Weekly Current Affairs Quiz: January 15th - 21st 2017

Question 1: Consider the following statements regarding the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill 2014:

1. A Special Juvenile Police Units (SJPU) will be established in each district, consisting of a police officer and two social workers.
2. A single or divorced person cannot adopt a girl child.
3. States shall constitute one or more Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) for each district for dealing with children in need of care and protection.

Which of the above statements are true?

Question 2: Consider the following statements regarding ammonia:

1. Water with high levels of ammonia can cause blue baby syndrome.
2. High levels of ammonia in water can be removed by treating it with chlorine and made safe for human consumption.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 3:  Which of the following statements are true with respect to the incentives to the units in SEZs?

1. Exemption from Central Sales Tax.
2. Exemption from Service Tax.
3. Exemption from State sales tax and other levies as extended by the respective State Governments.

Question 4: Which of the following countries do not border with Israel?

Question 5: Which of the following statements is true with respect to SEBI?

1. It is a non-statutory body.
2. It is the regulatory authority for commodity futures market.

Question 6: The ‘World Economic Outlook (WEO)’  is released by which of the following organizations? 

Question 7: Consider the following statements:

1. The Agni-IV, the Long Range Surface to Surface Ballistic Missile.
2. It has a range of 4,000 km.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 8: Consider the following statements:

1. Agni-5 is a Long Range Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile
2. Agni-V is designed and developed by the National Aerospace Laboratories

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 9: Consider the following statements:

1. Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.
2. Fringing reefs grow near the coastline around islands and continents.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 10: Consider the following statements:

1. An atoll is an island formed by a ring-shaped coral reef encircling a lagoon.
2. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 11: Consider the following statements:

1. The CERN convention was signed in 1953 by 12 founding states.
2. Currently, CERN has 22 member states.
3. Besides India, Turkey, Pakistan, Ukraine are Associate members and Serbia and Cyprus are associate members.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 12:  Consider the following statements with respect to the advantages of India becoming an associate member of CERN:

1. Indian industry will be entitled to bid for CERN contracts, which will allow it to work in areas of advanced technology. So the “Make in India” will get a boost due to CERN.
2. Whenever any CERN facilities get upgraded and go through maintenance, it will provide opportunities for Indian industries to participate.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 13: Cyclone ‘Vardah’ recently in the news was classified as which of the following categories?

Question 14:  The WTO follows the principle of ‘self-selection’. This means ___________.

Question 15: Consider the following statements, regarding the ‘Nagaland Health Project’ recently in the news:

1. The Objectives of the project are to improve health services and increase their utilization by communities in targeted locations in Nagaland.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 16: Consider the following statements:

1. The Airports Authority of India, is implementing the regional connectivity scheme.
2. As per the scheme, the Centre will subsidise the losses incurred by airlines flying out of dormant airports, to allow airlines to charge Rs. 2,500 for an hour’s flight to passengers.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 17:  Consider the following statements:

1. Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS), is an autonomous organisation under Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
2. The Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) has been entrusted with the task of building capacities of more than 20, 000 young men and women from Ganga basin states, so that they can represent Namami Gange programme as “Swachhta Doots”.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 18:  ‘Mission Raftaar’ appearing frequently in the news is associated with which Ministry?

Question 19: The port of ‘Gwadar’ appearing frequently in the news is located in which country?

Question 20:  Consider the following statements:

1. The Chinese, have carried out major infrastructural work at the ‘Hambantota’ port in southern coast of Sri Lanka.
2. The ‘Trincomalee’ port is located in Myanmar.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 21: Consider the following statements:

1. ‘ShaGun’ aims to capture and showcase innovations and progress in Elementary Education sector of India by continuous monitoring of the flagship scheme – Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
2. ShaGun, has been coined from the words ‘Shala’ meaning Schools and ‘Gunvatta’ meaning Quality, has been developed with a twin track approach.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 22: Consider the following statements:

1. Diego Garcia is an atoll just south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean, and the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago.
2. The United States has built a large naval and military base on Diego Garcia.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 23:  Consider the following statements:

1. AstroSat is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying celestial sources in X-ray, optical and UV spectral bands simultaneously.
2. One of the unique features of AstroSat mission is that it enables the simultaneous multi-wavelength observations of various astronomical objects with a single satellite.

Question 24: Consider the following statements:

1. The Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system is one of the largest domestic communication satellite systems in Asia-Pacific region with nine operational communication satellites placed in Geo-stationary orbit.
2. The INSAT system with more than 200 transponders in the C, Extended C and Ku-bands provides services to telecommunications, television broadcasting, satellite news gathering, societal applications, weather forecasting, disaster warning and Search and Rescue operations.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 25: The satellite ‘Megha-Tropiques’, occurring frequently in the news is which of the following?

Question 26: Rajya Sabha is inferior to Lok Sabha in many aspects and thus has unequal status with respect to it in many cases.

1. Approval of ordinances
2. Approval of national emergency
3. Voting on demand for grants

Which of the options is/are right with the above statement?

Question 27: Consider the following statements:

1. Bhagirathi is the source stream of Ganga.
2. At Devprayag, where Alaknanda joins Bhagirathi, the river acquires the name Ganga.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 28:  Consider the following statements:

1. While soils of the high Himalayas in the north are subject to continuous erosion, the Gangetic plain provides a huge receptacle into which thousands of meters of thick layers of sediments have been deposited to form a wide valley plain.
2. The Deccan plateau on the south has a mantle of residual soils of varying thickness arising out of weathering of ancient rocks of the peninsular shield.

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

Question 29: Consider the following statements:

1. National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is the implementation wing of National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA).
2. Among the aims and objectives of the NMCG is to maintain minimum ecological flows in the river Ganga with the aim of ensuring water quality and environmentally sustainable development.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Question 30: Consider the following statements:

1. El Niño is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific.
2. El Niño is an oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather around the globe.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?