QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 06 June 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 pointsConsider the following statements:
- Every state’s ‘green’ gross domestic project has been calculated on a yearly basis since India ratified the Paris Agreement
- The Green Skill Development Programme is being implemented jointly by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: d.
In the news (TH): Starting this year (2018), the government will begin a five-year exercise to compute district-level data of the country’s environmental wealth. The numbers will eventually be used to calculate every State’s ‘green’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The metric will help with a range of policy decisions, such as compensation to be paid during land acquisition, calculation of funds required for climate mitigation, and so on.
The government has also launched a ‘green skilling’ programme (Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change) under which youth, particularly school dropouts, would be trained in a range of ‘green jobs’— as operators of scientific instruments used to measure environmental quality, as field staff in nature parks, and as tourist guides. Some of the labour required for the survey would also be sourced from the green-skilled workforce.
For more information regarding Green Skill Development Programme, refer solution to Q8, 15th May Quiz;
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Solution: d.
In the news (TH): Starting this year (2018), the government will begin a five-year exercise to compute district-level data of the country’s environmental wealth. The numbers will eventually be used to calculate every State’s ‘green’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The metric will help with a range of policy decisions, such as compensation to be paid during land acquisition, calculation of funds required for climate mitigation, and so on.
The government has also launched a ‘green skilling’ programme (Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change) under which youth, particularly school dropouts, would be trained in a range of ‘green jobs’— as operators of scientific instruments used to measure environmental quality, as field staff in nature parks, and as tourist guides. Some of the labour required for the survey would also be sourced from the green-skilled workforce.
For more information regarding Green Skill Development Programme, refer solution to Q8, 15th May Quiz;
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.The anti-nuclear group International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) had facilitated the recent summits held between the North and South Korean Presidents
- ICAN is a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: b.
Statement 1 is incorrect.
Statement 2: ICAN was awarded the Peace Prize (in 2017) “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.
In the news (TH): “ICAN offered to pay for next week’s historic summit between the U.S. and North Korea, including Kim Jong-un’s bill. One of many reported logistical and protocol headaches surrounding the meet concerns the issue of payment for Mr. Kim’s stay at the five-star Fullerton Hotel.”
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Incorrect
Solution: b.
Statement 1 is incorrect.
Statement 2: ICAN was awarded the Peace Prize (in 2017) “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”.
In the news (TH): “ICAN offered to pay for next week’s historic summit between the U.S. and North Korea, including Kim Jong-un’s bill. One of many reported logistical and protocol headaches surrounding the meet concerns the issue of payment for Mr. Kim’s stay at the five-star Fullerton Hotel.”
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.The President and the Governor can pardon, reprieve, respite, remit, suspend or commute the punishment or sentence of any person convicted of any offence against a central and state law respectively
2.The President is the only authority who can pardon a death sentence
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements about the S-400 Triumf long-range air defence missile system:
1.It has a range of about 400km
2.It can shoot down about 80 simultaneous targets
3.It has been designed and developed by USA
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.The first president of the All India Trade Union Congress was Bipin Chandra Pal
2.In India, Bipin Chandra Pal was the first to link capitalism with imperialism
3.Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sarojini Naidu, Chittaranjan Das and Lala Lajpat Rai were associated with the AITUC
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: b.
Statement 1: The trade union movement was led by All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) founded in 1920. Lala Lajpat Rai was its first president and Dewan Chaman Lal its general secretary. Tilak was also one of the moving spirits. Lala Lajpat Rai was the first President.
Statement 2: Lajpat Rai was the first to link capitalism with imperialism. He stated that “imperialism and militarism are the twin children of capitalism”.
Statement 3: The prominent Congress and swarajist leader C.R. Das presided over the third and the fourth sessions of the AITUC. The Gaya session of the. Congress (1922) welcomed the formation of the AITUC and a committee was formed to assist it. C.R. Das advocated that the Congress should take up the workers’ and peasants’ cause and incorporate them in the struggle for swaraj or else they would get isolated from the movement. Other leaders who kept close contacts with the AITUC included Nehru, Sabhas Bose, C.F. Andrews, J.M. Sengupta, Satyamurthy, V.V. Giri and Sarojini Naidu. In the beginning, the AITUC was influenced by social democratic ideas of the British Labour Party. The Gandhian philosophy of non-violence, trusteeship and class-collaboration had great influence on the movement. Gandhiji helped Anasuya Sarabai organise the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (1918).
Improvisation: TH;
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Solution: b.
Statement 1: The trade union movement was led by All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) founded in 1920. Lala Lajpat Rai was its first president and Dewan Chaman Lal its general secretary. Tilak was also one of the moving spirits. Lala Lajpat Rai was the first President.
Statement 2: Lajpat Rai was the first to link capitalism with imperialism. He stated that “imperialism and militarism are the twin children of capitalism”.
Statement 3: The prominent Congress and swarajist leader C.R. Das presided over the third and the fourth sessions of the AITUC. The Gaya session of the. Congress (1922) welcomed the formation of the AITUC and a committee was formed to assist it. C.R. Das advocated that the Congress should take up the workers’ and peasants’ cause and incorporate them in the struggle for swaraj or else they would get isolated from the movement. Other leaders who kept close contacts with the AITUC included Nehru, Sabhas Bose, C.F. Andrews, J.M. Sengupta, Satyamurthy, V.V. Giri and Sarojini Naidu. In the beginning, the AITUC was influenced by social democratic ideas of the British Labour Party. The Gandhian philosophy of non-violence, trusteeship and class-collaboration had great influence on the movement. Gandhiji helped Anasuya Sarabai organise the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (1918).
Improvisation: TH;
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