QUIZ – 2016: Insights Current Affairs Quiz
August 19, 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 pointsIndia’s first Olympic medal at Rio was won in the sport of Women’s wrestling. The Bronze medal was won due to the unique rule in wrestling called the ‘Repechage’. What does this rule broadly mean?
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Solution: a.
“Sakshi won the crucial bout after coming from behind. She, in fact, had lost 2-9 in the quarterfinals to Russia’s Valeriia Koblova in the fifth bout of the day before getting a second chance in repechage when her conqueror reached the final.”
First, there are two bronze medals to be won in wrestling.
‘Repechage’ is easy to understand with the help of the image provided. “Assume 1 and 16 made it to the finals. Those who lost to 1 and 16 (2,3,5 and 15,13,9) respectively have been circled, and they will compete separately for the bronze. So all the red circled players will compete separately for a bronze, and all the blue circled players will compete for another bronze. The bronze competitors will fight in this manner: 2 and 3 will play a match; if 2 wins, he will play with 5. Whoever wins the match between 2 and 5, wins the bronze. Similarly, 15 and 13 will play a match; if 15 wins, he will play with 9. Whoever wins the match between 15 and 9 wins the second bronze.
”http://m.sportskeeda.com/wrestling/rio-olympics-2016-repechage-rule-wrestling-explained
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Solution: a.
“Sakshi won the crucial bout after coming from behind. She, in fact, had lost 2-9 in the quarterfinals to Russia’s Valeriia Koblova in the fifth bout of the day before getting a second chance in repechage when her conqueror reached the final.”
First, there are two bronze medals to be won in wrestling.
‘Repechage’ is easy to understand with the help of the image provided. “Assume 1 and 16 made it to the finals. Those who lost to 1 and 16 (2,3,5 and 15,13,9) respectively have been circled, and they will compete separately for the bronze. So all the red circled players will compete separately for a bronze, and all the blue circled players will compete for another bronze. The bronze competitors will fight in this manner: 2 and 3 will play a match; if 2 wins, he will play with 5. Whoever wins the match between 2 and 5, wins the bronze. Similarly, 15 and 13 will play a match; if 15 wins, he will play with 9. Whoever wins the match between 15 and 9 wins the second bronze.
”http://m.sportskeeda.com/wrestling/rio-olympics-2016-repechage-rule-wrestling-explained
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
2 pointsScientists who recently created a virtual black hole in the lab claimed to have observed for the first time a phenomenon predicted by British physicist Stephen Hawking more than thirty years ago according to which
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Solution: a.
Stephen Hawking’s prediction, if found to be true, will help explain the statement in option ‘d’.
“For many years, scientists believed that nothing could ever escape from a black hole — not even light. However, in 1974, Stephen Hawking suggested particles, that are now called Hawking radiation, could escape black holes.”
“According to him if a particle and its antimatter appeared spontaneously at the edge of a black hole, one of the pair might be pulled into the black hole while the other escaped, taking some of the energy from the black hole with it. This would explain why black holes grow smaller and eventually disappear. However, since such emissions are feeble, no one has been able to measure Hawking radiation. Researchers have instead tried to build virtual black holes in labs to test the theory.”
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Solution: a.
Stephen Hawking’s prediction, if found to be true, will help explain the statement in option ‘d’.
“For many years, scientists believed that nothing could ever escape from a black hole — not even light. However, in 1974, Stephen Hawking suggested particles, that are now called Hawking radiation, could escape black holes.”
“According to him if a particle and its antimatter appeared spontaneously at the edge of a black hole, one of the pair might be pulled into the black hole while the other escaped, taking some of the energy from the black hole with it. This would explain why black holes grow smaller and eventually disappear. However, since such emissions are feeble, no one has been able to measure Hawking radiation. Researchers have instead tried to build virtual black holes in labs to test the theory.”
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
2 pointsApart from India, the Non-Aligned Movement was founded by leaders of which of the following nations?
- Egypt
- Serbia
- Indonesia
- Nigeria
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: b.
Serbia was a part of Yugoslavia at the time.
“The organization was largely conceived by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Indonesia‘s first president, Sukarno; Egypt‘s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana‘s first president Kwame Nkrumah; and Yugoslavia‘s president, Josip Broz Tito.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nam-principles-more-relevant-now/article9004538.ece
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Solution: b.
Serbia was a part of Yugoslavia at the time.
“The organization was largely conceived by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Indonesia‘s first president, Sukarno; Egypt‘s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana‘s first president Kwame Nkrumah; and Yugoslavia‘s president, Josip Broz Tito.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nam-principles-more-relevant-now/article9004538.ece
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
2 pointsConsider the following pairs:
Tiger Reserve – State
- Ranthambore – Rajasthan
- Sariska – Madhya Pradesh
- Mukundara Hills – Maharashtra
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
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Solution: a.
All three tiger reserves are in Rajasthan.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India#List_of_Tiger_reserves_in_India
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Solution: a.
All three tiger reserves are in Rajasthan.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_reserves_of_India#List_of_Tiger_reserves_in_India
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
2 pointsThe Centre recently constituted a committee to restructure two key central bodies that manage water resources in India. These bodies are
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Solution: d.
15th September, 2015: Seeking to carry forward the Gujarat-model of irrigation reform in the country and to quickly complete the task of aquifer mapping to quantify available groundwater resources, the Centre has constituted a seven-member committee to restructure the central water commission (CWC) and the central ground water board (CGWB) – the two key central bodies that manage water resources in India.
The committee, headed by ex-planning commission member Mihir Shah, has been asked to submit its report in three months so that government can make a policy framework to utilize available water resources in the country in a better way.
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Solution: d.
15th September, 2015: Seeking to carry forward the Gujarat-model of irrigation reform in the country and to quickly complete the task of aquifer mapping to quantify available groundwater resources, the Centre has constituted a seven-member committee to restructure the central water commission (CWC) and the central ground water board (CGWB) – the two key central bodies that manage water resources in India.
The committee, headed by ex-planning commission member Mihir Shah, has been asked to submit its report in three months so that government can make a policy framework to utilize available water resources in the country in a better way.
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