QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,27 August 2018

Solution: d.

The Idukki arch dam , 169 metres high, on the Periyar River, was completed in 1974. It connects two huge rocks—Kurathi (925 metres) high, and Kuravan, (839 metres) high. Together with the Cheruthoni dam (1976), on the Cheruthoni River, and the Kulamavu dam (1977), on the Muvattu Puzha River, the Idukki dam forms a large reservoir. The dam is used primarily for flood control and to generate hydroelectric power.

TH;

Solution: b.

The Compensatoryafforestation Fund Act, 2016 is an Act to provide for the establishment of funds under the public accounts of India and the public accounts of each State and crediting thereto the monies received from the user agencies towards compensatory afforestation, additional compensatory afforestation, penal compensatory afforestation, net present value and all other amounts recovered from such agencies under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.

Improvisation: TH;

PRS: CAF Act 2016;

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Solution: b.

Consolidated  Fund  of  India: It  is  a  fund  to  which  all  receipts  are  credited  and  all  payments  are debited. In other words, (a) all revenues received by the Government of India; (b) all loans raised by the  Government  by  the  issue  of  treasury  bills,  loans  or  ways  and  means  of  advances;  and  (c)  all money  received  by  the  government  in  repayment  of  loans  forms  the  Consolidated  Fund  of  India. All the  legally  authorised  payments  on  behalf  of  the  Government  of  India  are  made  out  of  this  fund.  No money  out  of  this  fund  can  be  appropriated  (issued  or  drawn)  except  in  accordance  with  a parliamentary law.

Improvisation: (Previous question), TH;

Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

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Solution: d.

All species listed in the options above are threatened and found in Kaziranga National Park.

Kaziranga.co.in;

UNESCO;

Improvisation: TH;

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Solution: a.

TH: If every cell has an equal chance of going cancerous, elephants which have many billions of cells in their bodies would be expected to have greater chances of getting cancer than us humans. But it turns out that elephants (with a typical body mass of around 4,800 kg) are found to have a cancer rate of 5–8%, compared to 11–25% in us humans. This is also true of whales (40,000 kg); they seldom get cancer. And the 600 kg manatees, also called sea ‘cows’ (because they are vegetarians, and live on water plants in tropical seas) too seldom get cancer. On the other hand, a mouse, which hardly weighs a few grams, is 3 times more likely to get cancer than us humans. Thus, there seems more an inverse correlation between body mass and cancer probability. This inverse relationship was first noticed by Dr. Richard Peto of Oxford University about 70 years ago, and has come to be known as Peto’s Paradox.

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