QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 07 August 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 pointsThe Organization of American States, the world’s oldest regional organisation, uses a four-pronged approach to effectively implement its essential purposes, based on its main pillars. Which of the following is not one among these pillars?
Correct
Solution: d.
OAS: The Organization was established in order to achieve among its member states “an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence.”
Today, the OAS brings together all 35 independent states of the Americas and constitutes the main political, juridical, and social governmental forum. The Organization uses a four-pronged approach to effectively implement its essential purposes, based on its main pillars: democracy, human rights, security, and development.
In the news (TH): The IACHR is an independent, multinational court that handles the human rights cases of people affected by the laws of countries that are members of the Organisation of American States (OAS).
Incorrect
Solution: d.
OAS: The Organization was established in order to achieve among its member states “an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence.”
Today, the OAS brings together all 35 independent states of the Americas and constitutes the main political, juridical, and social governmental forum. The Organization uses a four-pronged approach to effectively implement its essential purposes, based on its main pillars: democracy, human rights, security, and development.
In the news (TH): The IACHR is an independent, multinational court that handles the human rights cases of people affected by the laws of countries that are members of the Organisation of American States (OAS).
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsWith regard to cab aggregators, there could be cases where state guidelines are at variance with the central guidelines. In such a scenario,
Correct
Solution: c.
The central guidelines will prevail because motor vehicles laws fall under the Concurrent List (Entry 35 – “Mechanically propelled vehicles including the principles on which taxes on such vehicles are to be levied”) in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution.
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Solution: c.
The central guidelines will prevail because motor vehicles laws fall under the Concurrent List (Entry 35 – “Mechanically propelled vehicles including the principles on which taxes on such vehicles are to be levied”) in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsA climate feedback happens when a change in our climate causes an impact which changes our climate further – a knock-on effect which feeds back into our climate. Which one of the following is a negative climate feedback?
Correct
Solution: a.
Climate feedbacks are processes that can either amplify or diminish the effects of climate forcings. A feedback that increases an initial warming is called a “positive feedback.” A feedback that reduces an initial warming is a “negative feedback.”
- Ice is white and very reflective, in contrast to the ocean surface, which is dark and absorbs heat faster. As the atmosphere warms and sea ice melts, the darker ocean absorbs more heat, causes more ice to melt, and makes the Earth warmer overall. The ice-albedo feedback is a very strong positive feedback.
- A warmer climate could cause more water to be held in the atmosphere leading to an increase in cloudiness and altering the amount of sunlight that reaches the surface of the Earth. Less heat would get absorbed, which could slow the increased warming.
- There are very large stores of methane locked away at depth in the ocean. We know the stability of these stores is dependent on temperature. As the oceans get warmer it’s possible that these stores get released. Methane is more than 20 times as potent as CO2 as a greenhouse gas.
- MetOffice: Our atmosphere is getting warmer because of climate change and, as a result, is holding more water vapour. This is a potent greenhouse gas – when in the atmosphere, water vapour helps the Earth hold on to more energy from the sun. So a warming climate means more water vapour, which in turn warms the climate further – a classic positive feedback.
Improvisation/in the news (BBC): What is a Hothouse Earth scenario? Crossing into a Hothouse Earth period would see a higher global temperature than at any time in the past 1.2 million years. The climate might stabilise with 4-5 degrees C of warming above the pre-industrial age. Thanks to the melting of ice sheets, the seas could be 10-60 metres higher than now. Essentially, this would mean that some parts of the Earth would become uninhabitable. The impacts would be “massive, sometimes abrupt and undoubtedly disruptive”. A study by an international team of climate researchers study shows this could happen if global temperatures rise by 2˚C.
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Incorrect
Solution: a.
Climate feedbacks are processes that can either amplify or diminish the effects of climate forcings. A feedback that increases an initial warming is called a “positive feedback.” A feedback that reduces an initial warming is a “negative feedback.”
- Ice is white and very reflective, in contrast to the ocean surface, which is dark and absorbs heat faster. As the atmosphere warms and sea ice melts, the darker ocean absorbs more heat, causes more ice to melt, and makes the Earth warmer overall. The ice-albedo feedback is a very strong positive feedback.
- A warmer climate could cause more water to be held in the atmosphere leading to an increase in cloudiness and altering the amount of sunlight that reaches the surface of the Earth. Less heat would get absorbed, which could slow the increased warming.
- There are very large stores of methane locked away at depth in the ocean. We know the stability of these stores is dependent on temperature. As the oceans get warmer it’s possible that these stores get released. Methane is more than 20 times as potent as CO2 as a greenhouse gas.
- MetOffice: Our atmosphere is getting warmer because of climate change and, as a result, is holding more water vapour. This is a potent greenhouse gas – when in the atmosphere, water vapour helps the Earth hold on to more energy from the sun. So a warming climate means more water vapour, which in turn warms the climate further – a classic positive feedback.
Improvisation/in the news (BBC): What is a Hothouse Earth scenario? Crossing into a Hothouse Earth period would see a higher global temperature than at any time in the past 1.2 million years. The climate might stabilise with 4-5 degrees C of warming above the pre-industrial age. Thanks to the melting of ice sheets, the seas could be 10-60 metres higher than now. Essentially, this would mean that some parts of the Earth would become uninhabitable. The impacts would be “massive, sometimes abrupt and undoubtedly disruptive”. A study by an international team of climate researchers study shows this could happen if global temperatures rise by 2˚C.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsThe Parliament recently passed the 123rd Constitutional Amendment Bill. Till now, the National Commission for Backward Classes could only
1.Recommend inclusion and exclusion of castes from the OBC list.
2.Recommend the level of income that cuts off the “creamy layer” from the benefits of reservation for the OBCs.
3.Investigate all matters relating to the constitutional and other legal safeguards of OBCs.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct
Solution: a.
The present NCBC (a statutory body) can only recommend inclusion and exclusion of castes from the OBC list and the level of income that cuts off the “creamy layer” among these castes from the benefits of reservation.
Till now, it was the National Commission of Scheduled Castes that addressed the grievances of the OBCs. Article 338 of the Constitution, which provides for a “Special Officer for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes” to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards available to them under the Constitution, says categorically that SC/STs “shall be construed as including references to Other Backward Classes”, once a Commission decides who they are.
TH;
Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;
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Incorrect
Solution: a.
The present NCBC (a statutory body) can only recommend inclusion and exclusion of castes from the OBC list and the level of income that cuts off the “creamy layer” among these castes from the benefits of reservation.
Till now, it was the National Commission of Scheduled Castes that addressed the grievances of the OBCs. Article 338 of the Constitution, which provides for a “Special Officer for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes” to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards available to them under the Constitution, says categorically that SC/STs “shall be construed as including references to Other Backward Classes”, once a Commission decides who they are.
TH;
Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsA practice that has existed since the Mughal era, this community of water carriers continue to quench the thirst of vendors and the devout, and passersby with their water-filled goat hide canteen known as ‘mashaq’. This statement refers to which one of the following communities?
Correct
Solution: a.
Bhishtis have been supplying businesses, pilgrims and passersby with swigs from their swollen canteens since the Mughals ruled India, an era before piped water sounded the death knell for their trade.
From 2017: Th: Country’s last water men fight the tide of historyt;
In the news: TH;
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Incorrect
Solution: a.
Bhishtis have been supplying businesses, pilgrims and passersby with swigs from their swollen canteens since the Mughals ruled India, an era before piped water sounded the death knell for their trade.
From 2017: Th: Country’s last water men fight the tide of historyt;
In the news: TH;
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