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1) Name the Indian player who on 15 October
2015 retired from all forms of international and first-class Cricket? - Zaheer Khan
2) Who on 13 October 2015 won the 2015 Man
Booker Prize for Fiction? - Marlon
James
3) Name the third India-Sri Lanka joint
training exercise, which culminated on 12 October 2015 at Aundh Military Camp,
Pune? - Mitra Shakti-2015
4) Who recently defeated Rafael Nadal to
win 2015 China Open Men’s Singles title? - Novak
Djokovic
5) Who was on 12 October 2015 elected as
the new Prime Minister of Nepal? - KP
Sharma Oli
6) Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indian
(TRAI) on 16 October 2015 made it mandatory for mobile service providers (MSPs)
to compensate consumers call drops with effect from? - 1 January 2016
7) World Food Day (WFD) was observed across
the world on 16 October 2015 with the theme? - Social
Protection and Agriculture
8) The five-judge Constitutional Bench of
Supreme Court (SC) in a collective order on 16 October 2015 ruled that ____th
Constitutional Amendment Act and the National Judicial Appointments Commission
(NJAC) Act, 2014 is unconstitutional and void? - 99th
9) Country’s prestigious DRDO Missile
Complex in which city was on 15 October 2015 renamed as Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
Missile Complex? – Hyderabad
10) India, United States and Japan on 14
October 2015 began the five-day ____ exercise 2015 on the Eastern Coast in
which several warships, aircraft carriers and fast attack submarine will be
participating? – Malabar
11) Marlon James on 13 October 2015 won the
2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his book? - A
Brief History of Seven Killings
12) Who was chosen as 'Finance Minister of
the Year, Asia' by London-based publication Emerging Markets in October 2015? -
Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister
of India
13) Name the joint military exercise
between India and China which started at Kunming Military Academy, Yunnan
Province, China on 12 October 2015? - Hand-in-Hand
2015
14) Who won the 2015 Formula 1 Russian
Grand Prix title? - Lewis
Hamilton
15) Name the Indian badminton player who on
11 October 2015 won the 2015 Dutch Open Men’s Singles badminton title? - Ajay Jayaram
16) Who won women’s singles title of China
Open 2015? - Garbine
Muguruza of Spain
17) Sania Mirza and along with whom on 10
October 2015 won women's doubles title of the China Tennis Open 2015? - Martina Hingis
18) International Day for the Eradication
of Poverty was observed globally on 17 October 2015 with the theme? - Building a sustainable future: Coming together to
end poverty and discrimination
19) Aditya Birla Group on 16 October 2015
launched a new online fashion store named? - Abof.com
20) Name the birthplace of Dr. Abdul Kalam,
which was included as the 498th town under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and
Urban Transformation (AMRUT)? – Rameswaram
21) Which state on 13 October 2015 launched
the mobile app mSehat for health workers to record maternal and infant data in
real-time? - Uttar
Pradesh
22) Who on 13 October 2015 took over the
charge of Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
state-owned Bank of Baroda? - PS
Jayakumar
23) Which state government recently banned
drug Ketoprofen to save vultures? - Tamil
Nadu
24) Who recently became first Indian female
bodybuilder to win silver in Asian body building championship? - Shweta Rathore
25) Which team on 11 October 2015 claimed
the Beighton Cup hockey tournament? - Punjab
National Bank (PNB)
26) Who was recently elected as Fiji's
President? - Jioji
Konrote
27) Who was on 16 October 2015 appointed as
the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of state-run oil marketer Hindustan
Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) with effect from April 2016? - MK Surana
28) President Pranab Mukherjee on 15
October 2015 concluded his 3-nation tour to? - Jordan,
Palestine and Israel
29) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 15
October 2015 formed a single Financial Inclusion Fund (FIF) with a corpus of
____ crore rupees? - 2000
crore
30) Who was on 16 October 2015 unanimously
elected as the House speaker of Nepal? - Onsari
Gharti Magar
31) Who was on 14 October 2015 appointed as
Executive Chairman of Twitter? - Omid
Kordestani
32) Name the Indian national who was on 14
October 2015 appointed as the Assistant Director of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Regional Representative for Asia and the
Pacific? - Kundhavi
Kadiresan
33) Marlon James on 13 October 2015 won the
2015 Man Booker Prize belongs to which country? – Jamaica
34) Who was on 12 October 2015 appointed as
the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Infosys? - Ranganath
Dwarakanath Mavinakere
35) Who on 11 October 2015 won Belarusian
presidential elections? - Alexander
Lukashenko
36) Name the legendary Tamil actress who popularly
known by her stage name Manorama who died on 10 October 2015? – Gopishantha
37) Fourth International Day of the Girl
Child (IDGC) was observed across the world on 11 October 2015 with the theme? -
The Power of Adolescent Girl:
Vision for 2030
38) Reliance Power on 13 October 2015
appointed ______ as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO)? - N Venugopala Rao
39) Which country on 13 October 2015
operationalised the Zam hydropower station on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet
Autonomous Region? – China
40) Name the Special train launched by
Union Government on 15 October 2015 from Safderjung Railway Station in New
Delhi? - Science Express
Climate Action Special (SECAS)
41) Name the renowned Malayalam filmmaker
who was on 12 October 2015 was awarded with the prestigious J.C. Daniel Award
for the year 2014? - I.V. Sasi
42) Which state government on 13 October
2015 launched Bill Banvao, Inaam Pao scheme to encourage people to receive or
demand proper bills for purchases? - Delhi
1) Who was on
20 December 2015 crowned Miss Universe 2015? - Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach
