QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,24 November 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:
- The first North East Olympic Games was recently hosted by Assam.
- The first national sports stadium for differently-abled is set to come up in Manipur.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: d.
The Manipur Olympic Association hosted the first NEOG in Imphal from October 24th to 28th. The first national sports stadium for differently-abled is set to come up in Meghalaya.
IE; Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018
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Solution: d.
The Manipur Olympic Association hosted the first NEOG in Imphal from October 24th to 28th. The first national sports stadium for differently-abled is set to come up in Meghalaya.
IE; Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements about Invest India:
1.It is India’s national investment promotion and facilitation agency.
- It is a non-profit venture under the Ministry of Finance.
- It focuses on promoting investing in sustainable development.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: c.
InvestIndia: It is a non-profit venture under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
It was recently awarded the UN Award for excellence in promoting investments in sustainable development. Invest India also partners with substantial investment promotion agencies and multilateral organizations. Invest India also actively works with several Indian states to build capacity as well as bring in global best practices in investment targeting, promotion and facilitation areas.
Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018;
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Solution: c.
InvestIndia: It is a non-profit venture under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
It was recently awarded the UN Award for excellence in promoting investments in sustainable development. Invest India also partners with substantial investment promotion agencies and multilateral organizations. Invest India also actively works with several Indian states to build capacity as well as bring in global best practices in investment targeting, promotion and facilitation areas.
Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018;
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsThe world’s best laws and policies promoting agro-ecology were awarded the World Future Council’s Future Policy Award (FPA) 2018. Which Indian state was awarded with the Gold Prize?
Correct
Solution: b.
WFC: Gold Prize winner Sikkim is the first organic state in the world. All of its farmland is certified organic. At the same time, Sikkim’s approach reaches beyond organic production and has proven truly transformational for the state and its citizens. Embedded in its design are socioeconomic aspects such as consumption and market expansion, cultural aspects as well as health, education, rural development and sustainable tourism. The policy implemented a phase out of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, and achieved a total ban on sale and use of chemical pesticides in the state. The transition has benefitted more than 66 000 farming families. The Sikkim tourism sector has benefitted greatly from the state’s transition to 100 percent organic: the number of tourists increased by over 50 percent between 2014 and 2017. As such, Sikkim sets an excellent example of how other Indian states and countries worldwide can successfully upscale agroecology.
Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018;
About the Future Policy Award;
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Solution: b.
WFC: Gold Prize winner Sikkim is the first organic state in the world. All of its farmland is certified organic. At the same time, Sikkim’s approach reaches beyond organic production and has proven truly transformational for the state and its citizens. Embedded in its design are socioeconomic aspects such as consumption and market expansion, cultural aspects as well as health, education, rural development and sustainable tourism. The policy implemented a phase out of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, and achieved a total ban on sale and use of chemical pesticides in the state. The transition has benefitted more than 66 000 farming families. The Sikkim tourism sector has benefitted greatly from the state’s transition to 100 percent organic: the number of tourists increased by over 50 percent between 2014 and 2017. As such, Sikkim sets an excellent example of how other Indian states and countries worldwide can successfully upscale agroecology.
Vikaspedia National Current Affairs October 2018;
About the Future Policy Award;
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.Apart from Rani-ki-Vav at Patan, no other site from Gujarat has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site List.
2.Pathan architecture is an austere style of architecture, the works related to which have been constructed only in Delhi.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: d.
The walled city of Ahmadabad is another UNESCO WHS.
Pathan architecture is an austere style of architecture favoured by the Khalji rulers in Delhi who were considered Afghans. .. The so-called robust, austere Pathan architecture of Mandu with its surface embellishments of jalis, carved brackets, etc. and the lightness of the structures was an important intervention in the narrative of the Indo-Islamic architectural experience.
Improvisation: Vikaspedia National Current Affairs September 2018;
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Solution: d.
The walled city of Ahmadabad is another UNESCO WHS.
Pathan architecture is an austere style of architecture favoured by the Khalji rulers in Delhi who were considered Afghans. .. The so-called robust, austere Pathan architecture of Mandu with its surface embellishments of jalis, carved brackets, etc. and the lightness of the structures was an important intervention in the narrative of the Indo-Islamic architectural experience.
Improvisation: Vikaspedia National Current Affairs September 2018;
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.The present judge-population ratio in India, stands at nearly twenty per ten lakh.
2.Under-trial prisoners account for nearly two-thirds of India’s prison population.
3.The largest number of judicial vacancies in subordinate judiciary are in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: d.
IE: the ratio stands at 19.66 judges per million (10 lakh) people. The ratio was 17.48 judges per million in 2014, according to law ministry figures put in public domain.
TH: A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had taken suo motu cognisance of more than 5,000 vacancies for subordinate judicial posts even as pendency touched crores. The court found there were more than 1,000 vacancies in Uttar Pradesh alone.
TH: Undertrial prisoners accounted for 62% of India’s prison population, against the world average of 18-20%, the court said. The statistic raised questions about the humaneness of our system, it said.
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Solution: d.
IE: the ratio stands at 19.66 judges per million (10 lakh) people. The ratio was 17.48 judges per million in 2014, according to law ministry figures put in public domain.
TH: A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had taken suo motu cognisance of more than 5,000 vacancies for subordinate judicial posts even as pendency touched crores. The court found there were more than 1,000 vacancies in Uttar Pradesh alone.
TH: Undertrial prisoners accounted for 62% of India’s prison population, against the world average of 18-20%, the court said. The statistic raised questions about the humaneness of our system, it said.
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