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1. India and Israel on 5 July 2017 signed seven agreements in different areas of mutual benefit. Consider the following statements in relations to agreements.
I. MoU for setting up of India-Israel Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund (I4F) was signed.
II. MoU on National Campaign for Water Conservation in India was signed.
III. The agreements were signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel. He is the second Prime Minister of India to visit Israel in seven decades.
Which of the following statement/s are true?
a) Only III
b) Only I and II
c) Only I and III
d) I, II and III
2. Name the state whose cabinet has approved a new transport policy in July 2017.
a) Haryana
b) Punjab
c) Uttar Pradesh
d) Kerala
3. Which Union Minister launched MERIT app and e-bidding portal for providing e-Bidding solution?
a) Piyush Goyal
b) Jagat Prakash Nadda
c) Kiren Rijiju
d) Suresh Prabhu
4. Which university produced the world’s most detailed scan of the brain’s internal wiring?
a) Harvard University
b) Cardiff University
c) Oxford University
d) Stanford University
5. 5th Meeting of BRICS Education Ministers was held at which place?
a) Moscow, Russia
b) New York, USA
c) Beijing, China
d) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6. Which company announced that it has entered into a wide-ranging patent licensing and purchase deal with Xiaomi?
a) Samsung
b) Intel
c) Sony
d) Nokia
7. Who of the following was awarded honorary degree by the University of Edinburgh in recognition of his/her commitment to equality and diversity?
a) Barack Obama
b) Narendra Modi
c) Theresa May
d) Justin Trudeau
8. Which state’s police decided to set up 16 Special Task Force to check food adulteration in the state?
a) Punjab
b) Haryana
c) Telangana
d) Andhra Pradesh
9. Which Israeli flower farm recently named Israeli Crysanthumun in the honour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?
a) Aviv’s Flower
b) Danziger Flower Farm
c) Israel Flowers
d) None of the above
10. The National Book Trust recently launched the Har Haath Ek Kitaab scheme in collaboration with which of the following e-commerce sites?
a) Snapdeal
b) Amazon
c) Flipkart
d) A and C
11. Nation paid homage to veteran leader Babu Jagjivan Ram on his death anniversary on 6 July 2017. Ram became the youngest minister in the Indian cabinet under which Prime Minister’s government?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Indira Gandhi
c) Lal Bahadur Shastri
d) Morarji Desai
12. North Korea announced that it had successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. According to experts, the ICBM is capable of hitting which country?
a) Japan
b) Alaska
c) Canada
d) The United States of America
13. Which country has passed a bill making torture a crime under national law?
a) Germany
b) France
c) Italy
d) UK
14. A giant iceberg is poised to break off from which of Antarctica’s major ice shelves?
a) Larsen C
b) Larsen A
c) Larsen B
d) Larsen D
15. This country/union has said that it will use its considerable military forces on North Korea if need be to stop North Korea’s nuclear missile programme.
a) The United States
b) China
c) European Union
d) The United Nations
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ANSWER
1. (b) Only I and II
2. (b) Punjab
3. (a) Piyush Goyal
4. (b) Cardiff University
5. (c) Beijing, China
6. (d) Nokia
7. (d) Justin Trudeau
8. (c) Telangana
9. (b) Danziger Flower Farm
10. (a) Snapdeal
11. (a) Jawaharlal Nehru
12. (b) Alaska
13. (c) Italy
14. (a) Larsen C
15. (a) The United States