QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,03 October 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 about the S-400 “Triumph” missile defence system:
- It has a range of 400km.
- It can track up to 80 targets simultaneously.
- It can hit targets at a height of up to 30km.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements with reference to the recent catastrophic tsunami event on Sulawesi island:
1.The two plates at the Palu-Koru fault line move horizontally, viz. earthquakes here are caused due to a strike-slip event, where the ground breaks horizontally.
- Strike-slip events are considered benign, viz. they are not known to cause tsunami events.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: a.
TH, BBC: The magnitude 7.5 quake was certainly large – one of the biggest recorded anywhere on the globe this year. But it was what geophysicists call a strike-slip event, where the ground breaks horizontally. In this instance, the rock to the east of the fault running up through the island moved northwards relative to the rock to the west. Strike-slip quakes can cause tsunami events but the 6m-tall waves that crashed ashore at Palu city surprised everyone.
Remember that to make the series of waves you need a big displacement of the sea-floor – a vertical movement that disturbs the entire water column, which then moves away in all directions. Some early calculations suggest a floor displacement of perhaps half a metre. Significant but generally insufficient to produce the waves that were recorded. So what happened? Two factors are emerging as possible culprits. They may even have worked hand in hand.
The first is the suspicion that the quake triggered some sort of underwater landslide. A quake can destabilise large collections of sediment and cause them to break free of their footing and tumble downslope. Underwater, these movements of sediment have the potential to generate tsunami events. When this happens, the waves that hit shorelines can be large, even if the effects are fairly localised. Second is the suspicion that perhaps the waves were then exacerbated by the shape of Palu bay itself. It has an elongated geometry, which could have focused and amplified the tsunamis as they approached the city’s Talise beach.
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Solution: a.
TH, BBC: The magnitude 7.5 quake was certainly large – one of the biggest recorded anywhere on the globe this year. But it was what geophysicists call a strike-slip event, where the ground breaks horizontally. In this instance, the rock to the east of the fault running up through the island moved northwards relative to the rock to the west. Strike-slip quakes can cause tsunami events but the 6m-tall waves that crashed ashore at Palu city surprised everyone.
Remember that to make the series of waves you need a big displacement of the sea-floor – a vertical movement that disturbs the entire water column, which then moves away in all directions. Some early calculations suggest a floor displacement of perhaps half a metre. Significant but generally insufficient to produce the waves that were recorded. So what happened? Two factors are emerging as possible culprits. They may even have worked hand in hand.
The first is the suspicion that the quake triggered some sort of underwater landslide. A quake can destabilise large collections of sediment and cause them to break free of their footing and tumble downslope. Underwater, these movements of sediment have the potential to generate tsunami events. When this happens, the waves that hit shorelines can be large, even if the effects are fairly localised. Second is the suspicion that perhaps the waves were then exacerbated by the shape of Palu bay itself. It has an elongated geometry, which could have focused and amplified the tsunamis as they approached the city’s Talise beach.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements about mass movements of weathered materials:
1.They may be gradual or sudden.
2.Solifluction or soil liquefaction is a slow, gradual but more or less continuous movement of soil down hill slopes.
- Landslips and solifluction may be triggered by earthquakes.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: c.
Statement 2 refers to Soil Creep. Solifluction occurs when soil is completely saturated with water, and individual soil particles are almost suspended in water and move easily over one another and the underlying rock.
Refer Chapter “Weathering, Mass Movement and Groundwater”, GC Leong;
Video: BBC; See image: THL; From 2001: THL;
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Solution: c.
Statement 2 refers to Soil Creep. Solifluction occurs when soil is completely saturated with water, and individual soil particles are almost suspended in water and move easily over one another and the underlying rock.
Refer Chapter “Weathering, Mass Movement and Groundwater”, GC Leong;
Video: BBC; See image: THL; From 2001: THL;
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
- P2 or the type-2 strain of the wild poliovirus was eradicated in India in 2014.
- In 2016, India stopped administering the Trivalent Oral Polio Vaccine and replaced it with the bivalent vaccine that does not contain any live attenuated P2 strain.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: b.
TH: A type 2 strain of polio virus (P2) was recently found in a sewage sample from Mumbai. It was found during a routine environmental surveillance which involves collecting sewage samples from high-risk sites on a weekly basis. P2 was eradicated globally in 1999. In April 2016, India stopped the Trivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (TOPV) containing live attenuated (weakened) P1, P2 and P3 strains and replaced it with bivalent vaccine containing P1 and P3. Finding the P2 strain in its vaccine form (not wild form) thus raised concerns as the virus was no more in circulation even through the vaccines.
TH: The last case due to type-2 wild poliovirus globally was reported from Aligarh in India in 1999.
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Solution: b.
TH: A type 2 strain of polio virus (P2) was recently found in a sewage sample from Mumbai. It was found during a routine environmental surveillance which involves collecting sewage samples from high-risk sites on a weekly basis. P2 was eradicated globally in 1999. In April 2016, India stopped the Trivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (TOPV) containing live attenuated (weakened) P1, P2 and P3 strains and replaced it with bivalent vaccine containing P1 and P3. Finding the P2 strain in its vaccine form (not wild form) thus raised concerns as the virus was no more in circulation even through the vaccines.
TH: The last case due to type-2 wild poliovirus globally was reported from Aligarh in India in 1999.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsWith reference to the ‘International Civil Aviation Organisation’, which of the following statements is/are correct?
1.It is a United Nations Specialised agency.
2.It manages the administration and governance of the Chicago Convention.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct
Solution: c.
About ICAO: ICAO’s headquarters is located in Montreal, Canada.
- The ICAO is a UN specialized agency, established by States in 1944 to manage the administration and governance of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention).
- ICAO works with the Convention’s 191 Member States and industry groups to reach consensus on international civil aviation Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) and policies in support of a safe, efficient, secure, economically sustainable and environmentally responsible civil aviation sector. These SARPs and policies are used by ICAO Member States to ensure that their local civil aviation operations and regulations conform to global norms.
- ICAO also coordinates assistance and capacity building for States in support of numerous aviation development objectives and audits States’ civil aviation oversight capabilities in the areas of safety and security.
In the news (th): The Air Passengers Association of India (APAI) has expressed concern over India’s low ‘air safety oversight score’, which is lower than that of Myanmar, Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and North Korea in the Asia-Pacific region. The ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme seeks to identify if countries have consistently implemented a safety-oversight system. India is one of the 15 countries that are below the minimum target rates.
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Solution: c.
About ICAO: ICAO’s headquarters is located in Montreal, Canada.
- The ICAO is a UN specialized agency, established by States in 1944 to manage the administration and governance of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention).
- ICAO works with the Convention’s 191 Member States and industry groups to reach consensus on international civil aviation Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) and policies in support of a safe, efficient, secure, economically sustainable and environmentally responsible civil aviation sector. These SARPs and policies are used by ICAO Member States to ensure that their local civil aviation operations and regulations conform to global norms.
- ICAO also coordinates assistance and capacity building for States in support of numerous aviation development objectives and audits States’ civil aviation oversight capabilities in the areas of safety and security.
In the news (th): The Air Passengers Association of India (APAI) has expressed concern over India’s low ‘air safety oversight score’, which is lower than that of Myanmar, Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and North Korea in the Asia-Pacific region. The ICAO Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme seeks to identify if countries have consistently implemented a safety-oversight system. India is one of the 15 countries that are below the minimum target rates.
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