2. Question-1Question-1
What is the name given to the
tropical cyclonic storm building
over the north Andaman Sea which
is expected to hit the coast of
Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on
sheer intensity on 12 October
2014?
4. Question-2Question-2
What is the name of the first
Ebola patient diagnosed in
the United States who died
on 8 October 2014 thus
raising enormous anxiety in
the country?
6. Question-3Question-3
American scientists Eric Betzig and
William Moerner and Germany’s
Stefan Hell were announced as the 3
winners of the Nobel Prize for
Chemistry on 8 October 2014. They
have been honoured for their
contribution in which field of
Chemistry?
8. Question-4Question-4
33 years after founding
Infosys, two of its founders
bade farewell to the company
on 8 October 2014. Who are
these two persons?
10. Question-6Question-6
During October 2014 the American
Congress has initiated a probe
against how many generic drug
makers for price escalation of
generic drugs that includes top
Indian drug companies Sun
Pharma, Dr. Reddy’s Lab and
Cadila Healthcare?
12. Question-7Question-7
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is
celebrating 8 October 2014 as
its foundation day in the form
of ‘Air Force Day’. The IAF
completed how many years of
its establishment on this day?
14. Question-8Question-8
On 7 October 2014 Japanese
scientists Isamu Akasaki and
Hiroshi Amano and American
Shuji Nakamura were named as
the winners of the 2014 Nobel
Prize for Physics for inventing
what?
18. Question-10Question-10
The new Monetary Policy Framework
Agreement, which aims to change the
monetary policy formulation and will
also focus on inflation targeting, is
proposed to be signed by which date as
announced by the Finance Ministry
recently?
20. Question-11Question-11
India’s largest ferris wheel was
inaugurated on 2 October 2014
at Kalindi Kunj in Delhi. This
200-feet high offers panoramic
view of the city of Delhi. What
is the name given to this giant
wheel?
22. Question-12Question-12
Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and
Edvard Moser and Anglo-American John
O’Keefe were announced as the winner of
the 2014 Nobel Prize for Medicine on 6
October 2014. The three are being rewarded
for which of their pioneering work
associated with the human mind?
23. Answer of Q.12Answer of Q.12
They solved the mystery – How
does the brain create a map of
the space surrounding us and
how can we navigate our way
through a complex
environment?
24. Question-13Question-13
Hewlett-Packard Co (HP) on 6 October 2014
announced plans to split the company into
two listed companies by separating its
computer and printer businesses from its
faster-growing corporate hardware and
services operations. What would be the
names of the two new companies to be
established with this split?
26. Question-14Question-14
India is among the 5 group of countries will
start work on the world’s biggest telescope
in the United States. This will enable to
identify an object as small as coin from a
distance of 500 km. The other four
countries involved in this project include
the U.S., Japan, China and Canada. Where
this telescope will be established?
28. Question-15Question-15
What is the name of the phone
application (app), the services
of which were asked to be
blocked by the Intelligence
Bureau (IB) in a recent request
made to the Department of
Telecom (DoT)?
30. Question-16Question-16
Which Indian online retail
company organised the “Big
Billion Day” sale on 6
October 2014 with a target of
$100 million sale in gross
merchandise value (GMV)?
36. Question-19Question-19
The 17th
Asian Games concluded
at Incheon (South Korea) on 4
October 2014 with a glittering
closing ceremony. The next
edition of Asian Games would
be held in which city?
40. Question-21Question-21
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) won the
Oppo Champions League T20 for
2014 by defeating Kolkata Knight
Riders (KKR) in a one-sided final
on 4 October 2014. CSK has now
won the Champions League T20
title how many times?
44. Question-23Question-23
Who on 4 October 2013 became
the first cricketer in the last 10
years to make it to the Indian
national team without playing a
single first-class (like Ranji
Trophy) or list A match?
48. Question-25Question-25
The rates of the tatkal tickets of Indian
Railways went up from October 2014
with the railways deciding to sell 50%
of the quota tickets using dynamic fare
system. The ‘Premium Tatkal Ticket
scheme’ became operational in how
many trains from 1 October 2014?
50. Question-26Question-26
The Indian contingent at 17th
Asian
Games concluded its campaign on 3
October 2014 as no Indian athletes
would feature in any event on 4
October – the last day of the games.
How many total medals were won by
Indian the Indian contingent?
52. Question-27Question-27
More than 40 persons were killed and
hundreds injured in a stampede in Bihar’s
capital Patna on 3 October 2014. The
accident took place after people were
returning after watching the “Ravan Vadh”
ceremony on the occasion of Dussehra. The
accident took place in which historic
ground of Patna?
54. Question-28Question-28
What is the name of the
British hostage who was
shown being beheaded in a
video released on 3 October
2014 by Islamic State
militants?
56. Question-29Question-29
Indian men’s Kabaddi team won the gold
medal at the 17th
Asian Games on 3
October 2014 in a tough final against
Iran. India defeated Iran by 27-25
despite the fact that it was trailing by
13-21 at half time. This was India’s
…………consecutive gold medal in
these games.
58. Question-30Question-30
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2 October
2014 India’s biggest-ever cleanliness drive
– the “Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan” (“Clean
India Mission”) on the occasion of
Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti. What is the main
objective of this huge mission on which
around Rs.62,000 crore would be spent?
59. Answer of Q.30Answer of Q.30
To accomplish the vision of
“Clean India” by 2 October
2019 (The 150th
Birth
Anniversary of Mahatma
Gandhi)
60. Question-31Question-31
Indian men’s Hockey team moved one more step
closer in regaining its lost glory by claiming the
gold medal at 17th
Asian Games at Incheon on 2
October 2014. India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan
by 4-2 in a nerve-wracking shoot-out in the finals
to earn a direct berth to the 2016 Rio Olympics.
With this win India has now won how many gold
medals in men’s hockey at the Asian Games?
64. Question-33Question-33
Which two Union Territories
of the Indian Union achieved
a unique milestone of 100%
banking coverage as revealed
in a meeting of Finance
Ministry on 1 October 2014?
70. Question-36Question-36
Legendary Indian boxer M.C. Mary Kom
won a historic Asian Games gold
medal on 1 October 2014 to become
the first Indian woman boxer to win an
Asian Games gold medal. She defeated
Kazakhstan’s Zhaina Shekerbekova 2-
0. Mary Kom won this gold in which
weight category?
