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QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 20 March 2018
- March 23, 2018
- Posted by: InsightsIAS
- Category: QUIZ 2017
QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 20 March 2018
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.
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You have reached 0 of 0 points, (0) Consider the following pairs: Militia sometimes in the news – Country they belong to Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched? Solution: d. Salwa Judum (declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2011) was a militia that was mobilised and deployed as part of anti-insurgency operations in Chhattisgarh, India, aimed at countering Naxalite violence. The YPG or People’s Protection Units are the the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a branch of Iran’s Armed Forces founded after the 1979 Revolution by order of Ayatollah Khomeini. Embattled Iranian regime mulls early polls; Turkey-led forces seize control of Afrin; http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/against-human-rights/article22885113.ece; — Solution: d. Salwa Judum (declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2011) was a militia that was mobilised and deployed as part of anti-insurgency operations in Chhattisgarh, India, aimed at countering Naxalite violence. The YPG or People’s Protection Units are the the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a branch of Iran’s Armed Forces founded after the 1979 Revolution by order of Ayatollah Khomeini. Embattled Iranian regime mulls early polls; Turkey-led forces seize control of Afrin; http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/against-human-rights/article22885113.ece; — Consider the following statements: 1.The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ is a collection of marine debris that spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Solution: c. Both statements are correct. Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/in-a-plastics-world/article23288786.ece?utm_source=tp-opinion&utm_medium=sticky_footer Solution: c. Both statements are correct. Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/in-a-plastics-world/article23288786.ece?utm_source=tp-opinion&utm_medium=sticky_footer The recently-launched advertisement on yoga, ‘Yogi of the Racetrack’, is a part of the Solution: a. In a bid to spur domestic travel, the government plans to promote religious tourism in the country, said the tourism minister… The Tourism Ministry recently launched ‘Yogi of the Racetrack’, a minute-long advertisement on yoga, that received more than 11.5 million hits in a week. “With this ad, we are addressing a completely new group of people. Earlier, it was thought that yoga is just for people over 40 and Ayurveda too is for older people. Now we are addressing the millennials.”… Six more similar advertisements on topics, including Ayurveda, will be released soon. “The whole idea is to storm the world with what the true essence of India is.” — Solution: a. In a bid to spur domestic travel, the government plans to promote religious tourism in the country, said the tourism minister… The Tourism Ministry recently launched ‘Yogi of the Racetrack’, a minute-long advertisement on yoga, that received more than 11.5 million hits in a week. “With this ad, we are addressing a completely new group of people. Earlier, it was thought that yoga is just for people over 40 and Ayurveda too is for older people. Now we are addressing the millennials.”… Six more similar advertisements on topics, including Ayurveda, will be released soon. “The whole idea is to storm the world with what the true essence of India is.” — ‘VX’, ‘Sarin’, ‘Tabun’, ‘Soman’ and ‘Novichok’, terms recently seen in the news, are all Solution: d. These are nerve agents (but at least two of them have been developed in the post world wars period). The first nerve agents were discovered by accident in the 1930s by scientists trying to find a cost-effective pesticide. they proved to be highly toxic chemicals that eventually ended up in the hands of the German military. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43328976; Improvisation: Novichok in the news; http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-skripals-in-salisbury/article23287922.ece; — Solution: d. These are nerve agents (but at least two of them have been developed in the post world wars period). The first nerve agents were discovered by accident in the 1930s by scientists trying to find a cost-effective pesticide. they proved to be highly toxic chemicals that eventually ended up in the hands of the German military. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43328976; Improvisation: Novichok in the news; http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-skripals-in-salisbury/article23287922.ece; — Which among the following statements is INCORRECT? Solution: b. The Pir Panjal Range is spread over Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh River Satluj flows through Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. Refer Atlas for Gawilgarh Hills – it is spread over two states – Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. —INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2017
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