UPSC 2019: Weekly GK and Current Affairs Quiz Jan 05 - Jan 11

Consider the following statements about Enforcement Directorate:

1. It is a specialized financial agency, under the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
2. It is a statutory body formed under the FERA Act, 1947.
3. It enforces FEMA, 1999 and PMLA, 2002.
4. It has quasi-judicial powers.

Which of the above is/are correct?

Perhaps the best summary of the principles that the nationalist movement
brought to the Constituent Assembly is the Objectives Resolution. In light of these
objectives which of the followings statement(s) is/are correct?

1. All powers and authority of sovereign and independent India and its constitution shall flow from the people.
2. Cosmopolitan identity was one of the fundamental commitments.
3. It was the moral commitment to establish a government that will fulfill the promises made during nationalist movement.

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Match the correct pairs of constitutional provisions and nations from
where it was borrowed:

1. Parliamentary form of government       A. Canada
2. Fundamental rights                                  B. Ireland
3. Residual power                                          C. USA
4. Directive principles                                   D. Britain

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Who among the following functionaries take an ‘oath of secrecy’?

1. President
2. Ministers
3. MPs
4. Supreme Court judge

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With reference to ‘whip’, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. The Office of the ‘whip’ is mentioned neither in the Constitution of India nor in the rules of the house nor in a Parliamentary Statute.
2. Every political party has its own ‘whip’ in the Parliament.

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Which of the following is part of the Electoral College for the Presidential
election in India?

1. The elected members of both the Houses of Parliament
2. All the member of the Parliament
3. The elected members of the legislative assemblies of the Union Territories of Delhi and Puducherry
4. All the members of the State legislative assemblies

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Consider the following statements with reference to the President of India:

1. He should be qualified for election as a member of the Lok Sabha.
2. Nomination of a candidate for election to the office of President must be subscribed by atleast100 electors as proposers and 50 electors as seconders.
3. President is obliged to preserve the Constitution and the law by his oath.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts is appointed by the PM.
2. The Committee on Public Accounts comprises members of Lok Sabha, members of Rajya Sabha and a few eminent persons of industry and trade.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

Which of the following provisions of the Constitution can be amended by a simple
majority in the Parliament?

1. Salaries and allowances of the members of Parliament
2. Admission or establishment of new states
3. Citizenship—acquisition and termination
4. Directive Principles of State Policy

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Which of the following is/are indicative of the federal system of Indian Constitution?

1. Written Constitution
2. Independent Judiciary
3. All India Services
4. Integrated Judiciary

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Which of the following cities lies to the south of the equator?

Which of the following area comes under earthquake zone V?

1. Northeastern India
2. Lakshadweep islands
3. Andaman & Nicobar Islands
4. West coast of Maharashtra
5. Union Territory of Delhi
6. Sikkim

Consider the following statements:

1. The subduction of the Nazca tectonic plate to the east is responsible for the creation of the volcanic Andes mountain range.
2. Volcano Calbuco in southern Chile erupted for the first time in more than five decades.

Which of the above statements are correct?

Which of the following has the highest albedo?

Which of the following is/are not characteristics of El Nino?

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. Salinity of the oceans decreases to pole wards.
2. The highest salinity is recorded near the Equator.
3. The highest salinity is observed between 20 to 40 degrees North latitude.
4. The zone between 40 to 60 Degree latitudes in the both hemispheres record low salinity.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. In the regard of ocean deposits, the source of organic material is sea itself.
2. Organic material are grouped into two categories –  nerretic matter and pelagic matter.
3. Nerretic matter consists of remains of different types of algae.
4. Pelagic matter includes skeleton of marine organisms and plant remains.

Cloudy nights are warmer compared to clear cloudless nights, because clouds:

Which of the statements given below is/are correct?

1. Lines of equal pressure on a map are known as isobars.
2. Widely spaced isobars indicate a high pressure gradient and high wind speeds.
3. The pressure gradient force acts parallel to the isobars.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. Absolute humidity is an amount of water vapour, usually discussed per unit volume.
2. Specific humidity is the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapour in the air water mixture to the saturated vapour pressure of water at those conditions.

Consider the following statements:

1. Ajivikas were described as fatalists.
2. Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa contain histories of Buddha in Sanskrit only.
3. Vardhamana Mahavira propounded the basic philosophy of Jainas.
4. Kutagarashala were ancient hospitals.

Which of the following observation about Ajivika sect is /are correct?

1. They are noted for holding a rigid and deterministic view of the Indian society.
2. They stressed on unchangeable orderliness of the universe.
3. Human efforts cannot affect the predetermined path of the soul.

Which of the following is/are NOT true about Buddha’s followers?

