oct

Question 1

India’s G20 Sherpa _________________- led an Indian official delegation to the third G20 Sherpa meeting of Indonesia’s G20 Presidency

Answer 1

Shri Amitabh Kant

Question 2

________________ has joined 13 other Pacific nations in signing a wide-reaching US-led partnership agreement

Answer 2

The Solomon Islands

Question 3

World maritime day 2022-
theme?

Answer 3

29th september, “New technologies for greener shipping”.

Question 4

The Telangana government hailed the listing of _________________ by UNSECO

Answer 4

Gollabhama sarees

Question 5

__________ is the Principal Place of Sitting of the Tribunal and Bhopal, Pune, Kolkata and Chennai shall be the other four places of sitting of the Tribunal.

Answer 5

New Delhi

Question 6

LCH PRACHAND is designed, developed and extensively test-flown for over a decade by _______________.

Answer 6

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)

Question 7

Modi to inaugurate UN world geospatial congress 2022 in ___________ city.

Answer 7

Hyderabad

Question 8

The theme for the year’s UN world geospatial congress is _____________________________

Answer 8

“Geo-Enabling the Global Village: No One Should Be Left Behind.”

Question 9

__________– wins the 2022 Nobel Prize for medicine

Answer 9

Svante Paabo

Question 10

The Centre has appointed Justice _______________of the Delhi High Court as the presiding officer of the tribunal for the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), related to the ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its associates.

Answer 10

Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma

Question 11

The 2004 amendment added “terrorist act” to the list of offences to ban organisations for terrorist activities, under which ________-organisations were banned

Answer 11

34

Question 12

Popular Front of India is an Indian Muslim political organisation, that engages in a radical and exclusivist style of Muslim minority politics
and was founded on___________.

Answer 12

22 November 2006

Question 13

what is the motto of the PFI?

Answer 13

Motto: Naya Caravan, Naya Hindustan (New Caravan, New India)

Question 14

Who is the chairman of PFI?

Answer 14

OMA Abdul Salam

Question 15

Who is the general secretary of PFI?

Answer 15

Anis Ahmed

Question 16

Modi declared ____________ in gujarat as India’s first solar powered village

Answer 16

Modhera

Question 17

_________ becomes first state to implement Green Hydrogen Policy

Answer 17

Rajasthan

Question 18

The green hydrogen policy has set a target of ______________ tonnes per annum (MTPA) of green hydrogen production by 2030

Answer 18

5 million

Question 19

India has become the ____country to release a comprehensive Green Hydrogen Policy.

Answer 19

18th

Question 20

India’s ambitious goal of _________by 2022 got an impetus in the 2021-22 budget which allocated Rs. 1500 crore for renewable energy development and NHM.

Answer 20

175 GW (Gigawatts)

Question 21

International Solar Alliance 5th Summit to be held in _____

Answer 21

Delhi

Question 22

International Solar Alliance is headquartered in _______.

Answer 22

Gurugram, Haryana

Question 23

The current director general of the International Solar Alliance is __________.

Answer 23

Ajay Mathur

Question 24

How many members are a part of the International Solar Alliance?

Answer 24

106 member countries out of which 86 have ratified the treaty

Question 25

the WHO announced a link between four pediatric cough syrups from one Indian pharmaceutical company and the deaths of 66 children in_____ from kidney failure.

Answer 25

Gambia

Question 26

name the pharmaceutical company in question of making the cough syrup.

Answer 26

Maiden Pharmaceuticals

Question 27

name the contaminant in the cough syrup that is responsible for the death of 66 children

Answer 27

The products are believed to be contaminated with diethylene glycol and/or ethylene glycol.

Question 28

The WHO was established on _________-

Answer 28

7 April 1948

Question 29

Who is the current director general of WHO

Answer 29

Tedros Adhanom (Ethiopia)

Question 30

India became a party to the WHO on _____________

Answer 30

12 January 1948

Question 31

When is world health day celebrated and what is the theme for 2022?

Answer 31

7th April is celebrated as World Health Day Theme for 2022: Our Planet, Our Health.

Question 32

____ to host the 9th general assembly of INTERPOL

Answer 32

India

Question 33

INS Arihant carried out the successful launch of a _______ Launched Ballistic Missile.

Answer 33

Submarine

Question 34

, INS Arihant was launched in 2009, and after extensive sea trials, was confirmed to be commissioned in August 2016. It is being built at the shipbuilding center in -________________.

Answer 34

Visakhapatnam

Question 35

International Day of Eradication of poverty- __________-

Answer 35

17 Oct

Question 36

President Droupadi Murmu appoints Dr Justice _____________as the 50th CJI of India

Answer 36

DY Chandrachud

Question 37

World’s first nuclear waste tomb is in ___________.

