QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,30 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 pointsThe Yucatan Peninsula forms a divider between the
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Solution: b.
Yucatan Peninsula: A northeastern projection of Central America, lying between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east.
BBC: It is hard to imagine billions of tonnes of rock suddenly start to splosh about like a liquid – but that is what happened when an asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists have now put together a detailed picture of the minutes following the giant impact. This is the colossal event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The analysis of rocks drilled in 2016 from the leftover Chicxulub crater show they underwent a process of fluidisation. The pulverised material literally began to behave as if it were a substance like water. When everything had settled down, a crater roughly 200km wide and 1km deep would remain. This is the feature (the chicxulub crater) that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub.
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Solution: b.
Yucatan Peninsula: A northeastern projection of Central America, lying between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east.
BBC: It is hard to imagine billions of tonnes of rock suddenly start to splosh about like a liquid – but that is what happened when an asteroid struck the Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists have now put together a detailed picture of the minutes following the giant impact. This is the colossal event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The analysis of rocks drilled in 2016 from the leftover Chicxulub crater show they underwent a process of fluidisation. The pulverised material literally began to behave as if it were a substance like water. When everything had settled down, a crater roughly 200km wide and 1km deep would remain. This is the feature (the chicxulub crater) that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsThe only theatre of the Second World War in the Indian subcontinent was
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Solution: a.
TH: Kohima, the only theatre of the Second World War in the Indian subcontinent, is gearing up for the centenary of an ethnic club moulded by events during the First World War in faraway France… The British government had during the First World War recruited 2,000 labourers and porters from some 15 Naga tribes and sent them to fight in France between 1914 and 1918. Alienated from other British Indian troops on European soil, the Nagas developed a sense of unity. Many of them returned, and under the leadership of R.S. Ruichumhao, formed the Naga Club along with some British officials in 1918. The club provided the foundation for the Naga nationalist movement. In 1929, members of the club submitted a memorandum to the Simon Commission, proposing self-rule by the Nagas after the departure of the British from India…. The Nagaland capital today is divided over who has the right to celebrate the special day of the club that unified disparate Naga tribes and laid the foundation of an armed movement for secession from India.
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Solution: a.
TH: Kohima, the only theatre of the Second World War in the Indian subcontinent, is gearing up for the centenary of an ethnic club moulded by events during the First World War in faraway France… The British government had during the First World War recruited 2,000 labourers and porters from some 15 Naga tribes and sent them to fight in France between 1914 and 1918. Alienated from other British Indian troops on European soil, the Nagas developed a sense of unity. Many of them returned, and under the leadership of R.S. Ruichumhao, formed the Naga Club along with some British officials in 1918. The club provided the foundation for the Naga nationalist movement. In 1929, members of the club submitted a memorandum to the Simon Commission, proposing self-rule by the Nagas after the departure of the British from India…. The Nagaland capital today is divided over who has the right to celebrate the special day of the club that unified disparate Naga tribes and laid the foundation of an armed movement for secession from India.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsThe term ‘Directed Evolution’ was recently in the news. It is most appropriately associated with
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Solution: b.
LiveScience: Enzymes are biological molecules (typically proteins) that significantly speed up the rate of virtually all of the chemical reactions (catalysts) that take place within cells.
The 2018 chemistry Nobel prize was awarded for “putting the power of evolution into chemists’ hands”. Frances Arnold was recognised for inventing directed enzyme evolution. Arnold herself summed it up nicely: “In directed evolution we provide a new niche in the laboratory, so to speak, and encourage evolution of enzymes to catalyse commercially useful reactions.”
Nobelprize: One half of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Frances H. Arnold. In 1993, she conducted the first directed evolution of enzymes, which are proteins that catalyse chemical reactions. Since then, she has refined the methods that are now routinely used to develop new catalysts. The uses of Frances Arnold’s enzymes include more environmentally friendly manufacturing of chemical substances, such as pharmaceuticals, and the production of renewable fuels for a greener transport sector.
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Solution: b.
LiveScience: Enzymes are biological molecules (typically proteins) that significantly speed up the rate of virtually all of the chemical reactions (catalysts) that take place within cells.
The 2018 chemistry Nobel prize was awarded for “putting the power of evolution into chemists’ hands”. Frances Arnold was recognised for inventing directed enzyme evolution. Arnold herself summed it up nicely: “In directed evolution we provide a new niche in the laboratory, so to speak, and encourage evolution of enzymes to catalyse commercially useful reactions.”
Nobelprize: One half of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Frances H. Arnold. In 1993, she conducted the first directed evolution of enzymes, which are proteins that catalyse chemical reactions. Since then, she has refined the methods that are now routinely used to develop new catalysts. The uses of Frances Arnold’s enzymes include more environmentally friendly manufacturing of chemical substances, such as pharmaceuticals, and the production of renewable fuels for a greener transport sector.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsThe Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), which creates an enabling trading environment for developing countries, was instituted in 1971 under the aegis of
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Solution: c.
UNCTAD: The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), instituted in 1971 under the aegis of UNCTAD, has contributed over the years to creating an enabling trading environment for developing countries. The following 13 countries grant GSP preferences: Australia, Belarus, Canada, the European Union, Iceland, Japan, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Norway, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States of America. The objective of UNCTAD’s support on GSP and other preferential arrangements is to help developing countries – particularly LDCs – to increase utilization of GSP and other trade preferences and in turn promote productive capacity development and increased trade.
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Solution: c.
UNCTAD: The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), instituted in 1971 under the aegis of UNCTAD, has contributed over the years to creating an enabling trading environment for developing countries. The following 13 countries grant GSP preferences: Australia, Belarus, Canada, the European Union, Iceland, Japan, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Norway, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States of America. The objective of UNCTAD’s support on GSP and other preferential arrangements is to help developing countries – particularly LDCs – to increase utilization of GSP and other trade preferences and in turn promote productive capacity development and increased trade.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.The term of the Prime Minister is not fixed and he holds office during the pleasure of the President.
2.So long as the Prime Minister enjoys the majority support in the Parliament, he cannot be dismissed by the President.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: a.
The term of the Prime Minister is not fixed and he holds office during the pleasure of the president. However, this does not mean that the president can dismiss the Prime Minister at any time. So long as the Prime Minister enjoys the majority support in the Lok Sabha, he cannot be dismissed by the President. However, if he loses the confidence of the Lok Sabha, he must resign or the President can dismiss him.
Under the Constitution, the Parliament of India consists of three parts viz, the President, the Council of States and the House of the People. So long as the Prime Minister enjoys the majority support in the Lok Sabha, he cannot be dismissed by the President.
Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;
Improvisation: Crisis in Sri Lanka;
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Solution: a.
The term of the Prime Minister is not fixed and he holds office during the pleasure of the president. However, this does not mean that the president can dismiss the Prime Minister at any time. So long as the Prime Minister enjoys the majority support in the Lok Sabha, he cannot be dismissed by the President. However, if he loses the confidence of the Lok Sabha, he must resign or the President can dismiss him.
Under the Constitution, the Parliament of India consists of three parts viz, the President, the Council of States and the House of the People. So long as the Prime Minister enjoys the majority support in the Lok Sabha, he cannot be dismissed by the President.
Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;
Improvisation: Crisis in Sri Lanka;
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