QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 16 NOVEMBER 2017

Solution: a.

“India’s Act East Policy is shaped around the ASEAN, and its centrality in the regional security architecture of the Indo-Pacific region is evident. Our wide-ranging agenda of cooperation under the 3rd ASEAN-India Plan of Action (2016-2020) has progressed well covering the three crucial pillars of politico-security, economic and cultural partnership… The befitting theme of ‘Shared Values, Common Destiny’ for our 25th anniversary celebrations has been jointly celebrated with a number of commemorative activities.. I look forward to a befitting culmination of the commemorative year and receiving you at the India-ASEAN Special Commemorative Summit on 25 January 2018 in New Delhi.”

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173489

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Solution: d.

Birsa’s movement was aimed at reforming tribal society. He urged the Mundas to give up drinking liquor, clean their village, and stop believing in witchcraft and sorcery… Birsa also turned against missionaries and Hindu landlords. He saw them as outside forces that were ruining the Munda way of life… He talked of a golden age in the past – a Satyug – when Mundas lived a good life… In 1897, Birsa began touring the villages to gather support for his movement. He used traditional symbols and language to rouse people, urging them to destroy “Ravana” (dikus and the Europeans) and establish a kingdom under his leadership. In 1900 Birsa died of cholera and the movement faded out.

Page 48-49, Our Pasts III Part 1 – NCERT Class 8;

Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173528;

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Solution: c.

Victoria Falls is a transboundary property – both Zimbabwe and Zambia are responsible for its protection, and they do so in a participatory manner.

Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/army-seizes-control-in-zimbabwe-says-mugabe-safe/article20448577.ece;
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country. It shares its borders on the south with the Republic of South Africa and is bounded on the southwest and west by Botswana, on the north by Zambia, and on the northeast and east by Mozambique. It does NOT share a border with Namibia.

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Solution: c.

The ISA seeks to do three things to bring down the costs of technology as well as of finance needed for a solar project:

• It seeks to boost global demand, which will result in further reduction in the prices of solar energy deployment (not by a legally binding commitment, not as yet at least).
• It seeks to promote standardisation in the use of equipment and processes for generating electricity. Standardisation will make the manufacturing of equipment and other hardware cheaper.
• Finally, it seeks to boost research and development, particularly in areas of efficient storage systems.

From earlier: http://indianexpress.com/article/explained/paris-climate-agreement-global-warming-us-elections-marrakesh-4379496/

Improvisation: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173468;

Solution: b.

Cornelia Sorabji was the first woman permitted to attend Bombay University, where she excelled. She then went on to become the first Indian woman to study law at Oxford University in 1892. However, women were not awarded degrees by Oxford in those days (a rule that would eventually change 30 years later in 1922), making her unable to practice law in England.

Sorabji returned to India in 1894 where she was again barred from practicing her profession. However, this didn’t deter her. She eventually became legal advisor to the government for the purdahnashins — veiled women forbidden by social custom from communicating with males from the outside world. When widowed, these women were often entitled to their husbands’ estates, but their isolation prevented them from seeking legal help to enforce their rights (all lawyers being male). Sorabji tirelessly fought for the rights of the purdahnashins and even earned them the right to be trained in nursing, which gave them the opportunity to work outside their homes.

https://www.google.com/doodles/cornelia-sorabjis-151st-birthday;

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