QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 07 NOVEMBER 2017
QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz
The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles.
This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil services preliminary exam 2018. It is not a test of your knowledge. If you score less, please do not mind. Read again sources provided and try to remember better.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2017
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
- The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- India has ratified the Doha amendment to the Kyoto Protocol
- India is not a part of the Like-Minded Developing Countries Group on Climate Change
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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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.
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.
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 pointsWhy did Lord Lytton’s administration enact the Vernacular Press Act of 1878, directed only against Indian language newspapers?
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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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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 pointsThe multidimensional Gender Vulnerability Index, released by child development NGO ‘Plan India’, analyses which (one) of the following issues?
1.Safety/protection
2.Health
- Education
- Poverty
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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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;
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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;
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsWhich (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:
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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 pointsThe term ‘Hindu rate of growth’ characterises which one of the following phases?
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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
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
Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/plotting-social-progress/article19993692.ece;
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