QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,26 June 2018

Solution: b.

Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences  is an organization dedicated to provide holistic quality education to 27000 tribal children to eliminate poverty and hunger.

Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences;

Improvisation: Vikaspedia;

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Solution: a.

India’s share of world reserve is 1.8% only.

Globally, Chile has the largest reserves of copper accounting for about 30% of the total world reserves followed by Australia 13%,Peru 12%, Mexico 7% , USA 5%, China & Russia 4% each, DR Congo and Zambia 3% each and other countries 19%.

Improvisation: Vikaspedia India May 2018;

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Solution: a.

National Technology Day commemorates India’s success in using science and technology to address the challenges facing the country. On 11 May 1998 the Pokhran test was conducted. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared India a full-fledged nuclear state after operation ‘Shakti’ and it made India the 6th country to join the Nuclear Club. On the same day India performed successful test firing of the Trishul Missile and had test flown the first indigenous aircraft – ‘Hansa – 3’.

PIB: It was on 21st May in 1991 that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi fell to the designs of terrorists. The Day is observed to generate awareness in the country among all sections of people, about the danger of terrorism and violence and their effect on the people, society and the country as a whole.

CBD: It commemorates the adoption of the text of the Convention of Biological Diversity on 22 May 1992.

Source/Improvisation: Vikaspedia India May 2018; Vikaspedia;

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Solution: c.

Tejas, the Light Combat Aircraft recently successfully demonstrated an Air-to-Air Beyond Visual Range (BVR) missile firing capability by releasing Derby Air-to-Air BVR missile. It has been developed by Israeli defence company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

PIB;

Vikaspedia April 2018;

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Solution: d.

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits.

TESS scientists expect the mission will catalog thousands of planet candidates and vastly increase the current number of known exoplanets. Of these, approximately 300 are expected to be Earth-sized and super-Earth-sized exoplanets, which are worlds no larger than twice the size of Earth. TESS will find the most promising exoplanets orbiting our nearest and brightest stars, giving future researchers a rich set of new targets for more comprehensive follow-up studies.

Th1; Th2;

Vikaspedia April 2018;

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