25 October 2014: Current Affairs Questions for exams

1) Which day was observed across the globe on October 24 every year?
(A) United Nations Day
(B) World Development Information Day
(C) World Polio Day
(D) All the above

2) Which was the first hill passenger railway opened in India in 1881?
(A) Nilgiri Mountain Railway
(B) Kalka Shimla Railway
(C) Matheran Hill Railway
(D) Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

3) Commerce and Industry Ministry on 24 Oct 2014 constituted a six-member committee to draft the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) policy. Who will chair the committee?
(A) Justice Manjula Chellur
(B) Justice Prabha Sridevan
(C) Justice Altamas Kabir
(D) Justice K G Balakrishnan

4) Which was the first successful Mars Mission?
(A) Mariner 4
(B) Viking 1
(C) Mars 1
(D) Mariner 6 

5) Who among the following clinched World billiards championship on 24 October 2014?
(A) Peter Gilchrist
(B) Mike Russell
(C) Pankaj Advani
(D) Devendra Joshi

6) Who is the only Indian player to win two bronze medals at the World Badminton Championship?
(A) Pullela Gopichand
(B) Syed Modi
(C) P V Sindhu
(D) Saina Nehwal

7) India's first hospital to treat abnormalities and diseases in fish is set to come up in which state as announced recently?
(A) Kerala
(B) West Bengal
(C) Gujarat
(D) Goa

8) In 2014 which food company was renamed Mondelez India food ltd?
(A) Nestle India ltd
(B) Cadbury India Ltd
(C) Dabur India Ltd
(D) Vadilal Industries

9) Which among the following organization celebrated its 53rd raising day on 24 October 2014?
(A) CBI
(B) CRPF
(C) ITBP
(D) IB

10) Which among the following country accounts for 85 per cent of world polio cases?
(A) Pakistan
(B) Bangladesh
(C) Somalia
(D) South Africa

Answers
1) Ans. (D) All the above
2) Ans. (D) Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
3) Ans. (B) Justice Prabha Sridevan
4) Ans. (A) Mariner 4
5) Ans. (C) Pankaj Advani
6) Ans. (C) P V Sindhu
7) Ans. (B) West Bengal
8) Ans. (B) Cadbury India Ltd
9) Ans. (C) ITBP
10) Ans. (A) Pakistan

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