UPSC 2017: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz May 21 - May 27

Climatic condition of Chennai is Tropical Savanna type where the average annual temperature is 26 degree Celsius, its average rainfall is 63 in and its average annual temperature is 9 degree Celsius

Ergotism is due the effect of long term ergot poisoning, due to ingestion of alkaloids produced by fungus which are found in infected cereals and ryes.

Epiphytes depends on other plant for mechanical support

Japan has the life expectancy of about 83.59years. Highest in the world.

During photochemical smog NO and O3 both are produced, but major production is of nitrogen oxide and NO2.

The Southern Bird Wing butterfly approved to become the “State butterfly” of Karnataka– distinctive red and yellow stripes.

Most insects respire through tracheal system that lies on a network of small tubes that channel O2 directly to the different part of the body.

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development also known as the Rio summit or the Earth summit. It was a major United Nations Conference held in Rio de Janerio from 3 to 14 June 1992. In 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was also held in Rio and is also commonly called Rio+20 or Rio Earth Summit 2012.

IVG is defined as the generation of eggs and sperm from pluripotent stem cells derived from adult body tissues, such as skin cells. This may lead to the creation of embryos from these gametes.

Sweet Gas is natural gas that contains very little or no hydrogen sulphide (H2S). H2S is undesirable due to its toxicity in addition to being corrosive to all metals used in the equipment for gas processing, handling and transportation.

Coalbed methane, coalbed gas, coal seam gas, or coal-mine methane is an unconventional form of natural gas extracted from coal. It is called ‘sweet gas’ because of its lack of hydrogen sulfide.

According to the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, “India has the fifth largest proven coal reserves in the world and thus holds significant prospects for exploration and exploitation of CBM.”

“The New Delhi Municipal Council on Monday passed a proposal to change the name of Dalhousie Road to Dara Shikoh Road, after the eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.”

Doctrine of lapse, in Indian history, was a formula devised by Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India (1848–56), to deal with questions of succession to Hindu Indian states. It was a corollary to the doctrine of paramountcy, by which Great Britain, as the ruling power of the Indian subcontinent, claimed the superintendence of the subordinate Indian states and so also the regulation of their succession.

The total share of nuclear power in the country currently stands at a measly 3.5 percent.

• Atmospheric pressure and rain drop size
• Researchers showed that very early on, the atmospheric pressure on Mars would have been about 4 bars (the Earth’s surface today is 1 bar) and the raindrops at this pressure could not have been bigger than three millimetres across, which would not have penetrated the soil.
• As the atmospheric pressure fell to 1.5 bars, the droplets could grow and fall harder, cutting into the soil.

The macronutrients: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), sulfur (S), magnesium (Mg)

• Aims to accelerate discovery research to early development for biopharmaceuticals

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets: Ceres; Pluto; Haumea; Makemake; and Eris.

The Government has set up a Defence Acquisition Council headed by the Raksha Mantri (Defense minister)for decision making in regard to the totality of the new planning process.

• India taking part in global disaster risk reduction meet in Mexico
• The GPDRR is a global forum for strategic advice, coordination, partnership development and review of progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030 which was adopted at the 3rd UN World conference on disaster risk reduction held in March 2015 in Sendai, Japan.

ISRO gets Indira Gandhi Prize for 2014

In agriculture, multiple cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same piece of land during a single growing season.

A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created by an object traveling through the air faster than the speed of sound.

NIIF is a trust registered under Indian Trust Act 1882

GBD is based out of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

• They’re able to make cells from all three basic body layers, so they can potentially produce any cell or tissue the body needs to repair itself. This “master” property is called pluripotency.