QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 12 November 2018

Solution: b.

In the month or so preceding Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the end of the First World War, red poppy badges are a common sight across Britain. This year, however, some of them come with a difference. Prime Minister Theresa May is among the high profile figures to have chosen to wear (at least for part of the time) a poppy badge made out of khadi to remember India’s contribution (not “all” commonwealth soldiers) to the war effort.

“We must never forget that over 74,000 soldiers came from undivided India… and they played a crucial role in the war across multiple continents,” she told the House of Commons last week. The initiative — launched by Lord Gadhia, a member of the House of Lords — was taken up by the Royal British Legion, which has been running the annual poppy commemorations since 1921.

• Red poppies began being used as a symbol in 1921 to help to remember those who fought in war. The flower was chosen because it grows wild in many fields in northern France and Belgium – where some of the deadliest battles of World War One took place…
• The White Poppy, created in 1933 – just 12 years after the red version – many people wore white poppies to stress the “never again” message, which emerged after World War One, and which pacifists feared was slipping away. But like the red poppy, the white badge also symbolises remembrance for victims of war…
• Purple poppies are less common and created to remember the animals who die in war.
• Black poppies remember the African, Black and Caribbean communities who contributed to various war efforts.

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Solution: c.

According to this idea (farr-i-izidi), there was a hierarchy in which the Divine Light was transmitted to the king who then became the source of spiritual guidance for his subjects. Paintings that accompanied the narrative of the chronicles transmitted these ideas in a way that left a lasting impression on the minds of viewers. Mughal artists, from the seventeenth century onwards, began to portray emperors wearing the halo, which they saw on European paintings of Christ and the Virgin Mary to symbolise the light of God.

Class 12 Themes in Indian History Part 2

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Solution: b.

In the news (th1; TH2;): Dhanush is an upgraded version of the Swedish Bofors gun procured by India in the mid-1980s. In April 2017, the Indian engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Hanwa Techwin of South Korea signed a contract to manufacture the K9 Vajra-T guns, customised from the original K9 Thunder gun. M777 ultra-light howitzers are being procured by India from the U.S.

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Solution: c.

• Currency in circulation increased to ₹19.6 lakh crore as on Oct. 26, 2018, from ₹17.9 lakh crore on Nov.4, 2016.
• Cash withdrawals from ATMs in Oct. 2016 were ₹2.54 lakh crore, while the number for August 2018 was ₹2.75 lakh crore – a growth of 8%.
• ATM withdrawals had crashed to ₹1.06 lakh crore in December 2016.
• Mobile banking transactions rose to ₹2.06 lakh crore in Aug. 2018 from ₹1.13 lakh crore in October 2016.

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Solution: d.

It marked the end of the Second Carnatic War (1749-54).

Britannica: Carnatic wars;

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