TOI CONSOLIDATED QUESTIONS FOR THE MONTH OCTOBER 2017

Ø  Name the one of major festival of Telangana and some parts of Andhra
Pradesh was celebrated for nine days days during the Durga Navaratri
celebrations before Dussehra.  Bathukamma

Ø  Who is the ‘Father of research laboratories’ and also the first director-
general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)?  Shanti
Swarup Bhatnagar

Ø  Name the state has been honored with Hall of fame award for the ‘Most
Innovative Use of Information Technology – Social Media / Mobile App’ for
the ninth consecutive year on Sept.28,2017.  Kerala

Ø  Which state Tourism has won the “Hall of Fame” award for being the
Best State in Comprehensive Development of Tourism category at the
National Tourism Awards?  Gujarat

Ø  World Rabies Day is celebrated on 28th September annually to raise

awareness about rabies prevention. The 2017 World Rabies Day theme
is___________. Rabies: Zero by 30′

Ø  Where will be The third India International Science Festival held in

October 2017 ? Chennai

Ø  Which country has announced to provide increased support to

Haryana’s White Revolution?  Israel

Ø  In which place artists have constructed a 100 feet bamboo idol of

Goddess Durga, world’s tallest bamboo idol?  Guwahati, Assam

Ø  Who are the three awarded Nobel prize for Medicine for the year 2017?
Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young

Ø  For what the three have been awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine?
decoding Body clock

Ø  Who are the three awarded Nobel prize for Physics?Kip Thorne, Rainer
Weiss, Barry Barish

Ø  for what the three have been awarded Nobel prize for Physics?
Discovery of gravitational waves

Ø  When is the nobel Prize awarded? december 9 , 3.00pm IST

Ø  When was the first nobel prize awarded ? 1901

Ø  Which country joined with india for tiger count? Nepal

Ø  Which country's scientist's have used World's first robotic forms to

complete fully automatic harvest? UK

Ø  When is world animal day is celebrated? October 4

Ø  WHen was the first time world animal day celebrated? 1931

Ø  Expand OBOR? One belt one road

Ø  with which country Nepal has joined to have OBOR? China

Ø  What is the other name for One belt one road project? Silk route

Ø  Whose memorial temple is Kirti Mandir? Mahatma Gandhi

Ø  Where can we find the Kirti Mandir? Porbandar, Gujarat

Ø  Name the three scientists who are awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry
for the year 2017? Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard
Henderson

Ø  For what discovery Nobel prize for  chemistry 2017 awarded?for

developing cryo-electron microscopy

Ø  Which space tourism is company planning to put human on mars?

Space X

Ø  Who is the founder of space x ? Elon Musk

Ø  Which social media site could let us access using a scan of our face?
Facebook

Ø  What is the name of the website that aims at increasing awareness

about para sports? www.thenationspride.com

Ø  Which two distances were covered in the world's shortest flight journey
of 53 seconds? Westray and Papa Westray

Ø  Which country's low-cost tablet is Akash? India

Ø  Who is the founder of google? Larry Page

Ø  who is the founder of Amazon? Jeff Bezos

Ø  Who is the founder of Adidas? Adolf dazzler

Ø  Who is the founder of Zara? Amancio Ortega

Ø  Who is the inventor of Pepsi? Caleb Bradham

Ø  Which soft drink got its name from the latin word dyspepsia meaning
indigestion? Pepsi

Ø  Who is the founder of Mcdonald's ? Raymond Kroc

Ø  Who is the current sports minister of india? Rajyavadhan singh Rathore

Ø  Which country is hosting FIFA under 17 worldcup? india

Ø  What is the official mascot of FIFA U17 worldcup? Kheleo ( Clouded

leopard)

Ø  Who is the only player to win both FIFA U17 and FIFA world cup?
Ronaldinho

Ø  Who scored the first goal in the history of U17 FIFA worldcup? Bismarck

Ø  How do we better know saint Nicholas? santa claus

Ø  Which place is considered to be the birth place of Santa Claus?

