QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 28 May 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 pointsRaja Ram Mohan Roy is often remembered for his role in abolishing Sati. Under the tenure of which Governor-General was this reform passed?
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Solution: d.
Due to fierce campaign and lobbying of Raja Rammohan Roy and others,Sati practice was formally banned in all the lands under Bengal Presidency by Lord William Bentinck on 4 December 1829. By this regulation, the people who abetted sati were declared guilty of “culpable homicide.”
Improvisation – Google Doodle: Raja Ram Mohan Roy;
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Solution: d.
Due to fierce campaign and lobbying of Raja Rammohan Roy and others,Sati practice was formally banned in all the lands under Bengal Presidency by Lord William Bentinck on 4 December 1829. By this regulation, the people who abetted sati were declared guilty of “culpable homicide.”
Improvisation – Google Doodle: Raja Ram Mohan Roy;
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsMagma contains dissolved gases, which provide the driving force that causes most volcanic eruptions. By far the most abundant volcanic gas is
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Solution: a.
By far the most abundant volcanic gas is water vapor, which is harmless. However, significant amounts of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen halides can also be emitted from volcanoes.
In the news: Mount Kilauea volcanic eruption;
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Solution: a.
By far the most abundant volcanic gas is water vapor, which is harmless. However, significant amounts of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen halides can also be emitted from volcanoes.
In the news: Mount Kilauea volcanic eruption;
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsThe world’s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining “eyes and ears” to try to unravel the secrets of the universe, which forms a part of the Square Kilometre Array project, was recently launched in
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Solution: b.
Scientists in South Africa on Friday launched the world’s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining “eyes and ears” to try to unravel the secrets of the universe. The latest move combines the new optical telescope MeerLITCH — Dutch for ‘more light’ — with the recently-completed 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope, located 200 kilometres away.
The device forms part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the remote Karoo desert, which will be the world’s most powerful radio telescope system.
Astronomers have previously had to wait for a cosmic incident to be picked up by a radio telescope and then carry out optic observations afterwards. But combining MeerLITCH with MeerKAT will allow simultaneous study of cosmic events as they occur. The project has been six years in the making by a joint-team of South African, Dutch and British scientists.
In the news: TH;
About Square Kilometre Array;
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Solution: b.
Scientists in South Africa on Friday launched the world’s first optical telescope linked to a radio telescope, combining “eyes and ears” to try to unravel the secrets of the universe. The latest move combines the new optical telescope MeerLITCH — Dutch for ‘more light’ — with the recently-completed 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope, located 200 kilometres away.
The device forms part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in the remote Karoo desert, which will be the world’s most powerful radio telescope system.
Astronomers have previously had to wait for a cosmic incident to be picked up by a radio telescope and then carry out optic observations afterwards. But combining MeerLITCH with MeerKAT will allow simultaneous study of cosmic events as they occur. The project has been six years in the making by a joint-team of South African, Dutch and British scientists.
In the news: TH;
About Square Kilometre Array;
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 points‘Vog’, and ‘laze’, terms recently seen in the news, are related to
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Solution: c.
Vog (Volcanic air pollution) is a hazy mixture of SO2 gas and aerosols, which are primarily composed of sulfuric acid droplets and other sulfate (SO4) compounds. Aerosols are created when SO2 and other volcanic gases combine in the atmosphere and interact chemically with oxygen, moisture, dust, and sunlight over periods of minutes to days. The exact composition of vog depends on how much time the volcanic plume has had to react in the atmosphere.
USGS: Gas hazards from Volcanoes;
In the news: Mount Kilauea volcanic eruption;
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Solution: c.
Vog (Volcanic air pollution) is a hazy mixture of SO2 gas and aerosols, which are primarily composed of sulfuric acid droplets and other sulfate (SO4) compounds. Aerosols are created when SO2 and other volcanic gases combine in the atmosphere and interact chemically with oxygen, moisture, dust, and sunlight over periods of minutes to days. The exact composition of vog depends on how much time the volcanic plume has had to react in the atmosphere.
USGS: Gas hazards from Volcanoes;
In the news: Mount Kilauea volcanic eruption;
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.Shield volcanoes are formed from basic lavas are highly fluid
2.Volcanic plugs are formed due to prolonged exposure of shield volcanoes to erosion
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: a.
Statement 1 is correct.
Statement 2: Acid lavas are highly viscous with a high melting point. Sometimes the lavas are so viscous that they form a spine or plug at the crater. Some spines are very resistant and while most of the material of very old volcanoes is removed by erosion the spine may remain.
Improvisation: BBC;
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Solution: a.
Statement 1 is correct.
Statement 2: Acid lavas are highly viscous with a high melting point. Sometimes the lavas are so viscous that they form a spine or plug at the crater. Some spines are very resistant and while most of the material of very old volcanoes is removed by erosion the spine may remain.
Improvisation: BBC;
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