[Mission 2023] Current Affairs Quiz ,28 December 2022

Solution: b)

Uttar Pradesh has the largest number of Centrally Protected Monuments which have been encroached upon, closely followed by Tamil Nadu. Uttar Pradesh also has the largest number of Centrally Protected monuments in the country at 743, while Tamil Nadu has 412.

India has a total of 3,695 Centrally Protected Monuments or Sites in the country, under the protection of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

The monuments are regularly inspected by the ASI officials to assess their present condition. 

The ASI regulates construction around the protected monuments through the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment) Act, 2010. The Act prohibits the construction within 100 metres around a protected monument. The next 300-metre radius is regulated too.

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Solution: c)

The Winter Session of the Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die (indefinitely) six days ahead of schedule, with the Opposition parties forcing repeated adjournments in the final days.

In his valedictory address to the Lower House, Mr. Birla said the productivity of the House was 97% during the 13 sittings and seven bills were passed.

Regardless of the sparring between the two sides over various issues, the Rajya Sabha reported 102% productivity. 

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Solution: b)

iNCOVACC is rolled out as a booster dose for those above 18 years of age and is the world’s first intranasal vaccine for COVID to receive approval for the primary 2-dose schedule, as well as a heterologous booster dose.

Unlike Covaxin, which was an inactivated sars-cov2 virus, the nasal vaccine contains only a part of it, namely the spike protein and is wrapped in a virus that is typically harmless to people.

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Solution: a)

South Korea reported its first case of infection from Naegleria fowleri or “brain-eating amoeba”.

Naegleria is an amoeba, a single-celled organism, and only one of its species, called Naegleria fowleri, can infect humans. It was first discovered in Australia in 1965 and is commonly found in warm freshwater bodies, such as hot springs, rivers and lakes.

The amoeba enters the human body through the nose and then travels up to the brain. This can usually happen when someone goes for a swim, or dive or even when they dip their head in a freshwater body. In some cases, it was found that people got infected when they cleaned their nostrils with contaminated water. Scientists haven’t found any evidence of the spreading of Naegleria fowleri through water vapour or aerosol droplets.

Once Naegleria fowleri goes to the brain, it destroys brain tissues and causes a dangerous infection known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), according to the CDC.

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Solution: b)

The Nordic countries are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.