1. Women were forbidden to attend the Sanghas initially.
2. Buddhist ideas and practices emerged out of a process of dialogue with other
   traditions.
3. In initial architectures the empty seat of Gautam Buddha represented
   Mahaparinibanna.

Consider the following statements:

1. The concept of Gotra Exogamy as mentioned in Brahmanical texts was not
   strictly followed by the Satvahanas.
2. The Satvahanas were a Matriarchial society as they were identified through
   matronymics.

Which of following were introduced during Dalhousie’s Administration?

1. Indian Railways 
2. Public Works Department 
3. English as medium of instruction 
4. Permanent Settlement of land revenue

Strachey Commission was related to 

Which of the following is/are correct about Raja Ram Mohan Roy?

1. He started India’s first Persian journal, Mirat-ul-Akhbar.
2. He visited England as an ambassador of the Mughal king Akbar Shah II.

Which of the following crops were introduced by the Portuguese to India?

1. Sugarcane
2. Maize
3. Tomato
4. Potato

Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding Brahmo Samaj?

1. It opposed idolatry
2. It denied the need for a priestly class for interpreting the religious texts
3. It emphasized on modern education

Which of the following statements are correct regarding Sri Narayan Guru?

1. He supported Mahatma Gandhi in his campaign against untouchability.
2. He was the founder of Justice Party.

Consider the following statements about geostationary satellites:

1. A geostationary satellite is an earth-orbiting satellite, placed directly over the equator.
2. It follows an inclined orbit with respect to the equatorial plane.
3. It revolves in the same direction the earth rotates.
4. Every geostationary satellite is a geosynchronous satellite

Which of the above statements is/are incorrect?

What is the difference between a CFL and an LED lamp?

1. To produce light, a CFL uses mercury vapour and phosphor while an LED lamp uses semiconductor material.

2. The average life span of a CFL is much longer than that of an LED lamp.

3. A CFL is less energy-efficient as compared to an LED lamp.
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What is “Virtual Private Network”?

Which of the following is blood groups are “Universal Donor” and “Universal Receptor” respectively?

Which of the following statement about RBC is not true?

Which of the following is/are correct about the Olive Ridley Turtle?

1. Its status in the IUCN Red List is ‘vulnerable’.
2. Its most important nesting sites in India are Hope Island of Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary (Andhra Pradesh), Gahirmatha beach (Odisha), Astaranga coast (Odisha), Beach of Rushikulya River.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. ‘Project Tiger’, ‘Project Elephant’ and ‘Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats’ are centrally sponsored schemes.
2. Payment of ex-gratia to the victims of wild animals is the responsibility of the concerned State/ Union Territory Governments.

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. There is a directive, given to the State as one of the Directive Principles of State Policy regarding the protection and improvement of the environment. 
2. The Department of Environment was established in India in 1980 to ensure a healthy environment for the country.

All species of ‘Lemur’ are endemic to which among the following places of the world? 

Which among the following chronic lung disease commonly known as ‘black lung’ disease, leads to reduced life expectancy in coal-miners?

Disguised unemployment generally means

The lowering of bank rate by the RBI leads to

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. BharatNet is part of the Digital India Initiative.
2. Andhra Pradesh was the first state in India to be fully covered under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)

In recent times, the term “early harvest” has been in the news in connection with

1. RCEP negotiations
2. Indian agricultural exports to China
3. India-Japan CEPA

Which of the following is/are correct?

1. The term ‘Budget’ is mentioned in the constitution.
2. It is a constitutional mandate to present the union budget on the first working day of February.

Consider the following statements about Tax Terrorism:

1. It is the practice adopted by the Government to impose large unjustified taxes.
2. Retrospective taxation is also considered as Tax terrorism.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Read the following statements carefully and choose the incorrect answers by using the
codes given below:

1. Sampoorna Bima Gram (SBG) Yojana provides affordable life insurance services to people, particularly those living in rural areas of the country
2. Ministry of Rural development launched the scheme
3. The benefits of Postal life Insurance will be confined to government and semi-government employees only

With reference to ‘Aquila’, in the news, which of the following statement is/are correct?

1. It is an initiative of Google launched in collaboration with Tata Trusts to educate women in rural India on the benefits of using the Internet.
2. Rather than use under-ground fibre optic cables or construct cell towers to connect users, it will use balloons that float in the stratosphere.

Consider the following statements regarding nai manzil:

1. The scheme will address educational and livelihood needs of minority communities in general and Muslims in particular
2. The scheme aims at providing educational intervention by giving the bridge courses to the trainees and getting them Certificates for Class XII only from distance medium educational system and at the same time also provide them trade basis skill training in 6 courses

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Yatri Mitra seva in news is: