Insights Current Affairs Quiz (2016) – 121
23 May 2016
The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu and PIB news articles.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2016
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Question 1 of 7
1. Question
2 pointsConsider the following statements:
Assertion (A): The farmers of the Bundelkhand region have largely depended on just the rabi season; the area of crops sown during kharif is much smaller
Reason (R): The region suffers due to ‘Anna Pratha’
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
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Ans: a.
Question being repeated.
“The rabi crop is good here and high value crops like gram, lentil, pea etc are grown in the area in large quantities. However, the farmers of the region have largely depended on just one crop; the area sown during kharif is much smaller. The primary reason given is that the region suffers due to Anna Pratha. This is a traditional system under which people leave their milch cattle unfettered to graze in the fields. These cattle eat up the crops and therefore the farmers are not inclined to sow their lands during the season of Kharif. This does not happen during the rabi season as he farmers keep their cattle at home.”
PIB Features – 8th October 2015, “Open Sesame!” by Amit Mohan Prasad
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Ans: a.
Question being repeated.
“The rabi crop is good here and high value crops like gram, lentil, pea etc are grown in the area in large quantities. However, the farmers of the region have largely depended on just one crop; the area sown during kharif is much smaller. The primary reason given is that the region suffers due to Anna Pratha. This is a traditional system under which people leave their milch cattle unfettered to graze in the fields. These cattle eat up the crops and therefore the farmers are not inclined to sow their lands during the season of Kharif. This does not happen during the rabi season as he farmers keep their cattle at home.”
PIB Features – 8th October 2015, “Open Sesame!” by Amit Mohan Prasad
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Question 2 of 7
2. Question
2 pointsConsider the following statements:
- Cattle do not eat this crop
- It is a crop meant for the rain fed areas
- Very few countries cultivate it
Which of the above statements about the ‘Sesame’ or ‘Til’ crop is/are true?
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Ans: c.
Question being repeated.
“The economics of sesame cultivation is revealing. It is a crop meant for the rain fed areas. There is no dearth of market for the produce as there are very few countries cultivating sesame whereas almost every country consumes it in some form or the other. Sesame oil is used for cooking, making sweets, massage, medicinal and cosmetic purposes and many other uses. Sesame seeds are used for preparing sweets like gajak, rewari, laddoos and tilkut in India, tahini sauce in Middle East and on top of buns and burgers in the west. It is also used for different rituals on religious occasions. Sesame gets a better price for the farmers than the other oilseeds in the market.”
PIB Features – 8th October, “Open Sesame!” by Amit Mohan Prasad
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Ans: c.
Question being repeated.
“The economics of sesame cultivation is revealing. It is a crop meant for the rain fed areas. There is no dearth of market for the produce as there are very few countries cultivating sesame whereas almost every country consumes it in some form or the other. Sesame oil is used for cooking, making sweets, massage, medicinal and cosmetic purposes and many other uses. Sesame seeds are used for preparing sweets like gajak, rewari, laddoos and tilkut in India, tahini sauce in Middle East and on top of buns and burgers in the west. It is also used for different rituals on religious occasions. Sesame gets a better price for the farmers than the other oilseeds in the market.”
PIB Features – 8th October, “Open Sesame!” by Amit Mohan Prasad
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Question 3 of 7
3. Question
2 pointsWith reference to India’s culture and tradition, what is ‘Kalaripayattu’?
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Question 4 of 7
4. Question
2 pointsThe Indian Space Research Organization recently successfully conducted the maiden test flight of a Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator. Which ‘technology demonstration exercise’ was tested in this test flight?
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Solution: a.
Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstration Program or RLV-TD is a series of technology demonstration missions that have been considered as a first step towards realizing a Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) fully re-usable vehicle. A Winged Reusable Launch Vehicle technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) has been configured to act as a flying test bed to evaluate various technologies, namely, hypersonic flight, autonomous landing, powered cruise flight and hypersonic flight using air-breathing propulsion.
These technologies will be developed in phases through a series of experimental flights. The first in the series of experimental flights is the hypersonic flight experiment (HEX) followed by the landing experiment (LEX), return flight experiment (REX) and scramjet propulsion experiment (SPEX).
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Solution: a.
Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstration Program or RLV-TD is a series of technology demonstration missions that have been considered as a first step towards realizing a Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) fully re-usable vehicle. A Winged Reusable Launch Vehicle technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) has been configured to act as a flying test bed to evaluate various technologies, namely, hypersonic flight, autonomous landing, powered cruise flight and hypersonic flight using air-breathing propulsion.
