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Daily Quiz - 17 Jun 2015

Daily Quiz - 17 Jun 2015




Q 482. Name the candidate who became the first 100% blind officer in Indian Foreign Service?

A. NL Beno Zephine
B. Abhijit Cahakarvorthy
C. P Ulagnathan
D. B K Vishnupriya

ANSWER: A. NL Beno Zephine

She is a 25 year old girl from Chennai. Beno transcended the dependence on Braille books by switching to Job Access With Speech (JAWS), a software that allows visually challenged to read from a computer screen, to scan Tamil and English books.

Q 483. Name the author of the book based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi titled Modi –Incredible emergence of a star written in Chinese language?

A. Ramesh Kumar
B. Arundhati Roy
C. Chetan Bhagat
D. Tarun Vijay

ANSWER: D. Tarun Vijay

The book is a biography based on the life and economic vision of Narendra Modi. On 16th June’15 one copy of the book was given to Vice-President M Hamid Ansari. Tarun Vijay is a BJP Member of Parliament and a journalist.

Q 484. Name the state that will become first in India to impose street light tax on residents of the state?

A. Delhi
B. Gujarat
C. Andhra Pradesh
D. Karnataka

ANSWER: C. Andhra Pradesh

The 'streetlight tax' will become part of the property tax notice served on AP residents. Orders to this effect will be issued in a couple of days and collection of the tax as part of property tax will start from July 2015.

Q 485. What trade target has been set by India and Poland at the fourth session of the bilateral Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation held in Warsaw on 15th June’15?

A. USD 50 billion
B. USD 15 billion
C. USD 5 billion
D. USD 500 billion

ANSWER: C. USD 5 billion

The commission, co-chaired by Mr Amitabh Kant, Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and Mr Jerzy Pietreiwicz, Secretary of State, Ministry of Economy, drew a blueprint for stepping up investments and identified a series of actions to raise trade from the 2014 level of USD 2.3 billion, to USD 5 billion by the year 2018.

Q 486. On 16th June’15 which historical monument becomes wi-fi hotspot zone created by BSNL?

A. Gateway of India
B. India Gate
C. Humayun Tomb
D. Taj Mahal

ANSWER: D. Taj Mahal

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Honble MOC & IT, Govt of India inaugurated wi-fi hotspot zone created by BSNL at Historical monument Taj Mahal at Agra on 16th June 2015.

Q 487. Which organization has set up a Micro Air Vehicle Aerodynamics Research Tunnel (MART), first of its kind, in India?

A. CSIR
B. ISRO
C. DRDO
D. BARC

ANSWER: A. CSIR

The tunnel was set up under the National Programme on Micro Air Vehicles (NP-MICAV). The state-of-the-art tunnel would address all the aerodynamic, propulsion and aero-elastic issues related to MAVs. It has also a provision for either closed test section for the study of aerofoil sections/3D wing-body models or open jet test section for the flapping and rotary wing studies.

Q 488. Mount Sinabung volcano which is being active once again during June 2015 and has been active since 2010 after being dormant for more than 400 years. In which country is the volcano located?

A. China
B. Japan
C. Indonesia
D. Australia

ANSWER: C. Indonesia

Mount Sinabung volcano is situated on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It had witnessed a series of volcanic eruptions in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2015.


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