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Q1. Environment Ministry has launched Harit Diwali, Swasth Diwali campaign recently. Who is the current Minister of Environment?
(a) Prakash Javadekar
(b) Smriti Irani
(c) Rajyavardhan Singh
(d)Harsh Vardhan
(e) MJ Akbar
Q2. India and Croatia signed two agreements to strengthen cultural and diplomatic cooperation between the two countries. Name the capital of Croatia?
(a) Buenos Aires
(b) Yerevan
(c) Rabat
(d) Ottawa
(e) Zagreb
Q3. Wrestler Bajrang Punia won the silver medal in the final of the Wrestling World Championships. Who won the gold medal?
(a) Shinji Kagawa
(b) Keisuke Honda
(c) Takuto Otoguro
(d) Kento Momota
(e) Shoya Nakajima
Q4. The first India-China high-level meeting on bilateral security cooperation recently held in ________.
(a) Pune
(b) Mumbai
(c) Shanghai
(d) Beijing
(e) New Delhi
Q5. Which of the following player recently won Men’s Singles badminton event in Denmark Open 2018?
(a) Kidambi Srikanth
(b) Kento Momota
(c) Andy Murray
(d) Lin Dan
(e) Leander Paes
Q6. Which country has opened the longest sea-crossing bridge ever built?
(a) UAE
(b) France
(c) Singapore
(d) Japan
(e) China
Q7. What is the total length of recently opened longest sea-crossing bridge ever built?
(a) 55 Km
(b) 44 Km
(c) 33 Km
(d) 66 Km
(e) 22 Km
Q8. Which of the following city recently hosted 4-Day International Dance Festival?
(a) Indore
(b) Mumbai
(c) Goa
(d) Gwalior
(e) Pune
Q9. Name the Russia and Pakistan joint military exercise, recently took place in Pakistan?
(a) PakRusEx
(b) Gauri- III
(c) Druzhba-III
(d) Babar Power
(e) RusPaba-I
Q10. Paytm has launched a QR-based smartphone payment settlement service (digital wallet) in Japan. What is the name of the digital wallet?
(a) PayPay
(b) PaytmPay
(c) PayJap
(d) JapPay
(e) SoftPay
Solutions
Ans.1.(d)
Exp. Dr. Harsh Vardhan is the present Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Ans.2.(e)
Exp. Zagreb is the capital of Croatia.
Ans.3.(c)
Exp. Wrestler Bajrang Punia won the silver medal after he went down against Japan’s Takuto Otoguro in the 65kg final of the Wrestling World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Ans.4.(e)
Exp. The first India-China high-level meeting on bilateral security cooperation held in New Delhi recently. During the meeting, the two sides discussed issues of mutual interest including bilateral cooperation on counter-terrorism and welcomed increased cooperation between India and China in the area of security.
Ans.5.(b)
Exp. Kento Momota won Men’s Singles event in Denmark Open 2018. Held since 1935 as an annual badminton tournament by Danmarks Badminton Forbund the tournament has been hosted in eleven different locations.
Ans.6.(e)
Sol. China has opened the longest sea-crossing bridge ever built, nine years after construction began. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge connects Hong Kong and Macau to the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai.
Ans.7.(a)
Exp. China has opened the longest sea-crossing bridge ever built, nine years after construction began. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge connects Hong Kong and Macau to the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai. The $20-billion bridge spans 55 kilometers.
Ans.8.(d)
Exp. Uzbekistan Ambassador to India Farhod Arziev inaugurated a four-day international dance festival titled “Udbhav Utsav” in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Dance troupes from Bulgaria, Turkey and Sri Lanka, apart from 25 teams from India, participated in the event.
Ans.9.(c)
Exp. A contingent of the Russian Army arrived in Pakistan to participate in joint training exercise ‘Druzhba-III’. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), this will be the third joint military drill between Islamabad and Moscow.
Ans.10.(a)
Exp. Paytm has launched a QR-based smartphone payment settlement service in Japan in collaboration with SoftBank and Yahoo Japan Corporation. it is a smartphone-based settlement service that allows users to store money from a bank account in their ‘PayPay’ wallet and make payments with it.
