QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 11 December 2018

Consider the following statements about Lingayat and Veerashaiva community

1. Lingayats are followers of 5th-century social reformer Basavanna and his vachanas.
2. Veerashaivas are a sub-sect of Lingayats and ardent followers of Lord Shiva.
3. Basavanna launched a very strong spiritual, social and religious rebellion against Brahminical hegemony.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Consider the following statements about Fixed Dose Combinations (FDCs)

1. A FDC is a cocktail of two or more active drug ingredients in a fixed ratio of doses.
2. One of the main disadvantages of FDCs is that they are not useful in the treatment of infectious diseases like HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.
3. In India FDCs are used very minimal due to high cost of the drugs.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

India describes which of the following missile system as a ‘weapon of peace’.

The report Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) 2018 is released by

Consider the following statements about Sahitya Academy Award

1. The Sahitya Academy Awardis a literary honor in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India’s National Academy of Letters, annually confers.
2. It is awarded for the books published in any of the major Indian languages except English.
3. The first award was awarded pre independence.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?