These technologies will be developed in phases through a series of experimental flights. The first in the series of experimental flights is the hypersonic flight experiment (HEX) followed by the landing experiment (LEX), return flight experiment (REX) and scramjet propulsion experiment (SPEX).
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Question 5 of 7
5. Question
2 pointsWhich of the following statements, in the context of fishermen from India and Pakistan being arrested by Pakistan and India respectively, is/are incorrect?
- According to the ‘Agreement on Consular Access (2008)’, consular access must be provided within 180 days of arrest of either country’s prisoners
- A Joint Judicial Committee on Prisoners was set up in 2008 whose mandate is only to ensure that such prisoners are treated humanely
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: c.
India and Pakistan had signed the Agreement on Consular Access in 2008, according to which consular access must be provided within 90 days of arrest of either country’s prisoners. This period is given to help verify the person’s nationality and enable necessary steps to repatriate the person to his or her country of origin. There have been instances where prisoners could not be released and repatriated because their nationalities were not verified on time.
In January 2008, India and Pakistan set up the India-Pakistan Joint Judicial Committee on Prisoners, which consisted of retired judges from both countries. The committee worked hard to seek early repatriation of prisoners who have completed their sentences in the other country’s jail and also ensure that they are treated humanely. It met every six months and visited prisoners in both countries. It discussed issues such as health and food of the prisoners and the need to evolve a mechanism for humanitarian treatment of women, the mentally challenged, juvenile prisoners, and so on.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/fishermen-in-troubled-waters/article8634150.ece
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Solution: c.
India and Pakistan had signed the Agreement on Consular Access in 2008, according to which consular access must be provided within 90 days of arrest of either country’s prisoners. This period is given to help verify the person’s nationality and enable necessary steps to repatriate the person to his or her country of origin. There have been instances where prisoners could not be released and repatriated because their nationalities were not verified on time.
In January 2008, India and Pakistan set up the India-Pakistan Joint Judicial Committee on Prisoners, which consisted of retired judges from both countries. The committee worked hard to seek early repatriation of prisoners who have completed their sentences in the other country’s jail and also ensure that they are treated humanely. It met every six months and visited prisoners in both countries. It discussed issues such as health and food of the prisoners and the need to evolve a mechanism for humanitarian treatment of women, the mentally challenged, juvenile prisoners, and so on.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/fishermen-in-troubled-waters/article8634150.ece
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Question 6 of 7
6. Question
2 pointsConsider the following statements:
Assertion (A): There are more Indian fishermen in Pakistan’s jails than the other way round
Reason (R): Indian population is far greater than Pakistan’s
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct
Ans: b.
“These prisoners (both Indian as well as Pakistani) have nothing to do with the policies of their respective governments, but they bear the consequences of these policies or are often held up as “prizes” in a tense geo-political conflict. In Gujarat, where there is pollution near the shores and an overabundance of trawlers, fishermen have no other option but to go farther into the sea to catch fish. This explains why there are more Indian fishermen in Pakistan’s jails than the other way round. Also, while most Indians in Pakistan’s prisons are fishermen, the opposite is not true.”
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/fishermen-in-troubled-waters/article8634150.ece
Incorrect
Ans: b.
“These prisoners (both Indian as well as Pakistani) have nothing to do with the policies of their respective governments, but they bear the consequences of these policies or are often held up as “prizes” in a tense geo-political conflict. In Gujarat, where there is pollution near the shores and an overabundance of trawlers, fishermen have no other option but to go farther into the sea to catch fish. This explains why there are more Indian fishermen in Pakistan’s jails than the other way round. Also, while most Indians in Pakistan’s prisons are fishermen, the opposite is not true.”
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/fishermen-in-troubled-waters/article8634150.ece
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Question 7 of 7
7. Question
2 pointsKeeping all other factors a constant, an increase in the international price of crude oil would definitely result in which of the following?
- Reduced revenues for the Centre
- Rise in price of food articles
- Increased income from petroleum product exports
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct
Solution: b.
Revenues will reduce only if the Centre reduces the excise duty on Petroleum products. Consequently, if the centre does not alter excise duty, an increase in crude oil price will increase the cost of transportation of food articles. Also, there would be an increase in revenues from exports for the oil marketing companies .
Incorrect
Solution: b.
Revenues will reduce only if the Centre reduces the excise duty on Petroleum products. Consequently, if the centre does not alter excise duty, an increase in crude oil price will increase the cost of transportation of food articles. Also, there would be an increase in revenues from exports for the oil marketing companies .
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