UPSC 2019: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz Aug 24 - Aug 30

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. The Parliament can make provisions relating to the qualifications, conditions of service of members or powers of the Commission.

What is ‘Pravah’ developed by the Department of Official Language?

1. It is an e-learning platform.
2. It translates all kinds of official files from English to Hindi and vice versa.

Which of the following is/are correct regarding the role of the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi?

1.  The Lt Governor of Delhi has no independent power to take decisions and is bound by the elected government’s advice.
2. The Lt Governor’s discretionary powers are limited to public order, police and land only.

Under which of the following conditions is a legislator deemed to have defected?

1. When he voluntarily gives up his membership of a political party.
2. If he votes or abstains from voting in such House contrary to any direction issued by his political party or anyone authorised to do so, without obtaining prior permission.

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Which of the following is/are correct regarding the no-confidence motion in Parliament?

1. In case a government loses a no-confidence motion in the Parliament, and the government refuses to resign, the President has the power to remove the Prime Minister.
2. Once the government resigns and it resumes functions as a caretaker government, it cannot take any major policy decisions.

In which state has a court in India invoked the ‘parens patriae’ doctrine for cow protection for the first time?

Which of the following is/are correct regarding curative petitions?

1. It is the last judicial resort available for redressal of grievances in court.
2. It is normally decided by judges in-chamber.

Which of the following is/are correct about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor?

1. It is the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative.
2. It passes through PoK.

Which organisation publishes the World Energy Outlook?

Which of the following is/are correct about the WHO FCTC?

1. It is the first international public health treaty negotiated under the auspices of the WHO.
2. India is not a party to the WHO FCTC.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Great Barrier Reef?

1. It is the world’s biggest single structure made by living organisms.
2. It was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981.
3. It is composed of and built by coral polyps.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau?

1. It is not a statutory body.
2. It is mandated to collect and collate intelligence related to organized wildlife crime activities.

Which of the following reserves in India are included in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves?

1. Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
2. Khangchendzonga National Park
3. Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve
4. Panna National Park

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

1. It is the largest Asian antelope.
2. Its IUCN classification is ‘Least Concern’.

The Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve is in which Indian States?

Which of the following is/are correct about the World Magnetic Model (WMM)?

1. It is a chart used to convert between compass measurements of magnetic north and true north.
2. It can be found in navigation systems of ships and airplanes as well as geological applications.

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

1. It contains approximately 99% of the atmosphere’s water vapour and aerosols.
2. It is the region of temperature inversion.

What are Orogenic movements?

Consider the following conditions:

1. The equatorial low-pressure belt extends well into the Southern hemisphere.
2. Low pressure is well developed over Australia.

The above two occur in which month?

Which of the following is/are correct about Lithification?

1. It is the cementation, compaction and hardening of sediments into sedimentary rocks.
2. It is basically a process of porosity destruction.

Which state in India is the first to implement a Universal Basic Income scheme?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana?

1. It is a scheme to extend collateral-free loans by Banks, Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) to Small/Micro business enterprises and individuals in the non-agricultural sector.
2. There are three kinds of loans under this scheme namely, Shishu, Kishore and Tarun.

Which of the following is/are correct about SIDBI?

1. It acts as the principal financial institution for promotion, financing and development of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector.
2. SIDBI is one of the four All India Financial Institutions regulated and supervised by the Reserve Bank of India.

Which of the following is/are correct about the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund?

1. It is an investor-owned fund manager anchored by the Government of India.
2. The funds are registered as Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

Which of the following is/are correct about angel tax?

1. It is a 20% tax that is levied on the funding received by startups from an external investor.
2. The tax was introduced to fight money laundering.

Which of the following schemes is related to providing vocational training to non-literate, neo-literate, as well as school dropouts?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)?

1. It is an international assessment that measures 15-year-old students’ reading, mathematics, and science literacy every three years.
2. It is coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

What are Hunar Haats?

Which of the following is/are correct about PARIVESH?

1. It is an environmental single window hub for Environment, Forest, Wildlife and CRZ clearances.
2. It is based on the concept of web architecture.

Which of the following is/are not included in the Ramayana Circuit under Swadesh Darshan scheme of Ministry of Tourism?

1. Chitrakoot
2. Rameshwaram
3. Hampi
4. Erumely

Which of the following is/are correct about the Prithvi Defence Vehicle (PDV) mission?

1. The mission is for engaging the targets in the exo-atmosphere region at an altitude above 50 km of the earth’s atmosphere.
2. It is slated to replace the existing Prithvi Air Defense (PAD)/Pradyumna Ballistic Missile Interceptor.

Which of the following is/are correct about the Ballistic Missile Interceptor Advanced Area Defence?

1. It is an endo-atmospheric missile, capable of intercepting incoming targets at an altitude of 15 to 25 km.
2. It is indigenously developed by DRDO.

Which of the following is the Indian Navy’s first indigenous Scorpene-class stealth submarine?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Indian Astronomical Observatory?

1. It has one of the world’s highest sites for optical, infrared and gamma-ray telescopes.
2. It is located in Hanle, Ladakh.

What is the Kuiper Belt?

Which of the following spacecraft is designed to take humans farther in space than they have been before?

Where is the Elephant Festival celebrated annually?

Today’s Gurmukhi, Dogri and Sindhi scripts have developed from which among the following scripts?

The painted pottery of the Indus valley civilization is popularly known as

With reference to Ashokan pillars, which of the following is/are correct?

1. The pillars are usually made up of chunar sandstone.
2. The pillars were placed on a raised platform.

Who built the Red Fort in Delhi?

Who was a notable leader of the Sarvodaya Movement?

Which of the following was the only permanent effect of the invasions of Mahmud of Ghazni?

What were the districts called in the Vijayanagara Empire?

The ‘Do or Die’ slogan was associated with which of the following movements?

Which of the following abolished the commercial rights of the East India Company?

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Anekāntavāda is a fundamental doctrine of Jainism.
2. Anekāntavāda states that the ultimate truth and reality is complex and has multiple aspects.

In which country was the Azad Hind Fauj founded?

Which of the following is/are correct about the proposals of the Cripps Mission?

1. Creation of a constitution-making body.
2. Full independence to India.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. The discussions in the Third Round Table Conference eventually led to the passing of the Government of India Act of 1935.
2. The government of India Act of 1935 provided for the establishment of an All India Federation to be based on a Union of the provinces of British India and the Princely States.