October (Part 1): 1. National Voluntary Blood Donation Day was celebrated on? Ans: October 1st 2. President Pranab Mukherjee authorised Vigilance Commissioner _____ to act as CVC? Ans: Rajiv 3. Google closed _____ its social networking site permanently on 30 sept 2014? Ans: Orkut 4. Union government accorded in-principle approval for setting up _____ more STPIs in Odisha taking the number of such parks to 10. Ans: Six 5. Global pharma firm with which Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals tied up is? Ans: Sanofi 6. MC Mary Kom bagged her first Asian Games Gold Medal. She belongs to? Ans: Boxing 7. First case of Ebola virus in the US diagnosed in? Ans: Texas 8. International Day of Older Persons 2014 observed across the world on ? Ans: October 1st. (Theme - Leaving No One Behind: Promoting a Society for All) 9. 32 people killed and about 15 were injured in a stampede that occurred at the main Dussehra event at Gandhi Maidan in _____? Ans: Patna 10. Narendra Modi for the first time addressed the countrymen over radio in programme? Ans: Man Ki Baat. 11. World Animal Day was observed on? Ans: 4th October 12. ________became first Indian state to start olive refinery? Ans: Rajasthan 13. NASA’s Earth Observatory claimed that world’s fourth-largest lake, _____ Sea has dried and is at the verge of vanish? Ans: Aral Sea 14. British aid worker _________ beheaded by ISIS militants? Ans: Alan Henning 15. ______ won CLT20 2014 title of Cricket by defeating KKR? Ans: Chennai Super Kings 16. ________ received Global Diversity Award 2014 at the House of Commons? Ans: Shah Rukh Khan 17. Group of Japan that acquired the car lease division of Carzonrent India for 200 crore rupees? Ans: Sumitomo 18. Scientists of which State University developed worlds first rechargeable solar battery? Ans: Ohio 19. EU Competition Commission approved Facebook – WhatsApp deal for worth of ____ Billion USD? Ans: 19 20. TS GENCO and ______ signed MoU to establish thermal power plants to generate 6000 MW of electricity in Telangana. Ans: BHEL (Part - 2): 21. World’s first womb-transplant baby born in which country? Ans: Sweden 22. Newspaper which issued Apology for Racist Cartoon on Indias Mars Mission ? Ans: Newyork Times 23. 2014 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology category? Ans: John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser 24. Government that constituted a high-level composite Task Force to investigate into blasts at Khagragarh in Burdwan District? Ans: West bengal 25. US partially lifted 40 year ban on arm sales to ______ to boost defence in South China Sea? Ans: Vietnam 26. Country that recorded highest number of polio cases in 14 years ? Ans: Pakistan 27. _______ was conferred with Sir Ross Masood Lifetime Achievement Award 2014 ? Ans: Saiyid Hamid 28. USA Swimming suspended _______from all competition for six months for violating the organizations code of conduct? Ans: Michael Phelps 29. Technology giant ________ to split into two publicly traded companies ? Ans: Hewlett-Packard 30. NIIT Limited next CEO ? Ans: Rahul Keshav Patwardhan 31. Anbang Insurance Group Co Ltd acquired New York luxury hotel ______? Ans: Waldorf Astoria 32. Noble Prize was announced for the research in _________________ System in physiology? Ans: Brain Posistioning System 33. 17th Asian Games 2014 was held in ______ from 19 September to 4 October 2014 ? Ans: Incheon, South Korea 34. 2014 Nobel Prize winners in Physics Category? Ans: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura 35. World Habitat Day observed globally on? Ans: October 6th. 36. Siegfried Lenz died . He is? Ans: German author 37. __________ panel submitted its report with guidelines on government ads ? Ans: Madhava Menon 38. _____ announced to stop phone calls within India ? Ans: Skype 39. President of India presented the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award 2014 to ? (Part - 3): 41. Former New York Mayor _______ was bestowed an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Ans: Michael Bloomberg 42. CEO of Jet Airways? Ans. Cramer Ball 43. _____ won 2014 Waislitz Global Citizen Award ? Ans: Anoop Jain 44. ______ to Launch New Marine Surveillance Satellites HY-3 by 2019 ? Ans: China 45. Yuri Lyubimov died. He is? Ans: Russian Stage actor 46. A book titled Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age authored by ? Ans: Alexander Bard 47. Indian Air Force celebrated 82nd Air Force Day on ? Ans: 8th October 48. 