[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 14 September 2021

Solution: b)

First malarial vaccine (RTS,S)

According to a paper recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study measured the efficacy of vaccination with or without chemoprevention (drugs). When the vaccine was used along with chemoprevention, efficacy went up to 70%, or over.

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Solution: d)

World-Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have joined hands to develop a platform to promote a circular system for plastics. The new platform is called the ‘India Plastic Pact’.

This will bring together prominent enterprises on a national level to make pledges toward the creation of a circular plastics system. The pact works to create a world where Plastic is respected and does not contaminate the environment.

The pact, like similar one, has time-bound targets for reducing, innovating and re-imagining plastic packaging. Targets to be achieved by 2030 include defining a list of unnecessary or problematic plastic packaging and items and take measures to address them through redesign and innovation.

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Solution: d)

The Indian wild ass population has risen by 37%, reveals data released by the Gujarat forest department. The population has reached 6,082, according to the census conducted in March 2020.

Gujarat, the world’s only abode of Asiatic lions, is also the sole home of Indian wild asses.

Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary is one of the last places on earth where the Indian Wild Ass can be spotted.

Solution: c)

Sinjar Mountains are a 100-kilometre-long mountain range that runs east to west, rising above the surrounding alluvial steppe plains in north-western Iraq. The western and lower segment of these mountains lies in Syria. These mountains are regarded as sacred by the Yazidis.

Solution: c)

The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa.