October 2024 GK 1

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  1. 1. Hassan Nasrallah was a cleric and politician in which country and served as the secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024 by ISRAEL
  2. 4. India has become the ____ economy in the world to surpass 700 billion US dollars in foreign reserves, joining China, Japan, and Switzerland.
  3. 5. As per recent data, which state leads the country in installed capacity for rooftop solar power under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana?
  4. 6. What is the name of the Indian Navy’s sailing vessel used in the Navika Sagar Parikrama expedition II
  5. 7. The Nobel Prize for Literature 2024 was awarded to Han Kang, she is from which country?
  6. 8. What is the rank of India in the ‘Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024’?
  7. 12. He can serve. He can dance. He can take selfies. He can talk. He can do anything “you want”. That is Tesla's ______ robot, who can be your humanoid friend.
  8. 13. “INDIAsize project”, recently seen in the news, is an initiative of which ministry
  9. 14. A measure of risk in the financial markets. In its simplest terms, it is how much an asset price tends to go up and down
  10. 15. Which country won the ‘Men’s Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 2024’?
  11. 16. This year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry was given to scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper. for their ground-breaking work in the field of?
  12. 20. The practice of borrowing shares, then selling them, in the hope of buying them back at a lower price and making a profit.
  13. 22. Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei is the supreme leader of ?
  14. 25. Recently, Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as the president of which country?
  15. 27. Which is the world's tallest imaging Cherenkov telescope, located in Hanle, Ladakh, at an approximate elevation of 4,300 meters.(Use abbreviation)
  16. 28. The Nobel Prize in which category for 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
  17. 29. Who has been appointed as the new chairman of Tata Trust
  18. 30. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (October 11, 2024) left for home after wrapping up his "productive" two-day visit to the ______ where he attended the ASEAN-India and East Asia Summit
  19. 31. In which state did BJP win the assemble election for 3rd consecutive time
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  1. 2. Which organization from Japan was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 2024?
  2. 3. Founder of TATA Group
  3. 9. Full form of FDI in trade terms
  4. 10. Recently, how many languages have conferred the status of Classical Language by the union government?
  5. 11. NASA scientists suggested which country's Three Gorges Dam may affect Earth’s rotation due to shifting massive amounts of water.
  6. 13. What is the rank of India in the Asia Power Index Report 2024, recently published by the Lowy Institute?
  7. 17. According to Ministry of Food and Public Distribution, what is the position of India in ethanol production and consumption globally?
  8. 18. Financial services companies that are not part of the regulated banking system but are still involved in lending and derivatives trading. The expansion of shadow banks in the early 2000s resulted in the credit expansion that eventually triggered the 2007-09 financial crisis
  9. 19. Llama 3.2, recently seen in the news, is an open-source AI model developed by which company
  10. 21. About two-thirds of the 1,800 employees at one of South Korean electronics giant Samsung’s flagship factories in which city,have been striking work for a month now, demanding higher wages, an eight-hour work day, better working conditions and for the recognition of their recently formed labour union — the Samsung India Workers Union, or SIWU.
  11. 23. What is the name of mission recently launched by Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways to promote cruise tourism in India
  12. 24. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of _____ and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
  13. 26. The Finance Minister has officially approved the elevation of ____ to the status of the 14th Maharatna Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE).(Use abbreviation)