GENERAL AWARENESS 129

1. What is the name of the 1st Space Nation or the virtual nation envisaged by Russian scientist billionaire Igor Ashurbeyli that had sent its first satellite from NASA’s Wallop facility in Virginia?

a) Asgardia
b) Babylon
c) Cygnus
d) Dimerius

2. Recently, the natural bacterial immune system of which bacteria was modified by US researchers to build the world’s smallest data recorder?

a) Rhizobium radiobacter
b) Enterobacter cloacea
c) Escherichia coli
d) Salmonella typhi

3. Who has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Economics?

a) Rainer Weiss
b) Richard Thaler
c) Jacques Dubochet
d) Kazuo Ishiguro

4. Which Indian film has been chosen as India’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language film category at Oscars 2018?

a) Lipstick under my Burqa
b) Newton
c) Lion
d) Ajji

5. Gurbax Singh Sandhu has been honoured with the 2017 National Award for senior citizens. Which sports is he associated with?

a) Boxing
b) Kabbadi
c) Hockey
d) Football

6. Who has become the first Indian to be honoured with the Anna Politkovskaya Award in 2017?

a) Malleshappa Kalburgi
b) Perumal Murugan
c) Govinda Pansare
d) Gauri Lankesh

7. Which state government has declared 2017 as e-Pragati year?

a) Karnataka
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Andhra Pradesh
d) Telangana

8. With which country is India organising the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) ?

a) US
b) Japan
c) Australia
d) UK

9. Who has won the 2017 China Open Tennis tournament?

a) Rafael Nadal
b) Nick Kyrgios
c) Alexander Zverev
d) Grigor Dimitrov

10. Which species was recently moved from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’ category in the IUCN Red list?

a) Cheetah
b) Giant Armadillo
c) Snow Leopard
d) Nilgiri Marten

ANSWERS
1) A
2) C
3) B
4) B
5) A
6) D
7) C
8) B
9) A
10) C