2014 Nobel Prize awardees in feild of Chemistry ? Ans: Eric Betzig, Stefan W Hell and William E. Moerner 49. Madhav Vittal Kamath died. He is ? Ans: Veteran journalist 50. Worthy Fights authored by ? Ans: Panetta and Newton 51. GOLIL tied up with Mahindra & Mahindra Limited for supplying ________ ? Ans: Lubricants 52. Union Government to sell LED bulbs at ____ rupees against 400 rupees? Ans: 10 53. World Post Day observed globally on ? Ans: 9th October 54. Union MNRE signed MoU for setting up first-ever Offshore Wind Power Project in _______? Ans: Gujarat 55. DIPP constituted a special team _______ to fast track Japanese investments ? Ans: Japan Plus 56. Cyclonic storm named Hudhud is the deep depression over _______ Sea? Ans: North Andaman 57. _________ resigned as Sangeet Natak Akademi chairperson ? Ans: Leela Samson 58. First woman director of HUL ? Ans: Kalpana Morparia 59. _______ won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature ? Ans: French author Patrick Modiano 60. A book titled A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power written by ? Ans: Bette Dam (Part 4) : 61. Swedish telecom gear firm _______ on signed a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) or 4G network deal with Bharti Airtel. Ans: Ericsson 62. 2014 Nobel Peace Prize 2014 winners? Ans: Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi 63. UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia ? Ans: Amir Khan 64. __________, the Academy Award winning Mexican Director, to be honoured by Museum of Modern Art ? Ans: Alfonso Cuaron 65. ______ Cremations: environment friendly alternative to cremate human body ? Ans: Bio cremations 66. ______ Committee on Post Sachar Evaluation submitted its report to the Union government ? Ans: Kundu headed by Prof. Amitabh Kundu. 67. Union Government launched year-long birth centenary celebrations of Ghazal singer ______ ? Ans: Begum Akhtar 68. International Cricket Council (ICC) banned the Zimbabwe bowler ______ and Bangladeshi bowler _______ from bowling in international cricket. Ans: Prosper Utseya & Sohag Gazi 69. Gujarat government set up a Special Purpose Vehicle to promote _________ as the cultural capital of Gujarat ? Ans: Vadodara 70. Month-long Akashdeep ritual started in _______ to honour fallen soldiers . Ans: Varanasi 71. India and the ____ government launched Financial Partnership to strengthen Links Between the Financial Services Industries? Ans: UK 72. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) on the birth anniversary of ________ on 11 October ? Ans: Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan 73. International edition of Encyclopedia of _______ by India Heritage Research Foundation released ? Ans: Hinduism 74. International Day of the Girl Child observed with the theme Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence on ? Ans: 11 October 75. Bombay High Court on ruled in favour of ______ in 3200 crore rupees tax dispute case arising on account of transfer pricing. Ans: Vodafone 76. _______ won Shanghai Masters trophy of Tennis (Mens) ? Ans: Roger Federer 77. Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa flagged off _______ Express from Palai after 25 years ? Ans: Yal Devi 78. Cyclone Hudhud struck coastal areas of ________ & _________? Ans: Andhra Pradesh and Odisha 79. Powerful typhoon Vongfong struck ______ ? Ans: Japan 80. ______ to allow US led coalition to use its Incirlik Air Base to fight against ISIS ? Ans: Turkey (Part-5): 81. NASA successfully installed its first Earth-observing instrument on _______ the ISS Ans: ISS-RapidScat 82. ______ and Future Groups signed deal to jointly sell goods online ? Ans: Amazon 83. India signed the Minamata Convention on _______ ? Ans: Mercury 84. _____ to host first leg of Asia Cup Archery Tournament in January 2015 ? Ans: India 85. French economist _______ won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics ? Ans: Jean Tirole 86. JP Morgan cut India 2014-15 growth forecast to _____ percent from 5.3 percent ? Ans: 5.1 87. French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi met with an accident during ______ GP? Ans: Japanese GP 88. _______ removed former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi as its President ? Ans: Rajasthan Cricket Association 89. Lyricist ______ honoured with Kishore Kumar Award for 2012-13 ? Ans: Sameer 90. British Formula One driver ______ won inaugural Russian Grand Prix ? Ans. Lewis Hamilton 91. _____ won Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament ? Ans: Ajay Jayaram 92. Tata Value homes launched tatavaluehomes to sell homes online in ____ cities? Ans: 5 93. _______ voted as Indias Most Valuable Player in Asian Games 2014 ? Ans: Mary Kom 94. Khaled Bahah appointed as Prime Minister of _______ ? Ans. Yemen 95. Poet-diplomat _____ honoured with Asia-Pacific Excellence Award ? Ans: Abhay K 96. According to Global Hunger Index Report 2014 , India Ranked at ____ Position ? Ans: 55th 97. Australian author _______ won 2014 Man Booker Prize ? Ans: Richard Flanagan 98. New Managing Director of CPCL (Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd) ? Ans: Gautham Roy 99. Union Ministry of H&FW banned the import of ______ tested cosmetics in India ? Ans: Animal 100. Global Handwashing Day observed across the world on ? Ans: 15th October
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