QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz,29 August 2018

Solution: d.

Sanskrit is not restricted to Hindu compositions. It has also been used by Jaina and Buddhist scholars, the latter primarily Mahāyāna Buddhists (who emerged in the post-mauryan phase, around the beginning of the Common Era).

Mattur (Karnataka) is one of the very few places in the India where residents still converse in the classical language of Sanskrit.

Improvisation: PIB;

TBI; Britannica;

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Solution: c.

Mattur and its sister village, Hosahalli, are also known for their efforts to support the ancient tradition of gamaka, a unique form of singing and storytelling in Karnataka.

In gamaka, also known as “Kaavya Vaachana”, a gamaki (singer) reads a stanza of a poem with a high emphasis on meaning, in a raga (melody) that matches the emotion of the poem. Another person then explains the vyakyana or meaning of the stanza through examples and anecdotes. The ragas are drawn from traditional Kannada folk tunes and Carnatic music while the poems are mostly from old Kannada epics.

Improvisation: PIB;

Source: TBI;

Solution: d.

The general superintendence, direction and control of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is vested in and will be exercised by the NDMA (which is chaired by the PM).

Improvisation: PIB;

National Policy on Disaster Management;

Solution: c.

Kailash temple – around 8^th century

Rani ki vav, Patan and Brihadeshwara temple, Thanjavur – 11^th century

Qutb Minar – 13^th century

Improvisation: PIB;

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Solution: d.

ISRO has developed some critical technologies like re-entry mission capability, crew escape system, crew module configuration, thermal protection system, deceleration and floatation system, sub-systems of life support system etc. required for this programme. Some of these technologies have been demonstrated successfully through the Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-2007), Crew module Atmospheric Reentry Experiment (CARE-2014) and Pad Abort Test (2018). These technologies will enable ISRO in accomplishing the programme objectives in a short span of 4 years.

GSLV Mk-III launch vehicle (already in use for developmental flights), which has the necessary payload capability for this mission, will be used to launch Gaganyaan.

FP; PIB;