QUIZ – 2020: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 14 September 2020

Solution: d)

The table below shows that Malaria is transmitted by a vector (an animal or an insect that carries the disease).

Solution: c)

India is not free from Chikungunya disease which is carried mainly by mosquitoes.

India has become the first country in the world to get the Yaws-free certificate by the WHO.

India has officially declared itself free from highly contagious Avian Influenza (H5N1) or bird flu and has notified the same to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

Smallpox was declared by WHO to be eradicated in 1979 from the World.

Solution: a)

The IONS is a regional forum of Indian Ocean littoral states, represented by their Navy chiefs, launched by India in 2008.

It is a voluntary initiative that seeks to increase maritime co-operation among navies of the littoral states of the Indian Ocean Region by providing an open and inclusive forum for discussion of regionally relevant maritime issues and, in the process, endeavors to generate a flow of information between naval professionals that would lead to common understanding and possibly agreements on the way ahead.

Solution: c)

The International Criminal Police Organisation, or Interpol, is an intergovernmental organisation. Headquartered in Lyon, France.

Formed in 1923 as the International Criminal Police Commission, and started calling itself Interpol in 1956. Interpol’s declared global policing goals include countering terrorism, promoting border integrity worldwide, protection of vulnerable communities, providing a secure cyberspace for people and businesses, curbing illicit markets, supporting environment security, and promoting global integrity. India joined the organisation in 1949.

Solution: a)

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. We maintain this deficit by liquidating stocks of ecological resources and accumulating waste, primarily carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that provides decision-makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth’s ecological limits.