Q1. Rita Bhaduri passed away recently. She was _____________.
(a) Politician
(b) Lyricist
(c) Singer
(d) Actor
(e) Poet
S1. Ans.(d)
Sol. Veteran actor Rita Bhaduri passed away after fighting a kidney-related ailment for many days. She was 62 years old. She was from the 1973 batch of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.
Q2. Name the Union Minister who co-chaired 8th session of India-Oman Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) in Muscat, Oman.
(a) Sushma Swaraj
(b) Suresh Prabhu
(c) Dharmendra Pradhan
(d) Piyush Goyal
(e) Nirmala Sitharaman
S2. Ans.(b)
Sol. The Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu co-chaired 8th session of India-Oman Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) along with Minister of Industry, Investment, Trade and Digital Economy of Oman, Dr Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidy.
Q3. Which of the following state government has launched the 'Paudhagiri' campaign with an aim to increase the green cover across the state?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Jharkhand
(c) Haryana
(d) Uttarakhand
(e) Madhya Pradesh
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched the 'Paudhagiri' campaign with an aim to increase the green cover in Haryana. CM Khattar launched the 'Paudhagiri' campaign by planting a 'maulsari' sapling in the Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex premises of Gurgaon.
Q4. India has been elected new President of Asian Tug of War Federation. India's Gautam Kaul won the prestigious post in the Federations' Executive Committee elections. The elections were held in ______________.
(a) Jharsa
(b) Thimpu
(c) New Delhi
(d) Kathmandu
(e) Mumbai
S4. Ans.(d)
Sol. India has been elected new President of Asian Tug of War Federation. India's Gautam Kaul won the prestigious post in the Federations' Executive Committee elections held in Kathmandu, Nepal. This is the first time when India has been elected to lead the organisation. The post of Secretary-General has also gone to India, while Nepal has got Treasurer's post.
Q5. With an aim of upgrading quality of education, research, hospital care facilities in the national AYUSH institutions throughout the country and develop them as light house institutions, All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) organized two days Conference of Heads of AYUSH National Institutes in ____________.
(a) Bhopal
(b) Jaipur
(c) New Delhi
(d) Indore
(e) Guwahati
S5. Ans.(c)
Sol. With an aim of upgrading quality of education, research, hospital care facilities in the national AYUSH institutions throughout the country and develop them as light house institutions, All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) under Ministry of AYUSH organized two days Conference of Heads of AYUSH National Institutes in New Delhi. The Inaugural session of the conference was graced by Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH Shri Shripad Yesso Naik.
Q6. A team comprising experts from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur and the University of Oxford has been selected for an award for exceptional research-led innovation to mitigate arsenic poisoning in the ____________ delta in India.
(a) Ganga-Yamuna
(b) Ganga-Brahmaputra
(c) Yamuna-Brahmaputra
(d) Ganga-Krishna
(e) None of the given options is true
S6. Ans.(b)
Sol. A team comprising experts from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur and the University of Oxford has been selected for an award for exceptional research-led innovation to mitigate arsenic poisoning in the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta in the north and northeast India.
Q7. One of the country’s first Defence incubators will come up in Hyderabad, which is India’s missile development centre and fast emerging the hub for aerospace industries. The incubator will be funded through which of the following scheme?
(a) Make in India Scheme
(b) POSHAN Scheme
(c) NDEX Scheme
(d) iDEX scheme
(e) None of the given schemes are true
S7. Ans.(d)
Sol. One of the country’s first Defence incubators will come up in Hyderabad, which is India’s missile development centre and fast emerging the hub for aerospace industries. The incubator will be housed at T-Hub. The Telangana State government proposes to accommodate the Defence incubator in the upcoming Phase-2 of the T-Hub. The incubator will be funded through the Ministry’s Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX) scheme.
Q8. Name the Wrestler who won gold at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, conceding just one point in five bouts en route to the title victory in the women's 50kg freestyle category.
(a) Babita Phogat
(b) Vinesh Phogat
(c) Sakshi Malik
(d) Heena Chanu
(e) Vasudha Dogra
S8. Ans.(b)
Sol. Wrestler Vinesh Phogat won gold at the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, conceding just one point in five bouts en route to the title victory in the women's 50kg freestyle category. The 23-year-old outclassed Canada's Natasha Fox 10-0 in the final.
Q9. JK Rowling will come out with the fourth novel titled ___________ in the series about the exploits of private investigator Cormoran Strike in September 2018.
(a) The Silkworm
(b) Career of Evil
(c) The Cuckoo's Calling
(d) Lethal White
(e) The Knowledge of Ice
S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. JK Rowling will come out with the fourth novel titled 'Lethal White' in the series about the exploits of private investigator Cormoran Strike in September 2018 under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Q10. Honda's Marc Marquez cruised to his ninth consecutive German Grand Prix victory to extend his MotoGP lead. He is from which of the following country?
(a) Russia
(b) France
(c) Spain
(d) Indonesia
(e) India
S10. Ans.(c)
Sol. Honda's Marc Marquez (of Spain) cruised to his ninth consecutive German Grand Prix victory to extend his MotoGP lead. He has now won in the top category at Sachsenring for the past six years and three times in the smaller classes before that.
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