October 19 - Current Affairs for Competitive Exams

Dear champions, Welcome to the Daily Current Affairs Quiz "October 19". Your total score and the points you scored will be displayed at the end of the Quiz or after the time out.

1) Who became the second Indian paddler to achieve a World No. 1 ranking?

A) Neha Aggarwal

B) Payas Jain

C) Ankita Das

D) Soumyajit Ghosh

E) Sharath Kamal

2) Which Country topped in the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index 2021?

A) Denmark

B) Norway

C) Finland

D) Sweden

E) Germany

3) Which company is placed next to Amazon Pantry in YouGov’s Retail Rankings 2021?

A) DMart

B) Flipkart Supermart

C) Big Basket

D) Big Bazaar

E) YouGov

4) RBI imposed a monetary penalty of how much amount on Standard Chartered Bank for the violation of various guidelines?

A) Rs 1 Lakh

B) Rs 20 Lakh

C) Rs 1 Crore

D) Rs 75 Lakh

E) Rs 1.95 crore

5) IRCTC has become 9th public sector entity to join the elite club of Rs__________ market capitalization?

A) ₹200 Billion

B) ₹300 Billion

C) ₹500 Billion

D) ₹1 trillion

E) ₹2 trillion

6) Who is the Chief Executive Officer of Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management?

A) Nilesh Shah

B) Nilesh Shah

C) Balasubramanian

D) Arun Selvam

E) Sakthi Vigneshvaran

7) NASA’s gamma-ray telescope is expected to launch into orbit in ______ as the agency’s latest small astrophysics mission.

A) 2022

B) 2023

C) 2024

D) 2025

E) 2026

8) NASA has selected a new space telescope called the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), that will chart the evolution of __________.

A) Andromeda

B) Milky way

C) Corvus

D) Centaurus

E) Black Eye

9) Health ministry sets up panel on tobacco taxation headed by _____?

A) Vikas Sheel

B) Ashok Sheel

C) Aakash Sheel

D) Varun Sheel

E) Murugan Sheel

10) Name the CEO of Edelweiss Asset Management, has been elected as the Vice-Chairperson of Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)?

A) Arun Selvam

B) Sakthi Vigneshvaran

C) Kavi Kumar

D) Radhika Gupta

E) Bala Subramanian

11) The Indian Navy has received the ____ th anti-submarine warfare aircraft P-8I from Boeing.

A) 9th

B) 10th

C) 11th

D) 12th

E) 13th

12) India and which country held their inaugural maritime dialogue and discussed cooperation in the maritime domain, Indo-Pacific, regional and multilateral cooperation?

A) Australia

B) Italy

C) North Korea

D) UK

E) Israel

13) Who has addressed the Valedictory Session of 3rd India-ASEAN conference for strengthening Strategic Partnership in contemporary times?

A) Narendra Modi

B) Riva Ganguly Das

C) S Jai Shankar

D) Rajesh Verma

E) Harsh Vardhan

14) Who has attended inaugural session of the International Conference and Exhibition on Digital technologies – “Future Tech 2021” ?

A) Ajay Kumar

B) Rajiv Gauba

C) P. K. Mishra

D) Sanjiv Nandan

E) Rajeev Chandrasekhar

15) Who awarded life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)?

A) Rohit Sharma

B) Javagal Srinath

C) Harbhajan Singh

D) A & B

E) B & C

16) Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated_____________ , a dedicated forest for Ayurvedic plants in a program held at the Deendayal Port Trust (DPT)– Rotary Forest in the city?

A) Ayush Jangal

B) Ayush Van

C) Ayush Woodland

D) Ayush kaad

E) Ayush Afforest

17) Who launches Air Quality Early Warning System to coincide with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava?

A) Narendra Modi

B) Sarbananda Sonowal

C) Jitendra Singh

D) Riva Ganguly Das

E) Rajeev Chandrasekhar

18) Piyush Goyal inaugurates 250 mm Seer Water supply scheme in Which place?

A) Anantnag,J &K

B) Pahalgam, J&K

C) Udhampur, J&K

D) Rajauri, J &K

E) Poonch, J & K

19) International Conference and Exhibition on Digital technologies – “Future Tech 2021” is based on how many theme Pillars?

A) 3

B) 4

C) 5

D) 6

E) 7

20) Sukhdev Rajbhar passed away. He was Former Assembly Speaker of which state?

A) J & K

B) Chhattisgarh

C) Uttar Pradesh

D) Delhi

E) Manipur