QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,06 July 2018

Solution: a.

IDSA: Broadly speaking, there are four generations of biofuels. First generation biofuels are manufactured using food crops like sugarcane, maize and oilseed. Second generation biofuels are produced from non-food produce like organic waste, wood and food crop waste. Third generation biofuels are “based on improvements in the production of biomass” by taking “advantage of specially engineered energy crops such as algae”. 9 Fourth generation biofuels are based on more advanced technology which aims to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) at every production stage. Currently, first generation biofuels are the most common type of biofuels used, and second, third and fourth generation biofuel technology are still being developed.

Improvisation: TH;

Solution: c.

Lake Titicaca is the largest freshwater lake in South America and the highest of the world’s large lakes. Titicaca is one of less than twenty ancient lakes on earth, and is thought to be there million years old. Lake Titicaca sits 3 810 m above sea level and is situated between Peru to the west and Bolivia to  the east.

TH;

UNESCO Tentative List;

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Solution: b.

“..Englishmen like Henry Thomas Colebrooke and Nathaniel Halhed were also busy discovering the ancient Indian heritage, mastering Indian languages and translating Sanskrit and Persian works into English. Together with them, Jones set up the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and started a journal called Asiatick Researches..”

In the news (TH): “Describing the collection as an important piece of oriental art, Mr. Sengupta said that the drawings were all the more interesting as they were not made by professional painters of the era, such as Thomas Daniell and William Daniell and Johan Zoffany…”

Chapter: The changing world of visual arts, Class 8 Our Pasts–II;

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Solution: b.

The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) is a special agreement under the Berne Convention which deals with the protection of works and the rights of their authors in the digital environment. In addition to the rights recognized by the Berne Convention, they are granted certain economic rights.  The Treaty also deals with two subject matters to be protected by copyright: (i) computer programs, whatever the mode or form of their expression; and (ii) compilations of data or other material (“databases”).

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, adopted in 1886, deals with the protection of works and the rights of their authors. It provides creators such as authors, musicians, poets, painters etc. with the means to control how their works are used, by whom, and on what terms.

In the news (PIB): The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal submitted by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry regarding accession to the WIPO Copyright Treaty and WIPO Performers and Phonograms Treaty which extends coverage of copyright to the internet and digital environment.

Berne Convention; WCT;

Solution: a.

Britannica: The last ruling maharaja of Tripura, Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya, ascended the throne in 1923, and before his death in 1947, he settled Tripura’s accession to the newly independent country of India.

In the news (PIB): Agartala Airport was constructed in 1942 on the land donated by Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore. As a visionary ruler, who had travelled extensively across the globe, he took several steps for the all-round development of Tripura. Due to his initiative, an aerodrome at Agartala was constructed that has evolved as the second busiest airport in the North East and provides crucial air connectivity to Tripura. Hence, it is apt to rename the Agartala Airport after his name, which will be a befitting tribute to Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Kishore.

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