Q.1 Who is set to become the second Indian-born woman to fly to space after Kalpana Chawla?
a. Sirisha Bandla
b. Sunita Williams
c. Shawna Pandya
d. None of the above
Q.2 The sale, storage and use of drones has been banned in which among the following Indian cities?
a. New Delhi
b. Lucknow
c. Shimla
d. Srinagar
Q.3 Army Chief MM Naravane is scheduled to inaugurate a war memorial for Indian soldiers in which nation?
a. Italy
b. Spain
c. Portugal
d. Israel
Q.4 Who has become the first Indian female swimmer to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics?
a. Shikha Tandon
b. Shivani Kataria
c. Maana Patel
d. Bhakti Sharma
Q.5 DCGI has rejected SII’s application to test which vaccine on children?
a. Covishield
b. ZyCoV-D
c. Covovax
d. Corbewax
Q.6 What is the new maximum temperature that has been recorded in Antarctica?
a. 13 degrees Celsius
b. 17 degrees Celsius
c. 18.3 degrees Celsius
d. 15 degrees Celsius
Q.7 Which state/UT has ended the 149-year-old practice of ‘darbar move’?
a. Madhya Pradesh
b. Uttar Pradesh
c. Jammu and Kashmir
d. Ladakh
Q.8 Which satellite company launched the 36 OneWeb internet satellites on Russian Soyuz rocket?
a. Roscosmos
b. United Launch Alliance
c. Arianespace
d. Airbus
Q.9 Where did the researchers discover a black-bellied coral snake for the first time in history?
a. Jharkhand
b. Punjab
c. Uttarakhand
d. Uttar Pradesh
Q.10 Where was the seventh edition of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) hosted?
a. USA
b. Italy
c. France
d. Germany
Answers-
Q.1 a) Indian-origin Sirisha Bandla is set to become the second Indian-born woman to fly into space after Kalpana Chawla. The Indian-American astronaut will be one of the six crew members aboard Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flight ‘VSS Unity’, which is scheduled to blast off to space on July 11, 2021 from New Mexico.
Q.2 d) The Jammu and Kashmir administration on July 4, 2021, banned the sale, possession, storage, transport, and use of drones or any other unmanned aerial vehicles in the capital Srinagar.
Q.3 a) The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General MM Naravane has embarked on a four-day visit to the United Kingdom and Italy from July 5 to July 8, 2021. The Army Chief will be inaugurating the Indian Army Memorial in the famous town of Cassino in Italy and will also be briefed at the Italian Army’s Counter IED Centre of Excellence at Cecchin gola, Rome.
Q.4 c)
Q.5 d) The Drugs Controller General of India has rejected SII’s application to test ZyCoV-D vaccine on children.
Q.6 c) The UN World Meteorological Organization has confirmed a new maximum temperature record for the Antarctic of 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit).
Q.7 c)
Q.8 c) A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying 36 UK telecommunication and internet satellites blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East.
The launch was carried out by Arianespace, the world’s leading satellite launch company.
Q.9 c) Black-bellied Coral snake has been discovered in forests of Uttarakhand for the first time in history, by a group of researchers
Q.10 b) The seventh edition of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), which was hosted by the French Navy at La Reunion in Italy, concluded. Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy, participated virtually in the inaugural session of the three-day event.