Current Affairs October 2013 Questions and answers in PDF.
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1. Which country has recently launched the new generation Epsilon rocket?
Answer: Japan
2. According to the confirmation by NASA which spacecraft has become the first manmade object to go beyond the solar system and reach interstellar space?
Answer: Voyager 1
3. Which American Engineer and inventor of the Dolby Noise Reduction system, passed away recently?
Answer: Ray Milton Dolby
4. International Day for the Preservation of Ozone Layer was observed on .........?
Answer: September 16
5. Which Indian pair won the doubles title in the ITF Men’s tennis tournament in Egypt?
Answer: N. Sriram Balaji and Ranjeet Virali Murugesan
6. India’s nuclear capable intercontinental ballistic missile, successfully test fired recently from Chandipur?
Answer: Agni V
7. According to the UN report, which gas was used in the chemical attacks in Syria?
Answer: Sarin
8. Which two cricketers have been banned for life by the BCCI for spot fixing during IPL 6?
Answer: S. Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan
9. Where was India’s first marine eco sensitive zone declared?
Answer: Gulf of Kutch
10. Who was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: Tony Abbott
11. Hindi Day was celebrated across India on:
Answer: 14th September, It was on this day in 1949 that the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi as the official language.
12. International Day of Democracy was observed on:
Answer: September 15
13. Which Indian has recently been declared the world’s tallest woman by the Guinness World Records?
Answer: Siddiqa Parveen
14. Which sport regained its place in the Olympic Games 2020 and 2024 after a recent voting by the International Olympic Committee members?
Answer: Wrestling
15. Which Australian has become the world’s youngest person to fly a single engine aircraft solo around the world?
Answer: Ryan Campbell (19 years)
16. Who received this year’s Tagore Award for Cultural harmony?
Answer: Zubin Mehta
17. International Literacy Day was observed on:
Answer: September 8
18. The world’s highest civilian airport recently opened in China?
Answer: Daocheng Yading Airport
19. International Day of Peace was observed on:
Answer: September 21
20. Which film has been chosen as India’s entry for the best foreign film to the Oscars 2013?
Answer: The Good Road. The Gujarati film is directed by Gyan Correa
21. Which Indian has been elected chairperson of the International Coffee Council?
Answer: Jawaid Akhtar
22. Where is the Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University coming up?
Answer: Rae Bareli (Utter Pradesh)
23. Which football club won this year’s Durand Cup?
Answer: Mohammedan Sporting. They won the cup after 73 years.
24. Who won the women’s Table Tennis World Cup?
Answer: Liu Shiwen (China)
25. Which country unveiled its most powerful supercomputer named Raijin?
Answer: Australia
26. Which country launched world’s first ever Deep Ultra Violet solid-state Laser device?
Answer: China
27. The eminent athletic coach and Dronacharya Award winner who passed away on 25 September?
Answer: A. K Kutty
28. The former Bihar Chief Minister who has been sentenced to five years imprisonment in the fodder scam case?
Answer: Lalu Prasad Yadav
29. Who has been appointed as the new Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom?
Answer: Ranjan Mathai
30. Which Indian journalist was presented with ‘Friendship Award’, China’s highest honour for foreign experts?
Answer: Ravi Shankar
31. Who won the Miss World 2013 title?
Answer: Megan Young
32. Who is appointed as the new IPL Chairman?
Answer: Ranjib Biswal
33. Which country withdrew recently from the Commonwealth of Nations?
Answer: The Gambia
34. The scientists who won this year’s Nobel prize in Medicine?
Answer: James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof.
35. The 2014 Commonwealth Games is to be held in:
Answer: Glasgow (United Kingdom)
36. Who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics?
Answer: Peter W. Higgs (Britain) and Francois Englert (Belgium)
37. The International Day of Rural Women was observed on:
Answer: October 15
38. Who are the winners of 2013 Nobel Prize for Economics?
Answer: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J Shiller
39. World Arthritis Day was observed on:
Answer: October 12
40. Which organization has won the Nobel Prize for Peace 2013?
Answer: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
41. Who won the Chemistry Nobel 2013?
Answer: Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel.
42. Who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Alice Munro (Canada)
43. The Inga dam is the World’s largest proposed hydropower project. In which country this dam is being constructed?
Answer: Democratic Republic of Congo
44. Which nation has become the first European nation to make military service compulsory for women?
Answer: Norway
45. Who has written the book ‘The River of Smoke’?
Answer: Amitav Ghosh
46. As on June 2013, which is India’s super fast computer?
Answer: iData Plex
47. Who has been appointed as Director General, National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence?
Answer: Krishna Chaudhary
48. Who has won the men’s singles title of Singapore Open Super series badminton tournament 2013?
Answer: Tommy Sugiarto
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