QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 31 July 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.
This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil services preliminary exam 2018. 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.
Please try to enjoy questions, discuss the concepts and facts they try to test from you and suggest improvements.
Hope you enjoy this quiz. If you like it, then please share it. Thank you.
INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2017
Quiz-summary
0 of 5 questions completed
Questions:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Information
The following Quiz is based on the Hindu, PIB and other news sources. It is a current events based quiz. Solving these questions will help retain both concepts and facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil services exam.
To view Solutions, follow these instructions:
Click on – ‘Start Quiz’ button
Solve Questions
Click on ‘Quiz Summary’ button
Click on ‘Finish Quiz’ button
Now click on ‘View Questions’ button – here you will see solutions and links.
You have already completed the quiz before. Hence you can not start it again.
Quiz is loading...
You must sign in or sign up to start the quiz.
You have to finish following quiz, to start this quiz:
Results
0 of 5 questions answered correctly
Your time:
Time has elapsed
You have reached 0 of 0 points, (0)
| Average score | |
| Your score |
Categories
- Not categorized 0%
| Pos. | Name | Entered on | Points | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Table is loading | ||||
| No data available | ||||
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Answered
- Review
- Question 1 of 5
1. Question
1 pointsHe was the first nationalist leader who sought close contact with the masses and was in this respect a forerunner of Gandhiji. He was the first Congress leader to suffer several terms of imprisonments for the sake of the country. During the initial stages of the First World War, he urged people to cooperate with the British Government. He authored the books ‘The Arctic Home of the Vedas’ and ‘Gita Rahasya’. These statements refer to
CorrectSolution: c.
Chapter ‘Eminent National Leaders of India’, A New look at Modern Indian History by Grover and Mehta;
Improvisation: PM’s Mann Ki Baat;
IncorrectSolution: c.
Chapter ‘Eminent National Leaders of India’, A New look at Modern Indian History by Grover and Mehta;
Improvisation: PM’s Mann Ki Baat;
- Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements:
1.As per the National Family Health Survey-4, more than one-third children are underweight.
- As per the NFHS-4, more than one-third children are stunted.
- The Constitution declares that improving the nutrition of the country’s people is one of the primary duties of the government.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
CorrectSolution: d.
- In 2015-16, according to National Family Health Survey-4: 38.4 per cent of India’s children, below the age of five, are stunted, while 35.7 per cent are underweight.
- Article 47 of the Constitution states that, “the State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement in public health among its primary duties”.
PIB;
—
IncorrectSolution: d.
- In 2015-16, according to National Family Health Survey-4: 38.4 per cent of India’s children, below the age of five, are stunted, while 35.7 per cent are underweight.
- Article 47 of the Constitution states that, “the State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement in public health among its primary duties”.
PIB;
—
- Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsConsider the following definitions in the context of climate change:
1.“Detection” is the process of demonstrating that climate has changed in some defined statistical sense, without providing a reason for that change.
2.“Attribution” is the process of establishing the most likely causes for the detected change with some defined level of confidence.
Which of the definitions given above is/are correct?
CorrectSolution: c.
In the news, improvisation (BBC): Climate change resulting from human activities made the current Europe-wide heatwave more than twice as likely to occur, say scientists. Researchers compared the current high temperatures with historical records from seven weather stations, in different parts of Europe. Their preliminary report found that the “signal of climate change is unambiguous,” in this summer’s heat.
This new research is called an attribution study – the researchers work out how often these type of extreme heat events have happened at each of the weather stations they looked at. They compare those findings to modelled results of the climate without the influence of human emissions of carbon dioxide. This way they can work out how much climate change has tipped the odds of a rare event happening.
—
IncorrectSolution: c.
In the news, improvisation (BBC): Climate change resulting from human activities made the current Europe-wide heatwave more than twice as likely to occur, say scientists. Researchers compared the current high temperatures with historical records from seven weather stations, in different parts of Europe. Their preliminary report found that the “signal of climate change is unambiguous,” in this summer’s heat.
This new research is called an attribution study – the researchers work out how often these type of extreme heat events have happened at each of the weather stations they looked at. They compare those findings to modelled results of the climate without the influence of human emissions of carbon dioxide. This way they can work out how much climate change has tipped the odds of a rare event happening.
—
- Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsHe is an engineer-cum-social activist who has done extensive work in the field of education, environment, community development and environmental protection for the people Ladakh. He also recently developed the ice stupa – structures made of ice, more than 30m tall – to offset the water shortage Ladakh’s cold deserts have suffered as a result of global warming, and this idea is being implemented by him in Switzerland. He is
CorrectSolution: b.
In the news (TBI): Two Indians have joined the list of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay award winners – Sonam Wangchuk and Dr. Bharat Vatwani. Dr Vatwani’s organisation has rescued, treated, fed and reunited thousands of mentally-ill citizens living on the streets with their families. Sonam Wangchuk, meanwhile, was responsible for revolutionising education in Ladakh through his Students’ Education and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), which he founded in 1988.
Trivia: Sonam Wangchuk’s ice stupas are inspired by Chewang Norphel’s (the “Iceman of India”) artificial glaciers in Ladakh; Rajkumar Hirani’s movie ‘3 Idiots’ portrayed a character — Phunsukh Wangdu, played by Aamir Khan — said to be inspired by Sonam Wangchuk.
IncorrectSolution: b.
In the news (TBI): Two Indians have joined the list of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay award winners – Sonam Wangchuk and Dr. Bharat Vatwani. Dr Vatwani’s organisation has rescued, treated, fed and reunited thousands of mentally-ill citizens living on the streets with their families. Sonam Wangchuk, meanwhile, was responsible for revolutionising education in Ladakh through his Students’ Education and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL), which he founded in 1988.
Trivia: Sonam Wangchuk’s ice stupas are inspired by Chewang Norphel’s (the “Iceman of India”) artificial glaciers in Ladakh; Rajkumar Hirani’s movie ‘3 Idiots’ portrayed a character — Phunsukh Wangdu, played by Aamir Khan — said to be inspired by Sonam Wangchuk.
- Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsWhich one of the following countries is landlocked?
