QUIZ – 2016: Insights Current Affairs Quiz
August 10, 2016
The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2016
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
2 pointsWhich among the following states recently launched “Quit India Movement 2”?
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Solution: d.
“..Earlier, addressing the gathering, Maharashtra Chief Minister, Shri Devendra Fadnavis said Mumbai had played a significant role during the freedom struggle. “Today, the city is taking a lead in launching the second Quit India Movement. This time the fight is not against the British, but against the social evils plaguing the state like corruption, farmer suicides, malnutrition, water wastage and terrorism”…”
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Solution: d.
“..Earlier, addressing the gathering, Maharashtra Chief Minister, Shri Devendra Fadnavis said Mumbai had played a significant role during the freedom struggle. “Today, the city is taking a lead in launching the second Quit India Movement. This time the fight is not against the British, but against the social evils plaguing the state like corruption, farmer suicides, malnutrition, water wastage and terrorism”…”
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
2 pointsThe Wardha Resolution, also known as the “Quit India Resolution” was ratified by the All India Congress Committee at
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Solution: d.
“..The Wardha Resolution is also known as “Quit India Resolution”. This resolution was ratified in the All India Congress Committee at Bombay on August 7, 1942. Here a nonviolent mass struggle under the leadership of Gandhi was sanctioned in the “August Kranti Maidan”…”
http://www.gktoday.in/quit-india-movement/
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Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=148605
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Solution: d.
“..The Wardha Resolution is also known as “Quit India Resolution”. This resolution was ratified in the All India Congress Committee at Bombay on August 7, 1942. Here a nonviolent mass struggle under the leadership of Gandhi was sanctioned in the “August Kranti Maidan”…”
http://www.gktoday.in/quit-india-movement/
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Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=148605
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
2 pointsIndia’s first world-class Integrated Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre, similar to the ones in Shanghai and Hannover, will come up at
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Solution: a.
“It has been estimated that the global MICE market, which supports 400,000 conferences and exhibitions worldwide, is of the size of US $ 280 billion and is a significant economic driver for a large number of nations. The total size of the Asian MICE market accounts for US$ 60 billion having demonstrated a growth of 38% since 2006. In the absence of world class exhibition and conference facilities, India has not benefited from the potential benefits of this development. In order to capitalize on this vast market and to drive India’s industry, commerce, trade and tourism, the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion has taken the initiative to develop a State-of-The-Art Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre at Delhi.”
Apart from one at Dwarka, Delhi, another is coming up at Pragati Maidan, Delhi.
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=138299
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http://www.thehindu.com/business/new-delhi-convention-centre-faces-delays/article8964869.ece
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Solution: a.
“It has been estimated that the global MICE market, which supports 400,000 conferences and exhibitions worldwide, is of the size of US $ 280 billion and is a significant economic driver for a large number of nations. The total size of the Asian MICE market accounts for US$ 60 billion having demonstrated a growth of 38% since 2006. In the absence of world class exhibition and conference facilities, India has not benefited from the potential benefits of this development. In order to capitalize on this vast market and to drive India’s industry, commerce, trade and tourism, the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion has taken the initiative to develop a State-of-The-Art Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre at Delhi.”
Apart from one at Dwarka, Delhi, another is coming up at Pragati Maidan, Delhi.
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=138299
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http://www.thehindu.com/business/new-delhi-convention-centre-faces-delays/article8964869.ece
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
2 pointsCertain medications are marked by a red line on their packaging. What is this supposed to convey?
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Solution: c.
23rd February, 2016: “Appreciating the need for media campaign for raising awareness about antibiotics, Shri J P Naddalaunched the “Medicines with the Red Line” media campaign at the function which creates awareness regarding rational usage of medicines which carry a red line on their strip. He also unveiled the Infection Control Policies for Hospitals handbook.”
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=136657
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Solution: c.
23rd February, 2016: “Appreciating the need for media campaign for raising awareness about antibiotics, Shri J P Naddalaunched the “Medicines with the Red Line” media campaign at the function which creates awareness regarding rational usage of medicines which carry a red line on their strip. He also unveiled the Infection Control Policies for Hospitals handbook.”
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=136657
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
2 pointsIt has been always known that sunflower heads follow the sun, a phenomenon called “heliotropism”. How exactly does this happen?
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Solution: d.
Because of statement ‘b’, ‘a’ takes place. That is, “.…a 24-hour circadian rhythm was guiding the sunflowers’ movement. But without muscles, how did they move? The answer was in their stems. Like those of other plants, the stems of young sunflowers grow more at night — but only on their west side, which is what allows their heads to bend eastward. During the day, the stems’ east side grows, and they bend west with the sun. Dr. Atamian collected samples of the opposite sides of stems from sunflowers periodically, and found that different genes, related to light detection and growth, appeared active on opposite sides of the stems.”
“How Sunflowers follow the Sun, day after day”, ‘Explained’ page, Indian Express, 10th August 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/science/how-sunflowers-follow-the-sun-day-after-day.html?_r=0
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Solution: d.
Because of statement ‘b’, ‘a’ takes place. That is, “.…a 24-hour circadian rhythm was guiding the sunflowers’ movement. But without muscles, how did they move? The answer was in their stems. Like those of other plants, the stems of young sunflowers grow more at night — but only on their west side, which is what allows their heads to bend eastward. During the day, the stems’ east side grows, and they bend west with the sun. Dr. Atamian collected samples of the opposite sides of stems from sunflowers periodically, and found that different genes, related to light detection and growth, appeared active on opposite sides of the stems.”
“How Sunflowers follow the Sun, day after day”, ‘Explained’ page, Indian Express, 10th August 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/science/how-sunflowers-follow-the-sun-day-after-day.html?_r=0
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