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16501. Veteran Bollywood actor who is known for his stellar performances in villainous roles in movies like Sadak, Ishq and Ardh Satya, passed away on November 3, 2014?
Answer: Sadashiv Amrapurkar.
16502. The Ministry of Information and Culture of which country asked all TV channels to avoid running commercial advertisements featuring female models on November 3, 2014?
Answer: Afghanistan.
16503. Senior IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre who has taken over as secretary of Central Vigilance Commission?
Answer: Shri Alok Kumar.
16504. Thirteen years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, New York"s World Trade Centre has reopened for business on?
Answer: November 3, 2014.
16505. Which railway station has become the first station in the country to have WiFi facility for providing high speed internet to passengers?
Answer: Bangalore Railway Station.
16507. Name the rare piece of artwork painted by Vincent van Gogh weeks before his death which is sold for $ 8 million in the New York City"s fall art auctions of impressionist and modern art?
Answer: "Still Life, Vase With Daisies and Poppies."
16508. Who lifted the overall Trophy in the 54th National Open Athletics Championships held in New Delhi?
Answer: Railways.
16510. Name the autobiography of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar which was launched on 5 November 2014 in Mumbai?
Answer: “Playing it my way”
16511. Who has been appointed as the Chief Minister of Goa on 8 November 2014, replacing Manohar Parrikar?
Answer: Laxmikant Parsekar.
16512. Name the nuclear weapon-capable ballistic missile which was successfully test fired by India from Wheeler Island off the Odisha Coast on November 9, 2014?
Answer: Agni-II.
16514. Renowned Malayalam writer and winner of the Kerala Sahitya Academy award who passed away on November 8, 2014?
Answer: Hridayakumari.
16515. Which country defeated Australia (3-1) in the four-match Men’s Hockey Test series held in Australia in November 2014?
Answer: India.
16516. Veteran communist leader and former minister of Kerala who founded the regional rebel outfit Communist Marxist Party (CMP), passed away on November 9, 2014?
Answer: M .V .Raghavan.
16518. Who won the Man of the series award in the three Test cricket matches played between Pakistan and New Zealand held in Abudabi in November 2014?
Answer: Mohammad Hafeez (Pakistan).
16519. The Supreme Court on November 11, 2014 asked a senior advocate to continue to assist it as amicus curiae in the row over the administration and management of Kerala’s Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple. Name that advocate?
Answer: Gopal Subramanium.
16520. Senior IRS officer who has been appointed as the new chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex authority of the Income Tax department?
Answer: Anita Kapur.
16521. Who has scored the fastest 50 in Test cricket and equalled the world record for quickest century in the match against Australia?
Answer: Misbah-ul-Haq. (Pakistan).
16522. The captain of the South Korean ferry who has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for negligence and abandoning passengers when his ship sank earlier this year, killing more than 300 people, mostly high school students.?
Answer: Lee Joon-seok.
16523. Malaysia"s world number one who has been provisionally suspended by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for an "apparent" anti-doping violation?
Answer: Lee Chong Wei.
16524. Legendary Tabla maestro international repute and belonged to the Delhi Gharana who passed away on November 12, 2014?
Answer: Ustad Faiyaz Khan.
16525. Name the first human-made spacecraft which has landed on the surface of a comet in November 2014?
Answer: Philae.
16526. Which cricketer has become the first man to hit 250 in a one-day international?
Answer: Rohit Sarma.
16527. Indian movie producer and director who is known for directing the epic Indian television series Mahabharat, passed away on November 12, 2014?
Answer: Ravi Chopra.
16528. Name the doctor who has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 15 women at two state-run sterilisation camps in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh?
Answer: Dr RK Gupta.
16529. The probe commission which was looking into the betting and fixing scandal in the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL), has submitted its final report in a closed envelope to a special Supreme Court bench on November 3,The commission is headed by?
Answer: Justice Mukul Mudgal.
16530. Who has been appointed as one-man committee by the Ministry of Railways to suggest a "proper system and procedure to ensure proper accountability and transparency" at General Manager level and other functionaries level for taking all commercial decisions?
Answer: E. Sreedharan.
16531. Who won the Player of the series award in the 5 ODI cricket series between South Africa and Australia held in Australia in November 2014?
Answer: Steven Smith. (Australia).
16532. Which cricketer has been declared ICC Cricketer of the Year -2014 as well as the ICC Test cricketer of the Year-2014?
Answer: Mitchell Johnson (Australia).
16533. Name the nuclear capable missile which is successfully test fired by India on November 14, 2014 from a warship off the Odisha coast hours after conducting a training launch of Prithvi-II missile?
Answer: Dhanush
16534. Who has become the world"s youngest qualified computer specialist after passing a Microsoft Windows exam at the age of just five?
Answer: Ayan Qureshi.
16535. Indian shuttler who clinched the women’s singles events of China Open Super Series Premier-2014 after beating young Akane Yamaguchi of Japan in the final?
Answer: Saina Nehwal.
16536. Indian shuttler who clinched the men’s singles events of China Open Super Series Premier-2014 after beating Lin Dan of China in the final?
Answer: K Srikanth.
16537. The US aid worker who was beheaded by Islamic State Terrorists in November 2014 after being kidnapped and held by ISIS militants last year?
Answer: Abdul-Rahman Kassig.
16540. Name the indigenously developed surface-to-air missile of India which is successfully test-fired on November 17, 2014 from a test range in Odisha as part of user trial by the Air Force?
Answer: Akash.
16542. Which space agency successfully installed the world’s first zero-gravity 3D printer on the International Space Station (ISS) to help astronauts experiment with additive manufacturing in microgravity?
Answer: NASA.
16543. Which cricketer has been chosen for the BCCI’s Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013-14?.
Answer: Dilip Vengsarkar.
16544. Which cricketer won the Polly Umrigar Award for best international cricketer for 2013-14 season?
Answer: Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
16545. Who is sworn in as the interim President of Burkina Faso on 18 November 2014?
Answer: Michel Kafando.
16546. Which countries on November 18, 2014 signed five agreements, including on exchange of sentenced prisoners and on tourism?
Answer: India and Australia.
16547. Which state has become the first State to make voting compulsory in local bodies?
Answer: Gujarat.
16548. Miss Honduras who has been found murdered just days before she was due to compete in the Miss World pageant-2014 in London?
Answer: Maria Jose Alvarado.
16549. The director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) who has been removed by the Supreme Court from the 2G spectrum case, saying he had attempted to help the accused in the spectrum scam and derail the investigation?
Answer: Ranjit Sinha.
16550. Who has become the second player to aggregate at least 1,000 runs in each of the last four years in One-Day Internationals (ODI)?
Answer: Virat Kohli
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