50+ MCQ Current Affairs -October 2014 1) Who was sworn-in as the 42nd Chief Justice of India on 28 September 2014? Ans. Justice H L Dattu Note: Dattu will have tenure of 14 months as the Chief Justice of India as he will retire from his office on 2 December 2015. 2) Who has sworn-in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on 29 September 2014? Ans. O Panneerselvam Note: This was following the resignation of J Jayalalithaa as CM as she was convicted in the 18 year old disproportionate assets case of over 66 crore rupees by Bangalore Special Court. 3) Which team won the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) 2014 title on 4 October 2014? Ans. Chennai Super Kings 4) Google closed which social networking site permanently on 30 September 2014? Ans. Orkut 5) World Heart Day was observed across the world on 29 September 2014 with the theme? Ans. Heart Choices NOT Hard Choices 6) Who has sworn in as president of Afghanistan on 29 September 2014? Ans. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai 7) Who became the first Indian woman boxer to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games on 1 October 2014? Ans. MC Mary Kom 8) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 3 October 2014 addressed the nation over radio for the first time in his programme named? Ans. Mann Ki Baat 9) Bangladesh government on 28 September 2014 appointed whom as the new Bangladesh High Commissioner to India? Ans. Syed Muazzem Ali 10) J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu was on 27 September 2014 found guilty in the disproportionate assets case by the Special Court in Bangalore and pronounced a jail term of ...... years? Ans. 4 11) Name the India-US Combined Military Training Exercise which concluded at Ranikhet in Uttarakhand on 30 September 2014? Ans. Yudh Abhyas 2014 12) National Voluntary Blood Donation Day was celebrated on? Ans. 1 October 2014 13) Which state on 3 October 2014 became the first state of India to start olive refinery? Ans. Rajasthan 14) Who has retired as the 41st Chief Justice of India (CJI) on 27 September 2014? Ans. Justice R M Lodha 15) Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 27 September 2014 addressed the 69th session of United Nations General Assembly in? Ans. New York Note: He addressed the 193-member UN General Assembly in Hindi. 16) 24th International Day of Older Persons (IDOP) 2014 was observed across the world on 1 October 2014 with the theme? Ans. Leaving No One Behind: Promoting a Society for All. 17) World Animal Day was recently observed across the world on? Ans. 4 October 2014 18) World Tourism Day (WTD) was observed across the world on 27 September 2014 with the theme? Ans. Tourism and Community Development 19) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 24 September 2014 inaugurated India Food Park at Tumkur in which state? Ans. Karnataka 20) Name the Vigilance Commissioner who was authorised by President Pranab Mukherjee on 30 September 2014 to act as chief of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) ? Ans. Rajiv Note: The vacancy for the post of Central Vigilance Commissioner had occurred after Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar completed his tenure on 28 September 2014. 21) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2 October 2014 launched Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign in New Delhi. What is the tag-line of the mission? Ans. “Ek Kadam Swachhta Ki Ore” Note: On the occasion of launch of the campaign in Rajpath New Delhi, Modi administered an oath to a large gathering to keep their neighbourhoods clean. He asked people to donate (Shramdaan) 100 hours every year or two hours every week for cleanliness. 22) 17th Asian Games Incheon 2014 was held in Incheon, South Korea from 19 September to 4 October 2014. Name the Slogan of the Asian Games Incheon 2014? Ans. Diversity Shines Here 23) Name the winners of Nobel Peace Prize 2014? Ans. Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi 24) Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on 6 October 2014 became the co-owner of which Indian Super League franchise? Ans. Chennaiyin FC 25) Which city will host the next Asian Games in 2018? Ans. Jakarta, Indonesia 26) Name the winners of 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics? Ans. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura 27) Name the founder of social site Facebook who was recently in New Delhi on a two day visit from 9 October to 10 October 2014? Ans. Mark Zuckerberg 28) Who won the Nobel Prize for literature for the year 2014? Ans. Patrick Modiano 29) Which bollywood actor was appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF in South Asia on 9 October 2014? Ans. Aamir Khan 30) Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) on the birth anniversary of whom on 11 October 2014? Ans. Jai Prakash Narayan Note: The programme is an ambitious village development project under which each Member of Parliament will take the responsibility for developing physical and institutional infrastructure in three villages by 2019. 31) Which Bollywood actor on 4 October 2014 received Global Diversity Award 2014 at the Britain’s House of Commons? Ans. Shah Rukh Khan Note: He was conferred the award for his outstanding achievements in the field of cinema and his involvement in philanthropic endevours. 32) Name the winners of 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine? Ans. John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser 33) Which country topped the Asian Games 2014 medals tally? Ans. China with 151 Gold, 108 silver and 83 bronze 34) What was Indias position in the Asian Games concluded recently? Ans. 8th Note: India bagged a total of 57 medals with 11 Gold, 10 Silver and 36 bronze. 35) Name the website launched by Union Government on 7 October 2014 to monitor the attendance of government employees in real time? Ans. attendance.gov.in 36) Who was appointed by Union Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) on 1 October 2014 as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jet Airways? Ans. Cramer Ball Note: He will serve for the next three-year till 2017. Earlier, he was serving as the acting CEO of the Jet Airways. 37) Name the winners of 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry? Ans. Eric Betzig, Stefan W Hell and William E. Moerner 38) Who has resigned as the Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi on 30 September 2014? Ans. Leela Samson 39) Third International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC) was observed across the world on 11 October 2014 with the theme? Ans. Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence. 40) Technology giant HP on 6 October 2014 announced that it will split itself into two separate publicly traded companies. Expand HP? Ans. Hewlett-Packard 41) Which country recorded the highest number of polio cases in 14 years as revealed by the data of polio cases released recently? Ans. Pakistan 42) President of India Pranab Mukherjee on 7 October 2014 presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award 2014 for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management to whom? Ans. Dr Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai Note: He was honoured for his outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace and missile technology. 43) World Post Day was observed recently on? Ans. 9 October 2014 44) Who was appointed as the first Hindu priest (Chaplain) at Georgetown University recently? Ans. Pratima Dharm 45) United Nations celebrated World Habitat Day on 6 October 2014 with the theme? Ans. Voices from Slums 46) Who was named as the next CEO of IT training solutions firm National Institute of Information Technology Limited (NIIT Ltd) on 6 October 2014? Ans. Rahul Keshav Patwardhan 47) World’s first womb-transplant baby was born to a 36-year-old woman from which country recently? Ans. Sweden Note: The healthy baby boy was born in August 2014 at the University of Gothenburgs hospital in Sweden. 48) Indian Air Force (IAF) celebrated 82nd Air Force Day in New Delhi on? Ans. 8 October 2014 49) Who was appointed as first woman director of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) on 9 October 2014? Ans. Kalpana Morparia 50) Supreme Court appointed high-powered committee headed by whom submitted its report to the court on 6 October 2014 with guidelines on government ads? Ans. Professor NR Madhava Menon 51) First ever National Mental Health Day was recently observed on? Ans. 10 October 2014 52) Who was conferred with Sir Ross Masood Lifetime Achievement Award 2014 for Excellence in Leadership, Education, community & Public Service on 30 September 2014? Ans. Saiyid Hamid
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