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Question 81. Which of the following statements are correct regarding INS Arihant?
  1. It is India’s first indigenously designed and built nuclear submarine.
  2. It will be powered by thorium fuel.
  3. It is capable to launch K-4 missiles, which have range upto 500 km.
Codes:
  1.    1 and 3 only
  2.    2 and 3 only
  3.    1 only
  4.    None of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 1 only
Answer: (c)It will use uranium as fuel. K-4 missiles have range upto 3500 km.
Question 82. In the case of the nuclear disaster which of the following options for cooling the nuclear reactors may be adopted?
  1. Pumping of water to the reactors.
  2. Use of boric acid.
  3. Taking out the fuel rods and keeping them in a cooling pond.
Select the correct answer using the code given below
  1.    1 and 2
  2.    2 and 3
  3.    1, 2 and 3
  4.    3 only
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 1 and 2
Answer: (a)In a nuclear disaster, the main focus is to cool the nuclear reactor. Pumping of water to the reactors and use of boric acid are some of the options.
Question 83. Consider the following Statements:
  1. China has launched Yaogan-26 a remote sensing satellite.
  2. It will mainly be used for scientific experiments, land surveys, crop yield estimates and disaster prevention.
  3. China launched Yaogan-1, first satellite in the Yaogan series in 2006.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
  1.    1 and 3 only
  2.    2 and 3 only
  3.    1 and 2 only
  4.    All of the above
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> All of the above
Answer: (d)The satellite was carried by a Long March-4B rocket, marking the 202th mission for the rocket family.
Question 84. ISRO launched the world’s first satellite dedicated to education, the EDUSAT in the month of
  1.    July 2004
  2.    September 2004
  3.    August 2004
  4.    June 2004
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> September 2004
Answer: (b)EDUSAT or GSAT-3 is a communications satellite which was launched on 20 September 2004 by the Indian Space Research Organisation. EDUSAT is the first Indian satellite built exclusively to serve the educational sector.
Question 85. Which one of the following refers to the first nuclear reactor of India ?
  1.    Urvashi
  2.    Kamini
  3.    Apsara
  4.    Rohini
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Apsara
Answer: (c)Apsara became the first nuclear reactor of India in 1956. It was named by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru when he likened the blue Cerenkov radiation to the beauty of the Apsaras (Indra's court dancers). This first nuclear research reactor of India completed 50 years in August 2006.
Question 86. India was affected by the cyber spying campaign called
  1.    Black October
  2.    Black September
  3.    Red October
  4.    Red September
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Red October
Answer: (c)
Question 87. Which one of the following pairs is incorrect?
  1.    Cosmid - A vector for carrying large DNA fragments into host cells
  2.    Plasmid - small piece of extrachromosomal DNA in bacteria
  3.    Interferon - an enzyme that interferes with DNA replication
  4.    Myeloma - antibody producing tumour cells.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Interferon - an enzyme that interferes with DNA replication
Answer: (c)
Interferons, Interleukins and Tumor necrosis factors are the proteins produced as a result of immune response to localized tissue damage.
Question 88. The US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York an attempt to understand cosmic history used a giant atom smasher and has generated a temperature of
  1.    85 billion degrees celsius
  2.    4 trillion degrees celsius
  3.    2.5 trillion degrees celsius
  4.    52 billion degrees celsius
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 4 trillion degrees celsius
Answer: (b)
This scorching achievement happened inside the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which is a 2.4-mile (3.9 kilometres) underground track where particles smash into one another under conditions that existed about a millionth of a second after the Big Bang.
The new feat, at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., occurred when gold nuclei (the positively charged part of the atom made of protons and neutrons) were sent speeding around RHIC at near light-speed until they crashed into each other.
When the ions collide, the enormous energy released is so, intense it melts the neutrons and protons inside the gold nuclei into their constituent parts, namely quarks and gluons.
RHIC physicists have measured the temperature of this quark-gluon plasma, finding it reaches around 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit (4 trillion degrees Celsius).
Question 89. Consider the following statements.
  1. 45th Navy Day was observed on 4th December 2015.
  2. Chief of Naval staff Robin K Dhowan along with Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha and Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag paid tributes to martyrs at the Amar Jawan Jyoti in New Delhi.
  3. Every year Indian Navy celebrates Navy Day on December 4 to commemorate the success of the Operation Talwar of 1971 India-Pakistan War.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?Codes:
  1.    3 only
  2.    2 only
  3.    1 only
  4.    None of them
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 2 only
Answer: (b)44th Navy Day was observed on 4th December 2015. Every year Indian Navy celebrates Navy Day on December 4 to commemorate the success of the Operation Trident of 1971 India-Pakistan War.
Question 90. Which bank has launched India’s first contactless debit and credit cards?
  1.    HDFC
  2.    HSBC
  3.    ICICI Bank
  4.    Axis bank
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> ICICI Bank
Answer: (c)Contactless cards launched by ICICI Bank can be used to make electronic payments by waving the cards near the merchant terminal instead of dipping or swiping. These cards are based on Near Field Communication technology.

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