QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 07 April 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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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
1 points‘Gold Coast’, which is playing host to the Commonwealth Games 2018, is a city in
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Solution: d.
In the news: Commonwealth Games 2018
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland;
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Solution: d.
In the news: Commonwealth Games 2018
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland;
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsNASA recently inked a deal with Lockheed Martin to develop an ‘X-plane’. What is the purpose of this project?
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Solution: a.
The key to success for this mission – known as the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator – will be to demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic, yet generate sonic booms so quiet, people on the ground will hardly notice them, if they hear them at all. Current regulations, which are based on aircraft speed, ban supersonic flight over land. With the low-boom flights, NASA intends to gather data on how effective the quiet supersonic technology is in terms of public acceptance by flying over a handful of U.S. cities, which have yet to be selected.
https://www.nasa.gov/lbfd/new-nasa-x-plane-construction-begins-now/;
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Solution: a.
The key to success for this mission – known as the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator – will be to demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic, yet generate sonic booms so quiet, people on the ground will hardly notice them, if they hear them at all. Current regulations, which are based on aircraft speed, ban supersonic flight over land. With the low-boom flights, NASA intends to gather data on how effective the quiet supersonic technology is in terms of public acceptance by flying over a handful of U.S. cities, which have yet to be selected.
https://www.nasa.gov/lbfd/new-nasa-x-plane-construction-begins-now/;
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsWhich of the following statements about the ‘New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative’ of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is/are correct?
1.Such projects are selected for which the technology as well as market certainty are low
2.Projects are funded based on requests/applications received from institutions, academia and the private sector
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: a.
- Instead of funding a project based on requests/applications, the programme identifies the areas for development based on national consultation and invites best partners from institutions, academia and private sector to play a role in the development;
- Almost all projects are built in a public-private partnership mode;
- The programme provides for continuous mapping of the IP scenario for each project and in licensing of IP;
- the programme also provides for foreclosure of the non-performing or non-achievable project components;
- An innovative feature of the programme is that it provides financial support to all players in the project;
- The constant endeavour of the programme was to position the projects in the upper right most quadrant where the technology and markets are less known. Consequently, the risks and rewards associated with the projects are very high. Thus the strategy adopted for NMITLI was to obtain an inverse risk-investment profile, i.e. low investment – high risk technology areas (with global leadership potential) with investments increasing as developments take place and the projects move up on the innovation curve with reduction in risks.
About the NMITLI: http://www.csir.res.in/sites/default/files/NMITLI%20Information%20in%20brief.pdf;
Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/business/a-third-of-firms-default-on-easy-csir-loans/article23437308.ece
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Solution: a.
- Instead of funding a project based on requests/applications, the programme identifies the areas for development based on national consultation and invites best partners from institutions, academia and private sector to play a role in the development;
- Almost all projects are built in a public-private partnership mode;
- The programme provides for continuous mapping of the IP scenario for each project and in licensing of IP;
- the programme also provides for foreclosure of the non-performing or non-achievable project components;
- An innovative feature of the programme is that it provides financial support to all players in the project;
- The constant endeavour of the programme was to position the projects in the upper right most quadrant where the technology and markets are less known. Consequently, the risks and rewards associated with the projects are very high. Thus the strategy adopted for NMITLI was to obtain an inverse risk-investment profile, i.e. low investment – high risk technology areas (with global leadership potential) with investments increasing as developments take place and the projects move up on the innovation curve with reduction in risks.
About the NMITLI: http://www.csir.res.in/sites/default/files/NMITLI%20Information%20in%20brief.pdf;
Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/business/a-third-of-firms-default-on-easy-csir-loans/article23437308.ece
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsThe Sharada Prasad Committee was set up by the Government of India to look into certain issues related to
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Solution: c.
“Salvaging the Indian demographic dividend must be a key part of India’s growth story. In 2016, the Government of India formed the Sharada Prasad Committee to rationalise the Sector Skill Councils (SSCs), which are employer bodies mostly promoted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Confederation of Indian Industry and other industry associations, and improve ‘Skill India’. The committee submitted its report in 2016..”
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Solution: c.
“Salvaging the Indian demographic dividend must be a key part of India’s growth story. In 2016, the Government of India formed the Sharada Prasad Committee to rationalise the Sector Skill Councils (SSCs), which are employer bodies mostly promoted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Confederation of Indian Industry and other industry associations, and improve ‘Skill India’. The committee submitted its report in 2016..”
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements about the Bishnoi sect:
1.Members of this sect follow certain tenets laid down by their founder from ancient India
2.The ‘Angalwaltha movement’ is associated with members of this community
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: b.
The Bishnoi sect was started by Guru Jambheshwar of Bikaner in Rajasthan in the 15th century. He set down 29 tenets which direct the community to protect nature and animals as well as worship God. Killing animals and felling of trees are grave sins for the Bishnoi community.
That the Bishnois can lay down their own lives to save trees and animals is no hyperbole. In 1730 AD, the king of Jodhpur ordered cutting down of khejri trees to build a palace for himself. The Bishnois consider these trees sacred, so they challenged the king. Amrita Devi, a Bishnoi woman, and her three daughters hugged the trees and the king’s soldiers had to kill them. Hundreds of Bishnoi men, women and children were killed in this manner trying to save khejri trees (‘Angalwaltha’ movement). It was Amrita Devi who inspired the modern Chipko movement decades ago in what is now the state of Uttarakhand. The Bishnois are vegetarians. They don’t cut trees even for fuel for which they use fallen branches and twigs. Their women raise orphaned calves as their own children and also suckle them.
Reference to Angalwaltha movement: https://www.google.com/doodles/45th-anniversary-of-the-chipko-movement;
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Solution: b.
The Bishnoi sect was started by Guru Jambheshwar of Bikaner in Rajasthan in the 15th century. He set down 29 tenets which direct the community to protect nature and animals as well as worship God. Killing animals and felling of trees are grave sins for the Bishnoi community.
That the Bishnois can lay down their own lives to save trees and animals is no hyperbole. In 1730 AD, the king of Jodhpur ordered cutting down of khejri trees to build a palace for himself. The Bishnois consider these trees sacred, so they challenged the king. Amrita Devi, a Bishnoi woman, and her three daughters hugged the trees and the king’s soldiers had to kill them. Hundreds of Bishnoi men, women and children were killed in this manner trying to save khejri trees (‘Angalwaltha’ movement). It was Amrita Devi who inspired the modern Chipko movement decades ago in what is now the state of Uttarakhand. The Bishnois are vegetarians. They don’t cut trees even for fuel for which they use fallen branches and twigs. Their women raise orphaned calves as their own children and also suckle them.
Reference to Angalwaltha movement: https://www.google.com/doodles/45th-anniversary-of-the-chipko-movement;
