QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 10 September 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.
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INSIGHTS CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ 2017
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
1 pointsWebi is one of 12 villages in Middle and North Andamans where the minuscule Karen community lives. To set up home here, the Karens migrated some ninety years ago from
Correct
Solution: a.
TH: The arrival of the Karens to the Andamans was serendipitous. A British priest in Myanmar was sailing back from the U.S. in the 1920s when he decided to stop in Port Blair to meet a cousin, who was then the chief commissioner here. On his return to Myanmar, he published a short note about a British scheme to sponsor a year’s rations for anyone willing to move to the isolated islands to work in the massive timber trade that had been started there.
It was in April 1925 that the first batch of the Karens landed on these shores. A year later, another 50 families came. Webi, surrounded by forests and rivers, was chosen for its isolation: the community wanted to shield itself from ‘old enemies’ and potential new ones.
Their isolation and reticence (Karens believe their name derives from the Burmese words for ‘shyness’ and ‘politeness’) have helped them preserve their culture through the tumultuous turns of history that shaped the islands: they have stayed untouched by the brutal, three-year Japanese regime (one elderly Karen said that it could be because “we looked like them, and so they trusted us”), by the skirmishes between the new mainland settlers and indigenous tribes (whose populations dwindled dramatically), by the exit of the British, and by the rapid building of settlements after Independence.
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Solution: a.
TH: The arrival of the Karens to the Andamans was serendipitous. A British priest in Myanmar was sailing back from the U.S. in the 1920s when he decided to stop in Port Blair to meet a cousin, who was then the chief commissioner here. On his return to Myanmar, he published a short note about a British scheme to sponsor a year’s rations for anyone willing to move to the isolated islands to work in the massive timber trade that had been started there.
It was in April 1925 that the first batch of the Karens landed on these shores. A year later, another 50 families came. Webi, surrounded by forests and rivers, was chosen for its isolation: the community wanted to shield itself from ‘old enemies’ and potential new ones.
Their isolation and reticence (Karens believe their name derives from the Burmese words for ‘shyness’ and ‘politeness’) have helped them preserve their culture through the tumultuous turns of history that shaped the islands: they have stayed untouched by the brutal, three-year Japanese regime (one elderly Karen said that it could be because “we looked like them, and so they trusted us”), by the skirmishes between the new mainland settlers and indigenous tribes (whose populations dwindled dramatically), by the exit of the British, and by the rapid building of settlements after Independence.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
1 pointsLeptospirosis, recently in the news, is
1.A viral disease.
- A neglected tropical disease.
- Predominantly transmitted from person-to-person by way of exchange of bodily fluids.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct
Solution: b.
WHO: Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection in rodents and other wild and domesticated species, and humans. Rodents are implicated most often in human cases. Humans become infected through direct contact with the urine of infected animals or with a urine-contaminated environment. The bacteria enter the body through cuts or abrasions on the skin, or through the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose and eyes. Person-to-person transmission is rare.
In the news: TH;
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Solution: b.
WHO: Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection in rodents and other wild and domesticated species, and humans. Rodents are implicated most often in human cases. Humans become infected through direct contact with the urine of infected animals or with a urine-contaminated environment. The bacteria enter the body through cuts or abrasions on the skin, or through the mucous membranes of the mouth, nose and eyes. Person-to-person transmission is rare.
In the news: TH;
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
1 pointsWhich among the following rights are included in the recently released ‘Charter of Patient Rights’ by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare?
1.Right to information
2.Right to a second opinion
3.Right to free or subsidised medical care
- Right to protection for patients involved in clinical trials
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct
Solution: d.
Right to
- Information
- Records and reports
- Emergency medical care
- Informed consent
- Confidentiality, human dignity and privacy
- Non-discrimination
- Safety and quality care according to standards
- Choose alternative treatment options if available
- A second opinion
- Transparency in rates, and care according to prescribed rates wherever relevant
- Choose the source for obtaining medicines or tests
- Proper referral and transfer
- Protection for patients involved in clinical trials
- Protection of participants involved in biomedical and health research
- Discharged, right to receive the body of a deceased person from the hospital
- Patient education
- Be heard and seek redressal.
TBi;
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Incorrect
Solution: d.
Right to
- Information
- Records and reports
- Emergency medical care
- Informed consent
- Confidentiality, human dignity and privacy
- Non-discrimination
- Safety and quality care according to standards
- Choose alternative treatment options if available
- A second opinion
- Transparency in rates, and care according to prescribed rates wherever relevant
- Choose the source for obtaining medicines or tests
- Proper referral and transfer
- Protection for patients involved in clinical trials
- Protection of participants involved in biomedical and health research
- Discharged, right to receive the body of a deceased person from the hospital
- Patient education
- Be heard and seek redressal.
