QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 26 September 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 pointsPoint Nemo, the so-called “oceanic pole of inaccessibility”, is located in the
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Solution: b.
BBC: Loneliness is part of being a long-distance yachtsman, but the spot where Mr Tomy was stranded was not the most isolated in the world’s oceans, in terms of distance from any land. In 1992, Croatian-Canadian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela worked out that the so-called “oceanic pole of inaccessibility” – since named Point Nemo – was in the southern Pacific.
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Solution: b.
BBC: Loneliness is part of being a long-distance yachtsman, but the spot where Mr Tomy was stranded was not the most isolated in the world’s oceans, in terms of distance from any land. In 1992, Croatian-Canadian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela worked out that the so-called “oceanic pole of inaccessibility” – since named Point Nemo – was in the southern Pacific.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsThe National Technical Board on Nutrition, set up by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development, is chaired by
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Solution: d.
TH: India’s top nutrition panel has recommended that severely malnourished children must be fed freshly cooked food prepared from locally available cereals, pulses and vegetables, and distributed by anganwadi centres, as part of the country’s first-ever guidelines for nutritional management of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
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Solution: d.
TH: India’s top nutrition panel has recommended that severely malnourished children must be fed freshly cooked food prepared from locally available cereals, pulses and vegetables, and distributed by anganwadi centres, as part of the country’s first-ever guidelines for nutritional management of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsAs per the constitution, a person shall necessarily be disqualified for being elected as member of Parliament
1.Only if the Parliament declares that the holder of a particular office of profit is barred from holding parliamentary membership.
2.If he has been found guilty of certain election offences or corrupt practices in elections.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: d.
Key terms in the question are “As per the Constitution” and “necessarily”.
Under the constitution, a person shall be disqualified for being elected as member of Parliament
- if he holds any office of profit under the Union or a state government (by default then, the constitution, and not the Parliament, bars any holder of an office of profit from holding parliamentary membership; a minister in the Union or state government is not considered as holding the office of Also, the Parliament can declare that a particular office of profit will not disqualify its holder from parliamentary membership.)
- if he is so disqualified under any law made by Parliament.
The Parliament has laid down the following additional disqualification in the Representation of People Act (1951) – He must not have been found guilty of certain election offences or corrupt practices in the elections.Has been found guilty of certain election offences or corrupt practices in elections.
Improvisation: TH;
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Solution: d.
Key terms in the question are “As per the Constitution” and “necessarily”.
Under the constitution, a person shall be disqualified for being elected as member of Parliament
- if he holds any office of profit under the Union or a state government (by default then, the constitution, and not the Parliament, bars any holder of an office of profit from holding parliamentary membership; a minister in the Union or state government is not considered as holding the office of Also, the Parliament can declare that a particular office of profit will not disqualify its holder from parliamentary membership.)
- if he is so disqualified under any law made by Parliament.
The Parliament has laid down the following additional disqualification in the Representation of People Act (1951) – He must not have been found guilty of certain election offences or corrupt practices in the elections.Has been found guilty of certain election offences or corrupt practices in elections.
Improvisation: TH;
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsKnown as Silver Tips Imperial, it’s only plucked by expert pickers from the world’s first biodynamic tea farm on clear, full-moon nights when the planets align to produce optimal harvest conditions. This mystical Oolong, sold at a price of $1,850 per kg, is the most expensive tea ever produced in India. This tea farm is located in
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Solution: c.
BBC: Silver Tips Imperial can only be picked four to five times during the season. Before each harvest, hundreds of Makaibari workers (at the Makaibari tea estate) adorned in West Bengal dresses gather on the estate’s slopes just after dusk. As men beat hand drums, women dance and chant Vedic prayers for good fortune and protection under the light of the full moon. Onlookers light tallow torches fuelled by animal fat – not just to help the pickers see, but to help ward off wild leopards.
After 20:00 when the moon is at its brightest, some 80 to 100 specially trained tea-pickers take to the hills to quickly pluck two leaves and the bud from each Camellia sinensis plant and place them in a large woven basket strapped around their heads. If the sunlight touches the leaves, it is thought to alter the tea’s aroma and consistency, so workers must race to finish the harvest by midnight so that the plucked plants can be processed before dawn that following morning.
This smooth, elixir-like effect is what led buyers in the UK, US and Japan to pay $1,850 for a kg of the stuff during an especially powerful planetary alignment in 2014. In recent years, the brew has also cast a spell on Queen Elizabeth II, who received a packet of it as a gift from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was also sold at the FIFA World Cup in 2014.
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Solution: c.
BBC: Silver Tips Imperial can only be picked four to five times during the season. Before each harvest, hundreds of Makaibari workers (at the Makaibari tea estate) adorned in West Bengal dresses gather on the estate’s slopes just after dusk. As men beat hand drums, women dance and chant Vedic prayers for good fortune and protection under the light of the full moon. Onlookers light tallow torches fuelled by animal fat – not just to help the pickers see, but to help ward off wild leopards.
After 20:00 when the moon is at its brightest, some 80 to 100 specially trained tea-pickers take to the hills to quickly pluck two leaves and the bud from each Camellia sinensis plant and place them in a large woven basket strapped around their heads. If the sunlight touches the leaves, it is thought to alter the tea’s aroma and consistency, so workers must race to finish the harvest by midnight so that the plucked plants can be processed before dawn that following morning.
This smooth, elixir-like effect is what led buyers in the UK, US and Japan to pay $1,850 for a kg of the stuff during an especially powerful planetary alignment in 2014. In recent years, the brew has also cast a spell on Queen Elizabeth II, who received a packet of it as a gift from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was also sold at the FIFA World Cup in 2014.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsIndia’s hundredth airport, recently inaugurated by the Prime Minister, is located in
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Solution: a.
PIB: The Prime Minister recently inaugurated the Pakyong Airport in Sikkim. This is the first airport in the Himalayan State, and the 100th airport in the country. The Prime Minister said that Pakyong Airport would greatly ease connectivity to Sikkim. He said that in order to ensure that it is useful to the common man, this airport is part of the UDAN scheme.
Image source: BBC;
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Solution: a.
PIB: The Prime Minister recently inaugurated the Pakyong Airport in Sikkim. This is the first airport in the Himalayan State, and the 100th airport in the country. The Prime Minister said that Pakyong Airport would greatly ease connectivity to Sikkim. He said that in order to ensure that it is useful to the common man, this airport is part of the UDAN scheme.
Image source: BBC;
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