1. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched the second phase of which mission to achieve full immunisation of children below two years?
Ans: Mission Indradhanush
2. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who works for the rights of the Inuit people of the Arctic, has won the 2015 edition of which award?
Ans: Right Livelihood Award
3. According to the report of the International Cotton Advisory Committee, India has surpassed which country to become No.1 in the production of cotton?
Ans: China
4. Who was elected President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?
Ans: Shashank Manohar
5. International Day of Older Persons was observed on:
Ans: October 1st.
World Vegetarian Day was also observed on October 1st.
6. The Arc of Triumph, recently blown up by the Islamic State militants, was located in which ancient Syrian city?
Ans: Palmyra
7. Which country celebrated the 25th year of reunification on 3rd October 2015?
Ans: Germany
8. International Day of Nonviolence was observed on:
Ans: October 2nd
9. Google was officially converted into which new parent company on 2nd October 2015?
Ans: Alphabet Inc.
10. Where was the Extreme Defence Research Centre established by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) located?
Ans: Changla in Ladakh
11. Name the tennis players who won the 2015 Wuhan Open Women's Doubles Trophy.
Ans: Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis
12. World Habitat Day was observed on:
Ans: 5th October
13. Jack Dorsey has been appointed CEO of which company?
Ans: Twitter
14. The scientists Youyou Tu. (China), Satoshi Omura (Japan) and William Campbell (Ireland) have won 2015 Nobel Prize for which discipline?
Ans: Medicine or Physiology
15. Which Swedish crime writer, known for the creation of the fictional character, Inspector Kurt Wallander, passed away recently?
Ans: Heming Mankell
16. Who won the 2015 World Cup Chess Championship held at Baku, Russia? Ans: Sergey Karjakin
17. Who won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics?
Ans: Arthur McDonald and Takaaki Kaijita
18. Tomas Lindahl (United Kingdom), Paul Modrich (US) and Ariz Sancar (US) have jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize in which discipline?
Ans: Chemistry
19. Name the eminent writer and daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit who returned the Sahitya Akademi Award recently.
Ans: Nayantara Sehgal
20. Which country has recently launched its 20th satellite for its satellite navigation system?
Ans: China
21. Which country shut down their schools for two days because of possible health risks posed by the thick haze from forest fires?
Ans: Malaysia
22. The British writer James Fenton was awarded which literature prize?
Ans: Pen Pinter Prize
23. World Teachers' Day was observed on:
Ans: October 5th
24. Where will be the new All India Institutes of Medical. Sciences (AIIMS) to be set up under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana?
Ans: Nagpur (Maharashtra), Manglagiri (Andhra Pradesh) and Kalyani (West Bengal)
25. Which country won the FIBA Asian Basketball championship?
Ans: China
F Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" and the other half to Youyou Tu "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria".
F Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
F Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".
