Current Affairs MCQ for UPSC Exams - 21 October 2014

:: National ::

Q.1

44Which party is set to lose its status as a national party after it failed to win the two seats in Assembly elections of Maharashtra and Haryana, which were needed to hold on to this status?

a. INLD
b. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
c. AIADMK
d. Samta Party (SP)

:: International ::

Q.2

1. HeForShe’ is a solidarity campaign to end gender inequality by 2030 initiated by U.N. Women.
2. The campaign was started at UN headquarters in New York on 20 September 2014.
3. The goal is to engage men and boys as advocates and agents of change in the effort to achieve equality.

Which of the following statements is/are true-?

a. 1 & 2
b. 1 & 3
c. All of the above
d. None of the above

Q.3

1. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on 20 October declared Nigeria officially free of Ebola infections and called this outcome the triumphal result of “world-class epidemiological detective work.”
2. The announcement came 42 days after the last reported infection in Nigeria’s outbreak, twice the maximum incubation period for the Ebola virus.

Which of the following statements is/are true-?

a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Neither 1 nor 2
d. Both 1 & 2

:: Person in News ::

Q. 4

Who was appointed as the Ebola ‘Czar’ to oversee the Ebola response of United States by President Barack Obama?

a. Ron Klain
b. Eric Duncan
c. Joe Biden
d. Al Gore

Q. 5

1. Joko Widodo was sworn in as Indonesia’s new President on 20 October 2014.
2. He becomes the first Indonesian President not to come from the ranks of the country’s established political, business and military elite.

Which of the following statements is/are true-?

a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Neither 1 nor 2
d. Both 1 & 2

:: Science & technology ::

Q.6

1. Laser physicists in Australia have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects, using a hollow laser beam that is bright around the edges and dark in its centre.
2. It is the first long-distance optical tractor beam and moved particles one-fifth of a millimeter in diameter a distance of up to 20 cm, around 100 times further than previous experiments.