Practice Quiz set 5 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) Which bank has launched India’s first contactless debit and credit cards?
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Contactless cards launched by ICICI Bank can be used to make electronic payments by waving the cards near the merchant terminal instead of dipping or swiping. These cards are based on Near Field Communication technology.
Q-2) Scientists of the JNU’s school of Biotechnology discovered a gene that can restrict tumours, the discovered gene is :
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Scientists at the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Biotechnology claimed in the third week of January 2013 the discovery of SCO2 gene having potential qualities of restricting tumours.
Q-3) Delhi Police has launched a mobile application in January 2015 named
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The Himmat application will allow women to send a distress call to the Police Control Room and their relatives in case of any emergency.
Q-4) Diskagma Buttonii a 2.2 billion year old fossils discovered in
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Q-5) Consider the following statements about Lakshya: - It is one of India’s advanced light helicopters.
- It is remote-controlled from the ground and designed to impart training to pilots.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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The Lakshya is an Indian remotely piloted high speed target drone system developed by the ADE of DRDO. It is a Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA). So far 23 PTA have been inducted in the defence system. It has a range of 150 km.
Q-6) Which of the following is India’s development IRBM?
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Agni II is an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile of India. It is a missile with two solid fuel stages and a Post Boost Vehicle (PBV) integrated into the missile's Re-entry Vehicle (RV). It is both road and rail mobile. In the Agni series of ballistic missiles, Agni II, Agni III and Agni IV are IRBMs.
Q-7) Enceladus, where NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has suggested possibility of liquid water is a moon of
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has identified 101 geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus suggesting possibility of liquid water.
Q-8) Consider the following statements : - The department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is get permission to locate the India- based neutrino observatory(INO) at Singara in Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu.
- The INO is a major underground experimental facility to study the elusive and nearlymass- less fundamental particles of nature called neutrinos.
Which of the above statement is /are in correct ?
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The India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) Project is a multi-institutional effort aimed at building a world-class underground laboratory with a rock cover of approx.1200 m for non-accelerator based high energy and nuclear physics research in India.
Q-9) Consider the following statements: - India is one of six nations with an operational nuclear submarine
- India’s Nuclear Command Authority is chaired by the President
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
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India’s Nuclear Command Authority is chaired by the Prime Minister.
Q-10) India’s first Naval Museum is being commissioned at this major sea port
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Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority (VUDA), in collaboration with Indian Navy’s Eastern Naval Command, has set up India’s first ship museum in the port city. The ship museum has been set up at Teneti Park abutting the Rama Krishna beach on the lines of 'INS Kursura submarine museum' that was set up by the Indian Navy in August 2002.