QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 04 October 2019
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 regarding Terracotta Grinder.
- Terracotta Grinder was launched by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
- It can be used to grind wasted and broken pottery items for re-use in pottery-making.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: b)
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched first-ever ‘Terracotta Grinder’. This machine can be used to grind wasted and broken pottery items for re-use in pottery-making.
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Solution: b)
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched first-ever ‘Terracotta Grinder’. This machine can be used to grind wasted and broken pottery items for re-use in pottery-making.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements regarding the humanoid robot Fedor.
- The life-size humanoid robot Fedor, the first from Russia has successfully reached the International Space Station.
- The robot’s main purpose is to be used in operations that are especially dangerous for humans onboard spacecraft and in outer space.
- Fedor is the first robot to go into space.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: a)
The humanoid robot Fedor, the first from Russia sent into orbit, reached the International Space Station. Fedor can be operated manually by ISS astronauts wearing robotic exoskeleton suits. The robot mirrors their movements.
Fedor stands 180 cm tall and weighs 160 kg. It copies human movements, which will enable it to perform tasks that are risky for astronauts strapped onto an exoskeleton.
While Fedor is Russia’s first robot in space, other countries have previously sent theirs. In 2011, NASA sent up Robonaut 2, a humanoid developed with General Motors that had a similar aim of working in high-risk environments.
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Solution: a)
The humanoid robot Fedor, the first from Russia sent into orbit, reached the International Space Station. Fedor can be operated manually by ISS astronauts wearing robotic exoskeleton suits. The robot mirrors their movements.
Fedor stands 180 cm tall and weighs 160 kg. It copies human movements, which will enable it to perform tasks that are risky for astronauts strapped onto an exoskeleton.
While Fedor is Russia’s first robot in space, other countries have previously sent theirs. In 2011, NASA sent up Robonaut 2, a humanoid developed with General Motors that had a similar aim of working in high-risk environments.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements regarding Baltic Nations.
- It is an official union of three sovereign states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) in Northern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
- All three countries are members of NATO.
- All three are classified as high-income economies by the World Bank and maintain a very high Human Development Index.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: c)
Baltic Nations is a geopolitical term, typically used to group the three sovereign states in Northern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- The three countries do not form an official union, but engage in intergovernmental and parliamentary cooperation. The most important areas of cooperation between the three countries are foreign and security policy, defence, energy and transportation.
- All three countries are members of the European Union, NATO, the eurozone and the OECD.
- All three are classified as high-income economies by the World Bankand maintain a very high Human Development Index.
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Solution: c)
Baltic Nations is a geopolitical term, typically used to group the three sovereign states in Northern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- The three countries do not form an official union, but engage in intergovernmental and parliamentary cooperation. The most important areas of cooperation between the three countries are foreign and security policy, defence, energy and transportation.
- All three countries are members of the European Union, NATO, the eurozone and the OECD.
- All three are classified as high-income economies by the World Bankand maintain a very high Human Development Index.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements about Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).
- Both are gauged by the government.
- Both are based on surveys and hence, represent only a sample of the entire formal manufacturing sector.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: b)
There are two key parameters that the government and private sector analysts use to gauge the level of activity in the manufacturing sector — the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).
What is manufacturing PMI?
There are two main points of difference between the PMI and the IIP. The first is that the PMI is a private sector survey while the IIP is gauged by the government. The second difference is in what is being measured. While the IIP is a measure of output, PMI, as the name suggests, measures activity at the purchasing or input stage.
Together the two indices provide a composite and reasonably comprehensive information about the formal manufacturing sector. As with the IIP, the PMI suffers from the lacuna of not measuring informal sector activity.
Both the PMI and the IIP are based on surveys and hence, represent only a sample of the entire formal manufacturing sector.
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Solution: b)
There are two key parameters that the government and private sector analysts use to gauge the level of activity in the manufacturing sector — the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) and the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).
What is manufacturing PMI?
There are two main points of difference between the PMI and the IIP. The first is that the PMI is a private sector survey while the IIP is gauged by the government. The second difference is in what is being measured. While the IIP is a measure of output, PMI, as the name suggests, measures activity at the purchasing or input stage.
Together the two indices provide a composite and reasonably comprehensive information about the formal manufacturing sector. As with the IIP, the PMI suffers from the lacuna of not measuring informal sector activity.
Both the PMI and the IIP are based on surveys and hence, represent only a sample of the entire formal manufacturing sector.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements regarding Eastern Economic Forum.
- Eastern Economic Forum is an international forum held each year for the purpose of encouraging foreign investment in all East Asian Countries.
- Recently the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) summit was held in Vladivostok, Russia.
- Engaging closely with East Asia is in line with India’s “Act East Policy”.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: d)
Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) was established by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, in 2015, with the aim of supporting the economic development of Russia’s Far East, and to expand international cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Speaking at the Plenary Session of the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India would extend a $1 billion line of credit towards the development of the Russian Far East.
Engaging closely with East Asia was in line with India’s policy goal of “Act East”.
Incorrect
Solution: d)
Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) was established by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, in 2015, with the aim of supporting the economic development of Russia’s Far East, and to expand international cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Speaking at the Plenary Session of the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India would extend a $1 billion line of credit towards the development of the Russian Far East.
Engaging closely with East Asia was in line with India’s policy goal of “Act East”.
