QUIZ - 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 07 NOVEMBER 2017

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 07 NOVEMBER 2017

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz

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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2017

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1. Question
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Consider the following statements:
1. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
2. India has ratified the Doha amendment to the Kyoto Protocol
3. India is not a part of the Like-Minded Developing Countries Group on Climate Change
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- a) 1 only
- b) 1 and 2 only
- c) 2 only
- d) 2 and 3 only
Correct

Solution: b.

The Doha amendment to the Kyoto Protocol refers to the second commitment period (2013-2020). India ratified the Doha amendment in August this year (2017). India is a part of the LMDC Group on Climate Change.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/india-ratifies-2nd-commitment-period-of-kyoto-protocol/article9808455.ece;

About the Kyoto Protocol: http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php;

Improvisation: http://pibregional.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1508428;

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Solution: b.

The Doha amendment to the Kyoto Protocol refers to the second commitment period (2013-2020). India ratified the Doha amendment in August this year (2017). India is a part of the LMDC Group on Climate Change.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/india-ratifies-2nd-commitment-period-of-kyoto-protocol/article9808455.ece;

About the Kyoto Protocol: http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php;

Improvisation: http://pibregional.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1508428;

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Question 2 of 5

2. Question
1 points
Why did Lord Lytton’s administration enact the Vernacular Press Act of 1878, directed only against Indian language newspapers?
- a) Newspapers were by now widely disseminating Dadabhai Naoroji’s drain theory
- b) Sharp and radical comments were being made with regard to the British administration’s interference in Indians’ social and religious life
- c) The first Delhi Darbaar of 1877 was viewed by the newspapers as an attempt by the British to drive a wedge between Indian Hindus and Muslims, which the administration regarded as seditious
- d) Newspapers were highly critical of the Government for its inhuman approach towards the victims of the famine of 1876-77
Correct

Solution: d.

Improvisation (http://pibregional.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1508360): “Many of the newspapers that shaped the discourse for freedom, were vernacular newspapers. In fact, the then British Government was fearful of the Indian Vernacular Press. It was to muzzle vernacular newspapers, that the Vernacular Press Act was enacted in 1878.” ..

Indian newspapers became highly critical of Lord Lytton’s administration, especially regarding its inhuman approach towards the victims of the famine of 1876-77. As a result the government decided to make a sudden strike at the Indian language newspapers, since they reached beyond the middle class readership.

Chapter – The Fight to Secure Press Freedom, India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra;

A brief history of Modern India, Spectrum;

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Solution: d.

Improvisation (http://pibregional.nic.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1508360): “Many of the newspapers that shaped the discourse for freedom, were vernacular newspapers. In fact, the then British Government was fearful of the Indian Vernacular Press. It was to muzzle vernacular newspapers, that the Vernacular Press Act was enacted in 1878.” ..

Indian newspapers became highly critical of Lord Lytton’s administration, especially regarding its inhuman approach towards the victims of the famine of 1876-77. As a result the government decided to make a sudden strike at the Indian language newspapers, since they reached beyond the middle class readership.

Chapter – The Fight to Secure Press Freedom, India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra;

A brief history of Modern India, Spectrum;

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Question 3 of 5

3. Question
1 points
The multidimensional Gender Vulnerability Index, released by child development NGO ‘Plan India’, analyses which (one) of the following issues?

1.Safety/protection

2.Health
1. Education
2. Poverty
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- a) 1, 2 and 3 only
- b) 1 only
- c) 2 and 4 only
- d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Correct

Solution: d.

Goa ranked top and Bihar featured at the lowest in Gender Vulnerability Index (GVI).
- The GVI is aimed at comprehensively understanding the dimensions of various problems affecting children, particularly girls, in difficult circumstances.
- The multidimensional index, which provides a state wise ranking, has been calculated by analysing four issues pertinent to the situation of girls — child safety/protection, poverty, health and education (under these four broad headings, there are more than 170 specific indicators that have been analysed).
- Goa is followed by Kerala, Mizoram and Sikkim. Bihar ranked the lowest at 30, with Delhi faring only slightly better at 29 and Uttar Pradesh at 28. The highest ranking north Indian state is Himachal Pradesh at the sixth position.
- The organisation plans to present a further breakdown in the form of a district-level quantitative index, based on the same indicators. Karnataka is an example of a state that is overall doing well [rank 7], yet there is a considerable divide between the north and the south of the state.
Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173273;

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/goa-ranks-top-bihar-at-bottom-of-gender-vulnerability-index-4917863/;

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Solution: d.

