MCQ for Civils Prelims 2018 (set 10)

1)Which of the following is correct ? (Country:  Guest of Honour on the eve of 69th Republic Day)

a)  Brunei : Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah 

b)  Indonesia : President Joko Widodo

c) Philippines : President Rodrigo Roa Duterte 

d) All the above

Ans : d

2) On receipt of 15 ratifications, the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework Agreement entered into force on the 6^th December, 2017 thereby making ISA a de jure treaty based international intergovernmental organisation. So far how many   countries have ratified and how many countries have signed the ISA Framework Agreement ?

a) 19 countries have ratified and 48 countries have signed the ISA Framework Agreement.

b) 6 countries

c)  5 countries

d) None of these

Ans : a

3) Recently, where the  ‘International Dam Safety Conference – 2018’  is conducted  ?

a) Thiruvananthapuram on January 23-24, 2018

b) Chennai

c) Bengaluru

d) Mysore

Ans : a

4) Dam safety conferences are organized as an annual event under the Dam Safety Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) project being run by the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation  (MoWR,RD & GR) for which states ?

a) Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala

b) Madhya Pradesh, Odisha

c) Tamil Nadu, and Uttarakhand

d) All the above

Ans : d

5) Globally which country ranks third  in terms of number of large dams (5254 large dams in operation and 447 large dams under construction) with a total storage capacity of about 283 billion cubic meters ?

a) India 

b) China and the

c) United States of America

d) None of these

Ans : a

6) Where is Port Stanley ?

a) Falkland islands

b) Australia

c) Japan

d) Indonesia

Ans :a

7) For which States Legislative Assemblies general elections are announced ? Give details .

a) The schedule for calling general elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Meghalaya, Nagaland & Tripura has been announced on 18^th January, 2018.  

b) Poll is scheduled to be held in single phase on 18/02/2018 in Tripura and on 27/02/2018 in Meghalaya & Nagaland.

c) Section 126 of Representation of the People Act, 1951, prohibits displaying any election matter by means, inter alia, of television or similar apparatus, during the period of 48 hours before the hour fixed for conclusion of poll in a constituency

d) All the above

Ans : d

8)  In the abbreviation PMSMA, the letter S stands for what ?

a)  Surakshit ( PMSMA:Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan )

b) Srestha

c) Swayam

d) None of these

Ans : a

9) Prime Minister Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu  dedicated to the nation, the iCREATE ? Where it is located? Give details.

a) This  facility is  located on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

b) iCreate is an independent Centre created with the objective of facilitating entrepreneurship through a blend of creativity, innovation, engineering, product design and leveraging emerging technologies to deal with major issues such as food security, water, connectivity, cybersecurity, IT and electronics, energy, bio-medical equipment and devices etc.

c) iCreate aims to develop an ecosystem in India to generate quality entrepreneurs.

d) All the above

Ans : d

10)  Where the International Space Conference of “Geospatial World Forum” was conducted ?

a) Kolkata

b)  Hyderabad 

c) Bhubaneswar

d) Jhansi

Ans : b

11) Where the  10^th Global Forum for Food & Agriculture from 18-20 January, 2018 which includes the 10^th Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference was conducted ?

a) Berlin, Germany

b) Tokyo

c) Paris

d) Amsterdam

Ans : a

12) Who  has cleared a simplified ‘Make-II’ procedure which will enable greater participation of industry in acquisition of defence equipment ?

a) As a major boost to ‘Make in India’ in Defence, the Defence Acquisition Council, chaired by Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, in its meeting on 16 January 2018

b) Smt. Indira Gandhi

c) Smt.Maneka Gandhi

d) None of these

Ans : a

13) Owing to its versatile capabilities, Su-30 MKI forms an integral and the most potent component of our nation’s Air Power.  Recently which were  integrated and successfully fired from this platform ?

a)  ‘BrahMos’ Supersonic Air Launched Cruise Missile

b) ‘Astra’ Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile

c) Both (a) & (b)

d) None of these

Ans : c

14) After her recent visit to INS Vikramaditya, the aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy, who on her visit to Air Force Station Jodhpur, took to the skies in the formidable Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft of 31 Squadron, recently ?

a) Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman

b) Smt.Pratibha Patil

c) V.V.Giri

d) None of these

Ans : a

15)  What is the benefit of Inter-Linking of Rivers (ILR) ?

a) It will bring a big social economic change in the country

b) Ushers  prosperity in many regions that are poorly developed

c) Both (a) & (b)

d) None of these

Ans : c

16) Which issues were  taken up for the status of clearance ?

a) Ken-Betwa Link Project,

b) Damanganga-Pinjal

c) Par-Tapi-Narmada Link Projects

d) All the above

Ans : d

17) The Khelo India Anthem was launched on which occasion ?

a) ahead of the Khelo India School Games

b) Olympic Games

c) Asian Games

d) Afro-Asian Games

Ans : a

18) Which of the following are the  first five highest milk producing States during Summer Season 2017-18 ?

a) Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan

b) Gujarat

c) Madhya Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh

d) All the above

Ans : d

19) Which of the following are the first five highest eggs producing States during Summer Season 2017-18 ?

a) Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh

b) Telangana, West Bengal

c) Haryana

d) All the above

Ans : d

20)  In the field of Dance, nine eminent artists who received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards this year ?