Demre,Turkey

Ø  what is Pomodor technique? It is a time management technique

Ø  Who has the pattern for Kinescope ? Thomas Edison

Ø  Who is discovered Oral Polio Vaccine? Dr.Albert Sabin

Ø  Where can we find famous Lingaraja temple? Bhubaneswar

Ø  What can you find on the logo of World wide fund for nature? Panda

Ø  Which organisation has won Nobel Peace Prize? ICAN

Ø  Expand ICAN? International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons

Ø  Name the former RBI governor who is in the probables of economics

Nobel prize? Raghuram Rajan

Ø  Which indian institute scholars have come up with a drug to combat

Chikangunya? IIT Roorkee

Ø  What is the name of the drug that can be to used to Combat

Chikangunya? Piperazine
Ø  Which is world postal day / Philately day celebrated? October 9

Ø  Who is the first indian king to depicted on a indian stamp? Chandra

gupta Maurya

Ø  Which indian kingly state had a private postal service called Anchal?
Trivancore state

Ø  What was inscribed in the first postal stamp of India? Jai Hind

Ø  Where is the first indian post office outside india situated? Dakshin
Gangotri in Antartica

Ø  In which indian city we can find world's highest post office in 15000 feet?
Hikkim in himachal pradesh

Ø  What is the name of world's first postage stamp? Black penny

Ø  Who gave the idea of stamp in letters? Sir Rowland Hill

Ø  Which famous indian freedom fighter's collection of letters is Letter from

a father to his daughter? Jawaharlal Nehru

Ø  Which famous world leader's letters are, Father's letter to daughter?

Barack Obama

Ø  When is the international day of the girl child celebrated? October 11

Ø  What is the theme of this year's International day of the girl child? The
power of the adolescent girl: Vision for 2030

Ø  What is the name of the movie that is taken on the younges girl to climb
mount everest? Poorna

Ø  What is the name of the social campaign launched by central

government to save girl child? Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

Ø  What is the name of the savings account exclusively for girl child?
Suganya Samriddhi Account]

Ø  How do we call a person who writes with both hands? Ambidextrous

Ø  ]Who is the famous father and also a famous hindi poet, father  of
Amitab Bacchan? Hari Vansh Rai Bacchan

Ø  What is Atlas of Life? World's first map of Vertebrates on earth

Ø  In which state we can find the famous Udayagiri caves? Orissa

Ø  Which place is also known as Sunrise hills? Udayagiri in Orissa

Ø  Which country is hosting the second women's odi world championship?

south africa

Ø  Who is the current captain of indian women's cricket team? Mithali Raj

Ø  What is the PBL? Premiere Badminton league

Ø  Which airport in India has become first fully Aadhar enabled Airport?
Bengaluru's Kempegowda International airport

Ø  Who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for 2017? Richard Thaler

Ø  for which work Richard Thaler has won the Nobel Economic prize?
Contributions in the field of behavioural economics

Ø  Which indian city will host the India International science fest? chennai

Ø  Name the firm that is working on the mission of unlocking the mysteries
of Moon? Moon Express

Ø  Across which river We can find Vidyasagar Setu bridge? Hooghly river

Ø  Which famous character was , Christophe reeve? Super Man

Ø  Along with Malala Yousafzai , which indian also got the nobel peace
prize in 2014? Kailash Satyarthi

Ø  Which is the largest group of Insects? Beetles

Ø  Who owns India's only Formula 1 team Force India? vijay Mallaya

Ø  Which country awards Nobel Peace prize? Norway

Ø  How many fields Nobel prizes are awarded? SIX

Ø  When was the first time Nobel prize was awarded? 1901

Ø  Which is the only organisation to get Nobel prize thrice? Red cross

Ø  When is generally Nobel prize awarded? December 10, death

anniversary of Alfred Nobel

Ø  expand NASA? National Aeronautics and space administration

Ø  Which country is planning to send mini ecosystem to moon? China

Ø  #Save for life is a new bookmarking feature of which microblogging site?

Twitter

Ø  Which two countries border is considered to be the most heavily

militarised border? North and south korea

Ø  Expand FTII? Film and Television Institution of India

Ø  Who has been appointed as the new chairman of FTII? Anupam Kher

Ø  Which company's all touch smartphone is Motion? Blackberry

Ø  Where did the International Conference on Dialogue of Civilizations – IV

took place?  Delhi & Gujarat

Ø  Which Indian state launched ‘Solar Briefcase’ to provide electricity in

remote areas?  Uttarakhand

Ø  Where is the headquarters of Ministry of Tourism, Kerala located?

