UPSC 2020: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz Apr 11 - Apr 17

Which of the following is/are correct about the Nehru Report?

1. It recommended a dominion status for India.
2. It recommended separate electorates for Muslims.

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the Indian National Congress (INC)?

1. The first President of the INC was Dadabhai Naoroji.
2. The first English President of the INC was A.O.Hume.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Mountbatten Plan?

1. It included the principles of partition, autonomy, sovereignty to both nations and the right to make their own constitution.
2. The princely states were given the choice to join either India or Pakistan.

Who among the following founded the Khudai Khidmatgar movement?

Which of the following made Warren Hastings the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William?

In the South Atlantic and Southeastern Pacific regions in tropical latitudes, cyclones do not originate. Why is this so?

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the global distribution of rainfall?

1. Eastern coasts of continents receive more rainfall than the western coasts.
2. The presence of mountains near the coast increases rainfall.

The lower Gangetic Plains are characterised by humid climate with high temperature throughout the year. Which one among the following pairs of crops is most suitable for this region?

Which of the following necessarily lead to inversion of temperature?

1. Formation of fronts
2. Transition from troposphere to stratosphere
3. A long winter night
4. Air drainage in mountains

Consider the following crops of India:

1. Groundnut
2. Sesamum
3. Pearl Millet

Which of the above is/are predominantly rain-fed crop(s)?

Consider the following statements with respect to the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL):

1. It is chaired by the Prime Minister.
2. It is a statutory organisation.
3. No alternation of boundaries in national parks and wildlife sanctuaries can be done without approval of the NBWL.
4. Its recommendations are binding on the Central Government while framing policies and measures for conservation of wildlife in the country.

Which of the given statement/s is/are correct?

Consider the following statements with respect to National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA):

1. NTCA is a statutory body under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate change.
2. The Annual Report prepared by NTCA has to be laid in the Parliament along with the Audit Report.
3. NTCA is chaired by the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

Which of the given statement/s is/are incorrect?

Consider the following crops:

1. Cotton
2. Groundnut
3. Rice
4. Wheat

Which of these are Kharif crops?

Who among the following was India’s first education minister?

Which of the following can be considered as elements of India’s soft power?

1. Yoga
2. Bollywood
3. Traditional Indian dances and music
4. Indian diaspora and its heritage
5. Buddhism
6. Colonial legacy and anti-imperialism

Which of the following is/are correct about the armyworm?

1. It is an invasive pest that can damage and destroy a wide variety of crops.
2. It is found only in South Asia.

In which of the following regions of India are shale gas resources found?

1. Cambay Basin
2. Cauvery Basin
3. Krishna-Godavari Basin

Consider the following statements about Bramble Cay Melomys:

1. It is an island rodent.
2. It is considered the Great Barrier Reef’s only endemic mammal.

Which of the statement/s is/are correct?

Which of the following is/are correct statements?

1. Artillery gun Dhanush is the first long-range artillery gun to be produced in India.
2. It is an upgraded version of the Swedish 155-mm Bofors howitzers.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. The Election Commission of India is a constitutional body responsible for administering elections in India.
2. According to Article 324 of Indian Constitution, the Election Commission of India has superintendence, direction, and control of the entire process for conduct of elections to Parliament and Legislature (state legislative assembly & state legislative council) of every State and to the offices of President and Vice-President of India.

Which of the following is/are incorrect statements?

1. CRR indicates the quantum of cash that banks are required to keep with the Reserve Bank as a proportion of their net demand and time liabilities (NDTL).
2. SLR prescribes the amount of money that banks must invest in securities issued by the government. This is not kept with RBI but with banks themselves.

Which of the following is/are incorrect?

1. Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana) is a shrub that used to grow abundantly in the shola grasslands of Western Ghats in India.
2. The Nilgiris, which literally means the blue mountains, got its name from the purplish blue flowers of Neelakurinji that blossoms gregariously once in 12 years.

Which of the following is/are correct statements?

1. The International Space Station is in low Earth orbit, or LEO. LEO is the first 100 to 200 miles (161 to 322 km) of space.
2. Any satellite with an orbital path going over or near the poles maintains a polar orbit. Polar orbits are usually low Earth orbits.

Mamita is a folk dance of the North Eastern State of

Which of the following is/are correct statements?

1. Leprosy is an infectious disease.
2. India’s National Leprosy Eradication Programme is a centrally sponsored Scheme.

Mukundra Hill Tiger Reserve is in the state of

Astronaut candidates for Gaganyaan are being trained in which country?

Recently, tonnes of essential medicines and hospital consumables were airlifted by the Indian Air Force to Maldives under:

“BCG vaccine” or “Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine” is administered to children to prevent:

1. Measles
2. Tuberculous Meningitis
3. Miliary Tuberculosis
4. Leprosy

Options:

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