TBi;
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
1 pointsWootz steel or Damascus steel, regarded as one of the wonders of the ancient world, has a characteristic meandering pattern. ‘Wootz’ is derived from the word ‘Urukh’ which belongs to the language
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Solution: b.
TBI: Though the Damascus swords made from the steel are famous around the world, few seem to realise that the swords were made from ingots forged in India. Way back in the 6th century BC, this finest of alloys being made was in the Chera Kingdom of Tamil Nadu, from where it spread far and wide.
Developed by the Tamils themselves, the alloy is made by hammering porous iron while it is hot. Then, the metal is sealed in a clay container with wood chips. When heated, the wood turns to carbon, which bonds with the iron to make steel. At least that is how we speculate that they did it. The real technique has been lost to history.
NCERT (Class 8 Our Pasts III Part 2): Wootz steel when made into swords produced a very sharp edge with a flowing water pattern. This pattern came from very small carbon crystals embedded in the iron. Francis Buchanan who toured through Mysore in 1800, a year after Tipu Sultan’s death, has left us an account of the technique by which Wootz steel was produced in many hundreds of smelting furnaces in Mysore. In these furnaces, iron was mixed with charcoal and put inside small clay pots. Through an intricate control of temperatures the smelters produced steel ingots that were used for sword making not just in India but in West and Central Asia too. Wootz is an anglicised version of the Kannada word ukku, Telugu hukku and Tamil and Malayalam urukku – meaning steel.
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Solution: b.
TBI: Though the Damascus swords made from the steel are famous around the world, few seem to realise that the swords were made from ingots forged in India. Way back in the 6th century BC, this finest of alloys being made was in the Chera Kingdom of Tamil Nadu, from where it spread far and wide.
Developed by the Tamils themselves, the alloy is made by hammering porous iron while it is hot. Then, the metal is sealed in a clay container with wood chips. When heated, the wood turns to carbon, which bonds with the iron to make steel. At least that is how we speculate that they did it. The real technique has been lost to history.
NCERT (Class 8 Our Pasts III Part 2): Wootz steel when made into swords produced a very sharp edge with a flowing water pattern. This pattern came from very small carbon crystals embedded in the iron. Francis Buchanan who toured through Mysore in 1800, a year after Tipu Sultan’s death, has left us an account of the technique by which Wootz steel was produced in many hundreds of smelting furnaces in Mysore. In these furnaces, iron was mixed with charcoal and put inside small clay pots. Through an intricate control of temperatures the smelters produced steel ingots that were used for sword making not just in India but in West and Central Asia too. Wootz is an anglicised version of the Kannada word ukku, Telugu hukku and Tamil and Malayalam urukku – meaning steel.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
1 pointsConsider the following statements about ‘The Ocean Cleanup’, recently in the news:
1.It is a policy advocacy organisation for governments in the western world for ways and means to reduce plastic waste generation.
2.The organisation was instrumental in recently getting the UN to adopt a resolution to completely stop plastic waste from entering the oceans.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct
Solution: d.
The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization, developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.
Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean. A significant percentage of this plastic drifts into large systems of circulating ocean currents, also known as gyres. Once trapped in a gyre, the plastic will break down into microplastics and become increasingly easier to mistake for food by sea life.
Going after it with vessels and nets would be costly, time-consuming, labor-intensive and lead to vast amounts of carbon emission and by-catch. That is why The Ocean Cleanup is developing a passive system, moving with the currents – just like the plastic – to catch it. The system consists of a 600-meter-long floater that sits at the surface of the water and a tapered 3-meter-deep skirt attached below. The floater provides buoyancy to the system and prevents plastic from flowing over it, while the skirt stops debris from escaping underneath. As the system moves through the water, the plastic continues to collect within the boundaries of the U-shaped system. (Image: On the left is the cross-section of the 600-m long floater; The floater is shown on the right)
https://www.theoceancleanup.com;
In the news: BBC;
Incorrect
Solution: d.
The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization, developing advanced technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.
Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean. A significant percentage of this plastic drifts into large systems of circulating ocean currents, also known as gyres. Once trapped in a gyre, the plastic will break down into microplastics and become increasingly easier to mistake for food by sea life.
Going after it with vessels and nets would be costly, time-consuming, labor-intensive and lead to vast amounts of carbon emission and by-catch. That is why The Ocean Cleanup is developing a passive system, moving with the currents – just like the plastic – to catch it. The system consists of a 600-meter-long floater that sits at the surface of the water and a tapered 3-meter-deep skirt attached below. The floater provides buoyancy to the system and prevents plastic from flowing over it, while the skirt stops debris from escaping underneath. As the system moves through the water, the plastic continues to collect within the boundaries of the U-shaped system. (Image: On the left is the cross-section of the 600-m long floater; The floater is shown on the right)
https://www.theoceancleanup.com;
In the news: BBC;