QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 25 May 2018
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 pointsWhich among the following capes is situated in the northern hemisphere?
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Solution: a.
In the course of its voyage, the indigenously built vessel INSV Tarini met all the criteria of circumnavigation, including crossing the equator twice, crossing all the longitudes and touching the three great capes – Cape Leeuwin (Australia), Cape Horn (Chile) and Cape of Good Hope(South Africa).
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Solution: a.
In the course of its voyage, the indigenously built vessel INSV Tarini met all the criteria of circumnavigation, including crossing the equator twice, crossing all the longitudes and touching the three great capes – Cape Leeuwin (Australia), Cape Horn (Chile) and Cape of Good Hope(South Africa).
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsMount Kilauea volcano, recently in the news due to its explosive eruption, is located in
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Solution: c.
Mount Kilauea volcano is in Hawaii. It is one of the world’s most active volcanoes and has been in constant eruption for 35 years.
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Solution: c.
Mount Kilauea volcano is in Hawaii. It is one of the world’s most active volcanoes and has been in constant eruption for 35 years.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsThe European Union’s ‘Galileo’ is an alternative to
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Solution: d.
Galileo is a satellite navigation system. It is an alternative to the US GPS system.
- NASA’s TESS is a successor to the Kepler Space Telescope. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky.
- JWST (NASA, ESA and CSA) is a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) will be a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. It will be the premier observatory of the next decade (2020-30).
- China’s QUESS is the world’s first quantum-enabled satellite. It is also known as ‘Micius’.
BBC;
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Solution: d.
Galileo is a satellite navigation system. It is an alternative to the US GPS system.
- NASA’s TESS is a successor to the Kepler Space Telescope. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky.
- JWST (NASA, ESA and CSA) is a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) will be a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. It will be the premier observatory of the next decade (2020-30).
- China’s QUESS is the world’s first quantum-enabled satellite. It is also known as ‘Micius’.
BBC;
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsThe joint US-German GRACE mission will
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Solution: a.
NASA: GRACE stands for ‘Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment’. GRACE consists of two identical spacecraft that fly about 220 kilometres apart. GRACE maps Earth’s gravity field by making accurate measurements of the distance between the two satellites, using GPS and a microwave ranging system. It is providing scientists from all over the world with an efficient and cost-effective way to map Earth’s gravity field with unprecedented accuracy. The results from this mission are yielding crucial information about the distribution and flow of mass within Earth and its surroundings.
BBC: A joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth. The Grace satellites are replacing a pair of highly successful spacecraft that stopped working last year. Like their predecessors, the new duo will circle the globe and sense tiny variations in the pull of gravity that result from movements in mass. These could be a signal of the land swelling after prolonged rains, or of ice draining from the poles as they melt in a warming climate.. What the Grace concept is brilliant at sensing is the big changes that occur in the hydrological cycle.. These could, for example, be major movements of water from the ocean to the land during precipitation events.. Grace data can show whether agriculture is using groundwater in a sustainable way.. One of the great contributions from the first Grace mission was to confirm the scale of change at the poles – to essentially weigh the ice sheets year on year.
Another goal of the mission is to create a better profile of Earth’s atmosphere.
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Solution: a.
NASA: GRACE stands for ‘Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment’. GRACE consists of two identical spacecraft that fly about 220 kilometres apart. GRACE maps Earth’s gravity field by making accurate measurements of the distance between the two satellites, using GPS and a microwave ranging system. It is providing scientists from all over the world with an efficient and cost-effective way to map Earth’s gravity field with unprecedented accuracy. The results from this mission are yielding crucial information about the distribution and flow of mass within Earth and its surroundings.BBC: A joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth. The Grace satellites are replacing a pair of highly successful spacecraft that stopped working last year. Like their predecessors, the new duo will circle the globe and sense tiny variations in the pull of gravity that result from movements in mass. These could be a signal of the land swelling after prolonged rains, or of ice draining from the poles as they melt in a warming climate.. What the Grace concept is brilliant at sensing is the big changes that occur in the hydrological cycle.. These could, for example, be major movements of water from the ocean to the land during precipitation events.. Grace data can show whether agriculture is using groundwater in a sustainable way.. One of the great contributions from the first Grace mission was to confirm the scale of change at the poles – to essentially weigh the ice sheets year on year.
Another goal of the mission is to create a better profile of Earth’s atmosphere.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsIn order to ensure that overriding power remained with the British, the Government of India Act of 1935 retained the post of Governor and vested him with “special responsibilities” that, in essence, allowed for intervention at will. What reasons did the Constituent Assembly cite to retain this post?
1.There was a dearth of competent legislators in the states
2.A certain amount of centralisation of power was necessary in a newly-formed state of India
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct
Solution: c.
Through the course of the early 20th century, the Indian nationalist movement managed to extract gradual and incremental reforms towards responsible government from the British rulers. These reforms culminated in the Government of India Act, 1935 which established provincial legislative assemblies elected from a limited franchise.
However, in order to ensure that overriding power remained with the British, the Act retained the post of Governor (a holdover from the old, “diarchy” system), and vested him with “special responsibilities” that, in essence, allowed for intervention at will. In a searing critique, K.T. Shah (who was later one of the most articulate members of the Constituent Assembly, or CA), wrote that the Governor would inevitably be biased in his functioning, and his actions would remain at odds with those of popularly elected Ministers.
Despite the nationalist movement’s bitter experience with Governors over almost three decades, the CA chose to retain the post, and continue to vest it with discretionary power. During CA debates, it was pointed out that the Articles dealing with the powers of the Governor were almost verbatim reproductions of the 1935 Act. Defenders of the office raised two broad arguments: first, that there was a dearth of competent legislators in the States; and second, that a certain amount of centralisation of power was necessary in a nascent state such as India. Concerned members of the CA were assured that the Governor would remain only a constitutional post, and would have no power to interfere in the day-to-day administration of the State.
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Solution: c.
Through the course of the early 20th century, the Indian nationalist movement managed to extract gradual and incremental reforms towards responsible government from the British rulers. These reforms culminated in the Government of India Act, 1935 which established provincial legislative assemblies elected from a limited franchise.
However, in order to ensure that overriding power remained with the British, the Act retained the post of Governor (a holdover from the old, “diarchy” system), and vested him with “special responsibilities” that, in essence, allowed for intervention at will. In a searing critique, K.T. Shah (who was later one of the most articulate members of the Constituent Assembly, or CA), wrote that the Governor would inevitably be biased in his functioning, and his actions would remain at odds with those of popularly elected Ministers.
Despite the nationalist movement’s bitter experience with Governors over almost three decades, the CA chose to retain the post, and continue to vest it with discretionary power. During CA debates, it was pointed out that the Articles dealing with the powers of the Governor were almost verbatim reproductions of the 1935 Act. Defenders of the office raised two broad arguments: first, that there was a dearth of competent legislators in the States; and second, that a certain amount of centralisation of power was necessary in a nascent state such as India. Concerned members of the CA were assured that the Governor would remain only a constitutional post, and would have no power to interfere in the day-to-day administration of the State.
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