Answer 37

Finland

Question 38

Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021. It was first detected in ____________.

Answer 38

Botswana

Question 39

__________ will be the first state in the country to launch the NEP

Answer 39

Uttrakhand

Question 40

Booker Prize 2022 awarded to Sri Lankan author _____________ for his novel ________________________________.

Answer 40

Shehan Karunatilaka; ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Question 41

The prize was established as the Booker Prize for Fiction after the company Booker, McConnell Ltd began sponsoring the event in _______.

Answer 41

1969

Question 42

The original Booker Prize trophy was designed by the artist ________-.

Answer 42

Jan Pieńkowski

Question 43

The first winner of the Booker Prize was_________ in 1969 for his novel Something to Answer For.

Answer 43

P. H. Newby

Question 44

Former Indian cricketer ____________appointed as the new BCCI chief

Answer 44

Roger Binny

Question 45

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the governing body for cricket in India.Its headquarters are situated at Cricket centre, _______________ in Mumbai.

Answer 45

Wankhede Stadium

Question 46

The world's second oldest cricket club the _______ was founded in 1792 in Calcutta.

Answer 46

'Calcutta Cricket Club

Question 47

Who won the Noble prize for biology?

Answer 47

Svante Paabo a Swedish geneticist, won for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

Question 48

____________ who is Svante Paabo's father won the Noble prize in 1982.

Answer 48

Sune Bergstrom

Question 49

Who won the Noble prize for physics?

Answer 49

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, for their work in quantum technology. (quantum mechanics).

Question 50

Name the two indian scientists who won the Noble prize for physics?

Answer 50

C. V. Raman-1930 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar- 1983

Question 51

Who won the Noble prize for chemistry?

Answer 51

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless shared the award for chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry.

Question 52

Name the only indian scientists who won the Noble prize for chemistry?

Answer 52

Venki Ramakrishnan, 2009

Question 53

Who won the Noble prize in literature?

Answer 53

Annie Ernaux

Question 54

In 1984, she won the _____________ for another of her works La Place (A Man's Place)

Answer 54

Renaudot Prize

Question 55

Name the two Indians who won the Noble prize in literature?

Answer 55

Rabindranath Tagore 1913, Rudyard Kipling 1907

Question 56

Who won the Noble peace prize?

Answer 56

The Nobel Prize for peace was shared by Ales Bialiatski, a jailed Belarusian activist; Memorial, a Russian organization; and the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine.

Question 57

Which organisation won the first Noble peace prize?

Answer 57

Institute of International Law, founded by Gustave Moynier and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, in 1904.

Question 58

Name the two Indians who won the Noble peace prize?

Answer 58

Mother Teresa 1979, Kailash Satyarthi 2014

Question 59

Who won the Noble prize in economics?

Answer 59

The prize for economic science was awarded to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig for their research into banks and financial crises.

Question 60

Name the two Indians who won the Noble prize in Economics?

Answer 60

Amartya Sen 1998, Abhijit Banerjee 2019

Question 61

___________ cave in Meghalaya, one of UNESCO’s ‘First 100 IUGS Geological sites’

Answer 61

Mawmluh cave

Question 62

UNESCO names ________ as World Book Capital for 2024.

Answer 62

Strasbourg

Question 63

_____________wins UNHCR Nansen award for protecting Syrian refugees.

Answer 63

Angela Merkel

Question 64

________emerges as the world's largest producer of sugar overtaking brazil.

Answer 64

India

Question 65

World’s first all-electric plane ________completes maiden flight.

Answer 65

Alicia

Question 66

Nitin Gadkari launches _________ pilot project on flex fuel-strong hybrid EV

Answer 66

Toyota’s

Question 67

______________to be key G20 theme.

Answer 67

‘Soul of India’

Question 68

___________ has received the approval of the Reserve Bank of India to open a special Vostro account with Gazprom Bank of Russia for trade settlement in Indian rupees.

Answer 68

UCO Bank

Question 69

In 1954, the SC held in the ____________case that the term “religion” will cover all rituals and practies “integral” to a religion. The test to determine what is integral is termed the “essential religious practices” test.

Answer 69

Shirur Mutt case

Question 70

The Gati Shakti scheme will subsume Rs.________ National Infrastructure Pipeline that was launched in 2019.

Answer 70

Rs 110 lakh crore

Question 71

Gati shakti has set targets for all infrastructure ministries and the targets to be achieved by ________

Answer 71

2024-25

Question 72

The Living Planet Report is published every 2 years by the _______ for Nature since 1998.

Answer 72

World Wide Fund

Question 73

North Eastern Council: North Eastern Council (NEC) is a statutory advisory body constituted under the North Eastern Council Act 1971 and came into being on 7 November 1972 at ________.

