QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 19 July 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 pointsWith which one of the following state/central legislations is ‘Mission Birubala’ and ‘Project Prahari’ closely related?
Correct
Solution: c.
President Ram Nath Kovind’s assent to the Bill against witch-hunting that the Assam Assembly passed three years ago has rejuvenated the campaign of a barely literate 65-year-old woman against superstition that has claimed scores of lives.
Ms. Birubala Rabha has been campaigning against witch-hunting after a quack almost killed her son in 1996. She stood her ground despite the threat of excommunication by the local shaman and went on to rescue over 50 women from being branded as witches before launching Mission Birubala against the menace.
Another important person behind the legislation is Director-General of Police Kuladhar Saikia. As Deputy Inspector-General in Kokrajhar, he launched Project Prahari in 2001, which blended normal policing with social campaigns to check the menace.
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Solution: c.
President Ram Nath Kovind’s assent to the Bill against witch-hunting that the Assam Assembly passed three years ago has rejuvenated the campaign of a barely literate 65-year-old woman against superstition that has claimed scores of lives.
Ms. Birubala Rabha has been campaigning against witch-hunting after a quack almost killed her son in 1996. She stood her ground despite the threat of excommunication by the local shaman and went on to rescue over 50 women from being branded as witches before launching Mission Birubala against the menace.
Another important person behind the legislation is Director-General of Police Kuladhar Saikia. As Deputy Inspector-General in Kokrajhar, he launched Project Prahari in 2001, which blended normal policing with social campaigns to check the menace.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements about the Expanding Universe Hypothesis:
1.Edwin Hubble first theorised that the universe was expanding.
- According to this hypothesis, the universe has been expanding for nearly fourteen billion years before the present.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: b.
The most popular argument regarding the origin of the universe is the Big Bang Theory. It is also called expanding universe hypothesis. Edwin Hubble, in 1920, provided evidence that the universe is expanding. As time passes, galaxies move further and further apart. You can experiment and find what does the expanding universe mean.
Google Doodle: Most people have heard of the Big Bang theory, but fewer recognize the name Georges Lemaître, the man who came up with the hypothesis that transformed our understanding of astrophysics. Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest who proposed that the universe began as a single primordial atom, which he referred to as the “Cosmic Egg”… Lemaître’s 1927 paper theorizing that the universe was expanding was soon substantiated by Edwin Hubble’s observations, which were published in 1929.
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Incorrect
Solution: b.
The most popular argument regarding the origin of the universe is the Big Bang Theory. It is also called expanding universe hypothesis. Edwin Hubble, in 1920, provided evidence that the universe is expanding. As time passes, galaxies move further and further apart. You can experiment and find what does the expanding universe mean.
Google Doodle: Most people have heard of the Big Bang theory, but fewer recognize the name Georges Lemaître, the man who came up with the hypothesis that transformed our understanding of astrophysics. Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest who proposed that the universe began as a single primordial atom, which he referred to as the “Cosmic Egg”… Lemaître’s 1927 paper theorizing that the universe was expanding was soon substantiated by Edwin Hubble’s observations, which were published in 1929.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsThe Vikas engine, recently in the news, powers the
Correct
Solution: d.
All three satellite launch vehicles of ISRO (PSLV, GSLV, GSLV Mk-III) are set to add muscle to their spacecraft lifting power in upcoming missions this year. The space agency has improved the thrust of the Vikas engine that powers all of them.
TH;
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Incorrect
Solution: d.
All three satellite launch vehicles of ISRO (PSLV, GSLV, GSLV Mk-III) are set to add muscle to their spacecraft lifting power in upcoming missions this year. The space agency has improved the thrust of the Vikas engine that powers all of them.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.As a fraction of GDP, expenditures on Research and Development (R&D) have been stagnant over the past two decades.
2.As a share of all R&D expenditure, public expenditure has reduced over the past two decades.
3.Unlike in most countries, the government in India is not just the primary source of R&D funding but also its primary user.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: d.
India’s spending on R&D (about 0.6 percent of GDP) is well below that in major nations such as the US (2.8), China (2.1), Israel (4.3) and Korea (4.2). It is also unique in how dominant government is in carrying out R&D. In most countries, the private sector carries out the bulk of research and
development even if government must play an import funding role. However, in India, the government is not just the primary source of R&D funding but also its the primary user of these funds. Even more, government expenditure on R&D is undertaken almost entirely by the central government.
