QUIZ – 2016: Insights Current Affairs Quiz
August 26, 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 5
1. Question
2 pointsThe objective of the Amendment Bill to the The Citizenship Act, 1955 is to enable Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who have fled to India to acquire Indian citizenship. This bill in its present form will enable “illegal migrants” from which of the following nations to acquire Indian citizenship?
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan
- Myanmar
- Bangladesh
- Sri Lanka
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: d.
“Under the Bill, such persons shall not be treated as illegal immigrants for the purpose of the Citizenship Act.”
The Citizenship Act permits granting a certificate of naturalisation to any person not being an “illegal migrant”. “The Bill amends the Act to provide that that the following groups of persons will not be treated as illegal migrants: (i) Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, (ii) who have been exempted from provisions of the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920, and the Foreigners Act, 1946 by the central government. government. The 1920 Act mandates foreigners to carry passport, while the1946 Act regulates the entry and departure of foreigners in India.”
Ch-6, Citizenship, Indian Polity 4th Edition by M Laxmikanth
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/citizenship-without-bias/article9026942.ece
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Solution: d.
“Under the Bill, such persons shall not be treated as illegal immigrants for the purpose of the Citizenship Act.”
The Citizenship Act permits granting a certificate of naturalisation to any person not being an “illegal migrant”. “The Bill amends the Act to provide that that the following groups of persons will not be treated as illegal migrants: (i) Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, (ii) who have been exempted from provisions of the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920, and the Foreigners Act, 1946 by the central government. government. The 1920 Act mandates foreigners to carry passport, while the1946 Act regulates the entry and departure of foreigners in India.”
Ch-6, Citizenship, Indian Polity 4th Edition by M Laxmikanth
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/citizenship-without-bias/article9026942.ece
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
2 pointsThe Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, permits certain migrants to acquire Indian Citizenship by which of the following means?
- By Naturalisation
- By Descent
- By Registration
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: a.
“The object of the proposed Bill is to enable Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who have fled to India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh without valid travel documents, or those whose valid documents have expired in recent years, to acquire Indian citizenship by the process of naturalisation.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/citizenship-without-bias/article9026942.ece
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Solution: a.
“The object of the proposed Bill is to enable Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who have fled to India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh without valid travel documents, or those whose valid documents have expired in recent years, to acquire Indian citizenship by the process of naturalisation.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/citizenship-without-bias/article9026942.ece
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
2 points‘Proxima b’ recently seen in the news is
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Solution: b.
“Just over four light years away, a planet orbits its cool red-dwarf star – Proxima Centauri, the sun’s closest star neighbour. What is special about this planet is that after years of tracking it, astronomers have come to the conclusion that it is in the habitable zone of its star. Informally designated Proxima b, the planet revolves around its star once every 11.2 days and is located at a distance of nearly 7 million kilometres from its star. This is only about 5 per cent the Earth-Sun distance. The mass of the planet is believed to be about 1.3 times that of the Earth. It could contain water and it is estimated that surface temperatures could be close to – 40 degrees C.”Incorrect
Solution: b.
“Just over four light years away, a planet orbits its cool red-dwarf star – Proxima Centauri, the sun’s closest star neighbour. What is special about this planet is that after years of tracking it, astronomers have come to the conclusion that it is in the habitable zone of its star. Informally designated Proxima b, the planet revolves around its star once every 11.2 days and is located at a distance of nearly 7 million kilometres from its star. This is only about 5 per cent the Earth-Sun distance. The mass of the planet is believed to be about 1.3 times that of the Earth. It could contain water and it is estimated that surface temperatures could be close to – 40 degrees C.” -
Question 4 of 5
4. Question
2 pointsThe ‘Pale Red Dot Campaign’ refers to
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Solution: d.
“The star, Proxima Centauri, is not very bright and cannot be tracked with the naked eye, especially as it is very close to the brighter binary star pair Alpha Centauri AB. So the astronomers used the HARPS spectrograph to observe it on the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and also other telescopes around the world. These observations which took place in the first half of 2016 have been dubbed the Pale Red Dot campaign.”
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Solution: d.
“The star, Proxima Centauri, is not very bright and cannot be tracked with the naked eye, especially as it is very close to the brighter binary star pair Alpha Centauri AB. So the astronomers used the HARPS spectrograph to observe it on the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla in Chile and also other telescopes around the world. These observations which took place in the first half of 2016 have been dubbed the Pale Red Dot campaign.”
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
2 pointsThe ‘Breakthrough Starshot’ project aims to
- Develop ultra-fast light-driven nanocrafts which can travel at 20 per cent of the speed of light
- Promote astronomical observations in search of evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth
- Lay the foundations for a first launch to Alpha Centauri within the next generation
- Design a message representing earth, life and humanity that could potentially be understood by another civilisation beyond Earth
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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Solution: a.
“The Breakthrough Starshot project announced by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner and also supported by Mark Zuckerberg aims to send thousands of nanocraft into the space to study Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri.”
“The Breakthrough Initiatives are a program of scientific and technological exploration, probing the big questions of life in the Universe: Are we alone? Are there habitable worlds in our galactic neighborhood? Can we make the great leap to the stars? And can we think and act together – as one world in the cosmos?”
- Breakthrough Listen is a $100 million program of astronomical observations in search of evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth.
- Breakthrough Message is a $1 million competition to design a message representing Earth, life and humanity that could potentially be understood by another civilisation.
- Breakthrough Starshot is a $100 million research and engineering program aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for a new technology, enabling ultra-light unmanned space flight at 20% of the speed of light; and to lay the foundations for a flyby mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation.
Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/habitable-planet-proxima-b-found-in-solar-system-next-door/article9027032.ece
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Solution: a.
“The Breakthrough Starshot project announced by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner and also supported by Mark Zuckerberg aims to send thousands of nanocraft into the space to study Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri.”
“The Breakthrough Initiatives are a program of scientific and technological exploration, probing the big questions of life in the Universe: Are we alone? Are there habitable worlds in our galactic neighborhood? Can we make the great leap to the stars? And can we think and act together – as one world in the cosmos?”
- Breakthrough Listen is a $100 million program of astronomical observations in search of evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth.
- Breakthrough Message is a $1 million competition to design a message representing Earth, life and humanity that could potentially be understood by another civilisation.
- Breakthrough Starshot is a $100 million research and engineering program aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for a new technology, enabling ultra-light unmanned space flight at 20% of the speed of light; and to lay the foundations for a flyby mission to Alpha Centauri within a generation.
Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/habitable-planet-proxima-b-found-in-solar-system-next-door/article9027032.ece
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