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Saturday 17 June 2017

17.06.2017 Current Affairs Quiz

1) _______ metro train project became the first metro in the country which connects rail, road, and water transport facility.
(A) Chennai
(B) Kolkata
(C) Bangalore
(D) Kochi
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Answer-(D) Kochi
Explanation:
  • With this, Kochi becomes the 1st Indian city to have a ‘Water Metro’.
  • The 1st phase from Aluva to Palarivattom (13.5 km) opened on 17th June 2017 by the Prime Minister.
  • It is the India’s 1st metro to use solar panels and to meet 25% of its electricity need from solar power
  • The first metro to use compost generated from municipal waste to fertilize the vertical garden it plans to maintain on some of its pillars.

  • 2) UN Economic and Social Council (UNECOSOC) has _______ members.
    (A) 54
    (B) 72
    (C) 101
    (D) 193
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    Answer- (A) 54
    Explanation:
  • ECOSOC is one of the six principal organs of the UN.
  • It is established by the UN charter in 1946.
  • Current President – Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava (Zimbabwe).
  • In June 2017, India has been re-elected to the UN’s ECOSOC for another 3 years.

  • 3) ________ is serving as India’s Permanent representative at the United Nation since January 2016.
    (A) Nirupam Sen
    (B) Syed Akbaruddin
    (C) Hardeep Singh Puri
    (D) Asoke Kumar Mukerji
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    Answer-(A) Syed Akbaruddin

    4) Terming the Emergency as a ‘Black-day’ in the constitutional democracy of independent India, the Union government has decided to observe Anti-Emergency day on ___________.
    (A) June 17-18
    (B) June 18-19
    (C) June 25-26
    (D) June 28-29
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    Answer-(A) June 25-26
    Explanation:
    Under Indira Gandhi Government, Emergency in India from 25 June 1975 to 21 March 1977.

    5) The 2017 session of the National Suppliers Group (NSG) to be held in ________.
    (A) Berlin
    (B) London
    (C) Paris
    (D) Bern
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    Answer-(D) Bern
    Explanation:
  • Bern is the capital city of Switzerland.
  • China is the only country resistant to India’s bid for NSG.
  • As of 2016, the NSG has 48 members.
  • It’s current Chairman – Shin Dong ik (South Korea).

  • 6) The President is elected not directly by the people but by the members of Electoral College. The Electoral College consist of
    1. The elected members of the Parliament & State Legislative Assembly.
    2. The elected members of Union Territory of Delhi & Puducherry.
    3. The elected & nominated members of Parliament & State Legislative Assembly.
    4. The elected members of the State Legislative Council.

    (A) 2, 3, and 4
    (B) 2 and 3
    (C) 1 and 2
    (D) 1, 2, and 4
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    Answer-(A) 1 and 2.

    7) The Central Vigilance Commission was given statutory status in the year ______.
    (A) 1962
    (B) 1964
    (C) 2003
    (D) 2004
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    Answer-(C) 2003.

    8) Who are the four UN members states given below are not signatories of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?
    1. China
    2. India
    3. Pakistan
    4. Israel
    5. South Sudan
    6. Srilanka

    (A) 1, 2, 3 and 6
    (B) 2, 3, 4 and 5
    (C) 2, 3, 5 and 6
    (D) 1, 3, 4 and 5
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    Answer- (B) 2, 3, 4 and 5.
    Explanation:
  • North Korea was a party to the Treaty but announced its withdrawal in 2003.
  • The State of Palestine is the most recent state to have joined in NPT.

  • 9) The Government expects Digital Economy to grow to more than $ 1 trillion by ______.
    (A) 2020
    (B) 2023
    (C) 2025
    (D) 2030
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    Answer-(C) 2025

    10) The 9th BRICS Summit 2017 will be held at ________ in China.
    (A) Beijing
    (B) Xiamen
    (C) Shanghai
    (D) Guangzhou
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    Answer-(B) Xiamen.
    Explanation:
    The theme of 2017 Summit is “BRICS: Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future”.

    11) Who is considered as ‘The Father of German reunification’?
    (A) Helmut Kohl
    (B) Otto Van Bismarck
    (C) Gerhard Schroder
    (D) Angela Merkel
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    Answer-(A) Helmut Kohl.
    Explanation:
  • Helmut Kohl died on 17th June 2017.
  • He was the German’s longest serving post-war Chancellor from 1982 to 1998.

  • 12) The WHO placed India as a _________ country for Zika risk.
    (A) Category 1
    (B) Category 2
    (C) Category 3
    (D) Category 4
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    Answer-(A) Category 2.
    Explanation:
  • Until April, India was a Category 4 country.
  • Between November 2016 and February 2017, the Union Health Ministry confirmed that 3 laboratory confirmed cases by Zika were reported..
  • Zika virus transmitted through the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also transmits dengue & Chikungunya..
  • ‘Category 2’ – indicates that the virus is being actively transmitted within the country.

  • 13) AEOI stands for
    (A) Atomic Energy Organisation of India
    (B) Automatic Exchange of Information
    (C) All form of Energy Organisation Interface
    (D) Automobile Energy and Oil Information
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    Answer-(B) Automatic Exchange of Information.
    Explanation:
  • AEOI reduces the possibility of tax evasion by providing for exchange of NRI’s finance account information with tax authorities in the account-holders’ country of residence.
  • Switzerland ratified AEOI with India and the 1st set of data will be exchanged in 2019.

  • 14) An arrhythmia is a _______ disease.
    (A) Lung
    (B) Heart
    (C) Eye
    (D) Brian
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    Answer-(B) Heart.
    Explanation:
  • It is a problem with the rate or rhythm of heartbeat.
  • It occurs when the electrical signals to the heart that coordinate heartbeats are not working properly..
  • ‘3D electronatomical mapping of the heart’ is a new method to treat arrhythmia.

  • 15)__________, the first Indian woman who has been elected a judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).
    (A) Neeru Chadha
    (B) Ruma Pal
    (C) Sujata Manohar
    (D) Leila Seth
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    Answer-(A) Neeru Chadha
    Explanation:
  • She will be the first Indian woman to serve on the 21-member court.
  • She won a nine-year term on the tribunal that adjudicates disputes arising over the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and agreements between countries that give it jurisdiction.
  • The tribunal was set up in 1996 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

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