GK & Current Affairs Quiz: October 20, 2018

1. Which of the following has become the first and only government corporation in India to launch a chat-enabled help-desk service program ‘Ask Disha’?

[A] India Post
[B] SEBI
[C] IRDA
[D] IRCTC

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2. Which Indian social entrepreneur has been conferred with the IOC Sports and Active Society Development Grant award for 2018?

[A] Hanumappa Sudarshan
[B] Harish Hande
[C] Suheil Tandon
[D] Ajaita Shah

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3. BSNL has recently signed pact with which technological giant to leverage Industry 4.0 for manufacturing excellence?

[A] Microsoft
[B] Samsung
[C] Nokia
[D] Lava

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4. The famous Shahi litchi of which state has recently got the Geographical Indication (GI) tag?

[A] Bihar
[B] Uttar Pradesh
[C] West Bengal
[D] Assam

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5. The 5th edition of the Women of India Organic Festival will be held in which city?

[A] Guwahati
[B] New Delhi
[C] Pune
[D] Agartala

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6. Which cricket statistican has authored the book “Indian Sports: Conversations and Reflections”?

[A] Sanjay Manjrekar
[B] Jatin Sapru
[C] Sushil Doshi
[D] Vijayan Bala

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7. Who is leading the Indian delegation at the 8th European Congress on SMEs?

[A] Alka Arora
[B] Sushma Swaraj
[C] Bhaskar Kalra
[D] Giriraj Singh

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8. Which of the following Indian research organisations has developed an affordable Water Disinfection System “OneerTM”?

[A] BARC
[B] ISRO
[C] CSIR
[D] DRDO

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9. Which of the following states is set to become the India’s first smoke-free State?

[A] Karnataka
[B] Kerala
[C] Tamil Nadu
[D] Andhra Pradesh

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10. Who has been named for 2018 Hridaynath Award for lifetime achievement?

[A] Javed Akhtar
[B] Amitabh Bachchan
[C] Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi
[D] Hariprasad Chaurasia

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4 Comments

  1. Sanyasi Ram Ravi

    October 20, 2018 at 7:23 pm

    Very useful

  2. JAGADISHA N

    October 20, 2018 at 8:11 pm

    United States

  3. Rajesh Kumar

    October 20, 2018 at 9:54 pm

    Question 1) IT Ministry
    Question 2)Australia
    Question 3)Vodafone and Idea
    Question 4)Union Ministry of Women and Child Development
    Question 5)England
    Question 6)Tamil

  4. Mukherjee

    October 22, 2018 at 10:46 pm

    Thank you so much for your effort. Helped me learn things which other sites didn’t cover.

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