UPSC 2019: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz Aug 03 - Aug 09

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. During the Lower Palaeolithic age, tools like axes and choppers were used.
2. The earliest Lower Palaeolithic age site in India is in Bori, Maharashtra.

Which place shows the first evidence of cotton cultivation in ancient times?

Which of the following is/are correct about the First Buddhist Council in Rajagriha?

1. It was held under the patronage of King Ajatasatru of Haryanka dynasty.
2. The Suttapitaka and the Vinaypitaka were composed at this Council.

Which of the following was/were the causes of the spread of Buddhism in its initial days?

1. Buddha taught in Pali.
2. Buddha admitted people into the Sangha irrespective of caste.
3. Buddhism received royal patronage.

Who among the following is considered the first Sanskrit dramatist?

Match the following philosophies with their propounders:

1. Advaita                   A. Swami Vivekananda
2. Dwaita                    B. Adi Shankara
3. Modern Vedanta  C. Madhavacharya

Which of the following is/are correct about the Regulating Act of 1773?

1. As per the Act, Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William.
2. As per this Act, a Supreme Court of Judicature was established at Calcutta.

Which among the following was/were reforms suggested in the Lucknow Pact, 1916?

1. Abolition of the Indian Council.
2. Separation of the executive from the judiciary.
3. Introduction of a system of weightage for minority representation

Which Act severed off Burma and Aden from India?

Which of the following were provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935?

1. Creation of an All India Federation comprising of British India and the princely states.
2. Establishment of a bicameral federal legislature.

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha?

1. It is a constitutional position created under Article 90.
2. The Deputy Chairman is not subordinate to the Chairman. He is directly responsible to the Rajya Sabha.

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the governor of a state?

1. There is no provision of impeachment of a Governor.
2. The Governor does not have any diplomatic or military powers.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Finance Commission?

1. It is a body set up under Article 280 of the Constitution.
2. Its primary job is to recommend measures and methods on how revenues need to be distributed between the Centre and states.

What is Kanthasth developed by the Department of Official Language?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA)?

1. It was established in 1943 by a group of Indian intellectuals as a non-official, non-political and non-profit organisation.
2. ICWA is devoted exclusively for the study of international relations and foreign affairs.
3. The Vice President of India is the ex-officio President of ICWA.

Which of the following is/are correct about denotified tribes?

1. They are those that were labeled as criminals through legislation by the British government and were denotified post-independence.
2. The legislation that labeled them criminals was the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871.

Which of the following is/are correct about the National Commission for Minorities?

1. It was established in 1992.
2. Six religious communities, namely, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and Jains have been notified in Gazette of India as minority communities by the Union Government all over India.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Bills introduced by Ministers are referred to as government bills.
2. Government bills are backed by the government, and reflect its legislative agenda.

An MP can be disqualified for:

1. Holding an office of profit under the government of India or state government
2. Being of unsound mind
3. Being an undischarged insolvent
4. Not being an Indian citizen or for acquiring citizenship of another country

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. It is a parliamentary motion which is moved in the Lok Sabha against the entire council of ministers, stating that they are no longer deemed fit to hold positions of responsibility due to their inadequacy in some respect or their failure to carry out their obligations.
2. No prior reason needs to be stated for its adoption in the Lok Sabha.

Which of the following is/are correct about the National Board for Wildlife?

1. It is a statutory organisation constituted under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
2. It is chaired by the Prime Minister.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Great Indian Bustard?

1. It is stated as ‘Critically Endangered’ in the IUCN Red List.
2. It is listed in the Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection)Act, 1972.

Which of the following species is not listed in Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972?

In which state was the Golden Langur Conservation Breeding Programme initiated?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Satkosia Tiger Reserve?

1.  Satkosia is the meeting point of two biogeographic regions of India namely, the Deccan Peninsula and the Eastern Ghats, causing a lot of biodiversities.
2. Satkosia Tiger Reserve is in Odisha.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Polar vortex?

