October Revision Class 2

Question 1. Name the mountaineers who created history by climbing 6180 meter high unnamed peak in Himachal's Spiti Valley.

Answer. Arjun Vajpai and Bhupesh Kumar

Question 2. What is the name of the unnamed peak 6180 m in Himachal spiti valley given by duo mountaineers?

Answer. Mount Kalam, in honour of former President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam.

Question 3. Who won the Man Booker Prize 2015 for fiction?

Answer. Jamaican writer, Marlon James

Question 4. Name of the Man Booker Prize 2015 winning novel.

Answer. A Brief History of Seven Killings

Question 5. Who is chosen as the 'Finance Minister of the Year, Asia' by London-based publication Emerging Markets in October 2015?

Answer. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

Question 6. Who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics?

Answer. Angus Deaton

Question 7. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2015?

Answer. Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

Question 8. Who was chosen for the 2015 Hridaynath Mangeskar Award?

Answer. A R Rehman

Question 9. Who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature and which country does person belong to?

Answer. Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich

Question 10. Who was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award during the closing ceremony of the 6th Jagran Film Festival in Mumbai?

Answer. Veteran Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor