GK TEST
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1 . The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to
British-American researcher________ and a Norwegian couple,
________ and ________.
2. They are given NOBLE prize for discovering ________ . Their findings
may help explain why in Alzheimer's disease patients cannot recognise
their surroundings.
3. After 'MANGALYAAN', ISRO to launch M3M satellite for canada.
M3M Stands For________
4. The agreement for the same was signed by India's ________ and
Canada's COM DEV Intl. The satellite is due to be launched in July 2015
5. India along with few other nations will start work on world's Biggest
telescope. The 30 meter telescope is to be established near ________ with
the cost of ________ world's biggest telescope on Hawaii Island that will
enable to identify an object as small as coin from a distance of 500 kms
6. The telescope will be larger than Japan's ________ Telescope, one of
the world's biggest, which was also built on the summit of Mauna Kea
and started observation in 1999.
7. After test fire of Dongfeng-31 missile range on September 25 , China
test fired ________
8. China is also working on developing a ________ missile. It is expected
to have a range of 12,000 km which will enable it to target all the parts of
USA.
9. Nation celebrated ________ on Monday. In which Muslims offer
special prayers in Eidgahs and mosques and sacrifice animals.
10. West Bengal Government constituted a high-level composite Task
Force to investigate into the blasts at Khagragarh headed by ________
11. Novak Djokovic beats ________ to win fifth China Open. Djokovic
won in a straight set by 6-0, 6-2
12. In women singles Russian Maria Sharapova overcame Czech
________ by 6-4 2-6 6-3
13. Drug manufacturer Cipla has signed an agreement Iran to set up a
manufacturing unit there. Cipla is expected to contribute machinery,
equipment and technical knowledge worth Rs. ________ cr over thethe
next 3 years in return for a ________ stake.
14. ________ former Norwegian PM has been selected as the secretary
general of NATO replacing anders Fogh Rasmussen.
15. In India , Senior officer ________ has been appointed as new special
director general of NIA.
16. World number 792 Oliver Wilson held on to win his first European
golf title at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, beating world
number one ________ by one stroke.
17. fourteen day long Indo-US military exercise which has begun in
Uttarakhand to strengthen and broaden inter-operability and cooperation
between the two Armies________
18. ________ appointed as new CEO of Jet airways. About jet airways:
Founded in 1992, headquarter = Mumbai, chairman = naresh goyal.
19. The commodity derivatives market regulator, Forward Markets
Commission (FMC), has proposed to make ________ (ECN) a part of
know your client ( KYC) documents.
20. After a gap of 16 years, India defeated ________ in the
Men's Hockey finals of the Asian Games , to win the gold medal
21. This win ensures India's direct entry to the 2016 Summer Olympics
that is scheduled to be held at________
22. Government announces Rs. ________ for each village Panchayat for
the clean India mission. More than 2,47,000 gram panchayats across the
country will receive Rs. 20 lakh each per annum
23. World Junior Chess Championship began in ________ with a
glittering ceremony
24. Court amending the Motor Vehicles Act, allowing e-rickshaws to ply
in New Delhi. An e-rickshaws cam carry a maximum of ________
passengers, excluding the driver, and luggage that weighs no more than
________ kg.
25. India on Saturday ended their 17th Asian Games campaign at the
________ spot on the medals tally, a drop of two positions from the
previous edition
26. India signed off with 57 medals ________ gold, ________ silver and
________ Bronze. As expected China ended their campaign on top
claiming a whopping 342 medals.
27. ________ from Delhi has lifted the Eagleburg Masters title 2014 held
at bangalore.
28. The 2014 Hong Kong protests, also referred to as the ________
Revolution, when anti-government advocates in Hong Kong protested
outside the government headquarters and occupied several major city
intersections .
29. Pro russian rebels and Ukraine signed a ceasefire agreement last week.
this brought peace to both sides after 5 months. Agreement is named as
________
30. committee on infrastructure headed by ________ submits the last part
of its report including Establish a PPP model for power distribution,
armark 15% of power generation of the central PSUs etc
31. Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow give the Global
Diversity Award 2014 to ________
32. Malayalam poet and social activist ________ has been chosen for
Mathrubhumi Literary Award (Mathrubhumi Sahitya Puraskaram) for
2014. The award carries a purse of Rs.2 lakh, a citation, and a statuette.
33. Vayoshreshtha Samman or The National Awards for Senior Citizens
were presented by Sumitra Mahajan.International Day of Older Persons is
observed on the ________ of October every year in accordance with a
UNGA resolution.
34. List of main awardees:
Best Institution for research in the field of Ageing to Department of
Geriatric Medicine : ________
Best Institution for providing services to senior citizens and Awareness
Generation : ________
Best District Panchayat in Providing Services and Facilities to Senior
Citizens : ________
Life time Achievement : ________
Creative Art : ________
35. HelpAge International's Global AgeWatch Index 2014 is topped by
________ followed by ________
36. India stood at ________ th position and life expentancy at ________
37. Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes team won the Japanese F1 Grand Prix on
5 October. British driver Lewis Hamilton won the race to take 10 point
lead over ________ (Germany).
38. World Teachers' Day 2014 was observed across the world on
________ October 2014. World Teachers' Day, held annually on October
5th since 1994, commemorates teachers' organizations worldwide
39. USA Swimming on 6 October 2014 suspended Olympic champion
swimmer ________ from all competition for six months for violating the
organization's code of conduct.
40. Union Government launched ________ Swachhta Se Sampannta ki
Aur of National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development
Corporation. The scheme was launched by the Minister of State for Social
Justice and Empowerment, Sudarshan Bhagat
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Answers::::
1. John O'Keefe,
Edvard Moser and
May-Britt Mose
2. brain's GPS
system(how the
brain knows where
we are and is able to
navigate from one
place to another)
3. Maritime
Monitoring and
Messaging Micro-
Satellite
4. Antriux Corp.
5 Mauna Kea
volcano , $1.4b
6 Subaru
7 Dongfeng-31B
8 Dongfeng-41
9 Eid-ul-Azha
10 Director General
of Police GM P
Reddy
11 Tomas Berdych
12 Petra Kvitova
13 225, 75%
14 Jens stoltenberg
15 N.R Wasan
16 Rory McIlroy
17 Yudh Abhyas 2014
18 Cramer Ball
19 electronic
contract notes
20 Pakistan
21 Rio de Janeiro
22 20 lakh
23 Pune
24 four, 40
25 eighth
26 11,10,36
27 Rashid Khan
28 Umbrella
29 Minsk Agreement
30 Deepak Parekh
31 Shahrukh Khan
32 Sugathakumari
33 1st
34 AIIMS, Helpage
India, Dakshina
Kannada Zilla
Panchayath,
Karnataka, Prof.
(Dr.) P.K.B. Nayar,
Ms. Sushma Seth
35 Norway , Sweden
36 69th , 60
37 Nico Rosberg
38 5 th
39 Michael Phelps
40 Swachhta
Udyami Yojana
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