Thiruvananthapuram

Ø  Why did Supreme Court imposed a ban on firecrackers for Diwali in

Delhi? To reduce Pollution

Ø  Who is selected for this year’s prestigious Vayalar award famous poet ? 
T D Radhakrishnan

Ø  What is SS Athenia ?  Ship,the first British ship to be sunk during the

Second World War

Ø  On what date The World Post Day is celebrated? October 9

Ø  Where did the Epic world solar car race begin? Australia

Ø  Which Indian state becomes the first state to slash VAT on petrol,
diesel?  Gujarat

Ø  What is the theme of 3rd International Conference on Yoga 2017?  Yoga

for Wellness

Ø  How many satellites are launched by SpaceX for Iridium mobile

network?10

Ø  Which is the smallest country to qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup? 
Iceland
Ø  Which country promised to help Indian Railways to increase speed of
trains on existing corridors? Germany

Ø  What is Pegasus? New system developed to drive robotaxis

Ø  What are the two Schemes introduced by cabinet to boost Skill India
Mission? SANKALP & STRIVE

Ø  To honour the sacrifices of the martyrs, which state government has

decided to construct ‘Gaurav Marg Path’ which will contain statues of the
martyrs?Uttar Pradesh

Ø  American financial technology company Mastercard launched its first

innovation lab in which part of India? Pune, Maharashtra

Ø  What the name of recycled rocket launched by SpaceX which landed on

a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean?Falcon 9

Ø  Name the Life Insurance Company has launched Neo, a servicing bot
for Twitter, to improve customer service.  HDFC Standard Life Insurance

Ø  October 4th to 10th was declared as World Space Week in 1999 and its
celebrated every year. What is the World Space Week theme for 2017?
Exploring New Worlds In Space’

Ø  Which country has won the Asia cup Men's Hockey? India

Ø  Who has won the Denmark open badminton championship? Kadambi

Srikanth

Ø  Who has been awarded the best male player by FIFA? Ronaldo

Ø  Who has been awarded the best female player by FIFA? Deyna
Castellanos

Ø  Amba vilas Palace is the main of palace which famous Palace? Mysore

Ø  Name the famous indian women who is also the CEO of Pepsico? Indira
Nooyi

Ø  Margaret Thatcher is the longest serving PM of which country? United

Kingdom

Ø  What is the name of world's only flightless parrot? Kakapo

Ø  Which country's airlines is planning to build battery-powered aircraft for
flights? US

Ø  For which work Arvind Adiga got the booker prize? The White Tiger

Ø  Who is known as father of Indian  surgery? Sushruta samhita

Ø  Which epic mentioned the concept of cloning , test tube babies?

Mahabharata

Ø  Name the indian mathematician who worked on the approximation of the

value of Pi? Aryabhatta

Ø  Which religious Hymn calculated the distance between earth and sun?
hanuman chalisa

Ø  Which space travel company wants to send Cargo ships to Mars?

Space X, founded by Elon Musk'

Ø  Which social media company confirms group voice calls as a facility?

whatsApp

Ø  Who discovered the first solar flare? British astronomer Richard C

Carrington

Ø  What is the name of the Robot that helped to clean up Fukushima?

Avexis

Ø  Who suggested the name United Nations ? Franklin D Roosevelt

Ø  When is UN day celebrated? October 24

Ø  With which country we can associate Rohingya refugees? Myanmar

Ø  Who is the current railway minister of India? Piyush Goyal

Ø  What does the Initial R in RK Narayan and Rk Laxman stands for?

Rasipuram

Ø  Which famous mascot was drawn by RK Laxman? Common Man,

Maharaja of Air India

Ø  The term Cold war introduced by whom? Bernard M Baruch

Ø  What is the name of world's highest shiva temple and where is it?
Tungnath in Uttarkhand
Ø  Who invented Ball Point pen? Lazio Biro

Ø  Who developed Polio vaccine? J perkins

Ø  What is Cartosat? ISRO's remote sensing satellite

Ø  Which satellite is also called as , Sixth eye in the sky? Cartosat

Ø  Which indian city will host International children's film festival?

