QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz – 01 July 2017
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.
This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil services preliminary exam 2017. It is not a test of your knowledge. If you score less, please do not mind. Read again sources provided and try to remember better.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2017
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Question 1 of 8
1. Question
1 points‘COMMIT’ programme, recently in the news, is
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Solution: d.
- A new training programme Comprehensive Online Modified Modules on Induction Training (COMMIT) for State Government officials (not ‘officials of the Union Government’, as has been mentioned in option ‘a’) was recently launched.
- The objective of this training programme is to improve the public service delivery mechanism and provide citizen centric administration through capacity building of officials who interact with the citizens on day-to-day basis.
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Solution: d.
- A new training programme Comprehensive Online Modified Modules on Induction Training (COMMIT) for State Government officials (not ‘officials of the Union Government’, as has been mentioned in option ‘a’) was recently launched.
- The objective of this training programme is to improve the public service delivery mechanism and provide citizen centric administration through capacity building of officials who interact with the citizens on day-to-day basis.
PIB;
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Question 2 of 8
2. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
- Productivity of parliament sessions has steadily decreased since economic reforms
- No legislative institution in India has a mandated ‘minimum-number-of-days’ to meet annually
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Solution: d.
Source and Improvisation: TH: For a more representative house;
Both statements are incorrect. See image (it is from 2015 and specific to parliament’s budget sessions, but it helps negate statement 1. Regarding statement 2, Odisha has mandated a minimum of 60 days for the State Assembly to sit.Incorrect
Solution: d.
Source and Improvisation: TH: For a more representative house;
Both statements are incorrect. See image (it is from 2015 and specific to parliament’s budget sessions, but it helps negate statement 1. Regarding statement 2, Odisha has mandated a minimum of 60 days for the State Assembly to sit. -
Question 3 of 8
3. Question
1 points‘Advanced Landing Grounds’ sometimes appears in the news related to the affairs of
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Question 4 of 8
4. Question
1 pointsWhich country’s lawmakers most recently approved a bill aimed at cracking down on hate speech on social networks, and also a bill legalising same-sex marriage?
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Question 5 of 8
5. Question
1 pointsThe first newspaper to be published in the country was
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Solution: a.
James Augustus Hickey in 1780 started The Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser, the first newspaper in Indian which was seized in 1872 because of its outspoken criticism of the Government.
PIB; A brief history of Modern India, Spectrum;
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Solution: a.
James Augustus Hickey in 1780 started The Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser, the first newspaper in Indian which was seized in 1872 because of its outspoken criticism of the Government.
PIB; A brief history of Modern India, Spectrum;
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Question 6 of 8
6. Question
1 pointsThe Logistics Performance Index, in the latest edition of which India moved up nineteen places, is released by the
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Solution: a.
“More than seven thousand reforms have been implemented to improve the ease of doing business. Processes have been simplified and made transparent. Government has repealed over twelve hundred outdated laws. These are just a few examples. Consequently, India has moved up by thirty two places in the last two years in the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum. This is the highest for any country. India moved up nineteen places on the World Bank Logistics Performance Index of 2016. We have also moved up sixteen places on the Global Innovation Index of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in 2016. We are third among the top ten FDI destinations listed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.”
PIB;
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Solution: a.
“More than seven thousand reforms have been implemented to improve the ease of doing business. Processes have been simplified and made transparent. Government has repealed over twelve hundred outdated laws. These are just a few examples. Consequently, India has moved up by thirty two places in the last two years in the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum. This is the highest for any country. India moved up nineteen places on the World Bank Logistics Performance Index of 2016. We have also moved up sixteen places on the Global Innovation Index of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in 2016. We are third among the top ten FDI destinations listed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.”
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Question 7 of 8
7. Question
1 pointsOf the following list of countries, which one should be prioritised by India to cooperate with in regulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and combating drug trafficking?
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Solution: d.
- South Asia — comprising Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — is wedged between the world’s two largest areas of illicit poppy cultivation, commonly referred to as the Golden Crescent (mainly Afghanistan and Pakistan) and the Golden Triangle (mainly Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam).
- Most of these countries in South Asia have a long history of psychotropic substance use with opium and cannabis being the most popular traditional drugs available and used. Epidemics of heroin use and injecting in this sub-region, which took off in the early 1980s, have expanded in the recent past with the addition of pharmaceutical injecting.
Improvisation: PIB;
Incorrect
Solution: d.
- South Asia — comprising Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — is wedged between the world’s two largest areas of illicit poppy cultivation, commonly referred to as the Golden Crescent (mainly Afghanistan and Pakistan) and the Golden Triangle (mainly Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam).
- Most of these countries in South Asia have a long history of psychotropic substance use with opium and cannabis being the most popular traditional drugs available and used. Epidemics of heroin use and injecting in this sub-region, which took off in the early 1980s, have expanded in the recent past with the addition of pharmaceutical injecting.
Improvisation: PIB;
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Question 8 of 8
8. Question
1 pointsFollowing the circulation of videos on social media platforms showing bouncing ‘plastic rice balls’, the Agricultural and Processed Foods Export Development Agency (APEDA) recently issued a clarification. While refuting the ‘plastic rice’ tag, it attributed the ‘bouncing’ nature of the rice balls to
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Solution: c.
“According to APEDA, the buoyancy of rice balls dropping on a hard surface is its natural property and it depends on the amylose content. Rice starch consists of two main components — amylose and amylopectin — generally in a proportion of 25:75. However, there exists a lot of variation in germ plasm with respect to proportion of amylose and amylopectin. If, amylose is low (<10%), the rice on cooking tends to become very sticky and the rice balls made of such cooked rice will have no buoyancy on dropping to a surface. However, the rice balls made up of cooked rice from intermediate to high amylose (22-30%) type rice, will have buoyancy and these balls will jump for three-four times when dropped on hard surface.”
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Solution: c.
“According to APEDA, the buoyancy of rice balls dropping on a hard surface is its natural property and it depends on the amylose content. Rice starch consists of two main components — amylose and amylopectin — generally in a proportion of 25:75. However, there exists a lot of variation in germ plasm with respect to proportion of amylose and amylopectin. If, amylose is low (<10%), the rice on cooking tends to become very sticky and the rice balls made of such cooked rice will have no buoyancy on dropping to a surface. However, the rice balls made up of cooked rice from intermediate to high amylose (22-30%) type rice, will have buoyancy and these balls will jump for three-four times when dropped on hard surface.”
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