Practice Quiz set 4 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) ISIS, a jehadist group has captured many territories and a civil war like situation is emerging in?
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The Sunni Jihadists have captured many parts in Southern Iraq.
Q-2) Which space agency has launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft (MMS)?
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On March 13, 2015, NASA has launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft (MMS), which the first ever spacecraft to study the magnetic reconnection.
Q-3) Gulen Movement is mainly associated with which of the following countries?
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The Gülen movement is a religious and social movement led by Turkish Islamic scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen.
Q-4) Chung Hung Won is the Prime Minister of?
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Chung Hung Won was retained as Prime Minister of South Korea on 25 June 2014. The President of South Korea, Park Geun-Hye announced the decision to retain Chung Hung Won who had resigned over the ferry disaster in April 2014.
Chung Hong-Won resigned as Prime Minister on 27 April 2014 taking responsibility for the government’s inability and untimely response to the ferry disaster. President Park accepted the resignation and asked him to remain in the job until a new Prime Minister was found.
Q-5) NATO Summit-2014 was held at
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NATO Summit-2014 concluded with Wales declaration which focused on some major international issues.
Q-6) Consider the following statements for use of foreign Funds in India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund:
- Sovereign and pension funds from Russia, Singapore, the U.K. and the UAE are among those to express interest in the Rs. 40,000-crore National Investment and Infrastructure Fund
- The government will invest Rs. 20,000 crores in the Fund that will build greenfield and brownfield projects and revive stalled projects. The remaining Rs. 20,000 crores are expected to come from private investors. The government’s share in the corpus will not exceed 49 per cent.
Which statement/ statements is/are correct?
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Both the statements are correct.
Q-7) Consider the following statements. - A Russian military unit will be permanently stationed in the Arctic by 2018.
- Defence minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russia is building several new bases in the Arctic as well as rebuilding six Soviet-era air bases there.
- Approximately 150 troops will be able to live on the base for up to 18 months without outside contact when it opens.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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Defence minister Sergei Shoigu said Russia is building several new bases in the Arctic as well as rebuilding six Soviet-era air bases there.
Q-8) The first United Nations Environment Assembly held recently at?
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The first United Nations Environment Assembly held at the headquarter of UNEP at Nairobi.
Q-9) Joko Widodo recently won the presidential election in which of the following countries?
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Joko Widodo defeated Prabowo Subianto to win the presidential election in Indonesia.
Q-10) Consider the reasons why Nepal turned to the UN over ‘obstruction’ of trade point with India.
- Nepal claims to be suffering from scarcity of essential goods like fuel and cooking gas due to the “undeclared blockade” of a key trade point at the border with India.
- It also appealed to the international community to ensure effective and unhindered freedom of transit of land-locked countries is not curtailed.
- India’s blockade is affecting the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action from the year 2014 to 2024 of developing countries (LLDCs) like Nepal.
Which of the above statements is not correct?
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All the above are correct.