Current Affairs Quiz – October 2015

Current Affairs Quiz- MCQ

Current Affairs Quiz for UPSC, SSC, IBPS, SBI, Bank PO etc. Below are the Current Affairs MCQs based on the current news in the month of October 2015. Practice these Current Affairs questions and score higher in competitive exams. The questions are in the Multiple Choice Objective type with four options. Click on ‘Show Answer’ to view the right answer.

1) Google has announced to form a new
parent company Called

  1. GOOGL
  2. Google X
  3. Google Ventures
  4. Alphabet

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2) Who is The New BCCI President ?

  1. N Srinivasan
  2. Ravi Shashtri
  3. Shashank mahohar
  4. Anurag Thakur

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3) According to the World Bank, the number of people living in extreme poverty will fall below _______ percent in 2015.

  1. 12%
  2. 10%
  3. 11%
  4. 9%

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4) Which is the poorest country in the world ?

  1. Democratic Republic of the Congo
  2. Zimbabwe
  3. Burundi
  4. Liberia

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of the Congo
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5) The International Day of No Prostitution is celebrated every year on

  1. October 1
  2. October 3
  3. October 5
  4. October 7

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6) Recently NASA confirmed that there is flowing water on

  1. Moon
  2. Saturn
  3. Venus
  4. Mars

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7) Name India’s first satellite dedicated for astronomy research .

  1. Aryabhatta
  2. Astrosat
  3. Sputnik
  4. INSAT

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8) The single emergency number proposed by
the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is

  1. 109
  2. 100
  3. 110
  4. 112

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9) The country with the most amount of debt is

  1. a) JAPAN
  2. b) GREECE
  3. c) ITALY
  4. d) PORTUGAL

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10) Who discovered isolating bacteria called
Streptomyces ?

  1. William C Campbell
  2. Youyou Tu
  3. Satoshi Omura
  4. none of these

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