TEST YOURSELF

1. Where is India’s first all women SWAT team a) Mauritius

launched? b) Malaysia
a) Mumbai c) Bhutan
b) Delhi d) Nepal
c) Bangalore
d) Hyderabad 7. Consider the following statement regarding
Zika Virus:
2. Which city topped the list in EIU’s Global 1. It is a vector borne disease transmitted
Liveability Index? primarily by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
a) Melbourne 2. Researchers have identified Zika
b) Sydney proteins responsible for microcephaly in
infants..
c) Vienna
Which of the above statement(s) is/are
d) Osaka Incorrect?
a) 1 only
3. What is Innocenti Declaration about? b) 2 only
a) promotion of homoeopathy medicine c) Both 1 and 2
b) prevent sexual violence against women d) Neither 1 nor 2
at workplaces
c) protection, promotion and support of
breastfeeding 8. Which of the following pairs are not correctly
matched?
d) conference to commemorate first World
Aids Day a) Gaofen-11: Satellite Launched by NASA
to probe Sun
b) The Transiting Exoplanet Survey
4. Scrub Typhus is caused by Satellite (TESS): Planet Hunting Probe
a) Virus c) CRISPR-Cas9: Genome editing
b) Bacteria d) RISECREEK: Microprocessor developed
c) Both by IIT
d) None
9. Consider the following statements regading
5. International Buddhist Conclave is organised Smart Anti Airfield Weapon (SAAW):
by 1. It is India’s first fully indigenous anti-
a) Ministry of Culture airfield weapon project.
b) Ministry of Tourism 2. It was indigenously developed by state-
run Defence Research and Development
c) Ministry of Minority Affairs
Organisation (DRDO) in collaboration
d) Ministry of External Affairs with IAF and the Research Centre Imarat
(RCI).
6. 11th Hindi World Conference was held in Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

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 a) 1 only
b) 2 only 13. Consider the following statements regarding
c) Both 1 and 2 India’s Ballistic Missile Defence System:
d) Neither 1 nor 2 1. The Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) is developing a two-
tier Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD)
10. Consider the following pairs: system that provides a multi-layered
1. Aeolus: First wind-sensing satellite shield against ballistic missile attacks.
launched by EU 2. The two-tier system consists of a Prithvi
2. Bennu: Near-Earth carbonaceous Air Defence (PAD) missile which can
asteroid intercept the incoming missile in endo-
sphere and Advanced Air Defence (AAD)
3. OSIRIS-Rex: Satellite to study the
for exo-sphere interception.
atmosphere of Mars
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
4. HELINA: Anti-tank guided missile
a) 1 only
Which of the above pairs are Correctly matched?
b) 2 only
a) 1, 2 and 3
c) Both 1 and 2
b) 1, 2 and 4
d) Neither 1 nor 2
c) 2, 3 and 4
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
14. In which of the following states Defence
Industrial Corridor Projects have been
11. Which of the following pairs are not correctly launched?
matched?
a) Tamil Nadu
a) International Tiger Day: 29 July
b) Uttar Pradesh
b) World Biofuel Day: 9 August
c) Both A and B
c) World Earth Day: 22 April
d) Neither A nor B
d) World Environment Day: 5 June

15. Which of the following countries does not

12. The Laboratory for the Conservation of share boundary with Caspian Sea?
Endangered Species (LaCONES) is situated
a) Kazakhstan
in
b) Tajikistan
a) Hyderabad
c) Turkmenistan
b) New Delhi
d) Azerbaijan
c) Gurugram
d) None of the above
ANSWERS
1. B 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. A 9. C 10. B
11. B 12. A 13. D 14. C 15. B

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