Goa ranked top and Bihar featured at the lowest in Gender Vulnerability Index (GVI).
- The GVI is aimed at comprehensively understanding the dimensions of various problems affecting children, particularly girls, in difficult circumstances.
- The multidimensional index, which provides a state wise ranking, has been calculated by analysing four issues pertinent to the situation of girls — child safety/protection, poverty, health and education (under these four broad headings, there are more than 170 specific indicators that have been analysed).
- Goa is followed by Kerala, Mizoram and Sikkim. Bihar ranked the lowest at 30, with Delhi faring only slightly better at 29 and Uttar Pradesh at 28. The highest ranking north Indian state is Himachal Pradesh at the sixth position.
- The organisation plans to present a further breakdown in the form of a district-level quantitative index, based on the same indicators. Karnataka is an example of a state that is overall doing well [rank 7], yet there is a considerable divide between the north and the south of the state.
Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173273;

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/goa-ranks-top-bihar-at-bottom-of-gender-vulnerability-index-4917863/;

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Question 4 of 5

4. Question
1 points
Which (one) of the following features of our Constitution is/are borrowed from the USSR (now Russia) Constitution?

1.Directive Principles of State Policy

2.Fundamental Duties

3.Ideals of justice in the Preamble

Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- a) 1 only
- b) 1 and 3 only
- c) 2 and 3 only
- d) 1, 2 and 3
Correct

Solution: c.

DPSPs are borrowed from the Irish Constitution.

Solution: c.

DPSPs are borrowed from the Irish Constitution.

Source/improvisation: http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/russia-socialist-revolution-bolshevik-revolution-anniversary-karl-marx-communist-manifesto-4925789/;

Salient Features of the Constitution, Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

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Source/improvisation: http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/russia-socialist-revolution-bolshevik-revolution-anniversary-karl-marx-communist-manifesto-4925789/;

Salient Features of the Constitution, Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

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Solution: c.

DPSPs are borrowed from the Irish Constitution.

Source/improvisation: http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/russia-socialist-revolution-bolshevik-revolution-anniversary-karl-marx-communist-manifesto-4925789/;

Salient Features of the Constitution, Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

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Question 5 of 5

5. Question
1 points
The term ‘Hindu rate of growth’ characterises which one of the following phases?
- a) From the rise of Marathas to the Battle of Plassey
- b) From the Battle of Plassey to Independence
- c) From Independence to the 1980s
- d) From the Economic Reforms to 2009
Correct

Solution: c.

The same question was posted here earlier.

Professor Rajkrishna, an Indian economist, coined the term ‘Hindu rate of growth’ in 1978 to characterise the slow growth and to explain it against the backdrop of socialistic economic policies. A ‘Hindu rate of growth’ characterises not a specific value of India’s growth rate, but a phase which was characterised by the following:
- A low rate of growth
- The attitude of policy makers and citizens towards economic growth (Indian fatalism, viz. India was ‘content’ with the low growth rate, post Independence)
- Prolonged low growth rate, albeit not an economic contraction
- Low per-capita GDP
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/portfolio/technically/whats-a-hindu-rate-of-growth/article4795173.ece;

Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/plotting-social-progress/article19993692.ece;

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Solution: c.

The same question was posted here earlier.

Professor Rajkrishna, an Indian economist, coined the term ‘Hindu rate of growth’ in 1978 to characterise the slow growth and to explain it against the backdrop of socialistic economic policies. A ‘Hindu rate of growth’ characterises not a specific value of India’s growth rate, but a phase which was characterised by the following:
- A low rate of growth
- The attitude of policy makers and citizens towards economic growth (Indian fatalism, viz. India was ‘content’ with the low growth rate, post Independence)
- Prolonged low growth rate, albeit not an economic contraction
- Low per-capita GDP
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/portfolio/technically/whats-a-hindu-rate-of-growth/article4795173.ece;

Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/plotting-social-progress/article19993692.ece;

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