a) Smt. Geeta Chandran for Bharatanatyam & Shri Jitendra Maharaj for Kathak,

b) Shri Kalamandalam Ramachandran Unnithan for Kathakali,

c) Shri Maisnam Kaminikumar Singh for Manipuri

d) All the above

Ans : d

21) The Sangeet Natak Akademi established by the Government of India, is India’s National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. When it was established ?

a)  1953

b) 1947

c) 1970

d) 1975

Ans : a

22) “Smart Cities Mission” is a step in the direction of achieving our vision to improve the ease of living particularly for whom ?

a) poor

b) women

c) elderly and differently abled people

d) All the above

Ans : d

23) “Smart City Mision” focusses on what ?

a) “Smart City Mission has a strong focus on innovative digital technologies and dovetails with Digital India 'vision areas'—digital empowerment of citizens, making government services available digitally, and creating digital infrastructure as utility to every citizen—very closely

b) Employment

c) Agriculture

d) Industrial production

Ans : a

24) What is  ‘Saksham 2018’ ?

a) IT implementation

b) a vigorous and high intensity one-month long people-centric mega campaign of Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA)

c) Transport

d) Entertainment

Ans : b

25)  Who is the Prime Minister  of Isreal ?

a) Theresa May

b) Benjamin Netanyahu

c) Angela Merckel

d) Uhuru Kenyetta

Ans : b

26) Who is the owner of  Rajasthan Refinery at Pachpadra, in Barmer district in Rajasthan ?

a) IOC

b) The project is a Joint Venture of HPCL and Government of Rajasthan.

c) BPCL

d) GAIL

Ans : b

27) The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, stood at 3.58% (provisional) for the month of December, 2017 (over December, 2016) as compared to 3.93% (provisional). What is inflation ?

a)  rates/prices increase

b) prices downfall

c) price stability

d) None of these

Ans : a

28)Who has launched  one of its kind Intellectual Property (IP) Competition ‘IPrism’ for college and university students ?

a) The Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM), Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), in collaboration with ASSOCHAM and ERICSSON India

b) RBI

c) SEBI

d) CCI

Ans : a

29) The percentage share of Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India during December 2017 among the top 15 ports was highest at Delhi Airport (25.80%) followed by Mumbai Airport (17.31%). Which of the following is not an airport  ? 

a) New Delhi Airport

b) Dabolim (Goa) Airport

c) Chennai Airport

d) Haridaspur Land Check

Ans : d

30) Where Khelo India School Games will be held ?

a) Bhubaneswar

b) at multiple venues across Delhi

c) Visakhapatnam

d) Kochi

Ans : b

31) Who are   Guests of Honour  on  the eve of  India's 69^th Republic Day Celebrations ,2018 ?

a) ASEAN Leaders

b) Russia President

c) Germany Chancellor

d) British PM

Ans : a

32) Where is  India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM)  ?

a) Dehradun

b) Dwarka, New Delhi 

c) Ooty

d) Mysore

Ans : b

33) Who is new Chief Election Commissioner of India ?

a) Mr. O.P.Rawat

b) Mr. Ashok Lavasa

c) Mr. Sunil Arora

d) None of these

Ans : a

34) What is Blue Moon ?

a) The full moon when happens to be the second full moon of the calendar month of the year , is  termed as a blue moon. 

b) Colour of the Moon  will be in blue

c) It comes every week

d) None of these

Ans : a

35) During totality, the moon will completely enter the earth’s umbral shadow and may look reddish. What is the reason ? Give details.

a) The sunlight, comprising of seven colours, fall on the earth’s atmosphere.

b) The blue, violet and green portion of it are scattered most and are filtered out, the red and orange portion of it are scattered less, get bent by refraction in the earth’s atmosphere, fall on the moon’s surface during totality making it reddish in colour to look from the earth.

c) Both (a) and (b)

d) None of these

Ans : c

36) The Central Pollution Control Board had identified 302 river stretches on 275 rivers in the country as polluted, based on Bio-Chemical Oxygen Demand. What is Bio-Chemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)?

a) It is  a critical parameter of water quality.

b) It shows industrial progress

c) Forest development

d) None of these

Ans : a

37) What is  SARAS PT1N ? 

a) It is  an aeroplane (14 seater) designed and developed by CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), a frontline aerospace research laboratory and it has successfully made its maiden flight recently. 

b) Submarine

c) Ship

d) Helicopter

Ans : a

38)  Recently, Shaurya Chakra is awarded whom ?

a) Major Akhil Raj RV

b)  Lance Naik Badher Hussain

c)  Naik Narender Singh

d) All the above

Ans : d

39) In 2018 Ashok Chakra given to whom for exhibiting  most conspicuous gallantry in fighting with terrorists and made supreme sacrifice. ?

a) Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala Indian Air Force (Security) 

b) Rajiv Chauhan

c) Raj Paul

d) None of these

Ans : a

40) For Major Vijayant Bist on the occasion of Republic Day (26.1.2018)  which award is given  ?

a)  Kirti Chakra

b) AVSM

c) Mahavir Chakra

d) Param Vir Chakra

Ans : a

41) Recently, from where the  Long Range Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile, Agni-5, is  successfully flight tested for its full range ?

a)  Dr Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha

b) Nicobar islands

c) Lakshadweep

d) Minicoy islands

Ans :a