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Current Affairs Questions & Answers For General Knowledge Today

Q1. Who has won the 2016 United States Grand Prix?
(a) Nico Rosberg
(b) Daniel Ricciardo
(c) Sebastian Vettel
(d) Fernando Alonso
(e) Lewis Hamilton

Q2. Name the doctors, Who have been selected for the prestigious Dr B C Roy Award for excellence in the field of medicine?
(a) Randeep Guleria
(b) C S Yadav
(c) Sandip Singh 
(d) Both (a) and (b)
(e) Both (b) and (c)

Q3. ____________ is celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948.
(a) 21st October 
(b) 22nd October
(c) 24th October
(d) 25th October
(e) 20th October

Q4. Name the person, who was a 1960s anti-war activist and one of the era's most prominent, counter-culture radicals has died recently?
(a) Mehar Mittal
(b) Tom Hayden
(c) Mewa Ramgobin
(d) Kigeli V Ndahindurwa
(e) Aaron Pryo

Q5. Which among the following companies has launched its first cybersecurity engagement center in India in the heart of Delhi, which will help the government and the private sector organisations to deal with cyber attacks?
(a) Microsoft
(b) Google
(c) Facebook
(d) Apple
(e) Dell

Q6. Which state government has signed an agreement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore to promote innovation in financial services in their respective markets?
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Madhya Pradesh
(d) Himachal Pradesh
(e) Arunachal Pradesh

Q7. Which among the following police has celebrated its 55th raising day on 24th October, 2016?
(a) Assam Rifles police
(b) Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(c) Delhi Police
(d) India- China Border Police
(e) None of the above

Q8. Who was sacked as Chairman of India's largest conglomerate Tata Group and replaced by his predecessor Ratan Tata in the interim?
(a) Phiroz Vandrevala
(b) Natarajan Chandrasekaran
(c) Cyrus Mistry
(d) Aarthi Subramanian
(e) None of the above


Q9. The Union Govt has signed $650-mn loan agreement with the ________ for construction of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC)-III project.
(a) NDB
(b) IMF
(c) ADB
(d) World Bank
(e) AIIB


Q10. PM Narendra Modi has recently launched a 1,500-km-long gas pipeline costing Ra 51,000 cr called “Urja Ganga” in the city of
(a) Ahmedabad
(b) Lucknow
(c) Vadodara
(d) Gorakhpur
(e) Varanasi

Solutions:

S1. Ans.(e)
S2. Ans.(d)
S3. Ans.(c)
S4. Ans.(b)
S5. Ans.(a)
S6. Ans.(a)
S7. Ans.(b)
S8. Ans.(c)
S9. Ans.(d)
S10. Ans.(e)