Current Affairs Quiz - October, 2019

11. Which company’s Mutual Fund  has been renamed as Nippon India Mutual Fund (NIMF)?
[A] Aditya Birla
[B] Wipro
[C] TATA
[D] Reliance

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12. The 2019 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for discovery in which field?
[A] Cellular Respiration
[B] Cancer therapy
[C] Circadian rhythm
[D] Autophagy

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13. Who is the director of the award-winning short film “Spirit Of Kerala”?
[A] Rayka Zehtabchi
[B] Sujoy Ghosh
[C] Arun Joseph
[D] Maitrey Bajpai

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14. Which satellite-based advisory service has been launched for deep sea fishermen?
[A] Aries
[B] Gemini
[C] Virgo
[D] Aquarius

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15. Which international organization has recently released its report ‘South Asia Economic Focus, Making (De) Centralization Work’?
[A] IMF
[B] World Bank
[C] ADB
[D] United Nations

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16. Who led Indian delegation at the 2019 BRICS Culture Ministers’ meeting in Brazil?
[A] Smriti Irani
[B] Amit Shah
[C] Nirmala Sitharaman
[D] Prahlad Singh Patel

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17. Which airline has become the world’s first airline to use Taxibot on A-320 aircraft?
[A] Alaska Airlines
[B] Air India
[C] Nikko
[D] Hawaiian Airlines

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18. Who is the newly appointed President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA)?
[A] Rajesh Jain
[B] Venu Srinivasan
[C] K Satish Reddy
[D] V A Rajkishore

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19. Which Indian economist has won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for study on poverty?
[A] Abhijit Banerjee
[B] Arvind Subramanian
[C] Pranab Bardhan
[D] Srijit Mukherji

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20. Who has been appointed as the new Union Law Secretary?
[A] Suresh Chandra
[B] Anoop Kumar Mendiratta
[C] Alok Shrivastava
[D] P S Joshi

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