QUIZ-03

QUIZ-03

Q1. National Science Day is celebrated all over India with great enthusiasm on 28th of February in order to commemorate the invention of the Raman Effect in India by the Indian physicist, Sir C V Raman. What was the theme of 'National Science day, 2017'?

(a) Science for All

(b) Science and Technology for Sustainable Development

(c) Science for secured future

(d) Science and Technology for specially abled persons

(e) None of the above themes is correct

 Q2. The Haryana government has recently set up an online system for Panipat district to monitor the sex-ratio as part of which of the following scheme?

(a) Women and Child Welfare Scheme

(b) Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

(c) Integrated Child Protection Scheme

(d) Kishori Shakti Yojana

(e) Bal Vikas Yojana

Q3. An expert committee set up by SIDBI recently has sanctioned Rs 300 crore to fund managers who would invest in startups, taking the total sanctions so far this fiscal 2016-2017 to over Rs 1,100 crore. Name of that committee is __________.

(a) Credit Committee

(b) Corporate Social Responsibility Committee

(c) Venture Capital Investment Committee

(d) Information Technology Strategy Committee             

(e) Stakeholders Relationship Committee

Q4. Paytm E-Commerce launched Paytm Mall recently, a mobile app and online shopping portal. Paytm Mall is the new avatar of Paytm’s three-year-old e-commerce business. Paytm is an arm of which of the following companies?

(a) Nexus

(b) Microsoft

(c) Google

(d) One97 Communications Pvt. Ltd

(e) 360 degree Communications

Q5. Name the company, with which Tata Communications has tied up recently to support the roll-out of the former's Internet of Things platform, the LoRa (Long Range) network.

(a) Lenovo

(b) Dell Enterprise

(c) Microsoft

(d) Hewlett Packard Enterprise

(e) ASUS

Q6. Indian International cricketer Virat Kohli was named as the ‘Captain of the Year‘ at the 10th annual 'ESPNcricinfo Awards'. Name the player, who won the best 'Debutant of the Year Award'.

(a) Keaton Jennings

(b) Colin De Grandhomme

(c) Haseeb Hameed

(d) Jayant Yadav

(e) Mehedi Hasan Miraj

Q7. P. Shiv Shankar passed away recently after a prolonged illness. He was famous ______________.

(a) Author

(b) Politician

(c) Spiritual Speaker

(d) Classical Singer

(e) Both (a) and (c)

Q8. Senior IAS officer Sumit Mullick was appointed as the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra. Mr. Mullick has succeeded __________.

(a) Swadheen Kshatriya

(b) Satya Prakash Tucker

(c) Smt. Sakuntala Gamlin

(d) Vinod Kumar Pipersenia

(e) Anjani Kumar Singh

Q9. In which of the following Indian States/UTs, India’s first heliport has been inaugurated recently?

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Maharashtra

(c) New Delhi

(d) Chandigarh

(e) Assam

Q10. Jitu Rai won the gold medal in men’s event of the ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup 2017, with a world record score of 230.1. In which category he won this medal?

(a) 10-meter air rifle

(b) 100-meter running target

(c) Skeet

(d) 50-meter free pistol

(e) Double Tra

                                                            ANSWERS

S1. Ans.(d)

Sol. National Science Day is celebrated all over India with great enthusiasm on 28th of February every year in order to commemorate the invention of the Raman Effect in India by the Indian physicist, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on the same day in the year 1928. The theme of the year 2017 is “Science and Technology for specially abled persons”.

S2. Ans.(b)

Sol. The Haryana government has set up an online system for Panipat to monitor the sex-ratio in the district as part of the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' programme. The system, called the sex ratio monitoring dashboard, will have the data of child sex-ratio collected from all villages by the Health and Women and Child Welfare Departments every month.

S3. Ans.(c)

Sol. An expert committee Venture Capital Investment Committee (VCIC) set up by SIDBI has sanctioned Rs 300 crore to fund managers who would invest in startups, taking the total sanctions so far this fiscal 2016-2017 to over Rs 1,100 crore.

S4. Ans.(d)

Sol. Paytm E-Commerce, the online marketplace arm of One97 Communications Pvt. Ltd, launched Paytm Mall, a mobile app and online shopping portal. Paytm Mall is the new avatar of Paytm’s three-year-old e-commerce business.

S5. Ans.(d)

Sol. Tata Communications is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to support the roll-out of the former's Internet of Things platform, the LoRa (Long Range) network.

S6. Ans.(e)

Sol. Indian international cricketer Virat Kohli has named as the ‘Captain of the Year‘ at the 10th annual ESPNcricinfo Awards. Young Bangladeshi teenage spinner Mehedi Hasan Miraj won the Debutant of the Year Award for his 19 wickets in the 2 match Test series against England.

S7. Ans.(b)

Sol. Former Union Minister P. Shiv Shankar passed away after a prolonged illness. He was 89 . He contested the by-election to the Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency in 1979 on the Indian National Congress party ticket.

S8. Ans.(a)

Sol. Senior IAS officer Sumit Mullick appointed as the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra. Mullick will succeed Swadheen Kshatriya, who was due for retirement on 31st of January, 2017 but was given a month's extension.

S9. Ans.(c)

Sol. Built by Pawan Hans Limited, a Public Sector Undertaking of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, India’s first heliport has been inaugurated in North Delhi’s Rohini. Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju inaugurated the heliport. Pawan Hans Ltd Chairman and Managing Director B P Sharma stated that the heliport has come up at an investment of Rs 100 crore.

S10. Ans.(d)

Sol. Jitu Rai won the gold medal in men’s 50 meter free pistol event of the ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup, with a world record score of 230.1.