) Mumbai committee? (c) Bhopal (d) Ahmedabad (a) Amit Shah (b) Rajnath Singh www.studycampus.in 1| Page 022-41237666 STUDY CAMPUS October Current Affairs (MCQ) 21. Which player has won the 2020 Portuguese Grand the series of four indigenously built anti-submarine Prix? warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes for the Indian Navy. (a) Lewis Hamilton (b) Max Verstappen (a) 5th (b) 4th (c) Ricardo Zunino (d) Valtteri Bottas (c) 3rd (d) 2nd 22. Lee Kun-hee, who passed away recently was the 32. Who among the following has been named an Chairman of which of these conglomerate? ‘Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020’? (a) Sony Corporations (b) Huawei (a) Jajini Varghese (b) Rajni Tripathi (c) LG (d) Samsung (c) Rajendra Kaur (d) Preeti Singh 23. Department of Posts (DOP), Ministry of 33. Ace Indian cricketer __________________ has been Communications released a commemorative postage signed up by India’s leading beauty accessories brand, stamp on the ______ anniversary of the United Nations Vega, for its men’s personal grooming electronics range Organisations. under the ‘Vega Men’ brand. (a) 71st (b) 72nd (a) Hardik Pandya (b) Rishabh Pant (c) 75th (d) 74th (c) Virat Kohli (d) Rohit Sharma 24. Which of the following corporation has featured on 34. Recently, Asan Conservation Reserve has become a the top on the list of Indian PSUs under the ‘World’s Best Ramsar site making it a Wetland of International Employer 2020’, published by Forbes? Importance. It is located in which of the following Indian (a) SAIL (b) GAIL State? (c) HPCL (d) NTPC (a) Assam (b) Uttarakhand (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Mizoram 25. Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has observed his 59th raising Day on ____________. 35. Which of the following entity has roped in Priyanka (a) 21st October (b) 22nd October Chopra Jonas as its brand ambassador? (c) 23rd October (d) 24th October (a) Vega (b) LG Electronics 26. Which country has been appointed as the Chair of the (c) Parle Agro Governing Body of International Labour Organization (ILO) (d) Hindustan Unilever Limited for a period till June 2021? (a) Brazil (b) Australia 36. Police Commemoration Day 2020 was observed on? (c) India (d) Russia (a) 21st October (b) 20th October (c) 19th October (d) 18th October 27. When is the United Nations Day celebrated globally? (a) 21 October (b) 22 October (c) 23 October (d) 24 October 37. Who among the following has been named as the brand ambassador of LG signs? 28. Which country has recently joined the IMF as its (a) Fernando Alonso (b) Rafal Nadal 190th member? (c) Roger Fedrer (d) Lewis Hamilton (a) Andorra (b) Armenia (c) Timor-Leste (d) Madagascar 38. Indian Air Force 1st woman officer, Wing Commander (retd) _______________ passed away. 29. Who has been appointed as the new Chairperson of (a) Harita Kaur Deol the Governing Body of the ILO for the period October (b) Vijaylakshmi Ramanan 2020- June 2021? (c) Pooja Thakur (a) Nivedita Shukla Verma (d) Shaliza Dhami (b) Kundan Kumar (c) Apurva Chandra 39. Which of the following state has emerged as the top (d) Krishnendra Pratap Singh destination for attracting the highest number of domestic tourists visiting the state in 2019 as per the Indian Tourism 30. Name the third generation, anti-tank guided missile of Statistics (ITS) 2020? DRDO, whose final user trial was successfully conducted (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Tamil Nadu recently from the Pokhran field firing ranges in Rajasthan. (c) Goa (d) Maharashtra (a) SANT (b) MPATGM (c) NAG (d) Amogha missile 40. In terms of Foreign tourists, ________ has topped the Indian Tourism Statistics 2020 with nearly 68 31. The ‘INS Kavaratti’, which has recently been lakh foreigners visiting the state in 2019. commissioned into the Indian Navy is the __________ in (a) Himachal Pradesh (b) Uttarakhand www.studycampus.in 2| Page 022-41237666 STUDY CAMPUS October Current Affairs (MCQ) (c) Goa (d) Tamil Nadu 52. India successfully conducted the night trial of its nuclear-capable ______ missile, which has been 41. Which country has been invited by India to join the developed by DRDO. trilateral naval exercise “Malabar-2020”, which is (a) Akash-2 (b) Agni-2 conducted annually between India, US and Japan? (c) Prithvi-2 (d) Gagan-2 (a) Australia (b) Israel (c) Russia (d) France 53. Who has been appointed by the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) as the new Chairman for 2020-21 42. Name the air-to-surface anti-tank missile, which was session? tested successfully by the DRDO recently. (a) Dinesh Kumar Khara (a) Amogha Missile (b) SANT Missile (b) SR Mehar (c) Naag Missile (d) Akash Missile (c) Rajnish Kumar (d) Rajkiran Rai G 43. Which of the following has become the First Country to Use Facial Recognition to Pay Taxes? 54. Who is the author of the book “The Battle of (a) Singapore (b) China Belonging”? (c) Germany (d) Japan (a) Shashi Tharoor (b) Subramanian Swamy (c) Sachin Pilot (d) P. Chidambaram 44. Name the telecom company, who recently selected by NASA to build the first cellular network on the moon. 55. Who has been chosen as the new President of the (a) Nokia (b) Apple Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA)? (c) Samsung (d) Redmi (a) Virendra Sehwag (b) Rajat Sharma (c) Gautam Gambhir (d) Rohan Jaitley 45. __________ launches his autobiography ‘Portraits Of Power: Half a Century of Being at Ringside”. 56. India successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic (a) Pawan Goyal (b) NK Singh cruise missile, from the Indian Navy’s indigenously-built (c) Yogesh Tripathi (d) Puran Verma stealth destroyer __________ with the weapon hitting a pre-designated target in the Arabian Sea. 46. Name the player who beat Carolina Marin in (a) INS Satpura (b) INS Shivalik Denmark Badminton Open 2020 to lift women’s single (c) INS Chennai (d) INS Sahyadri title. (a) Sayaka Hirota (b) Yuki Fukushima 57. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has (c) Misaki Matsutomo (d) Nozomi Okuhara approved the extension of the tenure of Home Secretary, _____________ till August 22, 2021. 47. Which country has topped the Asia Power Index 2020? (a) Rahul Karmakar (b) Rajiv Singh (a) Russia (b) Japan (c) Ajay Kumar Bhalla (d) Vishwas Gautam (c) United States (d) Germany 58.
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