Answer 73

Shillong

Question 74

The current Minister for Development of North Eastern Region is ____________.

Answer 74

G Kishan Reddy

Question 75

The 7th edition of IBSAMAR, a joint multinational maritime exercise, among the Indian, Brazilian and South Africa navies was held at Port Gqeberha also known as ___________.

Answer 75

Port Elizabeth

Question 76

Coal India Ltd (CIL) will set up a 1,190-MW solar power plant in _________________________.

Answer 76

Bikaner district of Rajasthan

Question 77

President Droupadi Murmu Inaugurated the supercomputer ________________ in IIT Guwahati

Answer 77

PARAM KAMRUPA

Question 78

India’s first supercomputer was ________.

Answer 78

PARAM 8000

Question 79

India ranked ___ in the global hunger index and has a score of 29.1 which places it under ‘serious’ category.

Answer 79

107/121

Question 80

________121 ranks at the bottom of the global hunger index.

Answer 80

Yemen

Question 81

World Food Day is an international day celebrated on ________.

Answer 81

October 16th

Question 82

What was the theme for the world food day 2022?

Answer 82

Theme: 2022: "Leave NO ONE behind".

Question 83

Area-wise ________ has the largest forest cover in the country

Answer 83

Madhya Pradesh

Question 84

________had the lowest forest cover with respect to total geographical area in India

Answer 84

Haryana

Question 85

_________- had the most increase in forest cover in the year 2022.

Answer 85

Telangana

Question 86

Together with the WHO, the Republic of Korea is co hosting the first World Bio Summit to take place in _______.

Answer 86

Seoul

Question 87

____________ is the first Asain- American to be featured on the US currency

Answer 87

Anna May Wong

Question 88

Wildlife board approves a new tiger reserve called __________-in Madhya Pradesh

Answer 88

Durgavati tiger reserve

Question 89

Asia's largest compressed bio gas plant inaugurated in _______.

Answer 89

Punjab

Question 90

FATF adds ________ to the list of high risk countries

Answer 90

Myanmar

Question 91

Myanmar is the third to be added to the FATF black list along with __________ and _____.

Answer 91

North Korea, Iran

Question 92

__________, was a British physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine

Answer 92

Edward Jenner

Question 93

Who made the vaccine for rabies?

Answer 93

Louis Pasteur

Question 94

Sputnik V or Gam-COVID-Vac is an adenovirus viral vector vaccine developed by the ________________.

Answer 94

Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia

Question 95

_____________is the first veterinary vaccine against COVID-19. It was developed by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision of Russia

Answer 95

Carnivac-cov

Question 96

The Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID‑19 vaccine, sold under the brand name _________

Answer 96

Covishield

Question 97

______________is an intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Bharat Biotech, American company Precision Virologics and the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, United States.

Answer 97

Inovacc- BBV154

Question 98

The Indian and US militaries carried out a three day joint humanitarian assistance exercise called _____________- in Visakhapatnam

Answer 98

Tiger triumph exercise

Question 99

India has previously only held tri-service exercises with ________-.

Answer 99

Russia

Question 100

where is the International Civil Aviation Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations headqautered?

Answer 100

Montreal, Canada

Question 101

The Union Cabinet gave its approval for the auction of the spectrum with a validity period of ____years

Answer 101

20

Question 102

In India, __________________- has voiced concerns over the Government’s plan to include the Millimeter Wave (mm Wave) bands

Answer 102

Satcom Industry Association-India (SIA)

Question 103

The 5G sector launch took place at the India Mobile Congress at _____ .

Answer 103

Delhi

Question 104

India's biggest ever auction of telecom 5G spectrum held recently had giver a record of Rs._____.

Answer 104

1.5 lakh crore.

Question 105

__________ launched the world's first fully flagged 5G mobile networks in 2019.

Answer 105

South Korea

Question 106

_______________, is an independent stand-alone navigation of India.

Answer 106

NavIC, or Navigation with Indian Constellation

Question 107

________ is a global navigation satellite system that went live in 2016, created by the European Union through the European Space Agency.

Answer 107

Galileo

Question 108

EU’s parliament awards __________ to people of Ukraine for their resistance to Russia’s invasion

Answer 108

Sakharov prize

Question 109

________ is a planned coronagraphy spacecraft to study solar atmosphere, currently being designed and developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Answer 109

Aditya L1

Question 110

Aditya L1 is planned to be launched in March 2023 aboard a _______launch vehicle.

Answer 110

PSLV-XL

Question 111

_____is ISRO's heaviest rocket, is capable of launching a four ton class of satellite to Geosynchronous Transfer orbit.

Answer 111

LVM3

Question 112

United Nations Day is celebrated on___________-, marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter.

Answer 112

24 October