1. It is a whirling cone of low pressure over the poles that is strongest in the winter months.
2. It exists in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. The cyclone warnings are issued to state government officials in four stages.
2. The Fourth Stage of cyclone warning is called “Post Landfall Outlook” and is issued at least 12 hours in advance of expected time of landfall.

Which country is the largest user of groundwater in the world?

The Atal Setu has been recently inaugurated. On which river is it built?

Which is the largest active volcano in Europe?

Which of the following is correct regarding the GBU-43/B?

1. It is the world’s largest non-nuclear weapon.
2. It is also called the Mother of all Bombs.
3. It is designed to destroy heavily reinforced targets or to shatter ground forces and armour across a large area.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Agni –I Missile?

1. It is an indigenously developed nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
2. It can carry payloads of up to 1000 kg.

What is HELINA?

Which of the following is/are correct about Kalamsat?

1. It is a communication satellite with a life span of two months.
2. India launched it on board the PSLV C44 in 2019.

Which of the following is/are correct about the GROWTH-India Telescope?

1. It is a fully robotic telescope designed to capture cosmic events occurring over relatively shorter periods of the cosmological timescale: years, days and even hours.
2. It is a multi-country collaborative initiative.
3. It is located at Ladakh.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Devadasi System?

1. It is prohibited by law.
2. It is a practice whereby parents marry a daughter to a deity or a temple.

Which of the following is/are correct with respect to the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act 2013?

1. Every employer is required to constitute an Internal Complaints Committee at each office or branch with 10 or more employees.
2. Repeated violations may lead to higher penalties and cancellation of licence or registration to conduct business.

Which of the following is/are correct about ‘Bharosa’?

1. It is a state-of-the-art centre to support women and children who are victims of violence.
2. It is an initiative of Hyderabad City Police.

Which of the following is/are correct about the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)?

1. It is a division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that provides leadership to HIV/AIDS control programme in India.
2. It was constituted in 1986 after the detection of the first case of AIDS in India.

Which of the following is/are correct about the “MAA – Mother’s Absolute Affection” programme of the government?

1. It is to bring undiluted focus on the promotion of breastfeeding and provision of services towards supporting breastfeeding.
2. Under this programme, ASHA has been incentivized for reaching out to pregnant and lactating mothers.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code?

1. It was enacted with the aim to streamline and speed up the resolution process of failed businesses.
2. The Code also consolidates provisions of the current legislative framework to form a common forum for debtors and creditors of all classes to resolve insolvency.

Which of the following is/are correct about the National Mission on Government e-Marketplace?

1. It was launched to accelerate the adoption and use of procurement by Major Central Ministries, States and UTs and their agencies (including CPSUs/PSUs, Local Bodies) on the GeM platform.
2. It provides the tools of e-bidding, reverse e-auction and demand aggregation to facilitate the government users to achieve the best value for their money.

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

1. It is an online electronic institutional mechanism for facilitating the financing of trade receivables of MSMEs through multiple financiers.
2. The TReDS Platform will enable discounting of invoices/bills of exchange of MSME Sellers against large Corporates including Govt. Departments and PSUs, through an auction mechanism, to ensure the prompt realization of trade receivables at competitive market rates.

Match the following harvest festivals with the states:

1. Kicheri        A. Tamil Nadu
2. Saaji            B. Uttar Pradesh
3. Pongal        C. Himachal Pradesh

In which state is the Makaravilakku Festival celebrated?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Khirki Mosque?

1. It was built by Khan-i-Jahan Junan Shah, the Prime Minister of Firoz Shah Tughluq.
2. It is located in Delhi.

Where is the Badshahi Ashoorkhana located?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Kartarpur Sahib Pilgrim Corridor?

1. It will be built from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district to the international border.
2. It will facilitate pilgrims from India to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur on the banks of the Ravi river, in Pakistan, where Shri Guru Nanak Devji spent eighteen years.

The Maitri Irrigation Project is in relation to which neighbouring country of India?

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was between which two countries?