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Current Affairs Quiz

1) Name the Controversial Bharatiya Janata Party MP who compared Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan to Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai carnage.
Answer.  Yogi Adityanath

2) Name the Congress former MP and candidate for the ongoing Lok Sabha by-election who has been taken into custody in connection with suspicious death of his daughter-in-law Sarika and her three kids.
Answer. Sircilla Rajaiah

3) Name the climate scientist who resigned from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), alleging that the organisation treated her in the “worst possible manner” and harmed her “mentally, professionally and economically”.
Answer. R.K. Pachauri

4) Name the Popular Telugu comedian who passed away recently.
Answer. Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao

5) Who is the Bollywood star who made it to the final nomination in the Favourite Actress in a New TV Series category of People’s Choice Awards 2016?
Answer. Priyanka Chopra

6) Social media giant Facebook will help which company in setting up 100 WiFi sites in rural areas of western and southern India?
Answer. BSNL

7) According to a new study, which Ocean will experience an additional two months of open water each year by the 2050s?
Answer. Arctic Ocean

8) To curb crimes against women travellers, Railways said an all-India mobile application service will be launched through which immediate help from which force could be availed?
Answer. Railway Protection Force

9) Which space station has completed 15 years of continuous human presence and to mark the event NASA has released an official ‘country song’ that describes the epic journey recently on 2nd November?
Answer. The International Space Station (ISS)

10) Who has resigned from the post of Indian Premier League Chief Operating Officer (COO)?
Answer. Sundar Raman

11) Name the Pakistani all-rounder who will retire from test cricket after the third test against England.
Answer. Shoaib Malik