[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz , 8 January 2022

Solution: c)

A kanal is a unit of area used in parts of northern India and in Pakistan. Under British rule the marla and kanal were standardized.

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Solution: d)

Among the 6,000 NGOs that did not have their FCRA registration renewed by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently are also included the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the Ramakrishna Mission, and Shirdi’s Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust (SSST).

Registered associations can receive foreign contributions for social, educational, religious, economic and cultural purposes. 

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Solution: c)

The fourth Scorpene class conventional submarine, INS Vela, was commissioned into the Navy. With this, the Navy currently has 16 conventional and one nuclear submarine in service. It includes eight Russian Kilo class submarines, four German HDW submarines, four French Scorpene submarines and the indigenous nuclear ballistic missile submarine INS Arihant.

Six Scorpene submarines are being built under Project-75 by Mazgaon Dock Limited (MDL), Mumbai, under technology transfer from Naval Group of France.

The first submarine INS Kalvari was commissioned in December 2017, second submarine INS Khanderi in September 2019 and third one INS Karanj in March 2021. The fifth submarine, Vagir, was launched in November 2020 and is undergoing sea trails while the sixth one Vagsheer is in advanced stage of outfitting.

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Solution: a)

Quantum Supremacy describes the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers cannot.

Google has announced in 2019 that they achieved quantum supremacy in computing through Sycamore. They have developed a processor that took 200 seconds to do a calculation that would have taken a classical computer 10,000 years.

Solution: b)