UPSC Exam: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz Dec 23 - Dec 29

If President’s Rule proclamation has been approved by both Houses of Parliament, then for how long does the President’s Rule continue?

The Partition of Bengal made by Lord Curzon in 1905 lasted until

Parliamentary democracy envisages

1. Representation of people
2. Responsible government
3. Accountability of council of ministers to government

Select the correct answer from the following codes:

The people of India agitated against the arrival of Simon Commission because

The Congress ministries resigned in the seven provinces in 1939, because

The First Factory Act restricting the working hours of women and children, and authorizing local governments to make necessary rules was adopted during whose time?

Harappan seals have been found in which foreign civilization?

Consider the following statements with respect to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC):

1. UPSC can serve the needs of a state on the request of the Governor and with the approval of the President.
2. President determines the condition of service of the Chairman and members of the UPSC.
3. Parliament can confer additional functions on UPSC relating to the service of the Union.

Which of the above statements are correct?

Which of the following statements are correct about the Attorney General of India?

1. He has the right to speak and take part in proceedings of both the Houses of Parliament and joint sittings.
2. He is debarred from private legal practice.
3. He does not fall in the category of government servants.

Consider the following statement with reference to NATGRID:

1. NATGRID is a grid connecting both the South and North electrical grid in order to balance the supply and demand mismatch in power between the two grids. It covers only organized sector.
2. The National Intelligence Grid or NATGRID is the integrated intelligence grid connecting databases of core security agencies of the Government of India to collect comprehensive patterns of intelligence that can be readily accessed by intelligence agencies.

Choose the correct statement.

Recently Pinkathon was organized at Kolkata, the main theme was

In which one of the following States has India’s largest private sector seaport has been commissioned recently?

Consider the following statement with reference to Maternity Benefits Bill, which was in news recently.

1. The Bill covers both the organized as well as unorganized women employees.
2. The Bill enhanced paid maternity leave for women in the unorganized sector to 26 weeks from 12.

Choose the correct answer

Identify the correct statements.

1. Coral and zooxanthellae are symbiotically linked.
2. It is the zooxanthellae which gives color to the coral.

Choose the correct answer

Identify the correct statements.

1. Warm water temperature results in Coral bleaching.
2. Corals can survive a bleaching event.
3. Usage of Sunscreen lotion by those who take sun bath, results in coral bleaching.

Choose the correct answer

Consider the following statements:

1. An ancient camping site dating 9245 BC (11195 BP) has been discovered by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), on the way to Saser La which leads to the Karakoram Pass in Ladakh.
2. The discovery is the earliest known evidence of highest known camping site in India, at about 13500 -14000 feet above mean sea level.

Which of the following is/are incorrect?

Which of the following is not correctly matched?

Annie Besant was

1. responsible for starting the Home Rule Movement.
2. the founder of the Theosophical Society
3. President of the Indian National Congress once

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Who was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?

Consider the following statements:

1. Norway has land borders with Sweden, Finland, Russia.
2. A fjord is a deep, narrow and elongated sea or lakedrain, with steep land on three sides.

Which of the above statements are incorrect?

Consider the following statements:

1. Assam accounts for half of India’s tea output.
2. With reference to coffee and tea plantations, it has been suggested that micro-application of nutrients and rainwater harvesting can help beat back vagaries of the weather.

Which of the above statements are correct?

The first statute for the governance of India, under the direct rule of the British Government, was the

Among SAARC countries, India doesn’t have any ‘open sky’ agreement with

Which among the following states have not notified road safety policy?

Which of the following committees dealt with digital payments?

Consider the following statements:

If there were no phenomenon of capillarity

1. it would be difficult to use a kerosene lamp.
2. one would not be able to use a straw to consume a soft drink.
3. the blotting paper would fail to function.
4. the big trees that we see around would not have grown on the Earth.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which of the following are optical illusions?

1. Size of the sun at dusk
2. Colour of the sun at dawn
3. Moon being visible at dawn
4. Twinkle of stars in the sky
5. Polestar being visible in the sky

In the human body, which one of the following hormones regulates blood calcium and phosphate? 

Which one of the following is likely to be the most inflationary in its effect?

Which one of the following non-metals is not a poor conductor of electricity?

In the context of the Indian economy; which of the following is/are the purpose/purposes of ‘Statutory Reserve Requirements’?

1. To enable the Central Bank to control the amount of advances the banks can create
2. To make the people’s deposits with banks safe and liquid
3. To prevent the commercial banks from making excessive profits
4. To force the banks to have sufficient vault cash to meet their day-to-day requirements

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

A rise in general level of prices may be caused by

1. An increase in the money supply
2. A decrease in the aggregate level of output
3. An increase in the effective demand

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Which Rajput ruler was overthrown by the Turk Muhammad Ghori from Delhi?

The First Battle of Panipat was fought between____

Which Article in the Constitution on India provides for the post of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)?

Who appoints the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)?

The ‘Kamchatka Peninsula’ is located in which of the following countries?

Consider the following statements:

1. Syria is bordered by Turkey on the north, Lebanon and Israel on the west, Iraq on the east, and Jordan on the south.
2. There are 21 countries which border the Mediterranean Sea. They are Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Monaco, Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Which of the following Amendment Act of the Constitution of India froze the allocation of seats in the Lok Sabha to the states and the division of each state into territorial constituencies till the year 2000 at the 1971 level?

Rajya Sabha is inferior to Lok Sabha in many aspects and thus has unequal status with respect to it in many cases. These include

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

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

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?

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?

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?

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?

The rate at which the central bank of a country (Reserve Bank of India in case of India) lends money to commercial banks in the short term in the event of any shortfall of funds is called

Monetary policy intervention by the RBI to withdraw excess liquidity (or money supply) by selling government securities in the economy is called

Mustard is a

Consider the statements about Sovereign Gold Bond scheme:

1. Bonds can be used as collateral for loans.
2. The capital gains tax arising on redemption of SGB to an individual has been exempted.
3. The Bonds will be eligible for Statutory Liquidity Ratio purposes.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

The statutory Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) is constituted under

Mushroom rocks or Rock pedestals or Zeugen are one of the most striking manifestations of

The Sakewa Festival has recently celebrated in which state?

International Court of Justice is located at which of the following places?

Consider the following statements:

1. GM mustard (DMH-11) is developed by Mahyco and the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.
2. Bt brinjal is developed by a team of scientists at Delhi University led by former vice-chancellor Deepak Pental under a government-funded project.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

The “Preservation, protection and improvement of stock and prevention of animal diseases, veterinary training and practice” comes under which list of Constitution of India?

Where is the country’s first multi-modal electric vehicle project launched?

The Bhindawas Bird Sanctuary (BBS) is located in which state?

Color of the eye is due to

The main aim of ‘Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana’ is

Which one of the following countries of South-West Asia does not open out to the Mediterranean Sea?

The famous biennial Thakurani Jatra festival was held in