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Which Indian Anti Hunger activist will be honoured with the 2017 Queen’s Young Leaders award  ?

A) Sachin Bansal B) Anil Agarwal
C) Ankit Kawatra D) Kunal Bahl
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Ankit Kawatra

Explanation:

Indian anti-hunger activist Ankit Kawatra has honoured with the 2017 Queen’s Young Leaders award for his exceptional work in transforming the lives of others. Kawatra is among the 60 others from all 53 Commonwealth countries to be felicitated with the prestigious award by Queen Elizabeth (II) at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace in London on June 29, 2017. The honourees will also undergo a year-long mentoring and online learning by the University of Cambridge to build leadership capabilities and better their work towards the communities. He is the founder of Feeding India, a not-for profit organization that works towards solving problems of hunger, malnutrition and food wastage, mainly by redistributing extra food from restaurants, canteens, households, corporates etc. to help people in need.

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Which sanctuary has been selected as an alternative home for the Indian lion?

A) Bandipur Sanctuary (Karnataka) B) Ghana Sanctuary (Bihar)
C) Periyar Sanctuary (Kerala) D) Chandra Prabha Sanctuary (UP)
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Chandra Prabha Sanctuary (UP)

Explanation:

Bandipur Sanctuary is noted for the spotted deer, and the Ghana Sanctuary is for birds.

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Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

Answer

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow are the three consecutive days of the week without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

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Purushmedha i.e. Male sacrifies is referred to in

A) krishna Yajurveda B) Shukla Yajurveda
C) Shatapatha Brahman D) panchvisha Brahman
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Shatapatha Brahman

Explanation:
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Q:

In which of the houses chairperson is not member of that house?

A) Rajya Sabha B) Legislative Assembly
C) Legislative Council D) Lok Sabha
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Rajya Sabha

Explanation:

The vice President is the chairman of Rajya Sabha. The chairman of Rajya Sabha is not the member of the house.

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What element behaves most like magnesium?

A) Silicon B) Strontium
C) Sulphur D) Tin
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Strontium

Explanation:

We know that, Elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar characteristics.

Here Magnesium and Strontium shared some similar properties because they both belong to the same group. Sr is the chemical symbol for strontium which is a group two element; it has atomic number of 38. 

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Q:

A by product of involuntary muscle contraction and relaxation is

A) Oxygen B) Water
C) Heat D) Nitrogen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Heat

Explanation:

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When a muscle is contracted and relaxed some amount of heat is released as a by product. 

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Who has become the first full time woman Defence Minister of India ?

A) Sushma Swaraj B) Nirmala Sitharaman
C) Uma Bharathi D) Smriti Irani
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Nirmala Sitharaman

Explanation:

Nirmala Sitharaman, who took oath as the new Cabinet member in september 2017 under Narendra Modi, has been given the Defence Ministry portfolio. Incidentally, she has become the first dedicated woman defence minister of India and only the second woman to hold the crucial ministry after Indira Gandhi. 

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