2017-18 Economic Survey Volume 1;
Improvisation: TH;
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Solution: d.
India’s spending on R&D (about 0.6 percent of GDP) is well below that in major nations such as the US (2.8), China (2.1), Israel (4.3) and Korea (4.2). It is also unique in how dominant government is in carrying out R&D. In most countries, the private sector carries out the bulk of research and
development even if government must play an import funding role. However, in India, the government is not just the primary source of R&D funding but also its the primary user of these funds. Even more, government expenditure on R&D is undertaken almost entirely by the central government.
2017-18 Economic Survey Volume 1;
Improvisation: TH;
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsThe Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK) refers to the restructured Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MsDP). What makes the PMJVK different from MsDP?
1.The population criteria has been lowered to 50%, viz. the programme will be implemented in such clusters of villages which have at least 50% population of minority communities.
2.Towns which are found to be backward in terms of either or both parameters – basic amenities and socio-economic indicators – will be taken up as Minority Concentration Towns.
3.‘Minorities’ under the programme have been redefined as religious minorities within a particular state.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct
Solution: b.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired recently approved the proposal for renaming and restructuring of MsDP as PMJVK. The CCEA also approved its continuation during the remaining period of the 14th Finance Commission.
The criteria for identification of Minority Concentration Towns and Clusters of Villages have been rationalised by lowering the population percentage criteria of Minority Communities and fulfilment of backwardness parameters in the following manners:-
- For MCTs, refer statement 2.
- Corrected statement 1: Earlier only those Cluster of Villages which were having at-least 50% population of Minority Community were taken. Now the population criteria has been lowered to 25%.
Additional Information:
- The Programme aims to address development deficits in the identified minority concentration areas. The identification of minority concentration areas has been done on the basis of presence of substantial population of notified Minority Communities (Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Jains) based on Census, 2011.
- The area to be covered under PMJVK would be 57% more as compared to the existing MsDP.
- The MsDP covered 196 district of the country whereas PMJVK will cover 308 districts of the country.
- 80% of the resources under the PMJVK would be earmarked for projects related to education, health and skill development.
- 33 to 40% of resources under the PMJVK would be specifically allocated for women centric projects.
- A provision to bring all implementing agencies under Public Finance Management System(PFMS) and its effective use ensured to monitor fund utilization has been made in PMJVK.
- MsDP has been identified as one of the Core of the Core Schemes under National Development Agenda in the Report of the Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalization of Centrally Sponsored Schemes, which was constituted by NITI Aayog.
PIB1;
Improvisation: PIB2;
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Incorrect
Solution: b.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired recently approved the proposal for renaming and restructuring of MsDP as PMJVK. The CCEA also approved its continuation during the remaining period of the 14th Finance Commission.
The criteria for identification of Minority Concentration Towns and Clusters of Villages have been rationalised by lowering the population percentage criteria of Minority Communities and fulfilment of backwardness parameters in the following manners:-
- For MCTs, refer statement 2.
- Corrected statement 1: Earlier only those Cluster of Villages which were having at-least 50% population of Minority Community were taken. Now the population criteria has been lowered to 25%.
Additional Information:
- The Programme aims to address development deficits in the identified minority concentration areas. The identification of minority concentration areas has been done on the basis of presence of substantial population of notified Minority Communities (Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Jains) based on Census, 2011.
- The area to be covered under PMJVK would be 57% more as compared to the existing MsDP.
- The MsDP covered 196 district of the country whereas PMJVK will cover 308 districts of the country.
- 80% of the resources under the PMJVK would be earmarked for projects related to education, health and skill development.
- 33 to 40% of resources under the PMJVK would be specifically allocated for women centric projects.
- A provision to bring all implementing agencies under Public Finance Management System(PFMS) and its effective use ensured to monitor fund utilization has been made in PMJVK.
- MsDP has been identified as one of the Core of the Core Schemes under National Development Agenda in the Report of the Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalization of Centrally Sponsored Schemes, which was constituted by NITI Aayog.
PIB1;
Improvisation: PIB2;
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