Hyderabad

Ø  Where can we find the famous Girnar Temples? Ahmedabad

Ø  Which religion's sacred book is Tripitakas? Buddhism

Ø  Sultan of Johar cup is associated with which sport? Hockey

Ø  Who is the current external minister of India? Sushma swaraj

Ø  Which wing of Indian armed forces is working on a plan to employ

women officers as cyber warriors? indian army

Ø  Which creature has inspired the development of Synthetic Camouflaging

skin? Octopus

Ø  Whose autobiography is Lone fox dancing: My Autobiography? Ruskin

bond

Ø  which country's passport has been announced as the most powerful

passport in the world? Singapore

Ø  Which transport entity in India is planning to introduce website and app

to hep book tickets faster? Indian railways

Ø  What is the name of the government web portal that allows citizens to
give suggestion on public election? MyGov Web

Ø  Which rebellion will be replaced as the first war of Indian independence?

Paka Bidorba of 1817

Ø  Who is the current HRD minister? Prakash Javadekar

Ø  Who has been retained as the chinese PM for the second time? Xi
jinping

Ø  Who is the deputy CM of Delhi? Manish Sisodia

Ø  Who is the deputy CM of Tamilnadu? O.Panneer Selvam

Ø  What is a Spam ? Junk e-mail

Ø  Who is the Chief justice of India? Deepak Misra

Ø  When is national sports day observed? August 29

Ø  Whose birthday is observed as national sports day? dhyaan Chand

Ø  How do people fondly call Dhyaan Chand? Wizard of Hockey

Ø  Who won the 2017 women's world cup cricket? England

Ø  Which two teams have qualified for 2017 FIFA under17 worldcup?
England and Spain

Ø  What is the name of india's mission to moon? Chandrayaan

Ø  Expand GSLV? Geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle

Ø  What is the name of india's second mission to moon? Chandrayaan - II

Ø  Who was the project director of Chandrayaan - 1? Mayilsami Annadurai

Ø  What is the name of india's mission to mars? mangalyaan

Ø  Which university's scientists have developed next generation Hybrid

RoboBee that can swim ,fly? Harvard

Ø  Which search engine has introduced Zoom out, feature that allow
explore earth and other planets? Google Maps

Ø  Which country's scientists have developed type of rice that can be

grown in sea water? China

Ø  Which company has made Synthetic poly amide fibre called Nylon?
DuPont

Ø  Sanchi Stupa is a architectural monument of which religion? Buddhism

Ø  Who devised world's smallest heart? Robert Jarvik

Ø  On which date Halloween celebrated? October 31

Ø  Where is Kandla Port Trust located? Gujarat

Ø  Pobitora wildlife sanctuary is famous for its great Indian ____________?
One horned Rhino

Ø  In which Indian city, the India’s First Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra for
Skilling in Smart Cities inaugurated? New Delhi

Ø  “Yadadri supercritical thermal power project” by BHEL is to be executed

in which Indian state? Telengana

Ø  What is SS Thistlegorm?  Navy Ship

Ø  Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which is
located between the orbits of which two planets? Mars & Jupiter

Ø  What is the Parent Agency of Intelligence Bureau in India ? Ministry of

Home Affairs

Ø  Which Indian State’s Election Department has entered Limca Book of

Records for the formation of the biggest human logo comprising young
voters in the state? Meghalaya

Ø  Myanmar announced to launch its own satellite system in June 2019

which was named as __________? MyanmarSat-2

Ø  Which country hosted the International Shooting Sport Federation

(ISSF) World Cup tournament? India

Ø  Which Indian state was the first state to announce that starting from
2018, it will switch to January-December financial year from the existing
April-March cycle?  Madhya Pradesh

Ø  Which country opened the world’s first 3D-printed concrete bridge,

mainly for the use of cyclists?Netherlands

Ø  Which country has the world’s largest auto industry? China

Ø  Which networking company bought US software company “BroadSoft” ?

CISCO

Ø  Researchers from Brunel University in the UK have developed the first

3D printed wearable ‘_____________’? Battery